Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1929, Page 2

F 2 "THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FLYING SQUADRON Attorncy Ceneral Now Has 10 Special Assiciants for Dry Prosecutions. By the Associated Press: g squadron of prohibition prosecui 1z, speeding here and there over the country to lend aid to local officials, has mpressed Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell so much that he reported today to Corgrss that its creation marked a highly important step in the progress of dry law enforcement. ‘ Using funds transferred from the Prohibition Burcau and other sums granted by Congress last March, 10 ex- | Marager for Explorer, Faked Death. Works as Newspaper Man Unti! Picture Reveals Iden- tity to Sharp-Eyed Boss. | | By the Associated Press. I | | Gale Brophy, business manager for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition who resigned suddenly in New Zealand last Spring and later disappeared from New York uicide note, has been found ing on the copy desk of the Omaha Bec-New. i id in a copyrighted perienced crir:inal lawyers have been | story tod Brophy'ls igcm‘ily r‘:im e s ttorney | learned photograph showing him S 2 ket ‘f‘;m:‘_ with Comcr. Richard Byrd. Brophy. General to act in the capacity of as- | With Comer FIchard Byid, - BroPhy. sistant United States attorneys in places where their services were needed. | s The fiying squadron, which, however, | does: not generally travel by airplanc, | already has rendered assistance i tria work in New York, Florida, South Caro- Colorads, OKlahoma, Nebraska, Pennsylvania angg West Vir- ja. It stands ready to aid (flslri(‘l‘ attorneys in ny place in the country. Smuggling Continued. The report of the Attorney General ! said that liquor smuggling from the high seas and across the Canadian bor- der continued during the pgst year and Manning Mitchell,” admitted his identity 2 left at once for New York, saying he intended to straighten out his af- tairs there. Disappeared in August. Brophy disappear-d from New York last August leaving a note to his wife which said he was going to Coney Is- land “and walk into the waves until they cover me and then I will be no more.” | killed himsi him until the news editor of the Bee- News made the discov:ry yesterday that Richard G. Brophy, Business[ OMAHA, Nebr., Decembrr 2.—Richard | | identification as Brophy. The new editor, sccking pictures of the explore | came " upon one showing him with Brophy. he resemblance between | New York police, after an invostiga- | ¢y, tion. said they doubted that Brophy had | ey f. Nothing was heard of | | New Zes that the ocean smugglers had discarded | Brophy and “Mitchell”” were the same | the use of iarge boats for speedier Motor | man boats. It asserted that St. Picrre-| I only wanted to rest.” Brophy ex- Miquelon, ench possession, i the | plained. ~ “My nerves were shatter.d. mouth of the St. Lawrence River. had{[ was tircd, distraught, unable to find been the chief base for the illegal liquor d in smuggling Almost every phase of the prohibition enforcement work increased during 192 Criminal prohibition prosecutions ins tuted during the vear totaled 56.786, the number of cases terminated were 56,455, while 18,690 were pending at the close, last June 30. Of the cases terminated there were 47,100 convic- tions. g The aggregate of fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed under the pro- hibition law totaled $7.476.300, while a total of §4.200,052 was collected. Dur- ing the year the Government secured judgments aggregating $465,480 in civil Prohibition cases, as compared with $382,853 the year before. Commitments at Climax. Included in the report was a state- ment by Sanford Bates, superintendent of prisons, who said the problem of coping with the “tremendous increase in the number of persons committed by the Federal criminal courts” had reached a climax. ; Bates said the United States Prison Bureau today does not know how many ! Federal prisoners are in county jails, | although he said there were about a ! thousand of these institutions now housing such prisoners. Emphasizing the crowded condition of Federal penitentiaries, he said the Atlanta prison, “even with the ques- tionable practice of placing two or more men in a cell, might house comfortably 1,712 persons, but that it now had 3,- 777" The Leavenworth prison, with a normal capacity of 1,560, had 3,723. ICY STREETS HALT | CAPTAL’S TRAFFIC DURING RUSH HOUR! (Continued From First Page.) bowled over a Police call box at Four- teenth street and New York avenue. More ice may form on the streets this afternoon, when a renewal of the light rain which started about 7 am. is romised by the Weather Bureau. The 1 forecast is for "rnh}’thls afternoon nd possibly early. tonight. “Slightly colder tonight, with a min- imum of about 25 degrees, followed ‘Tuesday by fair and colder weather ac- companied by moderate south shiftiug to west and northwest winds.” 01 of An Inch Precipitation. Although only .01 of an inch precip-{ itation was reported this morning, it | was sufficient to coat thoroughly lhel surface of pavements. This condition “sually results in rainy weather after a particularly cold spell, when the ground temperature is below freezing and the air_temperature above freezing. ‘The conditions which bring about the formation of ice glaze on chilled sub- stances is particularly hazardous to| fiying and one Pitcairn dir mail pilot | had a harrowing expericnce witi the ice | this morning. although he brought his | plane and himself through urfscathed. Pilot C. C. Talliaferro, who arrivedl here at 8:40 am. from New York, with considerable ice coating his plane, had the deposit chipped off and left a few minutes later in an empty plane to fiy | back to New York. The ice commenced to form immediately on leaving here and his plane collected more and more. Several miles this side of Logan Field, at Baltimore, he saw that almost a half-inch of ice had coated his guy wires, wings and fuselage, but was able to bring his ship into the port without mishap. Early Mail Goes Through. The usual mail schedule was flown, however, before the rain set in this morning, and if the conditions get no | worse than at present the mail schedule will be maintained tonight. From 26 degrees, at 5 o'clock this morning, the temperature rose a degres an hour up to 8 o'clock and through 9 and 10 o'gdock remained at a reading of 30. The worst ice coatings form when the upper air is slightly above freezing and the surface of the carth well below. 2 A collision between a taxicab and a street car, attributed to slippery streets, sent Mrs. Martha Hardy, 23, 322 Indiana avenue, to Sibley Hospital Where she is under obseryation for pos- sible concussion of the brain. Mrs. Bessie Michaelson, 43, of 3337 Eighteenth street, was shaken and bruised last evening when struck by a taxicab while crossing the street at Dupont Circle. The driver, Francis M. Johnson, 3216 Hyatt place. took her to Em-rgency Hospital, where she was treated by Dr. John Schwarzman of the staf!. A second woman was injured late yes- terday. She is Miss Ruth Thomas, 18, of 4119 PFirst street southeast. She was knocked down by an automobile driven by A. A. Davis, 28, of Indian Head, Md, at Pirst and Atlantic streets southeast. Davis took her to Providence, and phy- sicians there said one hip was injured, | but it would be necessary to take an X-ray photograph to determine how badly. Sprains Ankle, Others slightly hurt yesterday and last_night were John Armstrong, col- ored, 40, of Fairfax, Va., whose auto- mobile collided with a street car at) Thirty-sixth and P_streets, and James Stewart, colored, 32, or 1532 Sixth street. who sprained his ankle while alighting from a street car at Sixth street and Florida avenue. Most of the delay of street care was due to skidding automobiles and tie-ups | at street intersections where minor mo- tor mishaps had occurred. Busses of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. left outlying garages for the run to thé city before the rain set in this morning, and many were forced to draw up on the side of the street to awalt service cars with chains. Consid- erable difficulty was experienced on this score on the Rhode Island avenue line, particularly at the hill near the inter- section of First street ncnh‘fu relief from the pressure that seemed to hem m> in. “I have found rest in. Omaha. but I am going back to New York and straighten out my tangled affairs. I must begin where I left off that day at Coney Island.” “Bummed” Way to Omaha. Brophy said he “bummed” his way to Omaha. He started work for the Bee- News, September 25. It was the news that Comdr. Byrd had flown over the | South Pole-and returned successfully to his base that resulted in “Mitchell's” FORMER BYRD AIDE. WHO LEFT! 'SUICIDE NOTE, IS FOU HELD VALUABLE D I i 1 I | | | | I ND IN OMAHA | RICHARD G. BROPHY. Brophv and “Mitchell” was so apparent that the cditor confronted “Mitchell” with the picture and “Mitchell” admit- ted his identity. Brophy was second in command of e Byrd expedition at the time of his and unesplained res n. | in charge of the y | anor Bolling. Tl | back after getting 900 miles out, formation preveniing its further mc ment ahead. e requrned to Dunedi , and resigned. hip turned ice Was Arrested in Dunedin. At Dunedin Brophy was arrested as a public nuisance, and a court gave him his choice between entering a_sani- tarium or returning to the United States. He took the latter alternative, but on armval in New York he voluntarily sub- mitted to a mental test at Bellevue, He was declared sane, but ordered to take a rest, On the advice of Comdr, Byrd's New York representatives, Brophy spent six weeks in Canada and then returned to New York, the suicide hoax and di appearance following shortly afters Death Sentence Upset FRANKLIN ELLSWORTH SMITH. —Star Staff Photo. SMITH SENTENCE OF DEATH IN GIRL’S MURDER SET ASIDE (Continvied From First Page.) his control, it will be their duty to ac- quit the defendant and in sych case their verdict should be not guilty.” Error Is Charged. the court declares, is the law in this District and in an applicable ca€e should be explained to the jury. “In view of the uniform adoption of this doctrine,” says Justice Van Orsdel, “by the trial courts of this District and the approval of the rule by the United States Su- preme Court, we have no hesitation in declaring it to be the law of the Dis- trict wf Columbia that in cases where insanity is interposed as a defense and the facts are sufficient to call for the application of the rule of irresistible im- pulse, the jury should be so charged.” The court also points out that it can- not agree with the claim of the prose- cution that thé facts in the Smith case were not sufficient to call for the allow- ance of tfe instruction. Considering the evidence as a whole, concludes «the court, “we are of the opinion that it was error to refuse the prayer requested by the defense, and, regardless of the gravity of the offense or the probable guilt or innocence of the accused, a fundamental princinle of law is involved, and a new trial should | be granted.” | Man Admitted Killing. | At his arrajgnment Smith admitted { the killing, but denied it had been pre- | meditated. } Shortly after the court's decision was made known, officials of the District Jail communicated the information to Smith, who was described as being “agrecably surprised.” An ofcial who talked with him briefly said Smith felt that the public was against him because of the nature of the charges. Smith was guoted as having said he anticipated “another long fight in the courts.” The prisoner’s physical condition was said to be | men and 2 women.' Its members are < " e J: s N. Fitgpatrick, jr. foreman | “fairly good.” He talked little. Roger Jamison, Thomas' §. Gadde | TSR AU ‘T’ER finrcv C. "l‘?.likrr. lHnrr'v d'r. JD;GH);:;_ arry Willlam_ Langford, lohn LEGISLATIVE WRI | Trant, Charles D. Sanger, jr.; Melville | WILL LECTURE TONIGHT | 3\ X o aun, oeen £ raty. gonn coming Congress, the Nation’s business leaders Comdr. Byrd's achievements in the | Antarctic will be among the principal current topics to be discussed this eve~ ning by Will P. Kennedy, legislative writer of The Star, in a public forum at_the Central Y.'M. C. A.. 1136 G street. Special sealing arrangements ha been made to care for an ex- pected overfiow. The lectures will be given every Monday nght, beginning at 7:15 o'clock. i A question-and-answer period will follow Mr. Kennedy's talk. As a supplementary feature there will be a showing of The Evening Star-Universal newsreel by courtesy of the newsreel | management. Thé doctrine of irresistible impulse, | Problems which confront the forth- prosperity plans of ant | | | | SCRIVENER DEATH . WITNESS REVEALS THREAT TO KILL HER| (Continued From First Page) reau at police. headquarters for many | years, Sandberg has a Nation-wide repu- tation as an authority on fingerprin He has been called in as an expert wil ness in numerous murder cases, in- cluding the Hall-Mills trial. Sandberg was among eight witnesses questioned by the grand jury as it | opened its probe. Insp-ctor William H. Harrison, an- other witness. was closeted h the grand jury only three or four minutes, Before entering the chamber, he told rters he knew little about the case. He said he supposed he was called as a witness because he was one of the first policemen summoned to the scine after Scrivener's body was found, as he lived in the neighborhood. Fritz Merkel, stewart at the Occidental Hotel, and his friend, Gus Blank, cashier, were closeted in the grand jury chamber 15 minutes each. They told rzporters they accompanied Secriv- ener to Kenilworth, Md., to attend a prize fight the night of October 12, 1926. They saig-they returned to the Occidental Hotel and had a late meal with Scrivener. H: left them shortly before midnight in a good humor. They had been friends of Serivencr for more than a year. Mrs. Turley said she had been threat- ened with death by two unidentified men on separate occasions recently. She quoted the men as declaring “we'll get you like they got Scrivener” unless she refused to testify in the investigation. Her daughter, Alice Turley, accom- panied her mother on her trip to the | District Supreme Court Building. Questioned for 35 Minutes. Mrs. Turley spent 35 minutes in the grand jury room. On finishing her statement, she returned to Mr. Rover's office and joined her daughter. She| was uncertain whether she would be| called as a witness again, saying Rover had told hef he would see her later. ‘'m so nervous I can hardly talk,” Mrs. Turley told reporters after being i questioned. Another witness, Dr. Joseph Rogers, deputy coroner, previously has ex- plained the results of tests made by him ! after Scrivener’s death to determine the | position of the pistol at the time the bullet wounding the detective was fired. | He believed the fatal shot was fired from a range of 10 inches. His tostimony was corroborated by Dr. Ierbert Martyn, another deputy coroner, who partici- pated in the tests. Viggo Larsen, detective headquarters photographer, explained he was called to the scene shortly after Scrivener's body was found in a Georgetown alley and took numecrous photographs. Sergeant Is Another Witness. Sergt. A. S. Bohrer of the first pre- cinct, another witness, was at the sev- enth precinct at the time of Scrivener's death. He was the first policeman to reach the spot. He was expected to explain how he found the detective | with a tie erasned in his rizht hand as though it had been torn from the neck of an assailant. A pistol was found b-tween the man's feet. Dr. Charles Lalley, another witness was called from Georgetown Hospital and nronounced Scrivener dead. Thirteen other witnesses were due to testify later in the The grand jury composed of 21 H. Ledeer. John Doran Perkins. Benia- min_ Weinberg. Frank V. Neidfeldt, George R. Campbell. Robert H. Har- rison. Harre, L. Thomoson, Lester El- Jis. Rufus Gflbert Byars, Grace Forrest McKay and Alexander R. George United States Attornev Lea A Rover took perconal direction of the examination of the witnesses when the investigation started. Shot Throu, Scrivener's bodv. with a bullet through the heart, was found at the mouth of on allev alongside of 3128 N street shortly before 1 o'clock on the morning of Octber 13. 1926. His death was | generally accented as a murder for sev- eral davs. Poli~e later declared he had taken his own life. A coroner’s inane<t was conducted in the District Building more than a month after the discovery of the body The coroner’s jury spent two davs hear- ng more than a score of witnesses. It then retired to con-ider the evidenre Ten minutes after the jurors reported Scrivener “was killed bv a person or own to this jury, other h Heart. Considered the ace of the Detective Bureou, Scrivener had earned an excen- tional renutation for bravery and efli- ciency, He possessed such marked abil- ity in rolving crimes that he had been assigned to unravel every mysterious I the city heads. | the District during 015084281 SHOWN DISTRICT BALANCE Commissioners Summarize Fiscal Data, Without Recommendations. [l The annual report of the District Commissioners, transmitted to Cobgress | today, for the second year in succes- | son carries no recommendations from The report simply con- tains a 60-page summary of the an- nual reports of the various department heads, as well as the special boards, which report to the District Commis- sioners. The report lists the cash receipts of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1929, at $35,01 and cash expenditures amou $35,014,488.82. The cash balance to the credit of the District of Columbia in the United States Treasury on the las ay of the fiscal year was given 2 .084,281.10, and to the credii of trust spoctal funds, $994,132:15, §1,165,000,000 Assessments. The assessed value of land in the D trict of Columbia is estimated at §: 000,000 and of improvements at $630. 000,000, a total of $1,165,000,000. Taxes on this real estate yielded the District a total of $19,382,483.23 during the year under revic Der $100 of The continued iner | of the automobile was s report that the gasoline tax had netted the District $1,352,579.10 during the year, an increas> of $148,718.41 over the previous fiscal year. It was estimated that this_tax Tepresented an average tax of $9.39 for each registered automo- bile during the 12 menths, Auto Tax Collection, Beginning January 1, 1930, the per- sonal property tax on autos will be col- lected at the time the license plate is obtained. In January persons who buy tags will be required to pay personal property taxes on their cars from July 1 to December 31, 1930. This will in no way affect the payment of the sec- ond half of the 1930 tax, according to the report, which should be paid in March, 1930. Beginning in Januar: 1931, those who buy tags for the cars’ must pay the entire year's per- sonal property taxes on the car before receiving the plates, The material contained in the rest of the annua! report has been printed in The Star from time to time as the reports of department heads were made public. DR. WILLIAM G. SCHAFHIRT MARRIES MISS CROCKER \ Wedding of Well Known Dentist and Teacher on November 27 Bicke.. il Is Announced. The r.arriage of Dr. William G. Schafhirt, well known dentist and club- man of Washington, to Miss Mary L. Crocker, a teacher in the ncw Bright- wood School, on November 27, at Fair- fax, Va., was announced today. The couple is now residing at 1850 Wyoming avenue. The new Schafhirt | residence, now nearing completion in | Rock Creck Park, will be occupied in the Spring. Dr. Schafhirt has been associated | with Washington dentisiry for 40 years | and is a member of ing, gun and yacht clubs of this city. is of McLean, Va. FRELINGHUYSEN PL Mrs, Schafhirt YSEN PLANS TO OPPOSE MORROW FOR SENATE SEAT| ___(Continued Fro First Page) i United States Senator, did not designate 1 in his announcement several weeks ago whether he would be a candidate for both the chort and long terms or only | the long term. MORROW TO LEAVE FRIDAY. By the Associated Press. | MEXICO CITY, December 2.—Am- | bassador Dwight W. Morrow wi'l leave here Friday for the United States, not to return until after he has finished as a delegate to the five-power naval con- | ference in London in January. H ‘That over, he is expected back in this | Capital to wind up almost three years as Ambassador before returning to his New Jersey home and accepting the | senatorial toga worn recently by Senw | ator Edge, just appointed Ambassador | at Paris. May Retire Next Summer. Friends believe political conditions in the United States may govern the| length of his stay in Mexico after the London naval conference. In the event | of a long congressional session or a | special session it is expected he will retire as ambassador early in the Sum- mer or sooner. \ But his own wishes in the matter are | to remain in Mexico three or four | months after the European trip in order to clear up certain outstanding prob- | lems with the new regime of President- | clect Pascual Ortiz Rubio. With the | new administration then in office he | hopes f@quick action on the agrarian | policy, and to start the finaneial prob- lem on the way to scttiement. Declines to Comment. The Ambassador himself told news- paper men he had nothing to say re- garding the announcement that he had | assented to becoming Senator from New | Jersey replacing Senator Edge and the Senator-designate, | temporary Baird, jr. . Mrs. Morrow and their daughter, Miss Elizabeth, will accompany Mr. Morrow, They first probably wiil go to their home in Englewood, N. J., and then to Washington, where Mr. Morrow will consult with the State Department. David Continues in Race by the |z | for settlement of 1 DEAD, 3 MISSING AS SHIP GROUNDS 18 on Lake Superior Vessel Rescued—Storm Causes Many Wrecks. By the Associated Press. | SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Decem- ber 2.—The freighter Kiowa's gamble with the treacherous seas of Lake Su- perior had ended today on an isolated | shore of the lake, with 5 of her crew missing, 1 dead and 18 rescued after severe exposure. The Kiowa, carrying 26 men, went | |agasend Saturday night on a reef 10 miles west of the village of Grand Ma- rais, Mich. Through the night she listed and Sunday morning, while the storm con- tinued, Capt. Alex Young of Duluth de- cided to chance launching a lifeboat to get ashore. The reports said the little * capsized, throwing him, the stew- ard, wheelsman, watchman and porter into the water. A sixth man was be- lieved to have been carried out into the lake with the boat, and it was his body, found yestcrday, that revealed the Kiowa's” plight. ' 'His companions were believed to be dead. While the Kiowa settled in the shal- low water a half mile from Aux Sable li"hthouse, 18 men huddled in the por- tions which were not submerged and aited for help. When guardsmen chedgthem many were suffering from exposure to the gale and sub- T0 temperatures, The grain carrier Queedoc was aground tonight in the upper river, 15 miles above Saulc Ste. Mari LONDON AND PARIS JOIN U. S. WARNING AS TOKIO DISSENTS! ___(Continue |_From of the Chinese Eastern Railway contro- versy in Manchuria have reached a :;urlydad\'flnccd stage and will be con- nued. The negotiations are between the Manchurian provincial government and Soviet Russia, rather than between the cer.tral government at Nanking and Moscow, although Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, arriving here from Nanking, said the central government approved them. His statement was subsequent to previous emphatic denials that any ne- gotiations at all were in progress. Tsai Yun-Shen En Route to Meeting. A dispatch from Grodektva, Siberia, by way of Moscow, said Tsal Yun-Shen, official representative of the governor of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang, passed through yesterday en route to Nikolsk- Ussuriisky, where he will negotiate with the Soviet representative, In Peiping it was said that informa- tion in Harbin was that the Russians were continuing their offensve in Man- churia, despite Moscow announcement of the provincial government's capitu- lation in the matter. Harbin dispatches here said bombs, cabbages and bags ot soot were beng dropped by Soviet air- craft on Pokotu and elsewhere soutn of Pogranichnaya, on the eastern Man- churian frontier. There was heavy property damage and loss of life, thu dispatches said. Terms Considered Drastic. It was understood the Russian terms the railroad con- troversy have not been accepted in full by the Mukden government, although it was hoped to iron out these differences in the personal meeting of the nu- tional representatives today or tomor- row. Chang himself was said to- cou- sider the terms too drastic and to be holding out for better conditions. WANG PLANS TO RESIGN. First _Page.) LONDON, December 2 (#).—A Reu- ter’s dispatch from Shanghai says that Dr. C. T. Wang, Nationalist foreign minister® has intimated privately that he will resign at the end of this month. Dr. Wang was quoted as stating he was disheartened by the public criticism regarding negotiations for settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute. It was regarded in_Shanghai as al- most certain that Dr. Wang would make such intimation, in view of the | difficulty in which the Nanking govern- ment has been placed in consequence of the separate negotiations between Moscow and Mukden. In addition, the extraterritoriality problem, which threatens to become acute by the end of the month, is likely to prove highly embarrassing for any foreign minister. ‘The dispatch added that pressure un- doubtedly was being exercised in vari- ous quarters to indWte Dr. Wang to re- consider his decision. BANDIT GETS $2,23! FROM OIL CONCERN IN DAYLIGHT ROBBERY __ (Continued From First Page) his face, so that only his nose and eyes were visible: He wore a gray soft hat. “When he came in the door,” Ralpn sald, “I was counting the money rep- resenting part of our Friday and Sut- urday Lusiness, as I do each morning, I had divided the cash into little piles ©f $20, $10 and $5 bills. When he told me to ‘stick 'em up,’ I made some re- mark about ‘cutting out the joke’ and then I noticed those two automatics pointing at me. I said nothing and the gunman put one of his guns in his| overcoat, pocket and with the free hand he scraped the money together and dumped it into his pocket. ‘Three minutes more and I would been on the way to the bank.” vh said. The office stands by itself in the midst of a thickly populated industrial section, not 30 yards from the warehouse of the Barber & Ross Co. and only a short distance from the warchouse of the E. G. Schafer Co. Usually there are one or two men in the office with the pro- prietor. The entire affair did not take more than two minutes, and within 10 minutes Lieut. J. W. McCormick and murder of consefnence in the District in several vears. He had been officially commended on 17 occasions for ex- traordinary work, ’.‘ A JOSEPH S. FRI ELINGHUYSEN, | three. men from the twelfth precinct | were scouring the neighborhood for the ! robher. | One of Boldest Hold-Ups. Police declared the hold-up to be one of the boldest in recent months. weather was in the bandit’s favor. The | cold rain beat down, freezing into ice | as it fell, keeping most of the employes | of the nearby warehouse indoors. | Within 100 yards of the office where the stick-up took place were fully 100 | men Ralph telephoned police hin |3 minutes after the robber vanished lover the railroad tracks behind the | office A few months ago a colored boy was discovered attempting to open the safe of the Ralph company. He is serving | jail term at Occoquan. Although the | safe door was wide open this morning | and contained about $300 in cash the | robber made no attempt to .loot the | safe. Sir Esme Leaves Havana. HAVANA, December 2 (F).—After a three-day visit in Havana,” Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the United States, left today for Washing- ton accompanied by his son. They have been on a month's cruise of the Antilles, o The | & 10:29 PM, NOV. 28 | RETURNED TG BASE AFTER FLIGHT T0 POLE 4 P ROCKEFELLER S MOUNTAINS 7~ =4 Appeararice of i b fed by Hmundtsen [ASSUMED VISIBILITY] 132 MILES EAST AND WEST AT ALTITUDE OF 10,000 FEET BYRD REFUELED AT DEPOT N°8 ON RETURN FROM SOUTN POLE 2 m}pi\a,' = /Wf RANGE 2 ASSUMED VISIBILITY| £53 50 MILES EASTAND WEST =] AT 1.500 FEET ABOVE POLAR PLATEAU L lMlp shows location of peaks hitherfo unknown that the commander tells of in his story of the flight to the Pole. BYRD LAUDS COOL WORK OF CREW OF SHIP IN FIGHTING OVER PEAKS Explorer Says He Was Lucky to Have Balchen, June and McKinley With Him on Hop to South Pole. (Continued From First Page.) flight it would be absolutely nece. the plateau should not be cloud co: conditions for our departure. In flying across the ocean, f that it would be clear beyond. Aides Gave Cha As the skis left the snow, al beneath us was the little group of in the air, wild with joy that at warm glow of affection for those fel months they had undergone hardh They had given us our great o] selfishly glad. Spitzbergen and headed north pol of them was Floyd Bennett's frien Balchen at the wheel. It had been the three of us, Bennett, Balchen and myself who had set out on this job two years ago, and the-three of us would be together at the finish, for we knew that Floyd Bennett's spirit flew with us. Bennett Selected Plane. He had selected the Ford plane, pre- pared it and flown it, and had helped with our early plans—so that his genius and his friendship were with us, helping us to reach our goal. The last thing we put in the plane was a stone that came from Floyd's grave at Arlington. We weighted it with the American flag that we proposed to drop on the South Pole. The plane had circled now and hit the Gilbert Grosvenor air trail, which by midnight we hoped to extend to the South Pole. In a few moments we emerged from the confusing bowl of milk over the take-off into sunshine that stretched ahead to the horizon. A thousand feet beneath us we picked up the dog-team trail. It is only with the sun in certain positions that the trail can be seen from the air. Now it was a faint, broken thread that we lost time and again, but managed to pick up each time with the Bumstead sun compass. Forced to Angle on Course. A strong easterly breeze forced us to head 10 degrees to the left of the course to allow for this wind, and so the plane crabbed along toward the South with its nose pointed well to the left of the trail. We had constantly to check the course by the drift indicator, an instrument through ‘which the ground is sighted to ascertain the amount the wind has caused the plane to drift from the true direction. We enjoved the first few howrs of the flight when we had time to look around, for flying over this mysterious Barrier never los: its fascination. Shortly after we passe: the crevassed area 150 miles from Little America, we sighted the mountains to the westward. Again I was struck with the majesty of these ranges. We saw one great mountain mass end and an- other one unaccounted for on the maps begin to the South and run toward the Beardmore Glacler. Great white glaclers flowed into the Barrier, and about hundred miles off were some snow- covered peaks, towering high over the Barrier, that glistened like fire from the sun’s reflection so that they looked like | great volcanoes—in eruption. Sight Trail Party on Way. | | | Soon the great mountalns loomed up and an hour aft sighted the trail party, 304 due south of Little Am: 3 | could be no doubt that so far we had | come South as straight as an arrow. It ahead rd we were in the cheering crowd at Spitzbergen were below me now. E: ssary that the mountains around vered. Several hours before our departure Bill Haines got a weather report from the geological party which convinced him that the flying | conditions were O. K. over the plateau. The weather was not so | important here as it was there. That is.why we did not wait for ideal or example, one can fly'through: clouds and even storms with impunity, but when the course goes over mountains whose peaks tower higher than the plane can fly, good visibility is required to get between the peaks over the glaciers. We long have felt that we might have to make several attempts before we could get the proper combination of circumstances. '| took off with our heavy load, clouds partly covered the sky. There was, however, a rim of green on the horizon to the south and we knew When we nce Unselfishly. 1 I could see in that white bowl my shipmates throwing their hats last we were headed poleward. A llows went through me. For weary | ips and sacrifices for this moment. | pportunity and they were un-| My mind shot back to an exactly similar scene in the arctic Spring, May 9, 1926. when Floyd Bennett and I rose from the snow at leward. Many of the fellows why ach d. And there beside me sat Bernt | photographs to drop for Larry Gould | and his gang We planned to leave food and fuel at our mountain base for them, and in order to enable Larry to locate the cache—a little speck in those great spaces—McKinley had located the spot on photographs he had taken on our base-laying flight of the surround- | ing mountains. We dropped these in a | bag attached to a parachute, i We could see two or three of the boys dashing after it, for they knew it con- tained also radio messages from home, jband has adequately provided for her, DEATH TOLL NINE IN VIRGINIA WRECK Cool Sailor Saves Marny in Stampede That Follows Pile-up of Cars. By the Associated Press. ONLEY, Va.,, December 2.—Salvage crews today were removing the last of the wreckage of a train that left the ralls, piling up eight coaches, with & death toll of nine persons and an in- jured list of 24. The train was bound from Cape Charles, Va., on the Penn- sylvania Railroad for New York with excursionists. Calm oxders, “Save women and chil- dren first,” shouted by Karl F. Cheno- weth, boatswain's mate, attached to the battleship Oklahoma, probably saved scores from death in the stam- pede-that started in an overturned third car, said A. V. Kemp of Norfolk, a sur- vivor, Chenoweth was injured himself. Doctors said that Mrs. Kemp was saved from death by the sailor, who tied a handkerchief above Mrs. Kemp's half-severed wrist, The dead are: Miss Grace Raby, 20, Norfolk, Vi Mrs. Annie Abrams, 39, Norfolk, Va. Ralph Smith, 19, Middleton, N. Y., seaman attached to the U. S. 8. Utah. Marion A, Callowa brakemun, Del- m; Md. An unidentified white man, wearing a Masonic emblem with the initials W, C. Jane Diggs, colored, Norfolk, Va. Three unidentified colored persons. Four hundred and eighty-eight pas- sengers were speeding up the Eastern Shore Peninsula of Virginia early Sun- day when they were thrown from their seats under a shower cf flying glass as the%cars struck a broken rail and ca=- reened. Two coaches were overturned, and four behind smashed into them. The locomotive and the first two cars remained on the tracks. HUSBAND’S LIABILITY FOR WIFE’S DEBTS IS FIXED BY D. C. COURT (Continued From F' Page) for their wives as their means and sta- tion in life warranted, from debts thoughtlessly and needlessly contracted and often beyond the capacity of the nusband to pay. Moreover, it does not require the discernment of a Solomon to appreciate that the unauthorized purchase of goods by a wife, whose hus- inevitably will have a tendency to c! turb and possibly disrupt their con- | jugal relatios Similar Case Is Cited, One of the cases cited in the opinion holds that en the husband has sup- plied his wife with those necessaries which their station in life and his finan- cial standing entitle her to have at his hands or has furnished her with mon- evs sufficient to enable her to purchase them for herself, he is under no obliga- tion to pay bills incurred by her for what would have becn necessaries if he had not alteady suppl.>d her, but which are not in fact such because of the precedent supply. ‘The tradesmen, the same opinion as- serts, readily may ascertain by inquiry the fact of a wife's authority to pledge her husband's crzdit for purchases she desires to make and the suggestion that such action on the part of the trades~ man might readily be considered of- fensive, not only by the wife, but by the husband whos> credit she seeks to pledge, is answered, the court points out, in the words of Lord Justice Bramwell of England, who said “if it be said that such a proceeding would offend the customer, I answer that may be an ex- ccllent reason why the tradesman should hot ask the question, but it is no rea- son for secking to make the husband pay because the question is not asked.” Huddleston's Testimony. Representative Huddleston at the trial in the Municipal Court, testified that he had no knowledge of the purchase by. his wife of the fur coat and scarf for which suit was brought; that he, never authorized her to purchase the articles; that he had instructed her not to make any purchases on his credit. For a long time before the goods were bought, he had been paying his wife $75 per month, he said. and instructed her to limit herself to this amount. It has been his personal custom for years. he told the court, to buy for cash for himself and family and never heard of her transaction with the Saks Fur Co. un'il served with summons in the law suit. “The present day means available to merchants ” concludes Justice Robb in holding them to the responsibility to learn if the wife has authority to pledge her husband's credit, “for the ascer- tainment of the moral and financial re- ponsibility of patrons and customers are "such that little apprehension need be indulged on account of the rule we have annjunced.” to be weighed carefully. George Black, | our supply officer, did the weighing and when he told me that the total weight of the plane was around 1,500 pounds I knew there was no mistake about ft. letters from friends at Little America, cigarettes and various other things tha trail party had requested by radio. We | inclosed many photographs of the | mountains taken from the air,'so that | Larry could best judge where 'to make | his geological investigations. We are expecting great results from his work, | for, geologically speaking, these moun- | tains should tell things of great impor- tance to science. Weary Weeks of Hiking. Those fellows are a long way from Little America, and they must be hit- ting the trail like veterans to make good | as they are doing. Seldom have men undertaken so difficult a trail journey for purely scientific investigations. They will_have many weary weeks of hiking before their job is done. They probably are making one of the last long dog- team jJourneys for scientific research. The exploring plane of the immediate future will be able to land far away from its base and to be anchored to the snow with six months’ supplies aboard, Immediately upon dropping the pack- age we started our long climb to get over the hump, about 100 miles ahead. Here was great uncertainty. For many months our minds had been concentrat- ed on the knotty problem of getting over this ragpart without having to leave behind ot mapping camera, with- out which, the geographical value of our flight would be greatly lessened. Neithe: June, Balchen nor I coyld manipulate the heavy camera, as acrial surveying . | a highly specialized work. Capt. Me- Kinley, ‘with his three months’ polar | equipment and surveying outfit, weighed barely 600 pounds. This cut down by about a thousand feet the highest alti- tude at which we could fly. We had made very careful tests with the plane | and had’ checked and rechecked our figures for weeks. Finally we decided that we could just stagger over the hump with the extra 600 pounds. All Glad to Take Chance. Bernt, Mac and Harold were glad to| take the chance due to the valus of th results that might be obtained. Ho: ever, there must be no mistake ab our lead. Every ounce of food, every fece of clothing, everything that went was well, for we had messages and W to that plane, including ourselves, had We shoul. reach the hump within the hour ncw and we could tell exact- ly the weight we carried by the amount of gasoline we had burned. That would be one of Harold June’s many jobs. June was probably one of the busiest men in the world during that flight, sending radios, dumping gas from cans into the tanks, estimating the gas used from our six tanks, taking motion pic- tures and in botween time, taking his turn piloting. Only a man with extraordinary cool- ness could have done this job efficient- ly. Mac was busy with "his camera, shooting the great mountains, and Bernt at the wheel was fighting to get alti- tude. He knew he must use no more gas than was absolutely necessary, As I thought of the battle ahead, 1 realized how very lucky I was to have such great fellows with me. 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