Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1930, Page 22

B—6 ADANS SENDS BYRD BARK ASSISTANCE Reverses Ruling Expedition Was Only “Commercial” Venture. Becretary of the Navy Adams today reversed the ruling of the Navy De- | partment that the Byrd Antarctic expedition was a “commercial venture” and that, as such, a Navy tug could not | be sent from Baiboa to the aid of the | bark City of New York, now moving slowly homeward, more than 700 miles from the Canal Zone. Instead, Secretary Adams ruled that Rear Admiral Byrd had conducted 7 scientific expedition, which was entitled | to aid, and that there was no sort of a “commercial venture” about it. He | followed this ruling with an order to the naval authorities at the Panama Canal to offer Admiral Byrd the use of & Navy tug to tow the City of New York into port. When the use of the Navy tug was | refused on Saturday because of the | view that it would violate Navy regu- | lations against competing with private companies in business operations, Admi- | ral Byrd decided to send the steamer | Eleanor Bolling to the assistance of the City of New York. The bark was being towed to Panama by the Eleanor Boll- | ing, but was cut adrift when the | steamer's fuel supply ran low. | BARK DRIFTS ON BEAUTIFUL SEA. Dolphins and Porpoise Charm Mariners | on Sapphire Waters. BY DR. FRANCIS D. COMAN. | By Wizeless to The Star and New York Times. | ABOARD THE BARK CITY OF NEW | YORK, at sea, May 27.—For the past | week or more the City of New York has | been drifting slowly eastward through the | doldrums 600 miles west of Panama. Some days a fitful breath of air half- heartedly bellies out our sails. On other days we lie becalmed under a brofling sun with no more movement than “a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” Measured in what is generally con- sidered news value, nothing of interest | has transpired for many weeks. Yet| each day has brought adventures likely to remain lasting and cherished posses- sions long after other episodes are dis- | missed from memory. | As we reach our sixty-fourth day across | the Pacifie our shirts remain unruffled | by any fretful anxiety to terminate this | cruise. Though slower than the Graf Zeppelin, in due time we shall arrive. Meanwhile, sharks, porpoises and dol- | phins play in the sapphire clear water | about our prow; great bottle-nose whales spout alongside us, and gannets and frigate birds skim the water’s sur- face where the bonita leaps in sparkling flashes. Mechanically sweeping our paintbrush over rail or bulwark, we ac- quire a deepening tan in the sun, while our thoughts are far away, lost in con- | templation of the shimmering sea and high towering thunderheads. All day long the sunshine, alternat- ing with warm dren: , brings us most fascinating arcs and fragments of pure color on every hand. As sun mounts higher the arc becomes lower and flatter, of course, and as the squall recedes in the distance the bands of color become deeper and more discreet against the leaden pillar of rain. Who | of us can forget the rainbow a half hour before dawn that Malcolm Han- son aroused us to see? As a great ruddy half disk of pale vermilion edged by ellucid bands of rose, orange and ttle green, and with a faint and fragmentary outer bow, it loomed high above the horizon against the slate purple of the western sky and tinged the dark waters with a Tosy flush. A few moments and the spectatle had vanished. The evening before we had seen a most delicately perfect moonbow ap- ring out of a rain squall as it passed y. Iridescent with quavering reds and ns, this rare celestial vision hung e a lustrous mantle until a dark cloud had blotted out the bright gib- bous moon rising behind us. Seek Friends in Heavens. In the dark of the night as half | awake we stand at the helm watching | the slow stars wheeling above us, we seek out friends. Here at the tail of the Scorpion is the basket sled of Antarctic days, and here on our left is ‘the Northern eorona, & littering frond of seed pearls in this geri apostrophes garden of jewels. As the night wears on a faint cusplike glow of equinoctial light, the forerun- ner of the dawn, reaches up from the eastern horizon, where pallid yellow of | very old parchment marks the line be- tween sea and sky. At this hour, float- ing with sails hanging limp and with hardly a spell in the sea, & stiliness in- folds us so profound that from the| tiniest barely audible note we seem 10| hear half-forgotten symphonies swelling flutelike to our inner ears, & sort of au- ditory crystal gazing. Pale buff gives way to subdued whis- perings of rust red and ochre as, like smoking embers, the first streaks of dawn are fanned into vividness. Small ashed rose dawn clouds roll aside, dis- closing banners of flaming ruby on cloths of green gold, while high above lofty cerri form a tracery of frost silver on a thin filth 6f incense blue. Of a sudden a flood of glory bursts lol’th\ and the dawn’s first beam glows on the‘ sails and in the hierophant eyes of im-| practicable seafarers. (Cepyright. 1930, by the New York Times | and the St. Louls Post-Dispatch.) | Plane View of Boat Race. The famous Oxford-Cambridge boat race in England this year may be seen | from airplanes, a company having ar- | Tanged to carry passengers above the oarsmen during the event for $10. Brit- ain expects this Summer to be its busi- est in the air. There will be flying Contends Growth of By the Associated Press. | ‘TOKIO, May 27.—Uncle Sam’s herds of fur-bearing seals in the North Pa- cific have grown so numerous under the kindly shield of a four-power treaty framed for their protection in 1911, and are devouring such quantities of the fish which Japan needs to help feed her teeming human population, that the Tokio government is pressing Wash- ington for revision of the international seal convention. So effective has the protective agree- ment been, say the Japanese, that “the beaches of Lukannon,” in the Ameri- can-owned Pribilof Islands, of which Kipling wrote poetically in “The White Seal,” are again almost as populous as in the golden age ‘“before the sealers came.” Tokio contends, therefore, that the restriction on killing seals may be re- laxed without threatening the herds with extinction and with great gain to Japan'’s fishing industry. Claim Losses of Millions. Diplomatic communications on this subject have been passing across the Pacific for months. The Japanese gov- ermment, which joined with the United | States, Russia and Great Britain in the 1911 convention, complains that the seals, nearly all of them American, cause & loss of 20,000,000 yen ($10,000,~ 000) a year to Japanese fishing in- terests i Under the benign protection of the convention, says this version, the Amer- ican herds have grown in two decades from about 132,000 to nearly 1,000,000 voracious fish eaters that play havoc in the North Pacific waters plied by the | fishing boats of Japan, even breaking nets and devouring or chasing away great quantities of herring, cuttlefish and other delicacies of the sea that | might grace Japanese tables. | The negotiations are beset by diplo- | matic perplexities, chiefly because the | United States and Soviet Russia are not | speaking officially and so cannot discuss | revision of a treaty that theoretically | binds them both. Toklo, however, is pursuing the subject in hope that a three-power modus vivendi, permitting the killing of more seals, can be patched up between Japan, America and Canada, | which has inherited Great Britain's | share in the seal question since she es- | {ablished legations in Washington and i ‘Tokio. Killing of Seals Banned. ‘The purpose of the convention of 1911 was to avert the threatened extinction of the North Pscific seal herds, which during 40 years of unrestricted hunting | had dwindled from 3.000,000 or 4,000,000 to about 140,000. The treaty prohibits | all pelagic sealing—that is, killing or | capturing seals at sea—in the Pacific Ocean north of 30 degrees north lati- tude, including the Seas of Bering, Ohkotsk, Kamchatka and Japan. | Seals may be killed only on the islands to which they repair each year | for the mating season, and on those islands they are strictly under the con- trol of the governments concerned and are killed and skinned only by govern- ment agents. The treaty sets minmum figures for | the American, Russian and Japanesc herds and provides that there shall be no killing in any herd that drops | below its limit, which is 100,000 for the American, 18,000 for the Russian | and 6,500 for the Japanese. When herds are above their respective limits each | government determines the number to be killed in any season. The convention | further provides a system of sharing all | around, designed to equalize the sacri- | flceu'mce—ry to the protecting agree- ment. Canada Party to Convention. Great Britain—now Canada—is a | party to the convention, although - | s;:lin‘ no seal herds, because muc t Reports zent to the Bureau of Fish- eries in Tokio by its seal experts in the | north state that all three herds are LOW-FLYING AIRPLANES | TO BE INVESTIGATED College Park Association Commit-| tee Named to Look Into Matter of Liability. Special Dispatch to The Star. | COLLEGE PARK, Md, May 27— Dr. H. B. McDennell has been appointed chairman of a committee of the Col- lege Park Home and School Association to investigate low flying of airplanes here and the lability for damages or accidents on the part of those owning planes housed in the College Park Air- port. Prof. 8. 8. Steinberg and E. I. Oswald are other members of the com- miftee which was appointed by F. B. ‘Trenk, president of the association. Appointment of the committee fol- lowed a motion authorizing such action passed at the last regular meeting of the association. ALABAMAN IS SLAIN ANNISTON, Ala., May 26 (#).—At- | tacked by highwaymen while en route | to Jacksonville, Ala., to attend his daughter’s graduation exercises, W. C. Gunn of Slacuago, was shot to death | last night on a highway about five miles from Anniston. ! Gunn’s wife said she was forced to look on helplessly while three men, who had held them up, killed her husband. A posse was organized and a search begun for the bandits. Mrs. Gunn drove the car into Annis- meets in different parts of the country practically every week-end. Brothers [WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY] HOLIDAY A BEAUTIFUL GROUP OF Street and Evening DRESSES In Plain Colors an Previously Offcred to $78.50 PP et Thirty-five Spring SuITsS Sizes 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 Previously to No €. 0:D’s No C T W BRIV R T ton with her husband’s body and re- ported the killing to police. eS’ ALE @R Prints 52 5.00 52 9.75 All Sales Final $88.50 redits THE EVENING TOKIO PRESSES WASHINGTON FOR REVISION OF SEAL PACT Herds Has Wrought Havoc to Japanese Fishing Industry. now far above their treaty minimums; that the American herds are between 800,000 and a million, and the Russian and Japanese about 30,000 each. It appears that in all the vast ex- panses of the Pacific there are just three places whither fur seals resort when the mating season comes in the Spring. These three places are rocky, bleak | islands in the Far North—the Pribilof Islands, a group of five owned by the United States, lying north of the Aleu- tian Islands chain; the Kommandorsky Islands, off the coast of Kamchatka, be- longing to the Soviet, and Robben Island (which the Japanese call sim- ply “Seal Island"), near Cape Patience, part of Japan's share of Saghalien. ‘The Pribilof herd is by far the largest, containing nine-tenths of the fur-bear- ing seals of the Pacific. There’s ey res Y%, Cape model in bright flowered int with dlack ckground. MID-CITY CITIZENS INDORSE ZONE PLAN Development of Section as Suggested by Maj. Davison Given Approval. Development of the section embraced by the Mid-City Citizens’ Association, | from Fifth to Sixteenth streets, Florida | avenue to L street, under the ‘“use” zoning suggestion of Maj. D. A. Davi- | son Assistant Engineer Commissioner and executive officer of the Zoning Commission, was'indorsed at a meet- ing of the, mid-city citizens last night in the Thomson School, ‘[welfth and | L streets. ‘The indorsement of the Davison sug- gestion was given by the association | with the reservation that neighboring | property owners affected by the erec- tion of business buildings in the area Vanity Undies « otique” of pure « e Z, ST Sleeveless dress with matchin jacket in @ 80) lurred print, STAR, WASHINGTON, silk mesh, “Vanitysilk” of pure glove silk in an indi- vidual stripe, “Silkenese” of silk and bem- berg that wears and wears, and “Heigh-Ho"” of pure bemberg that is absolutely run proof. Large flowers rich coloring in this jacket frock with peplum efect. D. C, TULSDAY, ugv-mommu-hmw-b- Area Explained. area, it was explained, would be used for the construction of office buildings and other business structures of a high type, where there “Use” “use” would not be retail selling, and where | only business of a nature calculated not to prove uncomfortable to neigh- bors would be conducted. In discussion of the present District tax rate of $1.70, based upon the pres- ent District budget and the $9,000,000 contributed by the Federal Govern- ment, the association went unofficially on record as regarding the present tax rate as fair, but opposed further in- crease in the District budget without a proportionate increase in the amount received by the District from the Fed- eral Government. Several speakers ad- vocated the boosting of the lump sum appropriation of the Government from | $9,000,000 to $12,000,000 to take care of the increases in the city's budget. ‘The association already is on record as favoring the 60-40 plan of fiscal re- lations. Hits Sunday Base Ball. ‘The association last night determined to call upon the police, the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks and school authorities to stop the playing of Sunday base ball by adults on the park land at Twelfth and L streets and Massachusetts avenue adjoining the Parie of Little white print So Lovely and Becoming and Successful ! Women’s Flower Printed Chiffons Regular Sizes, 36 to 44 $30.50 | Thursday night. elleffs A FASHION INSTITUTION Washington 2w Little Women’s Sizes, 331/, to 391/, MAY 27, 1930. ‘Thomson School. Complaints from residents of the neighborhood said that the noise made by men playing in the park on Sundays disturbed them. ‘The association sent a letter to Pres- ident Hoover commending him for lift- ing the civil service regulations to al low the Government to employ Mrs. Helen Hall York, widow of Lamar Wat- son York, Federal prohibition agent, slain on duty here some time ago. | School Improvement Commended. Another letter of commendation for the Dfih’ltln% and redecorating of the ‘Thomson School was sent to the Board of Education. The association voted to attend in a | body the community center entertain- ment and dance at the Thomson School The entertainment marks the closing of the community center activities there for the school year. REE——— French Girl Gets State Post. For the first time in France a girl just out of her 'teens has been ap- pointed private secretary to a cabinet minister. She is Mlle. Odette Raoul Peret, whose appointment has fust been officially announced as ‘“right- hand man” to her father, former prime minister and now minister of justice in M. Tardieu's cabinet. Mile. Peret is a charming and vivacious brunette. She has studied law and is an expert[ on political questions. weather, York woman’s frock of black and with slenderizing revers. 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Grey Shops—Second Floor The Stocking That Wins! Why shouldn’t it? It has all the winning points! Three leg lengths—short, medium, long! Three styles of heels—French, double point and single point! In sheer and serv- ice sheer In all the very ‘smartest of Summer shades—and, of course, there are the new LacLustre stockings, too. Stock up in Gold Stripe—they’ll come up to your highest expectations. Gold Stripe Shop—Street Floor Additional Gold Strive Shop Stoneleigh Court—1013 Connecticut Ave. Here’s a Way to Achieve Cool Foot Comfort! $3.95 If your feet are cool and Woven Sandals They’re ideal for beach wear, for vacationing in general, to say nothing of hot days in May is the month to select chiffons and Wed- nesday the day! These new arrivals in glorious flowered chiffons have turned the Women's Dress Shop into a garden from which you may pick a bouquet at $39.50. New, exotic flower prints—tiny, old-fashioned prints—prints grow larger as the day grows longer—all ready for your choice tomorrow! Jacket frocks for afternoon and evening— dresses with capes which pound the top of the arm in.a way that is moge flattering and are so much cooler than sleeves. Tailored printed chiffons for daytime and street wear—truly a collection of unusual range and beauty. comfy it makes all the difference in the world! And the easiest and most inexpensive way we know is to indulge in a pair or two of these woven san- dals. town. And they come in practically every color combination you can think of. And at this price you can have several pairs and still save! chiffon, BI R T EE'N Sketched —Printed Navy design on white background. Vestee of white geor- gette and flared skirt. 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