Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1930, Page 2

STEPHEN PORTER, STATESMAN, DIES Pennsylvania Representative 20 Years Was Bitter Foe of Drug Evil. Br the Assoclated Press PITTSBURGH, June 27.—The bril-| liant career of Stephen G. Porter, one | of the Nation's foremost statesmen, is ended. Mr. Porter died at 2:40 a.m, (Eastern daylight time) today in Allegheny Gen- eral Hospital, while messages of solici- tude and sympathy poured in from all over the world. Members of hic family were at the Dedside The chairman of the House of Repre- sentatives foreign affairs committee, Jeader in the wogld-wide fight for con- trol of habit-forming drugs and dean of the Pennsylvania congressicnal dele- gation, lapsed into unconsciousness early yesterday and sank rapidly. Mr. Porter became ill about two months ago. He was stricken while #board ship en route from London June | 11. He was brought to Pittsburgh from Walter. Reed Hospital, in Washington Death was due to cirrhosis of the liver. Messages Pour In. As Mr. Porter waged the last hours of his fight for life, messages poured into | his home and to the sick room from high Government officials and from many parts of the world expressing sympathy and solicitude. A cablegram came tonight from Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Ambassador to Lon- don, who was assoclated with Mr. Por- ter in the narcotic conference in| Geneva. | Puneral services for Mr. Porter will be held Monday at 2 p.m. (Eastern day- | light time) at the residence of his brother and law partner, L. K. Porter. | at Emsworth, a suburb. The Rev. Dr. | W. 1. Wishart, pastor of the Eighth United Presbyterian Church. a life- long friend of Mr. Porter, will have charge of the services. The body will be buried in High- ‘wood Cemetery beside that of his wife. Prominent in G. 0. P. Politics 20 Years. Representative Porter was 61 years eld. “He was a prominent figure in Re- publican politics of Pennsylvania for the past 20 years, and became a na- tional figure at the close of the World War, while Congress and the Nation sought solution to the gigantic problems growing out of that conflict. After the treaty of Versailles was | signed. Mr. Porter took a leading part | in the conferences which resulted in the Knox-Porter resolygions, forming the basis for restoring #'plomatic and com- mercial relations with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Elected to Congress in 1910 from the tirty-second _Pennsylvania district, a Republican stronghold, Mr. Porter was returned to Washington at each suc- ceeding election for many years. When the Republican party again assumed control of Congress in 1919, Mr. Porter, by virtue of his seniority, became chair- man of the House foreign affairs com- mittee, and it was in that capacity that he became a prominent figure in settle- ment of post-war problems. Consulted by Presidents. His ability and intimate knowledge of foreign affairs was recognized by both Republican and Democratic Presi. dents. During the World War Presi- dent Wilson frequently consulted the foreign affairs chiarman on questions dealing with the American war policies. In addition to seeking Mr. Porter's ad- vice on post-war problems, President Hard! appointed him a member of the ory _committee whieh repre- sented Representatives at the Washington Conference Alr(n i- tation of Armaments. He took an ac- tive part in the deliberations of the conference as chairman of the subcom- mittee dealing with Pacific and Far East ions. his fellow man took him to many parts of the world. He was chairman of the American delegation which sat with the League of Nations Commission in con- | sidering the limitation of production and use of opium. President Harding named him, together with Army, Navy and judicial representatives, to repre- sent the United States at the centen- nial of Brazilian independence. With Charles Evans Hughes he participated in the negotiations of the Pan-Ameri- can Economic Commission as repre- sentatives of this country. While traveling in foreign countries Mr. Porter assembled data on the hous- ing facilities provided for American Tepresentatives abroad, and he took a leading part in sponsoring a bill recent- 1y passed by Congress to provide new uarters for the American diplomats in e various countries. Raised in Anti-Slavery Home. Born on a farm near Salem, Ohio; on May 18, 1969, Mr. Porter as a lad of 8 years was brought to Piitsburgh by his parents. His father, David Porter, | came to Pittsburgh in 1848 shortly after | his marriage in Paisley, Scotland, to Maria Hope. Here the senior Porter took a prominent part in the_anti-, slavery movement, the Porter home be- ing one of the stations in the under- ground railroad by which slaves from the South reached Canada. The family moved to 8alem in 1865, but returned | in 1877 Young Porter attended the Pittsburgh schools and for two years centered his! attention on a study of medicine. Later he read law with his brother, L. K. Porter, and was admitted to the Alle- geny County bar in 1893. For years | practiced law, but with his election | to Congress in 1910 he gave his entire | time to public service. His only other | public office was city solicitor of Old Allegheny (Pittsburgh), a position he held while practicing law. In 1895 Mr. Porter married Elizabeth Ramaley of Allegheny. Pa. She died in 1919. A daughter, Lucy Foster Porter, | married Richard Barrow, an ensign in | questions. Mr. Porter’s interest in the welfare of | & “DISCIPLES” Charles and Mary as they appeared in Police Court today. NORTHIWEST WINDS. BREAK HEAT WAVE Maximum of 90 Today Ex-| pected. With Cool Weather ‘ Tomorrow. Cool northwest winds from Canada | Inst night ended the three-day hot speil in the Capital, which resulted in the death of one man and the collapse of | five other persons. At noon the mercury stood at 80 de- grees and gradually will climb to a maximum of 90 degrees before 3 o'clock this afternoon, the Weather Bureau | prognosticator announced today. Cool weather will prevail until Sunday, when, obligingly, it will become warmer for the benefit of Sunday bathers. George Stitts, colored, 60 years old, was pronounced dead, due to heat yes- terday. Those overcome were: James Nolan, 68 years old, of 902 Eighth | street; Mrs. John Van Sweingen, 25, | of Miffington, Pa., and Amelia Ander- | son, 32, colored, of 140 Lawrence street northeast. They were treated at Emer- gency Hospital and released. ‘Two employes of the United States Census Bureat, housed in temporary buildings at Sixth and B streets, were reported overcome by heat yesterday afternoon, shortly before 200 employes in the buildings were released for the ay. ‘The chief clerk’s office at the bureau was unable to furnish their names. It | was said at the office that neither of | the employes was seriously affected. | The mercury reached new high mark for the year yesterday, when at 4:30 o'clock it climbed to 98 degrees, | 2 degrees higher than the mark set | Tuesday, Thundershowers late yesterday and | last night kept the over-night park | sleepers at home. | DONKEY LEADS INDIA | MARCH OF THOUSANDS | Copy of Simon Commission Report | Burned After Demonstration at Simla. By the Associaled Press. SIMLA, India, "June 27.—~Thousands | of persons followed a donkey, wearing | foreign clothes, an English hat and| carrying a copy of the Simon Commis- | sion report through the streets of In- dia’s Summer capital in a procession today. The procession wound up at the grain market, where a mass meeting was held. Hindu and Sikh speakers condemned | the report, whereafter the copy was| burned At Delhi today the police made a two-hous search of the premises of the All-India Congress committee and the Satyagraha Ashram, or college. They removed coples of a pamphlet calling upon the police and military to resign. No arrests werc made, SENATOR SMOOT DENIES ARE | Tariff Blamed by London Firm for ; today received a cable from J. O. Sims THE ‘v | Star Staff Photo. | CHARLES AND MARY MYSTERY T0 COURT 1 1 “Speak About Christ” Only| Information Police Learn About Couple. Among things the authorities so far| have not learned about Charles and Mary are their last names, ages, means of support, if they are married, where they came from and which way they were headed after they left Police Court this morning. For a while it looked like Charles and Mary were headed for the usual destination of those who enter Police Court on vagrancy charges, but after a lengthy hearing in which the police did most of the talking, the judge re- leased the two on their personal bond. For quite a while last night police officers in No. 7 precinct questioned Charles and Mary to no effect. Worn out and a bit exasperated, they put Charles in a cell and sent Mary to the House of Detention. Beyond the assertion that they were abroad to “speak to people about Christ,” Charles and Mary had nothing 10 say. Charles, clad from his bare head to his sandled feet in a striped, if somewhat travel-stained, robe, was ar- rested last night at Wisconsin avenue and M street by Policeman C. A. Bailey. Mary, dressed in much the same manner, was arrested with Charles. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic at the busy intersection was at a virtual standstill, the policeman said, because people stopped to see and hear the air, DNellher had any money and hoth refused to admit they were “begging.” ‘The officers, admittedly puzzled, said they hoped a police court judge could learn something of the visitors. BRITISH RETALIATION HITS VIRGINIA APPLE Embargo Resulting From Pres- sure From English Growers. Special Dispatch fo The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., June 27.—James R. Dushane, one of the largest exporters of apples from the Virginia markets. Co., London, England, which he repre- sents here, saying the order in council prohibiting importation of several grades of apples from Virginia and other American States from July 7 to Novem- ber 156 was considered “political retalia- tion” as a result of the new American tariff bill. The cable said: “Consider embargo political retaliation by reason of tariff and owing to pressure from English growers. Importers here pow- erless. Government actions must come from your side.” Local growers declared the prohibition would be severely felt in Virginia, larg- est apple-exporting State in the Union. LONDON, June 27 (4).—The British | The rain abated somewhat this morn- FRILAY - INHEAVY STORMS Northeastern States and Canada Suffer Lightning and Downpour. (Cont; jump overboard before the boat sank. He was picked up clinging to a piece of floating wreckage. R. A. McNell, foreman of the day shift, another survivor, said that the boat seemed to disappear from beneath his feet when the blast occurred. Three bodies were recovered. One of these was found by the Coast Guard ifeboat crew wedged into a mass of wreckage. It was removed and taken ashore to await identification. The workmen aboard the driil boat included drillers, blacksmiths to sharpen the drills, powder men, helpers and laborers, in addition to the engine room crews, The J. B. King was one of the largest boats of her type in Canada. She was 150 feet long. with a beam of 50 feet ang was equipped with 12 steam-driven drills Cottagers Think Regular Blast, Each drill sank a 6':-inch hole in the granite shoals to a minimum of 27 feet. After € number of holes had been drilled and a charge of dynamite placed in each one, connected by wires to a_detonator aboard the boat, the J. B. King would be moved off to about 1,000 feet and the charges exploded. ‘The destruction of the vessel was wit- nessed by occupants of Summer cot- tages along the shore. Many persons who heard the explosion paid no at- tention to it, believing it to be one of the blasts which the crew of the drill boat set off in the course of their work. J. B. Hunter, deputy minister of public works at Ottawa, said the ex- plasion would seriously delay the work of clearing the channel. as he believed no other drill boat would be available, Among the victims of the dynamite explosion was the ship's mascot, a large police dog, named King, who recently was awarded a_medal for dog heroism. Last Spring King saved the life of Jack Wylie, a member of the crew, when he broke through the ice while helping load machinery. Wpylie sank and King leaped into the water and brought hm to the surface. Both Wylie and King were on the missing list today. Foreman's Wife Braves Storm. BROCKVILLE, Ont., June 27 (#).— Braving the storm that was raging and possible danger in the vicinity of the disaster, Mrs. R. A. McNell, wife of the foreman of the ill-fated drill boat J. B. King, launched a rowboat and | went ‘in search of her husband after she witnessed the explosion which sank the craft. With her five small children, Mrs. McNeil was on a picnic on the shore at a point where they could see the drill boat working in the channel. They were standing on the porch of a nearby cottage to avold the rain when the explosion occurred. Mrs. McNeil rushed to the water's edge and with the aid of a stranger launched a row- boat. Before they reached the scene of the wreck they were met by a res- cue boat which had picked up McNeil. He was taken home suffering from, minor injuries and shock. Four Killed in Train Wreck. ‘TORONTO, Ontario, June 27 (#)— Four persons were killed and 12 in- jured when a train of the Canadian National Raiiways, bound from Win- nipeg to Toronto, was derailed and wrecked, plunging into the flooded Ver- ( million River, four miles east of Cap- reol. Ontario, last night. The wreck was caused by a wash- out, resulting from unprecedented flood | conditions. officials of the road said. The entire train, with the exception of the engine and tender, was derailed. The engineer and fireman immediately jafter the accident ran the engine to Capreol for aid. Every doctor, nurse and welfare worker was_pressed into service and rushed to the scene in a \relief train. The train returned to Capreol with a number of stretcher cases and many persons suffering minor in- juries. A new No. 4 train was made up and proceeded to Toronto with the unin- jured passengers. It was due to ar- rive there about noon. Creeks Highest Known. Several other trains were stalled and many motorists stranded in this dis- trict today as a result of landslides and washouts following 14 hours’ incessant rainfall. | | ing, but creeks and rivers had already been turned into raging torrents. The rain had been falling at intervals for the last two weeks. In this city the Junction and Nolan Creeks, which run through the center of Sudbury, have reached the highest marks known and two bridges have been swept away. Many homes and business places were under several feet of water. The Canadian Pacific Imperial limited train, after leaving here last night, was forced to return after proceeding 40 miles, by a landslide near Warren. The | same landslide held up a local train from North Bay and a relief train was dispatched to bring the passengers here. ‘The crack Transcanada train and the Vancouver express were stalled a mile and a quarter west of Sudbury by a washout. Dozens of motor cars were marooned in the flooded district. Washouts and landslides were reported from half a dozen points on the Sudbury-North Bay Highway. Three Drown in Hailstorm. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, June 27 PLANE NEAR DESTRUCTIO Tired but happy, the flyers are shown in a New York Hotel. Left to right: Van Dyk, co-pilot; Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith, chief pilot, and J. Patrick N TRYING TO GO UNDER FOG (Continued From First Page) We were out to sea before we knew it. The storms lessened, a slight head- | wind began to play against us, but we were on'our way and were happy. A hundred miles out we saw the fisher boats, the trawlers, the sturdy schooners and the small boats tossing on the black white-capped waves, and when we left them we felt very much alone. I have referred before to Stannage, and I expect to refer to him many times again before this story is told. His steady radio bearings were all that kept us on our course. The clouds thickened up mile after mile, climbing in high moun- tains ahead of us, blotting out the sea and sky. There was no chance to really correct our drift, and it was the radio bearings and the calculations of Capt. Saul alone which kept us on our course. It seemed funny to Van Dyk and me to be taking orders from two men we couldn't see or talk to, save by messages. As a matter of fact, we in the front of the ship got no glimpse of Stannage and Saul till we set her down at the airport at Harbor Grace. I must say this—the weather all the way across bore out the forecast, but we did not expect to meet quite so much heavy fog or see it pile up quite so high. Forgot Hunger for Several Hours. We had just got out over the ocean when I turned over to Van Dyk. T took & bit of a rest, writing up some of my log and personal messages to friends in Australia, America and England. We stuck these messages on a stick with a paper clip on the end of it, shoved them back over the big gas tanks and Stan- John Stannage, wireless operator; Evert anl, navigator, —Associated Press Photo. ‘ oo PRESIDENT TO SEE OCEAN FLYERS, DUE IN CAPITAL MONDAY __(Continued Fr | First Page.) morning to pay his respects and was asked to accompany the ‘“Southern Cross bunch,” as Kingsford-Smith refers ;:I) ]Ilurnsell and his crew, to the City all. From the City Hall the flyers were taken to the Advertising Club rooms on Park avenue for luncheon. No other civic ceremonies were planned beyond that, the flyers insisting that the cele~ bration be held to a minimum, Finish 3,000-Mile Trip. At dusk last night the Australlan fiyer set his big black monoplane down | at Roosevelt Field, completing a 3,000~ mile flight from Port Marnock, Ireland, an epic journey interrupted only by a 24-hour stop for fuel at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. . Tired? Not so very. Tired of flying? { Not a bit of it. | Bathed and dressed in fresh clothes, 1a late dinner of ham and eggs con- WOOL INSTITUTE HI N TRUST BAN Federal Judge Enjoins 138 Members From Continuing Price Fixing. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, June 27.—The Federal Government struck today to end whap 1t charges is & wool monopoly matrm- tained by the Wool Institute. Federal Judge Grubb of Alabama, sitting in the New York jurisdiction, enjoined the institute and its 138 mem- bers from continuing violations of the Sherman anti-trust law, on complaint of Government counsel that participants in the Wool Institute reported to it before every sales season on the subject of prices and ‘“agreed to maintain schedules witiout deviation, thus elimi- nating all price competition.” Members of the Wool Institute control most of the Nation's supply of woolen yarns and aloths, acoarding te the com- plaint filed by the Government. ‘The institute consented to the decree presented to the court by James Law- rence Fly, special assistant to the Ate torney General, and John Lord O'Brien, head of anti-trust enforcement, ‘The complaint. averred that the in- stitute is & trade association with 138 member_concerns or corporations, of whom 35 are spinners. On January 1928, and esince that date, it was charged, the institute and its members “have engaged in a conspiracy to re strain and have restrained interstate commerce in woolen goods and yarns.” ‘The Government also alleges that t) wool institute published ‘“schedules /i be maintained by its members,” ¢nd that on December 11, 1929, agents of 84 weavers of men's wear met and \as- tablished prices for the Spring of 1930, inoopé R ANNOUNCES TOBACCO DIVISION Commerce Department Plans Enlarge Section Made Pub- lic at Norfolk Meeting. to By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., June 27.—Willlam L, Cooper, director of the Bureau of For« eign and Domestic Commerce, United' States Department of Commerce, an- nounced this morning before the com- ' vention of the Tobacco Association of the United States, meeting at Virginia Beach, that the tobacco section will ba enlarged so as to comprise a division of the department. Mr. Cooper said the enlargement hag been made necessary by the great in« crease in the work of the tobacco sec tion. He announced that B. D. Hill, chief of the tobacco section, would con- tinue in the position as chief of the tobacco division. The change will by effective July 1, he said. ‘The address of Mr. Cooper followed the reading of the annual regon of the association president, A. B. Barrington CHRISTIANSON DROPS SCHALL VOTE FIGHT Declares Lack of Funds Prevent Contest on Minnesota Senate Defeat. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn, June 27.—Gov Theodore Christianson formally any nounced in a statement today that hy has abandoned a proposal to contest thy victory of United States Senator Thoms s D. Schall for the Republican nominas tion for United States Senator in thy June 16 primary. The governor, beaten by more thay 90,000 votes, said lack of funds was thy reason for not filing suit. Without referring directly to Senatoy Schall, the governor charged untruth ful statements were made against hin in the recent campaign and that hy would have appreciated an opportunit; to refute them in a court lctxl?lg. ! FRANCE PLANg_LOTI'ATERY TO RAISE DEFENSE FUND Persistent Talk in Parliamen| i Reaches Climax in Introduction of Bill Indorsing Scheme. By the Associated P PARIS, June 27.—Persistent talk 1 parliamentary circles for the last fey weeks, favoring a national lottery fof the conversion of national defens funds, came to a climax today with thy introduction of a bill authorizing thi lottery. The measure, put up by Deputy Henr Labroue, would organize a national lot, tery to produce 30,000,000,000 frang (81,200,000,000). —_— for him back on the ould sod also hay : a flancee, Miss Lena Marchant of Dub (). —The fishing village of Lumsden, which suffered serious damage last November in the tidal wave that swept | the Burin Peninsula, today was recover- {lin. Only John W. Stannage, smal { but mighty radio operator whose efi, clent service was praised by Kingsford Smith as being the controlling factor iy’ Board of Trade today issued an order prohibiting entry into Great Britain of low-grade American apples between July 7 and November 15 each year. The/ nage did the rest. Now and then he sent us a message the same way. We had | sumed, the squadron leader lolled back a push button and a red lamp in each compartment to attract each other’s | comfortably in a big chair in his suite attention. |at the Hotel Roosevelt and talked of We were hungry when we started, even after a good breakfast, but, sur- | flying. the United States Navy DEATH LAMENTED BY STIMSON. CONSIDERING MARRIAGE (From Yesterday's 8:30 Star.) | Becretary of State Pays Tribute to| Forelgn Services. By the Associated Press. Secretary Stimson today lamented the death of Representative Porter, saying that both he and successive Secretaries of State had lost a “powerful friend” having - & “rare understanding” foreign affairs in his passing. Secretary Stimson issued a lengthy statement which read, in part: “When on coming to Congress 19 Years ago Mr. Porter became a_member | of the committee of foreign affairs, he 8t once laid the foundation for the broad usefulness to his Government by traveling abroad to the more remote parts of the Far East and South America. His advice on Chinese and Philippine questions has. been con- stantly welcomed by Secretaries of State since 1911 and these peoples had such confidence in his knowledge of their condition and in his appreciation of their points of view that they fre- quently consulted him to obtain the Jjudgment of an unbiased, rugged American. “Aside from his great work with Secretary Mellon to check illicit traffic in drugs, Itis most important single ac- complishment with the Department of State -was the authorship and sponsor- ing of the foreign service buildings act, ‘which passed h houses of Congress in the Spring of 1928 and has for its object American Government ownership of residences and office buildings for American officials abroad. “Because of his wide travels and his knowledge of the necessities of the fcr- eign service, he was _unanimously elected chalrman of the Poreign Serv- ice Buildings Commission. created under the act, and immediately set to work By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 26.—Senator Reed Smoot, Utah, today denied reports from Washington that he was on his way to Salt Lake City to be married. The Senator said, “I haven't asked any woman to marry me. “When I am contemplating matri- mony I shall be only too glad to tell the world ™ Senator Smoot left here yesterday for a vacation after his labors with the tarift bill, and reports were current here eariier today that he planned to be married and honeymoon in Hono- lulu. The Senator is a widower. GOTHAM OFF'ICIAL QuITs AS HE FACES INDICTMENT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—Willlam E. Walsh, chairman of the City Board of Standards and Appeals, against whom State and Federal indictments were returned yesterday, resigned today. The Federal indictment charges fail- ure to file an income tax return for 1929. The other charges acceptance of a gratuity. Walsh had held his office | for nine years. —e e fo learn about building sites for the G?;lemmept by looking them over him- self. “This Summer he was planning, when so suddenly stricken with his last ill- ness, a m& to Egypt, Arabia, India, the Dutch Indies and the China Coast to continue his work of personally exam- ining Government sites.” action was taken “to eliminate the risk | | of introducing ‘apple fruit fily’ from the | United States. fit e BAND CONCERT. By the United States Army Band Orchestra, this evening, on the east steps of the Capitol, at 7:30 o'clock, Willlam Stannard, leader; Thomas Darey, ond leader. March, 'omp and Circumstance,” Flgar Fantasia, “Old Folks at Home".Roberts Xylophone solos: (a) “Liebsfreid" .. Kreisler (b) “Siamese Patrol . .Lincke Performed by T;chnlcal Sergt. Joseph Young. Valse, “Espana” .. b ... Waldteufel “Slavonic Rhapsody” . . .Friedmann “Serenade for Flute and Horn”....Titl Sergts. Harry Kravets and Elmer Wil- kinson. Last three numbers, conducted by Thomas F. Darcy, second leader: “Dance of the Hours’ .Penchielll Delibes . Lithgow Spangled Banner. “Ask No Questions” A Puzzler for Mystery Tale Fans ing from a hail and rain storm that too kthree lives and sank 30 boats. Virtually every pane of glass in the village and many roofs of the fisher- men’s dwellings crashed in under the weight of the hail stones, which a mes- sage to the minister of posts here de- scribed as weighing 10 pounds. ‘The storm arose suddenly after a day of perfect Summer weather. Three fisher- men were drowned when their boat went down in the harbor. Boilt Ignites Oll Tank. OLEAN, N. Y.. June 27 (#).—Seven- teen thousand barrels of crude oll, smeared over an area of 3,000 squaie feet, were burning in a gigantic bonfire her today, defying efforts of firemen from six nearby towns and attracting thousands of spectators who blocked the roads in all directions. Ignited by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm late yesterday, a large storage tank of the Vacuum Oil Co. cracked and boiled over after burning for several hours. Flaming oil poured from the tank and spread in all direc- tions, The tank boiled over twice. The first time the flaming oil was kept within bounds by huge breast works of earth hastily thrown up by firefighters. Later the buining liquid overleaped the bar- | riers and poured down upon a_ young apple orchard and a barn, which were destroyed. Officials of the Vacuum Oil Co. today By Beldon Duff Author of “The Central Park Murder” Begins on Page B-5 of Today’' $150,000. It was expected the fire would continue to burn for another 20 hours, When the fire started, employes of the company immediately n pump- ing oil from the bottom of the tank, while firemen poured chemicals in the top. Cfficials sald 8.000 barrels had been pumped from the 25,000-barrel tank before the oil boiled over, estimated that their Ioss would exceed | OD. &Ehlnlly enough, once on our way we did not think of eating for several hours. e were perhaps 400 miles from land before we broke out some sandwiches, made by the wife of the general officer commanding the Curragh camp, the biggest army post in the Irish Free State. These we washed down with hot coffee. Night found us about two-thirds of the way across and as darkness came down the fog increased. Then there was no ocean underneath, no sky overhead, just the black night, lightened by the blue-white flames from our engine and the luminous dials of our instrument board. At times we tried to go under the fog and once or twice suddenly our radio went out. We knew then that our antenna had struck the water. If that had kept up we would have very soon had no radio and perhaps no airplane. We climbed up sometimes to & mile altitude. Skipping along across the cloud peaks and through them, we glimpsed the stars, twinkling low on the horizon. There was no chance for Capt. Saul to take a celestial observation. Those stars, as cheering as they were, were few and far between. Flying Grew Monotonous in Time. It grew monotonous after a while. The roar of the motors, while they instilled confidence in us, deafcned us, and our only conversation, even Van Dyk and I, consisted of hurriedly scribbled notes. “I am fed up,” I would write, “take over for a bit, will you?" He would nod and reach out a shadowy hand for his controls. ‘Then I would relax. In almost no time it would be my turn again. Thus passed the night. ‘We should have been over Newfoundland before we were. We were still 200 miles off, we learned later, when we thought we were over land. We flew another hour and still there was no land, but there was plenty of fog. We flew another 60 minutes and there was still no land. Then it began to get light. The fog was thick as usual and our gasoline supply getting low. Stannage was working faithfully and steadily on radio bearings and finally had us pointed toward Harbor Grace. We knew that we could not reach New York We hoped there would be a rift in the fog to let us through at Harbor Grace. Suddenly, when we were right over the city, the rift came. We swung down through it and landed. ‘Today's flight was simple in comparison. We had had a good night's sleep, glorious care from the hospitable people of Harbor Grace, and we were getting . There was the same belt of fog part way down, but we were well over the top of it with a bright sun and a good horizon to fly by. ‘There are many things that I want to write and that I shall write before this story is done, but tonight, so soon after getting here, they are pretty well mixed up in my mind. Those long hours of darkness, the dark ocean reaching um at us through the mist in the night and the dim horizon line that kept ibing away from us, are all passing kaleidoscopically before my eves now. After a bit of 2 wash and a shave and some sleep I'll try to straighten some of these things out and write them down. (Copyright, 1030, Throushout the World by the New York Times Co. All Rights Reserved.) The Pacific flight was the hardest of his two ocean crossings, he said. “The job of navigating a plane to a tiny spot in the biggest ocean in th world is too difficult to try very oftes |he said. “With the Atlantic, we af [ least knew that all we had to do was keep on flying and we were sure to | strike America. In the Pacific we had jto hit a small island, and we knew l:&?‘? if we were the least bit off we'd ost.” Wedding in September. The aviation business thus disposed | of. the interview turned to more per- sonal things. First, his flancee, Miss | | Mary Powell of Australia. | “I'm to be married in September,” | he said, and grinned to show the pros. pect was pleasing, “but it won't inter- fere in the least with my fiying. My flancee likes flying almost as much as 1 do and she’s been up with me lots of times. “Did I carry a picture of Nellle | Stewart? You bet I did. I'm super- | stitious about that, and I always take it on dangerous flights.” | __Nellie Stewart, now 78 years old, was | Kingsford-Smith's boyhood {dol, the | great actress of Australia when he was {a lad. He wrote to her for an auto- | graphed photograph. She sent one to him, which he has carried since— through the war, across the Pacific, the latter stages of their flight, coull offer no romantic attachments. At least 10,000 persons waited throug) the hot afternoon at Roosevelt Fiel| for the arrival of the Southern Crosy nd when it appeared at sunset, threj restraint aside and risked limbs an clothes in & mad dash for the plan and the fiyers. British Envoy Fresent. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambas sador who had flown from Washingto to greet his co-patriots; Grover Wha len, high hat and all; Herbert Brooki commissioner general for Australia 1 the United States, and the other dig nitaries in the welcoming party wem sw;fi aside in the human sea. ally the 300 Nassau County poliq won their way through to the plane any escorted the flyers to field hndqflnm office where they were photographed by atill, motion and sound news men, an interviewed, between bursts of cheer ing, by the press. An hour after they had landed th party was in open automobiles boun| for New York City, a bath, a meal ani sleep. Crowds, attracted by the screamin sirens of the motor cycle escort, line the streets of the many Long Islamy towns and cheered as the motor caval cade swept past at 60 miles an hour. Another enthusiastic crowd waited b now across the Atlantic, and to New York. Soon he will carry it across the United States. One of Crew Married. Evert Van Dyk, bts slow-spoken co- pilot on the Atlantic flight was the only married man among the four. He has a wife and family in Holland. Capt. J. Patrick Saul, Irish widower whose little 8-year-old daughter waits the lobby and on the steps of th Hotel Roosevelt, driven inside by a ligh drizzle which turned into a down five minutes after the flyers had rived. Kingsford-Smith put through a long distance call for his fiancee in Australy and all four talked over the radio. The broadcast was relayed to Aus tralia and Europe by short-wave sta tions and rebroadcast there,