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ASKTUBERCULDSS | RELEF FOR CIYS SCHOOL CALDREN Directors of Association Urge Speedy Construction of District Sanatorium. SPECIAL 'SCHOOL FILLED TO CAPACITY, IS REPORT 38 Infected Pupils Still in Public Institutions; 'W. B. Patterson Says. Aroused by statements from public school officials—showing that the two %uldlnp housing tubercular pupils are Jammed to capacity, cne of them having a waiting list—the board of directors of the Washington Tuberculosis Associa- tion yesterday appointed a special com- mittee to urge the District Commission- ers to take speedy action toward ecn- struction of the Children's Tuberculosis |, Sanatorium. The assoclation pointed out the site for the institution already had been purchased and funds are now available for its construction. The committee named to present the organization's ap- peal to the Commissioners is composed of Dr. George M. Kober, president; Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools; Dr. F. C. Smith, assistant sur- eon general of the United States Pub- lc Health Service, and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, vice president of the associa- tion and chairman of the Children’s Sanatorium Committee. Filled to Capacity. ‘Walter B. Patterson, director of spe- eial schools, told the association the school for white children diagnosed as ul to its utmost ca- diagnosed as having juvenile tubercu- losis, 36 of whom are still attending the public schools, the remaining 12 being of pre-school age. Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant super- intendent in charge of colored schools, reported there are 77 colored children filling the Toner School for the Tuber- cular, and that there are 41 others on the waiting list, with no place to go. H This situation was characterized as “deplorable” by Dr. William H. Hough, president of the District Medical So- ciety. He said it warranted all pos- sible speed in the planning and con- struction of the new sanatorium for tubercular ‘children, so “all of these unfortunate children, for their own sake as well as for the protection of ;he community, may be promptly cared or.” “For even the health schools, crowded @s they are with a quota of 162 boys and girls needing special care.” he de- clared, “aré operated on a schedule of only 5 hours a day, when what they &hould have is a continuous day and night supervision, such as only the proposed sanatorfum can provide.” Dr. Fowler Not Alarmed. conditions pictured by Mr. Patterson of 36 children having juvenile tuber- culosis attending the regular schools. type of juvenile explained, unicable. is not comm! The law provides, he said, that children suffer- yulmom.ry or other com- forms of the disease shall cgregated. However, the health officer said he objected to putting cbild- ren with juvenile tuberculosis in rooms | with those having pulmonary or other | communicable types of the disease. Until adequate facilities are provided for children with juvenile tuberculosis, | he suggested they be placed in special | “fresh air” rooms in the regular schools, where they might get tI additional sunshine, light BANDIT SUSPECT’S PAST ACTIVITIES STUDIED Police Beek to Determine Whether | Man Held After Hold-up At | Slndgt Wras Trvotved tn Otiers. .| | ‘With two hold-ups allegedly traced to David Weiss, arrested Sunday night | after an alleged attempt to rob John | Khosrofian, delicatessen store proprie- | tor in the 1100 block of Twelfth street, | detectives today were investigating past | activities of the 59-year-old marine en- ineer in an effort to determine whether I ew:uu conected with any additional ‘Welss, who is being held for investi- g:dun at the sixth precinct, is said to ive admitted to Detective Sergts. O. ‘W. Mansfield and Howard Ogle that re- cently he held up Leslie Amouri, 501 New Jersey avenue ' southeast, and robbed him of $5. The bandit suspect was overpowered by Khosrofian and Miss Dorothy Rog- | ers, 1117 Twelfth street, after a brief struggle Sunday night. FOUR GIRLS ESCAPE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Quartet Apparently ‘w-lked Out Front Door While Officials Were Asleep. Four young girls last night escaped from the Industrial Home School for Girls, Wisconsin avenus and Davis| strest. | They are Gertrude Allen, 15 years old, | of 764 Thirtoenth street southcast: Lula Kalla, 15 years old, cf 507 L street: | Dorothy Bridgett, 15 years old, of 1251 | W street, and Mary Magnatto, 13 years old | The girls apparently walked out of the institution through the front door while officials were asieep. A lookout for the girls has been broadcast to the police radio cars and the 14 precincts. Several members of the Whamen’l Bureau are helping in the search. CHOIR MOTHER BURIED - Rites for Miss Rose Loughborough Held at National Cathedral. “The funeral of Miss Rose Loughbor- cugh, who died at the Louise Home, 1500 Massachusetis avenue, Sunday, was held this morning at 11 o'clock from Bethlehem Chapel of the National Cathedral. Internment was in Oak Hill Cemetery, Miss Loughboroug®® was for 19 years tuber- | n choir mother at the Cathedral, and had retired shortly before her death.|in pulling abruptly out of a vertical|the She was the daughter of the late Na- than Leughborough and Anna Henry Rose Loughborough. She had been a resident of Washington since shortly ' u!gr the Civil War. Magnolias he Fpeni in Bloom BLOSSOMS ABOUT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 1SS ELSIE GRUBER poses for The Star photographer before a magnolia M tree, one of the Capital's earliest bloomers, in the’ grounds about the | Library of Ccngress. —Star Stafl Photo. TWO RUM CARGOES AND PAIR CAPTURED Two ‘Other Men Flee When Policeman Shoots Tire of Pursued Car. It was Washington's traffic regula- tions, more than the national Volstead act, which resulted in a series of re- verses for th> rum trade last night. One pair of whisky runners, who vio- lated a traffic rule at Pennsylvania ave- nue and Tenth street southeast, sped away under a policeman’s fire, which forced them to abandon their car and its cargo of 354 quarts. Another pair of alleged whisky drivers were arrested with the seizure of their car and 288 quarts after they invited police attention by grazing the fender of & car parked on S street near Con- necticut avenue. Shoots Rear Tire. | On Pennsylvania avenue, Policeman Willism Be'l of the Traffic Bureau or- dered the first pair to wait and explain why they ran through a “Stop” sign. The men sped off toward the Capitol grounds, however, and Bell went in pur- suit, firing several shots to frighten the fugitives, Approaching Delaware ave- nue and M street southwest, Bell took careful aim and flattened a rear tire Both men leaped out and escaped on foot. Pool‘hgnzn’h T. Dcltvh and P. P. Mar- jo. 3 precinct were cruising on Connecticut avenue when they heard ‘They pursued an automobile, which failed to halt after striking a parked car, until, at Twentieth and E streets, it failed fo negotiate the sharp corner of Public Buildings and Public Parks. | would permit only such r-al estate signs and overturned. Davis ana_Martin arrested two col- ored men, who described themselves as De Witt Wilson, 2200 block of Cham- plain street, and Horace Byrd, 1700 block of V street. Confiscating the automobile and 288 quarts of alleged liquor, the policemen took th tion, portation and Wilson wi additiona! ‘counts of reckless driving and operating & car without & permit. WOMAN, IN WAR DEPT., FOR 48 YEARS, RETIRES Mrs. Della ;lofltt:Wll Assist ant Chief of the Record. Division. Mrs. Della W. Moffett of Illinois, as- sistant\chief of the record division of the office of the Secretary of War, to- | day was transferred to the Civil Service retired list after 48 years’ continuous service for the Government. In 1883 she was appointed to a clerk- ship in the Post Office Department and | remained there until October 9, 1889, | when she was transferred to the office of the Secretary of War, where she has since served. ‘Today she bade official farewell to her associates at the War Department and was presented with a leather traveling case as a token of their friendship and appreciation. THEFT VICTIM BEATEN Three Colored Youths Use Brick in Robbing Man. James Geary, colored, 50 years old, of the first block of G street southwest was beaten over the head with a brick and robbed of & small amount of change last night by three colqred youths, who set upon him in the first block of L street southeast. Geary was treated for a possible frac- tute. of the skull at Emergency Hospi- tal, where his condition was described as serious (PULLS OUT OF 5,000-FOOT DIVE TO MAKE “DEAD STICK” LANDING Pilot Averts Crash While Testing Navy Fighter Before High Officials at Anacostia. Pulling out of a screaming 5,000-foot power dive, with his motor coughing and backfiring, Willlam Croswell, Cur- 'ss test pilot, landing at the Anacost!a Naval Air Sta- tion before high Navy cffl to complete th» first of a se: tests of what s claimed to be the fast- est combat plane ever bullt in this country. The first test, which resulted in the forced landing, was flown to determine the forces exerted upon the little ship divs. Special instruments were carried in the eockpit to record these forces. After his motor is put in s well will resume the tests tl noon. He is expected to make after- , Cros ot Jeast | tlomy HENLOCK RETRES FROM PARK PLST Man Who Became White House Gardener Started as Day Laborer in Capital. R | The man who started service with | | day laborer and became the gardener to Presidents is quitting the Government | today, after 45 years of faithful duty, because Civil Service rules say he may no_longer remain. Charles Henlock, chief of the horti- cultural divisicn of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks; at the close of work this afternoon will bid fare- well ‘to the greenhouses he knows o well, but not until his associates be- stow upcn him a gift of appreciation. Helped Build Parks. Mr, Henlock said today he hasn’t had | | time "to think about future plans, so| | busy bas he been with getting plants | and flokers into shape so Washington's parks may be beautiful. He has had a major part in building up those parks and has seen the city grcw, since he came to work on May 1, 1886, as a la- borer in the Cleveland administration. His keen knowledge of plant life brought him rapidly to the fore and by Septem- bér, 1887, he was a gardener, and on August 1, 1901, he was promoted to be gxdkm. In PFebruary, 1925, when the consol- | the Buperintendent of the State, Wi | and Navy Departments Building was effected, Mr. Henlock became chief of | the horticaltutal division of the Office Reorganization Planned. He has had charge of the White| | House greenhouses and the propagat- | | ing gardens and his going will result | in a reorganization of the horticultural | division_ by the director, Col. | Grant, 34. | Col.’ Grant sought to retain Mr. Hen- lock in service, but the Civil Service | Commission was adamant, granting only a three months’ extension, which | | expires today. A native of Yorkshire, { | England, Mr. Henlock came to this | country when a young man and started | work in Washington. known ail the Presidents Grover Cleveland, for he has had | timate part in preparing for the | various White' House functions. He since an in TAXICAB DRIVER SUES AUTHS FOR $10,000| West Asks $5,000 Each on Assault‘ | and False Imprisonment Charges | John R. West. 943 A street, a taxicab | driver, flled suit in District Supreme Court’ today asking $10,000 damages from Lavwrence J. Auth and Albert F.| Auth. 5302 Colorado avenue,’ young | members of the wealthy Auth family. | West acked $5,000 for an alleged as- | sault and $5,000 more for alleged false imprisonment as & result of being taken | for a ride in the automobile of the de- fendants after a dispute during the | night of March 15. | "Through Attorney Paul H. Sedgwick, |ORDERED BY PRATT | Uncle S:2m as a dollar-and-a-half-a- | 4 idation of the Office of Public Build- | P! & | city. | West charged the young men became enraged over a traffic dispute, and, | dragging him from his taxicab, made him accompany them in their car through the Monument grounds. Later, he charges, they took him into an alley { and beat him. | The Auths are scheduled to appear | tomorrow for a jury trial in Pélice |Court in connection . with ~criminal | charges brought against them by the | b driver. | one more dive and to demonstrate the acrobatic possibilities of the new fighter. ‘The plane, secrctly developed, is one made a “d°ad stick” of the smallest single-seater fighters |of standardized traffic-governing signs. produced for the Navy. It is powered inis noon | with a 300-hors:power radial air-cooled | chamber’s Committee on Police and s of flight | engine, which has been “souped up” to { Fire protection the proposed “save-a- | deliver approximately 400 horsepower. The ship is beautifully stream-lined, w'h the upper wing set flush with the |t of the fuselage. | _ Amcng those witnessing the test were |David 8. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Navy for _Aeronautics; Lieut. Comdr. Robert P. Molten, -his aide: Comdr. A. H. Douglas, commandant of |the Anacostia Station, and Lisut. Raiph ‘54 Ofstie, chief of the flight test sec- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION REPORTS ON SIGNS ARE DUE BY FRIDAY Davison Committee to Study Locations for Revision of Regulations. POLICE HEAD HITS USE OF SIDEWALK.SPACES Precinct Captains Instructed to En- force Prohibition and Sur- vey Conditions, Precinct captains will submit Priday reports to Ma). Henry G. Pratt, super- intendent of police, on the exact loca- tions in their precincts of all billboards, painted wall signs and “4 by 8 foot” frame signs attached to buildings and | fences. The purpose of the order, as ex- plained by Maj. Pratt, is “to obtain a complete list of all signs erected by bill posters and autdoor advertising con- cerns advertising goods or business not conducted in the building or property on which same is looated.” Maj. Pratt impressed on the precinct captains that great care must be exercised to report every sign in the above classes. When these reports are completed they will be turned over to the District Sign Committee in connection with the revision of existing regulations govern- ing outdoor advertising in the District. The committee, headed by Maj, Donald A. DavBon, Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner, will meet April 6. Signs Put on Sidewalks. One object of the survey now being made is to ascertain the number of signs in violation of section 29 of the existing building code, which provides that no structure shall be erected or hung upon any bullding without a per- mit, and violations also of section 7 of the police regulations, which prohibits the placing cf advertising signs of any kind on public space. “Headquarters,” said Maj. Pratt in a cial order, “is in receipt of informa- tion that signs are being placed on sidewalks and parkings in front of stores, advertising commodities for sale | therein; also that signs relating to the sale and rent of real estate are being placed in parkings. “You will instruct the members of your command to strictly enforce these regulations and submit report, not later than April 3, as to the conditions in your precinct with regard to these reg- ulations.” Would Ban Barn Ads. Meanwhile, several suggestions for more stringent regulations under the new act empowering the District Com- missioners to control outdoor advertis- ing in the District have been recom- mended by Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of "the Enginter Department, a member of the Sign Committee. One of these recommendations would g:ombu the placing of signs on any rn, tree or fence abutting public highways. A second would prohibit the placing of miscellaneous signs on of business, but would permit one’ panel sign with a reasonable area for the ad- vertising of commodities sold on the remises, or two neatly painted boards of reasonable sfze. A third suggestion by Mr. Brennan is designed to abolish the present prac- tice of plastering vacant buildings and lots with small signs’and posters and as are authorized by law. Make Personal Surveys. Members of the Sign Committee are taking particular interest in making personal surveys of conditions in the | They have pointed to a number | of signs located opposite public build- ings which should receive consideration. Some of these are authorized billboards, such as one opposite the Congressional Library at the northeast corner of Sec- ond street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. This corner lot, however, does not involve any permanent prob- | Ric lem, as the billboards must be taken | down soon to~make way for the lddl-l tion to the library, which is to be erected on that site, it was said. There are conditions also across from the Patent Office and the old Pension | Bureau Building which illustrate what | the Commissioners bave in mind in en- deavoring to prohibit outdoor. signs facing menumentalr public buildings. Whether such signs can be ordered torn down, however, is & matter which has to be taken under advisement in con- nection with the new law. Maj. Davison has made the suggestion that the billboard companies be given | the right to rehabilitate some of their dilapidated units in exchange for re- linquishing sites across from parks and public buildings. At least one company, it is understood, has agreed to such a suggestion. COMMITTEE MAY FIGHT| PLAN TO BAN PARKING| Chamber of Commerce Group's Course Hinges on Commer- cial Vehicles. Unless specific exceptions are made for commercial and other vehicles en- & in delivery and unloading of mer- ndise, the = Transportation Com- mitiee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce will oppose the proposed plan of the District Commissioners to ban all parking in the congested area during specified hours each day. The committee, at a meeting in the Hamilton Hotel yesterday, adopted a resolution to this effect, asking con- sideration for vehicles en?l[cd in com- mercial work. The committee requested the exception only in the cases of ve- hicies actually engaged in loading and unloading merchandise. George E. Keneipp, chairman of the ‘Transportation Committee, announced a program for consideration by the com- mittee, involving a study of four ma- Jor mflom affecting traffic. These quest] are: ‘The left turn, long & bone of con- tention here; the.speed lmit; the prob- lem of amber lights. and the question ‘The committee voted to refer to th!' life” campaign of the chamber. .- Dye Establishifent Robbed. Climbing to the roof and breaking & second-floor window, burglars Jast night gained entrance to the Quality cleaning and dyeing establishment, at 4 G street, and stole numerous articles of wearing apparel. They also took $4,30 from the cash drawer in a laundry office on the ground floor. ~ g Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931 Byrd’s Historic Antarctic Ship Here EXPLORERS OF SOUTH POLAR REGION ARRIVE. PCKETT DECIDES 10 DELAY BURAL Postpones Arrangements.for Interment of Grandmother Two or Three Months. Decision to postpone indefinitely burial of the ashes of his grandmother, Mrs. Gecrge E. Pickett, widow of -the celebrated Confederate leader, was reached today . by Lieut. George E. Pickett, 3d, Officers Reserve Corps, United States Army. Lieut. Pickett departed from Washing- ton for his home in Charlotte, N. C,, firm in his determination to return here within two cr three months and make final arrangements for the burial of his grandparents side by side. A fight which had its inception with the death of Mrs. Pickett 10 days ago, culminated in a War Department order authorizing transfer of Gen. Pickett's body from a hmond cemetery to Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. The ~controversy arose of the widow at the side of Gen. Pickett in the Richmond cemetery. | There was an immediate flare-up of bitter ecriticlsm of the organization’s action on the part of Virginia patriotic societies. The widespread attacks re- sulted in"withdrawal of the ban by the memorial asscciation. Appealed to Army Officials. Meanwhile, however, Lieut. Pickett took the matter into his own hands, ap- pealing to War Deparyment officials for permission to bury his grandparents in Arlingtcn, The authority was forth- coming, whereupon Lieut. Pickett scorned the somewhat*reluctant offer of the memorial association t6 withdraw its_objections. Richmcnd dispatches today told of a plan of Mrs. Sidney Jobnson Dudley, president of the Junior Hollywood Me- morial Association, to present a resclu- tion at the next meeting of that or- ganization supporting the proposed re- moval cf Gen. Pickett from the Virginia grave. She contended the transfer would be justifiable. An element of uncertainty was in- jected into the situation, however, when an inspection of graves in the vicinity of the monument on Gettys+ burg Hill, in the soldiers’ section of Hollywood = Cemetery, memorialisin Gen, Pickett and his men for their fi mous Gettysburg charge, revealed Col. Lewis B. Willlams was the only officer above the rank of lieutenant over whose grave a monument or marker had been erected. This led to spec- ulation over whether Pickett's body could be Jocated. Memorial Four Feet High. ‘The Willlams epitaph recited that he fell at Gettysburg July 3, 1863. He was an uncle of Lewis C. Williams, prominent Richmond lawyer and a cousin of the late John lton ' Will- iams, com] of the currency dur- lnf the Williams memorial, stands 20 feet east of the to Pickett monument. The Pickett monument stands 25 feet high. It is surrounded by six pillars above the base. Between the pillars rest tablets lau the units Tablets SHoica Imporant engagements tablets list Im) engagemen in which Pickett figured during both the Mexican and Civil Wars, with verses extolling his exploits. The date of his birth was given as January 25, 1825, and his death as July 30, 1875. Although no actual record has been found, tradition fixes the burial of Pickett as directly beneath the monu- ment, erected in 1888. Newspaper files failed to throw any light on the mys- tery. The ashes of Mrs. Pickett will re- main_in Joseph Gawler's undertaking establi-hment -at 1754 Pennsylvania a;zme, until the controversy is set- four feet h, | | DMIRAL BYRD'S vessel, City of New York, which carried the famous | expedition to the South Polar regions, arrived here yesterday and tied >cks, where it will be open for inspection. Top | photo, the vesssl a3 she neared the dock. | Right center, Lloyd K. Grenlie, Tadio engineer, when the | with the short-wave spparatus which kept the ship in touch with land stations Ladles’ Hollywood Memorial Association | at all times. Below, left to right: Grenlie, Capt. Johansen, Charles L. Kessler of refused a request calling for the burial | washington, dog driver, who lives at 1600 Foxhall road, and F up at the Water street 1 Jobansen at the wheel. | Rowdy, one of the sledge dogs. PAGE B—1 BYRD'S SOUTH POLE TRIP 1S REVIEWED BYRESEARCH GROUP Meteorograph Record: Estab- lishes Definitely That Party Crossed Pole. EXTENDED STUDY MADE BY GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Flight Divided Into Three Parts for This Purpose—Long Trip Visualized. Detailed study of the meteorograph record has formed a harmonious mosaic definitely establishing that Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd crossed the South Pole in his historic 1929 flight, the National Geographie Society Re- search Committee reported today. “This meteorograph record,” the com- mittee reported, “is & unit, a block, in a complete and harmonious mosaic; & mosaic into which the many and varied evidences of 's journey to the South Pole, di reckoning and astro- nomic dt tions, photographs and meteorograph record fit with simple ease, each adding to the picture, none detracting from it. Can Visualize Trip. “One may follow the d&dventure, course by course, see the snow below and the mountains alongside as Byrd saw them, visualize the trip over the polar plateau, and appreciate fully that ‘vfihen on the return north the the mountains, and depot to Little America. Trail Often Undistinguishable. “The first and third parts of journey,” the committee found, was lowed it cm a) would soon. Rolding his couree on them in it flight over the polar plateau. Started Thanksgiving Day. “The start from Little America was day, November uua;n;“u time, which h 3 R’ Wwflommn Greenwich civil ‘The record of the trip was kept in Greenwich civil time and nautical miles. At 8h. 16 m. G. C. T. the plane reached the trail plies were dropped there by : “The geographic position of the camp had been determined by Dr. Laurence M. Gould, geologist of the expedition. This gave a point of departure 325 miles j nearer the Pole than Little America, nd by thus reducing the airline dis- | tance to the Pole to 361 miles, simpli- Left center, Capt, Bendik | o Rocs with 1 Photos. | JUSTICE BAILEY T0 SPEED COURTS Will Inaugurate Cleveland System ' to Prevent Legal Inter- ruptions. Justice Jennings Bailey has been se- |lectéd to inaugurate the ‘“Cleveland” | method of expediting the work of the ! District Supregre Court, and beginning April 13 will be the “motions and as- | | signment justice.” He will hold daily sessions to cotider motions, instead of the former method of having motions in all the courts on Fridays. He will sign all formal orders both in law and equity, hear applications for injunc- | tions and receivers and leave the other Jjustices, assigned to civil business, free to conduct trials five days in the week and from opening to closing of court sessions_without interruption. ‘The Easter recess of the court will close Friday morning, April 10, when the various justices will hear their separate motions for the last time. All motions left pending on that date, except mo- tions for new trials, will then be trans- | ferred to Justice Bailey, | No definite time has been set by the court for the service of Justice Bailey as motions and assignment justice and it is expected the other civil justice will rotate in the assignment, which is re- |OBEDIENGE TO GHRIST garded as “heavy” for one justice. | URGED BY W’DOWELL Methodist Bishop Delivers Lenten Address at New York Avenue Presbyteriar’ Church. Obedience in every day life to Christ and His teachings was urged by Bishop | William PF. McDowell of the Melhodi&ti Episcopal Church at midday Lenten services in the New York Avenue Pres- byterian CLurch yesterday. Bishop McDowell developed the thought that it is not sufficient to wor- ship Christ in church only, but that persons should do His will every day. Bishop McDowell, who was scheduled to speak at the Lenten services each day this week, except Saturday, was called out of the city yesterday to attend the funeral of Dr. M. G. Filler, president of Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa. He was expected to return to preach at the midday services tomorrow. Dr. Allen A. Stockdale. pastor of the First Congregational Church, preached in Bishop McDawell's place at the serv- ices today. The services are under the auspices of the Washington Federation of Churches. Commission Asks Advance Can Be Put ‘The Public Utilities Commission has notified the public school authorities that the 3-cent pupils’ fare may be used for the transportation of classes from their schools to museums or other educational tours. Notification of this effect was contained in a letter received by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent, from E. V. Fisher, ex- ecutive secretary of the commission, ‘The commission also called attention | venjence caused- regular adult patrons | of busses wn;n class excursis of the school -authorities to the incon- | the ons | tha SCHOOL FARES WILL BE APPLIED FOR PUPILS’ TOURS OF MUSEUMS Notice So That Extra Bus in Seryice. are made, and it requested school prin- cipals to notify the bus companies when these tours are contemplated, so that an additional bus ht be put in service, The c on points out that when & class of 35 or 40 children rd & bus- des of assisting the c ning & standard of fled and ctrengthened the chances of closely attaining that point. Clocks Rated Carefully. ‘The clocks at Little America, hav- besn carefully rated through long beriods by compariton with radio time signals, could, of course, be used in de- termining the local time for any me- ridian to which it might be desired to set the sun compass clock. The posi- tion of the trail camp was determined with an accuracy which was undoubt- edly less than that of Little America, but with ordinary methods and & instrument this might be said to have been of the order of 2 miles. “Leaving the trail camp at 8 h. 16 m., the plane immediately be- gan to climb, but keeping to the same course as Ebefore. After traversing 16 miles the course was changed to the right, toward Liv Glacier; the east portal of Liv Glacier was passed at a distance of about 5 miles, and & fair check was here obtained on the posi- tion of the plane, as Gould had made a determination of position at this east portal, Changed Course. “In such a flight as this decisions must be e quickly and as quickly acted upon. Such a decision was now to go through the pass over the main part of Liv Glacier, so at 9h 20m the course was changed and a new course made good 50 miles up and over the glacier. The flight up the Liv Gla- cler included on: of the most difficult parts of the journey for the navigator. But a realization of the importance of at all times keeping a close check on course and speed, and the comparative- ly short length of the difficult part must have prevented the introduction of any sizable error in position. isfactorily the dead reckoning carried from the trail camp. - Uneertainty of Position. “At 10 hours 20 minutes the plane was placed on the 171st meridian, at paralle] 85 degrees 13 minutes, and the sun compass set for a course along that meridian to the Pole, 227 miles away. ‘The uncertainty of the position of the on face of clock), when it was estimated that the Pole had been reached.” Cent-a-Mile Plane Tested. Designed to reduce the cost of pri- te | vate fiying, a “baby” airplane is