Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 2

FARM BOARDFIXES YEAR'S GRAIN SALE Y. S. Agrees to Limit Wheat "+ Disposal to, Five Million Bushels a Month. By the Associated Press. ‘Wheat growers and traders who have to President Hoover for in the domestic market to- dl!m.pmnueo!uclmneelmm t: was that the Grain gtubullnmg; Corparation would e sales from July 1, 1931, until a year ulative maximum cum ushell a month. Sales to foreign governments or their ncies now being considered were ex- by the board, as were sales to clear_trade chmneh tor ozmr efficient These, it was p tly replaced an equ 3 quantity of b Wmore. the board promised the sales program would be so managed as not to depress price movements. No Immediate Sales. te sales, “even of those lim- ited amounts,” were not contemplated, the board said, at the present range of At the same time, however, the T o ‘was warned that ultimate profltlble ‘wheat production rests’ with him. " Cit- ing an increase in the surplus, the board ury as the "flnly final suluflon of the wheat growers’ dlmclllt{‘ & sharp reduction of the fort] comln: ‘wheat plantin “Without such reduction there is lit- tle hope of any long-term continued | profitable wheat production in the United States in competition with new wheat ntries abroad,” the board as- serted. “With such action there would be an immediate reflection of increased | prices of this year’s crop. Agency’s Action Defended. A defense of the Federal uencya\ activity was contained in the statement, | which said in part: “The situation today would have been Hlear and prices at much higher levels i had the recommendation of a year ago been more i!nel’llly lollo d.’ Nevertheless, it ad ‘the purchase of wheat from the 1929 and the 1930 | mpl has successfully protected Ameri- sgriculture from the world-wide | ?.nk: in sgricultural prices, and gave | t an opportunity to readjust itself without the enormous losses and bank- ruptey which would have resulted from the precipitant fall in prices which took place elsewhere. “It would greatly benefit agriculture s systematic beginning be made to uidate these holdings and remove |. overhang from the market. The oved situation abroad and co-op- - eration in reducing production make possible.” | Reject Price Standard. The relief promise rejected pleas to have the stabilization corporation an nounce definite prices below which it ‘would not sell its holdings. Vice Presi- dent Curtis recently urged that wheat be: held unt.fl the price reached 85 cln'-l or §! ‘This, the board said, “is not in the interest of the farmers. If a high were fixed, then the stabilization oldings would never be disposed of, and would continue to overhang the future of American agriculture. ~If Teasonable price were fixed on today's outlook, such a declaration would tend to keep the price depressed to a point below such limits. It would distort the | whole movement of wheat and con- gest storage by inducing excessive ship- ments whenever the price began to ap- proach the figure set.” Convinced _that = its -policy. would efi‘blllh & free market, ‘“‘whicl fixed price would interfere with" the board concluded it would feel. free to dispose of the whole surplus if world Mfl-\m should somehow be radi- t no such policy will be under- hnn without ample notice and- until the farmers’ representatives can e con- sulted,” the board prom! HITS WHEAT TARIFF Ag:twurp Chamber Opposes Ban on Foreign Production. ANTWERP, Bel The Antwerp Chamber of Commerce in a letter to the prg:: minister today ures contemplated on behalf of home- grown wheat. tions of foreign coal im- result in increased oost of oountries, the :hnmber declared. COAL IN FAR NORTH Numerous posits in Franz Joseph Land. MOSCOW, July 1 (#).—The Soviet discovered numerous coal deposits in Pranz Joseph Land, a wireless mes- ‘The press considered the discovery might lead to the establishment of & lgium, July 1 (P).— protective meas- The: measure, together with govern- ment gvl.u and jn retaliation by exporting Soviets Discover De- Geological Expedition in the Arctic has sage to the coal. institute said today. marine fueling base in the far north. Kills Himself LIEUT. COL. JOACHIM THODE. —Clinedinst Photo. RESERVE OFFICER FOUND SHOT ON ART GALLERY PLOT (Continued From First Page.) American citizen and two years later he became an employe of the Depart- ment of Agriculture; where he remained until 1917. When the United States entered the World War, in 1918, Thode returned to | the service, becoming a lieutenant in | the Infantry.. He was the commanding | officer at the Gillespie shell plant when it was wrecked by an explosion believed | to have been caused by German agents. He was promoted to a captaincy in 1922 and two years later he becgme a major in Reserves. He was re- called to active duty in 1929, attaining Baltimore. In addition to his Regular Army du- is said to have been active in Red Cross work. He was a member of the Spanish ‘War Veterans, the Army and Navy Club, the Scottish Rite Masonic order and Columbia Lodge, No. 7, of the Ma- sons. He was unmarried. Although Lieut. McFall had known Lieut. Col. Thode for a number of years, he said, he saw little of him. the 3d Corps Area some time ago, Lieut. Col. Thode, according to his friend, had sought employment and had be- to obtain work. The order to return to active duty at Camp Meade was received a short time ago and Lieut. Col. Thode was to have reported today, it was said. Aside frem his inability to find work, I'-l‘omrendotlvs for his act could be ascer- DEATHS TOTAL 766 AS HEAT WAVE SETS MANY NEW RECORDS __ (Continued From Pirst Page.) mission employes were at work in a and Constitution avenue. According to tne official prognosti- cator, the forecast for the next 36 hours indicates a continued high temperature, | while a break in the heat wave, which | aiready has struck Western sections, may be expected by Friday. It may only be momentary, however, since the weather man sees a possibility of very hot weather the Fourth, or -else thundershowers throughout the day: hy would not commit himself as to ch. Yesterday the official temperature at the Weather Bureau reached 93 degrees at 4:30 oclock. Lowest temperature during the past 24 hours was at 6 o'clock this morning, when the ther- mometer read 73 degrees. The Pu- midity yesterday was unusually high, in contrast with the temperature. At 8 am. it was 57, at noon 41 and at 8 pam. 52. ‘Two more heat prostrations were added today to the total of seven record- yesterday. This morning while at work in !,he ‘District Building, Aloysius P. Shields of 70 Seaton place, an em-~ ploye of the Water Registrar’ ‘was overcame by the heat. After treat- ment he was taken home. Daniel Hawkirs, 55-year-old colored laborer, of 302 P ‘street, was taken to Walter Reed Hospital this mom!nl shortly after 8 o'clock, suffering from the effects of heat exhaustion. He was working with a {ung of laborers in the 5500 block of Ninth street when over- come. He was treated by Maj. Donald P. Liederman of Walter Reed and later transferred to Emergency Hospital for observation. Clark Arnold, 89 years old, of 4100 K street, was the third victim. He was found unconscious on a highway between the Key Bridge and Alexan- dria shortly after 1 o'clock this after- noon. Mr. Arnold was picked up shortly after members of his family asked Washington police to search for him. It is presumed by police that the heat caused him to wander away from his home and later become pros- trated. He is now in Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital. of the State Department after to President Hoover. D f ON SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA, new Spanish Ambassador, is shown cn the front portico of the White House with Richard Southgate (right) ' FO% trot calling to present his letters of credence —Wide World Phote. the rank of lieutenant colonel in the | 3d Corps Area, with headquarters in| ties during the war, Lieut. Col. Thode | After retiring from active duty in; come despondent because of his failure |> temporary building at Eighteenth street | THE EVENING WOOD AND SHIELDS ENTER NET FINALS Latter Seriously Injured De- feating Borotra—Perry Also Badly Beaten. By the Associated Press. ‘WIMBLEDON STADIUM, England, July 1,—Frank X. Shields fell at the net today in the fourth set of his semi- final match with Jean Borotra of France, in the Wimbledon tennis cham- court. ‘The injury appeared to have been more painful than damaging, as Shields, & few minutes after the match, appeared to walk on the injured leg without dif- ficulty. The American Davis Cup young- all-American final. The pcores were ‘Will Meet Classmate. Bhulda will meet his former Roxbury School classmate, 20-year-old Sidney B. Wood, jr., in the finals Saturday. young Wood having defeated Fred Perry of Oreut Britain, 4—6, 6—32, 6—4, 6—2, other semi-final match. Shieids hmuelf is only 21 and was playing at Wimbledon for the first time. Cilll Aussem, - Germany’s ranking {woman tenis player, won her way to the semi-final round by defeating Miss | Payot of Switzerland, 2—6, 6—32, 6—1. | Her victory gives Germany two places iin the semi-finals, the United States one and France. The veteran French doubles team of Henri Cochst and Jacques Brugnon de- feated the Japanese pair of Jiro Satch and M. Kawachi, 4—6. 6—2, 8—8, 6—4, to enter the semi-finals. They will play Shields and Wood tomorrow. George Lott, jr., and John Van Ryn, the other American doubles pair, de- feated Gregory Mangin of Newark, N. J., and Plerre Landry of France in the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles, 6—0, 6—2, 7—5. They will play the win- ner of the match between G. P. Hughes and Pred Perry of England and Nat Farquharson and Virgll Kirby of South ‘A(flcl in the semi-finals. The victory brought the ity of an all American final in doubles as well as singles, eri pairs in the semi-finals. Praulein Hilda Krahwingel, the other |German player, will play Miss Helen | Jacobs of Berkeley, Callf., in one semi- final match tomorrow, while Miss Aus- Rene Mathieu of Shields served first and ran the score | to 40, one of the points being scored { with an ace. Borctra won a point, but the American won the game as his ball npfped the net cord on a return and fell safe. Borotra came flashing back to win his own service at love, and then broke through the service of the Ameriun youngster for another love game make the score 2-1 in his favor. Bmeldl steadied, with Borotra serving, and took the Frenchman to deuce, but Jean finally won, to lead 3-1. Bmeldl« douhle faulted to make the score 15-all in th | fifth game, and the game finally went to deuce. After having the advantage three times, Shields sent across what he thought was an ace and started for the other court. The umpire called it out. Unperturbed, Frank served his second ball for an ace to make the games 2-3. Shields got his cross-court back hand to working and broke through Borotra to even the count at three games alf, then won his own service from deuce to lead, 4—3. Shields had Borotra at 40—15 in the eighth game, but fell making & return and Borotra finally took it to deuu and then won to even the match agal Shields !wk a lead of 5—4, serving two aces in the ninth game, but Borotra took the next from 15 to make-it 5 all. Shields won his own serivce to lead, 6—S5, and they started the twelfth game with Borotra serving an ace for the first point. He also won the next, but by Shields made it 30—15 and he sent another of thz same kind to draw level. The game finally went to deuce, with Borotra ma.un: Bhlelds a present of the game and the set by serving a double fault for the deciding point. Shields opened the second set by winning his own service at love, but Jean came back to take his own 30 and make it one game all. Shields foot-faulted in the third game with the score 40—0, but won the next point to make it 2—1 in games. Borotra won his own service to draw even and then went ahead as Shields had a wild streak, double faulted and drove outside. Bo- rotra double-faulted twice in the sixth game and Shields won to make it 3-all. Borotra, passing Shields three times and crashing a timid lob, won the sev- enth game to lead, 4—3. Shields be- came wild and almost lost the ellhth On his own hiel count to 40—0 in the ninth nme. but Borotra pulled it up to deuce, took the dvantage and won the game and the set, 6—3, when Shields put the deciding point into the net. Shields took the opening game of the third set from Borotra on the lat- BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band at ter, Wi n Monu- 0 | thir representatives in 3 | of these questions, had o Walte: “As & Dream”.........Codins Selection: “Chimes of Narmaxlal:{." “Polonaise Militaire”. te | sented in By the UHIM “States' Marine Band t the Capitol this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Ar- thur S. Wlthoomb. second leader. gs”. . Hi solo: “The Holy City”..Adams Musician Winfred Kemp Grand scenes from “Ernani”. Valse: . “Sybil’ Excerpts frq- “No, No, lnem. ‘oumans “Tie 3 Little String Round T ntnors Aweighi -n-u-nurmn ster, defeated Borotra, to make it an |beret- a fine angled shot just across the net | i STAR ter’s service, but at love. Jean doul third and Shields won 2 !. !Ne!dl also won b.ll nnrm WASHINGTON, lost his own the ntouu twice in m but, own mwmnnm htun through Shields. Prank, roused by what appeared to be a bad decision, 'm th-eountnvmu:)‘-wuywam Hl!mlmly.lhlm wmmnnnm‘muoflml pounding great passing shot down the sidelines to make it 40-30 and then letting Jean put one into the net. Borotra won -his own service, after Shields had carried him to deuce, to start the fourth set, but Shields came ‘win his own and break l.hroulh X to pioniahips* and Refito be helped off the | S5k 40 Win-his ows and besek throush muu-r-umu in the Hith game and dflrk but went ;mwm md make the count Shields Illl|e|lhed three burning service aces in the sixth game to win from 15 and lead, 4 w 2. “It's all over,” several said in the grandstand. But t.hey counted without Borotrs. The Prenchman rushed to the :?onumy to win his own luce the American’s lead to 4 to 3. In the critical eighth game, as he went to the net behind a serve, Shields sl and fell. He had to be helped the court, his face twisted in pnln hurdled the net to help off, and gave first-aid trnmm 'lth the ald officials. After & nvo-mlnuw rest pesumed, net. n every service lnd the match was Shields went on to win from 40—50 and make the count 5-3. Play again was stopped, while shleldl rubbed his leg, which still was him. Borotra, serving, took the n! game to make it 5-4. Standing almost on one leg, Shields whipped across three almost unplayable service balls, Borotra sending back only weak returns. Jean won the fourth int, but Shields smashed over a ball Borotra didn't see to win the game, the set and thc match. DOAK T0 DISCUSS LABOR N FORUM Speech July 4 Will Be Last Until Series Is Resumed in Fall, The National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast network of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System, will sus- pend for the Summer months following the July 4 program. With the excep- tion of a brief period during the last congressional elections, the feature has been on the air weekly without inter- ruption for nearly two and a half years and has won a place of appeal and educational merit never before achieved by & single radio program. William N. Doak, Secretary of Labor, ! speaking in the cabinet series, will close both the forum and that outstanding series on the evening of the Fourth. He will speak from 8:30 to 9 o'clock, Eastern standard time ¢9:30 to 10 o'clock, Eastern daylight saving time), on “The Labor Department and Em- ployment.” The forum will resume its place on the air early in September. Inaugurated in 1929. The National Radio Forum was in- augurated the first week in March, 1929. Since that time it has established itself as an institution of far-reaching educa- mml value. The time on the air has been donated by the Columbia Broad- casting System in the interests of the listening public and statesmen have which their problems, their points of view and their arguments have gone directly to the public. It has been primarily a means of giving the public '.he “background” of events in talks by those individuals directly concerned in those events. The people, therefore, have learned more lbout the problems of their Government. That the listening public has been receptive and interested in the Forum programs has been proven conclusively by the thousands of letters which have been received from every section of the country. Further, struggling members of the minority on the guestions of the day have found the Forum open tol them in the same degree as those sup- porting the majority opinion. The Forum’s non-partisan quality is one of the chief reascns for its popularity. 1931 High Point in Broadcast. The first half of 1931, by virtue of the many pressing problems of Gov- ernment which arose during that time, has marked the. high point in the Forum’s service to the Nation. Unem- ployment struck the land. A blighting drought ravaged the farm lands of the Nation from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico. Violent r_;grm sions were heard in Congress. ough these troublelom times, the Forum seryed the public. The peeple of the United Bt«l'élv entitled to know what ess thought ly to turn to the Forum for -numnuve information. s Sertoc, Bowever, these rob- During ywever, these prob- lems were particularly tothe fore. The latent controversy around direct pri- maries flamed. Both sides were pre- the Forum. The same was true of other questions as they arose. President .Hoover's views as to appli- | poc. cation of rellef to suffering farmers Congress. In the Forum, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democl‘lnc lelder of the Senate, told “Why the United States Governmem Should Help the Drought Sufferes A week later Representative Louis C. Cumwn. Republican, of Michigan, told “Why the Unemployment and Drwlht Relief Work Should Carri Through Voluntary Contribution. Gives Reasons for Veto. ‘Thousands believed President Hoover should have signed the Wagner unem- ployment bill. Speaking in the Forum, Secref Doak, who speaks the second time this year in the Forum when he delivers his Fourth of July address, gave “President Hoover’s reasons for his pocket veto of the Wagner unemploy- ment bill.” - Two weeks later Senator ‘agner, Democrat, of New unAnuflunpu l.leumnxtho l.lnnmof 'ofldlmdaa ound it & much-needed medium by | past 2 D. O, WH GLOBE FLYERS GIVE BRIEF RADI TAL Tired of Sitting—*‘Just Came to Edmonton,” World Girdlers Say. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1.—"“We just came to Edmonston” was the cryptic descrip- tion the round-the-world fiyers gave the radio audience last night of their’1,500- mile flight from Fairbanks, Alaska, Edmonton, Canada. Making their comment brief and to the point, both Wiley Post, pilot. lnd Harold Gatty, navigator, of Mae talked from the llndflnl fleld l'. Edmonton, as the climax of a WEAF- WJZ-N. B. C. broadcast that included the detalls of their landing at 6:35 p.m. “Tired Out Sitting.” ‘The air interview went like this: Announcer Charles Lyons—First of all ‘we_congratulate you. Ho!u everything? Post—Werre all tired out sitting down. -Mr. Gatty, we heard morning that you Rot & m,ue b\m from the propellor. Is that rig] Gatty—It's nothing serious. Lyons—What sort of & trip did you have from Fairbanks? You came tht as the crow flies?, Post—Well, we just came to Edmon- ton. Had Tail Wind. %yom—l-low about that tail wind you had? Gatty—We had it part of the way. Lyons—I wonder about your next stop. Are you going to stay in Edmon- ton all night? Post—We are undecided about that. Lyons—What is your next jump? Are you intending to go to Cleveland? Post—We are undecided about that. Lyons—Just a couple of undecided boys going some place. Plans Were Broken. Post—We made so many plans on this trip and had to break them. After Gatty and Post left the micro- phone brief addresses of welcome were delivered by the mayor of Edmonton and Vernon Smith, acting premier of the Province of Alberta. As the broadcast closed there was a mu‘!n{l cheer for the fiyers. If the fiyers make another stop on the next hn?n which is to end at New York, the point from which they started a week ago, NBC plans to broadcast a description of it. When they get to New York, probably tomorrow night, plans have been made to give details of their arrival as well as the welcome the metropolis is planning. GLOBE FLYERS NEAR WINNIPEG ON DASH TO NEW YORK CITY (Continued From First Page.) radio story, was whue May, the World War fiyer, who Richthofen, German ace, in zm last battle before Richthofen was killed. The flyers left Edmonton during s slight drizzle. It had been raining there for the past 2¢ hours. They expected to fly out of the storm area in a short time, TAKE OFF FROM STREET. EDMONTON Albel'!l. July 1 (A).— Using a paved street for a runway, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty hopped off from here this morning for Cleve- land, Ohio, beyond which lay the home- stretch of their 16,000-mile flight around the world. . They hoped to reach Roosevelt Pield, New York, by night, thereby complet- ing their fiight in nine days. ‘The monoplane Winnie Mae took the air at 3:39 am. mountain standard time (5:39 Eastern standard time), and headed southeast for the 1.600-mile flight to Cleveland, which the fiyers hoped to accomplish in 11 or 12 hours. Plan fo Bear South. le which had fallen here for the hours, ceased just before the ukeflfl but it had left Blachford Field, where the plane landed yesterday, a quagmire fron which a take-off with the plane’'s heavy load of fuel would have been well-nigh impossible. Neither the pilot nor Gatty, the navi- gator, would say before they took off Just what course they would follow, but said they would bear well to the south to get away from the storm area in the vicinity of Edmonton. There was little delay in the take- off. The flyers, refreshed by several hours’ sleep, arrived at the fleld shortly before 3 a. Mechanics were warmi up the phnc ‘when they arrived at the hangar. After obtaini the Canadian weather reports, they climbed into the plang and took off. delayed his start until police had cleared the street of spectators, several hundred were on hand despite the early hour, ‘The fiyers arrived here at 4:35 pm., Mountain standard time (7:35 Eastern standard time) yesterday from FPair- banks, Alasks. They let- their plane down in a neat three-] on the soggy turf of Bhtch!orfl Field, here. A crowd of 1500 that had braved the all-day rain, broke through police lines and splashed across the mud to sur- round thé¢ Winnie Mae. Wait as Plane is Towed. Despite their fatigue, Post and Cfatty declined an automobile to take them across the fleld and remained out in the rain to superintend the towing of their plane to a hangar by a ‘tractor. N. Douglas of Edmon- ton, and Vernon Smith, minister of radio and telephone, were at the field to_greet them. Radio announcers of the National Broadcasting Co. described the lan and reception over an internation: hook-up throughout the United States and Canada. The fiyers spoke briefly before the microphone. ‘The start from Fairbanks was at 3:24 am. Alaska time, (8:24 a. Eastern standard time) yesterday morning. The plane averaged 150 miles an hour for t.he flight of 1,450 miles to Edmonton. Sleepiness is just routine now for Post and Gatty. “We have been sleepy for about six days,” smiled wei Wiley when one of the welcomers asked if he was tired. Thickt-set and short, tanned and hardy, Post appeared the more ex- hausted of the pair as they stepped from the cockpit of their plane, landed per- fectly in the muddy field. His blonde- moustached features were impassive as he scanned the sheaf of telegrams and mail awaiting him. Gatty, lll‘ht and shivering in the rain, wrapped his suit coat about him until some one him an overcoat. GOTHAM PLANS WELCOME. NEW YORK. that Wfl!! mknn the S to | had , of whom | {1 Flyers Hope to Reach Gotham Tonight, for Nine- Day Record if Skies Are Favorable, and Pldn Long Sleep on Arrival. o I! WILEY POST. Pilot of the Monoplane Winnie Mae. EDMONTON, Alberta, July 1.~It's all downhill work now. We hopz to land in New York tomorrow and if de- cent weather continues we should be able to land there in time to have circled the world in nine days. ‘That is jult me day better than we figured ‘woull woblbly nu when we xm l.oouult Field on take-off to Newfoundland a week l‘D ‘Tuesday. We sire 36 hours ahead of the 10-day schedule now, due to good weath- er conditions encountered on the greater part of the journey, but just before we reached jonton we ran into a storm area which may delay us slightly. Land in Ral 'm. ‘We landed here in\ the thick of a rainstorm, the heaviest in years, fleld " officials told us. It certainly seemed that way, for we had been told that they had an excellent field here. When we arrived it was a sea of thick mud— so thick that it was impossible to taxi | one the Winnle Mae in from the runway. ‘We had wonderful flying conditions through the mountains, following a great circle course 50 as to avoid higher peaks. Visibility was and al- though we had a little trouble in lifting the plane into the air at Fairbanks yes- terday morning, we encountered no real trouble until we hit the storm area. Will Take-off on Road. ‘Then it was bumpy, real bumpy. Tired after hours at the eontrola I was battling the ship, which kicked like a mule. We landed won- dering if we would be able to take off again, but gas was running low and the weather looked bad ahead so we landed. The weather man here told us last night that better conditions could be expected today. It was this weather report that finally made us decide to stay over here. We are not sure about airport conditions ahead and rather than take a chance on having our flight delayed we have stayed over to daylight. For the take-off we will use a long avenue of concrete road two miles long and 150 feet wide. It is almost an ideal runway and the best we have encoun- tered on our trip around the world. It is being cleared by authorities here in readiness for the take-off. May Make Two U. S. Stops. We have not reached s final de- cision as to our route to New York. Airports everywhere from the Atl.lnflc Coast to Spokane have wired us viting us to use their (lcllitl.u Wa may break our journey at Detroit for | jy. a few minutes, possibly half an hour, and then continue to Cleveland to re- fuel for the last hop to New York. All that depends upon weather conditions. ‘We will take practically a full load of fuel, and if necessary climb over the storm area, flying blind for at least a part of the way. That won't be any- thing new, for we flew blind for almost the entire distance from Kharba to_Nome. In any case, we shall be in New York v’leu upder the 10 days—then for some sleep, rovsk Motor Runs Perfectly. In Edmonton, as everywhere through- out our journey, officials have gone out of their way to facilitate cur flight. Immediately on landing here we were cleared by the customs, and there will be no delay when we take off today at_about 3 a.m. The Winnie Mae is being refueled now at the airport and will be hauled over to the concrete Tunway in readiness for the take-off. There is no necessity for a.motor check, as it ticked over per- fectly all the way. from Fairbanks. New York: Phones Flyers. A -police guard watched the machine thrw‘h the nlth although there seem- ed little danger that any harm would be_done to it by souvenir hunters. We are both tired, very tired, but the telephone seems to give us no re- spite. Immediately on landing we were told that there were “telephone calls from New York, and since then the bell has been jangling almost continu- ally. Gatty Talks for Both. I am quite deaf, due to the roar of the motm and Harold Gatty has to do the talking for both. Gatty is suffering a little discomfort from the bruises sustained when he was hit on the left arm and chest as the * - swung Solomon. Neither disability is serious. There are scores of telegrams waiting to be answered and dozens of letters from stamp and autograph collectors. Some of the letters came by air mail nd- dressed to us here, due Yo a paper in th g | United States publishing s eatement that we were ready to autograph any covers we received. One ambitious per-on even enclosed a stamp for return postage. Probably | cause this deluge is due in large measure to e fact we are now back in close touch with the United States for the first time durlnl our flight. It was difficult to communicate with New York from the time we left Berlin throughout the journey. Until we reached Edmonton. Now it is too easy. Had Planned Selomon Stop. Tlnoo\mrry'ewudover!nwr flight from Fairbanks was rough and mountainous, but by fouovln: '.he nuz circle course we managed to dodge the worst peaks. At no time did we hlve to ascend highed than 7,200 feet. In case of & torced landing in uut mu}? it would ha ha ve been b-dt e though no worse, ps, than ai y time .nw. 'u ler’ (Kh!?‘mn:' “".d thing we must correct. It was on our nrflvsl here that we had over- shot Nome, Alaska, to land at Solomon. This was not the case, for we md planed landing at Solomon our arrangements. The landing fiel d nt Nome would be inadequate for the Win- from a backfire at the start from | to nie Mae, hea; North_have bel from ter was bad enough. We had heavy fog and rough air almost all the way. Fiy By Dead Reckoning. Closer to Edmonton the country is rolling and heavily wooded. almost, but | as the Siberian coun- try we B\lc we were too tired | to he much interested in scenery. We have been flying by dead reckoning al- most all the way, checking bits of occa- sional landmar] Landing in Edmonton seemed strangely like home. There were pho- hers, reporun and radio men nre-:nt on us, wanting us to Officials were good and steered the crowds away as much as possible. Gatty says he would sooner fly the Sea again than face a bunch of photographers pleading for “just |mee more.” ‘We were welcomed here by the acting premier vl Alberta and by the mayor, speaki few words over Canadian and Uni M States radio chains. I am looking forward to landing in New York, and wondenn'flhm how Mrs. Post managed to arrive there 50 quickly. 1 '.elefrlphzd to Oklahoma from Fair- banks, and when in Edmonton received word that she was in New York. ‘We were tired last night and ready for bed. Last night we ate the first real meal for days. It seemed 50 good to | be able to get white bread again, for we were a little tired of Siberian rye bread. May End Flight Tonight. The Russians were very good to us, though, and gave us the best they hld We are very grateful to them. ‘We managed to get about six hours’ sleep last ht before getting up for the start on last lap. Weather re- ports will be available before we start. | We are confident now that our jour- ney is so nearly over that we can make New York tomorrow at the latest for about & week of sleep—then back to work. We need a lot of sleep, for we have had less than 15 bours since weeft New York. ‘The time of our arrival in New York | depends entirely upon the weather to- day, and upon the length of our stay | in "Cleveland and Detroit. if we touch | the latter point. With good conditions we could land at Roosevelt Field to- night. Otherwise it will be tomorrow morning. If we can make it tonight we wfll, but it will be late when We ar- Al, Fairbanks, Alaska, we were almost too tired and too deafened to talk, but we were over the worst of it. ‘When we landed at Fairbanks at 9:30 p.m. (3:30 a.m. Eastern daylight saving time) we lacked only a hour and a half of being seven days out from New York. This time element is hard to figure out with the local time changing so rapidly, and right now we cannot n[ure out, without going into the lo where we are keeping Greenwic! tum. what time we were at places in Siberia only Monday and the day before. In Siberia we had difficulty in get- ting messages out and really could not g:m:.mnlute until we reached Fair- nks. Delayed at Moscow. Starting back at Moscow, from where we more or less got out of touch with | the world, we found the hospitality there so great that we could not get away as we planned and had to stay for a banquet. We had intended to leave that same night for Novo-Sibirsk, but they forced us to stay; so we held| back -until the next morning and left Mucow at 5 o'clock, local time, Thurs- We arrived at Novo-Sibirsk that eve- ning. It was very goof country to fly over. We crossed the Ural Mountains, separating Europe from Asia, but they really don't deserve the name moun- tains, as they were only hills,. We did not have to go much higher than 1,000 feet to cross over them. ‘That night we stayed in Novo-Sibirsk. They took us to a hotel where we got about an hour and a half of sieep, and then we left there at 2 a.m. local time { u{.m. Friday, New York time) for Irkuf 1,450 miles away. The flying over that stretch was not so good. High POST-GATTYBACKER GENTER OF DISPUTE Finally~ Reaches Agreement With Publicity Firm on New York Reception. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1.—While Wiley Post and Harold Gatty were manipu- lating controls and studying maps last night th the plane which was speeding ‘lhzm across Canada toward completion of their round-the-world flight, there were scenes of great confusion at their “headquarters” here. Pirst, there was a “misunderstand- ing” between F. C. Hall, wealthy Okla~ homa City oil man, who is backing the flight, and a firm of publicity agents. Hours after it broke out it finally was settled, but not until thete had been a lot of frantic telephoning, a long conference and eventually a “peace Then there was the disappearance from her hotel of Mrs. Post, wife of the Winnie Mae pilot. She arrived from the West during the morning, told re- porters she didn’t know an airplane rudder from an alleron and that she would never let Wiley cross an ocean again, and then went out to buy a Only Photographers Worry. More than a score of photographers |and reporters waited in her suite five hours, and still she had not returned. Mr. Hall said he could not understand it. The publicity agents said the must be buying several dresses. A maid at a home where Mrs. Post was to have had dinner said she had not arrived. But no one worried except the pho- tographers, for Mrs. Post had been ac- companied by the wife of a news reel company employe who knew all about New York. The arrival of Mrs. Post from her home in Oklahoma indirectly brought on the controversy between Mr. Hall and the publicity firm ot Bruno, Blythe and associates. Confusion developed as to who handling arrangements for the New York reception of the flyers. Mr. Hall said he had “sunk about $100,000 in this flight and several preceding ones” and saw no reason why he should not be in charge. Agreement Is Reached. The publicity agents produced a con- tract signed by Post designating such authority to them. Mr. Hall said he knew nothing about it and added the two fiyers had so little money when they started he even had to put up $25 to get weather reports for them. Finally Mr. Hall signed a statement declaring every one would work together and the “misunderstanding” was over. Post, who was 17 when she married the aviator four years ago, said she had stayed awake only one night during the flight, “the night the boys were crossing the Atlantic,” but she worried so then that she hes de- cided there will be no more transocean air flights for Mr. Post. and worked until very late that night, obtaining only three hours sleep. ‘The next morning the ship was all ready to go, but a cross wind came up. and we had to wait until 7 p.m., until it died down, so we took advantage of the enforced wait and went to sleep for four or five hours. We had great trouble in getting the food we are accustomed to all through Siberia. Rye bread was practically all we ate. However, Asovich, the Russian aeronsutical society, was very good to us throughout cur journey across Rus= sian territory. They notified their ple at all points to assist us, and they did everything they could to take care of us. Forced to Fly Blind. ‘We left Khabarovsk at 7 p.m. (5 am., Eastern daylight time, Monday) for Nome. Down the Amur River to the mouth we flew, incidentally scaring away all the fishermen, who apparently are not used to planes. Passing over the northern tip of Sakhalin Island and on across the Sea of Okhotsk at its northern part, we then skirted along the western side of Kamchatka Penine mountains and concentrated rainstorms | sula. had-to be flown through. It was as h country as any man would want ly over. Because of the restricted visibility we flew low, nct much above ihe treetops, but had ro trouble along the way and landed at Irkutsk without incident. From there the hop to Blagovest- chensk was 1,100 miles, and meant more rough country to be covered be- tween those points. We landed at Bla- govestchensk st dark (8 am. Satur- day, Eastern daylight time), and be- of difficully in securing definite {nformation about. _the flelds, came down on a field full of water. The plane mired tightly. Plane Unhurt in Miring. It had been raining there steadily for two weeks, and we faced the piopo- sition of landing there or on the tun- dra, because the nearest other field = 600" or 700 miles away and our lugply was low. None of the flelds is ‘We worked until late that night try- ing to get the. plane out with the aid of soldiers and horses, but did not suc- ceed until the next ‘morning, when we pulled out with the help of lots of men and horses. The plane was not dam- , and that morning we took off for . & short hop of 350 miles. Theneldl.hmwuloodlndwalud rest. Wewmread to take off the same night, w one or two little things that ed to the motor caused us to There was a lot of bad fiying had to be done blind. All that n]ght. we sailed along, 7,000 feet above this lonely part of the world. We only had about two hours of real darkness, but the daylight was just as bad as da ness with its rain and fog. Skim Bering Sea lce. Passing over Siberian territory we were above high, snow-covered moun- tains clear to the Gulf of Anadyr. We flew over the gulf and -thence to the Bering Sea, where there was much floating ice below us. We had to go very low, barely skimming the top of the water and ice, until leaving Cape Chaplan, where we were forced to climb and come out at the top of the fog at an elevation of 6,000 feet. ‘We hit the Alaskan coast north of Nome and diving down through s hole in the fog landed at Solomon Beach. It was good to feel that we ‘were on Amerlfln soil again. Putting 100 gallons of gas at fl“fi'u}'&.“&‘uh o, the prop e of *“prop™ being bent. But we made repairs quickly. Gatty's left arm was tempo- rarily out of action, but as we learned at Fairbanks, the injury was not serious. We still are confident that we can pa behind us, and tr&eyr:lunomnxofumh»mmup pl "I"ht. 1931, by the New Yol‘k 'fllflfl over until the next day. !n the meantime, we changed the spark plugs \eproduction”in" whole or in Shiden In Father’s Footsteps MAJ. KENNETH P. LORD IN FINANCE OFFICE. i the adfpinistration of Government budgets, Maj. Kenneth director of the budget, was transferred today from the finance, Gen. R. L. Carmichael. Maj. Lord (second from mew position. With him are Alfred H. Morri (léft) 4n muummfl.um,