Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1931, Page 5

- THE EVENING STAR, \\'ASHINGTO:\', D. C, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931. *% A—S5 POWER FIVNCIG INGURY 5 PUSHED Commission Engages or.. Splawn to Make Survey of Company Ownership. The Power Commission has taken another step toward getting a com- | plete picture of the financial set-up of | the concerns engaged in hydroelectric | development, under Federal license. | Announcement was made last night that Dr. Walter M. W. Splawn had been | engaged to make a survev of the owner- ghip. control and affiliation of all these operating companies. Previously, the commission had sent out a question- naire to the companies to learn to what | extent their operations are regulated by law The present_investigation was voted unanimously Friday, on g motion of Commissioner Williamson, seconded by Commissioner Draper. It is to be com- pleted in four months. The Federal | Trade Commission has been engaged | since 1928 in an examination of the entire capital _structure of _electric systems which has shown an intricate | network of financial control. Dr. Splawn last Winter ended an in- vestigation for the House Interstate Commerce Committee of railroad hold- ing companies with the recommenda- tion that they be placed under Inter- state Commerce Commission supervi- sion. Legislation to accomplish this failed in_Congress, Dr. Splawn is dean of the Graduate School of American University, and for several years was president of the Uni- versity of Texas. Three years 8go he became a referee to the war claims arbiter | ALLEGED DRUNK FOUND - | WANDERING WITH BABY Kidnap Alarm Brings Police Hunt, Ending in Arrest of Man and | Return of Infant. | Crews of radio cars responding to an alarm that a child had been kidnaped found Patrick Joseph McDermott, 48 years old, of the 900 block cf L street southeast. wandering through the streets near his home last night with a baby girl in his arms. He was arrested on a charge of drunkenness, McDermott. who gave conflicting ac- counts of how he came into p-ssession of the child, was taken to the fourth precinet station, where he later posted 10 collateral for his release The child was taken to the Receiving Home, where she was identified a few moments later as Lois Kusk , and was turned over to her p: Mr. and Mrs. Hank Kusko of Pittsburgh. The parents are visiting at the home of D. C. Tromm, 1300 block G street southeast. Antwerp, Belgium, is spending nearly $2.000.000 in enlarging its port | flew a real good ship. Wiley Post, Globe Girdler Begins Barnstorming and Finally Is Employed by F. C. Hall, Backer of World Flight, as Pilot. Flies Passenger Route Also. This is the fourth in a series of elght | installments in & life story of Wiley Post vious_instaliment told how Farm fiy in the hard school of winz walking and para- chute jumping in small-town “air cir- cuses.” By the Associated Press. i “He always wanted to do big things.” Perhaps this short sentence sums up | as well as any other the motive, the driving power, which urged Wiley Post, farm boy-mechanic, toward realizing his boyhood dreams. Once Wiley- had acquired his own plane he set cut to learn all he could about flying. He never missed an op- portunity to get into the air. He tried everything he heard of for a plane to do, and apparently when he was sail- ing through the clouds he thought out the half-formed ideas which had t-ken ments at Kitty Hawk. | Never Kept Log Book. | Wiley never kept & log book until about six _months ago. He can only estimate the hours of fying he has t> nis credit, but on long Summer days when he was barnstorming he recails | that many a time he flew from shortly | after sunup to sundown, carrying pas- | sengers off improvised landing fields in Southwestern pastures. When Wiley had been flying a few | years he heard that F. C. Hall, an oil man and an associate of Powell Briscoe, whom he had known in Chickasha, was interested in flying. He went to Hall and asked for a job as pilot. “I gave him a job,” Hall sa v even helped him with his license. Be. fore he went to work for me he never But the Winnie Maes—all my planes have been Winnie Maes—were just to his liking." | Wiley had an added incentive to g0 after the job with Mr. Hall. On June 27, 1927, he had eloped in his airp] v Laine, pretty 17-y daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Laine of Sweetwater, Tex. They had grown up together near Grand Saline, Tex. For a while his wife barnstormed around the Southwest with Wiley, but a steady | job with a steady salary was much more preferable to a married man. Pilots Hall's Ship. Wiley served as personal pilot for Mr Hall for some time. Once, down in Texas in 1929, near Lubbock, their plane nosed over and was badly dam- | aged. I was kind of scared,” Hall says, but nobody was badly hurt.” The oil man sold his pl however, and Wiley was without a job. There was another place waiting for him on the Pacific Coast. Wiley had taken a plane bank, wrere the Lockheed aircraft factory is located. He fl>w the ship around California until he sold it for the company. The aircraft company officials liked the quiet, competent pilot and told him if he ever needed a job one would be waiting for him at Bur- bank For a little more than a year Wiley was chief test pilot at the Lockheed factory, all the time carryving on the 5. to Bur-| | need gasoline, training that has made him not only one of the best pilots, but a skilled me- chanle, thoroughly versed in the type of plane used in the around-the-world fiight. REFUELING FLYERS 10 RESUME FLIGHT Plane to Aid Tokio Hop, Set for Last Lap to Hazle- ton, B. C. A test pllot's job calls for competence | BY the Associated Press. in many phases of fiying. It is ad- | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 6.—Flyers mittedly one of the most difficult jobs|Of the plane which is to refuel the in aviation, but Wiley took it in’ his | monoplane Fort Worth on its projected stride as he took the other steps in his career. It was his job and he did it. Russell Pecht, superintendent of the aircraft factory at Burbank, credits the preparations and abilitv to forsee cir- cumstances of the world fiyers with the success of the profect. Silent on Fast Trip. Pecht says Post was as silent on the coast as he is credited with being in Oklahema. a record flight from Seattle to Los An- geles with four pessengers aboard, Pecht recalls that while the passeng=rs were clated over the trip, Post “didn't seem to think much about it, and only sald ‘Tt was a nice trip. " Evidently Post had much the same feeling about his world jaunt. He wanted to go from New York back to New York via_ Berlin, Moscow and certain other points. He knew he must make care- ful preparations. He realized he would oll, maps and weather information. Once he had these and the other necessary equipment all he had to do was fly around. It was just a job and he did it “That fellow Post was the most un- worried man that ever flew across the Atlantic,” is the way Al Bird, superin- tendent of the service department at Roosevelt Field sizes up the Oklahoma farm boy who streaked around the world to a place in future school books. (Tomorrow:® There is more than gasoline and oil in a world-encircling record flight. Wiley Post lays some ground work.) MEXICAN MALCONTENTS PROTEST DEBT PACT Demonstrators Told Country Can- | not Meet Obligations and That Funds Pay for I'mprovements. By the Associated Press. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, July 6.—Work- ers and students paraded here yester- day in protest against the foreign debt agreement, and the projected national labor law. now before Congress. In a speech to the demonstrators. Brito Rosado, president of the Federai District Students’ Federation, said that Mexico cannot afford to pay its foreign debt now and suggested that funds assigned for the debt payments be used in public improvements. In addition to severely criticizing Aaron Saenz, secretary Rosado charged that Saenz was at- tempting to spread the Protestant re- ligion in _Mexico, paign of “Americanization.” ,., Once, when the pilot made of industry, | as part of a cam- | 1non-sv,op fiight from Seattle to Tokio | planned to _take off at dawn today for | Hazleton, British Columbia, from the | headwaters of the Naas River, Northern | British Columbia, where they were |forced down Saturday by fog. Encountered Fog Banks. The fiyers, James Mattern and Nick | Greener, said they encountered fog | banks near Dease Lake Saturday while |en route from Edmonton, Alberta, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where the first aerial refueling is to take place. They turned down the Aiyansh Valley toward the coast. finally making a forced landing on the upper reaches of Naas River. They reported last night they had suffi- | cient gasoline for three hours flying, | which they considered ample for the hop to Hazleton. ‘ Their plane was down in an isolated |spot 5 miles from a telephone. Only | mcager detalls were received here of | their landing. | _Meanwhile the crew of the Fort | Worth, Reg L. Robbins and H. . Jones, | Texas ‘aviators, in Seattle, were uncer- | tain when they could take off on thelr attempt to reach Tokio by air. They explained their take-off would be de- |layed until the refueling plane reached Fiirbanks. They intena to refuel in the air over Fairbanks, again at Solomon, near Nome, and a third time in Stberia. | ‘BUILDILNGS H.EAD GIVES | COOLING PLANT STAND Structures Proposed for Air Bys- tems to Be Abandoned, But- ler Explains. ‘Takin installat f cognizance of agitation for jon of cooling apparatus in the temporary bulldings housing Govern- ment employes, Lieut. F. B. Butler, acting director of Public Buildings and is the last Summer many of these structures will be occupied. He added | that within about two years all prob- ably will be abandoned! The Census Bureau, Public Health Service, Federal Trade Commission and General Supply Committee are among those housed in temporary bufldings who will have new quarters. While some thought has been given proposals to install cooling apparatus in the temporary structures. Lieut. But- ler said the Office of Public Bufldings and Public Parks lacks funds for this purpose. 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Kaufman, United States | Minister to Siam, and Morgan S. Kauf- | man of Scranton, Pa. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt and Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Lowman of Washington, were | the other guests here for the Fourth. ARAB CHIEF WARNS ZIONIST MEETING Sheik Emir Arslan Sends Message Urging Jews Not to Antag- onize Palestine Tribes. By the Associated Press. BASEL, July 6.—A warning to the Zionist Congress to take no steps that would antagonize the Arabs was made today in an official message from | Geneva addressed to the congress by Sheik Emir Arslan, representing the Palestine-Syrian delegation in Geneva. | The message, says the Jewish Tele- | graphic Agency, emphasizes that Pales- | tine has been an Arab country for 14_centuries. | In the meantime, the Committee on | Committees has organized itself with Georg Halpern, general Zionist, as chairman, and Berl Locker, American Laborite, as one vice president | While' committee consultations are now in progress, none of the Zionist | parties has yet defined its attitude | regarding the future leadership. The | Revisionists have announced that they | cannot state their attitude until the ultimate aims are agreed upon, at least ' in committee. | | | | frigerators—bea cient. At such cannot take spec Green Leonards, Formerly $84.50. White Porcelain-1 Formerly $91.25. porcelain lined. Fi 1b. 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