Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1931, Page 5

ZEPPELIN IS HOME AFTER ARCTIC TRIP Eckener Calls Cruise Easy. New Territory Charted by Scientists Aboard. By the Associated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, July 31.—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin completed her latest bit of globe-trotting today when she settled down in her hangar after a seven-day cruise to the Arctic. The ship reached home port sooner than had been expected, and cruised for an hour over Friedrichshafen and Lake Constance before Dr. Hugo Eckener brought it to the ground at 5 am a1 p.m. Thursday, Eastern standard time). As Dr. Eckener and the passenger- scientists, headed by Prof. Rudolph Samoilvich, left the gondola, a band played “Deutschland Uber Alles.” Arctic Trip Proves Easy. Priedrichshafen was excited and proud of the latest exploit of the big ship, but there will be no formal celebration. The city fathers announced that times were too hard for money to be spent that way. The Arctic crulse was described by Dr. Eckener as highly successful and as a relatively easy trip. “Often we enjoyed skies of Itallan blue,” he said, “and we never were bothered by the discomforts of the Arctic.” Prof. Samoilvich complained because the weather was too warm. “We all perspired copiously in our Arctic out- fits,” he said. New Lands Charted. Dr. Eckener already is planning an- other cruise to the Noath. He expressed the hope that the journey could be made soon, when funds are available, and that in time the Graf Zeppelin would become a favorite method of transportation for persons who feel the call of the North. . The sclentists aboard the vessel charted more than 50,000 square kilo- meters of hitherto unknown territory, according to Prof. Samoilvich, and sent up numerous observation balloons, of which at least two undoubtedly reached the stratosphere. In addition, many photographs were taken. One result of the flight will be a new map of the Arctic, as hitherto undis- covered islands were spotted and some land shown on present maps was found to be non-existent. Grat Stops at Berlin. The Graf Zeppelin landed at Tem- pelhof Airdrome, Berlin, at 6:38 p.m. yesterday (12:38 p.m. Eastern stand- ard time) on its way to Friedrichshafen amid the lusty cheers of thousands of Berliners, The 46 men who made the Arctic_trlp set foot on land for the first time since the Graf stopped at Leningrad on its way to the North. The group included two Americans.. Heinrich Sahm, Berlin’s towering lord mayor, presented the coat-of-arms cf Berlin' to Dr. Eckener, the crowd sang the national anthem and a radio micro- phone was turned over to Dr. Eckener. So intent was the crowd on watching the Graf land that the red monoplane of the transatlantic flyers, Clyde Pang- born and Hugh Herndon, slipped down into the airdrome a short time after- ward almost unnoticed. A newspaper man and one police qfficer recognized the plane first, and ran out to meet Panghorn and Herndon. The Graf rose into the air a short time later and headed for her home port. CALLS ARCTIC AIR ROUTE SAFE. BY ARTHUR KOESILER. ABOARD GRAF ZEPPELIN, July 31 (By Radio via London) —The homeward journey of the Graf Zeppelin from the ‘Arctic is a triumphal return ucexampled in the annals of dirigible airships. Our appearance over East Prussia, over the cities of Memel, Konigsberg and Danzig aroused jubilation in the inhabitants, who crowded the streets and housetops while sirens rent the air. Dr. Hugo Eckener appeared greatly moved by this ovation, and the non- Germans aboard were astonished beyond words over the enthusiasm of the Ger- le. As the airship was fiying homeward in a thick fog Dr. Eckener gave me an interview on the results of the epochal flight. “The results of the expedition,” the| commander of the world’s most famous dirigible said, .“exceeded in scme par- ticulars my most favorable expectations and in others confirmed my fears. My expectations, in so far as_they were surpassed, were realized when I saw that, respecting the Arctic in Summer, no anxieties néed be felt regarding meteorological disturbances. Tempera- tures in the upper air regions are such that fears that an ice cap can be formed on the ship can be avoided by proper less navigation. “The temperature at medium alti- tudes, from 3,000 to 15,000 feet, was everywhere considerably above zero. ‘The lower temperatures are to be feared only in the immediate prox- imity of glaciers. Furthermore, we have established that clouds or fogs reach up only to a low altitude and above them prevail Itallan-like blue skies. Clouds Hide Localities. “Members of the expedition all agree that in the meteorological respect the flight was most delightful. “Airship trips to the Arctic may en- joy special popularity with the edu- cated public which has a feeling for color and form. On the other hand, my fears respecting difficulties about navigation in Summer and the task of precisely locating places unfortunately were fully confirmed. The low-cloud stratum covers in Summer both parts of the Arctic Ocean probably always, hence it is likely that it will never be possitile to reach a certain point at a certain time with certainty. “For example, I could not find Kamenefl Island and had to abandon my idea of getting into contact with Herr Urmanzeff there. Navigators therefore always must adapt a course after taking into consideration the pre- valling weather and fog conditions. Thus we were compelled to take an outer course going and to return by the inner course, contrary to our original plans. Otherwise we would have seen nothing. Magnetic Compass Functions, “However, the big outlying Cluser Islands always were above fog level. “Regarding the value cf the expedi- tion, I would like to stress that by our tremendous number of photographs we now are able to give a very clear idea of the true nature of the Arctic coun- tries which we visited. Finally, I would like to remark that, contrary to expec- taticns, it was possible to steer with the usual instruments—that is, with mag- netic end ordinery compass. “It was cspecially noticeable that the compass functioned perfectly right up to the highest latitudes. The airship behaved splendidly in every situation. “However, the question is whether transcontinental airship traffic via the Arctic is possible at all scascns. This possibility seems to me very likely in view of the conditions prevailing in the Arctic itself as well as in the Arctic border regions.” Plans for Return Changed. ‘We had intended to stop at Lenin- grad on the way home, but the weather suddenly presented its most unpleasant side. Owing to a terrific squall and the danger to the ship this entailed, we changed our plans to come directly through to Germany. Notification of this change was ra- dioed to the Soviet government by Dr. Eckener, whose message said: “On our zeturn from the Arctic Lindberghs Greeted at North Haven, Maine BOATS CROWD AROUND PLANE OF NOTED FLYERS. to Tokio. The departure of the fl; a glimpse of the noted pair. CENE on the lake at North Haven, Me., yesterday as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh (indicated by arrow on the pon- toon cf his plane) prepared to take off with Mrs. Lindbergh for Ottawa, Ontario, on the first leg of their flight was of great interest and the lake w: yers n boats seeking —A. P. Photo. as crowded,with people 1 flight, leaving the land which formed the basis for departure of this expedi- tion, and which rendered such valuabl> assistance, I beg to express the heartiest thanks and deepest satisfaction that the first co-operation of German and Rus- sian sclence and technique for the ex- ploration of the Arctic acccmplished such splendid results. I regret that squally wind and uncertain weather make landing at Leningrad inadvisable. Greetings to the city.” | In my radio dispatch Wednesday | while the Graf Zeppelin was still far | from Berlin, I quoted at length from the ship’s diary for the Arctic cruise. | This diary gives interesting details of our voyage. Also, in that dispatch, I quoted & statement made to me by Prof. Rudol{e Samoilowitsch regarding the geographical discoveries during the flight. Professor Turns Columbus. +So, in resuming the diary where it | recounts the happenings of last Mon- | day, one finds this amusing entry: | “Dr. Eckener enters the saloon, where Samoflowitsch already had had | about a third fit because every 10 min- utes apparently, he is discovering a | new continent. This Columbus game is terribly trying.” | The diary for Monday goes on to | Herndon’s Pair Still Confident of Beating Round-the-World Record Made by BY HUGH HERNDON, JR. | By Radio to The Star. | MOSCOW, July 31 (N.AN.A.) —Push- ing on confidently on our round-the- world fiight, Clyde Pangborn and 1| landed our plane on Moscow’s flying | field at 11:52 am. today, local time | (4:52 am., Eastern daylight-saving time), ‘We are fresh and eager and intend to leave Moscow immediately after the banquet which the Soviet government is | giving us. By that time we expect to | be 10 hours behind the mark st by | Post and Gatty at this stage of the flight. | But we trink we sre going to beat | their record. Our machine carries so much more gas than theirs, and we plan to make only one stop to their two. Moscow Fields Confusing. say: “Upon leaving Northern Land at noon we are all groggy through sleepiness | and fatigue. And we are bewildered | by the midnight sun. Since we left| Leningrad on the flight into the Arctic | we have neither washed nor shaved. | “Photometric measurements of this | unknown territory over which we are | ! flying proceeded until 11:30 a.m. but We are powerless against the fog, which | impedes the vision. All the same, we | make sure of our sensational discovery | that Northern Land is immeasurably | bigger than was supposed. Tsolated Radio Post Sighted. “We pass over Kamenefl Island, | which is veiled by a thick mist, and | about noon we fly over Tayjmir Peninsula, which only Nettendorf ever | traversed. Amundsen and Urmanzefl | explored a tiny corner of it, however. | Urmanzeffl took four months to get | there with reindeer sledges. “Now the white landscape is giving | place to the brown of the less grandi- | ose Siberian tundra. Scared herds of | wild _ reindeer scatter panic-stricken | before us over the no man’'s land of | melancholy, brown steppes stretching to the far horizon. This terra incog- nita was charted by us, too. “About this time we flew over Dick- son Radio Station, on the Yenessel| Delta. The station’ consists of a high | radio mast and three miserable looking | huts built directly on the extremest | point of land. Two boats, presumably | belonging to ships of the Karasea ex- | peditiow and a Junker plane belonging | to the Soviet government, which is ex- ploring this area, lie in the bay. Gifts Dropped to Station. | “Here six_men live in indescribable privation. Years ago the entire crew | of the station died of scurvy. The last | survivor, having buried four comrades, | dragged the fifth over the threshold of the station and himself collapsed, life- | “A year later there were women with | the new crew assigned. Jealousy | among the men caused a terrible tragedy, which culminated in the com- mandant stabbing the cook. Since then the Soviet has forbidden women to Winter at the Arctic stations. “The Graf circled around over Dick- son Station at a height of 450 feet. Food and newspapers were dumped overboard. When the first packet hit the ground, the whole station crew made a m:vlld dash in the scramble to get gifts. Jce Limits and Coast Mapped. “This has been one of the most poig- nant experiences of the entire expedi- tion. We felt*an intense sympathy for these lonely humans in the Arctic wilds whom the Graf Zeppelin left behind to their appalling monotony. “At midnight we left’ the Siberian continent, flying through the fog over the Kara Sea in the direction of Nova Zembla. The diary for the next day, Tuesday, says: “Shortly after midnight Prof. Samoi- lowitsch gave a detailed statement, summing up the results of the expedi- tion, as follows: “‘On Nova Zembla the course of the northern limit of inland ice, the outline of the east coast of the northerm half of the island and the course of the southern limit of glaciers were definitely established.” Hopes for Cruise in 1932. “Valuable results also have been ob- tained from geomagnetic observations whose object is the safe. navigation of the Arctic by compass. Prof. Samoilo- witsch said: “‘I hope that soon another expedi- tion will go to the extreme north with international support. Perhaps such an expedition will be sent out in 1932. I want particularly to emphasize the loyal co-operation of all the members of this present expedition. There has been no friction. “‘Within four days we accomplished work which formerly would have re- quired several ‘'simultaneous expeditions working two or three years to achieve.”” Radio Contact Fails. ‘The diary for Wednesday says: “In_splendid sunshine we picked up the Swedish-Norwegian expeditionary ship. ey fired three salutes, and we replied” with a like number. Shortly afterward we sighted Rudolfsland and Cape Brorak. Here lies the body of Lieut. Sedow, buried in the ice. We saluted the grave by dipping our flag thrice. ! “Proceeding on our course, we flew over Eva Island, named for Nansen's daughter. We corrected wrong chart contours. We attempted vainly to es- tablish radio contact, but the midnjght sun. killed every. short wave message. We heard all senders from Tokio to Berlin, but none heard us.” | compass and Sperry gyroscope, Coming in from Berlin today we had some trouble determining which | was the flying field here because there | are so many open spaces in MOoSCOW. | But finally we located it and settled | down to a good landing. There were not so many people to meet us, but what was lacking in | numbers they made up in eager cor- | iality. | After leaving Berlin we ran into | fogs. These lasted three hours. Pang- | born had the stick during this time. | Sometimes he had the plane at an| elevation of 15,000 feet. We crossed the Russian border near | a town called Bigossovo and soon after- | ward the weather cleared up. We were | navigating by our Ritchie aperiodic and when we emerged from the fog we | found we had hit the route right smack on the nose. | Our maps were not very good—very little better than the maps we had in | England, which were tourist maps. We | tried to follow the railway line part of the way, but found that where the map indicated a turn the raillway ran straight and vice versa. So we de-| pended on compass bearings. | Surprised by Churches. We got, some rest by taking the stick in turns, the fellow off duty sleeping and getting fairly good relaxation. We hit Moscow squarely after some hours of good flying weather. We could | see the golden domes of the churches| shining and knew we had arrived. We heard that the Soviet had burned the churches, sc it was rather a surprise to find so many standing. Food we had in plenty. The chicken supplied us in Berlin was still holding out. So were the quart of Scotch they gave us at Croydon and the thermos bottle of coffee we received in Berlin. ‘We touched very little of the Scotch and turned the bottle over to an Amer- ican newspaper correspondent. He told | Post and Gatty, but circumstances may | that's settled. The Soviet officials as- | the Red Square and around the Krem- Own Story Post and Gatty. s Scotch was very rare in Russia. At the Moscow Field we were met by a small group of newspaper men and Soviet flying officials. They showed us meps end helped us plan the Siberian | crossing. u: May Change Route. ‘We leave Moscow with the intention of following the same route taken by result in our changing it. If we re- ceive reports along the line showing that one route is better than another we naturally will choose the better route. The Russians refueled our ship in record time. The quality of gasoline and ofl they put in we found entirely all right. This was one of the things tnat had been worrying us, but now sure us. of the same kind of fuel no matter where we settle down. ‘They escorted us off the fleld, and after 'a short customs examination which was a mere formality they took us to a hotel, after a tour through lin, At the hotel we found the banquet spread in a private room, and were able 1o gratify our curiosity as to how Vodka tastes. We found it a pretty good clear liquid, but there isn't much taste to it. The Russians made speeches and drank to3sts to our success in our fiight across Siberia, the Bering Straits and on back to New York. Both Have Rabbit's Feet. If this story seems a little helter- skelter please bear in mind that I am dictating it between courses of a nine- course luncheon. Just about the time Pang and I were at the fish course we discovered that each of us was carrying | the hind foot of a rabbit killed in a grave yard at full moon—Ilittle luck symbols. Neither of us knew until this moment that the othber carried such a charm. ‘They seemed to have incorporated our little feed in their five-year plan, because it has been run off more quick- ly than our dinner in Berlin, Now, as we head into Siberia, you will get only occasional short messages from us. For they tell us it is very difficult to get news out of that broad expanse of marsh and forests. We feel no trepidation about this next leg of our flight. We will keep a straight course and won't lose our way. This | morning, coming in from Berlin, we were flying blind for about an hour, be- tween 4 and 5, but we never worried. We were sure of our course and knew we were flying high. Once more—we are confident we are going to beat that Post and Gatty rec- rd. (Copyright. 1931. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) VICE SOUADS SEIZE. 72 IN RUM RAIDS Four White and 18 Colored Persons Held—Furious | Battle Staged. | ‘Twenty-two persons, four white and eighteen colored, were arrested in a series of liquor raids last night and ! early yesterday by members of the police headquarters vice squad and the vice squads of the three police inspec- | tion districts. All, except one, were | charged with illegal possession of liquor. | Detective W. C. Wren was given a | furious battle when he and Detective C. | S: Dyer raided a house in the first | block of Allison street northeast. Nor- man Jones, colored, 30, was treated at Fredmen’s Hospital for scalp wounds sustained when he attacked Wren with a bottle. Ferman Jones and Eunice Jones, both colored, also were arrested during the raid. Two white men and a young White woman Wwere among those arrested. "The men were Napoleon Le Feore, 61, of the 100 block of Second street northeast, and David B. Martin, 66, of the 1000 block of M street. The raids were at their residences. The woman was Marie Robinette, 29, of the 200 block of Twelfth street southeast, arrested at her home. Other Arrests Listed. Others arrested by the headquarters squad were: Henry Lowrey, 47, colored, of the 1400 block of Montello avenue north- east, and Olen Coleman, 35, colo:ed 200 'block of Warren street northeast, both taken in_their homes, and Gert- rude Butler, 34, colored, of the 300 block of Second street southeast. - Three men and three women, all col- ored, were taken in raids by members of the first inspection district vice squad, operating under Sergt. R. A. Johnson. Those arrested were: George Kelly, 32, arrested in the 900 block of Fourth street; Marie Rich, . and Eloise Gray, 21, arrested in the 400 block of Washington street: Charles Harris, 38, and Edith May Johnson, 40, arrested in the 2300 block of Champlain street, on chargss of possession, and James Walker, 40, arrested at the lat- ter address on a charge of disorderly conduct. (Copyright, 1931, in North and South Amer- ica by North' American Newspaper Al- dance, Ins. i Others arrested were: Sue Pomer, 33; William Southworth, 50, and Pharaok Robins, 50, all colored, ported | snakes are held sacred. They also are |POST AND GATTY SPONSOR Science Snake-Worshiping Tribe Survives on Island. Remnants of a strange tribe of snake | worshipers in the highlands of New | Georgia, one of the Solomon Islands, are reported by J. H. L. Waterhouse in the British anthropological journal, an. These people are known as the Ka- zukurus. No white man, says Water- house, ever has seen one of their vil- lage sites in tbe rough hill country and there are very few of them left, although there is a mixture of their blocd in the rest of the New Georgia population. J A Kazukuru altar’is an unrooted tree placed in an inverted position so that the roots are uppermost. All sorts of reported to consider the crab a holy animal. A The tribe has been almost wiped out by leprosy. Waterhouse has obtained a vocabulary of several hundred Kazu- kuru words, from which it may be pos- sible to trice the racial connections of the almost vanished primitives. . —T. R K| (Copyright. 1931) TO DEFEND FLIGHT MARK By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 31.—F. C. Hall, wealthy Oklaho City ofl man, who financed the Wiiey Post-Harold Gatty ftight around the world, said here yesterday if Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr., should set a new record, Post and Gatty will fly the “Winnie Mae” again in an effort to regain the “title.” Hall indicated that he was not appre- hensive that Fangborn and Herndon will excel Post and Gatty's time. _———————————— taken in a raid on Shepherd road north- east; Howell Boulden, 23, of the 2100 block of N street, arrestsd in the act of delivering liquor which had been ordered by policemen. ‘Wade Shields, 30, of the 600 block of L street northeast; Herbert Smith, 30, and Willlam Gray, 600 block of Callan street northeest, the latter three col- ored, arrested in the 600 block of L street northezst. James Anderson, 50, and his wife, Rcse Anderson, colored, arrested in their home on Fort dnve, northeast. Small quantities of liquor were re- confiscated on each rald. Y M | applaud the intrepid aviators,” said the | for us to see.” C., FRIDAY, PEOPLE OF TURKEY HONOR AMERICANS Board;nan and Polando In- vited to Be Guests of Mustapha Kemal. (Continued From First Page.) which ‘he will present to the flyers when l they reach the Summer capital. ‘The American embassy was given over entirely today to the flyers and the functions in connection with their visit. Miss Frances Maher of Washington and Miss Stella Reinhart of Oklahoma City, embassy secretaries, are answering the stacks of cabled congratulations from all over the world. The Governor of Massachusetts and the Mayor of Boston were among those who sent messages. Boardman's family asked him to call them up by radiophone, but Istanbul is without such facilitles. Neither of the fiyers has said when they intend to re- turn to the United States. Everywhere the two Americans were halled as heroes. The front pagé of every newspaper was given over to their daring feat, and about their hotel great crowds gathered, hoping to catch a glimpse of them. Among the throngs waiting Wwhile they slept late into the morning was a little Turkish girl who yesterday heard them ask for a cup of American coffee, the Turkish variety being too strong for their taste. With her the girl had a percolator of the kind they use in the United States. Virtually every member of Istanbul's American colony, which is 250 strong, was at the airmen’s hotel today for an impromptu reception in their honor. sfx Americans Present. ‘This was partly the result of the fail- ure of the American residents of the city to turn out for the arrival yester- day. Only six fellow countrymen were at the airdrome when the plane came in. ‘They were Ambassador Grew, his daughter Anita, Secretary Hinckle of the American embassy, Embassy Clerk Siminsky, Miss Caris E. Mills of Tcledo and Princeton, N. J., and the the Asso- clated Press correspondent. All others present were English or Turkish. ‘The lack of preliminary information here concerning the flight of the Cape Cod made the actusl arrival cf the American flyers a complete surprise so far as the vast majority of Turks were concerned. Only a few Turkish reporters were among the small group that waited at the airdrome from Wednesday midnight to Thursday afternocn. But all the Istanbul daily papers this morning de- voted full first pages to the exploit. No event hes been given so much space since Mustapha Kemal's first ar- rival in Istanbul four years ago. Flight Called Miracle. “Our hearts vibrate before this superb victory of science and human #ill power, and with all our minds and hearts we Dally Djumouriet. ‘The paper cited Bcardman's reply to a question about why, they chose Istan- bul as their goal. Boardman said: “We heard Turkey had accomplished miracles | and we wantsd to see them with our own eyes.” The Turkish commentator remarked: “And you brcught a miracle Among the Turkish people the ques- tion is asked: “Americans have flown from New York to Istanbul; when will Turks fly from Istanbul to New Ycrk?” The Daily Milliett said: “The mag- nificent achievement of Boardman and Polando opens new horizons to the Turkish mind. When we think of America we no Icnger need think in terms of weeks. Our youth, looking toward America, can life their eyes to the sky and see a greet yellow plane and two American flyers who brought America and Turkey within less than 50 hcurs’ distance.” MAY FLY BACK HOME. Boston Newspaper Reports Plans for Return Hop Over Atlantic. BOSTON, July 31 (#)—The Boston Globe says it learned last night from a reliable source that Russell Boardman and John Polando plinned to make a retusn flight across the Atlantic, and thus become the first fliyers to make & round trip Atlantic crossing. The Globe says the Boston flyers plan to stay three days in Turkey, then fly to Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. At London they will begin preparations for the return flight. Meanwhile Bcston organtzations were planning to try and persuade Boardman and Polando to make Boston their first ZWD on the homeward flight from Lon- jon. FRENCH PRINCIPLE UPSET. _PARIS, July 31 (#)—'"Congratula- tions to Boardman and Polando and to the United States,” said Joseph Lebrix, Icng-distance 'airman, today when he learned that the American fiyers, on the strength of unofficial fig- ures, had taken the distance record away from France. “My best congratulations,” he re- peated. “But I hope to win the record back for France. Anyhow, I shall make another attempt in the very near future.” Lebrix returhed to Paris yesterday from Moscow, preparatory to another non-stop Paris-to-Tokio attempt. He recently failed to make it, being forced down in Siberia. Upsets Power Principle. Some aviation experts made no ef- fort today t> conceal their astonish- ment over the Boardman-Polando ex- ploit, saying it might upset their | French prmclrk of constructing long- distance airplanes, which have been tending to be higher and higher in power. % Until now there never was any doubt that Francs had superior equipment for | long-distance flights and none of the experts guessed that the Coste-Bellonte record would be broken by a little ship of only 300 horsepower. Lebrix, however, was not surprised at the performance of the little plane. “I knew the Cape Cod was capable of this exploit,” he said, “but it is none the less a remarkable achievement for a comparatively low-powered plane.” ‘The distance covered is accepted by the Daily Auto as 145 kilometers (about 90 miles) greater than the Coste-Bel- lonte record, or 45 kilometers more than was necessary to break the record. It was belleved the record would be ac- cepted by the International Aronautic Fderation if regulations have been com- UTI.ER-FLYNN B P-A-LN-T-S 607-609 C St. Paintsyour .‘85 Porch” with === Granite Floor Enamel. Dries Hard in 4 Hours. Waterproof. ) ‘Telephone MEtro. 0151 JULY 31, 1931. Proud of Flyef’s Record BOARDMAN FAMILY HAPPY AT NEWS. ANE, 2-year-old daughter of Russell Boardman, and (right) Mrs. Ruth Boardman, the flyer's wife, photographed at their Mattapoisett, Mass., Summer home shortly after they had been informed that Boardman had landed safely in Turkey, establishing a new long-distance flight record. —A. P. Photo. Starving Boy Eats |MOFFETT SAYS HOP Too Much, Faints | SHOULD BE WARNING From Indigestion| e e | Declares Flight to Istanbul Shows America Could Be Attacked From Europe. Collapses From Hunger | Twice, Then Food Over-l comes Him at Hospital. | A waming that tae Boardman-Polan- |do flight to Istanbul, Turkey, shows Rebert Postell, 16-year-old hitch- | that America could be attacked by air- hiker from New Orleans, collapsed three | planes from Europe was sounded in a times here early this afternoon, the first | Statement issued last night by Rear Ad- two times from hunger and the third |miral William A. Moffett, chief of the time because he'd eaten too much. | Aeronautics Bureau. ' Postell, weak and wasted from the| “We should be especially proud of our last long jump of his hitch-hike trip | commercial and civil aviation,” Admiral from Greensborc, N. C., to the Capital, | Moffett said, “since we have regained on 8 few meager morsels of food, first | the long-distance non-stop record, flown collapsed on Fourteenth street, between | bY American pilots in an American de- G and H streets, and was picked up and |$igfed bullt and powered plane. taken to the first precinct by Policeman |, United States naval aviation salutes Hendrick Boese, where he was given | Log, PUOs who brought new i, e o e e Pilen | achievements to American aviation. While waiting to be taken to Gallinger | o Totanme meenires 1o oy ot Hospltal for further treatment, yOung |in “aviation since Lindberghs pioneer P“M' - V"‘m"‘bl}"- | fiight to Paris. Its significance is that allinger the boy was found to be | airplanes can now fly from Europe to suffering acutely, still, from hunger 2nd | America and carry an effective War of liquid focds were set before him. He |mail load.” was cautioned to go easy on the foed at first, but he wolfed everything that was | —a busy day set before him and the shock on his system was too great. The wasted body cf the boy, under- nourished throughout the six weeks it took him to make the trip here from | New Orleans, was unable to stand the | food and he collapsed a third time, this | time because of indigestion. 1 Robert spent the night in the Alexan- | dria Hospital after fainting and being picked up in the Potomac Yards. He| was given some food there last night, and they were preparing to feed him | there again this morning, but the boy | was anxious to hurry on toward New | York and left before breakfast. | The last time he had eaten before | that was in Greensboro, where two young boys obtained food in their home and brought it to him on the highway. Robert's parents, he related toda: were killed in an automobile wreck in St. Louis when he was 12 years old. | Since then he had been making his ilving singing over a radio at New Or- leans until the radio station went out | of business. He was known to the radio audiences as “Whistling Dan.” Out of a job and with two brothers | in the Navy, three sisters out West, Robert decided to journey to New York to_see his brother, Eugene, and to try to_get another job. “1 left New Orleans about six weeks ago” he said. “I only had 75 cents with me when I started.” He safd he got work with a show at.| Spartansburg, 8. C., watering an ele- | phant. When the show left he contin- ued on his way. When picked up he was dressed in a shirt, a pair of khaki trousers, a | pair of old shoes and no socks. * Just 66 HANKOW IN DANGER Martial Law Declared in Chinese | City as Flood Threatens. ‘The State Department was informed | yesterday thai martial law had been ordered in the flood-threatened City of Hankow because of the large number of refugees from the surrounding stricken territory. Consul General Walter A. Adams ear- lier in the day had reported the city was threatened by an almost record- breaking flood level on the Yangtze River. The water was flooding an area of 30 square miles, including many Chinese villages, the report said. Open to 2:30 Saturdays $148.5 . Formerly $25 and $27.50 52 and $2.50 PAJAMAS -51 29 3 FOR $3.75 Last‘Dny of Ma New h Per square foot. . 30 Also Plaster Board and Celotex Insulating Board $1.25 Value UNION SUITS 75¢ and $1 SHIRTS & SHORTS 49¢ 2 for 95¢ 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-IS™& H Sts. N.E. DOWNTOWN-62&C Sts. S.W. BRIGHTWOOD-5925Ga Ave.N.W. A Special Close- out Group of Suits for SATURDAY ONLY Tropical Worsted Suits ‘® A5 WICKERSHAM SEES U 5. PRISONS' SIDE Note Tells Bates He Regrets Commission Lacked Fa- vorable Comment. Regret that the last report of the Law Enforcement Commission had not spok= en more favorably of the Government's | improved penal machincry was ex- pressed yesterday by Chairman Wicker- in a note to Sanford Bates, Fed. eral prison superintendent. Making no differentiation b:tween Federal and State institutions, the com- mission’s report lashed out at the “pres- ent prison system” as antiquated, inefi- clent, as failing either to reform the criminal or protect society and as con- tributing to crime through brutal treat= ment of prison inmates. Bates’ answer, given to newspaper men, was that his bureau during the past year had put into eff:ct neariy every one of the commission’s 22 recom- mendations. Reports to Mitchell. It was learned also that the Federal prison superintend:nt had written a report to Attorney General Mitchs=ll in which he listed each of the commis- sion's suggestions agd beneath it re- pol the task either done or under way 50 far as the Government was con= cerned. In its scathing denunciation of the rison system, the commission made i‘tle mention of Federal institutions, and virtually every one of the examples it cites as bad was a State or local in- stitution. In his note yesterday Mr. Wicker- sham pointed out that in a report by 24 experts, appended to the commis- sion’s study, there was a resume of ef« forts to improve the Federal prison sys- tem. Bates was one of the 24 who wrote this report. “I wish,” Wickersham wrote, “that more reference had been made to this | history in the report of the commission itself, because I think the legislation is epoch-making and the changes in the whole system of penal management and control and the custody and training !of offenders is really revolutionized by the legislation which you have pro- ::tded and the changes which you have Comment of Mitchell. When asked his opinion of the Wick- ersham report, Attorney General Mitch- ell said he thought Bates’ work had | not been sufficiently discussed. Along with his letter Mr. Wickersham sent to Bates a copy of the report. The note was mailed from New York, where the 7Q-year-old commission chairman has resumed his private law practice after more than two years of work with the commission here. He plans to return to the Capital shortly to present to President Hoover a fifteenth report of the commission, de- teiling its expenditure of the $500,000 appropriated by Congress. With the submission of this report the commis- sion’s work will be done. | Amy Johnson ienvel ;)msk. SHANGHAL, July 31 (/).—Amy John- | son, British woman flier, en route from | England to Tokyo, took off today from Omsk. She telegraphed here that she pected to reach Krasnofarsk tonight. iasses Fitted Graduate McCormick Medical Eyes Examined Collese DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES | | Eyesight Specialist | Phone National 0721 | 409-410 McLachlen Bldr., | 10th and G Sts. N.W. ayv at Sol Herzog’s We're open all day Sat- urday to serve hundreds of men who only find it convenient to shop when & Going Away? Take advantage of these speciais and you'll save enough to stretch your va- cation a day or two. 52 and $2.50 STIFF STRAWS .51.15 Regulor 33 awd $3.50 SHIRTS $1.85 3 for $5.50 All the mew patterns. 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