Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1931, Page 5

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, EXPLORER CITES NAUTILUS PERILS , Commander of 1901 Polar Trip Discusses Submarine Sea Hazards. Eviyn Briggs Baldwin, commander of e famous Baldwin-Zicglcr Polar Expe- | dition of 1901-2, and veteran Arctic ex- plorer, who is now in the historical sec- | tion of the Navy Department, thinks that unless the submarine of the Wil- kins Expedition has been properly con- structed to withstand the ice, “Jules Verne's dream may turn out to be a nightmare.” Mr. Baldwin made it plain that he has not had opportunity to sce the; Nautilus, the undersca craft of Wilkins, and to examine her, to deter- mine if proper steps have been taken to protect her from the ice pack. If certain vital parts of the vesse forced properly, the veteran explorer of the Arc.ic wastes belleves that the trip under the ice is feasible. A submarine should really be speclally constructed Derrick Washed Into Sewer | el have been rein- ( for this work, he says, but he thinks Sir | Hubert Wilkins has a fighting chance | to get through on his mission. e trip is entirely feasible, he con- | tends, with a submarine that has been properly prepared to travel under the ice, but as mos! ploration work has With surface ships, Mr. clined to lean toward thaf craft. been accomplished Baldwin i3 in- t type of Science Study Valuable. Wilkins' chlef accomplishment, if he achieves his desire of going over the North Pole in a_submarine, would be oceanographic collections, with certain meteorological observations, but mnot much, considered from a geographic viewpoint, in Mr. opinion Sir Hubert will ‘not y encounter jcebergs, some five-sixths of which are below the surface of the sea, says the Washingtonian, who made a study of ice conditions in the Arctiz more than & quarter of a century ago. The A tralian explorer is operating far North of the region of icebergs, which must not be confused with the pack ice, Mr. Baldwin explains. Wilkins will not only be bucking the fce drift, but will have a very strong ocean current against him, in Mr Baldwin's opinion. Many years ago Mr. Baldwin took issue with the s(‘lcn-l tists, who claimed that Greenland ex tended all across the North polar region and that Wrangel Island was its tip. nearest Alaska. In the face of the fact that noted geographers and the Coast and Geodetic Survey, which pub- lished a cotidal map on the subject. contended that there was land around the North Pole, Mr. Baldwin says that he held to the belief that there was a clear area of unobstructed drift ice from Bering Strait to near Spitzbergen He says he laughed at the idea that there was polar land holding back the drift of ice. ‘The absence of land near the Pole has been proven, Mr. Baldwin asserts, by the Ellsworth-Amundsen expedition in the Norge, which flow from Spitz- bergen to Alaska, without sighting any territory and by Sir Hubert Wilkins himself, who flow over the area from Alaska to Spitzbergen in an airplane. Doubts Pole Nearness. 1f, as Vilhjalmur Stefan:son is quoted as saying. the Nautilus has gone 100 miles farther North than any other polar ship, she must have reached at least bet 87 degrees, 30 minutes and 88 degrees, north latitude, for the Fram of the Norweigan expedition reached latitude 86 degrees in October, 1895. The new record for the Nautilus would place that craft very near the pole and seems quite unlikely. he Mr. Baldwin recalled that the Amer- ican naval officer De Long in_the Jeanette, backed by James Gordon Ben- | nett, drifted for a couple of vears in the ice pack, bearing out the theory that there is a fleld of unobstructed drift from the region near Alaska to the vicinity of Spitzbergen. The Wash- ington explorer was two days too late to join the ill-fated Andree expedit which proposed to explore the pole in a balloon Later, th a German scientist, he chartered a small steamer and examined the pack ice, north of Danes’ Isl . on the northwest coast of Spitzbergen, about latitude 80 de- grees. In this section Wilkins is sun- posed to be operating at present. He might possibly be somewhat farther ‘west and south. This, says Mr. Baldwin, would place him at the point where the Fram, under Capt. Otto Sverdrup, emerged from her three-year drift in the pack ice, 1893-6. Nansen, the organizer of the Fram expedition, sought to pick up the drift where the Jeanette had left off and demonstrate the general current of ice toward Spitzbergen. across the pole. In that area, near Spitzbergen, the polar ice begins to disintegrate. BANK DEf;AULTER HELD. Man Detained at Vera Cruz at U. 8. Consul's Request. MEXICO CITY, September 5 (#).— ‘The newspaper Dictamen of Vera Cruz tonight reported that a man giving the name of William Cole was detained at Vera Cruz on August 29 request of the American consul. The newspaper said the man was believed to be a de- faulting employe of the First National Bank of Portland, Oreg. | Cole was detained soon after disem-' barking from the Steamer Morro Castle, from New York and Havana. He said he was en route to Puerto, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz. { “Profesé(;i"s” Offer Makes Flyer Faint, But It’s All Stunt Comdr. R. L. R. Atcherley Performs Antics at Cleveland Races. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 5.—A man in a high cilk hat, long black flowing mustache, who said he was Prof. Charles Beresford-Smythe of Ox- ford University, took up a biplane at the national air races tonight, amazed the crowd and caused one aviator to faint. Before he went up he asked Casey Jones of New York, veteran fiyer, to g0 up with him as a pascenger. Jones promised he would, but when Prof. Beresford-Smythe said he had mnever flown an airplane or been near one, but that he had worked out a theory of flight and wanted to try it, Jones faint- ed and was carried off the field. Hanging his umbrella on a wing of the plane, the professor started up. His plane bounced along the ground, one after another scraping the sod. It appeared for a time that the plane would crash. Tha wind blew it about the field. Then it came down ‘bouncing. It _was discovered that the man in the high silk hat, with frock coat and umbrella, was Flight Comdr. R. L. R. . Atcherley of the British Royal Air Force. It also was discovered that Jones hadn't fainted—was merely purt of the act. Comdr. Atcherley, the second fastest h‘uml;x in LI}(c vét(}f]d'bfi one of the for- eign fivers stunting before the air race krowds, 2 ) t of his own polar ex- | CARRIED FOR MILES BY RUSHING WATERS. ! WEPT in to the River des Peres sewer in St. Louis, Mo, this huge derrick, weighing 20 tons and as large as a trolley car, was carried four miles through the sewer by the raging waters which followed a heavy rain storm. The derrick came to & halt 75 feet from the mouth of the sewer after hitting an obstruction. NEW RIFLE HONORS WONBY D.C. GUARD | | {Team Second Among 30 Na-| tional Entries in Scoring 1,748 of Possible 1,800. | | Special Dispatch to The Star. | CAMF PERRY, Ohio, September 5.— i Sheoting 1,748 points out of a possible 1,800, the rict of Columbia Na- tional Guard rifle team this afternoon finished ond among 30 National | Guard entries and fourth over the field ’Uf 78 teams in the Herrick Tror | match. Leaving the 800 and 900 { stages 30 points down, the local | tied the Marines and outshot | other aggregation at 1,000 vards. The individual scores of the Guards- men are s follows: First Lieut. Walter R. Stoke: cal Detachment, out of 225; Sergt. Theodore L. Harrell, | Ordnance Detachment, State aff, 221 | Firct Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, | quarters, 121st Engineers, 220. | Henry M. Boudinot, Company E, 121st | Engineers, 219; Capt. Just C. Jensen, | Ordnance Detachment, _State staff, | 219; Staffl Sergt. Alex J ‘Thill, | nance Detachment, 219; Stafl ' Sergt. Harry B. Parsons, Company E. 12Ist ; Second Lieut. Edward , Company A, same regiment, “-‘(‘8, and Second Lieut. William R. Lane, Company E. George F. Kern, | Ordnance Detachment, alternates. Honors of Washingtonians. The official National Rifle Assoclation { bulletin shows that two bronze medals | and four prizes were taken by Wash- | ingtonians in the following small-bore | events: American Legion, small-bore | match, 29 entries, won by John H. | Rackie, Philadelphia, 198 out of 200. | Fifth-place medal and prize going to | Marine Gunner Ollie M. Schriver, 1414 | V street, U. S. M. C., retired. Camp Perry individual event, 107 | competitors, Othel E. Crockett, Logans- Ind. gold medal winner, with nd Lieut. W. R. Stokes, fifteenth 95. National Small-bore. Championship, 1 66 entrics, wor by Frederick O. Kuhn. | Remington Rifle and Gun Clib, Stra | ford, Conn., 1,086 out of 1,100; fourth, { bronze medal and prize to Lieut . and el . J. C. Jensen, 1,069. In the East and West small-bore team competition, the former captained by Lieut. Stol ere defeated, 2,265 to_2,235. every Medi- | Engineers, | D. Andru: Scott 300-yard rapid fire and the Coas Guard 200 and 30 yard rapid fire competitions, T that 24 awards were captured by the following shooters from Washington and vicinity: Scott match, 1,187 participants, won by Chief Machinists Mate Irvin Frye, United States Coast Guard, 49 out of 50. National Guard division, 470 compet tors—Sergt. H. M. Boudinot, seventh | place (7 ), 48; Li>ut. Stokes, Lieut. E. D. Andrus, Sergt. T. L. Harrell, Pvt. | G. F. Kern and Sergt. Prescott | Blunt, 714 Nincteenth street, Virginia National Guard, thirty-fourth' (39 ties), 46, and Sergt. Gilbert L. Johnson, Com- | E. 121st Enginecrs, seventy-sixth | pany (43 ties), 45. Regular Service Group. Regular service group, 219 entries— Corpl. Fred E. McDowell, 13th En- gincers, Fort Humphries, sixth place (14 tles), 48, and Sergt. Jos. H. White- head, Lieut. Robert G. Lovett and Capt. Albert C. Lieber, jr., also from the 13th Engineers, twentieth place (15 ties), 47. Civilfan class, 471 entries—Henry H. Pike, 1823 Nincteenth street, former Western High School gallery rifle star, eighteenth (22 ties), 46, and Charles A. Sovino, 1728 Eighteenth street, captain of the Columbus University indoor team, and Robert H. Hartshorn, 903 Webster street, sixty - seventh (2! ties), 44. Coast Guard Trophy match. 1580 competitors—Won by Corpl. R. R. Wil- son, United States Infantry team, 99 out of 100. Civilian division, 712 participants— . H. Hartshorn, forty-third (eight ties). 92, and George E. Cook, jr. 1719 Eighteenth street, National Capital Rifle Club, seventy-third (seven ties), 91. Regular Service group, 249 entrarn Gunnery Sergt. Morris Fisher, 1415 U. S. Marina Corps, National Guard class, Licut. W. R. Lane, tles), 94; Lieut. ; (11 tics), 92; Corp. Wm. F. Thomas, 2209 Thirty-fifth place, First Marylend Infantry, and Sergt. Frank M. Rich- ard, Company F, same regiment, Hy- attsville, eighty-fifth (nine ties), 91; Put. Stanley W. Dinwiddie, 2116 O street, and Sergt. P. J. Blount, Vir- ginia Militiamen, and Scrgt. A. J. Thill, Herrick team shooter, ninety-sixth (10 ties), 91. MARINES WIN HERRICK MATCH. 594 entries. ourth (six Fourth Straight Victory Won At Camp Perry, Ohio. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September § (#).—Eight expert rifiemen of the United States Marines from Quantico, Va.. today excelled 77 military and civilian teams to win the Herrick trophy match of the National rifle matches here. It wje e _JoNRD 121st Engineers, 224 | Ord- | venth prize to Posting of the final results in_the| | straight annual victory for the Ma rines | Firing 15 shots per man, five each at 600, 800 and 1,000 yards, the Marines | piled up a total of 1,766 cut of possible 12,000 points. The United States Cav- | alry team placed second with 1,752 | The Washington State National Guard | was ranged third, although it, too, had 1,752. with the Fidac match, in which an American team of 10 ex-service men of [ the World War fired rounds that will be ompared with scores of like teams firing on _their home ranges in Great Britain, Poland, Belgium, France, Italy, Crecho- Slovakia, Portugal ‘and Jugoslavia These nations are members of the Fed- eration des Anciens Combattants Scores of all the teams will, be an- nounced in Paris after all other teams have fired Shooting me! Tox mbers of the American Thurman Randle, Fort ; Ray Lauden, Butler, Ind.; v, Piqua, Ohlo; V. Z. Can- A. J. Hart, Cleve- ville, Ky.: Ollie ) er, Washington; Jack Woolsh- lager, Castorland, N Willlam F. Stewart, Whipple, Ariz, and Robert Danbury, Lebanon, Ohi Scoring 162 out of possible 200, Vin- cent Miller. Denver civilian, won the automatic rifle match by 2 points over Capt. Walter J. Hanni, National Guard, Birmingham, Ala.; Sergt. James Ellis, United States Infantry, Fort Ben- | ning, Ga., was taird with 159. M. he Herrick match shared interest | Eight shooters from the West out- | guessed a trick west wind to better ad- vantage and took the annual East-West team match by a score of 2.265 to 2.235 out of possible 2.400. Each man fired 30 shots from 200 yards. The Western team was captained by Chief Henry E Keotah of Oklahoma City, and com- prised shocters from west of the Mis- sissippi River. tern team was captained by Walter R. Stokes of Wash- ington, Lieut. Edson Klinkle of Toiedo | was coach. The Western team has won the marksman trophy four out of the as been in competition. scores_of winning team ere: Thurman Randle Fort Worth, Te: 280; V. F. Hamer, Primghar, Iowa, 287; H. J. Adams, jr La Mesa, Calif., 286: Dr. E. O. Swan- son, Minneapolis, 286; Thomas Imler, Phoenix, Ariz., 283; Jesse Berber, Dr1 m- | right, Okla.; Gene Farren, Houston, | Tex., 279, and Jesse L. Raven, Austin, Tex. 78. J. J. Engbrecht, Los Angeles police- man, W the automatic pistol and revolver slow-fire match from 115 com petitors with 184 out cf possible 200. Harry J. Russ, Delaware & Hudson | | Railrozd policeman, outranked William | T. Desmond, Boston policeman, for the | second, though both had 183. The St. Louis police pistsl team de- feated 24 groups to capture the Na- tional Rifle Association pistol team match with a score of 1.327 out of pos- |sible 1500. Los Angeles police were second with 1318; New York City third with 1314; New Jersey State police fourth, with 1,302, and Detroit police | fifth, 1,294, The Washington State | Guard Riflers won the Infantry match, a_ combat problem in which actual | ive advance tactics are employed, ith a score of 920 points. The Nebraska civilian team was second with 916 and the Nebraska National Guard , team third, with 912. | 'NEW RECORD SEEN | IN THOMPSON RACE; DOOLITTLE FAVORITE | National | covered himself with glory Priday by winning the Bendix trophy and smash- | ing_the transcontinental speed record of Capt. Hawks by more than one hour, and Lowell Bayles, who smashed, un- }omcmlly, the 1l-year-old American | speed record of Lieut. Alford J. Wil- } liams, jr., former Navy racing s 300-Mile Speed Claimed. There are other .entrants, however, ’who refuse to concede anything at all | to Doolittle and Bayles. A top speed {In excess of 300 miles per hour has | been claimed for one of these planes and the others are said to include sev- eral capable of threatening Willilams' | old record. The list of entries is headed by Ben- nie Howard in his tiny white racer, designed and bullt by himself, powered | with only a 90-horsepower ~engine With this tiny plane Howard placed third in the Thompson last year, owing to the forcing out of leaders in the race, among them Capt. Arthur Page | Marines, who was fatally injured in a crash on the seventeenth lap, and Capt. Frank M. Hawks. Howard does not ex- pect to place this year unless some of the admittedly faster ships are forced out, but he expects to stick through to_the. final line. Louis Reichers of New York will fly a special plane entered by Bernard Mc- | Fadden and powered with the most ipowerlul engine entered, a 575-horse- power radial air-cooled motor. Great Crowd Expected. J. R. Weddsll, Patterson, La., will fly a Weddell-Williams racer powered with a 300-horsepower motor. The other entrants are Robert L. Hall, Springfield, Mass., in a Gee-Bee 42-horsepower racer; Harold 8. Johnson, Chicago, in & all-metal monoplane; land, in a duplicate of Jimmy Doo- little's fast little biplane; S. J. Witt- man, Oshkosh, Wis., 2 tiny 90- horsepower monoplane of his own de- sign; Ray Moove, San Francisco, in & 275-horsepower low-wing _racer, and Robert Clampett of San Francisco, in a 95-horsepower reduced version of Moore’s plane. - Wha. | ending it November 30. o e mathenyd, forh i, A. P. Photo, THREE STATES GET LATE DUCK SEASON Revision of Opening Date Set for October 1 Granted to Midwest Hunters. By the Associated Press. Sportsmen who have asked that the hunting season for ducks, geese, brant and coot be changed to a later date in Tilinols, Missouri and Kansas will have their wishes granted An announcement yesterday from the office of the Secretary of Agriculturc <aid the change would be made, but the new dates were not announced pending the return of Secretary Hyde from next Wednesday When President Hoover recently shortened the hunting season on geese, brant and coot to 30 day the opening date in these three States was set for October 1, ending October 31, Midwest Hunters Protest. Sportsmen immediately protested that this did not give them hunting oppo: tunities comparable with those in near by States, where the season opened later. Several delegations have favored opening the seeson on November 1 and Others prefer an opening date later in October. An alarming scarcity of ducks and geese, because of unfavorable breeding conditions in Canada and thé North- west, caused curtailment of the hunting season to 30 days, it having previously been shortened by 15 days. This order came last Spring and attracted little attention at the time. In addition, & ban on shooting cer- tain types of geese was ordered, but these frequent sections along the At- lantic seaboard and in California. Season Cut Approved by U. S. The Agriculture Department sald with few exceptions, ortening the season had met with general approval. “Since announcement of the reduc: tion of shooting seasons to one month as a relief measure to enable ade. quate stock of birds to survive the cmergency,” an Agriculture Department statement said, “a_mass of comment and correspondent has poured into the department. Nearly all these communi- cations have come from the sportsmen themselves, and officials of the depart- ment say these letters indicate a favor- able reaction on the part of the gun- ners, most of whom show & disposition to lend their support to the department | nserving their sport for the fu- The statement added that the adop- tion of the short-season amendment was based on reports of investigations care- fully conducted on the principal breed- ing grounds by experienced observers of | the governments of the United States and Canada. NEW MONUMENT TESTS FOR LIGHTING PLANNED Trials of Electrical Equipment Will Be Held Second Time, Prob- ably This Week. Another opportunity to test the il- lumination equipment it is endeavoring to sell the Government for lighting up the Wasbington Monument will be given the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- facturing Company probably this week. Final determination of the bif#, recent- ly opened, is being held up, pending the outcome of the series of experi- ments the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is carrying forward. J. F. Gill, chief of the buildings di- vison, s co-operating with the illumi- nating firms, in an effort to work out the best solution of the Washington Monument lighting problem, so that aviators who fly over the National Capi- tal during the hours of darkness may be safe from crashing into the tall shaft, south of the White House. FRENCH GENERAL DIES Lightning Stroke !n}a’l to War Council Member. NICE, France, September § (#)— Gen. Charles Jacquemot, member of the higher war council, who was in- jured by lightying yesterday at Fourche Camp, near St. Etienne de Tinee, died today shortly after he arrived at a hospital at Barcelonnette. Toronto Plans Air Fete. TORONTO, September 5 (#)—Plans have been completed for an air pageant here on Labor day, with Squadron Lead= er R. L. Atcherly of the Royal Flying Corps, Winnifred Spooner, one of it- ain’s leading women pilots, and 50 other fyers expected to participate. an aeronautical event in this country is ex] to be on hand Monday after- noon when the starter signals the winged bullets off. Many spectators will be on hand anticipating trouble, and there is a real chance they may realize their anticipations. In any event. it promises to be a rare aeronautical spec- tacle, with a new record riding in the kpit with the pilot of the S SR Bo ) D G, DOOLITTLE MAKES 2TAMILE SPEED Is Near Land Plane Mark in Test—Bayies Plans Trial Today. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, September 5—Maj Jimmy Doolittle, yesterday's maker of new transcontinental speed record, flashed through the air at 272.934 miles per hour today in a speed trial at the National Afr Races; but Lowell Bayles, Springfleld, Mass,, made plans tonight to go faster tomorrow. Bayles intends his flight to be the race’s first officlally timed assault on the world speed record for land planes, 278.8_miles per hour. He will fly his Gee-Bee monoplane, which took him 286 miles per hour Tuesday with a 20- mile wind behind him. ‘Women Seek Record. 3 Another assault on a speed record tomorrow was planned by some of the women pilots. They were alming at the 210-mile record for American wome: set last Spring by Ruth Nichols at Detrolt. The event in which the women pilots were entered in their quest for a new speed record is the Arol Trophy race, with a purse of $7,500, the feature event of tomorrow’s program. Some ‘of the fastest planes at this year's races will be flown by the women. Mae Haizlip of St. Louls s to fly the San PFranciscan II, one of the mystery ships designed by Keith Ryder of San Francisco. It was bullt to do 240 miles an_hour. Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach, Calif., has qualified her plane at 170 miles an Ihour. Mrs. Joan Faye Shankle of Fort | Sill, Okla., has qualified with a Lock- | heed-Sirius at 166. The plane to be flown by Miss Maude- Irving Tait, soclety girl of Springfield, Mass,, is credited with a speed of more than 200 miles an hour. It is a Ge Bee "Y" low-wing monoplane with a ‘Wasp C motor. Many Lady Birds Entered. Among the other lady birds who are to enter the Arol event are Mrs. Opal Kunz of New York and Florence Klin- gensmith of Minneapolis, holder of the women's inside loop record, Rhoda Da- vis, East Lansing, Mich.; Mrs. Betty Lund, Troy, Ohio; Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, New York, and Mildred Mor- gan, Beverly Hills, Calif. Eleven so-called “high-hat” flyers arrived at Cleveland Airport during to- program from Hicksville, N. Y., after a stop last night in Buffalo. All of this group ware classed as spoTts- men pilots who fly for the fun of it. Allen Eustis, 27, New York bfoker, was announced as the winner of their race and of the Lawrence Trophy. Robert | Buck of Hillside, N. J,, was second. Hall Wins Free-for-All In today's 25-mile closed course free- | for-all race Robert Hall of Springfield, | Mass., took Bayles' plane to win at & speed of 184.35. Ray Moore, San Fran- | cisco, fiying the ! ' San | Franciscan I, was second at 173.527. | Among the notables of aviation who | visited the races today were Wiley Post |and Harold Gatty. They flew here | from Detroft in the Winnie Mae, their | Lockheed moncplane in which they eir- | cled the globe 1n slightly less than nine | days. Tomorrow the crows are to see a dramatic meeting of Maj. Ernst Udet, sensational German war ace, and Com- mon Pleas Judge Wanamaker of Akron, | who was shot down by Udet during the | war. Judge Wanamaker was the first | American Army aviator downed behind | the German lines. Udet followed him | to the ground, gave him first aid and | othetwise proved to be a “friendly | enemy.” | When they meet for the first time | since that battle of the air, Judge Wan- { amaker is to assure the German that | he holds “no hard feelings.” Udet is { the pliot who has been thrilling the air | race crowds with stunts so daring that the Department of Commerce 8s a measure of safety forbids American fi ers to do them. Derby Standing Revised. The Contest Committee announced tonight that after juggling figures for a week, it _had determined that Mae Heislip of Ferguson, Mo., had won sec- ond place instead of ihird in the wom- en’s division of the Santa Monica- Clevelend handicap derby which ended last Sunday. Mrs. Martie Bowman of Burbank, Calif., who had been awarded second, was moved down to third place in the revision. Mrs. Phoebe Omiie of Memphis won the race with 109.19 points. Miss Haiglip scored 99.42, and Mrs, Bowman 98.98. FAILS AT RECORD. Relohers Falls Short of Time Made by Maj. Doolittle. NEWARK, N. J, September 5§ (#).— Louis T. Reichers, Arlington, N. J., flyer, arrived st Newark Airport at 6:45:20 pm. (E. S. T3 tonight. He failed to break the flight record,from Kansas City, 4:52:30 hours, established yester- day by Maj. Jimmy Doolittle. Reichers left Kansas City at 1:40:18 (E. S. T.) and clocked himself to New- ark in 4 hours 59 minutes. The official time as recorded at the airport was 5:05:02 hours. He said he believed he was going to break the record until within a few miles of his destination. Despite a_sprained ankle, suffered yesterday at Beatrice, Nebr., in a forced landing. Reichers was in good spirits and greeted cheerily his wife and the hundred spectators who had awaited his arrival. His ship, the Golden Eagle, a Lock- heed Altair, powered with a Cyclone 640-horsepower motor, performed with- out & hitch, Reichers said. Perfect weather a a slight tail wind made flying conditions almost ideal. Rel- chers said he averaged more than 200 miles an hour. FAMED ALASKAN PILOT COMPLETES “MERCY” HOP { Frank Dorbandt Carries Physician to Veteran Guide Stricken With Appendicitis. By the Associated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, September 5. —Prank Dorbandt, famed Alaskan pilot, was back in Anchorage today, with another Far Northern “mercy” flight to his credit. ‘With Dr. A. Malkowskie, Alaska Rail- road physician, and Slim Crocker, a guide, Dorbandt flew Thursday to Lake Tustumena on the Kenal Peninsula, where Henry Lucas, veteran guide, had been stricken with appendicitis. Lucas was taken by horseback to & lake where, the plane had been moored and then brought to Anchorage by air. An emergency operation was performed here immediately and the guide was given a “fighting chance” for life to- night. Dorbandt returned here last night to find friends were fearful of his safety and had made plans to send out a searching —iil Russians Tour Europe. Three hundred and fifty Russian who distinguished themselves in helping on the five-year plan have been awarded & tour of Europe, and are reported to be greatly enjoying the trip. They include industrial workers, s, tractor drivers and teachers. The party is traveling on the Russian steamer Ukrai- na, and will live on it while visiting S SUBI ! sources with effectiveness and economy. SEPTEMBER 6, 1931—PART ONE. Science “Earthquake Lights” Seen in Sky Over Japan. Earthquake lights—a newly observed and mysterious phenomenon—are re- by the Japanese seismologist, K. o Just Y e has published records ob- tained from 1,500 persons who claim they saw these strange lights in the sky over a large area around the center q at Idu, Japan. ‘They were somewhat similar to light- ning flashes but lasted much longer, some claiming & duration of more than a minute. The lights were quite strong, in one place ‘“brighter than moonlight.” Most who saw them de- scribed them as blue, but some of them were reddish-yellow or reddish- blue. They were described variously as looking “like rays of the rising sun,” as searchlights and as fire balls. They usually were pointed in the direction of the center of the quake and ap- parently were seen simultaneously ;lr.hl that event. (Copyright, 1031.) GREEN ASKS LABOR 10 ASSIST RELIEF Urges Co-operation of Work- ers With Gifford Welfare Mobilization. John Poole, president of the Wash- ington Community Chest, yesterday made public a statement signed by Wil- liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in which he urged the whole-hearted co-operation of labor groups in the Nation-wide welfare and relief mobilization through which it is planned to enable cities to meet their own needs this Winter. The state- ment follows: “In answering the invitation of the President to serve on the National Ad- visory Committee on relief with Mr. Walter S. Gifford, I said that I esteemed it both a privilege and a public duty to serve as requested. I had already offered my support to the welfare and relief mobilization, the movement initi- ated in June by the Association of Community Chests, at the request of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment, to help cities of 25,000 or more to meet their own problems this Fall and Winter by combining local resources, both public and private. Praises Chest's Start. “It seems to me that, in laying plens | for concerted efforts this Fall in 376, cities, the Association of Community | Chests has made a good start on one of the most important elements in the general program which Mr. Gifford and his committee have undertaken. I believe in the principle of local re- sponsibility in emergencies such as the one now confronting us. The local com- munity knows best its own needs and is able to rally and apply its own re- The Chests have demonstrated strik- ingly their capacity for stimulating pri- ate resources. As business conditions have grown worse their aggregate totals | have grown larger. “In the welfare and relief mobili- zation they are showing equal sbility in aiding local public officials in de- termining to what extent local publie funds are needed to supplement money privately raised. Knowing the local situation intimately. both as regards relief needs and those vitally necessary | welfare services which contribute so! much to the enrichment of American 1ife, the Chest group in any community is in a strategic position to indicate how far private funds will go and at what point the burden must be as- sumed by municipal or county treas- uries. “I believe that the President’s Emer- | gency Committee was wise in asking the Association of Community Chests to make its expert services available to cities without chests es well as to/| those having this form of central financing. Without in any way urging the establishment of a Chest where a community is not ready for it. this! assoclation’s experience in stimulating | community forces will be of inestimable help in setting up temporary financing bodies. Labor Showing Excellent. “Labor has made an excellent show- ing Community Chest totals +hroughout the country. Analysis of r¢ turns show that 22 per cent of the grand total is received in subscriptions of less than $25. This classification, of course, is largely made up of gifts from emploved people. Another significant | fact is that, as the number of sub-| scribers from this group has decreased, their grand total in dollars has in- creased, showing that the employed man and woman have been looking out for their less fortunate fellow workers, “I am concerned with certain funds mental changes in the economic and industrial system which I feel would tend to prevent a recurrence of the present deplorable state of affairs. For these changes I shall continue to argue, but the stsrn necessity for relief must be given instani attention. We can- not content ourselves with advocating methods of fire prevention while the fire is raging. Similarly, while giving consideration to permanently corrective measures, we must also do everything in our power to ameliorate present hu- man suffering. “I rejoice that the necessity for a widespread Winter relief program is being recognized early, and I urge labor 300 FLORISTS VISIT D. C. Men En Boute to Convention City See Capital and Mount Vernon. About 300 florists, en route on two special trains to the annual convention of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery As- sociation in Atlantic City, visited Wash- ington yesterday as guests of the Wash- ington unit of the national organization. ‘Their convention opens Tuesday and continues for three days. The visiting florists, many of them from the Pacific Coast and Canada, were taken on a sight-seeing tour be- ginning at Mount Vernon. A dance was held last night at the Hotel Mayflower \g\der ;.{:e sponsorship of the Washing- n unit. FACES MURDER‘CAI:IARGE Father Confq Slaying Youth Attentive to Daughter. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sep- tember 5 (#).—First-degree murder charges were filed in the district court today against R. G. King, confessed slayer of Lewis Palmer, a high school who had been attentive to King's daughter, Glenda. King’s trial will be set when the Sep- tember term of district court opens. Glenda King, who said her father shot Palmer when he found the youth with her in an automobile on a country road, was named in the information as one of 42 prosecution witnesses. Tomorrow Only! The 9th & E FASHION SHOP’S ANNUAL Odds * A5 MILLIKAN FORECASTS NEW EPIC INVENTIONS California Physcist Says Ideas Are Being Revolutionized—Will Sail to Germany. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 5.—Dr. Rob- ert A. Millikan, famous physicist from | California, expressed the belief here | today that a revolution is taking place |in the field of ideas that will have & vast influence on religious and philo- sophical thinking. “It has been going on for 300 years,” he said, “and how long it will continue no one knows. We hardly realize our- selves it is taking place.” He also said he expected that in the next decade or two inventions would appear that would have just as far- sweeping effects as the radio and other ge‘ze opments of the past decade have Dr. Millikan many to fls Monday for Ger- | Tepay the visit Prof. Ein- ! stein paid him last year. | Dr. Milllkan is going sbroad under the first award made by the Oberlander Trust, a section of the Carl Schurs Memorial Foundation of Philadelphia. He will deliver a serles of lectures in | German universities before returnin OPEN MONDAY (Labor Day) 5 Hours Only 8to1P.M. for this rousing CLEAR- AWAY &ENds CLEAN . .. .8 greatest price “cut” in over 15 years! Come! Tomorrow is the day we say “farewell” to all ODDS AND ENDS. Despite the fact that every item listed below is of regular Fashion Shop quality . ze ran are broken, a little soiling here and there or some other little reason has caused them to be classed as Odds Ends . . . many items able for Fall wear. We have only one idea in mind for tomorrow’s sale and that is COMPLETE DISPOSAL regardless of cost. Come share in the WOOL SUITS 8 BUITS—Light grey worsted a models, sizes 2—36. 3—38. Extra Trousers may be h 19 SUITS—Grey. ba ‘mods E 1-38 o & xtra 14 SUITS—Hard-finished w D. models. sizes ey iy v 9 a 345, = L 1 Ex 15 SUITS—Very Yery fine g -B. and D_-B. models. regulars; 138, 3—40 Tones: COAT AND size s 137, 238, 2 — 138 short. Were $55. Now PANTS SUITS nd brown herringhon, 38, 1—4: 1 ad with these suits ai rousers may be had with' these suits ‘st o orsted in blue, &rey and tan shades. S.-B. e tweed. S.-B B and D-B g e 335 and $40. Now. $12.00 £.. $2.95 2 regulars. 4 D-B. models. alo 3 50 Teatiare 13, 1035 1—40 and 1—42 longs. Were — 3 1. 6" stouts: 142 and 144 shorts, with’ these hard-finishcd _worsteds. Some Suitable for Fall Wear ds s ality, Tropieal 0. 342 rerul 525 & 7. Now. 8 SUITS—Imported w linen. 138, 1—42. Were 15, 14 SUITS—Finest guality imported whits 35. 36, 37. 38, 40 | 2 SPORT COAT iled. blue, dou 580 e S 3 SPORT COATS—Blue, single-breasted; 318 Now S—$-piece, includin and 40 regulars; vest: finest and Gabardines, 1—42 regulars 5.8 Now and 42 regulars: 38 sho 37 and 38 longs. ble-brea: tan sizes rer and blue "3 lonks. | Were sizes 437 T Thorts 104 fone. ‘Wer and models. sizes 336, 13 DB models. sizes re 320, "Now imported_white linen. size Were 325 Now ..o linen. §.-B. and rt. We SPORT COATS—SPORT PANTS sted: grey. si -1 T ana ne Now e breasted sizes 38. 40 and 42 Entire Stock *Striped Bport Trousers Divided Into Tw GROUP GROUP 12 PRS. 15 PRS. PANTS—White duck, EDO SUIT! NO. 1—Were $6.00, $7.00 and 18 s 35, 36. 37. 38 7 TUXEDO SUITS—Size: W 135, ere 330 and 3 TUXEDO SUITS—Very fine quslity, sizes 37. 38 and 42 reeuls 365 Now " < & . 8 TOPCOATS—-Tan and grey tweed, size: Were $25. Now ...... 1 TOPCOAT—Part camel's hair. tan shade. stghtly soiled. size 40 regul Was $35. Now ...... 2 : 5 OVERCOATS—Tan_and brown shade 1—37. 138, 1 OVERCOAT—Vers 'fine qualits, tan. size 37. Was $60. Now brown. sizes 1. 50 and $55. Now .. KNICKERS—Imported linen, broken sires broken sizes 1—39 reculars. blue 35, 00. Now 0. 2—Consisting of the finest quality and ST2°and $15. | NOW it Were 3395 Now..... Were 1250, Now....... S—BROKEN LOTS and 40 re lars: 36 and 4% shorts. Now = 1.0 and 144 regular, 1—42 long 812,00 6. $14.00 shoulders. : s27.00 fabrics. Were, s 14 "B, models. sizes 134 Were $35. Now tweed, D.-B. s ) fin; an, ished d 242 .00 | FURNISHINGS l groups everywhere to co-operate whole- heartedly in the welfare and relief mobllization, as well as in other meas- ures which may be undertaken by Mr. Gifford and his committee.” JAILED AS AUTO THIEF Philadelphia Man Years for Attempting Theft. Arrested and charged with attempting to steal an automobile when police saw him, with another, pushing the car in Potomac Park yesterday, John J. Mc- Gettigan of Philadelphia, was sentenced to two years in jail by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court yesterday. Policeman Carl Hestikind, park police, became suspicious, he told Judfe Ma tingly when he noticed immaculate and new New Jersey tags on the car which the men were pushing. He investigated and discovered the District “tags” had been replaced and the car had been re- ported stolen by Milton Trimble, 400 block South Carolina avenue southeast. McGettigan submitted to arrest, but the other man fled, Hestikind said. o Qo lealrodoeadodoadrotodieasds ialising in < Perf ect DIAMONDS Given Two hop at the you're always wmuo—mm no obliga y. Charge Accounts Invited M. Wurtzburger Co. 901 G St. N.W. store— with & tion to 41 TIES_Four-in-hands and bow: $1.00 and $1.50. Now 2 BATHING SUITS—AIl wool. si 83 TIES—Window solled, Were §1.00, §1 47 SHIRTS—Collar ¢ UNDERWEAR SETS—Sheris SPORT SHIRTS—Knit wea $1:00 and Now weave. and $1.50. € UNION SUITS—Finest quality rayon. $3.00. Now A 18 BATHING SUITS—One, plece. o $ McGREGOR SCOTCH SWEATERS—All ttached, window sofled, some perfect. d 5295, Now s o all wool. perfect. rfect, discontinued patterns. Were 50 and $2.00. Now. ndo g1 08 perfect. sizes newest styles. 2 Giee 1. wool. slightly 40. 42 and Were up to b 2 SHIRTS—Discontinued patterns. Were $198. $2.45 and $2.95. Now 53 PRS. HOSE—Discontinued styles, perfect. 9 SWEATERS—AIL wool. Were up’ to $7 UNION SUITS—Perfect. window solled, 35.00. Now 28 RAYON POLO SHIRTS—Discontinued £ ROBES—Double-breasted model, ail medium and 1 large. Were 5 SILK-LINED ROBES—Very fine quall medium. Were # ROBES—Black and white d. Were §10. Now . o0l Were up to 75c ea. Now.. some sleeveless. some with sieeves. Were T5. Now. 3 for $1.00 or, each 7 MeGREGOR SCOTCH SWEATER SETS—Finest all-wool hose to matcl quality with _golf nepertect. " Were up to $10. Now.... styles. Were §1.95. Now ses medium and 3 IAr flannel, 0. Now ty brocaded. 1680, " Now fine qualif MANY OTHER ITEMS TREMENDOUSLY REDUCED IN ALL DEPARTMENTS NO ALTERATIONS, NO CHARGES, NO EXCHANGES, NO €. 0. D's. ALL SALES FINAL—NO PHONE ORDERS. o THE f’ 501 9th Street N.W.