Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1933, Page 2

PRICE RAISE FIGHT ATLONDON WEIGHED U. S. Delegates Undecided on Practicability of Final Effort at Parley. By the Associated Pres LONDON, July 15.—The American delegation was considering today a final effort to forward President Roosevelt's plan of world-wide price raising as the World Economic Conference recessed for the week end. The tentative draft of a resolution outlining monetary and commercial policies to achieve this end was under discussion by some of the American ex- perts and delegates. The delegation had not yet decided, however, whether it would be any use to introduce such a measure in the final fortnight of the parley, whose lead- ers agreed yesterday upon cessation of deliberations on July 27. Seek te Avoid Dispute. The American delegates were desirous of avoidtug any steps which might re- | yive the controversy with the gold bloc, which has taken exception to American cy as regards dollar stabilization. PO Amenican thesis is that 2 higher rice level will permit eventual mone- \Dlrs'e stabilization which is so ardently desired by the gold countries. 1n some quarters there was hope, therefore, that the price-raising resolution might be so phrased as to bring the gold group and the non-gold countries closer together. James P. Warburg, one of the chief financial advisers lor the delegation, left for New York today to make a complete report to President Roosevelt, which he will be able to do a few days before the final session of the as- e. "m Minister MacDonald of Great Britain. chairman of the conference, is one of those who still refuse to ad- mit failure of the efforts here. His in- fluence was seen in the only meeting held here today, that of wheat experts who are trying to agree upon the Amer- ican proposal for raising wheat prices through restriction of production. Wheat Delegations at Work. Several negotiztors had planned week end outings, but Mr. MacDonald, the Americans and some others insisted that no time should be lost, and at Jeast one expert had to be summarily recalled from his proposed day's rest. The wheat delegations are now work- ing on & more or less non-stop sched- ule until some sort of a decision will be hammered out. When other com- mittees resume their labors Monday it is understood that they will get similar instructions to keep working steadily. N The Brazilian delegation submitted to the Economic Subcommission on Co- ordination of Production and Marketing the draft of an international conven- tion to restrict production of coffee. The draft provides for restrictions on new coffee plantations or renewals of existing plantations and for increasing the demand among consuming states. PRESIDENT CALLED OFF MOLEY’S FLIGHT TO LONDON PARLEY (Continued From First Page) paid either by Mr. Moley or by his ad- viser, Herbert Bayard Swope. The Assistant Secretary of State is willing, however, to take the rap on any amounts which may be described by the controller general as not properly expended. It was stated yesterday that the total amount cannot exceed $1,000. Of coursg Prof. Moley is not a rich man. When he accepted the re- sponsible position of Assistant Secretary of State he was compelled to syndicate his weekly writings. This is not the first time that a State Department official had to spend money cut of his own pocket in order to pre- serve the reputation abroad that Amer- jeans are good spenders. Secretary Stimson had rented during the London Naval Conference the country mansion of Stanmore for which he paid about $1.000 a week during the three and a half months that conference lasted. Of course, this amount was never entered into the ordinary expenses of the Amer- ican delegation and was paid by the former Secretary of State personally. STAR ACCEPTS APOLOGY OF MAGAZINE WRITER Jeanette MacDonald Drops $8.000] Suit When Frenchman Says He Was Attempting to Be Funny. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 15.—Jeanette MacDon- ald, film actress, accepted an apolcgy | today in place of the $8.000 damages she sought from Andre Ranson, a French mdgazine writer, on a charge of defamation of character. ‘The suit resulted from the account of an imaginary interview with Miss MacDonald appearing in a weekly mag- azine, Fantasio Ranson pleaded that he merely was trying to be funny. and the judge sug- gested she accept his apology. The blond actress is popular in France partly because of her acting and singing with Maurice Chevalier. STRONG BREEZE CHEERS GLIDER CONTEST ENTRIES Pilots Get Ready for Trys at Rec- ord After Five Days of En- forced Inactivity. By the Associated Press ELMIRA, N. Y., July 15.—Jubilant over a strong breez> that ended five days of enforced inactivity, pilots entered in the national soaring contests prepared their motorless craft today for trys against American and international records. Although the breeze came strongly from the South, making it useless for take-offs from the headquarters at hill 6. the Weather Bureau at the base reported a shift to the West was ex- pected by noon. Meanwhileseveral sail planes, equipped with parachutes and instruments, were hauled to Hawley Hill, where the rapidly approaching storm gave excellent pros- Secr.s of “fronting.” as the pilots term ving before a storm. SEE-SAW FIGHTING SEEN FROM CHACO BULLETINS Bolivia Claims Repulse of Foe on Various Fronts, and Paraguay Pursuit of Bolivians. By the Associated Press. LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 15—An of- ficial communique on the Paraguayan- Bolivian warfare in the Chaco said “in the Arce sector the enemy attacked on various fronts, but was easily repulsed” and “attempts to surround our forces ‘were frustrated.” ASUNCION, Paraguay, July 15 (#).— ‘The minister of war in a statement to- day sald PdraguaVhh forces continued to pursue ‘Boltvian ‘troops at Fort Gon- dra in the Gran'Chaco dorder area.- ' : What’'s What Behind News in Capital. | l Postmasterships May Fall Permanently to Democrats. BY PAUL MALLON. HIS move to put all postmasters under the Civil Service has more behind it tham meets the naked eye. Such a step was badly needed at this time to kill off a whispered story going around the country that the Democrats at last were ready to throw the Republicans out of the post offices with a vengeance—that the spoils sys- tem was to be restored. It did not take Postmaster General Farley long to hear about it. Hot denials were issued by Mr. Farley. The whispered story, how- ever, was mowhere publicly printed, 50 no one except the insiders knew what the Postmaster-General was shooting at and his denials did not attract much attention. Something else was necesasry. The new postmaster movement filled the bill better than you would ever suspect. It may be true that it takes polities out of the post office as much as it can be pending an administration by angeis. But there is more to it than that. What it will do first is to take Republicans out of the post office and put Civil Service Democrats in. See Permanent Appointments. Also it will put the Democrats in permanently. The next Republican ad- ministration, if there is ever one, must them out. At least that is the interpretation being put on it by cheering Congress- men and -hunters. ‘The prm’,‘fll way it will work is described by a competent Democratic congressional authority privately as fellows: All first, second and third class Postmasters in office now must take Civil Service Ezaminations. They are all Republicans. Democratic candidates for the jobs also will take Eraminations. They will be graded 50 per cent om business ability. Democrats will do the grading. The three with the highest marks will be considered final candidates. Their names will be submitted to the | Democratic_ Representative. ~He will make the final choice. A Republican might squeeze throuf h under that system. If he did it would be an oversight. The Democrats are actually not be- | ing much more ruthless now than suc- cessful parties usually are. Go Further Than G. O. P. The thing that makes it seem worse ! this time is that they are going further down the line than the Republicans did 12 years ago—so many people are out of jobs today that any kind of a Gov- ernment position is legitimate spoils. The offices of those who are supposed to have influence with the Democratic administration look like basement bar- gain counters these days. Many seek- ing jobs are obviously in want. The offices of Semators Byrd of Virginia, Harrison of Mississippi and King of Utah are swamped all the time. Senator King's position is probably the worst. He is trying to keep all those jobs which er-Sena- tor Smoot got for the citizens of Utah. > ‘The most artful patronage dispenser of them all is William F. Stevenson. He is chairman of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. His old South Caro- lina friends call him “Seaboard Bill. but the reason is obvious. His new intimates here have switched it to “Steamboat Bill” for no reason at all. In an admiring way, a Democratic politician recently suggested Mr. Stev- enson should be charged with depopu- lating the State of South Carolina. He was trying to infer l(l;l’t Mr. Stevenson had installed most the citizens of that State in his Government agency. “Backs” Merit System. Mr. Stevenson has already announced that the merit system is all right in its place. He line which is a slogan for the job-seek- ing_army: “Naturally we are not choosing Re- publicans to carry out policies of a Democratic administration.” The smart boys who are buying rye instead of wheat are not so smart. They have figured out that the processing tar will go on wheat but not on rye. They do not know that the law permits the taring of any competing article. The brain trustees do know it and may act. The story going around the country that Mr. Roosevelt might make up a super-cabinet composed of Messrs. Hoo- ver, Meyer and Baruch is a pure in- vention. The highest administration officials considered it a good joke when they heard it. The excuse that Prof. Berle is only working out regulations for the Glass bark law sounds somewhat thin. There is an army of technical regulation care of that and will. Railroad officials say carloadings will soon be running 100,000 a week and more. They see no reason to stop cheering. A degree of hardship on indiyid- | uals always results from a change in administration. At least two Republi- | cans who lost minor places have com- | mitted suicice. They were no worse | off than many of the Democrats seek- 1 ing their jobs. (Copyrisht, 1933.) OVER AUTO ACCIDENT Isaac D. Hetzell, 2d, Grandson of 1 Late Philadephia Millionaire, Wounded, Other Suicide. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 15.—One man is dying and his closest friend is dead, the result of what police calied a quar- rel over payment of damages resulting from an automobile accident. Isaac D. Hetzell, II, 22-year-old grandson and heir of the late million- aire city councilman of the same name, is in a hospital with bullet wounds in the back and head. Police said they , were inflicted by Harry Maupay, who then tock his own life. | . Maupay, who was 24. and Hetzell were iin)ured in an automobile accident six months ago. Hetzell's wife told police ! Maupay came to her home last night to ask Hetzell to pay the damages. She said that Hiazell replied he could not pay at preseny She said she saw her husband turn tia% back to Maupay and heard threp shits fired. Maupay was * found iater in the bath room, ‘fatally wounded. change the Civil Service law to get | is also the author of the | experts in the Treasury who can ukel HOP FOR LITHUANIA INDEFIANGE OF U.S. Chicago Pilots Take Off De- spite Federal Veto and Without Passports. (Continued From First Page.) allons were in 5-gallon cans, and 25 |of oil. It bore the markings Most_of the crowd which had seen Post off gathered around the Lithunica at the takeoff. The last to bid them bood-by was Paul Zadeikis, consul- general of Lithuania. He shook their hands and wished them godspeed. The flyers did not sign the register at the field, and Maj. J. Nelson, man- ager of the field, was not informed that they were hopping the Atlantic. The takeoff was loggy. They every footo of the long runway and were 5o sli in getting away that the crowd gasped. Held to Gasoline. “It was a game takeoff,” said the flying experts assembled. “They shoulfi have dumped gas to play safe. But they didn’t. They didn’t dump a drop.” When the plane passed cut of sight, headed east straight as a beeline, the ship still had not attained more than 200 feet altitude. Fleld officials say tbay are subject to a heayy fine and J &5 of license if they do not return today to Floyd Bennett and, furthermcre, are subject [to arrest in any foreign country in which they land, since they have no Ppassports. Just before Darius and Girenas took off, John V. P. Heinmuller, official timer of the National Aeronautical Associa- tion, went up to the plane, wished them good luck, and clamped on to one wing an ice indicator, designed to tell the airmen at a glance if ice, the terror of Atlantic flyers, is forming on the wings. It was virtually the only newly de- veloped scientific flying aid in the ship. The pair aren't even carrying para- ch'um. They have no wireless appa- ratus. Natives of Lithuania. For food they took 18 oranges, 12 apples, two bottles of malted milk tab- |lets, & quart of black coffee, & roast | chicken, and a gallon of water. Darius was born in Taurege, | . and was brought to the| United States when 10 vears old. His | mother is Mrs. - Augustine Degutis of Chicago. Darius was tutored in Lithuania, then attended grade school in Elizabeth, N. J.; West Pullman Junior High School, Chicago, and later Harrison Tech and Lane Junior College there. He enlisted in the 1st Illinois Field Artillery, later Federalized as the 149th ! Field Artillery, April 12, 1917. six days | after the United States declared war. | He received a regimental citation for “habitual bravery under fire,” and was | wounded in the chest by a fragment of a high explosive shell at the second Battle of the Marne. For this wound he received veterans’| compensation and further education at the University of Chicago. Entering the Air Corps of Lithuania in 1921 he rose to the rank of captain. | Operated Aviation School. Returning to the United States, he | opened in 1928 an aviation school at South Bend, Ind. The Lithuanica is the plane he flewl during 1929, 1930 and 1931 for the Chicago Daily News. Aided by sub- scriptions from many Lithuanian- Americans he bought it from the the News and rechristened it. Girenas, who, like his partner, is un- married, is an orphan whose home is in Chicago. He was born in Upina, Lithuania, came to the United States| when 7, and went to work in Chicago when he finished grammar school. He is a war veteran and operated an avia- tion school in Chicago until 1931. CAN'T LAND EN ROUTE. Darius and Girenas Failed to Get Permit to Fly Over Countries. | By the Associated Press. Officials of the aeronautics branch of the Commerce Department today sald Capt. Stephen Darius and Stanley Thomas Girenas, who left New York | early today on a flight to Lithuania, | had no permission to fly over or to land in any country en route. An official, when notified of the take- | off of the plane Lithuanica, said: ! “The aviators came here about two ! months ago to arrange for the neces- | sary permission for the flight. This in- | cluded approval of their qualifications | and ability to undertake such a flight and the approval of their equipment. “As far as theig equipment was con- cerned, it was satisfactory. The branch {also approved the competency of the i fiyers. : “But when they sought permission to | fiy over Iceland, Ireland, England, Den- | mark, Germany and other countries that might be on their route they wanted the Commerce Department to pay the | expense of cablegrams. This involved about $100, and the department held they should pay it. They did not want to do this and sought permission by mail, which requires at least 60 days. “They phoned here two days ago and were advised that permission to land in the countries on their route had not been granted. They indicated they had received, through some friends here and in Lithuania, permission to land in that country. “If they make the flight to Lithuania successfully they probably will be al- right. But if they land in some other country without having permission to fly over it, it will be embarrassing to the United States and to them. “It is not quite right, however, to ! sy they took off in direct deflance of ! the department in view of the approval of their qualifications and equipment, | but if they land in a country where they have no permission they will be | subject to a spanking.” Later the State Department said it i had obtained permission for the Lithu- anica to fly over Newfoundland, but had not heard from any other coun- try on their route. Drinking and Driving If you want to drive, don't drink; if you want to drink, don't drive. If you indulge too freely at a party, don't try to drive home. Let the completely sober member of your party, if any. do the driving. Or, better still, take a taxicab. Remember that if you are ar- rested for an accident or a traffic law violation, and there is evi- dence that you have been drink- ing, the penalty is likely to be much more severe than it other- wise would be. Drinking and driving. make & dangerous combination. National Safety Councll. STAR, WASHINGT SEES RAIL HEADS SALARIES TO0 HIGH Eastman Tells Executiv;s Their Pay Is Symptom of “Boom Disease.” By the Assoclated Pregs. Joseph B. Eastman, Federal co-ordi- nator of transportation, yesterday told a group of the highest salaried rail executives of the country that the ad- ministration feels their salaries are too high. All declined to comment, on leaving the meeting. Mr. Eastman said the salaries which many executives receive—some in ex- cess of or near $100,000 annually—are a symptom of the ‘boom disease.” Country Still Suffering. “This country has been and still syffering to a degree that it probably never has suffered before. Millions are out of work. Still more millions are living on a pittance. Thousands of rallroad employes have no jobs at all and thousands more are working part time. Thousands of investors in rail- road securitles are receiving no return,” Eastman said “I know that salaries have been re- duced, but I ask you to consider whether they have been reduced enough in view of prevailing conditions, and what I am thinking about are the salarics at or near the top.” The red-haired co-ordinator told the executives he planned to canvass the railroad situation as a complete picture, seeking out every available fact that would fit into a plan for putting the rail carriers on a better business basis. The experiences of other countries, he said, also will be studied. Those at Meeting. The members of the carriers co- ordinating committees who met here were: Eustern district—F. E. Williamson, W. W. Atterbury, Danlel Willard, J. J. Bernet, J. J. Pelley, Thomas J. Conway, Jr., receiver for the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, and K. E. Kemmerer, president of the Cornwall Railroad Co. Western district: Carl Kray, Ralph Budd, H. H. Scandrett, Hale Holden, S. T. Bledsoe, C. M. Cheney, president of the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Western Railway, and J. F. Sheeney, president of the Chicago Short Line. Southern district: W. R. Cole, pres- ident Louisville & Nashville Railroad: Fairfax Harrison, L. A. Downs, L. R. Powell, jr, receiver for the Seaboard Air Line; George B. Elliott, president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; | Edgar Thompson, vice president of the | Piedmont & Northern Railway, and H. W. Purvis. receiver for the Georgia & Florida Railroad. SCHOONERS IN RACE Famous Bl\;;nose an; 26 Others Will Compete in Freshwater Test. CHICAGO, July 15 (#).—The famous Canadian schooner Bluenose and 26 other vessels will set out today on the twenty-sixth renewal of the country's fresh water sailing classic, the Chicago- to-Mackinac race. The Bluenose, in Chicago for the! world's fair, was chartered at the last minute by Addison Stillwell of Chicago, and will compete in the open class. The Canadian and other open class craft will not compete for the Mackniac Tro- phy. but will vie for other prizes. Robert Benedict’s Bagheera, the 1932 winner, will make another try for the trophy. INTENT ON SEA HOP Miss Rosetta Valenti Intimates Flight in September. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 15 (#).— | Miss Rosetta Valenti, Italian aviatrix, whose announced plans to fly from New York to Rome with Russell N. Board- man were ended by the recent death of | Boardman at Indianapolis, said yester- day during a visit here that her pians for a transatiantic flight were by no ! means abandoned. She intimated that the flight would take place in Septem- ber with a male co-pilot whose name |she preferred not to announce. GALE VICTIMS SHOVE OFF Collegians i;l- Race Will Complete Trip Halted by Mishap. LEWES, Del., July 15 (#).—Undaunt- ed by their adventure in a storm. which disabled the racing sloop Highland Belle, its collegiate crew of six set sail | again_today to complete their inter- | rupted trip to New York. The sloop, which finished last in the race from New London to Gibson Island, had its engine disabled and its main sail ripped in a northezster Wed- nesday. A Coast Guard cutter towed it into Delaware Bay brought it to Lewes. Off Despite U. S. Ban Capt. Ste) their plane, FA\QBANKS il - ~BAROVSK Q i > NOVO-SIBIRSK o ¢ . oo Tl Wiley Post, the Oklahoma fiyer who two years ago circled the world with Harold Gatty and shared a record with|ent offices to locate him as a result, hopped off today, alone, in an effort to better that record and be the first pilot to make the flight solo. | ployes who are likely to be separated He is shown here, with his plane, Winnie Mae, above and with the world before him, with his projected route indicated. | from the service and who are, there- —A. P. Photo. Wiley Post to Take Same Route He Used On Flight of 1931 By the Associated Press. ‘Willy Post mapped for his at- tempt this year the same gen- era] route he and Harold Gatty followed on their 1931 flight. The six major hops are as follows: New York to Berlin. 3.900 miles. Berlin to Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia, 2,600 miles. Novo-Sibirsk to Khabarovsk, Siberia, 2.250 miles. Khabarovsk to Fairbanks, Alas- ka, 3.000 miles. Fairbanks to Edmonston, Al- berta, 1,450 miles. Edmonston to New York, 2,200 miles. Total, 15,400 miles. FLIGHT OF SIX DAYS WITH FIVE STOPS IS 'HOT O CARRYING OROER PRONISED Secretary Ickes Will Vigor- ously Enforce Law Prohib- iting Transportation. By the Associated Press. Vigorous enforcement of President | Roosevelt's order prohibiting the trans- | portation of “hot” ofl in interstate| commerce was promised today by Sec- | | retary of the Interior Ickes, who was | charged with its administration. ‘The President’s order prohibited the transportation in interstate and foreign commerce of oil produced or withdrawn | | from storage in violation of State con-| servation laws. | Ickes sald the order was “sweep- | ing encugh” to reach the viclators of | State Jaws and that immediate and| drastic action would be taken. The Interior Department, in & formal! _ statement today, served notice that tail would be a help and make it certain any one who produces and transports 1 Wwill not lose time by intermediate oil in excess of State allotments will stops. be subject to the penalties provided | Doesn’t Worry About Siberia. (Continued From First Page. GOAL OF WILEY POST THREE MEN LOST ONBURNING TANKER {Captain Refuses to Leave Flaming Ship—Rest of Crew Rescued. | By the Associated Press. NEW_ YORK. July 15.—The tanker Cities Service Petrol burned and sank |in the ocean off North Carolina carly today, taking down with her Capt. F. | L. Sears, who refused to leave, and two members of the crew who were killed on board, presumably battling the flames. The rest of the crew were picked up by another tanker, the Gulf Gem, and | the steamer Tri-Mountain. Reports as to their number varied from 32 upward, and no official list was available. A graphic story of the disaster came in this meseage to the Radio Marine | Corporation from the Gulf Gem: | _“Burning steamship Cities Service Petrol sank stern first at 11:30 pm (standard or daylight time not speci- | fled) just after eight men were taken | off in heavy sea by boat crew of the BEING REHIRED Civil Service Commission An- nounces New Agencies Are Making Use of List. (Continued From First Page.) list will be available for certification for re-employment on the day on which ap- plication for entry is made. “There are now about 3,000 names on the Washington list. New applications are being received at the rate of ap- proximately 125 a day. The list of names includes persons qualified for most kinds of work. “Now re-employments are being made at the rate of approximately 100 a week whereas only about 100 selections from the re-employment list in Washington were made during the entire year ended June 30, 1933. Director Is Liaison Officer. “The director of the Council of Per- sonnel Administration, acting in behalf of the departments and independent offices, and as a laison officer between them and the Civil Service Commission, is giving personal attention to the ex- pediting of selections from the re-em- ployment list. “The re-employment list is being used not only by the governmental branches whose embloyes are in the classified civil service, but also in in- creasing degree by the newly created agencies which are authorized to make appointments without regard to the Civil Service lz= and rules. “When well qualified peopl found upon the establishment re-em onnel Administration antici dismissals or furloughs by can- vassing the departments and independ competent emn fore, available for transfer to other places. This procedure of transfer, however. does not interfere with the appointment of well qualified eligibles on the re-employment list. List is First Resort. fact, the re-employment list is the first,_resort. “The re-employment list is available to any Government establishment, either civil service or non-civil service, which has places to fill.” The re-employment list was estab- lished by the commission last Octo- ber, consolidating the oid re-employ- ‘ment list and the transfer pool. It is open to workers who have been dis- missed or furloughed, or who face fur- lough or dismissal. Thirty-year em- ployes are eligible for it, those with marital status are not. It does not dif- ferentiate beiween workers who have earned their civil service rating and those who have been covered in. H Inefficient Must Go. | In its announcement the Post Office Department indicated that the inef- ncxe;n and physically unfit will be re- tired. The departmental pian was made known in a letter to Chairman Mead of the House Post Office Committes, from Joseph C. O’Mahoney, First Assistant | Postmaster General, in response to a | auery addressed to Postmaster General | Farle; | O'Mahoney wrote: “I am pleased to say that no person who is efficient tand physically able to perform satis- factory scrvice will be retired on ac- count of having 30 years or more service. “However, postmasters at the larger offices have been asked to determine in the law, a fine of $1,000 and six | | manths’ imprisonment. | It announced the division of investi- gations, headed by Louis R. Glavis, has initiated investigations which will bring | speedy prosecutions of those found guilty of violating the law. The department said it would concen- | trate agents in those districts where the greatest evasions of the law have occurred in the past. While no area was mentioned, it was understood this referred particularly to the flush oil | fields of East Texas. The long stretch across Siberia does not worry me. I've been there before and know the landing fields. Last trip we were mired in the mud at Blago- veschensk. This time I'm going only to Novo-Sibirsk and Khabarovsk. both have good, big fields, besides I have a Smith controllable pitch propeller on the Winnie Mae now. The blade set- ting of this prop can be changed through many degrees of angle, and I can take off with full load in about two-thirds the distance required before. They | Gulf Gem. | their ul ’ . |th personnel requirements under Capt. refused to leave his bumning exisiing conditions and, where a sur- ship and two other men were killed rlus exists, the department will con- cider retiring 30-year esmployes who have indicated a desire for retirement, the department will also give con- tion to retiring employes who board. “Thirty-four in all picked up. Some injured. “Gulf Gem proceeding to Charleston, 8. C. (about 90 miles away) with res- Iave had 30 years or more service, Who cued crew 1 unable to render useful and efficient One Lifeboat Picked Up. service P | The Post Office Department, which An earlier message had said that the |is going to operate under the stag- Tri-Mountain picked up “one lifeboat” gered furlough plan, already has drawn de hen Darius (ieft) and Stanley Girenas of Chicago in front of thuanica, in which they hopped off today for Kaunas, Lithuania, after their flight had been prohibited by the Commerce Department. They carry | street, from little equipment and left the United States without passports. The division of investigations already | Even if there is rainy weather I am was inquiring into reports that 600 tank sure 1 can get off from either of the cars were hurriedly shipped out of chosen Russian fields. I have not taken Texas Thursday in anticipation of Goy- | the Winnie Mae off under full load in ernment action. | test flights, but I was in the Lockheed The President was given the power to plant for several years and I know just | prohibit the interstate transportation of what the ship will do. oil illegally produced or withdrawn in the indust-ial recovery act. | my route except for the Aiantic leg. = = | With Pairbanks instead of Nome ss an | Alaskan landing place, the route hugs “POLE BURGLAR” FOILED | the westward land and there is only a 7 | water jump of & bit more than 400 miles ; | across' the sea_of Okhotsk. Then, too, Woman Saves Purse Being Har-||gnding conditions are likely to be bet- ishi | ter in the interior of Alaska than a pooned With Fishing Rod. | Nome “There is often a fog at Nome. SEATTLE, July 15 (%) —Seattle’s On the last trip we had fog all the “fish pole burglar,” who has hooked 100 | way from Khabarovsk, and it just hap- garments and purses in six months, has | pened to break away in Alaska about lost his pole. Mrs. Mabel Johnson was | four hours before we arrived. entertaining. One of the woman guests | I'm not taking a lot of food. Just & entered a bed room to get her purse |little snusage as an emergency ration. and saw it being harpooned by an 8- |and plenty of fishing tackle. Nearly all foot fish pole equipped with @ spike. the way across the Siberian stretch and yesterday | She dashed for the purse; the robber stream follows stream. These brooks |lost his pole and fled. | and little rivers are full of trout. You 2 | can pull them out with almost anything. | There are plenty of fish. too, on the | leg_from Khabarovsk to Fairbanks. So |if I should have to walk out I'm not | afraid of starvation. If it comes to walking out I have & | new little gadget that should be a big help. It is a sort of pocket transit an | compass combined. With it you can get | not merely the compass course, but |levels. It might prove very handy. |also. in case of an emergency landing off a regular field, or on a strange one, for that matter. Five Stops, Six Days Is Goal. |once. I looked over the bean fleld I | was in and the slopes of the surround- |ing hills fooled me as to the slope of the field. There was a very light wind blowing so I took off down wind, thinking I was also taking off down grade. I found, however, that it was about a 5 per cent up grade, which was not so good. If I'd had the little transit I would never have made that error. between New York and New York— seems & pretty ambitious one. The hops are longer than last time, but the dis- tance is the same. Gatty and I flew 15,474 miles in our 8 days 15 hours and 51 minutes elapsed time. Our flying time was 4 days 10 hours 8 minutes, at an average speed of 145.8 miles an hour. | In round figures this trip will be 15,400 miles, divided thus: New York to Khabarovsk, 2,250; to Fairbanks, 3.000; to Edmonton, 1450; to New York, 2.200. I hope to make a little higher speed with my stepped-up en- gine and my controllable pitch prop, less time on the ground. That, and the two days off the time. Five stops. six days; that’s the Winnie Mae's goal. (Copyright, 1933, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) BODY STILL UNCLAIMED | Man Killed in Detroit Fall Believed From Savannah, Ga. DETROIT, July 15 (#).—The body of & man who fell to his death June 25 from a hotel canopy, as he attempted to rescue some money that had drop- ped from his window, still is in the ‘Wayne County Morgue identified from the hotel registration as Charles W. Jeffries, but from a check found on his person as W. Gadsen Clark of Savan- nah, Ga. ‘The canopy gave way beneath the man’s weight and he suffered injuries in the fall of less than one story to the h whi¢h he died a few hours in Receiving Hospital —A. P. Photo. | later j There is very little water flying on I remember very well being forced | | down in New Mexico in the mountains | ‘The plan of this flight—five stops to Berlin, 3,900; to Novo-Sibirsk, 2,600; | and then I intend to do a good deal| aid of the robot, should knock a good | from the doomed vessel without speci- fying how manv men were in it. Port authorities in Port Arthur, Tex.. from where the tanker cleared July 8 with a cargo of 1488 tons of Texas cruce oil for Warren, Pa., said the crew numbered only 32. First word of the tragedy came crackling through the ether shortly be- fore 10 o'clock (Eastern standard time) last night from the rescuing tanker The blaze aboard the Cities Servics Petrol apparently had roared through the ship, disabling her wireless before an S. O. S. could be broadcast. The Coast Guard cutter Champlain sped out from New York to go to the | Cient. rescue, and from Norfclk, Va. the cutters_Ponchartrain and Travis were dispatéhed. Sank Before They Arrived. Before they could reach the scene, however, the Gulf Gem and her men had done all they could and had seen the fiery hulk slide beneath the waves. Before she had completed the rescue, the Gulf Gem sent another message: “Picked up one lifeboat and 16 men. Now alongside burning ship. Attempting to rescue captain and men on bow. Cities Service Petrol seems to be settling more and more and is in flames. Heavy we;;]her." e “men on bow” apparentl; t off and soon there came nnyntg:r m?;i“kfid 22 )4 icked up 22 men of crew of burni Cities Service Petrol. Some m]urxex:f Captain refuses to leave ship.” In?nd (;?Dt. Seflrsh‘sslllyed to the end. lormation as to amil; - | dence was lacking. i i ROOSEVELT DECi[;ES TO USE ALL OF FUNDS SET ASIDE FOR WORKS ___ (Continued From First Page) loans, the Home Owners’ Loan Corpora- tion and other specific Federal Iun;lt)&ns. Of the remaining $2,000,000.000, from $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 will be spent on Federal projects. The $1,400,000,000 or more then remaining will go to non- Federal projects, which will assure the eventual return to the Treasury of at, lO'n ‘:)hedllner, plans advance as a gift 30 per of (;;xe cost of a pmject.‘1 e proper security 70 per cent of thy cost of labor and materials for lh: | project might be borrowed from the Federal Government. Because the cost of labor and material might not repre- sent all of the outlay going into a job, it has been estimated here the com- munity, city or State will thus b2 re- quired to put up some money from other sources for the work. e List Taken on Cruise. It was made plain at the White House that requests for funds to build piants were ey to Socelve avaris e likel receiv Ve consideration. o The Casper-Alcova flood control and reclamation project on the North Platte River in Wyoming was cited as a_pos- sible favorable example of a self-liqui- | dating proposal such as the President has in mind. It had been represented to him that the $15,000,000 cost of this ;:ul:i be fully returned to the Govern- nt. The President carried with him on his cruise a special list of flood control and rivers and harbors projects and will discuss thgm tomorrow with Secre- tary Ickes, the public works adminis- trator. It was definitely indicated yesterday at the White House that the 9-foot me[ for the Upper Mississippi River be on the ist finally approved. least 70 per cent of the funds advanced.} the administration | its schedule for the postal, or field service, but is still to announce the ¥rogram in the departmental service. Verbal Orders Held Sufficient. Meanwhile today workers who have {been dropped or face removal, were looking hopefully for some sign that President Roosevelt's expressed desire that they be taken into the new agencies, would be followed generally. | At the same time, it was learned that no formal executive order is in prospect jcn this point, the President taking the |attitude that verbal instructions to his jaids in the administration are suffi- | _The | Civil Service Reinstatement | League, formed last Saturday by the American Federation of Government Employes to aid in restoring employment to ousted workers, is meeting again this ‘altemoon at 3 o'clock at headquarters of the American Federation of Labor, | with which it is affiliated. It is pro- | posed to complete the slate of officers, only the chairman, John P. Simpson, | who is president of the Interstate Com- | merce Commisison Lodge of the Federa- ition of Government Employes. having been chosen at the first meeting. Simpson last night addressed a mass meeting of colored men and women, re- moved or facing removal, under the retrenchment program. The meeting was held at 920 U street. " On the subject of a direct order from the President to get work in the new agencies for civil service employes, Simpson said he believed this unneces- |sary, in the light of the President’s statement to himself, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and John Arthur Shaw, pres- ident of the Federation of Government Employes, when they called at the White House Wednesday in the interest of the workers. Simpson explained that the President said the orders would go verbally to administration leaders John Davis, executive secretary of | the Negro Industrial League, who also | sPoke, said about 500 members of his race already had been dropped. and forecast a large batch in addition on August 10, when the Government re- organization program becomes effective, | specifying particularly employes of pub- lic buildings and public parks, which { will be brought into the Interior De- | psr_lshmen!. e Federal News, weekly organ of the National Federation ({I igedenl Employes, in an editorial today, called on President Roosevelt for “an em- | phatic order that the administrators of the new agencies must draw required personnel from the list of available per- ‘son;h\(iu“lnlch’ll service status.” “The ite House has made its conviction of the ca!rec&nflspm soundness of the merit system and has indicated its wish that this system be tpheld by the administrators of the emergency agencies,” the editorial con- tinues. “But in view of the tremendous pressure of the spoilsmen it is only too plain that sooner or later the President will need to go considerably beyond his statement of principles. That decisive step should be taken now.” In support of its argument for a direct order. the paper recalled the sit- uation at the Home Loan Bank Board where William F. Stevenson, the chair- man. has said that no civil service ap- plicant would be given preference over other applicants. Printing Office, | ‘The Government where the total reduction made and in sight has been placed at between 350 and 400 yesterday advised 41 em- ployes who have husbands or wives else- where in the Government that one or the other must give up their places by July 31. This is in addition to 101 mar- ried workers cut off on July 1. The printing office also is dropping 91 werk- ers under the 30-year clause, July 31, Several hundred cmployes scattered over the Government are drawing their last ugy today, under separations pres vio announced.