Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1933, Page 1

Entered as post office, No. 1,479—No. 32,590. second class matt thlnrlon.fli‘%. WORLD GIRDLER’S PLANE DROPS FROM NIGHT SKY FAR AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Utterly Exhausted, OklahomanT Whisked Away From Field With Wife in Car. 3,000 RUSH THROUGH POLICE LINE TO WELCOME WEARY AVIATOR Crowd of 50,000 on Hand to Greet In- trepid Aviator—Has Just Faint ,“Hello” ‘for Them. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 22.—Wiley Post, shooting across North America in a whirlwind finish to his world flight, whizzed down out of the darkness tonight for a new globe-circling record. The stocky Oklahoman, smiling but on the verge of exhaustion, landed his. purple-trimmed monoplane at Floyd Bennett Field at 10:59.30 p.m. (Eastern standard time) after a gruelling 2,200-mile hop from Edmonton, Canada. He shattered by more than 21 hours the time he and Harold Gatty established two Summers ago, and promptly announced he could do it again—even more quickly. “Given a break in the weather,” Post told friends while he was resting at a hotel, “I could take the Winnie Mae, with the same equip- mecxln, };:ng break my new record by making the trip in four days an alf.” rgearly 50,000 cheering men and women pressed around the plane the instant it taxied down the field, but the tired pild saw only one. Tells Wife “Hello, Ma,” “Hello, Ma,” he said to his wife in a solt voice. “I'm pretty tired.” That was all Post had to say while he sat in his ship for several minutes before he was whisked into an automobile for a dash across Brooklyn to his New York hotel. He did pause for a moment to get a new eyeé;atch for his left eye. He and Mrs. Post were separated in the car by other passengers, gpt }tlhedsalrm' an reached over and patted her shoulder. She pressed is hands. “I went to sleep at least 20 times between Edmonton and New York,” Post said to a group of intimate friends who sat with him in his suite while he relaxed. “But every time I would doze and drop the stick, I would wake up with a start. I do not know what makes an airman do this, but whenever the stick is dropped, he comes to.” Automatic Pilot Functioned. Asked about the operation of his robot pilot, Post said: o ;’Ijhe automatic pilot functioned much better on the last lap of e trip. “I had only three decent hours flying up to the time I reached Edmonton. One of these was before I reached Moscow and the other two were after I left there. “The weather between Edmonton and New York today and to- night, however, was good until I passed onto. After that, I ran into a few thunderstorms and mist as I passed over New York State.” Post revived surprisingly during the ride to the hotel. A docter who examined him pronounced his condition generally good, with a normal heart beat. “Don’t need it yet,” commented Post laconically, when some one suggested he get some sleep at once. Takes Shower at Hotel. While a light supper was being prepared, Post took a shower. On the way into the city he had consumed food and coffee brought to the field by his wife. fiig Gatty, the companion of his first world ht, was in the car] with him, as was Walter Harrison, managing editor of the Daily Oklahoman. Post’s arrival and departure from Floyd Bennett Field were so sudden that thousands went home without having seen him. His appearance was almost two hours before¢ he had been ex- ected, hundrefls were caught in a jam in the Administration Build- ng, where they could see only the flashing of photographers’ flares through the windows. Other hundreds were squeezed in between parked automobiles, where they could hear the resounding cheers, but nothing else. Maj. J. Nelson Kelly, airport superintendent, concurred with a lice description that it was the largest crowd ever to greet an air Kgro at the municipal field. Photographers Rush Plane. The photographers squeezed through the throng to encircle the plane before Post emerged. He was slumped in his seat, a handker- chief knotted around the collar of his blue shirt. Gen. Italo Balbo, leader of the air armada that preceded Post to New York by three days, started for the field to greet the world fiyer, but was caught in a traffic jam and arrived too late. He made an appointment to meet Post at his hotel. The 34-year-old Oklahoman was hurried from the field within a half hour of his landing, but the crowd refused to believe that he had gone and continued milling around, hoping for at least a quick glimpse of him. & On the last hop from Edmonton Post streaked southward so fast after he passed over Winnipeg and flew so high that those on the ground scarcely saw him. He spurned the beacon route usually followed by flyers and cut down toward New York City from Toronto on a direct line. whirlwind speed of nearly 180 miles an hour brought him to the end of his 15,400-mile trip far ahead of schedule. After a long rest, Post will receive a formal civic reception Wed- nesday—his second. But every one who saw the finish to his flight predicted it would be even greater. Started Last Saturday. Post started his epic journey at 4:10 a.m. (Eastern standard time) last Saturday, July 16. He waved farewell to his wife and zoomed away into the sunrise. Twenty-five hours and 45 minutes later he cyme to rest at Berlin, setting a record for the 3,900-mile flight. He had thought to be off again in half an hour, but the electric fuel pumps he expected were not there and it took nearly 2 hours to fill his big tanks. At 8:10 am. Sunday (Eastern standard time) he took off for Novosibirsk, Siberia, 2,600 miles away, but after crossing into Russia ran into clouds that hung so low he was forced to turn back and land at Koenigsburg, Bast Prussia, 315 miles east of Berlin. There continued bad weather co! him to take' the rest he needed badly, but which he wanted to deny himself for the sake of his enterprise, and he got away half a day later. Bothered By Weather. But again he found” Novosibirsk unatt: le. Contin bad ‘weather agd trouble with his robot pilot m:ézm&m alight ng%mm and stay there 2 hours. Hflnafly re:‘ched Novosibirsk at 10:27 am. Monday (Eastern ndard time). Fa; ;t:r of ““Caterpiller Club,” was waiting to take charge of him and his ship, act as his interpreter and superintended’ the refueling while he napped briefly in a h: 3 The flyer's next hop took him to Irkutsk, where he landed at 7:35 am. Tuesday (Eastern Standard time) and remained less than 4 hours. The flight west!' from there was one of the most perilous of his whole trip. Low clouds forced him nearer and nearer the ground and at one point his fuselage scraped the tree-tops. At 6:32 pm. (Eastern standard time) the next day he reached Rukhlovo, where he remained until 3:25 in the afternoon. Communication with that isolated spot was so poor, however, that Post wak well on his to {Continued on Page 2, Column™1.) : { Post Tells Story of His Dash for Record Declares Flight Could Be Made in Much Better Time. BY WILEY POST. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. EW YORK, July 22 (N.AN. A.).—Now that it's over, and I am back where I started from, the chief idea in my mind is that I am dis- gusted with my flight. I realize, of course, that I have broken the rec- ord of 8 days 15 hours and minutes which Harold Gatty and I made together two years ago, but I had expected to break it by a much wider margin and I am dis- appointed. . I should have made this flight a month earlier. Then I would have escaped some of the fogs and stormy weather which I have had almost ever since I left New York. As a matter of fact, until well along on the last leg of the flight, I had only three hours of good weather all the way around the world. ‘That was one hour going into Moscow and two hours going out of Moscow. The bad weather began five minutes after I left Floyd Ben- nett Fleld and it dogged me all the way. Saturday it started out as bad as ever. Half way from Fairbanks to Edmonton, when I was flying the Canadian Rockies, I had to fly blind for three hours at 20,000 feet. Jce Fermed on Wing. ‘The mountains there have an elevation of 15,000 feet. While I was up at that extreme height, ice began to form on my wings. It got heavy enough so that I mushed down some. It cleared up the last half of the way into Edmonton and then it was plain sailing until be- tween Toronto and New York. There 1 encountered considerable smoky haze and I also had to fly around two_thunderstorms. There was & kick in getting back to the old fleld and meeting my wife and friends, but there was no thrill to the flight coming in. I was so disappainted with my record that I actually thought of sitting down and coming on in a day later. I couldn’t realize then that I was coming home. After I had got out of the bad weather Saturday, the going was so smooth that I flew mechanically and I kept going to sleep all along. I have no idea how many times I dozed off but I slept a great deal of the way in. I had my hand on the extension of my control stick and every time 1 went clear to sleep my hand would fall off and that would cause me to wake up with a jump. Had Too Much Sleep. Don't think from this, though, that I am dead for sleep. I am not. I am now much fresher than 1 was when I finished the trip with Gatty two years ago. As a matter of fact I had too much sleep. I could have done without nearly as much as I had. I say tco much sleep because it was due to delays caused by bad weather, etc, or to having the plane tuned up. Another disappointment is that I had hoped to see a little of the world while I was flying around it. When Harold and I flew the route before I was too busy with the contrals to enjoy the scenery. This time, I thought, with the automatic pilot to take over most of the actuals work, I would be able to sit back and Jook the countries over. But the weather was 5o bad most 7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) _— e KIDNAPERS SEIZE Pair With Machine Gun Force Ok- lahomans to Enter Auto. One Released. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 22— Police reported that Charles F. Urschel and Water Jarrett, weathy Okahoma ped »!onl:ht Gillis, American aviatrix and only woman mem- | m, <\ N §\\ VN \\§\ STATUSOF WORKERS T0BE UP TO MGARL Whether They Retain Gfade or Are “New” Employes Proves Puzzle. With some 15,000 Federal employes due to be dropped from the rolls and immediately reappointed in an extraor- dinary shake-up of agencles on August | been fishing 10, Controller General McCarl has been called on to decide the pussling status of the affected employes. The biggest question involved in the drastic reorganization, from the stand- point of the employes, is whether those | who are reappointed in this queer “off | again, on again” transaction will re- tain their present grades and salaries or suffer reduction to entrance grades as “new employes.” The reorganization, provided for in the special executive order sent to Con- gress on the day of the special sesslon, June 10 last, affects nearly a score of Federal agen which are the Bureg:u v:"!‘e 'Jlnairl;{ll.g;’:‘- | nue, the Bureau of Investigation of the | Department of Justice of Prohibition. $asidasBuea Joker in Order. A so-called “joker” in the order, significance of ‘which did not n'n"rhs: on officials of the involved units, provides for a wholesale separation from the service of all personnel of agencies in any way embraced in the realignment, with authority for re- :w‘prlgoey;nent of :’5 many o{ the dis- men and women = as may be On casual reading of the order u‘ was assumed the separation provision applied only to agencies abolished under the order—such as the Bureau of Prohibition—but a careful study of the clause disclosed that it covered also bureaus which were due to absorb the dlu&pennng agencies—such as the huge Internal Revenue Bureau with its 12,000 employes and the United States Bureau of Investigation, which has about 700 employes. The Prohibition Bureau, which is to be divided be- tween the Internal Revenue and In- vestigation Bureaus, has about 1,200 employes. Apparently not even the heads of the absorbing agencies are exempted mfl" t::e (‘»rde'r. wktxnch would ‘:\un just & few weeks after a; ting Guy T. Helvering as Cflmmlmer of Internal Revenue President Roosevelt is to order him dismissed and presumably reappointed at once. \ Seek McCarl Decision. The McCarl decision will be sought on a lengthy submission from the Bu- reau of Internal Revenue. ‘While this letter, received yesterday, | treated only the problems of internal revenue, it was felt that issues were raised which would have a general ap- Dalrymple Brings Year’s Best Yarn From Fishing Trip House Member Pulled in Water Twice Before He Lands 700-Lb.—What? Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, director of prohibition enforcement, called The Star on the telephone late last night with the “best fish story of the year.” Here it is: He and Representative James V. Mc- Seen. fing - Chesspeake” Bay night and McClintic MN for- tune or misfortune to h .;flol and McClintic pulled, and the boat went bounding along toward the At- lantic by Solomon’s Island, and then all of a sudden the fish hauled Mc- Clintic right out of the boat. That is what Maj. Dalrymple said, at least. Dalrymple and a couple of friends, Fred W. Johnson and H. L. Arvi ) hauled McClintic back—wringing_wet, (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) AGCORDON SLVER SGHED AT LONDON Pact Looking to Forcing Rise in Price of Metal Is Approved. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 22.—Representatives of the silver producing and holding countries at the World Economic Con- ference signed tonight a solemn agree- ment, the provisions of which seek to raise the price of the white metal which is used for money by nearly half the population of the globe. The accord was regarded as a victory for the persistent efforts of Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, who has been carrying on untiring negotiations for rehabilitation of the silver market. In Mr. Pittman’s hotel suite the rep- resentatives of India, China and Spain, whose coffers are bulging with mone- tary silver; of the United States, Mex- ico, Canada, Australia and Peru, the great world producers, completed a memorandum which calls for restriction of silver sales for four years. Will Take Treaty Form. ‘When ratified by the home - ments the document will take \‘.h‘:'lmom of a treaty. The big producers will absorb from mine production amounts of silver t to the sales of he ocoun- tries. They will hold this metal for (Continued on page 12, column 1.) (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Repeal Would Leave Capital Without Liquor Law, Is Claim TWO RICH OIL MEN Anti-Saloon League and Crusaders’ Heads Concur in Belief, While Assistant Corporation Counsel Avers Volstead Act Would Hold. Claims and forecasts by that the eighteenth memmm"'fl removed from tween the time that constitutional pro- hibition comes to an end and Congress fmeets again. Should the eighteenth amendment be repealed m December 5, almost a month would elapse before tive of the [ it Joined i 1 this opimion. Volstead Act Would Hold! District of Columbis, remains unaltered e Ass i NATON RALLES TOBSPROGRAM President Is Flooded With Messages Promising Em- ployment Aid. By the Associated Press. Swift advances were made yesterday in President Roosevelt’s many-sided in- dustrial re-3mployment march. ‘Telegrams by the thousands brought to him snd to Hugh S. Johnson, his in- dustrial recovery administrator, pledges of eo-operation in the push for volun- tary agreements from all employers to pay higher wages and make millions of new jobs by shortening work hours. ntatives of the many conflict- ing ofl interests, meeting in preparation | for this week's public hearings on their code of fair competition, a tend the 40-hour week to retail out- lets, & move expected to mean alf 200,000 to 300,000 new jobs in the in- 1s0 Fed price Johnson called in shipbuilders and spokesmen of shipyard labor, proposed | gctio; a compromise for their differences and asked them to come back with an agree- ment late last night. - Their code, under hearing for days past, is wanted quickly because the big naval construction pro- gram must be bid on this week and labor costs depend on the code’s terms President Roosevelt, before starting week end cruise on the Sequoia, signed an executive order putting into tem- muy force, pending a hearing, labor an t ustry. 100 plants were “estimated to employ 30,000. The wages will be 35 cents an hour minimum for Women, and 45 cents| changy for men; the hours 40 & week. In the many branches of the textile industries nearly a million workers are now under such code provisions. Organizing Local Conmmittees. A large share ot the telegrams re- ceived yesterday were from chambers of commerce, which almost without excep- tion annount they were organizing local campaign committees at Johnson's lmflm bigand little, pledging ang e, p! co-opera- ann or announcing they were not wait- for the July 27 beginning of the “bl et” agreement campaign, but were immediately raising wages and shorten- ing working hours. Clothing and gro- cery stores, hardware establishments, miscellaneous factories, a few banks and 8 coulzle of newspapers announced thelr ROOSEVELT TO REST » ON WEEK END CRUISE Only Three Others Aboard Sequoia on Potomae Trip—Will Work > on Speech. MINIMUM GRAIN PRICE SET BY GOVERNMENT TO HALT SPECULATION Wallace, Backed by President, Moves to Peg Commodities on the Market. ONE TRADER IS DISCLOSED 13,000,000 BUSHELS CORN “LONG” Crisis Declared Met and Steps Taken by U. S. Regarded Without Parallel in Recent Exchange History. By the Associated Press. Establishment of minimum prices for trading in wheat, corn and other grains until further notice were announced late yesterday by Secretary Wallace after appron.l!:z President Roosevelt 6f a hasty drlnwn program designed to prev further collapse of commodity prices. Wallace disclosed that a trader, whose identity was kept secre was “long” 13,000,000 bushel of corn and several million bushels of wheat and other grains when commodity prices began shelr precipi- tate decline last week. The trader was caught in the fall of prices and his large holdings have occasioned a market crisis which in Wal- lace’s opinion necessitated action to prevent further declines and resort to mimimum price fixing authority for the first time in recent market history. Agreement Reached. He announced that as a result, the Chicago Board of Trade has :g::eg %‘: when it re-opens after being closed Friday and yesterday Allow no trading below the -closlng prices of Thursday. Restrict fluctuations in any one day to 5 cents a bushel for wheat and for “other grains in proportion.” Both restrictions will remain in force until either they are re- '&‘e‘:é’ entirely or a program of commodity market reforms put into Other Markets May Follow. Other markets, including those at Agriculture to u’n similar -cuonm ‘when they reopen, probably tomorrow. The Chicago market is the chief center for t:illn;mln Iutur:fi;:mh the ing at the other markets em; h o3 Maelstrom Turns Market Upward In Short Session By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 22.—Whirled by another maelstorm market, stocks Lo futures There is a praspect caught their breath sufficiently today to struggle out with a net gain for the averages. Up at the opening, down in midmorn- ing and up again in the late trading, they again swung widely. But their extreme descents were much shorter than Friday's downward excursions and although some bids were thinly placed at u;llm:l'.he market was much less cal. At the close net gains of a few cents to $4 were numerous; at the worst prices had been off $1 to around $5. Trans- ns aggregated 4,224,070 shares, the biggest Saturday since May 27 last when the turnover was 4,311,340 shares. market will remain closed tomorrow, of Grain ‘cachanges 4d giner phases exc of of industry will be held here with Wallece and farm administrators in an effort to plan a method for bringing about greater stability in grain prices and reducing speculation. Later, it was reported, this conference Rchieve the'samme Durposcs for tsing same purposes for in cotton and other farm commodities. The revelation of the position of the o e & e which opened: “An astounding illustration of the re- however, came from em- (g3 sult of individusl unrestrained specula- tion as it affects commodity prices has t to the attention of the and the Secretary of Agri- Will Cut Session. The enormous congestion of transac- tions in brokerage offices, necesitating long hours of overtime labor by aug- mented clerical staffs, led the New York been President culture. opening continuing until further notice trading would start at noon instead of 10 am,, thus reducing markets to three hours duration. Similar curtailments were an- security ex- for offerings from shattered | prices margin accounts were still voluminous, o occurred cases - Associated Press-Standard Statistics composite closed 50 cents higher. Brokers attributed the final recovery to brisk short covering, since many day. traders were unwilling to leave for the week end with their accounts open. ‘The Stock Exchange’s decision to cut down trading hours helped revive mem- ories of late 1929 when similar action was taken as a means of easing the placed on clerical labors at- ant upon big markets. During the Big = speculator is only one of sev- eral who have traded wildly in large vulmmbo“!.hdduotthemm. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) N BISHOP IS STRICKEN Bt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor Suffers Heart Attack. e Ancaana. . Galoe, Toteapai| ~ (Continted ot Page 4, Column 1) BODY FOUND IN TRUNK IN BURNING HAY FIELD Police Investigate Grim Discovery Near Gary, Ind.—Autd Re- ported Seen Near Scene. the family Summer home here for & return trip to Washington by au-