Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1934, Page 3

WALLACE IS FIRM ON % PROGRAN Policies Are Not Affected by Agitation Bred by Drought. Parm have declared against crop | t was main- s shown its r a re- farm | bring | Iture back to chaos A chiefs the expec progran farmers b Its § plictt since that and unwieldy is have set to n of ha ready work with ing next year's for wresen October mount feature will be sim- Officials have recogr the A A A came into being the system was complex. bulky Much of the deiay in yments to farmers seen credited to the natural iner- tia which had to be overcome Bankhead Act Controverted. “The position of the Ba pulsory act in next yea today stood as a matter able controversy within tration, Officials of the cotton section sajd they W no reason why tk act should not be continued. Other offi- cials said, however, that they had evidence of considerable reaction Against enforcement of the act from Bouthern farmers Several high officials have indicated the act might be abandoned this year 1f 1934 production is less than the 10,460,251 bales sllowed under the act and 1f sentiment o’ cotton farmers s against its enforcement ‘The 1935 plan ts rough form as banded to chiefs of the commodities section for study after being outlined by the Planning Division aims at three main objectives 1. A “unified” farm contract, or a modification for principal crops, with ene county production control asso- clation administering its provisions Instead of several as at present 2. Stimulation of production of forage crops and planting of pastures 8o there will be no idle acres. This would be designed as a guarantee against shortages of forage in future droughts. 3. Payment of rentals and benefits on the basis of the amount of land in production amount of crops pro- duced. Thése payments now are made for percentage reductions from some “basis” years, “Blanket” Contract Discarded. The unified contract would be ex- pected to simplify the machinery. Preliminary discussions aimed at a “blanket” contract for all crops, but this was discarded in favor of one which would control & few principal | erops, Attention is centered on including wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and pos- sibly hogs. A difference exists on whether it would be possible to con- | trol live stock through adjustment of feed supplies. Among the questions involved in a | group contract is whether the ad- ministration has the right to lump receipts from all processing taxes to pay benefits. The legal section holds this can be done. Officials declined to discuss what adjustments in acreage will be asked of farmers until definite estimates of drought damage are avallable in the crop report due August 10. head com- program of consider- the adminis- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY NEWSPAPER GUILD Annual Election of Officers Also Is Held—D. A. de Souza Re- named President. The Washington Newspaper Guild adopted & permanent constitution and held its annual election of officers at a meeting yesterday in the National Press Club. The new constitution fixes dues at | $1 per month-and abolishes the tiation fee of It creates a reserve | fund of $1,000 for use in emergencies, provides for the suspe of mem- bers delinquent in their s, and sets up a press association committee, di- rectly responsible to the National Press Association Committee of the American Newspaper Guild. This committee will be elected later. In other respects, the censtitution follows closely the lines of the document adopted by the g when it was or- ganized here la uary. Officers of who will serve for one year following their election vesterday are: President, D. A. de first vice president, Joe | dent, W natic liam K News Ser Inter- { THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JULY 30. 1934. | INSURANCE COVERED | Start and Finish of Stratosphere Flight | The world’s largest balloon as it took off Saturday against the background of the picturesque hills of Rapid City. S. Dak., for a flight into the stratosphere the three occupants of the metal gondola were forced to ball out. After an ascent of 60,000 feet, trouble developed and They all landed safely near Loomis, Nebr. ‘Wreckage of the giant balloon and gondola photographed from the 'air at Loomis, Nebr., after it fell in a plowed field. Hundreds of persons surround the huge envelope and the gondola, with its scientific instru- ments. A Nebraska farmer objected somewhat, but was told he would be paid for his trouble. i Here is a view of some of the contents of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon after they had splat- tered for yards over the ground near Holdrege, Nebr. —A. P. Photos. | FLYERS DISAGREE { ON STRATOSPHERE | BALLOON’S FAULTS | M| nes- Bears Have YELLOW INE Comptrolier of the i T RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL local moving aiso NAT_DEL._ASSOC Bo . A SPECIAL MEET) July 30. 1934 DAVID W. MYERS, BLOWERSA=RNS BUCKWHEAT COAL-— Complete with two controis $75. ‘erms W, B. HESSICK & SON. ING. Dist. 0744 (Continued From Pirst Page) instead of 2-ounce material, 8 or 4 ounce fabric should have been used Capt. Stevens had a different ion. He believed the fabric s hat local strains on the haped bag and the method 1 lded probably ong 1 it unfc were t Rapid City ay. East big bag and then appeared on discovery of a decided they attempted 300 feet a minute to parachute descent he 8,000-foot level ed, and the whole bag tcre out. The hen was a perfect parachute floating down about 800 So we agreed the load and Gondols Burst Open. t about 3.000 feet, and Stevens followed, abandoning the 500 teet or lower unged rrowly escaped death in f He was { the porthole on because of ab 'Ssure. rd sttempt he plunged into i pulled the rip cord. he parachute opened it was struck by the falling balloon, but the bag glanced off and did not entangle Lim. The gondola then dropped like a shot “ “1 didn't worry, but I was glad to Wants No More Balloons Falling | | GIRL SCOUTS TO GREET CARMICHAEL GROUP Ill His Cornfield Camp Thorn Visitors at College Nebraskan Says Crops Were Damaged and Cattle Frightened. By the Associated Press. HOLDREGE, Nebr, July 30— Reuben Johnson, whose cornfield was the landing place of the giant strato- sphere balloon doesn't want any more balloons on his farm. He said his crops had been dam- aged and his ock given the jit- ters, chickens, he predicted, probably would cease laying “You see,” he went on, “we h pretty good rain last Monday might have made a corn crop before the balioon plopped down in my field. y the plowed ground out there rd as pavement where people trampled all last night, they carted off pieces of the wreck and swarmed over the place for hours.” one of the d to pay damages I expect it ground,” Stevens commented Scores of curicus people who had watched the giant balloon floating through the sky for hours, some of ed it to its dropping place, s nded it. Guards kept the crowd back and the wreckage free ters unt:l the broken other salvage could D The airmen believed another flight would be warranted. Steve: felt keenly the disappointment not tying a parachute to the cameras and other recording equipment and saving them. “I could just ss easily have saved the flims and records.” he said, “if I had had the sense of a goose.” \ | | | entertained Thursday Park to Come Here on Sight- Seeing Trip. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 30— Girl Scouts of Carmichael, Pa., will be by the Girl of District No. 7 at Camp here, the Summer rendezvous e latter. The Carmichael girls come here while in Washington for a sightseeing trip. They will be guests at luncheon. Miss Ruth M. Tighe, one of Prince | Georges County’s public ‘health nurses, Army | will conduct a course in first aid at Camp Thaorn each Thursday morning, beginning this week, and a program of other interesting features is planned for August at the camp, it was an- nounced today by Mrs. Louis Dashiell of Hyattsville, chairman of the Troop No. 7 Committee. Mrs. Dashiell urged that more Scouts attend the camp, of which Mrs. Ma! t Smith is director. ENTIRE STOCK Second-Hand BOOKS (Except Textbooks) l/z OFF PAUL PEARLMAN 1711 G St. N.W. Open Until 7:30 STEVENSISBLOWN BACK IN BALLOON Stratosphere Flyer Makes Four Attempts to Leap From Gondola. Special Dispatch to The Star. HOLDREGE, Nebr. July 30 (NA N.A) —Capt. Albert W. Stevens sat on an oid wooden bench and calmly told, between cigarette puffs, how death knocked at his door twice, and three times was shut out, in Saturday's disastrous stratosphere balloon ascent A quiet, soft-spoken man, he lapsed only once into what might be termed strong language, and that was when he asked, “But wasn't I a damned fool, though, throwing out oxygen containers in parachutes, instead of some of the valuable cameras®” It was suggested that perhaps he had pretty much on his mind at the time—and he did For the captain was explaining just | how he acted when the gigantic bal- loor whi h took off so bravely from | tri. orainp, near Rapid City, was ripped o pieces about 57,000 feet over the Neuraska plains, letting the black- and-white gondola fall at 700 feet a second. Blown Back Inte Gondola. “We were falling so fast that three times I tried to get out of the port- hole and each time the swift inrush of air blew me right back in,” he said. “I finally gave another lunge, drop- ping out head first and got free of the balloon. (This was only 3,000 feet from the earth.) I pulled my rip corn. The parachute opened. “I looked up and there, just above me and falling fast, was the torn balloon and the gondola. It looked bad, but the wreckage just hit one side of my parachute and slid off without doing me damage. Capt. Anderson had jumped before me, and Maj. Kepner left the balloon last. “I have made many jumps, but never has the ground felt better than it did Saturday when I finally reached it safely. Gondola Telescoped. “Everything in the gondola was telescoped by the terrific impact— everything, that 1s,” he added smiling, “except these glasses.” He removed his tortoise-shelled spectacles, explain- ing they alone survived the crash whole and that the pair he was wear- | ing in the balloon was lost when he bailed out. “It might be unjust,” he said, “to | voice an opinion of what went wrong.” He did intimate, however, that in a balloon constructed as that was cer- tain local strains might be set up which would be too much for the fabric to stand. “I'd like to try again” he said, “with a balloon of somewhat different construction.” (Copyright. 1934, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) . TEXTILES JAPANESE WORRY PERU’S MILLS | Commercial “Invasion” Being Felt Increasingly Severe by South America. LIMA, Peru (#).—The Japanese commercial “invasion” of South America is being felt to an increasing extent in Peru, where a large Japanese colony lives. Japanese steamers each month bring larger cargoes of merchandize, especially cotton goods, it is observed in commercial circles. The owners of several Peruvian dry goods factories and mills have admit- ted they cannot compete successfiflly against Japanese textiles despite fairly high import duties. One Lima merchant, believing im- portation of Japanese goods will con- tinue to increase, has made a trip to Japan to direct manufacture of goods according to styles prevalent here. Sales of Japanese buttons has in- creased sharply recently. CLUBS SWING AS IRISH FORECLOSE MORTGAGE Scene on Belligerent American Farms Are Re-enacted by Ireland’s Soil Tillers. CLONMEL, Irish Free State, (#)— American farmers, who swing fists and clubs in attempts to prevent public sale of livestock seized for taxes or in mortage foreclosures, have their coun- terparts in the Free State. A few cracked heads attended the sale of eight cows, the property of P. Guinlan, seized for $215 in taxes and costs. i No sooner had a neighboring man | made his first bid than Quinlan led | with a swinging right. Down went the | bidder. The bidder's companion sailed into the fray with a stick. A crowd of sympathetic farmers closed in, but police and detectives | intervened. | Pirates Seize Fair Boat. CHICAGO, July 30 (#)—Three pirates boarded the speedboat Michi- | gan at the World’s Fair last night, | overpowered the pilot and held up| several passengers while en route to| the Michigan Avenue Link Bridge. | The pirates forced the passengers ashore on the Navy pier and sped away in the boat. | | | EDUCATIONAL. El‘cuuoln 1853 New Summer Term Begins August 1 Hich School Subjects St. DEcatur 0551 6 Weeks 1525 Sixteenth MUSIC_STUDIOS. ALBERT JOSEPH MILANS Studio of the Voice Specializing in voice production for singer and speaker. An authorized exponent of the method of Frank La Forge —eminent voice teacher. The La Forge method is used by Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Crooks, Mary Eastman, Kathryn Newman and other famous artists Four Chamberlin Avenue Kenwood, Chevy Ghase Phone Wisconsin 2582 ALL TYPES OF DANGER ON STRATOSPHERE HOP (Continued From First Page) _ shipped here for examination by surance appraisers and officials of | National Geographic Society The Aetna policies guaranteed the balloon against demage by fire, theft lightning, cyclone, tornado, flood, earthquake, landslide, collision. derail- ment of trains, overturning of trucks | and collapse of bridges, docks, depots or loading platforms. Part of the contract also covered sinking, strand- |ing, burning or collision of vessels had any of the equipment been trans- ported by water. Contracts with Lloyd's covered damage during inflation, ascent, de- scent, landing or deflation to the bal- | loon and gondola or any of its scien~ | tific instruments or human ca: | Protection was afforded against dam- | age from explosion, fire, lighthing, | wind, collision or any other hazard, { Including such an accident as befell the balicon Saturday If, as has been reported, Farmer | Johnson intends to file a claim for damage to his cornfield. Lioyd's will | have to settle the matter with him. Falling Objects Included. The British firm even assumed lla- | bility for any damage caused by the |dumping of lead-dust ballast or the | emergency or accidental releasing of objects from the bag or its gondola. At the Black Hills bowl, where the flight began, insurance was taken out on more than 200 soldiers, National { Guardsmen and civilians who aided in preparations. Airplanes, automobiles | and motor cycles were insured against | damage to persons or property. The insurance representatives as- serted that this is the first strato- sphere flight to receive such complete | coverage. According to a Teport received by the society from Capt. Stevens, the | gondola and its equipment are a total |loss. Even the films in the special camera were ruined. The spectograph used in making cosmic ray studies was saved when Stevens threw it out with a parachute, Stevens reported as follows: “Gondola squashed like eggshell from impact. The largest piece is about four square feet. All instru- ments except spectograph believed ruined. Spectograph saved by cutting it loose to drop with its parachute. Believe all cameras so smashed that | films and records were ruined. Box encasing barograph (an instrument for recording variations of atmos- pheric pressure) not smashed, but do not know damage to Instrument. Spectograph records not yet exam- ined. | “Flight went according to schedule until accident occurred. After sealing in at 15,000 feet, made slow climb to 40,000 feet, where balloon was leveled |off, and stayed for 45 minutes in equilibrium for purpose of taking readings of cosmic ray instruments. Continued climb gradually for an hour to 60,000 feet and were prepar- ing to start another set of observa- tions for 45 minutes when lower por- tion of the balloon started opening up. Able to Start Down. “Were able to start balloon down- ward despite rapidly-increasing super heat, thanks to pneumatically-oper- ated balloon valve, which worked per- fectly then as well as throughout the flight. Had this valve not worked we would have been helpless, “All scientific apparatus functioned as expected. Bureau of Standards’ electrical thermometers and barome- ters recorded by three instrument cameras, operating synchronously with vertical aerial cameras—this equipment recording every minute and a half throughout flight, includ- ing descent. They were stopped at 10,000 feet because of necessity of making room for getting rid of bal- last. Cosmic ray apparatus construct- ed by Bartol Research Foundation of | Franklin Institute and California In- stitute of Technology functioned per- fectly. Spectographs of University of Rochester and Bausch and Lamb ran continuously. Fan for rotating bal- loon worked even better than expect- ed, making it necesary to turn off motor from time to time to avoid too !rapid rotation. Equipment for con- ditioning air of gondola worked per- fectly, making conditions compara- tively comfortable inside gondola dur- ing flight. he PSS < Merrifield Group to Picinc. MERRIFIELD, Va., July 30 (Spe- | cial) —The Merrifield Improvement | Association will hoid its annual com- munity picnic at Beverly Beach, Md., Wednesday, it has been announced. LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING || BYRON s. 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I inclose herewith TEN CENTS in coin (carefully wrapped) for a copy of the new MAFP OF EUROPE City State ———————————— | | | | I ! i | | : | I | | [ | | | I 161 NON-FEDERAL PROJECTS PUSHED P. W. A. Reports Work Be- gun on Threat to With- draw Allotments. By the Associated Press. The Public Works Administration said today that out of 563 non-Federal allotments, withdrawal of which was threatened 30 days ago because of inactivity, work was under way on a total of 181 projects | In the intervening month 15 allot- ments totaling $2,065700 were with- | drawn. For the most part the recipi- | ents of the remainder of the allot- | ments explained to the satisfaction of | the administration why bids had not been advertised and work not started. The announcement sald, however, “some more of the allotments may have to be rescinded to prevent frees- ing of recovery funds in instances | for various reasons it is impossible to start work.” Investigation disclosed, officials said, | that few of the projects were being | held up because of dilatory tactics or | lack of interest on the part of local | communities. Justifiable reasons have | been responsible for most of the de- | lays, they said Bids Advertised on 107, ‘The slow projects, on which the | warning was issued, had been allotted a total of $158,558,517. The check- up today showed that bids had been ndvertised on 107 of these, totaling | 636,624,076, bids received on 41 total- | ing $6,851500, and work started on 31 totaling $5,536,250. Public works officials sald prelim- tnary work is under way on two other projects, the Platte V-lley and Loup River power and irrigation develop- ments in Nebraska, to which $14,- 800,000 was allotted. Both of these projects have received advances on their funds for work to be done pre- liminary to advertising for bids. Explosion Kills Three. SUNCOOK, N. H., July 30 (#).— | ‘Three men were killed and five in- jured, when a boiler exploded at a portable saw mill of the Bailey Lum- ber Co. in the Allenstown district to- day. Children of the men, playing near the mill, were injured. Your Friend Bought A NEW FORD V.8 from C. Dick Engllish CAPITOL MOTORS 215 Pa. Ave. S.E. DROUGHTT AREA SHEP BY FLANES Timber, Grain, Pasture and Brush Lands Charred in West. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30—Fires swept thousands of acres of dry dmber, grain, brush and pasture lands of the West today The greatest concern was felt in the northern tier of States from the Cascade Mountains in Washington to the Rockies in Montana where rich timber and grain lands were black- ened as hot, dry weather favored the flames. Fire Burns Self Out. In Southern California, § miles from Pasadena, a crew of 2,000 fire- | Nghters watched a blaze burn itself out after sweeping 2,500 acres of timber and brush in the Sierra Madre Mountains. ‘Two thousand acres of timber were destroyed on Kittitas Summit in the Cascades. More than 400 men fought the blaze while 300 others battled two other large North Central Washington fires. In the last five days 135 fires were reported in Wenatchee, Chelan and Colville national forests Roaring along a 20-mile front be- tween Riparia and Penewawa in Eastern Washington, flames destroyed thousands of acres of grain, hay and pasture land. A 2,000-acre grain fire near Stites in Northern Idaho was brought under control yesterday. 2,500 Acres Charred. An 800-acre blaze in yellow pine near Curlew was the most serious of & number of fires in Northern Idaho, while 2,500 acres were charred on Warm Springs Creek in Southern Idaho's worst fire of the year. 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