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CASH RELEF HELD “ INDERMINIGL . Mormon Leader at New York . Conference Cites Church Plan Benefits. . Brs the Assoc’ated Press. NEW YORK, May 22—Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon), today asserted cash relief was undermining the morals of tne Nation and suggested a return to the 5ol as one of the means of attacking the problem of want. Here to address the quarterly con- ference of the Manhattan Stake— which corresponds roughly to diocese —of the Mormon Church, President Grant said: “Henry Ford has the right idea. I think he’s one of the greatest patriots of our day. He's given each of his men a small plot of ground to farm for - themselves, so they can raise the truck garden vegetables they need. Church Relief Plan. He said the relief program estab- lished by the church last year was de- signed to “help people to help them- selves.” With that in view, the church de- veloped farm, sewing, canning and handicraft projects, the workers on which received in return such necessi- ties as fresh and preserved fruits and vegetables, clothing, wood, coal, lum- ber, flour, sugar and other necessities. Church fast offerings—donations equivalent to the price of two meals— financed the projects and more than 13,000 persons not in need worked on them, said Grant. The result was a living for 24,317 > church members, nearly all of whom had been on Government relief or were eligible therefor. Most of the economic suffering in the Nation today he blamed on the ‘use of liquor, tobacco, tea and coffee. “If there were no liquor, tobacco, tea and coffee (use of which the Mor- mon ‘Word of Wisdom' discourages) there would be plenty of money and plenty of prosperity. “They ruin far more than they sus- tain by their employment,” he said. “Do you think the country is drink- ing itself back to prohibition?” he was asked. “I don't know, was,” he answered. He asserted repeal increased drink- ing. but I'd hoped it It never was as bad as it is now,” , he said, and he branded as “lies” the assertions that prohibition increased drinking among women and youths. The 80-year-old churchman who came here a year and a half ago to . open the first stake of a church whose birthplace is New York State, will address that body Sunday fore- noon and afternoon. i Win;wr o.f $75,000 In Ice Pack Break Avoids Promoters By the Associatea Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 22— Mervin E. (Buster) Anderson, the bus driver who won $75,000 in the annual Tanana River ice break guessing con- test, tossed his first “fan mail” into a « wastebasket today and served notice “the dames and promoters might just as well save their ink and stamps.” Anderson, 31, said he had not re- ceived any proposals of marriage yet But the schemers are beginning to #hoot letters his way, several with such red-hot bonanzas and deals on the fire that they telegraphed (prepaid, to0). “They're just wasting their money with those kind of messages. All that ‘fan mail' will go unanswered,” said Buster. He sticks with his orginal declaration that he will invest his funds according to his his own ideas “ and the advice of his stepfather, E. H. Strecker, president of the First Na- tional Bank of Fairbanks. Anderson still rolls out of bed at 6§ am. each morning and covers his bus route all day. Anderson won the prize when the dce broke up at Nenana at 8:04 p.m, » May 12, within a minute of the time he had guessed. Anderson also split $3,500 with Billy Root, bus linz operator, when they guessed closest to the time the ice went out to the Chena River here May 11 at 11:31 am. FOUND. SILLFOLD. marked Luetiohar Write g‘x’;’:‘?‘sxms. P. 0. Box 100, Springfield. Va. ANTIQUE BROOCH. with brilliant. Garfleld and Forest lane: Garfleld st.._Cleveland : between reward. 4434 small diamonds: $100 reward. M Lonfellow st. n. T FOX TERRIER. wi aired. male. ‘with brown markings; answers to name of “Pep.” In vicinity of Takoma Park Wed- nesday; reward. John P. Gunn. 202 Van Buren. Geo. 6734, FRATERNITY PIN—Glen Ec Call_Georgia_1747. 25 i GOLD CROSS AND CHAIN, Saturday_or ‘Sunday, either R. I. Pleasant car: reward. ADY'S WRIST WATCH and Cmu\iecncut ave. 1ETT n_envelope. from t0 Wm. M. 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VODOPYANOFF, Pilot and radio operator. rd Flight Duplicated by Soviet Party Latest Feat Recalls Cook-Peary Discov- ery Dispute. the North Pole yesterday duplicated the feat of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, who reached the top of the world by air on May 9, 1926. Lincoln Ellsworth, American ex- plorer: the Norwegian, Capt. Roald Amundsen, and the Italian fiyer, Um- berto Nobile, were aboard the dirigible Norge which crossed over the North Pole May 13, 1926. ‘The dirigible Italia, commanded by Nobile, cressed the North Pole twice on May 24, 1928. Fourteen other men were aboard with Ellsworth, Amundsen and Nobile on the Norge's flight. Dr. Frederick A. Cook came into prominence in September, 1909, by de- claring he had discovered the North Pole on April 21, 1908. The late Admiral Robert E. Peary announced he had discovered the pole on April 6, 1909. Both men gave their messages to the world while en route back to civ- ilization from the frigid zone. A con- troversy raged on both sides of the Atlantic as to who had discovered the pole. Peary made his announcement at Indian Harbor, Labrador. Cook was feted and received with honors at Copenhagen, Denmark. Finally a committee was named to inspect the data filed by Dr. Cook with the University of Copenhagen, with the result that it was voted in- sufficient to support his claim. Cook and Peary’s zxpeditions were made by ship and sled. Pole (Continued From First Page.) supplies to be flown from Rudolf Island. Four craft at the new airfield on Rudolf Island, about 560 miles from the Pole, were being loaded with sup- plies and instruments for the air base and weather observatory essential to the working out of the polar air line from Russia to the United States. Seventeen men had spent the long Arctic Winter on Rudolf Island, about 82 degrees North and 60 East, where they had established the settlement that until now was the most northerly in the world. Four of the eleven men whe formed the daring party will remain at the permanent base at the North Pole for a year studylng conditions in the polar “birthplace of weather.” They are Ivan Papanin, in command of the base; Ernest Krenkel, radio operator; Pyotr Shirsov, a hydro- biologist, and Eugene Federov, mag- netologist. In preparation for their lonely vigil, the quartet spent the week of Feb- ruary 19 to 25 in a tiny tent 13 miles outside of Moscow—symbolically the same distance they now are from the Pole—living, working and studying in 8 dress rehearsal of their life on top of the world. With the 38 other members of the party, they left Moscow March 23 to Jjoin the rest of the expedition which already was at work on Rudolph Island. At that time, high officials denied the group was aiming at the North Pole. Secrecy about their departure typi- fled that which had guarded the years of work leading up to the 6-hour and 10-minute flight over the Polar wastes. Final Plans Last Summer. Final plans were begun last Sum- mer when the ice breaker Rusanoff sailed for Rudolf Island with the final consignment of equipment and sup- plies. The project almost ended in premature disaster when the Rusanoff was caught in the ice pack, saving it- self only after days of struggle. As a result of the completeness of the preparations, it was disclosed to- day, Dr. Schmidt expressed full confl- dence in the success of the mission in an interview secretly given more than a month ago. “For many years,” he said, “we have envisaged a station at the North Pole to study weather as an aid to our work in the Far North. The Wintering ) The Soviet aviators who flew over | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1937. I.UXURIES N HUT Wheeled to Murder Hearing Starting Pole Air Base V. S. MOLOKOFF, Pilot. Map showing the approxi- mate route of the flyers. They are presumed to have started from the base at Archangel (A), then to the next base at Rudolph Island (B) and thence to the North Pole. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. party is equipped to study the speed and motion of ice drifts and air cur- rents, measure the depth of the sea and study any plant or animal life. “Radio is vital to the success of our plan because the airplanes which wiil fly the region in the future—even to America—will be able to orient them- selves by it and recelve weather ie- ports.” The radio station to be set up wiil have 70 watts power and will be equipped to operate on both short and long waves. Amateur operators all over the world are expected to be able to communicate with the new settle- ment at the North Pole. The station will be centered about & little black, fur-lined hut, 10 feet long and 6 feet 9!, inches wide, equipped with many of the comforts of home. The four men will have 48 different kinds of food, including concentrated meat from 5,000 chickens, concentrat- ed eggs, milk and sausage. Over heavy woolen underwear, they will wear shirts of reindeer fur, wolf for stockings and fur trousers. No effort will be made by the quartet to keep the some 1,000 miles of ice floe that will be their “yard” anchored to the pole. ‘They plan to let it drift as it will, making their observations over as large & region as possible. Route Long Considered. The observations were expected to determine the feasibility of the air route from Moscow to San Francisco by way of the North Pole, a project that has been seriously discussed by Soviet aviators and scientists for some time. Such an air route presumably would lie slightly northeast from Moscow to Rudolf Island and from there in a straight course over the pole to San Francisco. The distance from Moscow to the North Pole is about 2,000 miles; from the Pole to San Francisco is about 3,000 miles. The present base at Rudolf Island is approximately 1,500 miles airwise from the Soviet capital. Dr. Schmidt's expedition made the |- 560 miles from Rudolf Island to the Pole in five hours and 45 minutes, circling over the earth’s axis at 11:10 a.m. Rudolf Island time (approximate- ly 2:10 am. Eastern standard time Friday). After 25 minutes of looking for a suitable landing place, the plane was brought to rest. Dr. Schmidt became known as an explorer in 1928 when he was a mem- ber of the Soviet-German expedition which mapped a large glacier 1n Northwest Pamir, West Central Asie., In 1929 he was aboard the ice- breaker Sedoff with the research party that built a permanent scientific sta- tion in Franz-Josef Land in the Arctic and in 1930 he made a voyage to No- vaya Zemlya in the same region of the Arctic Circle, discovering a num- ber of islands, ane of which was named in his honor. Dr. Schmidt was head of the almost disastrous Bering Strait expedition aboard the icebreaker Cheliuskin in 1934 when his vessel was caught in the ice for five months before being crushed off Kamchatka. He supervised the abandonment of the ship and maintained discipline despite hardships until Soviet aviators picked more than 100 survivors off the ice in-one of the sagas of modern avia- tion. All four members of the Wintering expedition are Arctic veterans, al- O.tlnouxh the youngest is but 27 years old. Papanin, who was born in 1894, served in the World War with the im- Pperial Russian fleet and was the leader of the fleet mutiny in Leningrad. Later he became military commissar and helped organize the Cheka or se- cret police. Afterward. he turned to scientific work and was first manager of the polar station in Franz-Josef Land. Krenkel, 12 of whose 33 years have 1 OF POLAR PARTY Soviet Scientists Prepared for Year’s Stay to Study Area. Br the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 22.—There's a little black hut at the North Pole today, fitted out with some of the luxuries of home, and ready for a year's occu- pancy. Tenants of this portable, fur-lined domicile are the Soviet scientists, Ivan Papanin, Ernest Krenkel, Pytor Shir- sov and Eugene Federov. They arrived last night in a Soviet expedition headed by Prof. Otto Schmidt, and were 80 sure they would arrive that Papanin left behind a complete description of his new home and a detailed list of its contents. First it is 10 feet long and 6 feet 9'; Inches across, a little undersize for the normal four-person house. It is black in order to distinguish it from its 1,000-mile front yard of gleaming ice, and it has windows made of a transparent plastic sub- stance developed in the Soviet Union. Portable on Ice. All over all it only weighs a little over 352 pounds. This is so it can be moved from the path of cracking ice. “Preparations for the expedition be- gan last February,” Papanin, leader of the four, said in the interview, re- leased this morning. “The ice breaker Rusanoff took fuel and a heavy cargo of scientific equip- ment to Rudolph,” he said. “We took clothing and fuel for 18 months and we have a powerful wireless station powered with a windmiil and storage batteries.” And without a doubt they have the most inviting larder in the Arctic Circle. They took along concentrated chicken meat from 5,000 chickens. ‘They have concentrated eggs and milk and sausage. In all they have some 48 different kinds of food, all of a high caloric value. Reindeer Fur Shirts. ‘The clothing is a little out of the ordinary, too. They'll wear shirts of reindeer fur, wolf fur stockings and fur trousers. And under all this, of course, woolen underwear!” “We'll organize for day and night duty,” Papanin said, “in order to keep constant scientific readings and | watch for ice-jamming. “Hourly meterological readings will be made. This will be difficult, but we want to obtain the fullest scientific data about the central part of the Arctic Ocean.” Planes will fly food and other ma- terials to them periodically, and the supplies will be distributed at several bases in order to prevent complete loss in any catastrophe. The entire scheme was minutely planned. There's even a little dog along to watch for marauding bears. s STRIKE IS THREATENED IN MEXICAL! VALLEY Labor Union Demands Return of Confiscated Land to Small- Scale Farmers. By the Associated Press. MEXICALI, Baja California, Mex- ico, May 22.—The powerful C. R. O. M. Labor Union threatens to call a gen- eral strike here next week, unless all of 29,000 acres of confiscated land are returned to small-scale farmers in the Mexicali Valley. Juan Buelna, farm leader, charged that, whereas the government and agrarian colonists had agreed to re- turn 29,000 acres, only 17,000 had been given back to small-scale farm- ers. He said the Mexican government was willing to reimburse the farmers, but the latter preferred farms to money. PLAN EXPORT TAX Cuban Cabinet Reported Agreed on 5 Per Cent Levy. HAVANA, May 22 (#).—The cabi- net was reported today to be planning a tax of 5 per cent on all funds sent out of Cuba. The rate was said to represent an increase over the 3 per cent tax tenta- tively agreed on a few days ago and was taken to offset a decision against proposals to increase the gross receipts tax from 1% to 2 per cent. Another revenue measure under- stood to be under consideration was a tonnage tax on mineral exports to produce $1,000,000 a year. The new taxation was intended to produce $9,000,000 to take the place of & profit on $20,000,000 of silver coin- age which will be discontinued for the present. —_— been spent in the Far North, was radio communication officer with the Antarctic expedition of Admiral Rich- ard Byrd in 1930. He flew over the North Pole in a dirigible expedition and was chief radio operator aboard the ill-fated Cheliuskin. Shirsov, the hydro-biologst, who was born in 1905, began working in the Far North in 1931 and was also aboard the Cheliuskin, Federov, the youngest of the four, although he is only 27, has been work- ing in the Northland since 1932 on magnetic waves and has spent several Winters in the Arctic Circle. POLE DISPUTE UNLIKELY Only Open Sea With Ice Floes Charted by Explorers. Official sources here saw slight like- lihood of any dispute arising between countries over the landing of a Rus- slan aerial party at the geographical North Pole. They pointed out that deep, open sea exists at that point, across which drifts occasional ice floes such as the one on which the Rusian airmen established their base. Both Government and geographical exploration sources believed that no governmental claim had been made to the spot by any of the explorers who have sledded to or flown over the Pole since the turn of the cen- tury. RESORTS. Mountain Resort and Mineral Spring FOR RENT, LEASE OR SALE d h bui] suitable o amaodate a0y uste a rom - alkaline e attrace 18 court, George McKibbon, 41-year-old paralysis victim, who is con- fined to a wheel chair, shown as he was wheeled into court by attendants at Los Angeles for a preliminary hearing on a charge he beat his mother, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth McKibbon, 79, so severely last April 19 that she died. PARALYTIC TO FACE TRIAL IN SLAYING Invalid Confined to Wheel Chair Accused of Beating His Mother to Death. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 22.—An in- valid confined to a wheel chair by paralysis must undergo trial on charges of beating his mother to death. George William McKibbon, 41, was | bound over to Superior Court after a preliminary hearing in which tes- timony 6f quarrels with 78-year-old Mrs. Elizabeth McKibbon featured. Detective Lieut. Warren Hudson said McKibbon admitted after his arrest he had quarrels with his mother several times, the last on April 19 “She had threatened to take away his wheel chair to compel him to stay in bed,” said Hudson. “McKib- bon told me they got to fighting and he slapped her.” Mrs. Mamie Freeman testified that when her sister, Mrs. McKibbon, was brought to the Freeman home April 19 her face and body were bruised and her clothes soaked with blood. She was removed to a hospital, where she died 10 days later. McKibbon did not testify. Frightened Horse Damages Autos. PHILADELPHIA, May 22 (#).—The sound of one blow of a blacksmith's hammer sent a frightened horse on a runaway course yesterday, in which | three automobiles were damaged and an 8-year-old boy was knocked down. But the smith had no intention of shoeing the horse; he was only re- pairing the wagon. $3.950 MARYLAND PARK 7 MILES FROM U. S. TREASURY. 5 ROOMS. BATH AND PORCI L. W. GROOMES 1719 EYE ST. N.W. CAREFULLY CL 1 A ombedlid L CLEANSED AN ANSED D REFINISHED a —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Stone Is Central | Figure in Mural Depicting Justice Artist Says He Typifies Law Leading People | to Better Life. B+ the Assoctated Press. Justice Harlan F. Stone of the Su- preme Court is the central figure in 8 new mura! at the Justice Depart- ment depicting the triumph of jus- tice. Leon Kroll of New York, the artist, said today the justice represents “law leading the people to a more abundant 1life.” | The justice frequently has voted for | New Deal legislation. He is shown on | the crest of a hill, reaching a helping hand to a group of people climbing from a valley which represents chaos. The artist said he chose Stone “be- | cause he had the best-shaped head. | “Attorney General Cummings’ bald head just wouldn't do.” Kroll said the justice chuckled when asked if he objected to being por- trayed 20 years younger than he actually is. “Whoever does?” Stone replied. ‘The justice’s portrait is “slightly idealized” because, it was explained, | dark hair shows up better than gray | against the light sky of the painting. | Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St. N. Corner of 12th and “ GRACE GRAY DELONG Reader and Adviser W, g Psychometry Delineations Daily Hours: 11 AM. to ® P.M. Telephone MEt. 5231 REDS BACKC.L.0, GREEN DECLARES Quotes Dispatch Sent to Soviet Paper—Holds Con- dition Cause of Split. By the Asscciated Press. Willilam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, charged last night that the Committee for In- dustrial Organization is being sup- ported by Communists. In a radio address, Green asked the Nation to consider a dispatch saying that the Communist party is energeti- cally aiding strike activities of John L. Lewis and nis industrial union allies in the C. 1. O. Green read an article from the New York Times which said Moissaye J. Olgin, New York correspondent of the Russian newspaper Pravda, had sent the dispatch to his paper. The Russian writer reported, Green said, that the strikes led by Lewis' C. I. O. are of great political signifi- cance. Olgin also sald, Green related, that the American proletariat is re- sorting to strikes as part of the class struggle. “In the light of this information,” the A. F. of L. president said, “no person in the United States need be deceived regarding the real cause of the split and the division which has occurred within the ranks of labor. “Working people and their friends can now more clearly understand the influences which are at work in the C. I O. movement and the support which is being given it by the Com- munist party and the speakers and representatives of communism in the United States.” The Committee for Industrial Organ- ization is under suspension from the American Federation of Labor on “in- surrection” charges. Green has de- nounced the sit-down strikes which Lewis led recently in the automobile industry. SMITHS IN NAPLES Former New York Governor and Wife Expect to See Pope. NAPLES, Italy, May 22 (/) —Alfred E. Smith, a good sailor on his first trans-Atlantic trip, arrived today. He and Mrs. Smith reached Naples on the Conte Di Savoia. The former New York Governor said he was happy to say he was not a bit seasick. The Smiths will remain here until Monday, when they go to Rome. Smith expects to see the Pope. 1223 Eye St. N.W. A Tryst With Beauty, A look into the future is an absolute necessity when the im- portant decision is being made of where to live. You can fashion & house, but you can’t indi- vidually control a neighborhood. A home is more than a house— it is & house, plus neighborhood and environment. That is the charm the W. C. & A. N. Miller Communities of Wesley Heights, Spring Val- ley and Westerleigh give to the distinctive homes with which they are being developea—mak- ing a tryst with natural beau=- ties, gloriously entrancing, pro- tected by a rigidly exercised control of environment and of buying personnel. At 3106 Foxhall Road is a dis- tinguished example of what liv- ing in Wesley Heights, Spring Valley and Westerleigh means in serenity and invested value. Drop in and see this newly com- Ppleted home, which is open every day. W.C. & A. N. Miller, office 1119 17th Street. 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