Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1937, Page 3

FLYERS PROTECTED FROM ALL BUT SUN Miss Earhart and Navigator Made No Provisions for Tropical Blaze. SAN FRANCISCO. July 3 (A.— Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan fore- saw the possibility of being adrift on the ocean, but likely they did not ex- pect to encounter conditions as trying as being afloat in an airplane or rubber lifeboat on an equatorial sea. Their familiarity with rescues at sea and recognition of the hazards of the 2.570-mile flight from British New Guinea to tiny Howland Island led them to be prepared for such an emergency. Thelr plane itself, with its great lJow wing, six empty gasoline tanks and light aluminum frame made itself a floating raft. They carried a quickly inflatable two-man rubber lifeboat and life belts for a final emergency. They were equipped with flares and a Very pistol to attract rescue ships or planes at | night, and a large yellow signal Kkite for use in the daytime. Special radio | equipment for communication from | the water was also in the plane. Emergency rations and a plentiful supply of water were reported stored | aboard the plane before its takeoff | from Lae. But they could do nothing about the blazing hot equatorial sun. In | the rubber raft they would have no | protection from the sun's direct rays. Even the water remains at a constant | temperature of about 82 degrees. This is nearly 30 degrees above the normal temperature of the ocean at Frederick J. Noonan, wife of t graphed in Oakland, Calif., as the missing plane. THE EVENING George Putnam Palmer, husband of Miss Earhart, and Mrs. he aviatriz’s navigator, photo- they anzxiously await news of San Franciseo g Earhart The possibility of sharks circling | ebout them would add only to their mental discomfort as long as they | stayed afloat in the plane or lifeboat. Noonan, a master mariner who first went to sea nearly 30 yvears ago, has | (Continued From First Page.) directly for the dot of land which the veteran aviatrix and her navigator participated in a number of rescues at sea, although he himself was m‘\er‘ adrift before. | On one occasion he aided in rescuing ! five French soldiers from an ice floe. | Another time he joined in saving the lives to Portuguese fishermen whose boat had sunk. E Jurope (Continued From First Page.) as allies agai v and Germany in the Spanis s—sought fur- ther support among the 27 nations repnhcx.mu in the neutrality system. Firm in Ttalo- to the their rejection of German counter proposals | Anglo-French naval patrol scheme, | envoys of the three powers hoped to | line up other nations behind them | in preparation for a showdown next‘ week In a cold rebuff to a plan that French and British warships extend their zones to fill the patrol gap on the Spanish government coast left by withdrawal of Italian and German | warships last week, the Rome and | Berlin representatives demanded !h(’; whole naval patrol be abandoned and | belligerent rights granted to both government and insurgent forces in Spain Thus five hours of deliberation at the foreign office yesterday ended in complete deadlock, and the com- munique then issued by the directing sub-commitice was being considered | today by the 27 members of the full committee, pending a “full dress” ses- sion next week. While the future of efforts to keep the Spanish war in Spain hung in the balance, the battleships Royal Oak, War Spite and Malaya were re- | ported preparing soon to join the Mediterranean fieet. Provisioning of the Royal Oak at Plymouth for Mediterranean service was an unexpected move, however, since her new orders canceled a sched- uled courtesy call to Milford Haven, Wales. To Relieve Resolution. It was announced the Royal Oak | would relieve the battleship Resolu- tion of its Mediterranean duties. Britain’s prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, donned tweeds and went fishing, while Europe waited tensely for the result of the final attempt to $ave non-intervention in Spain. Informed quarters said there was no chance of compromise on the basis of the Italo-German suggestions, and breakdown of the whole neutrality structure was still regarded in Lon- don as a distinct possibility. Despite the acute situation, British ministers scattered over the country for their week-end engagements as usual. However, it was understood arrangements had been made for royal air force planes to rush them back to the capital should any im- portant developments necessitate their Presence. Meeting Scheduled Monday. A cabinet meeting was scheduled for Monday. Russian and French envoys stood by Britain in her refusal to grant belligerent, rights to both sides of the Spanish conflict, but a German source said Charles Corbin, the French Am- bassador, and Ivan Maisky, the Rus- £ian, and others of the nine-man sub- committee had agreed to submit the Italo-German proposal to their gov- ernments. Informed British sources said five of the sub-group supported Britain's stand, with Portugal “on the fence. Eventual French and Russian rejec- tion of the Italo-German proposal was considered certain. Paris and Moscow Views. Paris and Moscow representatives held that granting belligerent rights would assist Generalissimo Francisco Franco's insurgent junta. The Italo- German plan would permit the rival Spanish navies to fight for control of the sea, but still bar passage of arms across the Franco-Spanish border. The sub-committee also had planned to consider the British pro- posal for withdrawal of foreign vol- unteers from Spain, but this was not discussed yesterday. “You can't put the cart before the horse,” said one official. However, it was reported Count Dino Grandi, the Italian Ambassador, had agreed to a French proposal for with- drawal of foreign soldiers who have been wounded in the nearly year-old war. Comment of Grandi. “I am aware of its high humani- tarian character,” the count said. He also agreed to proposed exchange of Pprisoners between the opposing Span- ish armies—a procedure adopted at various times during the war. Of the three British war vessels or- dered into service around Spain, the admiralty said, only the Malaya act- ually was on its way. !a collapsible rubber boat for use in mysteriously missed. { Lieut. W. W. Harvey, piloting the | plane, was expected to reach the searching area in about 13 hours. which would give several hours of | daylight to survey hundreds of square miles of sea. | Watch for Flares. Throughout the night, the Tasca. | stationed at Howland originally to as- | sist the aviatrix and Noonan, scoured the waters within a 100-mile radius of the island, watching for distress flares. In the glare of a rising sun, officers of the Itasca said, Miss Earhart ap- | parently overshot the island, a mere sand spit a mile and & half long and but 2 feet above the water. and was | forced down a short time later. 1 Exactly where she alighted, no one could say, and just how long the twin- | motored shin could stay afloat was a disputed point. | At Los Angeles, Mrs. E. S. Earhart, | her stepmother, said resolutely: “Iam | ! sure Amelia will come through. “Amelia believes in preparedness,” she said. “If she is in trouble—and somehow I feel she is not—she'll find her way out. I know that she carried case of a forced landing. | Paul Mantz, technical adviser to the | aviatrix, who twice crossed the At- lantic, said in Burbank, Calif., the plane’s six gas tanks would give it buoyancy to stay afloat “indefinitely.” Putnam Is Optimistic. George Palmer Putnam, husband of the missing fiyer, was in constant com- munication with Coast Guard head- quarters at San Francisco. He ex- pressed belief his wife and her com- panion would be found safe. “The plane should float, but I couldn't estimate how long because a Lockheed plane has never been forced down at sea before.” The plane had a two-man rubber lifeboat, life belts, flares, a signa]lkxte and emergency food and water rations, The Itasca began its search as soon as officers determined the ship must have been forced down. Headwinds and static combined to plague the fiyers almost {rom the time they left Lae. They were unable to communicate with the Itasca because of the static and the adverse winds cut speed and increased fuel consump- tion. “We have had no posmon speed or courses from Earhart's plane.” the Itasca radioed headquarters in San Francisco. “We believe it passed north and west of island and missed it in glare of ris- ing sun, although we were smoking heavily at that time. Judge she came down within 100 miles of island.” Within that 100 miles of shark-in- fested waters, however, there are no regular shipping lanes, and tramp freighters seldom course through it be- cause it is barren of inhabited islands or ports. The nearest land is tiny Baker Is- land, 40 miles south, but there is no other for hundreds of miles. Naval officials here declared it would be useless to start surface vessels out to search for the missing couple, be- cause it would take nearly five days to reach the area. The Navy flying boat, of the type that recently flew here from California and from San Diego to Panama, would be able to cover thousands of square miles in a comparatively short while, Navy's Searchers. Aboard the flying boat with Lieut. Harvey were Lieut. W. M. Drane, Jun- ior Grade Lieut. E. S. Lytle, Aviation Cadet P. W. Smith, Radiomen McCor- mick and Williams and Mechanics Curry and English. Naval authorities said they did not at present plan to send additional planes into the search, but that other surface craft might leave Pearl Harbor tomorrow. Fuel intended for Miss Earhart's plane is based at Howland and will be available to the flying boat. Howland Island is a treeless sandspit located strategically on a direct air- line from Honolulu to Australia. Ha- waiian school boys have been main- tained on the island by the United States government to make weather observations. Plans have been made to 1ay out a permanent airfleld. At San Francisco Lieut. Frank Johnson, explaining that the Earhart plane presumably came down at & point 100 nautical miles from How- lana Island, sald he had estimated the drift would carry a floating plane westward at the rate of two knots an hour, about 50 miles a day. Sailing ships ply the area about 300 miles westward, he said. Within nine days, Johnson esti- mated, the floating plane might reach the Gilbert Islands, 420 miles to the west. Temperature of the water in that portion of the Pacific remains con- stant at about 82 degrees. Finder May Be Faulty. Belief Miss Earhart's direction finder was not functioning properly was expressed in a message from the jand henceforth propose to Itasca with reference to the earlier stages of the flight. “Earhart direction finder apparently noet functioning well as could not get Itasca on agreed frequency,” the cut- ter radioed.” “Earhart had barely sufficient fuel under the best conditions to make Howland, where she was expected at 2:18 pm, E. S. T, yesterday.” U. S. SENDS BATTLESHIP, Admiral Leahy Orders Colorado to Join in Earhart Search. The battleship Colorado was ordered | today to join in the search for Amelia | Earhart. The order was issued by Admiral William G. Leahy, chief of naval operations, on the basis of the latest | information available at the Navy De- partment The Colorado reached Honolulu after a cruise from the West Coast with R. O. T. C. units from the Uni- versities of Washington and Cali- fornia. Naval authorities here said the ship | three planes and | these will be utilized to extend the | |it equipped with search for the missing aviatrix and her navigator. Preparation (Continued From First Page) very hard in the last two days repack- | ing the plane and eliminating every- thing unessential. We have éven dis- carded as much personal property as we can decently get along without, lighter than ever before. I have re- tained only one brief case, in which are my papers as well as my extra clothing and toothbrush. All Fred Noonan has is a small tin case which he picked up in Africa. I notice it still rattles, so it cannot be packed very full. Despite our restlessness and disap- pointment in not getting off this| morning, we still retained enougn enthusiasm to do some exploring of native villages a few miles from Lae. We commandeered a truck from the manager of the hotel and with Fred Noonan at the wheel, because the native driver was ill with fever, we set out along a dirt road. We forded a sparkling little river, which after a heavy rain, so common in the tropics, can be turned into a veritabla torrent, and drove through a lane of grass taller than the truck. We turned into a beautiful cocoanut grove before a village entrance. The natives grow the cocoanuts mostly for their own use and few are exported from here for the commercial markets. ‘The village was built more or less around a central open plaza. All huts were on stilts and underneath the dogs and pigs held forth. We were told that the natives train pigs as “watch dogs.” Fred Noonan said he would hate to come home late at night and admit being bitten by a pig. Some of the huts had carvings around under the eaves, grotesque colored animals and crocodiles being the most numerous. They reminded me of the work done by some African natives. In the village were several native women, the first T had glimpsed. One was bending over a small black cook- ing vessel from which protruded two enormous cabbages. I also noticed a number of familiar-looking vegetables which are grown hereabouts, but much of the food used is imported. My only purchase here besides gasoline has been a dictionary of pidgin English for 2 shillings. It was well worth the price to discover that all native women are called Mary. I had some difficulty in understand- ing why “to sew” should be “sew- im-up.” Plane Is “Biscuit Box.” The natives have their own names for everything. For instance, air- planes are called “balus,” or “bids.” Small planes merit only “bai nutung,” or “insects.” My plane has acquired special distinction over all other metal ones here, which have corrugated sur- faces. The Lockheed is smooth and to the native resembles tins in which certain biscuits are shipped from Eng- land. Therefore it is known as the “biscuit box.” I wish we could stay here peace- fully and get to know something of the country. New Guinea is a coun- try subject to earthquakes and I was told that a ’'quake only a year ago shifted several acres of land into the bay, forming the present tiny harbor. They told us that much of the land is really only silt, held to- gether by tangled undergrowth. Along the rivers pieces of “land” Sometimes break off and, as islands, float hundreds of miles to sea before disintegrating. Now and then animals are trapped on them. Then, of course, there is the ever- present jungle to lure one into ex- ploring. Like the desert or sea it has & strange fascination for some hardy souls. We shall try to get off tomor- row, although now we cannot be home by the Fourth of July as we had hoped. (Copyrighs, 1937.) jrow Faderal funds from the Treamry‘ travel | | luxury tax and land levy—were adopt- STAR, WASHINGTO Fear Felt for World Flyers as Search Continues The 250-foot Coast Guard cutter Itasca, stationed at How- land Island, which is now plying the Pacific in search of the plane. | ing July and part of August, officials FREDERICK J. NOONAN, Navigator. —A. P. Photos. \ Taxes (Continued From First Page.) previously eliminated by the House, which would allow the District to bor- | to meet operating expenses. He point- ed out that the $5000000 Federal payment will last only a month. The proposed new 1 per cent land tax bill will result in great complica- | tions and delay in the preparation of new real estate tax bills, Hazen said. The two major committee changes— ed on a combined motion and by a vote of 6 to 3. The three members voting against these substitutions for the House program were Chairman King and Senators Capper of Kansas and Overton of Louisiana. Eliminated first by the House com- mittee and rejected again yesterday | by the Senate committee, the income tax plan appears to be definitely out of the picture. While King and Capper both prefer the income tax, information from the House side is that it would not be accepted there. Capper indicated opposition efforts on the Senate floor may be directed at restoration of the business privilege tax of three-fifths of 1 per cent on gross receipts in place of the luxury sales tax. The 2 per cent rate on luxuries exempts food, clothing and medicine. With the income levy out, King said his preference would be for a modified business privilege tax with a graduated scale instead of a flat percentage rate on all business and professional groups. The 1 per cent increase on land values hits the pocketbooks of prop- erty owners much harder than the House boost from $1.50 to $1.70 per hundred in the general realty rate, and is likely to incur further opposi- tion. The House change in the gen- eral rate would have raised $2,500,- 000 additional, while the land tax in- crease it replaces will require pay- ment of $4,800,000 more by property owners. $2.50 Per Hundred on Land. The Senate amendment means that taxpayers here would bear a rate of $1.50 per hundred on the assessed value of the house or other improve- ment, and a rate of $2.50 per hun- dred on the land. At present a uni- form rate of $1.50 applies to both land and improvements. District officials demonstrated last night it would mean “an increase of 11 per cent in the bill of an individual with a house assessed at $5,000 on a lot valued at $1,000. Such an owner now pays $15 per thousand on the combined valuation of $6,000, or $90. Adding 1 per cent on the value of the land, would make the total bill $100. Taking the land separately, how- ever, the owner now pays $15 as his annual tax on the $1,000 assessment. The 1 per cent increase would make the land portion of his tax $25, or a 3 per cent increase on the lot. On the present total tax levy of $17,175,000 for land and improvements, the $4,800,000 additional to be levied on land is equivalent to a 28 per cent increase in the combined levy. The total tax levy of $17,175,000 is made up of $7,200,000 from land, and $9,975,000 from improvements. Considering the land tax alone, the addition of $4,800,000 to the present $7,200,000, makes $12,000,000 from land, or an increase of 67 per cent. Tax Bill Would Be $21,975,000. If the Senate amendment remains, the total tax bill on land and improve- ments will go up from $17,175,000 to $21,975,000. After the Senate has acted on the bill it will go to conference with the House, where the final verdict will be reached @8 between the two widely different revenue schedules favored by each branch. With each passing day that the bill remains on Capitol Hill the fiscal problem confronting the Commis- .} D. C, SATURDAY i sioners becomes more acute. The | Federal lump sum payment of $5- 000,000 carried in the 1938 appropria- tion act will keep the city going dur- believe, but they stress the fact that the tax rate should be fixed by July 15 if the ledgers and bills are to be ready for the September payments. Because of the changes the Mc- Carran 1 per cent land tax would make in collection machinery if it remains the bill would carry an amendment postponing September tax payments for 90 days Resale Price Bill Added. The Tydings resale price main- tenance bill yas added to the local tax | bill by a vote of 11 to 1, with three‘ District Committee members not vot- | ing. Chairman King waged a lone JULY 3, ! keeps afloat, fight against complicating the Dis- trict tax situation with this national measure, and declared garded it as “unjust procedure.” Sections of the House bill to| strengthen collection of personal taxes, to improve collection of the gas tax without changing the rate and estab- lishing a new motor vehicle weight tax remain unchanged. These fea- tuies, therefore, are virtually settled unless altered in the Senate. The inheritance and estate taxes are | retained, but with fhe increased rates | advocated by Representative Dies of Texas eliminated. Authority to obtain advances of | funds from the Treasury pending local tax collections also was restored, | together with an authorization for a | more thorough study of the whole local tax structure before the next session of Congress convenes in Janu- ary. With this in view, the Senate Committee limited the luxury sales tax and land levy to one year. “Nothing to Compromise.” Members of the House District Com- mittee who helped to draft the tax bill emphatically declare that “there is nothing that can be compromised” and that the terms of the House bill must be restored, in substance Several of the most prominent members of the House subcommittee are out of town and could not be reached, including Chairman Am- brose Kennedy, Democrat, of Mary- land; Representative Everett M. Dirk- sen of Illinois. the ranking Republican member, and Representative Cole of New York. Chairman Palmisano of the District Committee expressed himself us pleased that the Senate took out the 2 per cent business privilege tax, to which he was originally opposed. He is opposed to the so-called “luxury tax” imposed by the Senate, declaring himself “opposed to any sales tax.” He said he could not understand why the Senate took out the insurance fea- ture, upon which he estimated “every one was agreed.” Representative Jack Nichols, Dem- ocrat, of Oklahoma, who ranks next to Chairman Kennedy on the sub- committee, said he felt sure the House conferees would insist on the terms of the bill as passed by the House. He declined to comment on the rider, which is the Tydings bill reported three months ago to forbid any drug store cutting the rates on standard products. It is a national bill to which the President is opposed, hav- ing no relation to the District tax bill, solely for the purpose of tagging it on to some “must’ measure. Nichols pointed out that “the Sen- ate has virtually drafted a new bill, not at all like the House Committee worked up after months of careful consideration and extensive confer- ences with D@trict officials. “There is nothing in it to com- promise,” he said. “We must stick by our own measure, which was care- fully considered,” he emphasized. Insists Senate Is Wrong. Representative Dan R. McGehee, Democrat, of Mississippi, another member of the subcommittee which drafted the House bill, and who will probably be one of the House con- ferees, insists that the Senate is all wrong about.the $2,500,000 estimated yield from the so-called “luxury tax.” He calculates that it cannot produce more than $500,000 to $750,000. The land tax of $1 per $100 of undeveloped real estate, he points out, would put a heavy burden on real estate. This the House Committee tried to avoid. “The House Committee tried to broaden the tax base and ease the burden as far as possible from the shoulders of those who can least afford to pay,” he said. “The bill as reported in the Senate does not reach the people we should make pay a just share of the necessary taxes. The business tax should be worked out to make it equitable and just, so that people doing business here and making money should pay for the privilege and profit they enjoy. The proposed ‘luxury tax,’” which is noth- ing but a sales tax, places the bur- den on the poorer people.” Representative McGehee predicted that the House conferees wili be able to persuade the managers on the part of the Senate that the Senate tax program is unwise and unjust, and that eventually a tax bill more in line with that passed by the House will later he re- | and unfair | | is blessed—the greatest flyer of mod- become law. a 1937, ADVISER CERTA AVIATRIX IS SAFE Officer Who Mapped Flight Believes Plane May Be at Island Near Howland. v the Asboctated Press LOS ANGELES, July 3.--The man who mapped Amelia Earhart's globe- circling flight, Lieut. Comdr. Clarence S. Willlams, expressed belief today that she may have landed at Baker Island, some 40 miles south of How- land Island, the dot of land she missed. Williams said Miss Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, may have over-corrected their course for trade winds. He clung, however, to the be- | lief they were safe “somewhere.” At one extreme of correction on their plotted course they may have gone as far as 180 miles south of Howland Island, he said. Speed of Trade Winds. “During the Summer, particularly in June,” said Williams, “the south- east trade winds blow over part of the course at 23 to 28 miles an hour. This would require the pilot to steer to the right of their course to allow for a drift angle of about 8 degrees. “Near Howland Island, the average winds are easterly, with a force of 18 miles an hour. “The eight degrees may be the secret of why the fiyers did not strike How- land as scheduled. They may have allowed for the effect of a wind which may either have died down during the night or may have been changed al- together by some vagrant storm area. If the fiyers allowed for a drift of eight degrees, and if the wind died down— 50 that this correction was not needed | at all—they might have gone far as 180 miles to the south of Howland Is- land.” May Have Passed Howland. Williams said the Earhart plane | may have passed over Howland Island “when the surface of the sea was covered by fog or haze.” | “In this case,” he explained, “How- | land Island might not have been sighted at all, even though the plane was on its course “If the plane is afloat, it probably will be carried toward the west by the ocean current at the rate of 10 to 40 miles a day. Sooner or later, if it it will wash ashore on | some island, for the current charts | show a drift that might carry Miss Earhart - and Capt. Noonan mm‘ back along their course, past Drum- | mond Island, past Buka Island, past | | New Britain.” Time Needed for Flight. Comdr. Williams said the average speed of 150 miles an hour he as- | sumed in plotting the course would | have brought Miss Earhart from Lae, | New Guinea, to Howland in 17 hours | 2 minutes. Comdr. Williams said of Miss Ear- hart | “I know her as one of the great | personalities of the age, a woman in | whom is merged all the admirable qualities with which the human race | ern times. “Her spirit is deathless. She is one | of the immortals of aviation. I know that she is alive and that she will | carry on until she is rescued.” “CLO. (Continued From Pirst Page.) plained, was ‘“‘disciplinary” and fol- | lowed Martin's investigation of several | unauthorized strikes at Gereral Mo- tors plants. Gov. Frank Murphy deplored Com- munist activities when, at Lansing, yesterday, he said that a recent “labor holiday” in the Michigan capital “had | the characteristics of communisti technique.” Tom Girdler. chairman of Republic Steel: Representative Cox. Democrat, of Georgia, and others have charged that C. I. O. leadership | has come under “‘communistic influ- | ence.” | Bart's statement said that “today j communism is twentieth century | Americanism." | “The American people,” he said, | “heard Girdler * * * shout ‘com- | munist’ against President Roosevelt in the last election, but the answer | of the American people was clear and decisive. Today this same un-Ameri- can gang shouts ‘communism’ against the C. I. O. and §. W. O. C. “There is just as much truth in the | present-day charge as there was in that against Roosevelt. * * * A great people’s movement uniting labor, storekeepers, middle-class folds, farm- ers, professionals and all who defend the Americanism of Washington, Jef- ferson and Lincoln is needed to drive out and defeat these would-be imi: tators of Hitler.” Arrangements for three strike rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Ohio tomorrow were completed by Regional Director Owens. At Johnstown, Pa., where Bethlehem Steel's Cambria works are, a rally of strikers and miners from the surrounding ter- ritory will be addressed by Philip Murray. At Youngstown Clinton Golden, 8. W. O. C. regional director, will ad- | dress strikers. Owens himself will be | the principal speaker at a rally at Canton. | It still was difficult to reach an ac- | curate estimate of the number of men back at work at the plants of the four “little steel” corporations against | which C. I. O. is striking. | —‘ A SCOUT IS THRIFTY $o, when he telephones Mother and Dad o tell them what a swell time e is having at the Jam- bozee, he weits wntil 7 P- m. wookdays, or any- time on Swenday, and tales advaniege of the The €. and P. Telophone Gompany ME wopolitan 9900 L) U.S.Flyer Leading Earhart Search Former D.C.Man Lieut. Harvey Consid- ered One of Outstand- ing Younger Pilots. Lieut. Warren W, Harvey, U. 8. N, who is piloting a Naval patrol sea- plane from Honolulu to search for Amelia Earhart in the vicinity of Howland Island, 1,500 milzs away, is a former Washingtonian. In 1933 he served in the Washington Navy Yard, taking a special course in ordnance. Officials of the Bureau of Aero- nautics said Lieut. Harvey's plane is the same type as those which made the dash from San Diego, Calif., to | Honolulu, and also from San Diego to Coco Solo, in the Canal Zone Naval officials explained the plane | has a cruising radius of around 3,500 miles. Lieut. Harvey is attached to VP- 6-F Aircraft Squadrons based at the naval station at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu. He previcusly served on the battleship California and took a post-graduate course at the Naval Academy. He is considered one of the outstanding younger pilots of the service. Clipper ___(Continued From First Page e Pan-American Airways flyers made to Manila two years ago in prepara- tion for the present trans-Pacific air service. The clipper, a 22!3-ton Sikorsky S-42B, is powered with four Pratt & Whitney engines of 800 horsepower. |She has a cruising radius of abous 3,000 miles at 160 miles an hour. The Caledonia is a 20-ton ship. At the completion of the double crossing, the observations of both crews will be combined in preparation for the establishment of a trans-At- lantic passenger service. Neither pas- sengers nor mail are being carried on the experimental flights. Decorates Car With Stamps. Covering the exterior of his auto- | mobile with 37,700 postage stamps of 60 different countries, a man in France claims to have the most car in the world. A—3 BLANK CHECK PLAN FOUGHT BY MARTIN Bay State G. 0. P. Legisla- tor Hits Suggestion by Roosevelt Board. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The signal for united Republican opposition to the proposal of Presi- dent Roosevelt'’s committee on Gova- ernment reorganization for ‘“approe priations in lump amount subject to executive release and discretion in their expenditure” was given today by Representative Martin of Massa- chusetts, assistant minority leader of | the House and chairman of the Na- tional Republican Congressional Come mittee. “In a little more than four years, President Roosevelt has been given the power to spend, without restrice tion, upward of 15 billion dollars, or more than nine times as much as 30 Presidents were given in a period of 143 years,” Martin pointed out “Instead of erasing the control of Congress over Government spending, we must increase the control by give ing the House and Senate Appropria- tions Committees clerical assistants to keep them better informed regard- ing departmental spending,” he em- phasized. “Give each subcommittee of the House Appropriations Com- mittee one or two good account ants, with authority to check on | the 'departmental expenditures, and | you will save the taxpayers some real | money | Aside from the bill the House Thursday, proposing to add to the White House secres tariat six more “administrative as- sistants” at salaries to be fixed | by the President, at not more than $10,000 each, there is scant prospect of any reorganization legise lation being passed. 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