2—0ld Glory plane, supposedly lost cating Custer state park boy scout in Atlantic ocean, taking off for flight camp in the Black Hills, Paris, talking over war experiences. to Rome. 3-—President Coolidge dedi- NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Five More Aviators and Two Planes Thought Lost in Atlantic. By EDWARD W. PICKARD IVE more lives apparently have been sacrificed to the overween- fog ambition of aviators to make trans oceanic flights, And there may be further additions to the list before this reaches the reader, Tuesday the great monoplane Old Glory, owned by Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, took off from Old Orchard, Maine, on a prejected nonstop flight to Rome. Lloyd Ber- taud and James D. Hill, both experi- enced flyers, were the pilots, and with therm as passenger was Philip A. Payne, managing editor eof the New York Mirror. Near midnight the plane was sighted about 350 miles east of St. Johns, N. F., flying well, though the night was foggy and the sea rough, About four o'clock Wednesday morn- ing steamers and shore stations re ceived the dread 8 O 8 call from the plane. The radio men and the ships gent out frantic calls for position and six minutes later came the reply: “Five hours out from Newfoundland bound west.” The steamships Carmania, Transyl- vania, California and American Mer- chant, all somewhere near the esti- mated position of Old Glory, carefully searched the sea for hours, but no trace of the plane had been discov- ered up to the time of writing. Seem- ingly it was lost without there being an inkling of what had happened to it. even as was lost the St. Raphael and other land planes in which trans- oceanic flights have been undertaken, Anthony H. G. Fokker, designer of the plane, said he thought only engine trouble would bring the plane down, Doctor. Kimball of the weather bu- reau eliminated the weather as a cause, saying there were no severe gtorms in the plane's path, although there was fog and cloudiness, There was some hope that the plane might still be afloat even though res- cue ships were unable to find it. The huge gasoline tank had a dump valve by which it could be speedily emptied and it would thea provide buoyancy for some time. A collapsible rubber raft was carried, but probably the sea was too rough for its use. On board the Old Glory was a wreath which the pilots had prepared in tribute to the French flyers who had made the first attempt. On It was written, ‘"Nungesser and Coli: You showed the way, We followed. Bertand and Payne and Hill" Undeterred by bad weather and ig- porant of the supposed loss of the Old Glory, Capt. Terry Tully and Lieut. James Medealf In the plane Bir John Carling hopped off from Harbor Grace, WN. F., for the last lap of their trip from London, Ont, to London, Eng- land, on Wednesday. At this writing nothing has been heard of them, and it is assumed they, too, perished in the ocean, Schlee and Prock in the Pride of De- troit were making good progress In their globe circling flight for a new time record, despite the fact that they were delayed at Constantinople by red tape. The most perilous part of the trip was the jump from Calcutta to Rangoon. At this writing they are in Hongkong. In Tokyo they planned to install a new motor for the flight to Hawali via Midway Is land and thence to San Francisco, Their Detroit friends were trying to persuade them not to undertake the flight across the Pacific, and Schlee's brothers chartered a boat to meet them at Tokyo and bring them to San Francisco, believing that in that way they could still lower the round-the- world record, Frank Courtney and four compan- fons, who started from Plymouth, Eng- land, for New York, via the Azores, in the flying boat Whale, ran into head winds and were forced to land at Co- runna, Spain, Numerous persons around the Ma. ecareo river.in Venezuelan saw a plane, supposed to have been that of Paul Redfern, on August 27. It was headed a southeast toward the delta of the Orl- noco, which Is uninhabited except for a few Indians. There Is a chance that the Georgia flyer may be found in the jungle. HARLES EVANS HUGHES re- turned last week from a two months’ trip through France, in robust health and so chipper that the report- ers who met the boat sald he had never been so genial. At once he was put high in the list of possibilities for the Republican Presidential nomina- nation, and though he declared to the interviewers that he believed Mr, Cool- idge would be renominated and re- elected, he declined to say that he still stood on his "too old to run for the Presidency” statement, made last May. Politicians in Washington think that of all the potential nominees Hughes would be the one favored by Mr. Cool- idge Many persons have thought Hoover was the President's first choice, but the indications are that these two men are not in such accord as formerly. In the Es: wise observers, ers think Vi the best chance to win the nomination, though they admit Lowden will be hard to beat and that Hoover is per- haps the ablest man in the field, Among the Democrats not much is heard except “Smith” and “antl Smith.” The popular governor of New York was attacked by Assistant Sec- retary of the Treasury Lowman In an address at Buffalo for the fallure of prohibition enforcement in the Empire state. Explaining why the federal gov- ernment does not step in and police the state of New York, he declared that In the face of the “open opposi- tion of the state and local officers, It would require an army of 30,000 pro- hibition agents to handle a proposition like that” Congressman Boylan, Democrat, of New York, sent to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon a vigorous protest against Lowman's speech as a “gross abuse” of his federal office. Nie ENGLAND coast guardsmen scandal. involved in another liquor In Boston five of them and six other men were indicted by a fed- eral grand jury for a rum-running con- spiracy. Federal Investigators charged that protection wigs-obtained In land ing liquor by payments of a certain fixed sum per case, It is further charged that coast guard boats were used in assisting In landings which would otherwise have been diffienlt. One of the accused men was executive officer of the coast guard base in East Boston, While on the subject of booze, it may be noted that the province of New runswick, Canada, ended its eleven years of prohibition last week, The intoxicating liquor act went into effect and retail liquor stores under control of the government were opened, Pur chase permits are not required. ROHIBITION lost its ablest sup- porter when Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and legislative super intendent of the Anti-Saloon league, died at a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich. He had been undergoing treat- ment for a kidney allment and was taken to Battle Creek for an opera- tion, but had improved so much under treatment that it was decided not to operate. Then he took a sudden turn for the worse and died on Monday af- ternoon. The funeral was held in Co- lumbus, Ohio, and Mr. Wheeler was buried beside his wife, who was burned to death a few weeks ago. Whatever may be thought of the merits of national prohibition and of Mr. Wheeler's methods in bringing it about, there can be no question about the skill and perseverance with which he conducted the affairs of the league. He repeatedly demonstrated his pow. er In Influencing legislation and the selection of men for office, and as the general of the dry forces proved him- self to be one of the shrewdest poli. tielans in the country. The league could searcely find one man to fill his place, and It Is believed two will be named to take over his work. BE. B. Dunford, Wheeler's confidential legal adviser, may become general counsel, and some one else the legisintive su- perintendent. The three leading cane didates for the latter position are: A. J. Davis, superintendent of the New York State Anti-Saloon league; Rev, istern states, according to the Republican lead- ce President Dawes has A. J. Barton member of the national ecutive committee, and James White, former superintendent of the State league, mp in the Black hills was uneventful, and he started back to Washington much benefited physically by his sum- mer vacation and ready to tackle such big matters as taxes, ambassadorial appointments, naval building and oth- er questions, The White House, reno- vated, repaired and with a fine new roof, was all ready for his return. All the inhabitants of Rapid City gath- ered at the station to bid Mr. and Mrs, Coolidge farewell, and the President made a little speech expressing his appreciation of their hospitality, The eastward trip was interrupted briefly Saturday at Brookings, 8 D. where the President dedicated the Lincoln Sylvan theater, built for lectures and entertainments for students of agri culture, was not a good one for AST week L tussinn Communists. Down in Bolivia the government made public conclusive proof that the Third Inter. nationale was plotting communist re volt there and in other countries of South America; and at the same time a number of Red leaders were arrest. ed in La Paz and quantities of explo gives were seized. French Nationalists and Conservatives united in demand ing the resignation or recall of Chris tinn Rakovsky, soviet ambassador to Paris, because he signed the Trotzky manifesto urging “all foreign soldiers to join the great Red army” and Invit- ing the Reds of all countries “to work actively to defeat their own govern- ments.” The French foreign office sent such strongly worded Moscow that Chicherin, soviet foreign minister, had to disavow the manifesto, and Rakovsky tried hard to persuade the French that he was not tryiug to stir up trouble In France, At the annual meeting of the British Trade Union congress In Edinburgh the Commu nists were overwhelmingly outvoted and a resolution was adopted cancelling all relations with the Russian trade unions and the Third Internationale, The Pan-German league adopted reso- lutions demanding the dissolution of the Communist party In Germany and league represents the Nationalist ex- tremists and bases its demands on the recent world-wide demonstrations in favor of Sacco and Vanzetti, FENG its eighth annual assem. tions was a decidedly gloomy gather ing. the league's disarmament conference Coolidge naval parley in August, to economic conference was practically devoid of results, Among the notable M. de Jouvenal, Ishii of Japan. resigned, and Baron Dr. Alberto N. Guani, ported by the Belgians, French, Ger Bloklands of Holland submitted a res olution asking for the revival of the past year had proved that actual dis gates criticized the league severely for its failure to bring about reduction of of some of the nations of Europe. Po land's demand for an eastern Locarno guaranteeing its security against Ger many and Russia was supported by France, but Sir Austen Chamberlain and the British delegates looked on it coldly. HINA'S Nationalist government has disclosed the contents of an agreement with Japan whereby the Nationalists undertake . to guarante¢ the protection of lives and properties of Japanese in Natlonalist territory. I is #ald this agreement led to the Japanese decigion to withdraw thelr troops from Shantung, which move ment was accomplished last week. The Christian general, Feng Yu-hsiang wired the Nationalist government thal he was Inunching an offensive against the Northern troops in Shantung prov ince from Honan, > Sandwich Group \ Aoferiita i, QE GION WHERE-BYR will MANE HIS BASE 7 y 7 a HY Yi HIVWJIR ERIS | JHACK IL ETON | ZU COPIR. RICHARD XE ZYED 3y ELMO SCOTT WATSON OMMANDER Richard E. By has try to an explorer, gained hy be ing the first to fiy to the North pole and among the first to make a flight across the Atlas by flying over the South pole within the next two years the least of the interest in this project of the gallant Virginian is its significance as a tween Antarctic and tion, The first man te the South pole was Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, who achieved the goal In 1811. Last year Mr. Amund- sent was in the party which flew a dirigible to the North pole soon after Commander Byrd had made his epic dash there by airplane, Now Com. mander Byrd is going into the regions where Amundsen won his fame——sort of repaying the visit, as it were, But Commander Byrd's project to be more than just a dash to South pole so that he can say he has flown of the earth” It is be an nonstop connecting Arctic reach is the that “to the uttermost ends both North and South. scientific expedition un- twice the size of to the knowledge fo known continent, the United States, of mankind. The two explorers, Amundsen and Scott, who did reach the Pole found only a lifeless plain Several other explorers have skirted along the edge of the great ice fields which surround the Ant. continent and one or two of only to lose their ships or to be frozen in for an Antarctic winter. So that today this great platean, which has an altitude of 10,000 feet in and by crossing It from coast to coast in two directions, by visiting its center and its four corners Commander Byrd Especially does he hope to reveal the fact that there Is on thir con- tinent forms of animal and plant life hitherto unknown to man, and if he is successful it is likely that the penguin, so well known to all ex. plorers in this region, will no longer be the symbol of the Antarctic, just ag the polar bear is the symbol of the Arctic. “1 feel certain that some where in that vast area there are wide stretches of lowland where extreme The Antarctic Record Miles from Dirygalski, Germar Bruce, British ..... —Ad "harcot, French Ehackleton, Brit sh Amundsen, Norwe- KARA Beot British coon Brigg ah. Byrd, American low temperatores do not exist, g lieve that If we are successful in ing such an area we will find a com pletely new form of animal life,” sald Commander Byrd recently. “So far the discovery of animal life In the Antarctic hes been confined to birds fish, seals and a few species of micro- geopie organisms, Inland, where the great plateaus stretch out to the pole, there is nothing. ginks far below that in winter, is too extreme for animal life of any sort. Because of the extreme tempera- tures which Commander Byrd men- tions, as well as several other factors characteristic of that region, Ant. arctic exploration is even more per. jlous than Arctic, factors are the blizzards of high velocity which sweep down from the plateau and these winds, laden with snow and fine particles of ice, often reach a speed of 70 miles an hour, It was in one of these blizzards that the gallant Capt. Robert F. Scott lost his life in that tragic retreat from the fouth pole in 1912 when he perished only eleven miles from his base and safety, The Antarctic has special perils for the aviator-explorer because the wind conditions there are further complicated by numerous mountain ranges and lofty peaks, some of them as high as 15000 feet, and two of them active volcanoes, In view of the perilous nature of this expedition, Commander Byrd is taking unusual precautions and mak- ing the most careful preparations be. fore setting out. It was first an. nounced that he would start this fall, but a later announcement indicates that the size of the expedition and the ar Discovery Lis houses, assemb ake R&R num planes will be her of tek taken, one capable of the other a (o i WO h ree-motor g 14.000 pounds and ship, ingie-n der ith and spare fis otor plane } nl the gmail mman er plane w supplies of food Byrd will load six months’ cans of oil and gasoline and 100 pole. If he he obrervations finds conditions fas land, rable will set up a base, take home base for a sec- short il set down a line of emer. i. Then by a series of From the last of make the long flight to his land if possible, and then return, these he pagt | Ir has not closed in. flights to the southeast and somewhere at the foot of the great plateau. He will also skirt the flying over thousands and thousands of square miles never If all of his plans are successful, for the first time in history, the great Antarctic continent will at last be charted and mapped. Although the exploring will be done mainly by the two planes, it is inter. esting to note that equipment sim- flar to that of previous explorers will be taken along. On his polar flight Commander Byrd will carry a sled, pemmican, to last many months, slpeping bags, oil burners, skils and snowshoes, so that if be is forced to land and abandon the plane he will be able to trek back over the plateau to the home base. It is for this ren- son also that the food supplies will be planted along the route to the pole. And these are only a few of the in. numerable details which must be thought of before the expedition sets out. In this polar expedition, perhaps the most important of modern times, the margin between success and fall- ure will be very small, Nothing will be left to chance and if adequate preparation for every possible con. tingency counts for anything the ex- pedition should be successful and Commander Byrd, the first to reach the North pole by air, will also be the first to carry the Stars and Stripes to the other end of the earth. Byrd will also make coastline, also Profit in Humbugging Barnum would have found a strik- ing fllustration of his idea that peo- ple like to be humbugged in the story of the cripple who, having placed his hat in a convenient position for ree ceiving coing, and having then acck dentally fallen asleep and awakened to find himself richer by $25, turned the discovery to hix continued profit by taking a dose of heroin every day and allowing the public—and his hat ~t0 do the rest. His easy prosperity has been stopped by a cruel judge. Stories as disillasioning as this are printed almost every week. Appar ently there is no way of inducing peo- ple to investigate before they bestow some of their loose change upon any body who stretches out his hand-—or hat-for it.—New York Evening Dost. a Talk With Your Face Nothing so clearly distinguishes the successful person as enthusiasm, When a man is so enthusiastic that his face lights up, his eyes shine, and his voice is vibrant, he compels at- tention and his words carry convie- tion. Learn to talk with your face. The man who never changes sion seldom amounts to eT whose face so registers his thoughts that a deaf person would be drawn to him intensifier his impact mani. fold. A baseball game minus the ey- thusinem would be a dead affair, ine deed. ~-Dr. Henry Knight Miller in Psychology Magazine, *
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