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,
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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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