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TO DR. TOWNSEND
Penthouse to Be Provided
Pension Club Founder
Atop Building.
My the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH. Calif.. February
27. — John H. Betts, president of
Townsend Club No. 2 here, said today
members of the 52 clubs in the eight
eenth California congressional district
have approved plans for a $1,000,000
memorial here to Dr. Francis E. Town
aend.
He said the memorial building would
be used for humanization purposes and
would be financed through voluntary
subscriptions of Townsend club mem
bers and the public on the basis of 5
cents a month for six months.
Townsend, who is in Washington
awaiting sentence on conviction of
contempt of the House of Representa
tives, will be provided a penthouse
atop the building, Betts said. A bronze
atatue of the founder of the Townsend
old-age plan would be erected in front.
NEW TRIAL SOUGHT.
Motion to Be Argued Friday in Fight
Against Contempt Conviction.
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, who was
convicted Wednesday of contempt of
the House, filed a motion for a new
trial in District Court yesterday.
The motion probably will be argued
Friday, and must be overruled before
the aged pension chief may be sen
tenced. The maximum penalty for
the offense is imprisonment for one
year and $1,000 fine.
A jury found Dr. Townsend guilty
of contempt in walking out of a hear
ing of the Bell Committee, which was
Inquiring into the activities of old
age pension organizations. The phy
sician is the founder and head of
Old Age Revolving Pensions. Ltd.
In asking for a new trial. Dr.
Townsend charged Trial Justice Pey
ton Gordon erred in denying his mo
tion for a directed verdict and in re
fusing to permit him to present to
the jury evidence in justification of his
departure from the presence of the
committe.
He also objected to the court's in
gtruction to the jurors that they must
find him guilty if they believed he
was regularly summoned, that he ap
peared. and then willfully left the
hearing room without permission.
The jury should have been in
Itructed, he contended, that they could
find him guilty only if the evidence
showed he did not appear before
the committee.
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Howland Island, Speck in Pacific,
To Be Miss EarharVs Landing Spot
The American colony at Howland Island, a sand-strewn coral reef in the Pacific, 1,600 miles
from Honolulu. _ __
Another view of Howland Island, illustrating the width of the reef. Just beyond the dark
strip of land the sea merges with the horizon. •—Pan-Pacific Press Bureau Photos.
BY C. B. ALLEN.
Howland Island, the mid-Paciflc
speck of land 1.800 miles southwest
of Honolulu, which Amelia Earhart
and her navigator, Capt. Harry Man
ning, must reach at the end of their
27,000-mile round-the-world flight's
second leg, is one of three such islands
secretly colonized by the United States
Government two years ago as a means
of banishing all doubts concerning its
claim to what little soil they boast.
The others are Baker and Jarvis, the
! former only 35 miles from Howland,
j the latter 1.000 miles due east from
them on the Equator and at the geo
graphical center of the Pacific.
The sudden importance attached to
j these islands, after they had been al
most completely ignored and neglect
ed for more than half a century, is
the result of a new air-consciousness
that dawned in the Pacific with Pan
; American Airways’ establishment of
a regular commercial route across the
world's largest ocean from California
to the Orient. Like Midway and Wake,
Howland, Baker and Jarvis are stra
i teglcally located to serve as invalu
: able links in America’s growing dream
! of aerial empire and the Government's
' previous disregard for them has trans
formed itself into a vigilant solici- !
I tude.
Convenient Stepping Stones.
Howland and Baker lie at conven
ient aeronautical stepping-stone dis
tances on a direct route between the
United States, the Hawaiian Islands j
and Australia, while Jarvis enjoys a
: similar position on a line linking
Honolulu with New Zealand. Serious j
! consideration is now being given to ;
the establishment of both such routes. |
hence the new-found value of these I
tiny islands to the United States.
Unlike Midway and Wake Islands.
Howland and Baker are little more
than sandbars in the ocean on Miss
Earhart’s course from Honolulu to
New Guinea and Northern Australia.
They have no central lagoon of shel
tered water where giant flying boats
such as Pan-American uses in Its
Pacific service can land and take off;
the only possible haven they offer is
to land planes. However, many avi* j
ation experts hold that most trans
oceanic flying will be done in the
future by fast dry-land aircraft rather
than by slower and more cumbersome
flying boats, complete trust being put
on motor dependability and reserve j
power to keep them in the air until I
they reach their scheduled landing
places.
Serve Army and Private Lines.
For this reason the Department of
Commerce, which moved originally j
to colonize Jarvis, Baker and Howland 1
Islands, and the Department of the
Interior, which has now taken over
maintenance of the project, decided
to develop them as midocean airports
for possible future use by trans
pacific airline operators. They al
ready are rendering important service
to Pan-American Airways, the Army
and Navy flying services and other
“clients” of the United States
Weather Bureau in the Pacific area as
outlying aerological stations which
supply daily radio reports on storms
and other conditions that may vitally
affect the activities of these agencies
More work has been done toward
making the surface of Howland Into
a serviceable landing field than at
either cf the other two islands—pos
sibly because there is gallantry even
in government and Miss Earhart was
the first flyer to suggest putting the
country’s new ‘'conquest" of these
islands to practical use. Unless there
is some slip-up in her plans she will
be the first pilot ever to land an air
plane there—and probably the first
woman ever to visit Howland Island.
The present Howland personnel, in
cluding four Hawaiian high school
boys who are the regular “colonists,"
and a construction crew of eight men
sent there last month with a tractor,
scraper, grader and other equipment
needed to condition the runways, will
have several landing and take-off
areas ready for Miss Earharts use
when she starts her world flight next
month from Oakland, Calif.
Mile-Long Runway.
One of these runways, according to
William T. Miller, Bureau of Air
Commerce representative in charge of
the 1935 colonization of the Line or
Equatorial Islands, as Howland, Baker
and Jarvis are called, will be at least
a mile long. This should be ample
for Miss Earhart's requirements, al
though the 3.550-mile flight from
Howland Island to Lae, Hew Guinea,
Is the longest jump on her entire
globe-girdling adventure and her "ty
ing laboratory,” consequently, will
have to lift its heaviest fuel load on
the take-off from Howland. Other
runways which have been cleared
vary in length from a half to three
quarters of a mile and can be used
for landing purposes if the wind hap
pens to be blowing across the long
one when Miss Earhart arrives there.
The island itself is approximately
two miles long and three-quarters of
a mile wide. It is nearly flat, the
highest portion being only about 15
feet above sea level, the lowest section
being the center of the island as
though it might have been formed
from a narrow coral atoll, the lagoon
of which eventually' became filled up.
Howland is. in effect, a shallow' trough
of coral sand and sparse vegetation,
the center of which is only a few feet
above the level of the Pacific.
U. S. Makes Survey.
In a report on a survey of the Island
made last August. Mr. Miller says:
“There is no ridge surrounding this
island; a broad, sandy and in some
spots gravelly beach slopes upward at
a slight angle on the western side of
the island. On the windward or
eastern side, there is practically no
beach, the island rising abruptly to
about ten feet in height from the
reef.” The latter surrounds the
island completely with dangerous
shallows except that it is about 50
yards wide and flat on the leeward or
western side of the island, affording
an easy landing for small boats ex
cept at low tide when the reef is
awash.
Alter the Bureau of Air commerce
decided that definite title to Howland,
Baker and Jarvis Islands was indis
pensable to America's plans for the
aerial development of the Pacific, it
consulted the State Department and
was told they already belonged to the
United States. It was admitted, how
ever, that England might raise a con
flicting claim, both countries having
listed them as island possessions and
granted concessions for their exploita
tion in the guano-digging days of the
last century. But it was pointed out
that both countries had abandoned
them, that they had remained unin
habited for a long period of time and
that whoever first moved to colonize
them would gain undisputed posses
sion under the provisions of Inter
national law.
Expedition Kept Secret.
Acting on this advice, the Depart
ment of Commerce, in January. 1935,
quietly instructed Mr. Miller to proceed
to Honolulu and just as quietly organ
ize an expedition to colonize the three
islands. This he did, recruiting for
colonists 20 Hawaiian boys 18 to 24
years old from the famous Kameham
eha Schools established by the Bishop
estate, Elbert Judd, president of the
Bishop Museum in Honolulu, lending
him every assistance and co-operation
to keep the expedition a secret. Tents,
food supplies and other equipment
were supplied by the Government and
Mr. Miller sailed for the Equatorial
Islands aboard the Coast Guard cutter
Itasca with his enthusiastic charges
on March 20. It was not until October,
nearly eight months later and long
after a group of four camping-out
colonists had been established on each
of the three islands, that a news
"leak” on the cartographical coup
d'etat was arranged and it was re
vealed to the world that Howland,
Baker and Jarvis were now indis
putably American territory.
On its colonization cruise the Itasca
spent five days at each of the islands,
Mr. Miller superintending the work of
putting the "settlers" and their sup*
plies ashore—including an ample
amount of fresh water carried on the
Itasca in 50-gallon steel drums—and
in helping them to establish camp.
Other Islands Visited.
Previous survey calls had been made
at Kingmans Reef and Palmyra Island
to determine the feasibility of their
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future use as Pacific air bases and,
after disembarking its 12 colonists
• eight of the 20 volunteers taken
along were in the nature of "spares ’
against the passible outbreak of sick
ness or homesickness among the chosen
12), the Itasca made similar visits
to Swains, Tutuila and Johnston Is
lands, then refueled at Pago Pago and
revisited the mid-Paeiflc colonies on its
way back to Honolulu. Mr. Miller re
ported that the personnel was "com
fortable. satisfied and happy" as well
as physically fit, a fact ascertained
through careful examinations con
ducted by the Itasca's doctor.
The Coast Guard cutter left Hono
| lulu again on June 9. 1935. visiting
Kingmans Reef, Palmyra. Baker. Jar
1 vis, Howland and Johnson Islands
and leaving supplies and water at the
three colonized ones. A third expe
dition by the Itasca in September re
lieved some of the personnel at How
land, Baker and Jarvis with fresh
colonists from the Kamehameha
Schools, those taken back to Honolulu
including several foot ball players
whose outdoor life, fishing, swimming
and developing their temporary island
hermitage had put them in the pink
of condition. They also returned with
a tidy sum of spending money due
them on arrival in Honolulu, each
colonist receiving $3 a day for the
time spent on the islands.
"Claims’’ Held Valid.
The Itasca’s next visit to the Equa
torial group was in January, 1936. the
vessel continuing to Samoa, where it
i remained about a month. On the
return trip in March, the entire per
1 sonnel at Howland. Baker and Jarvis
was picked up and returned to Hono
lulu, the Department ot Commerce
acting on the theory that a year's
continuous occupation of the island
was sufficient to insure permanent title
to them by the United States.
This view’, however, was not shared
by the State Department and, after
the Government had decided that con
tinued colonization of the island
should be a responsibility of the De
partment of the Interior rather than
of the Department of Commerce, the
islands were recolonized on the same
basis as before in June. 1936—no other
: nation meanwhile having "jumped
! claim” on them—and put under the
supervision of Richard B. Black, field
representative of the Department of
the Interior, who visited them with
Mr. Miller in July.
Houses Succeed Tents.
On this trip the Itasca carried
three prefabricated houses to take
the place of the tent shelters formerly
used by the colonists, and the Govern
ment architect who had designed
them went along to supervise their
erection. They consisted of a living
and radio room, a bedroom and a
kitchen, with a large front porch
opening off the living room. Navy
experts from Honolulu instructed the
colonists in the technique of taking
surface and upper air weather data
and left them the necessary equip
ment for such observations; since last
August information has been re
layed dally by radio to Honolulu from
both Howland and Jarvis Islands;
Baker being so near the former that
it was felt there was no need for it
i to send out separate reports.
The Government's policy with re
spect to its three new colonies is to
change all personnel every six months,
relieving any who become ill or dis
contented whenever a boat calls with
supplies. Each island has been pro
vided with an 800-gallon water stor
age tank which the colonists have
buried in the sand to protect their
contents from the tropic sun. and
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these are constantly replenished by
rainfall collected on the flaring roofs
of the colony houses.
Palm Trees Transplanted.
Palm trees have been transplanted
from Palmyra to the new colonies,
and their flourishing condition gives
promises of a future supply of fresh
coconuts. Other tropical food plants
have been taken to the islands from
Hawaii or elsewhere and are growing
satisfactorily. The colonists supple
ment their supply of canned and
dried foods with fish which they catch
in the surrounding shoal water, lob
sters similarly procured, occasional
sea turtles and eggs and meat ob
tained from the thousands of birds
that populate the islands. Miss Ear
hart should fare very well at How
land, even if weather or other con
ditions necessitate her remaining
there longer than the one-day stay
which she now contemplates.
According to Mr. Miller, the oaly
vegetation of any size on Howland
Island is a thicket of Kou trees about
a quarter of a mile long and IOC yards
wide In the center of the Island, and
these rise to a height of less than 12
feet. Both he and Miss Earhart are
a little worried, however, over the pros
pect of the fearless birds which fre
quent the island flying up in front of
her airplane on the take-off with
possibly disastrous results to a pro
peller. Consequently, those on the
islands have been instructed to use
shotguns and other noise-making ex
pedients to clear the island tempo
rarily of bird life for her when she is
landing and taking off.
Cutter to Give Aid.
The Coast Guard cutter Roger B
Taney, which is to stand by at How
land until she passes through on her
trans-Paciflc flight, not only will give
the “flying laboratory" radio bearings
as it approaches from Honolulu, but
will send up dense clouds of smoke
from its boilers, which should be vis
ible for nearly 100 miles, about the
time Miss Earhart is due.
Howland and Baker Islands lie not
only nearly on the equator, but are
close to the international date line,
where Miss Earhart and Capt. Man
ning will lose an entire day soon after
taking off for New Guinea. The lat
ter seems to have been discovered in
1832 by Capt. Michael Baker and
subsequently named after him. How
land was first sighted 10 years later
by Capt, George E. Necker of New
Bedford, Mass, and 15 years later
the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally laid
claim to both islands for the United
States, chiefly because of their rich
guano deposits which subsequently
were worked for about 20 years
both by American and British com
panies. England also claiming title to
the islands.
Relics of Polynesians Found.
With the decline of this industry,
due to more efficient commercial
means of producing fertilizer, inter,
national interest in the islands
suffered a complete lapse until avia
tion brought them out of limbo and
made them once again something more
than a pair of specks on charts of the
Pacific.
Traces of their earlier occupancy
still remain—two old fresh-water
cisterns on Howland that were used
: by the guano diggers and not far
i away 18 graves of those who either
j died in this industry or were brought
' ashore and buried by passing ships.
At one point their modern explorers
have even found what they deem to be
traces of a still earlier Polynesian
! civilization—a series of flat stepping
stones leading out across the fringing
coral reef.
(Copyright. 11137.)
200 Y. W. MEMBERS
TO MEET TUESDAY
Business and Professional Club
to Join 51 Countries in Annual
Celebration.
Two hundred members of the Y. W.
C. A. Business and Professional Wom
en's Club will meet Tuesday night in
1 Barker Hall for the annual celebra
■ tion. At the same time Y. W. C. A.
business women will be holding sim
ilar meetings in 51 countries through
out the world, all having as their sub
ject, “Actions for Peace.”
Dr. Arthur D. Call, editor of World
Affairs Magazine and secretary of the
American Peace Society, founded in
1828, will speak on “Our Country's
Gift to World Peace.” Miss Mabel
Vernon of Wilmington. Del., director
of the campaign for the People’s Man
date to Governments to End War and
leader of the flying delegation to the
Pan-American Peace Conference, will
speak on "Action to Abolish War in
the Western Hemisphere."
The Business Women's Music Club
and the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club
will sing several selections, directed by
Mrs. Mary M. Burnett, music secre
tary, and accompanied by Edith Daw
son and Carrie Sanders.
Miss Jessie Smith will preside over
the meeting. Honor guests will include
Mr. and Mrs. William Lee Corbin.
! Hettie P. Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Al
: bert W. Atwood, Mrs. C. G. Blough.
! Rev. and Mrs. S. Carroll Coale. Miss
Elizabeth Eastman. Miss Grace John
son. Mrs. Howell Moorhead, Mrs. Ed
win B Parker. Miss Bertha Pabst and
Mrs. Cecil Ira McReynolds.
McSWEENEY TO SPEAK
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Addresses Ohio Society's Final
Session Night of March 8.
Representative McSweeney of Ohio
will address the season's final meet
ing of the Ohio State Society at the
Shoreham Hotel March 8 at 8:30 p.m.
' Vocal selections by Bernhard G.
Spille and a motion picture entitled
; "A Better Ohio.” presented by W. P.
A. representatives, will be included
on the program.
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Senate Investigators Will
Call Finance Leaders on
Rail Lending.
By tiie Associated Press.
Senate investigator* summoned five
of the Nation's dominant financial
figures yesterday to explain a series
of loans made to the giant Van 8wer
lngen transportation network in the
depths of the depression.
Chairman Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana, of the Senate Railway In
vestigating Committee, said all five
would be asked to testify this week.
Tneir testimony will begin Tuesday,
when the committee resumes its pro
longed inquiry into railway finance.
Lamont and Stanley on List.
Thomas W. Lamont, a J. P. Morgan
Si Co. partner, and Harold 8. Stanley
of Morgan-Stanley, Inc., the great
banking firm’s security-issuing off
spring, headed the list of witnesses.
Others included Charles R. Gay,
New York Stock Exchange presidept;
J. M. B. Hoxey, exchange stock listmg
expert, and Joseph R. Swann, former
president of the Guaranty Co., New
York investment firm.
Wheeler ..aid he would question the
financiers about a $30,000,000 real
estate note issue made for the late
Van Sweringen brothers by Guaranty
Co., on which he contended the invest
ing public lost $15,758,004.
Underwriting Held Mistake.
Swan told ttie committee recently
that his firm “made a mistake" in de
ciding to underwrite the notes.
Wheeler indicated he also would
seek details of a $39,500,000 bank loan
extended to the Van Sweringens by
a Morgan banking syndicate.
DINNER TO BE GIVEN
BY ALUMNI GROUP
Johns Hopkins Affair Today Cli
max of Celebration of Uni
versity Dates.
The Johns Hopkins University
Alumni Association of Washington will
hold an informal dinner at the Cosmos
Club today to climax their celebration
of the sixty-first commencement of the
university and the twenty-fifth anni
versary of the founding of its School
of Engineering. The university itself
celebrated the events In Baltimore last
week.
Dr. W. B. Kouwehnoven, assistant
dean of the engineering school, and
professor of electrical engineering, will
speak on his experiments with “electric
shock.”
The newly elected Executive Com
mittee and officers are in charge of
the dinner. Charles A. Robinson,
general manager of the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co., is chair
man of the Executive Committee, and
Dr. W. J. Humphreys, former presi
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TOSCANINI STUNS
Philharmonic Directors Re
ported Aghast at Plans
on Return.
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 27.—The di
rectors of the Philharmonic-Sym
phony Society, whom Arturo Tos
canini served as music director for
tne last decade,
are maintaining a
complete, though
perhaps stunned,
silence at the
news he is to re
turn to America
—and will con
duct here.
They are par
ticularly aghast,
it is believed, at
the news that
Toscanini will not
confine his ap
pearances here
strictly to radio,
but already has
Arturo Toirsnlni.
announced two special charity con
certs in Carnegie Hall, to which the
public will be admitted, for a price.
Although it admits no quarrel, and
anticipates none, the Philharmonic
Ynanagement has grounds for being
puzzled, many feel. This because
every possible effort had been made
in the past to present Tcscanini to
his Carnegie Hall and radio audiences
in exactly the manner he desired, and
because every concession he could
have asked for the future would have
been granted without question.
Many feel that Toscanini's return
will serve only to muddy musical
waters which showed definite signs of
clearing. Said an informed commen- >
tator today:
“Musically, the Toscanini concerts
will have value, indisputably. But Tos
canini was. all the time he conducted
the Philharmonic, both the savior
’ and the chief drawback of the or
chestra.
“He made it pre-eminent among the
world's orchestras. But his personal
following was so blind and hysterical
that he made it very difficult for any
| other conductor with the orchestra,
. and yet other conductors were neces
sary, for he would conduct only a
limited part of the season.
I “And .now that the Philharmonic
i has decided to do away with ‘guest’
conductors and give John Barbirolli
j free rein for three years, in the ef
' fort to build up solid musical interest
and do way with the star system, it
seems tactless for Toscanini to inject
himself into the situation once again.
“Even if Toscanini should confine
himself to radio, excepting the two
public concerts already announced,
his mere presence in New York might
i renew the old hysteria and unbalance
a delicate situation.”
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