Evening star. [volume], February 20, 1938, Page A-8, Image 8

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NEW BILL OFFERED
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Lea Measure Would Set Up
Civil Aeronautics
: Authority.
Chairman Lea, Democrat, of Cali
fornia of the House Interstate Com
merce Committee, yesterday intro
duced a new variation of the adminis
tration's bill for the regulation of
civilian aviation.
The measure, which was described
by Chairman Lea as "a composite”
of the bill he introduced in 1935 to
carry out the recommendations of the
Federal Aviation Commission, a bill
he introduced last session, and the
MeCarran bill now pending in the
Senate, will be set for hearings before
a subcommittee of the House Inter
state Commerce group.
The measure would establish an in
dependent agency to be known as the
Civil Aeronautics Authority, vested
with all of the powers relating to civil
aeronautics now exercised by the
Commerce Department, the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and the Post
Offlce Department, except that the
Pdst Office Department would retain
purely routine postal functions.
in addition, the agency would be
empowered to grant certificates au
thorizing the operation of airlines in
interstate and foreign commerce and
fn Ay na.wnffpr an H #Yn rotM
The agency would be composed of five
members who would be appointed by
the President by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate for six
year terms.
Some Points In Controversy.
Mr. Lea said there are several ques
tions of policy which are still in con
troversy but that three provisions in
the bill are desired by the administra
tion. The first would empower the
agency to fix rates charged by Amer
Jcan-flag airlines in foreign air com
merce. The second would authorize
the Post Office Department to fix air
mail schedules. The airlines oppose
these provisions on the ground that
there is no need for such regulation.
The third provision desired by the
administration would require the is
suance of all certificates authorizing
the operation of airlines in foreign air
commerce to be approved by the
President in the interest of national
defense and our international rela
tions. Objections are made to this
provision in so far as it would apply
to the granting of certificates to exist
ing lines.
(Copyrlsht. 10.1S, by New York Herald
Tribune.)
BOMBERS COMPLETE HOP
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., Feb. 19
(fl5).—'Three giant United States Army
bombing planes landed at the local
Coast Guard air station this after
noon at 3:10 o’clock, ending a seven
hour flight from San Antonio, Tex.
A fourth plane scheduled to make
the trip remained in San Antonio for
repairs.
The craft were due in St. Peters
burg yesterday, but an attempted
flight was turned back because of
Tk’Mfhar Hictlirha
GROWING FEDERAL
POWERS FEARED
C. of C. Committee Calls for
Decentralization of
Government.
By the Associated Press.
A committee of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States yes
terday called for a “reversal of the
present trend toward centralization
of power in Washington."
Declaring "centralization has al
ready gone too far,” the committee
added in a report on Government re
organization that it might lead to
"some form of totalitarian govern
ment.”
The committee urged simplification
and economy in government.
Merit System Backed.
It also advocated extension of the
merit system, strict control of budget
ing and accounting methods, demo
bilization of emergency agencies and
"dissolution of most Government cor
porations."
The committee said it did not be
lieve there was any need for creation
of new governmental departments.
"It does, however, believe that the
10 existing departments should be
reorganized to enable the head of each
department to be responsible for all
of its parts and in turn to be com
pletely responsible to the Chief Ex
ecutive.” the report said.
Gurh Panerro n i vn tinn I'ntnuliA donki
less reveal many duplications which
now account for large numbers of
employes and entail proportionate ex
penditures," it added.
Cites Overlapping Duties.
“Closer co-operation between ex
isting departments and agencies to
eliminate duplication of effort would
greatly reduce expenses of govern
ment.
“Under present conditions, each
of the unrelated agencies may set up
a legal staff of its own, research or
ganizations of its own—and fre
quently several of them, research be
ing a current fad."
The committee also criticized what
it termed “the present tendency to
expand Government propaganda ac
tivities.”
“Recently,” it said, “there has been
a very evident disposition to add to
the working forces of the various
agencies employes whose duties are
primarily those of publicity agents,
who spend their time largely in pro
moting the particular interests of
that agency or of those connected
with it.”
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BOYS" CLUB CITED
IN FELONY DROP
Maj. Brown Says Work of
Body Has Cut Juvenile Of
fenses Here Sharply.
Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin
tendent of police, founder and vice
president of the Boys’ Club of the
Metropolitan Police Department, has
found that being a “chum” to boys
pays big dividends.
Drastic reduction of felonies in the
District among juveniles under 17
years of age was cited by Maj. Brown
yesterday in a report to the officers
of the Boys’ Club, which now has five
branches.
The report is based on records from
1933, when the Boys’ Club was found
ed, to 1937, and ranges from a max
imum of 15 offense classifications in
1934 to a a minimum of eight in the
following year. During this period
the total male offender, rir.nn.ri
j.£7uo—x nxix ,
sharply from 353 In 1033 to 00 last
year, while the total number of of
fender* of both sexes decreased cor
respondingly from 354 to 02.
Commenting on the report, MaJ.
Brown said: “The decrease Is due
mainly to the effective operation of
the five Boys’ Clubs of the city.”
Housebreaking and unauthorized use
of automobiles are the felonies that
have caused youths to get into trouble
with the law most often. But with
respect to these crimes the reduction
is encouraging.
Compared with 101 Juvenile house
breaking offenses In 1933, there were
only 22 cases reported last year. In
1033 there were 220 cases involving
unauthorized use of automobiles by
boys, mostly cases of “Joy riding.”
There were only 50 such cases last
year.
Last year one case of operating a
lottery appeared on the records for
the first time in the period covered
by the report.
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ENVOY FROM IRELAND
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White Will Be Guests at Bare
well Testimonial Reception.
Michael Mac White, Minister from
Ireland, and Mrs. MacWhlte will be
guests of honor at a reception to be
given by the Calvert Club of Wash
ington at S o'clock next Sunday night
in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel.
The affair will be in the form of a
farewell testimonial to Mr. MacWhiie,
who will leave shortly to assume a new
appointment in Rome.
Members of the legislative, judicial
and executive departments of the Gov
ernment will make short talks at the
reception. The Catholic University
Band and the Georgetown University
Glee Club will provide music. James
E. Cornflower, president of the Cal- I
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• British Ready for Fifth Everest Climb
W. H. Tilman, Leader of 1938 Expedition, Reaches India and
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ALCUTTA. Feb. 19 (N. A. N.
A ).—W. H. Tilman, leader of
the 1938 British Mount Ever
est expedition, has arrived in
India with E. E. Shipton. Other mem
bers are en route, and the party will
assemble shortly at Kalimpong, pre
paratory to marching up through
Sikkim to the site of their base camp.
which will probably be established
toward the middle of April.
The expedition of this year is the
seventh to visit the mountain, and
the fifth to attempt to climb it. The
first expedition in 1921 and also that
of 1935 were for purposes of recon
naissance. Of the four attempts in
1922, 1924, 1933 and 1936, it is inter
esting to note that the numbers tak
ing part were 12. 12. 16 and 12, re
spectively. All these, however, were
not climbers, the suArnumeraries in
cluding nonclimbing' leader, doctors,
transport officers, wireless officers and
photographers.
The present party numbers seven
climbers, one fewer than it has been
on three previous occasions. There
Is no wireless or transport officer,
and a doctor is included because he
happens to be a climber. Through
the offices of J. B. Gould, the political
officer at Gangtok, transport arrange
ments in Sikkim will be made by the
Sikkim durbar; in Tibet they will be
made by Karma Paul, a Tibetan resi
dent in Darjeeling, who has accom
panied every Mount Everest expedition
except the first in the same capacity.
Members of the party, Europeans and
Bherpas, will, of course, have to as
sist.
Member* of Party. j
In alphabetical order, the personnel
Includes, first, Peter Lloyd, who is 30,
a research chemist in the employ of
the Gas, Light and Coke Co. of Lon
don. Mr. Lloyd is a first-rate man on
rock and ice, with very good Alpine
experience. In 1936, with the British
American party, he carried a load to
the high bivouac at 23,500 feet on
Nanda Devi, and proved to be very
much at home on Difficult Rock and in
severe conditions at that height.
N. E. Odell. 47, lecturer at Cam
bridge. is in the front rank of moun
taineers with long and varied experi
ence in the Alps, the Rockies, the
polar regions and the Himalayas. His
efforts on Everest in 1924 in support
of Mallory and Irvine are well known.
In 1936 he reached the top of Nanda
Devi (25.660 feet).
Capt. P. R. Oliver of Coke's Rifles,
Climbed Trisul (23.400 feet) in 1933,
accompanied by a Garhwali porter.
This was the second ascent, the first
being the memorable one of Dr. Long
staff and the two Brocherel brothers
in 1907. when the party went from a
camp at 17.000 feet to the top and
back in one day.. Capt. Oliver was
With the 1936 Everest party, and was
climbing in Garhwali with F. S.
Smythe last year, so he has the ad
vantage of comparatively recent ac
climatization. The benefits of accli
matization are felt for long periods
afterward.
Map* Are Approved.
E. E. Shipton, 30, has for his age
probably more mountaineering expe
rience than any one else. He has
climbed in the Alps, Africa (Mounts
Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Ruwenzori),
and has been six times to the Hima
laya, on three of these occasions as
leader. On Everest, in 1933. he
reached a height of 27.500 feet, led
thf reconnaissance of 1935, and was
there again in 1936. Last year he led
a small party to the Karakoram
Himalaya, where they explored a large
area of difficult glaciated country in
uninhabited regions completely des
titute of supplies. Their maps have
received the approval of Col. C. G.
lewis, surveyor-general of India.
F. S. Smythes exploits are well
peaition lea by vv. H. Tilman iml
Alpine and Himalayan experience, ,
having been to India live times, first
in 1930, with the International Ex
pedition to Kangchenjunga, then to
Kamet (25,447 feet), which his party
climbed, and to Everest in 1933 and
1936. In 1937 he was with Oliver in
Garhwal, where seven peaks, includ
ing Mana (23,860 feet), were climbed.
Mr. Tilman is 39, and has had ex
perience in the Alps, Africa (Mounts |
Kenya. Kilimanjaro and Ruwenzori),
and the Himalaya, which he has vis
ited four times. After exploring the
Nanda Devi Basin with Shipton in
1934, he accompanied the Everest
reconnaissance party in 1935, when
E. H. L. Wigram and he together
claimed 17 of the 26 peaks climbed
by the combined party. With Mr.
Odell, he climbed Nande Devi, and
last year he accompanied Mr. Shipton
to the Karakoram.
Dr. C. B. M. Warren, 32, has had
considerable Alpine and Himalayan
experience. He went to Garhwal in
1933 with Marco Pallis and to Everest
in 1935 and 1936. Dr. Warren is in
charge of the oxygen apparatus with
which he has carried out some prac
tical experiments in the Alps. The
first attempt will probably be made
without oxygen, but if necessary and
given an opportunity, oxygen will be
tried later.
Party Has Good Chance.
It is the opinion of those respon
sible for financing the present expedi
tion—namely, friends and members of
the party—that a party of this size
has at least as good a chance as a
large one. The view has been ex
pressed that any number more than
one constitutes a large party—but it
is not merely a question of how many
Europeans; equally significant is the
number of porters and the amount of
f6od and equipment with which the
party is burdened.
For mountain exploration and for
peaks up to, say, 26,000 feet, the
small, mobile party has proved its
worth, while success has not yet at
tended any of the big expeditions. It
is up to this year’s expedition to an
swer the question; "How can the less
comprehend the greater?”
The weather remains incalculable.
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This map shows the location of Mount Everest, the world’s
highest peak—29.002 feet above sea level—which a British ex
I attempt to climb this summer.
Rain and snow fall upon the just and
the unjust, upon the large party and
the small. The 1938 party hopes that
a less ostentatious approach may se
cure smiles instead of frowns.
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