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The eXpedition-minuS three en-
gineers who remained behind to
establish the base-cleared away
for Guam, the North Ravens crew
showing the effects of liberty in
a civilized port, on the 18th, and
arrived there week later, dis
charged cargo, took on fresh vege-
tables for island colonists, and 100
tons of topsoil for the gardens of
barren Midway.
And now began the long voyage
back to San Francisco, picking up
members of the construction crew
at the island stations. The re-
frigerating system went bad and
the fresh vegetables spoiled.
NFF Wake, July 8. The sta
" ton 90 per cent completed.
There was" states an official re-
port, plain evidence that the men
had worked hard. f. Every man
was burned deep brown and
some of them had lost 20 pounds.
-. Tempers were frayed, and lots
of the men had boils and body
sores, but they were all doing a
days work. :"
All hands still were living in
tents, disturbed by a plague of
rats. One night, before lights
out" member of the crew
sneaked into the tent occupied by
two engineers, tied a small bag of
candy to the under side of the
hunks, far enough from the floor
to make sure that the rats would
have to jump for it. Half an hour
after retiring one of the engineers
awoke to find rats streaming
across his bed; to see his COM
panion, f1ashlight in one hand,
stick in the other, striking out at
the rats on his bunk and the
swarms upon the floor, screaming,
Go away, damn you! Get away!"
A gala evening!
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BY ERNIE PYLE

NTASHINGTON, Nov. %
w Here, for the first time is
the whole truth about Helen
Richey and her career as Amer
ica's first and only woman airline
pilot.
Helen went to work last Janu-
airy as a co-pilot on Central Air
lines, to fly a regular run with
passengers and mail between
Washington and Detroit.
She worked for the company
eight months. Recently she re-
signed. There has been quite a
discussion about it in the news
papers. But there has never been
published 0Xactly what happened.
Here it is:
In December of last year, Gen.
trail AirlineS wrote the Depart
ment of Commerce saying they
wanted to hire Miss Richey as a
co-pilot for week or two as a
publicity stunt. After that. they
said, they would find other en-
ployment for her.
The Commerce Department said
Q. K, just for a couple of weeks,
but suggested they not fly her in
rough weather, because of the
physical strain.
60 Helen put on a uniform and
~ went to work, flying as co-pilot
on regular run. thinking she had
bona-fide full-time flying job.
The two weeks went by, and
then some more. The Commerce
Department noticed she still was
flying. The wrote Central Airlines,
saying in effect, How Gomez"
James D. Condor, president of
Central, came down from Pitts
burgh. He was in stew. It
seems that the publicity created
by this handsome co-pilot had
been so widespread that he didn't
dare take her off just then. Pub
lie condemnation would have been
too great.
The department sympathized,
and they arrived at an arrange
ment. Helen was TO be sent out
just once in a while, about three
trips a month. In other words,
just tapering it off, while the pub
lie forgot,
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Wake Island hadn't had such a
laugh since the landlubber threw
the anchor over the side from the
launch, needless of the fact that
it was not attached to the anchor
line.
Less than two days after her re-
turn to Wake, on July 4. the
North Haven started for Midway,
leaving behind the permanent
Wake Island colony and few
craftsmen and technicians.
That night there was a ration
of grog for crew as happy to be
homeward-bound as it had been
happy to get away.
-Four days later (having picked
up day crossing the 180th Meri-
diam the ship arrived off Midway
to find the entire station COM
pleted, except for a bit of paint
ing and screening. Grumbling a
little, the Wake Island crew
turned to and helped unload cargo
including that 100 tons of top
soil-and by july II the North
Haven, most of the original con-
struction gang again reunited,
stood out for Honolulu.
y y
NHE ships belly was now empty.
She rode high out of The wa
ter and made slow time. Homo
lulu on the night of July II,
hurried inspection of the base,
and late afternoon departure
for San Francisco the following
day-a bit later than had been
intended, because of the necessity
Of rounding up festive celebrators
of the return from the mid-Pa-
cilc front.
July q saw the North Haven
once more tied up at Pier %, San
Francisco (three months to the
day after her departure on the
17000-mile voyage. Behind her,
on populous island and desolate
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IdplQly.
Had the expedition been able to
colonize on Wilkes, according to
the original plan, the work could
have been completed in half the
time. But both Wilkes and Wake
were WaterleSS, showed signs OF
complete inundation in time of
hurricane, and so began the long
fight to transfer every ounce of
cargo from the boat landing on
Wilkes across to the lagoon and
over to Peale
1t was a hcrculean task. 1t con-
Sumed two of the three weeks dur
ing which the North Haven, I'M
able to anchor because of the
depth, stood off the boat landing
with steam up. Elsewhere in This
series has been tolI the story of
that fight to heW a channel into
the lagoon through jagged coral,
the story of that triumph of pio-
neering ingenuity, the wilkes
Island Railway" Launch and
lighter once in those quiet waters,
cargo rolling down the rails to the
inside dock on a hand made
freight car, and Wake Island
capitulated to the invader. A
hard-won victory.
NIELLS sunk on Wilkes and
w Wake were salt, electric
stills went haywire, homemade
stills fired with -withered
brush produced barely enough to
permit the work to continue, far
from enough to quench the thirst
of sweating, burning, dehydrated
workingmen.
The Chinese charged with the
cooking and laundry had more to
do than they could handle, the
food was Indifferent or bad. In an
effort to maintain schedule under
the handicap imposed by physi-
cal conditions, work began at $50
a. NJ, continued until dusk or
later. The sun made men tenn
porarily i'll, conditions magnifed
the discomfort caused by minor
ailments.
Under such circumstance it is
amazing that morale held up so
we'll; that it did is a tribute to
the character of the personnel and
to the leadership of such men as
w. S. Grooch and Frank Mckenzie.
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All summer she was on call,
ready to fly, but it was very little
flying she did. She flew no more
than a dozen round trips in her
wnole eight months with the line.
Other co-pilots fly about a hun
dred.
She loafed around her home in
McKeesport, and her apartment in
Washington, and she did traffic
promotion work, and she was sent
out by the line to make speeches
before luncheon clubs and civic
gatherings. But Helen doesn't
like to make speeches, she likes to
fly. And she didn't like going
around in co-pilot's uniform,
when she knew she wasn't really a
co-p1lot at all. So she resigned.
Shes disappointed about the
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Fair Enough
By
WESTbRO0K PEGLER

GIBRALTAR. Nov. 28.-Great Briain's mighty de-
- termination to fight for the peace of the world,
which is seriously threatened by the great humans
tartan mission of Abraham Lincoln" MuSsolini to
free the Ethiopian slaves has been rafting the win
dows OF the Rock Hotel all morning
Tied up inside the breakwaters about half a mile
from the window at which your correspondent sits
is the pride of the British navy the Hood the
biggest Marsnp III the Worlu. There's a small force
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U A1IO11 WI VIIC oIUt oNdIIUIIIg OH
float painting and frightening
the streak of red lead just above
her water line.
Big motor trucks are seen
scurrying along the breakwater
carrying supplies. In size they
compare with the Hood like a
flea to a great Dane.
Just beyond the breakwater.
returning from maneuvers out
side, is a submarine. Tied up
close astern of the Hood is the
great Renown.
Three cruisers went out to sea
Yesterday and later were Observer
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whole thing, but she isn't sore at
anybody. She sees that it had to
happen that way. I have known
Helen ever since she learned to
fly, many years ago, and she told
me her side of the story in Pitts
burgh the other day.
y Il
IT NEVER had any illusions
Il about ever being a first pilot"
she says. TN fact I wouldn't want
to be a first pilot. I wouldn't
want to take the responsibility,
the public attitude being what it
is. If anything went wrong, peo-
pie would say it was because a
woman was flying, whether it was
or not.
And it's true that handling
transport in rough weather takes
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way to keep from losing two club
tricks. Mrs. Hoffmeier decided
that her only chance to make her
contract was to find West with the
queen of hearts, and by sacrificing
a heart trick Immediately, the los
ing clubs could be discarded on
Sthe ace and king OF hearts.
So she played a low heart to
dummy's jack. West, of course,
had 10 win with the queen. and
now Mrs. Hoffmeiers contract of
six spades was made.
Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. Incl
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ISOLATION to Previous
Contract Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY

Secretary American Bridge League
4 CCORDING to Mrs. A. c.
= \ Hoffmeier of New York, who
has been president of the Womens
Auxiliary of the American Bridge
League for the last two years,
Women a.e taking more active
part each year in championship
bridge. Women's names will be
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BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER
Times Special Writer


THE "kona' blew out Of the SOUTH and Wake Island
atol, its white sands shimmerng under the glare of
hostile it's of scrub and coral devoid of shade
furnace. The heat Slapped the strength of the
scton crew. its ranks depleted by the loss of comrades
left to finish the work at Midway. The heat Slapped
strength and it gnawed at tempers it formd
able enemy than the sea.
Ironically, the behaved we'll at Wake, and the
era thousand tons of material from which be built
the third of Pan-Amercans Pacific air bases came ashore
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-28
SYRIAN WILL APPEAR
AT WOODRUFF CHURCH
Indiana Central Normal Professor
to Give Address.

Prof. John j. Haramy, Indiana
Central Normal, is to give
Thanksgiving address Sunday night
at the Woodruff Avenue United
Presbyterian Church under auspices
of the Woman's Missionary Society.
Prof. Haramy, Syrian, is TO ap-
pear in native costume.
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Literary Notes

DR.. Will Durant will conduct tour of travellers
and students to Greece, Palestine Egypt and Italy.
The party will leave June 20. 1886. and return Sept.
3. Any one interested in joining the group may
communicate with DR.. Durant in care Of his pub
fishers. Simon 81 Schuster.
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won by a score of ii to 7, and the
Ellis are bunch of lucky stiffs. AS
a matter of fact, I did not need to
wait for confirmation of that sec
ond statement. I could have wired
that before the game.
Still, there seemed to be a GER
tain confusion in the air in regard
to some fundamentals before the
whistle blew-and even after, for
that matter. The Harvard band
played its prettiest, and so did that
Of Yale. There was much cheering
and voluble choral singing concern
ing death and dedication To q cnl
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from position about half way up the rock running
off play like varsity back field at practice on the
night before the big game Family visible in the
distance they would huddle then separate-off on
individual assignments laid down in the problem as
their coach looked on.
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HJeemc tome
h
Haywood BR0UN

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 2S-If this account of
~ the Harvard-Yale football game seems trife
beated can only explain it on the ground that I
couldn't get any of the New York Sunday papers
at the hotel where am staying. Journalistic en-
terprise is a good thing in moderation, but I like
to be sure Of my facts.
! am now prepared TO offer two findings Yale
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Today's Contract Problem

The bidding has bee
South, l spade. North, 2
hearts; South, 3 clubs. North,
8 spades; South, spades.
Now, W h should Vests
opening lead be?
WEST
A 9 5
vK76
q ks
J. k976
All vul Opener.
John Rau, youngest of the
present national champions,
will tell you the proper lead,
in the next issue. 2f
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pie Of primary colors. The players out clad in
their crimson and their blue. And they lined up
for the kickoff the young lady whom I took to the
game spoke up with great show of interest and in
CURED Who's playng?"
Evening star., 1935-07-19
ALWAYS BLOATED
AFTER MEALS?

The chances are that those gas
pains and bloated stomach are caused
by acid indigestion-the effects of eat
ing acid-forming foods. Here is q
simple way to easily relieve these an
moving conditions. Go to your near
est drug store and buy bottle of
FATHER KELLY'S PREPARATION;
take as directed. Gas after meals
usually disappears and disturbing in
digestion pains will not trouble you.
Father Kelly's acts as an antacid and
has the added benefit of being mildly
laxative. Get a bottle of FATHER
KELLY'S PREPARATION today.
Only 75c. at all good drug stores.-Ad-
vertisement.
Evening star., 1935-07-19

Allen H. Kirk ana MRS. CaSSluS NJ.
Lawrence.
A miscellaneous shower and lawn
party in honor of Miss Helen Sheck-
ellis of Washington, whose marriage
to Mr.. Luther Banks Moore of Wash
ington will take place August 8, was
held last evening in the home of Mrs.
Sidney B. Lyon, in South Woodside
Park, at Silver Spring, Md. Japanese
lanterns were used, and the table
decorations were prettily carried out
in the color scheme of pink and white
Mrs. Lyon was assisted as hostess by
Mrs. Thomas Daily, Mrs. Frank Bern
ard, Miss Mary Oberg and Miss Hazel
Petersen, all of Washington. The
guests included Mrs. j. F. Valenta,
Miss Virginia Whitney, Miss Clarisse
Anderson, Miss Martha Litz, Mrs. L.
A. Knight, Miss Ellen Ward. Miss
Mollie Haines, MRS. Garth Beaver
Mrs. r. C. Doyon, Miss Mary O'Brien
Miss Mary Ward, Mrs. C. M. Nc
Carthy and Mrs. Paul X. Oglesby.
Miss Sue Bayer entertained at
Evening star., 1935-07-19
VIRGINIA JUDGESHlP
BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT
States Delegation in Congress
Awaits Roosevelt's Invitation
! to Make Recommendations.

The bill establishing a second Fed
eral judgeship in the eastern dis
trict of Virginia now needs only the
Presidents signature to become law.
The conference report on the Cali
fornia judgeship bill, carrying the
Virginia bill as a rider, was approved
by the Senate yesterday Immediately
after it was sent over from the House,
which had approved it in stormy
session Wednesday.
Members of Congress from Virginia
continued their "hands-off policy" on
the naming of new judge following
the assertions of both Senators Glass
and Byrd that they would make no
recommendation unless invited to by
the President.
Evening star., 1935-07-19

luncheon in her home in Damascus,
Md, yesterday, Mrs. Dewey Payne and
Mrs. Adam Shaffer Of Meisenheimer,
N. c.; Miss Lenore Aiken, Chevy
Chase, Md; Mrs. Robert Wight, Wash
ington, D. c.; Mrs. Julia w. Holley
and Mrs. George w. Boyer of Da-
rnaScus.
Miss Porter VIII
Sail Soon for China.
Mrs. Paul Hottie and her sister.
Miss Ethel Jane Porter, have returned
after a few days visit with their
parents and other relatives in Brad
ford, Pa. Miss Porter Is under ap-
pointment to go to China as a mis-
sionary nurse. She will be the nurse
and companion Of Nine. Chang Kali
Shek, wife Of the military commander
of the Chinese Republic. She viii
visit her brother-in-law and sister,
DR.. and Mrs. Eugene Spohn, in their
home in Occur d'Alene, Idaho. before
sailing on the S. S. President McKin-
ley from Seattle, Wash.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fendall Coughlan
of Woodside, Md. are passing thi:
week in Atlantic City. During Their
absence Mrs. Coughlan's brother-in'
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Miller
Cassidy of Washington, with theil
two daughters, Vesta and Anna Mary
are occupying their home
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul H. Hayward o
Aurora Hills. Va, announce the birtl
of a son, Richard Niblack Hayward
Evening star., 1935-07-19
Woman Robbed in Park.

Another person seeking relief from
the heat was the victim OF thief.
Anna Carr. 1920 Fairmont street, re-
ported to police lest night that she
was seatea IN Meridian Park when a
coloreG boy grabbed her purse con-
tanning 81 and ran.
Evening star., 1935-07-19
Maryland Virginia News
Democratic Vice Chairman Guest at
Forest Glen-Many Parties.

Mrs. Irving Whitehead Of Amherst,
Va, who Is vice chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee
Of Virginia, has been visiting Miss
Lavinia Engle at Forest Glen, Md, for
several days.
Evening star., 1935-07-19

Sunday, June 80, in the home Of Mrs.
Hayward's parents, DR.. and Mrs. F.
w. Niblack, In Terre Haute, Ind. Mr..
and Mrs. Hayward win return to
their home In Virginia early In Sep
tember.
Mrs. Roy L. Pierce, her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip
Dalton, and her son, Mr.. Robert L.
Pierce of Dayton, Ohio. who were
visiting @drs. Mary Patterson, have
gone to visit relatives Of Mr.. Dalton
in Alexandria on their way to their
home. They also have spent some
time in Beacon, N. Y, and in Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund L. Green Of
Takoma Park. Md, left yesterday by
motor for st. Louis, Mo-, accompanied
by Mr.. and Mrs. william Hemphill of
st. Louis, who have been their guests
in their home for week. Mrs. Hemp
hill is Mrs. Green's sister. They viii
be away about 10 days.
Miss Gertrude Pagan Of New York
Evening star., 1935-07-19

Mrs. George B. Webster entertained
at bridge and tea yesterday afternoon
in her home in Sligo Park Hills, Md,
having as guests Mrs. Henry T. Porter,
Mrs. Louis YoSt, ST.: Mrs. Richard F.
Junker of Sligo Park Hills, Md; Mrs.
Ira Whitacre, Mrs. H. B. Hendrick,
Mrs. Charles E. Vantine and Mrs
Hiram Johnson of Silver Spring, Md.
Mrs. Russell A. Lynn entertained
three tables at contract bridge yester-
day afternoon in her home in Hern-
don. Va, when her guests included
Mrs. Charles Pettitt, Mrs. Margaret
Petty. Mrs. Walter C. Carter, Mrs.
Powell Summers, Mrs. Harold F..
Weller. Mrs. George F. Buell., Mrs. E.
Barbour Hutchison, Mrs. William H.
Dawson, Mrs. Louis Ferguson. Mrs.
Evening star., 1935-07-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl w. Sapp of shep-
herd Parp have taken a cottage at
Sherwood Forest, Md, for a month.
Evening star., 1935-07-19
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. c. FRIDAY JULY

Is the guest Of her brother -in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Glenn
ents, In their home at Silver Spring,
Md. having come Monday because of
the death of her stepmother, Mrs.
Evening star., 1935-07-19

Allen H. Kirk and Mrs. Cassius M
Lawrence.
Evening star., 1935-07-19

Miss Gertrude Pagan of New York
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The most desired styles in black,
brown, navy and novelties ..
products of a famous maker!
Mostly with novelty cuffs! For
women and misses.
ESCALATORS to Blocks
Downstairs Store
, 1935-08-18

The yak furnishes the natives OF
Tibet with meat. milk. butter.
clothing. rope. transportation. fuel
and boats.
, 1935-08-18
Piano And Violin
Glasses To BeE:n

Miss Annie Putegnat, whose rep
utation Is well established by sixteen
years of successful teaching in
Brownsville, announces the opening
OF fall classes Sept. 2. for both piano
and violin students. giving atten-
ton to private pupils as well as class
instruction.
Miss Putegnat inaugurated the
first Glass Instruction in Piano, In
Brownsville, by introducing the Ok
ford Method Of Glass teaching which
As used extensively In the public
schools throughout the country.
Besides the music classes, Miss
Putegnat is opening a Kindergarten
for children. ages 3 to s, which will
be conducted under the same plan
ms used In established Kindergartens.
In addition to the Kindergarten
Curriculum, the children will be Civ
en- A special. course in Kindergarten
Music which includes songs. rhythm
and technic games. and primary IN
gtruction for violin and piano.
The Kindergarten will open on
Sept. and. the hours being S:45 TO
Has a. N. on all school days. Any
one interested Is invited TO see Miss
Putegnat for further information, at
e2i jefferson. Or call phone No. 10.
, 1935-08-18
UNION PLANS
Big PROGRAM
Labor Day Celebration I'm
Valley Plans Already,
Are Under Way

One of the most ambitious Labor
Day celebrations eve held I'm this
section will be staged here Septem-
Der 2 under sponsorship OF the Cen
tral Labor Union OF the Lower Rio
Grande Valley. Labor unions from
practically every city In South Tex
as are expected &c send representa-
tives and officials Of trade unions
In Northern Mexico also X 20 par
ticiDate In the celebration
Wallace c. Reilly OF Austin. sec
rotary OF the State Federation OF
Labor and j. Lawson Wimberly.
Chief Deputy Labor Commissioner
from Austin viii be honored guests.
They are due 10 arrive In the VAL
ley Sunday. September l.
A well-rounded program has been
outlined by the following commit
tee: r. B. Robertson OF Brownsville
and Weslaco. chairman: /. Need
ham. Brownsville: Ralph :. James
San Benito and Brownsville: Dick
Stramma. Brownsville: A. A. Kettle
kemp. Weslacc: w. a. Grant. Harlin-
gen.
The ceremonies viii begin at noon
when the officials OF the Mexican
trade unions extend greetings TO the
trade unions Of the United States
nc the international bcundry on the
Gateway Bridge. Following this func-
ton. a parade. led by Fort Brown
Cavalry band. win form and con-
tinue down Elizabeth street. Each
union and various civic organiza-
tons will have floats entered in the
long procession. The floats In many
cases win depict the occupation rep
resented.
The speaking program will take
place nc the Brownsville Junior col
lege building. wallace c. Reilly
scheduled ms the main speaker. viii
interpret new labor laws soon 70 nc
into effect. He viii also outline the
, 1935-08-18

Works Progress administration pro-
gram. Other speakers will be- Chief
Deputy Labor Commissioner VIM
berry. Fred Newland of Harrington
members OK the Tri-COunty Vege-
table Growers association: j. II.
Steadham Of Austin. Legislative rep
resentative OK the Brotherhood uR
Railway Trainsmen. and u nnutuR
Of ceremonies to be named later.
"A fast softball game between two
Brownsville teams has been cmrded
for the afternoon. That night q
dance will Ice held at the Browns
Vile Country club with one uf tho
best dance orchestras tn the Valley
furnishing the music
Corpus Christi. Ringsville. Heb
bronville and Laredo unions have
been invited TO Join in observing thu
Labor Day program.
There are approximately ~ labor
unions I'm the Valley representing
almost as many crafts. The Central
Labor Union or the Lover Rio
Grande Valley. which included HI
dalEo. Starr. Cameron and Willacy
counties. n represented by the fol-
lowing workers: Carpenters. plaster
ers. ionEshoremen. theatre operators.
operating engineers. railway clerks.
express clerks. locomotive firemen
and engineers. brakemen. bod car
riers and common laborers. airplane
mechanics and technicians. cocks.
walters and mattresses. machinists.
painters and paperhangers. office
workers. electricians. bricklayers and
BARRIERS.