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1 S. DAILY BAGLE, NEW YOLK, MONDAY, Ar. 23, 1928. M1 Pilot Carries Legion Emblem From Alaskan Post to Paris AM coNPEA. A Left--American Legion officer with Carl Eielson, holding emblem, which the Legion post of Fairbanks, Alaska, presented to Center-An air view of the polar regions about 600 miles south of the North Pole which Capt.

George Wilkins and Eielson flew over, Eielson for delivery to Paris, France. The presentation was made just prior to his departure as the pilot of the Wilkins plane that Right--Commander Byrd (left), also a successful North Pole flier, with Captain Wilkins crossed the Pole several months looking over the polar flight plans, to Spitzbergen. ago. EXPECT STEWART TO 'TELL ALL' IN TEAPOT OIL QUIZ Colonel May Prove Hidden Influence Behind Lease of Fields to Sinclair. By BASIL MANLY.

(Special Correspondent of The Eagle.) (Copyright 1928, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.) Washington, April 23-When Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, takes the witness stand before the Teapot Dome Investigating Committee tomorrow, it is expected by members of the committee that he will tell the whole story of the leasing of Teapot Dome and the distribution of the Liberty bonds of the Continental Trading Company out of which Secretary Fall was paid $233,000. This testimony is expected to be forced by the newly discovered evidence in the hands of the committee which is held to indicate that Stewart secured approximately one-fourth of the Continental Trading Company bonds and cashed the coupons on them in two successive years. This is in direct contradiction to Stewart's previous testimony before the committee that he did not know anything about the bonds, had not received any of them, and did not personally make dollar out of the transaction.

Now Anxious to Tell Story. Intimations have come to the committee through sources which are believed to be in touch with Colonel Stewart that he is now anxious to tell the whole story and thus if possible clear himself of the indictment for contempt which is now lodged against him in the District Court as well as possible indictment for perjury growing out of his previous testimony. It is understood also that Stewart feels that he is now relieved from any obligation to place himself in jeopardy in order to protect Harry F. Sinclair. Clips Liberty Bond Coupons.

Company fund. Transfers Bonds. The evidence now in possession of the committee shows that on Dec. 15, again on Dec. 15, 1023, Stewart deposited to his personal account in the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago, of which he 18 director, coupons clipped irom percent Liberty bonds to the amount of $13,903.75.

As coupons are payable -annually this would represent the interest on $794,500 1 in Liberty bonds. The com mittee has not yet revealed whether it has succeeded in checking the serial numbers these bonds with the numbers of the bonds purchased for the Continental Trading Company out of the profits of the oil deals in which Colonel Stewart participated as a guarantor. It is known, however, that these bonds are of the same series as those of the Continental Trading Company, that they represent approximately one-fourth of the total amount of these bonds and that Stewart did not cash coupons from a similar amount of bonds either in 1921 or 1924. This circumstantial evidence is believed to indicate that these bonds, were in fact Stewart's share Continental Trading The fact that these bonds were apparently not in Stewart's possession in 1924 is also deemed to be important, as it corroborates information from a reliable source that during that year, when the Teapot Dome investigation WAS particularly active, Stewart transferred his share of the bonds the Standard Oil Company of diana. His reason for transferring line these bonds is alleged to have grown out of the fact that the profits of the Continental Trading Company, out of which the bonds were purchased, were derived from a fraudulent transaction in which his company was made to pay an unduly high price for crude oil in order to create a margin of profit for the Continental Trading Company.

In addition to this evidence indiContinued on Page 20. WOMAN ENDS LIFE BY RAZOR SLASH Clara Rose, 53, of 531 Drew ave, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting her throat with razor. She was found on the floor of her bedroom by her sister, Mrs. Rebecca Finger, with whom she lived at the Drew ave. address.

According to Mrs. Finger her sister had been despondent because of ill health. Mrs. Helen Gamiel, 23, committed suicide gas in the kitchen of her home at 335 Jamaica yesterday, according to the police. She left this note, addressed to her husband: "Dear Sam: You will be a better man for this.

Helen." THE EAGLE CLASSIPIED SECTION will untangle many a buying snarl for you. Wilkins' Flight Wipes Off Two Arctic 'Islands' From Map, Declares Stefansson Capt. George H. Wilkins and his pilot, Lt. Carl B.

Eielson, did not plan to fly direct over the North Pole, according to Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society of New York, one of the sponsors of the Arctic flight, but only across territory adjoining the Pole, where exploration would open up new areas hitherto unseen by man. As a result of the flight, in the opinion of the explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, maps of the Arctic regions will have to be changed, eliminating some the "islands" and other "lands" which had been hitherto recorded on the basis of inadequate exploration and which Wilkins and Eielson found not to be there. One of the imaginary land bodies which the Wilkins flight has now eliminated from Arctic maps is Keenan Land, reported more than half a century ago by a New England whaling skipper. Saw No Mountains.

As Wilkins and Eielson passed over the supposed location of the island, Stefansson declared, "they could see far and wide, without any indication of those mountains which the whalers thought they had seen 100 miles north of their ship. "This was not particularly ing, for in the spring of 1918 Storker Storkerson, Wilkins' colleague and mine, had gone by sled 200 miles north from Alaska, off the mouth of the Colville, had camped on an ice floe and drifted with it 450 miles during six months, living by hunting as the floe zigzagged, and taking soundings proving the ocean there to be from 10,000 to 15,000 feet deep. These soundings and the Wilkins' flight about 100 miles beyond them clearly abolish Keenan Land, which should never hereafter appear on any map." No "Harris Land" Either. Several hours later the Wilkins' did not reach the Pole. Proves Peary Was First.

Stefansson said: plane swung "across the eastern third of the hypothetical Harris Land, deduced from tidal observations by the late Dr. R. A. Harris of the United States Geodetic Survey. Our previous expedition had put a serious dent in that imaginary almost continental almost a mile deep right on the eastisland, for we had a taken soundings ern edge of it.

This Atlantis of the Arctic sunk forever." The Wilkins' flight also, according to Stefansson, gave added testimony that Admiral Robert W. Peary was the true discoverer of the North Pole, back on 6, 1909, and that Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who had been at first accepted as the true discoverer, "Cook reported the definite discovery of land about 84 degrees north latitude and 105 degrees west longitude. Now, with the weather perfectly clear, Wilkins and Eielson approached these two reported lands on a course to take them through the gap between if they were small islands or across either of them if they were big, but they saw no land, or, as Wilkins says, even any sign in the ice below that there might be strong currents such as lands produce in the ocean.

"They saw nothing that could even peared on their left-hand side. But indicate land a until dark clouds apthat was only when they came to west longitude 75, or approximately across the trail of Peary going to and coming from the North Pole in 1909. So these clouds could have meant no land, for that district was covered by Peary on two, different expeditions. Besides, had with him on his last journey in that region not two or three Eskimos but practically his whole party, including Bartlett, Borup, MacMillan and Marvin. All Wilkins saw was land to the south, and that was the vicinity of Cape Columbia, the land nearest the North Pole from which Peary made his start in 1909, when the Pole was first reached." CASSESE UP AGAIN ON LIQUOR CHARGE Ex-Bootleg King Freed Dozen Times in Two Years.

Anthony Cassese, 40, of Grand Baldwin, L. who several years ago served two years in the penitentiary for bootlegging on a scale that earned him the title of "King of Bootleggers," was again brought into Federal Court today on liquor law violation charges. During the past two years he has been arrested on such charges at least a dozen times, each time to go free again with the collapse of the complaint against him. This time he was held in $1,000 bail by Federal Commissioner William J. Wilson for alleged possession of a pint of whisky his restaurant at 168-40 Jamaica Jamaica, and for maintaining a nuisance.

Governess, Ill, Plunges Six Stories From Hotel Miss Elsie Bottjer, 30, of 1138 Olmstead the Bronx, early this morning leaped or fell eight stories from a 10th floor room of the Hotel Hermitage, 42d st. and Broadway, Manhattan, to the roof of a twostory extension. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in a critical condition, suffering from a fracture of the skull and other injuries. The police learned that Miss Bottper, a governess. had been forced to quit work recently because of a nervous ailment.

At the Bronx address it was said she left home yesterday morning to attend religious services and did not return. Today's Big News By H. V. KALTENBORN These Are Record-Breaking Days in Aviation These are record-breaking days. Two Germans and an Irishman fly the Atlantic from east to west, an Australian together with an American flies over the Top of the World, Ray Beech, American, flies over Daytona Beach in a motorcar at 207.55 miles per hour.

Only a few weeks ago two Americans, Haldemann and Stimson, broke the world's endurance flight record and an Italian airman flew over a measured course at Venice at a higher rate of speed than any one had ever flown before. As one remembers that it required eight years from the time Alcock and Brown flew over the Atlantic in 1919 before Lindbergh made his memorabie flight, this series of record-breaking achievements scored in a few weeks' time becomes the more astounding. It is worth recalling, too, that, despite all the new speed records made by new planes, Alcock and Brown, in their Vickers-Vimy bomber, made a faster flight over the Atlantic than any of their successors. Wilkins' description of his flight, written for the New York Times with no one to help him do the writing. is a graphic story of a modest man's triumphs over difficulties.

If any man deserved his success he did. 'This is the fourth year in which he has bucked away at the innumerable ohstacies opposing his ambition to explore the unknown Polar region from the air. He has smashed five planes. risked his life a hundred times, been lost in the Arctic wastes, has abandoned a plane on the ice field and spent a month walking back to the nearest Eskimo village. And after each failure and misadventure he just started again.

Carl Elelson, the pilot who steered the Wilkins plane through Arctic WILKINS WILL HOP OFF ICEBOUND ISLE WITHIN FEW DAYS (Continued from Page 1.) rights reserved) Capt. George H. a change Telegraph, Scandinavian Wilkins from Point Barrow, Alaska, on Sunday, April 15, at a.m., Alaskan time. The starting place had to be, altered as the runway proved too short for the heavily-loaded machine, whose weight was 2,022 pounds and whose cargo was about 4,050 pounds, thus requiring a runway at least a mile and a quarter long. The machine needed a speed of 50 miles an hour before it' was able to rise.

A new runway covered with loose snow and this was trodden down for a width of only five feet so that exact steering was necessary to avoid a crash. The ice also has to be leveled. Captain Wilkins, during his flight, passed places where Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary had been. He sighted Grant Land and passed about 300 English miles east of the North Pole.

The weather was fine with little fog. Flew Above Clouds. Throughout the trip he maintained an average altitude of 1,000 feet, but at times it was necessary to ascend to 3,500 feet to get above the clouds. He sighted no land that had not been discovered previously and there were no signs of animal life on the ice. Captain Wilkins succeeded in taking observations 200 miles from Svalbard (Spitzbergen), but the visibility then became too bad.

Approaching Svalbard the first sight of land was when he saw the two-pointed peaks of Prince, violent Karl storm Promontory. was raging at the time and Captain Wilkins had to make a hurried attempt to land. This was made exceedingly difficult and dangerous by sudden gusts of wind, but a landing eventually was made near a boat in the neighborhood of Dean Mad's Island. The airmen then had been flying 21 hours at more than 100 miles an hour. Steered by Sun.

For steering, purposes Wilkins ordinary magnetic compass very useful and in addition. used a sun compass. He had been supplied with a special map of the Polar region by the American Geographical Society, but was able only get a rough map of Spitzbergen, consequently the navigation was remarkable in view of its landing in Svalbard only about five miles south of decided Kings Bay, the where place originally upon and Captain Wilkins expected to meet the Italian explorer General Umberto Nobile. The Captain had planned to give General Nobile, who intends to fly his dirigible Italia' over the North Pole. information to help him select his route.

Stayed in Plane. Captain Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson were held up more than five days on Dead Man's Island by a severe storm. The thermometer registered 45 degrees below zero and the airmen had to spend their time in the plane to keep warm. Their fcod supply was sufficient for six months. At 3 a.m.

Saturday they decided conditions were good for getting off again. Twice the motor ran full speed but the machine did not move. At the third attempt Captain Wilkins got out and, holding on to a rope attached to the plane, pushed the machine to give it the necessary impetus to ride. They succeeded in starting, but to the pilot it seemed a long time before he heard Wilkins yell: "On board again." The Captain had provided himself with a tent and food in the event he couldn't have climbed aboard. At the height of 1,000 feet, Barentzburg was sighted.

The landing was effective there at 11 a.m. The fliers' first thought was for the safety of their airplane and the motor was covered with a double tarpaulin to prevent it cooling too quickly. This had to be done in a temperature 27 degrees below zero. Didn't Pass Over Pole. Copenhagen, Denmark, April 23 (P) -Capt.

George H. Wilkins is quoted by the Svenska Dagbladet as saying at Green Harbor, Spitzbergen, that he did not pass over North Pole on his flight across polar regions the but flew over Grant's Land, west of Greenland. Plans Antartic Flight. The Los Angeles Examiner in A copyrighted article today said that Captain Wilkins' next great flight would be over the uncharted wastes of the Antartic. J.

K. Northrop, engineer, who designed Wilkins' plane, and a few associates in disclosing the plans, said they were far enough advanced to make it certain that the flier would be back in Los Angeles in four or five weeks. This indicated the possibility of race between two exploring expeditions in South Polar regionsthat of Wilkins with a seaplane and that of Commander Richard E. Byrd with three planes. Wilkins is eager to learn if there is an unbroken continental chain at the Pole, from the Australian side the region has been seen.

Captain Wilkins plans to go aboard a whaler into Ross Sea and past South Victoria Land. There he and his pilot plan to launch their seaplane and taking to the air swing toward King Edward VII Land. COP INVESTIGATORS FACE FIRE IN PROBE OF TAXI LICENSES Drivers Getting Cards Despite Criminal Records -Inquiry Made Citywide. Chief Inspector Lewis J. Valentine, confidential investigator for Police Commissioner Joseph A.

Warren, today refused to discuss the investigation which he is conducting into the issuing of hack licenses upon the apI proval of so-called "hack tors" who are patrolmen assigned to each police station. The inspector, however, admitted that the investigation is city wide and is not confined to the activities of one particular station house. The inquiry started through the activities of the "hack investigator" of the Empire Boulevard police station and through the arrest last Friday of Solomon Cohen by Capt. Oscar Reimer, in command of that station, after Cohen is alleged to have given him $50 to pass five applicants for hack licenses who had given fictitious addresses. Isaac McLaughlin, who was the "hack investigator" at the Empire Boulevard precinct, committed suicide on April 13 at his home at 141 Shepherd ave.

The "hack investigators" look up the records of the various applicants and any who have been of crimes are supposed to be refused licenses to operate taxicabs. It was intimated from an authoritative source that the investigation when completed may cause a stir in police circles. A number of cases of I men with police records holding censes to operate taxicabs are said to have been discovered by Inspector Valentine. Fire Capt. W.

H. Nash Dies Capt. William H. Nash of 107-70 107th Richmond Hill, who retired from the New York Fire Department in 1915 after 32 years service, died yesterday at his home. He was an acting battalion chief the department in 1912 and was injured several times in line of duty.

He received a number of medals for bravery. Captain Nash was son of the late Battalion Chief William H. Nash, who was killed fighting a fire in 1878. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jane Redmond Nash.

The funeral will be held from his late home Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock; thence to the R. C. Church of St. Mary Gate of Heaven, where a requiem mass will be offered. SERVICES FOR H.

W. IVES Funeral services for Henry W. Ives, of 20 Greenfall Kew Gardens, prominent insurance man, who died suddenly in London, April 12, will be held in the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The services had been planned to be held tomorrow evening, but due delay of the vessel bringing the body to this country, they will be held Wednesday. MRS.

C. A. STADLER DIES Mrs. Pauline Stadler, wife of former State Senator Charles A. Stadler, died at her home in Fort Myers, a stroke.

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The Police Department now has a seal, stamping machine and a specially constructed typewriter to frustrate from a Brooklyn repair shop, according to the Deputy Commissioner. A chauffeur who reports his license missing must stand trial before Deputy Commissioner Ruttenberg and explain satisfactorily before a new set duplication of licenses, the Deputy Commissioner said. Commissioner Ruttenberg asked the co-operation of the public in cases where the photograph inside the cab is obviously not the likeness of the driver. TIFFANY Co. FIFTH AVENUE 37TH STREET PEARL NECKLACES Read 'Em and REAP The Theaters by Arthur Pollock Music Reviews by Edward Cushing Photoplays by Martin Dickstein Reverting to Type by Rian James Book Gossip by Jo Ranson On Back Page The Feature Section of The Eagle storms over unknown areas, with A zero temperature in the cockpit, who aimed at a pin point on the Arctic map and hit it despite fog and blizzard.

who landed safely on Dead Man's Island and took off again after weathering a five-day storm in the cockpit, is a young American of Norwegian ancestry. Captain Wilkins gives harm full credit for his skill. Roald Amundsen, who discovered the South Pole and flew over the North Pole and who knows what he is talking about, calls the Wilkins-Eielson journey "the greatest flight ever made." mander Byrd, with fine spirit, lauds it as a far greater flight than his own nonstop air journey from Spitzbergen to the Pole and return. But we are not forgetting the heroes of yesterday even as we laud those of today. This afternoon the trimotored Ford plane, piloted by Major Fitzmaurice and Bert Balchen, which carries spare parts and relief supplies to the Bremen, landed safely on Greenly Island.

At this moment the work of equipping the Bremen with a new propeller and repairing her under-carriage is under way. By tomorrow repairs should be completed and on Wednesday the flight to New York by way of Canada should be resumed. It looks as though all the diverse racial groups of New York City would get a chance to welcome some recordbreaking hero before the year's adventures are completed. This week it is hats off to the Germans and the Trish. We have enough enthusiasm for brave men and brave deeds to give the heartiest greetings to all who deserve it.

So let 119 cry "Hoch sollen Sie leben" and "Erin gO bragh" even as we study up the cheers most likely to appeal to Wilkins and Elelson..