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2 WEDNESDAY MORNING Los Angeles Times COTTON CURB MAY RELAX "Little Fellows" Aid Sought Roosevelt Proposes Lifting Restrictions in Small Farm Categories WARM SPRINGS (Ga.) Dec. 4. (U.P.)-President Roosevelt announced tonight that he would ask Congress to lift the restrictions on the 600,000 "little fellows" who now are subject to the terms of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act. At the same time, however, he reiterated that production control as a whole would be continued as a definite government policy, in the hopes that after three crops or so the cotton surplus would be reduced to the pre-war level of approximately 4,000,000 bales. AMENDMENT PROPOSED In connection with his intention to lift restrictions in the small farm categories, the President declared: "If the Bankhead Cotton Control Act is continued in effect for another year, it is my purpose to recommend to the Congress an amendment granting an exemption for the full amount of his base production to each farmer who has an established base production of not more than two bales of cotton." TO AID LITTLE GROWER The Chief Executive believes that such a movement would involve only about 300,000 bales of cotton and therefore make little or no difference to the market price, although aiding the little grower immeasurably. Mr. Roosevelt described his proposed step as a simple procedure working toward the cutting of red tape. Discussing the general cotton situation, the President made it clear that he was highly pleased with the gradual upswing of the market price. WOULD SAVE SOUTH Mr. Roosevelt said the administration's objective was not necessarily 20 or 22-cent cotton but a parity price maintenance that would be held for two or three years. If that can be accomplished, it would save the South. At the same time, he hoped that the same situation would prevail as regards other basic crops. The President tonight cleaned his desk here at the "Summer White House," preparatory to leaving for Washington tomorrow. He expects to arrive at the capital Thursday afternoon, and to begin at once on his message to Congress, which convenes January 3. NELSON WIDOW SECRETLY HELD (Continued from First Page) since, questioned relentlessly by Justice Department officials in an effort to learn details of the Dillinger gang operations; what friends it had in underworld circles; who assisted its members in concealment, and the whereabouts of John Hamilton, Dillinger henchman, several times reported dead. During five days of questioning, it was reported, she revealed to authorities the name of Nelson's accomplice in the slaying of Cowley and Hollis. Justice Department officials refused to comment on this or on another report that the SEARCH FOR ULM BEGUN BY SHIPS AND AIRPLANES Ulm and His Flying Aides in Plane Down at Sea Hunted by Rescuers [[3 images]] Leon Skillings, radio operator of the Ulm trans-Pacific flight, is shown in the cabin of the plane with his head set on just before the start. Skillings later was to send out an SOS when the plane was down on the water near Hawaii. [A. P. Photo] George Littlejohn, co-pilot with Ulm of the airship in which they planned to make a crossing of the Pacific. [A. P. Photo] Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, just before the start of his Pacific flight, received the best wishes of Amelia Earhart, who twice has crossed the Atlantic by plane. Ulm and the aviatrix are shown at Oakland a few minutes before the take-off to Hawaii. [A. P. Photo] (Continued from First Page) where to look, but they believed Ulm and his companions, Co-pilot George Littlejohn and Navigator-Radio Operator J. L. Skilling, might be adrift within 200 miles of Oahu Island, on which Honolulu is situated. THOROUGH SEARCH The far-flung naval search was carried on by eighteen submarines, the light mine layers Beaver, Widgeon and Seagull, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca and the Coast Guard patrol boat Tigers. Rear-Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commandant of Pearl Harbor naval station, Admiral Sinclair Gannon, commander of the submarine base, and Commander E. W. Tod were cooperating in directing a co-ordinated search. Late today the patrol planes were ordered to return to their bases by 7 or 8 p.m. but the surface craft will spray the darkness all night with searchlights, hoping to locate the flyers or see their distress flares. ISLANDS ALERT On every island of the archipelago a lookout was kept by local authorities and newspapermen on the possibility the plane Star of Australia might be washed ashore. Searching craft were covering an area within a radius of 300 miles from Oahu, because it was not known whether the missing plane had overshot its goal or fallen short on the flight to chart a commercial flying venture. The opinion that Ulm and his companions might be drifting some 200 miles northeast of Oahu, unless their land plane had sunk, was given tonight by Lieut. E. W. Stephens, navy meteorologist, who based his belief on the plane's speed and prevailing winds. BELIEVED SHORT OF GOAL Lieut. Stephens estimated Ulm fell short of his goal, which, with the distance travelled after he turned back in the belief he had overshot the islands, would place the missing plane in the northeast position. If Ulm is 200 miles at sea, Stephens said, it is possible to drift forty miles in twenty-four hours with the wind and tide but this drift would be away from Oahu. The meteorologist predicted calm seas with light southwest winds probably until dusk tomorrow, when squalls might occur. HOPE PLANE FLOATS Hope was held that the land plane would float, unless it became waterlogged or a wind arose to swamp it, until the searchers reached its side. Ulm spurned a life raft before taking off from Oakland yesterday at 3:41 p.m. (P.S.T.) and neither he nor his two companions carried life preservers. Flying through stormy weather at an altitude of 12,000 feet, Lieut. Ulm maneuvered for two hours, attempting to pick up the radio direction beacon before sending out his first SOS. EIGHTEEN HOURS OUT For eighteen hours the silver and orange colored monoplane had roared on its way over the ocean, but at 7:30 a.m. came the first warning from the voyagers that they were facing trouble. "We have very little gasoline left," Operator Skilling messaged. About half an hour later came another message, telling anxious listeners that the Star of Australia was off its course to the islands and appealing for the radio beacon, which was being broadcast continually. "I don't know if I am north or south of the islands," Ulm said, and later: "Have no position. Must be badly lost." There quickly followed appeals for a launch and for the Army and Navy to stand by. Within a half-hour these messages telling of the flyers' peril came through the air: 9:03 a.m.—"SOS!" 9:08 a.m.—"Going down into sea now. Plane will float." 9:13 a.m.—"SOS! SOS! SOS!" 9:24 a.m.—"We are turning into wind. Come pick us up." 9:30 a.m.—"On water now. SOS!" At the first sign of the plane's danger army and navy forces sprang into action and the S.S. President Coolidge, obeying the traditional laws of the sea, at once turned from its course to render aid. KINGSFORD-SMITH VOICES CONCERN FOR ULM Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, twice conqueror of uncharted air routes across the Pacific between California and Australia, was deeply concerned last night over the fate of Capt. Charles P. T. Ulm and his comrades, down in the Pacific off Honolulu—their goal on a flight from Oakland. "It is too bad that my own ship is in the factory," said Sir Charles. "If it were conditioned I would take off and try to help find them. If radio reports are based on facts, it would seem to me that Capt. Ulm should be quite near the islands. He probably encountered strong head winds, which held down his speed, and without sufficient gasoline he has fallen short of his mark." Capt. Ulm was co-pilot of the Southern Cross on Sir Charles's epochal dash from Oakland to Australia seven years ago. PLANE CARRIER NEEDS CHANGES NORFOLK (Va.) Dec. 4. (AP)—Only recently out of the yards of her builders, the airplane carrier Ranger, constructed at a cost of $20,000,000, is at the Norfolk Navy Yard for a "multitude of changes," it was announced today by Capt. E. G. Kintner, manager of the yard. [[AD]] I.MAGNIN & CO. [[HANDWRITTEN]] OVER [[HANDWRITTEN]] "the gift from Magnin's is the gift preferred" 6340 HOLLYWOOD BLVD BILTMORE HOTEL AMBASSADOR HOTEL 550 E COLORADO PASADENA EL MIRADOR-PALM SPRINGS [[AD IMAGE]] [[AD]] [[NOTE]] TURN OVER [[NOTE]] [[image]] Charles T. P. Ulm, intrepid aviator, who took off yesterday from Oakland for Hawaii on projected flight to Australia. P)—The House of Representatives passed a bill today making a grant of £5000 (approximately $25,000,) to Mrs. Charles T. P. Ulm, whose husband has been missing for ten days [missing] a trans-Pacific flight. couver, B. C., whence he originally had intended to take off for "down under," that he and his two companions would take off "tomorrow or Sunday" from Oakland. He indicated it would probably be tomorrow morning. This will be Ulm's second trip by air across the broad expanse to Honolulu and Australia. He flew with famed Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith as co-pilot in the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928. He and his crew, George Littlejohn, co-pilot, and Leon Skilling, navigator, were undeterred by a narrow escape from a crack-up this morning as the plane rumbled the entire length of the field before it could struggle into the air with its 600 gallons of gasoline aboard in a test flight and then cleared the fence by a mere matter of inches. FLYERS DEAD, SAY EXPERTS IN SEA HUNT Search for Ulm Continues Greatest Rescuing Force Ever Organized Fails to Find Plane Crew HONOLULU, Dec. 6. (U.P.)—Death probably has ended the gallant adventure of Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm and his two companions, forced down somewhere on the Pacific Ocean, naval experts and leaders of the vast hunt for the trio believe tonight. Two days' fruitless search for the men and their luckless plane, the Star of Australia, by the greatest rescue force ever organized in Hawaii, had ended without a single clew to the flyers' fate. DRIVE FORWARD The Navy and other forces still drove forward in their efforts to find the Australian ace, George Littlejohn and Leon Skilling, lost when their plane's gasoline supply gave out far short of Hawaii on a projected Oakland (Cal.) to Australia flight. Scores of surface craft, including thirteen submarines, several destroyers, many Japanese fishing sampans and commercial vessels in the region surrounding the islands maintained their watch for wreckage of the Star of Australia. STREAM OF MESSAGES Navy radio operators sent an uninterrupted stream of messages directed to Ulm and his companions on the chance that the flyers might have restored their radio set to working order, and would hear the advices telling of the vast hunt for them. More then forty-eight hours have passed, however, since the plane went into the water. Ulm had predicted the plane would float for forty-eight hours. Flyers said they doubt the monoplane could stay afloat any longer, although it might have been kept awash if the flyers cut loose the two motors of the craft and made the huge gasoline tanks water tight. PLANES SCOUR AREA Four Navy seaplanes scoured the region north of Honolulu today. Four other planes cruised over the Kaui Channel area. Commander John Rodgers and his crew of three men were picked up in this district after floating ten days in their plane during a flight to Hawaii from the mainland in 1925. There still is a strong possibility that the three flyers may have been picked up by one of the many fishing boats trolling near the islands. Hours and even days might pass before word of their rescue by one of these boats could be received. TWO GIRL FLYERS UP SEVEN DAYS OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 6. (U.P.) Two girl flyers soared high above the city tonight on their seventh consecutive day in the air. The flyers, Jean Larene of Dallas, Tex., and Henrietta Sumner of Hollywood, weather and their plane permitting, will remain aloft until they have bettered the women's endurance flight record of 239 hours. Oakland, Cal., was ended today. HONOLULU, Dec. 15. (AP)—On the possible chance the Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm overshot the Hawaiian Islands on his flight from Oakland, Cal., to Honolulu en route to Australia, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca will leave tomorrow for Johnston Island, an uninhabited speck of land 720 miles Southwest of Honolulu.
