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SHIP FILIBUSTER
PLAN IS CHARGED
Senate Group Seeks to
Wreck Bill, Oddie Declares
in Address.
A group of Sr mi tors 1* planning a
filibuster to wreck the pending cruiser
bill in the Senate. Senator Oddie, Re
publican, of Nevada, charged last night
Jn an address before the American So
ciety of Naval Engineers, held at the
Willard Hotel. A doctrine of destruc
tive pacifism, being preached by a num
ber of organisations, the Senator blam- j
ed for the impending filibuster and ex- ;
pressed the hope that “correct Informa
tion’’ would be conveyed to these Sen- I
atora to avert a filibuster.
Secretary Wilbur, another speaker, :
insisted that the Nation needs an ade- j I
ouate Navy, pointing out that real pre- i
paredness means “the development and |
appropriation of scientific problems.”
Nary Called Laboratory.
“The Navy is a great laboratory
where scientific discoveries are first,
tested out and then put into operation,
but it Is only by conscientious and long
continued development that a Nation
will find itself fit in another war," the
Navy head asserted.
Explaining that the life of an air- j
plane is three years, the Secretary told
the engineers that “the airplanes of to- I
day will not be a match for the plane j
of 10 years from now. and unless w» i
visualize a war within that period every j
dollar spent ia for developing a plane
that is yet to come.”
Vigorous criticism of pacifist* was 1
given by Rear Admiral C. W. Dyson. '
U 8. N„ the presiding officer at the 1
banquet, who asserted that if no more ]
ships are built, the United States will '
be brought, faee to face with the condi- 1
tton that prevailed in I*B3, when there <
was none competent to build ships.
c
Critics’ Reasons Ridiculed. t
“When I read in the papers of the <
reasons offered by some as to why we <
should not build any mors ships, then
I am driven to the conclusion that the i
zoologists haven’t told us everything,” i
he said. I
The American merchant marine will <
have an opportunity to develop through
the passage of the Jones-White bill last c
year. Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone, re- i
tired, said. J. E. Burkhardt. rhief |
engineer of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding <
Corporation, and Dr, Phillips Thomas ]
of the Westinghouse Electric * Manu- (
facturing Co. were other speakers at ;
the banquet. St which Rear Admiral R. ]
H. Leigh was toastmaster. (
WIDER H STREET URGED. !
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Broadening From Massachusetts j
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▲re. to Seventeenth Recommended, i
Widening of H street from Massa- '
ehusetts avenue to Seventeenth street, .
provided the property owners along the ,
street, approve the plan, was urged on .
the District Commissioners bv the com- j
mittee on police, fire protection and !
public safety of the Washington Cham- !
ber of Commerce at a meeting yester- i
day afternoon. J
Harry M. Bedell, vice chairman of ;
the committee, presided. Lengthy con- 1
aiderstion was given the project, held to ,
be needed for relief of traffic congestion. ■
H street between Seventeenth street and 1
Pennsylvania avenue recently wes wid
ened.
THE WEATHER |
District of Columbia lncreasing
cloudiness and colder tonight, followed
by rain tomorrow; lowest temperature
tonight about 38 degrees; diminishing I
northwest winds, becoming east or :
southeast by tomorrow.
Maryland-Increasing cloudiness and ,
colder tonight, followed by rain tomor
row; diminishing northwest winds, be* 1
coming east or southeast by tomorrow.
Virginia—lncreasing cloudiness and
colder tonight, followed by showers to* \
morrow; diminishing northwest, shift
ing to east or southeast winds.
West Virginia—Cloudy and colder to
night, followed by rain, beginning late
tonight or tomorrow.
Records for 24 Hours.
Thermometer—4 p.m., 63; t p.m., 62;
12 midnight, 65; 4 am., 58; 8 a.m., 57;
II a.m., 61.
Barometer —4 p.m.. 29.76; 8 p.m.,
29.67; 12 midnight, 29 57: 4 a.m., 29.67;
8 a.m.. 29.82: 11 a.m.. 29.92.
Highest temperature, 69, occurred at
1 a.m. today.
Lowest temperature, 57, occurred at
7:35 a.m. today.
Temperature same date last year—
Highest. 51; lowest, 36.
Tide Tablet.
(Purnlshed by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today—Low tide. 8:16 a.m. and 8:18
p.m.; high tide. 1:65 a.m. and 2:32 p.m.
Tomorrow—Low tide, 9:19 a.m. and
10:28 p.m.; high tide, 2:58 a.m. and
3:34 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Today—Sun rose 7:24 a.m.; sun sets
8:14 p.m.
Tomorrow—Sun rises 7:23 a.m.; sun
acts 5:15 p.m.
Moon rises 12:10 p.m.: sets 1:14 a.m.
Automobile lamps to be llgh’od one
half hour after sunset.
Condition of the Water.
Great Palls—Very muddy.
Weather in Various Cities.
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Abilene. Tex. .. 29 92 64 42 ....Clear
Albany. N. Y. .. 29.56 82 44 0.06 Pt cloudy
Atlanta. Ga.... 30.04 72 52 0.14 Clear
Atlantic City . ?9.76 86 4S 006 Cloudy
Baltimore. Md.. 29 78 68 58 008 Clear
Birmingham ... S 0 06 76 56 0.84 Clear
Bismarck, N. D. 30 02 -4 -18 .... Clear
Boston. Mas*. ..29.42 so 42 .... Cloudy
Buffalo. N. V, . 29.80 81 32 102 Cloudy
Charleston. B.C. 30.02 70 58 . . . Cloudy
Chicago. 111 . .30 02 34 14 0.86 Pt.cloudy
Cincinnati. Ohio 30 04 70 32 1.48 Cloudy
Cleveland, Ohio. 29 92 62 30 208 Cloudy
Columbia. S C. 30 oo 70 60 .... Cloudy
Denver. C01a... 29.56 42 28 .. Clear
Detroit. Mich... 29 90 50 28 0.88 Cloudy
B1 Pa*o. Tex .29 94 54 32 ....Clear
Oalventon. Tex. 29 98 76 58 004 Pt cloudy
Helena, Mont .. 30 30 4 -14 0.10 Clear
Huron. 8. Dak 30 12 ]2 0 416 Bnow
Indianapolis.lnd 30 06 64 26 1.36 Cloudy
JacicsonvlllePla 30 10 78 62 .... Clear
Kansas City. Mo 29.92 82 24 .... Pt.cloudy
Los Anteles. ... 29 96 60 48 008 Rain
Louisville. Ky.. 30 06 72 32 0.54 Cloudy
Miami, Pla 30.14 78 72 ....Clear
S. Orleans. La.. 30 02 80 50 032 Cloudy
New York. N. Y. 28 68 62 46 ....Pt.cloudy
Oklahoma City.. 29 90 58 30 ....Clear
Omaha. Nebr.,29 96 28 6 .... Cloudy
Philadelphia Pa. 29 76 64 54 0.02 Clear
Phoenix, Arlx.. 29 92 58 42 .... Cloudy
Pittsburgh. Pa.. 29 90 68 38 0.20 Cloudy
Portland. Me .. 29 28 54 38 0.26 Clear
Portland, Ore*. 30,02 46 28 0.68 Clear
Raleigh. N. C . 29.94 68 58 .... Rain
Salt Lake City. 29 68 36 28 0.48 Cloudy
San Antonio 29 94 70 48 .... Pt.cloudy
San Dieso.Caiif. 29 98 60 52 ....Clear
San Francisco. 39 84 52 46 0.26 Clear
It. Louis. Mo 30 04 58 24 054 Pt.cloudy
St. Paul. Minn. 30 00 18 -6 Snow
Beattie. Wash 30 12 42 28 .... Clear
Spokane. Wash. 30 18 26 8 Clear
WASH ,D. C. 29 82 60 56 0.17 Pt.cloudy
FOREIGN.
17 am., Oreenwtch time, today.)
Temperature Weather
London. F.nsland 36 Part cloudy
Pans. France 26 Cleal
Vienna. Austria. 30 Snow
Berlin. Germany 36 Part cloudy
CepenhaKen. Denmark... 30 Part cloudy
Gibraltar. Spain 54 Part cloudy
(Neon. Oreenwich time, today *
Sorts (Payal*. Asorea... 54 Tart cloudy
(Current obeenrotions. >
Ban Juan. Porto ft1«8... 78 Part cloudy
Havana. Cuba ... }J £}** r
■Set—. -O4oal-foe.«,-78 Claar
Noted Visitor
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SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL.
LABRADOR PATRON
WILL SPEAK HERE
Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Physi
cian, Became Benefactor
of Fisher Folk.
Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, well known
physician, who became the patron and
benefactor of the Labrador fishermen,
will reach Washington this afternoon
for a several-day visit, during which he
will tell of the life and hardships of
the North Coast flsherfolk in a radio
talk and in two addresses at local
churches.
Sir Wilfred will speak over radio
station WRC tonight and he will talk
tomorrow morning at the Church of the
Covenant and tomorrow- night at the
Central Presbyterian Church.
Having worked first among the fisher
men of the North Sea, Dr. Grenfell went
to Labrador in 1892, where he found a
people demoralized by their fruitless
struggle against poverty and disease.
Dr. Grenfell stayed with the people
of Labrador and lived as one of them.
He inducted sanitation methods to the
barren coast, fought the epidemics with
courage and skill, established several
hospitals and dispensaries along the
coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador
and founded the Mission to Deep Sea
Fishermen. He also founded a chain
of supply stores in which the flsherfolk
ihemselves have interest and in which
they may buy the necessities of life at
small profit, thus freeing them from
the traders. A splendid home for sea
men has been built at St. Johns, New
foundland, where men of the sea have
a wholesome place to stay while in that
Port.
Throughout his efforts for the better
ment of the conditions in which the
fishermen of Labrador live, Dr. Gren
fell. who recently was knighted by King
George, has been aided by his wife, the
former Miss Anna McClanahan of Chi
cago. Lady Grenfell has been an en
thusiastic worker and adviser at the
Grenfell Mission and she is accompany
ing Sir Wilfred to Washington.
The doctor’s visit here is sponsored
by Dr. James H. Taylor and Charles
Henry Butler.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY
Bethany Chapter. No. 24. O. E. S..
will give a card party, 8 o’clock, at the
home of Mrs. Adele S. Leibert, 5013
Fourteenth street.
Columbia Chapter, No. 15, O. E. S..
will hold its annual dance and card
party at the Washington Hotel. Special
music.
Federation of Citizens’ Associations
will meet, 8 o’clock, in the board room
of the Municipal Building.
The Dramatic Club of McKinley
High School will have its annual dinner
and entertainment at the All-States
Hotel.
The Confederate organizations of the
District will celebrate the birth anni
versaries of Gen. Robert E. Lee and
Stonewall Jackson at the Confederate
Memorial Home, 1322 Vermont avenue,
at 3:30 o’clock. Franceska Kaspar
Lawson will sing.
Dr. Lee W. Esterbrook will talk on
"The Art of Living,” 8 o’clock, under
auspices of the League for the Large*
Life, at Stonleigh Court, 1706 L street.
The Missouri Society of Washington
will meet, 8 o'clock, In the rose room of
the Washington Hotel. Miss Isabel
Craig Bacon will sing and there will
be instrumental numbers by Miss Fran
ces Gutellus. Dancing at 9:30 o’clock.
Admission by card. Mrs. Sam C. Major
will head the list of hostesses.
Tennesseeans and their friends will
meet, 9 o’clock, at the Willard Hotel
i for an evening of music and dancing
The congressional delegation from
Tennessee will attend. John A. Chum
bley, president of the Tennessee Society,
will preside.
The National Museum announces an
exhibition of drawings, etchings and
lithographs by George C. Wales, today
and continuously until January 27, in
the division of graphic arts. Smith
sonian Building. Hours, daily, from
9 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays, 1:30 to 4:30.
A dance will be given by the Curley
Club for the benefit of the scholarship
fund, 9 o’clock, in blue room of the
City Club.
FUTURE
The Red Triangle Outing Club will
meet at Sligo road, 3 p.m. tomorrow,
for a hike following the District line
to Chevy Chase Circle. Take Georgia
and Alaska avenue cars on Ninth street
and transfer to bus at end of line to
Sligo road, or take Forest Glen or Four
Corners bus.
The Wanderlusters’ hike for tomor
row will start from Mount Rainier, D. C.,
at 2:45 p.m. Miss Kennedy, leader.
“Where Europe and Asia Overlap; the
Frontier, from Finland to the Black
Sea,” will be the subject of a free lec
ture by Lewis E. Van Norman, world
traveler, tomorrow, 8 p.m., at 1216 H
street, under auspices of Washington
Lodge, Theosophical Society.
The Monday Evening Club will hold
a joint meeting with the Social Hygiene
Society of the District of Columbia. Jan
uary 21, 8 p.m., at Y. W. C. A. Build
ing, Seventeenth and K streets. Sub
ject: “Protective Social Measures with
Special Reference to Value of Women
Police.” Speakers: Jamei M. Hepburn,
director Baltimore Crifninal Justice
Commission, and Mai. Bascom Johnson,
director division of legal protective
measures, American Social Hygiene As
sociation, New York, N. Y. Miss Kath
erine Lenroot, program chairman.
Fillmore Parent-Teacher Association
will meet Monday. 8 p.m., at the Flll
more School.
SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE
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AGENTS ALLIED VAN LINES
LONG DISTANCE MOVERS
CRATE AND PACK BY EXPERTS
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THE EVEMTN’ff STAR. WASTTTNfITON. T). C„ SATURDAY. .TANTADY 19. 1929.
TWO WOMEN HELD
FOR KIDNAPING MAN
Facing Trial for Forcing Ray
mond L. Schwenck to Drive
to New Jersey.
Mrs Sadie Chrlsttnla Altizer, 22 years
old. and Mrs. Mary Helen Wozniak. 21,
held here as kidnaping suspects on com
plaint of a taxi driver, were brough:
into headquarters this morning and
went through the usual routine of being
i measured, fingerprinted and photo
graphed and were questioned by detec
tives. Mrs. Wozniak. incidentally, ad
mitted a previous conviction on an aulc
theft charge.
The girls were brought here yester
day from Penns Orove, N. J., by De
tective Frank A. Varney with Elmei 1
Kyle Altizer, 31. husband of Mrs. Altizer,
on complaint of Raymond L. Schwenk,
1447 East Capitol street, alleging that
they kidnaped him in this city Tues
day night and compelled him to drive
them to the New Jersey town.
No formal charge has yet been pre
ferred against the trio.
Identified as Jail Inmate.
Mrs. Wozniak. who appeared espe
cially amused, told detectives she was
from Winchester, Va., and was accus
tomed to driving an automobile, al
though she did not take hold of the
wheel while on the trip from here to
Penns Grove Tuesday night.
While Mrs. Wozniak stood before the
detectives answering questions pro
pounded by Capt. Walter Emerson,
acting chief. Detective Henry M. Jett
recalled that he had seen her in the
jail at Harrisonburg. Va., about 18
months ago, and the young woman ad
mitted he was not mistaken.
“Have you ever been arrested be
fore?" Capt. Emerson asked.
"I have." was her prompt response,
“but not here.”
“In Winchester?”
“Yes.”
“For what?”
“Stealing an automobile.”
Admits 8-Month Sentence.
Mrs. Wozniak said she was sentenced
to eight months in jail and that she
was in the Harrisonburg jail part of
the time.
Mrs. Altizer said she had been ar
rested only once before. That arrest,
she said, was followed by her marriage
to Altizer.
Robert W. Kidd, county detective
who arrested the trio, has been asked
by Detective Varney to ship the be
longings of the trio here from Penns
Grove. Their effects, consisting of two .
suitcases, a hat box, wooden box and ;
two pasteboard boxes, were shipped !
from here shortly before the trio and ;
Schwenk started their automobile trip 1
to New Jersey.
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CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY
CLUB LISTS NET PROFIT
John C. Xoons Re-Elected President
at Meeting of Board of
Governors.
The Congressional Country Club made
a net profit of $9,500 during 1928, a re
port on operations of the club submitted
to the board of governors at the annual
meeting last night at the clubhouse,
near Rockville, showed.
John C. Koons, under whose admin
istration the club has prospered during
the past year, last night was re-elected
president at the meeting of the board of
gove-nors following the annual meeting
of the membership.
At the membership meeting, 12 mem
bers of the board of governors were
named for three-year terms. They
were: David H. Blair. Edward F. Col
laday, Thomas P. Littlepage. Benjamin
C. Carey, Edgar P. Copeland, John J.
Pershing, Albin B. Parker, Royal C.
Johnson, Edwin C. Graham, Leonard P.
Steuart, P. M. Anderson and Cooper C.
Lightbown.
Other officers of the club will be
elected at the meeting of the board of
governors Friday at the club house.
PRESS CLUB PLANS MADE
TO SEAT NEW PRESIDENT
Pre-View of New Film Will Be
Shown Prior to Inau
gural Ball. ■
Prior to the opening of the ball given
at the National Press Club tonight, a
pre-view of the new -film “Behind the
German Lines” will be shown. The film,
produced by the Paramount Pictures
Corporation, will be for the entertain
ment of ladies, associate and non-active
members and guests.
Immediately preceding the ball there
will be an inaugural parade, led by the
United States Army Bhhd, Wheh Will
mott Lewis, chief justice of the club,
will administer the oath to the new
K resident of the club and introduce
im for his inaugural address.
It Ls the custom of the Press Club
to celebrate the Induction of the new
administration Into office with an
inaugural ball.
“Czar of Great Lakes" Dies.
CLEVELAND, January 19 OP).
Harry D. Colby, who as a penniless
youth walked from New York to Cleve
land to begin a career that earned him
the nickname of “Czar of the Great
Lakes,” died at the Ritz Hotel, London,
England, Thursday night, friends here
were advised by cablegram yesterday.
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WILLIAM RINKER.
FUGITIVE CONVICT
FOUND IN COAL CAR
West Virginia Criminal, En Route
to Florida, Is Caught
by Policeman.
A trip to Florida to spend the re
mainder of the Winter season among
the orange groves, started yesterday by
William Rinker, 25-year-old fugitive
from the State prison at Moundsville,
W. Va„ was interrupted early today by
Policeman George Nicholson of the
twelfth precinct, who took him from a
coal car in the freight yard at Ecking
ton. Nicholson had advance informa
tion as to his identity and no effort was
made on part of the prisoner to deny it
or offer resistance. Ay illustrated cir
cular. offering a reward of SSO for
Rinker's capture, shows he escaped
from the West. Virginia prison Novem
ber 11, last year, having been admitted
March 1, 1926, from Wood County, to
serve a sentence of 10 years for armed
robbery.
Discussing with the policeman his
escape, Rinker said he got out of the
prison by cutting a hole in the roof
of a building and lowering himself to
the ground. Shots were fired at him
during a pursuit, but he was not hit.
Leaving Moundsville. he stated, he
went West as far as Oklahoma, return
! ing East a short time ago, wanting to
! see his relatives, who reside In Bruns
] wick, Md. He then concluded he would j
i go to Florida for the Winter and re
i turn North the coming Summer. He
had nearly SSO in his pockets when cap
tured this morning.
L. M. Robinson, warden of the State
prison at Moundsville, has been no
tified ol Rinker’s capture. He will send
an officer for him.
BURGLARS CARRY OFF
450-POUND SAFE
Reward Will Be $5 in Obsolete
Coins if They Open It,
Owner Declares.
About $5 worth of old coins, some
business papers and non-negotiable se
curities and a few pictures was all that
will reward the thieves who last night
carried away a 450-pound safe from the
Acme Window-Cleaning Service. 512 H
street, according to Leon L. Cahoon,
manager.
Entrance was gained by breaking the
lock on a rear door, and apparently the
safe was removed through the same
door.
Belief that more than one man w r as
involved in the robbery was expressed
by Cahoon, who declared that four men
were required to carry the old safe
when the Acme Window-Cleaning Serv
ic moved into its present premises 10
years ago.
The safe stood by the front window
of the store. Cahoon claimed he col
lected old coins and kept several Co
lumbia half-dollars and other obsolete
coins in the safe. No light was left in
the store last night, except that afford
ed by a gas burner near the safe. The
burner was discovered turned off this
morning.
Howard Dawes, an employe, found the
rear door lock broken when he came to
work this morning and discovered the
safe missing. Nothing else had been
taken from the office, Cahoon said.
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Two Couples Licensed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK. Md.. January 19.
Marriage licenses have been issued here
to the following: George Albin Wahl
strom. 21 years old, of Silver Spring,
and Miss Ruth Helena Bryant, 24, Ta
koma Park: Leonard L. Rutherford. 23,
Point of Rocks, Md., and Blanche C.
Reid, 21, Lovettsville, Va.
Conductor Dies of Injury.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md., January 19
William Henry, 45 years old, of Har
risonburg, Va., a Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad conductor, injured Thursday
when he fell under a train at Wever
ton, died at the hospital here yesterday.
Henry was found with his leg crushed.
He is survived by his widow and two
children. The body has been sent to
, Harrisonburg for burial.
BYRD’S DOGS SET
HAULING RECORD
Build Polar Sledding Epoch
With Two 16-Mile Trips
Daily.
(Continued From First Page.)
loads of 1,200 to 1.500 pounds hauled by
nine-dog teams at a good trotting pace
the whole distance of 8 miles.
Sverdrup found that six dogs easily
hauled 650 to 800 pounds and averaged
20 miles a day for many days, and Sir
Ernest Shackleton learned that 14 dogs :
W'ould haul 1 ton.
It is also worthy of consideration that
Comdr. Byrd's drgs have not been
worked too severely, and that at the
present time 78 of the 87 dogs are in
harness.
Occasionally one is taken out for a
rest or because it has been injured in a
fight and replaced by another, so that
it may be said that almost the entire
group has been at work.
Two Houses Erected.
Yesterday the record was made of 8
tons hauled to the base.
This achievement has been the more
remarkable because everything else has
gone on at the same time. Two houses
have ben erected at the base, material
has been checked and stacked, the air
plane has been assembled and flown,
radio work both in connection with th r *
base and the plane has gone ahead and
Ccmdr. Byrd has been enabled to do
a tremendous amount of correspond
ence. plan rations for journeys, correct
compasses and do some preliminary
navigational work.
All this has been a cause of intense
gratification to Comdr. Byrd and the
other members of his expedition, be
cause it has been proved that the
preparations were properly carried out
and that the various divisions of the
expedition are able to function as had
been planned. This feeling arisen from
a full knowledge of the difficulty of
proper preparation and the risks which
accompany any deficiency.
Amundsen forgot snow shovels. Some
things have been forgotten on this ex
pedition. but nothing for which a sub
stitute could not be found or which
can be replaced by some expert work
man.
Preparations Win Success.
Expeditions are w’on by preparation
and the dogs are a good example of
this. If dependence had been placed
on Amundsen's success in getting inland
so far by the middle of January and
sufficient dogs had not been brought to
do the heavy freight sledging, the work
of the expedition would have been
stopped and its success jeopardized
The commander of a polar expedition
stakes everything on his preparation.
In this case Comdr. Byrd is risking his
entire career. His reputation not only
as an explorer, but also as a navigator
and his fortune in one of the most haz
ardous undertakings ever attempted in
Antartica.
There has been time after time when
success might have been jeopardized by
a mishap. There was the long tow
dowm to the pack ice from New Zealand,
which, if not undertaken might not
have enabled us to reach the whaler
Larson In time to be towed through.
This saved us coal, so that a full supply
for every purpose seems now to be as
sured.
Pack Ice Heaviest.
The whalers report the pack ice the
heaviest they have ever known at this
time of year and it is certain that the
City of New York could not have
reached here for some time if the pack
had been bucked without assistance.
There was danger to the Eleanor j
Bolling, a steel ship, in pushing ahead
through the ice-filled waters in the
fog, and danger to her from the pack
w'hich caused the delay in her recent
sailing from New Zealand.
There were also navigational difficul
ties in a region full of erratic magnetic
phenomena, difficulties overcome by the
use of many aids, including the radio.
And then came this present phase of
freighting across the ice made possible
only by the preparations and the loyalty
of a diversified crew. Then there are
risks to the personnel on which so
much depends.-
i Constant Watch Kept.
Dog drivers, for Instance, never leave
either the ship or the base without be
ing reported by radio to the other end
of the trial and a constant lookout is
maintained.
The watch is kept from the crow's
nest of the ship. The number of men
who leave with each party, their load,
the number of dogs and every item of
information about them, all this Ls con
stantly recorded, so that it would be im
possible to go astray without being re
ported in a short time. Any of these j
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leader of it. Comdr. Byrd has built up a
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of the difficulties of the situation or the j
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failure to meet them as adequately as
possible.
On his short exploration flight the
other day it was found that not a com
pass on the plane worked because of
the proximity of the magnetic pole. It
is believed that this difficulty may be
overcome.
Compass Use Difficult.
He must also in all flights, except the
one to the Pole, cut across meridians
and lines of compass variation and this
makes the use of sun compass and mag
netic compasses, even the earth inductor
compass, much more difficult.
What it would mean to be without
sight because of an overcast sky and
unreliable compasses when flying over
this country at a speed of 90 miles an
hour may be imagined. In a very short
time one might penetrate to a distance
where rescue might be impossible, w’here
it would be too far to walk back.
These navigational problems have
been uppermost In Comdr. Byrd's mind
for many months, even with all the
other details of the expedition crowding
his mind, and upon his solution of them
depends to a large degree his success.
One dwells on this subject of prep
aration because it is not possible until
one has been here to realize what ex
plorers mean when they talk about it.
Home and all the things which a man
may call to his aids in civilized com
munities are a long way off.
Listens In Loneliness.
This country grows on one despite its
loneliness, or perhaps because of it.
After an airplane flight to the base it
was a tremendous contrast to go out to
the base with a dog team over winding
trail, past pressure ridges and small
cracks through which the seals make
inquisitive noises. The bay ice then
seems a great plain, varied only in its
contours, silent, rigid and beautiful.
Sverre Strom, who loves the ice and has
seen all the myriad colors of the polar
lee, who has experienced this terrible
silence and menace, took me with him.
and when we were coming back, riding
behind the softly padding dogs, he
turned around and said: “Sometimes
I stop here all alone and you can hear
your heart.”
Not the sound of your heart, Strom
meant, but your heart itself speaking
strange things, uplifted, perhaps, all
by the limitless white.
There is nothing more purely white
than the light here reflected from the
snow. All the changes In color, the
softly glowing shadow of the barrier
cliffs, the shadows with just a hint of !
rose in them, are caused bv the back
ing up ol this pure white light.
Prism Colors Glisten.
And as one rides along the trail or
trots behind the dog team, the surface
gleams with gems, points of fire re
flected from the perfect crystals of the
snow. They look like opals glowing
with changing and marvelous color.
No larger and no longer snow crystals
have ever been seen than down here,
made of almost pure water vapor, and
the color comes from the cumulative
effect of the prisms in these many
large crystals. The effect is almost
startling when first seen, for it is some
| thing unknown except in polar regions
where the air is pure.
The dogs trot along with their load
at even dog trot, the runners sweeping
over the dry surface, and not another
sound except the calls of. the driver to
his leader or the snap of the whip over
their sides.
Our legs get tired after a time, and
as the load is only a little more than
half a ton. we jump aboard to ride a
short distance. Far ahead Is another
dog team, for the ice is secure enough
so that teams may become separated
with safety.
Barrier Bounds Plain.
On either side the plain of white
stretches to the cliffs of the barrier,
those cliffs which seemed so low from
the airplane, but which become more
imposing as they are approached more
closely. But we never go within more
than a hundred yards of them.
The first obstruction is a long pres
sure ridgp about half-way out. which
lies directly across the path. There is
, a gentle slope up through a narrow
passage and a short drop down on the
other side. Beyond the trail begins to
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wind about gentle slopes, over which
the sledges swing sideways and are
checked by the driver with his gee pole,
a long pole which projects upward from
the front end of the leading sled, two of
which are linked together.
The next bad spot Is between what
is known as the seal holes—holes made
by the dropping down of the bay Ice
between pressure ridges. The trail
swings here so that all the drivers’ skill
must be exercised to prevent the sledges
sliding first into one and then Into the
other on opposite side. Every sled has
tipped over here at some time, and
every driver, even Walden, with all his
skill, has been in difficulties. The sled
swings viciously to the right toward a
hole and escapes it and then slides
down toward the left, while Strom leans
all his vigorous 200 pounds on the pole
and yells, "Gee. Dinty, gee," as he calls
his lead dog to pull over to the right.
Sledges Hard to Handle.
With gasoline drums weighing 500
pounds each, these sledges are not so
easy to handle.
Beyond the holes the trail winds in
and out among huge pressure ridges,
blocks of ice forced up 10 or 15 feet
In the air, a movement which is going
on all the time. There are many places
where sledge tracks show on top of un
scalable chunks of uplifted Ice, tracks
which a few days ago were on level
ground. Even though the bay ice is
not going out, it is moving, and the
pressure against the barrier is almost
beyond comprehension.
Cape of the barrier is turned, the
trail slides down a slope with ridges
on either side and far ahead and to
the left is our future home, yellow
house on the top of a gentle tncline from
the tiny bay. Up this slope the dogs
gallop. There is a final hard pull in
which Strom puts a rope across his big
shoulders and helps. The dogs haul
around in front of one of many big
piles of supplies, which are being
checked by Capt. McKinley, who just
now is general supply officer. A cup
of coffee and bit of bread for Strom at
the house, erected by the Antarctic
construction firm of Gould & Gould,
composed of Larry Gould, geologist, and
Charles Gould, carpenter, and we start
back. Half way we meet other teams
coming out with more gasoline drums,
teams driven by Goodale, Crookett,
Bursey, and then a sight which made j
Strom exclaim again.
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in and out. silently and efficiently, his
dogs moving just as he wants them to
at a word from him. "What a team
of horses," cries Strom in admiration.
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A study of the cost of hospitalization
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Questionnaires have been sent to all
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Some of these drivers have handled
dogs before, but the remarkable part
of their operations is that more than
half of them never drove a team before
or had even seen one. Far ahead the
tiny lines of the ship can be seen
against the dark of the sea and ft
sled moves slowly and steadily tow»rcr
it while we sit and talk or think along
thoughts and smoke. Truly this is an
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