Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1923, Page 9

| CALLSP. 0. CLERKS MODEL EMPLOYES Civil Service Head Welcomes Delegates to Convention. Employes in the postal scrvice w Tield up to other civil service workers today as demonstrating the acme of loyalty to the government by Presi- nt Deming of the Civil Service Com- mission. Flanked by Mrs. Heicn H. Gardener and George H. Wales, the other two members the commission. Presi- dent paid high tribute postal at today's session of the twenty-fourth annual conven- tion of the United National Associa- tion of Tost Office Clerks at the Wil- *lard Hotel. “Nowhere else of Deming employes in the eivil service such lovalty as in the postal " Mr. Deming said Wants Night Work Cut. The visit of the entire membership the Civil Service Commission fol- Iowed the presentation of the annual address of C. P, Franeiscus of the \ssociation of Post Office Clerks, in which he advocated reduction It work and reclassification ries from $1,600 to $2,300, v clerk grades of of with £2.400 wwiscus, in his report, eKIy pay day for post the present Wo pay davs a month, and cd that six hours of night work »uld cqual cight hours of day work Conditions infinitely worse i the postal service, in respect to aries. than they were before the war, Mr anciseus said. He pointed ouf fhat June, 1920, when the lassi tion was approved tion entered a4 protest acterizing the act of June merely a “malkeshift recla tion.” and predicted that it would not materially or permanently correct th hardships of employment s gard. s paid to post office clerk Worse Than Before War. w, five years after the signing of the armistice and three years aft- er the approval of our pres sification “tem of t iseus said, “con- tely worse in the n they It will ta appropriate action to bring this n to the attention of Congr 3 « manner use : » realize that catijustment salaries wh we ask for is something from which the £ will be the beneficiary. and should “s8 a matter of good gov- ent and good husiness, be the ardent advocat dent Frauciscus asserted that the habits, standard of living, educa- tion and environment of government cmployes and those depending upon them mu of necess reflect credit or discredit upon the government It is for these reasouns, he said, that the oclation believes that the Congress cannot “longer afford to ignore its just obligation to the government employ Tl fed, shabbily clothed, poorly housed and miserably underpaild gov- ernment employes s afternoon the delegat .a trip through Baltimore esapeake bay. Following a s session fororrow morning, the convention will be received at 1 o'clock by President Coolidge at the White Hou Two sessions Thurs- day will close the meeting. are on Birth of a Pacific Isle. The birth of an island is described in a report received by the hydrog- apher's office at Washington from apt. George B. Genereaux, master of the steamship Jacox, who declared he was an eyewitness to at least part of the phenomenon. Recently. while on his usual route from Singapore, the captain eaid, a violent disturbunce was noted on the surface of the sca, where a mass “dark in color. with stralght sides about 100 feet in height and betwee two and three miles in- length,” had risen above the water. “There were breakers along the en- tire length.” the report said, where the sca was washing away loose ma- terial. Repeated explosions were noted, causing large waves. These continued at intervals of about one te for more than an hour.” t report of the newest arrival in the land famijly came from Capt. M. Tami of the Japanese ship Malato Maru. according to official records. he island has been officially named agawa, but on most charts is desig- ew Born.” Commission of | it reclas, | were before | will | cannot and will not | ,"" the president l and down | | Donaldson, following message is the exclusive 1 story of Harold Noice. comman- der of the Wrangel Island relicf expedi- tion. who returned to Nome. Alaska. Aug- ust S1, after his dash into the arctic to four white men and ome Eskimo woman marooned there since Septemb The party was landed on Wrangel nd under instruotions from Vilhjalmur teffannon the polar explorer, for the pur Dpose of claiming it for the British king on behalf of Canada. A relief ship was to have visited the island the folowing year. but owing to heavy ice was unable 1o resch the waiting marooners and they were forced to spend another year of exile. No word had been heard from them or of them since they landed in 1921 and grave fears had_ber rding their young. al- n of the arctic. was chosen to lead the edition, with ‘instructions to get through without fail. The first installment of his ene thralling story follows: BY HAROLD NOIC NOME. Alaska, ‘Wrangel island or bust” was sloganswhen we left Point Hope hind us the 9th of August and head ed northwest into the Arctic ocean Would we get through? What would we find on that forlorn arctic island? Would we find the little party aliv and st waiting patiently for th succor which had i long in coming” would we { noth band Crawford and Galle 1 had known, but in Toronto last spring had met Crawford’s parents and little sister, a fine, courageous family, waiting bravely for word of their bril- liant and promising €on and brother. Maurer was also unknown to me, but I had heard a_great deal of him from Steffanson and_ cthers who had been with him on the particular branch of the 1913-18 expedition, of which he was & member. Knight, T had known well. He and T had been with Steff anson on a_ number the latter's long sledge journevs in the north and we were once feilow invalids with scurvy when our chief brought us promptly back to health on a rigorous diet of raw caribou meat. I could visualize the little party a they landed on the island in Septem- ber, 1921, full of youthful enthusiasm 1 could xee them with a well stocked larder comfortably housed for that first long winter. tending at intervals their lines of traps. 1 could imagin. their relicf as the sun returned and, {later on. the snow departed from the land and the ice began to move. Hoped for the Hest. sptember? 4 our be- been so or find never i their terrible disappointment as the summer passed and the failed to open unp su iently for ship to get through, or perhaps the ic had cleared avay for a few days, or may- be longer. and no ship had come. How Ithey Would climb to the top of th {nearest hill and gaze out over th ocean for sight of a sail! Then per- haps the ice had closed in again not to leave for that Ar. But vould hope for relicf until the lust Would their courage suffice for an- other winter? Would their suppliev admit of further delay even though their courage ‘might still be high? Beyond this point I must admit my speculations were tinged with fear. 1 but, though fearing the worst, I stili hoped for the best 1t was hard, moreover, to gloomy on such a day. The sea way free of ice, the temperature was around fifty degrees, and her deck cluttered with two_walrus-hide boats, twenty shag- gy Eskimo dogs, sleds, hunting gear nd. all the varfous impediments of an Arctic expedition, plugged ste ily ahead in spite of a stiff westerly wigd which we ha encounte shortly before rounding. the point i ice, as we had made considerable For Better Vision The Right Glasses and Eye Comfort Consult | Optical Co., 705 14th St. N.W. a limited selection of— —These pieces are all nity now. Popular Apartments in a Popula . 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There north meet now any ex- time. seo to i, Then {came th {extre | within Lot e thicknes fin heigh (rearing was we hort distance of huge c from thirty to fifty feet ana an acre or more which were plunging and ut in the heavy chop, and {uny one of which might casily crush lour fragile bark like an exg. clear weather thes kex could have astly wvoided. hut here we were, d ship. shrouded in Whie mantle of gloom = were not already bad which had been fight with the struggle and gurgle, sub now were Kkes in about ugh, the cngines, severely “tested in the ice floes, pave up the TWith 4 last despairing sided into silence. I rushed to the en- Eine room to what was the mat- ter with the crew, and Exkimos stoc 1 by With long pike poles to fend us off i from the ghostly shadow jand_anon loomed th “What's the - thing nd {ishly parts of the mecha {announced that th I broken. Meanwhilc jmuttered commens gineers which I could not | e which 1 doub Wwith' pr have tran I done so. The engincers were r sourceful, T therefore transferred {#ttention to menacing floes agai i1 was ju time Ieehers Bearing Down. Suddenly a vast white ing castle with thou- tons of green sea water fr its battlements ponderot in S the uired most vuln necdle valve there was from the had much two en- distinctly if T could ritted had Ny mass like a of ding i and sank | down upon us, We n it and the line of the and for a few minutes it seemed that jour craft must be crushed. Then, in a few moments, we heard the thrice |welcome . chug ‘of the engines engineers had ov ne. temporarily the effec needle valve the wers t_of the brok imported POMPEIAN| 'OLIVE OIL Sold the | ! Almost Unbelievable ! | Youcan hardiyrealizethe wonder- | )\ {21 improvement to your skin and complexion the mirror will reveal toyou after using Gouraud's Oriental Cream for the first time. White-Flesh Rachel. 6 Send 10c for Trial Size F. T. HOPKINS & SON New York Gouraud's Oriental Cream our 45-In. an 48-In. 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With the first officer, Hans Olaf, at the wheel and myself in the rigging, we worked the boat clear of the floe and then with the wheel hard to starboard we sheered off just in time to avoid a icollision. Shortly after the fog lifted and we could sce smooth, open water beyond a long tongue of firm ice, which pro- jected out to the westward. We had ito follow this for several miles be- fore we were able to round its point and gain comparative shelter in its lee. We then tied up to a large floe land allowed the engineers to finish their job. The pack ahead was for the most part composed of heavy shore ice which had evidently drifted away from the land, for we saw a ood 1 of sand and dirt upon it. The next day we steamed seven miles further and came into another stretch of open water with the edge of the pack running north by west. We followed along this for about twenty-four miles and finally found our progress blocked by a great sheet of ice running east and west. We then decided to buck the pack again, heading directly for Wrangel, which was by mow only about thirty miles distant. And then, down came the fog once more and closer crept the ice flelds. We drifted with the current in the ‘direction of Herald Island, thirty-elght miles west of Wrangel. This was 2 am.. August 13. The fog held all that day and on until the afternoon of the next. when it cleared sufficiently for me to tuke an observation. 1 found that our drift during the preceding forty hours had brought us within seven miles of Herald Tsland Fought Mennce of Ice. Then for five d solid we alter- bucked ice, drifted, backed up and fought off menacing ice cakes. Tt wits one continual succession of fc jwith rain_and mist filllng in the in- tervals. We hardly saw the sun in a1l that time. 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Seen in twilight—for it was midnight and the arctic sun had alrcady sunk below the horizon—Wrangel Island did not_have a prepossessing appear- ance. Pilot point, a grim. forbidding looking wall of rock, roxe up from the polar scene to fling its grotesque silhouette against the purple sky. It seemed to us that no human} being could find a foothold, let alone a living, in such a desolate place. The black cliff, the somber tones of the sky, coupled with the super- stitious dread of the Eskimo in ap- proaching unfamillar land which un consciously communicated itself to the rest of us, all combined to shake my confidence in Wrangel as a worths while place for coloni portent that all was not well a me. 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