Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1923, Page 21

REAL ESTATE. ASKS AID OF NAVY FOR POLAR FLIGHT Hakon H. Hammer Plans Arctic Expedition Next Year, He Says. Dr. Judd to Enter “No Man’s Land.” Much of Historical Value Expected in Caves and Cliffs. Hakon H. Hammer. who in June of this year made a series of flights in | the icy en and who claims to have flown with 400 miles of the north pole, confe: with Rear Admiral William A. Mof- fett, chief of the bureau of aeronau- ; tjes, and Assistant Secretary of the | An expedition sent out by the Na- Péu\'y Roosevelt y v regarding | tional Geographic Soclety, which has a proposed flight across’ the pole next | been assembling its personnel and year. | equipment at Gallup, N. M. today It is understood that he sought the | startéd for a reconnaissance of a bith- support of the Navy for a forthcom- |erto unexplored portion of the United ing cxpedition, in the form of a loan ! States, the San Juan couhtry of south- of Navy aircraft, and also requested | eastern Utah. that he be included in the passenger | Leaving Gallup, the Geographic party list of the ZR-1 should this dirigible | will go by automobile, carrying its sup- attempt a expedition in the | ply of gasoline in drums to Kayenta, tuture | Arizona, and then on horseback across regions around Spitabe polar Mr. Hammer, who is a Dane, estab- | the Utah line into a land of knife-edge | lished a base In the central part of | canyons, bold buttes and green-topped Spitzbers ast June, when Capt. ' mesas until the pack animals encounter Ronald Amundsen, the arctic explorer, | impassable barriers. Then it will pro- ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN Explorers to Delve Deeply Into Unvisited Utah Canyons Party Headed by‘ DR. NEIL M. JUDD. desert. with its red rock gashes, Its JOBS OPEN AT NAVY YARD. Vacancies in the position of electro- plater at the Washington navy yard ‘were announced today by the yard's la- bor board, which stated that It is at present accepting applications for em- ployment In this type of work. The rates of pay for electroplaters are $6.40, $6 and $5.60 per diem, and the age lim- its are twenty to sixty-five years, %x- cept for honorably discharged soldiers, saflors and marines. The latter class, however, must not have reached the re- tirement age of sixty-five years. Examinations will be held as fre- quently as the needs of the service re- quire, the _announcement said, and ‘Dersons desiring to enter the next ex- amination should file applications i mediately. If necessary to make ap- pointments prior to date of next ex- amination, temporary appointments will be made fn the order of recelpt of appli- cations. Regular sailings in the round-the- world trade to be established out of San Francisco via the Panama canal will be well under way before Jan- uary, 1924, Stanley Dollar, vice pres- ident Dollar Steamship Company, ai nounced after conference with me bers of the Shipping Board yesterd: by the board for the new line are to be delivered in sixty days and the remainder v auarters of the new orga be maintained in San GTON, D. Several of the ships to be turned over | ¢ C., SATURDAY, “It was three days after Cai had come to say good-bye to me in the shop here,” said James Lucey, “that Jos Daly, the state detective, came into the shop. “‘Vice President Coolidge of the United States of America, wants your presence at the railroad depot in half an hour,’ he says, a8 if he hadn't called him Cal all his lfe. “‘You're making fun of the old shoe- maker, Joe,' I says, ‘for I know that Cal went away to Washin'ton on Fri- day, He came here to say good-bye. And hefe it is Monday.” ““But he was unfortunately delayed, Mr. Lucey,’ says Joe, serious riow. ‘And { he wanted me to ask you to come down | to the depot to see him off.' “It bein’ the especial request of the Vice President of the whole nation, I went, although 1 was very busy on a pair of children’s shbes at the time. At the depot there was a terrible crowd ome to see him off. It was just before “al stepped on the train that he saw me rowd. me here, Mr. Luces,’ he called. And whe 1 got to him he put his arm around me and said to the newspaper fellers: r‘a” you another time."’ was about to make u flight to Alaska ceed on foot. ever-changing color and ,gargoyle SEPTEMBER 15, 1923.° Located on prominent ¢ ““Boys, this is Mr. Lucey, my gulde, philosopher and friend, 1f you want to take @ plcture of me you've got to take \ \ N N N \ N N \ \ \ \ \ \ N it of me with my old friend here.’ N low; 60-ft. frontage. “Then he put his arm thmough mine, i 3 dirty as I was, right from the shop, and | N insisted that I have my picture taken. | N That was how I got to be in the papers, | N and everybody's been askin' me ever | N since what he meant. That, too, I'll % N N N N N N \ N N (Copyright 1923.) Owner’s Agent N N N N N N Managing apartment property, N N N N N N N £2 William S. 15th and K Sts. NW. can obtain competent assistant for whole or part time. Ad- dress Box 124-D, Star office * ar line. Apartment house containing 17 4-room-and-bath apartments. Annual rental about $7,500, which is ridiculously xceptionally well built and can be remodeled into stores on first floor. See MR. BARKLEY, Manager BUSINESS PROPERTIES ' DEPARTMENT Phillips Phone Main 4600 e promontories offers exceptional photo- graphic opportunities, and it is pos- sible that an incidental result of the trip will be the finding of such other spectacles as the natural bridges and WinDOwW SHADES Shade the “F e factory-made shades. it never taversed by white men, 1 which the| which constitutes one of the largest to have made | unexplored areas in the country. rocky spires which occur in con- declared unsuit-| The area of observation lies within|tiguous areas. d the trip wa | n Juan county, - Junker| “Cicusional news of an inaian -war.” i WIFE SUES COMPOSER. Hamme uch as the Piute outbreak of last veral flights’ into thel March, brings sharp reminder that there ich vered 700! still is an Ameriean frontier. Usually the outbreak ends by the Indians flee- ng beyond the fringe of the canyon | country into what is a “no man's land"” It for their white pursuers. t he| Dr. Neil M. Judd, archeologist, ans for, Washington, leader of the National t' Geogrophic Society's expeditions which avated and studled the remarkabl: “olumbian communal dwellings of Chaco Canyon, N. M., heads the Utah xpedition. Expect Historieal Data. It is apparent, from geological evi- dence, that the unexplored area con- | tinues, on a greatér scale, the weird ! grandeur of the red sandstone cliffs | with their purple shadow i disels | P of your new home with our Have them from individual measurements. Factory prices cut the cost. Ask for estimates. expedition for the indefinitely postpon With the support of the aircraft people of Germany, then made north, one made to order Louis Wolfe Accused of Abandon- ing Complainant. LOS ANGELES, September 15— Louis Wolfe, composer, song writer and publisher, known professionally |as L. Wolfe Gilbert, was sued for {divorce yesterday by Kate Wolfe, Who charges extreme cruelty and desertion. They were married in Cincinnati in 1905 a v Gincinns 5 and have four Mrs. Wolfe accuse abandoning her in X s his desire said yoster the futu of er_husband of ¢ k. ., and may obstacles which make it im- | H Street Northwest, 13th Street to New York Avenue. orthw primary attention, on his | will be to determine | clifft dwellings and nains, the traces of pot- v and cliff inscriptions | will justif; other larger expeditions of the soclety alwhich shall include experts-in every ! phase of scientific inquiry which the warrants. vidence of the outskirts points cave dwellers, as well as cliff 'wellers in this territory, for early ned ad- | Indians seem to have found shelter h east |in th aped and sheil-smoothe of thelc ari-colored rock. 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