Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 40

A 16 1 ELLSWORTH FETED ASHERDINNORWA American With Amundsen Is Pointed Out Everywhere for Saving Fellows. BY JAMES B. WHARTON. | Special correspondent of The Star and the | Nort}, rican Newsnaper Alliance with | the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar expedition. | OSLO, July 4.—The pluck and dar-| ing of Lincoln Ellsworth, modest | American member of the polar flight, in rescuing his companions Dietrich- | son and Omdahl from an icy grave on May 26, continue to receive warm and enthusiastic tribute from the two ) owe him their lives. T risk that Ellsworth took in sav- ing them can only be appreciated by one nds the treacherous | and rous nature of polar_ice, | and the difficulty of obtaining a foot-| hold on the precipitous edge of the les where the ice has newly cracked or split away » its companion Flyer Points Out Hero. Dietrichson points out Ellsworth to s his own wled a few g those strenuous he displa v of S7.44: we hecame separated ne in which Amundsen the first three from p! We traveled knew that it had land- nd we had watched the direction nt, but our vision ex: rited on accoun the mendous ice hummocks. We were astonished at the extent and height of the ularities in the pack-ice, which had looked fairly smooth from above. I diately rth and 1 s direct t when we our attempt v after landing Ells arted across the ice in f Amundsen's landing. bt half way we realized hopel the ice vas continually movin, nd very dangerous. So we returned to our plane, waiting to see if the N would rise again. Hull Was Leaking. “At noon we were still watching. Omdahl was hard at work, endeavor- ing to repair the jammed exhaust pipe. . Our hull had begun to leak seriout 1 we did not dare leave the pumps. Night came, with still 1o S of the N-25. We began to fear that we would freeze in. Omdahl was still working, finding the extent of the damage greater than at first indicated. Ellsworth and I were busy at the pumps, keeping a sharp look. out all the time. We planned to get our engine repaired as quickly as pos- Jle and then drive down to the sil N With snowfall night, which there came a heavy lasted many hours, durlng which Omdahl worked un- ceasingly with the engine and Ells- worth and I kept up the pumping We wondered w had appened to our comrades of the N-25, although there was no doubt in our mind that they were safe Flag Is Sighted. | “At noon of the 23d, we caught sight of a flag, fiving above the ice, 2 miles ¢ v It w the N nd the sight ralsed our spirits consider- ably. Within a few hours we got into communication by means of wig: wagged flag signals, and learned that ey were frozen up, 60 feet from the arest ice la If our position was v urged us to abandon ne and join them, bringing our axes and as much of our stores as we could carry. “Our situation became more pre- carfous, e leakege in our hull was constantly increasing and the con- tinual pumping had exhausted us. We now concentrated our efforts on get- ting our plane out of the water and on top of an ice floe. On the 25th we succeeded in doing this, and the necessity of pumping ceased. Crossed Cracking Tce. e th and I thereupon tried to reach the N-25 over the continually cracking icc. After seven hours marching, we gave up the attempt and returned to our own plane, com- | pletely exhausted. came message from N-25, that they required help as we could safely leave the on the 26th, we succeeded our comrades. During the crossing, Omdahl and I were saved from drowning only the vorth. by by prompt orth American News- I rights reserved.) KANN SONS COMPANY EMPLOYES’ HOLIDAY Special Electric Train Chartered for Outing July 18 at Glen Echo \Park. avan of open cars of and Electric been charted by S. Kann Sons to carry their employes to Glen Echo Park, July 18, for the annual outing, which the firm is to hold | there. The committee in charge has been arrangi for the affair for weeks,! sparing no efforts to provide a more elaborate outing than has even been Co. hav Co. held by the employes. Two hundred dollz in gold will distribued in prizes to winners of the various con- tests. employe will be provided with a supply of tickets entitling him to_all priviliges of the park and I its amusements. Officials of the firm expect to jc in all features of the outing. A base ball game will be played early in the day between two teams ‘ted from the personnel of the e which is expected to excite a eat deal of friendly ri alry. Danc- ing will be_the order of the outing from 2 to 5 o'clock at the pavilion and a waltzing contest will be held at 3 o'clock at the same place. The entertainment commfittee will intro- duce other features during the danc- ing. Among other features announced are an ice cream eating contest and balloon contest for children from 3 to 5 years old; races for girls and boys from 6 to 12 years old; junior contests for those between 10 and 16 years old; watermelon eating, tug of War in women's contests, freesfor-all tug of war, clothespin race and wheel- barrow race; men’s contests, quoits, open contest, free-for-all and tug of war. with the employes George S. DeNeale is executive chairman of the outing committee; Frank Murphy, prizes committee; Frank Duffy, dancing; Water Corn- nell, transportation; Miss Ida Lar- son, entertainment; Miss Ida Ran- dall, reception; Louis Pearl, print- inj J. B. Morris, athletics, and E. M. Venable, booster. Bavaria Seeks First Auto Road. Correspondence of the Associated Press. - MUNICH, June 15.—The govern- ment has asked the Diet to appropri- ate $370,000 for the first automobile road in Bavaria. The proposed road would be 15 miles long, connecting Munich and Starnberg. Around Editor's Note—Miss Nannie has conducted the “Around the ¢ will be in of the evening jurnalism class of contribute their observations of An Athletic Feat With Twilight Setting. T was twilight on Hains Point when two boys and a dog reached the grassy plot, m and thirsty from thelr frolicking on the journey around the speed- vay. The boys ran to a mearby % fountain for a drink, and were off to the railing to watch an in- jcoming passenger boat 'm thirsty, too,” said Fido to| himself, looking wistfully after the boys. They had quenched their thirst and forgot- ten him. He look- ed up at the fountain, thinking in plain English, “It's up to me to help myself,” and acting upon this thought, he stood upright as he had been taught to beg for a bone. But at that, he was a head shy of reaching | the top of the fountain. “Try again” he barked. Up on hind legs this time, with forepaws resting on the rim of the bowl. But his nose pointed due north, and the coveted stream was also going the same direction. Back again to terra firma Too bad t parallels never meet ept in infinity,” he mused, with his head cocked slightly to one side. 3ow wow! Woof-woof-woof!” he exclaimed, which in English mean: “If at first you don't succeed, try, t again,” Well, he had tried and tried, so this would be the “again” part of the proverb. It was truly again, for his hind legs left the ground this time, and with forepaws planted firmly over the rim of the basin, he did the boarding- house reach with his nose, and thrust out a flat, red tongue squarely into the dancing water. Just as he had had enough, his hind legs gave way and skidded down the fountain to the ground. “Wow," he yelped (leaving off the “bow"); and with a glad triumphant spring, was soon with his playmates, telling them all about it. MYRTLE STEWART. * % k% Tother” Overslept As Great Day Arrived. A TREMBLING neophyte at her first convention in Washington. No, she wasn't a gay young thing with 2 new wardrobe—that kind is usually well poised a middle-aged, maternal little lady with white curling hair under a be-flowered hat were a seem- inexplicable to her. v early et her ingly mystery So she planned to get up ve in the morning in order to breakfast and find her wa: hall to register for the opening ses- sion. ‘When she woke the hotel furniture stood out indistinctly in the half t of early morning. ‘Il wait just a little while longer till it gets light,” she reflected, and there pleasantly anticipating the events. But it-didn't get light very rapidly, | so finally she jumped out to see what time it really was. Twenty minutes after eight! She turned toward the window to face the bleak wall of an airshaft, which she hadn’t noticed the night before. No wonder it didn’t get light! Rushing around the little room, she | hurriedly dressed. ~What would Clara say if she knew that “mother,” who was always up first at home had overslept” Fully dressed went to the door. wouldn't turn in the tically she attempted the right no_success. What should she do? Locked thus in her hotel bedroom she would miss the opening session. the national officersp the speeches. Oh, of course; there was the telephone! She called the hotel desk. They would send some one right away. “Some one” came in due time and made strange sounds on the other side of the door. The little Jady kept telling herself that she would be out directly so she mustn't worry. But it takes so long to pry off a lock when one is on the other side of the door and in a hurry At last the door was open, and a very much flustered, excited little lady rushed out, to call for a taxi and dash off without her breakfast. ELEANOR C. DUNNE. * k X X Friend of the Birds Back in Her 0ld Home. 'HE “lady from Cage Cod" has gone back to her quaint old home in Massachusetts, where she can care for her birds and flowers and watch the sails once again as they pass to and fro on the green-gray water. To her close friends she has a real name, but to her many friends who know only of her from hearing her intensely in- teresting conversa- tions she is just “the lady from Cape Cod.” She is rapidly nearing the end of the al- lotted three score years and ten, vet her step is firm and her keenness of intellect and un- ceasing interest in various activities are wonderful. Her chief concern in Cape Cod is her birds. She spends her Winters in ‘Washington, taking a great interest in political events and in music, grand opera being the greatest attraction to her, vet when the warm days of Spring _come her thoughts turn to her little feathered friends, and she prepares to return north with them. “When 1 go down to the village,” she says, “I can hear the villagers say, ‘There goes the old lady from up on the hill, who has all the signs evervwhere,’ ”* for she makes and puts up all over her place signs warning the wanton against shooting the birds. She admits that she also sometimes gets over on other people’s property in her zeal and places warning signs there. However, no one minds that, for she is well known to the village people and respected. One can imagine that her house is old-fashioned but homelike, with many shrubs and a variety of old-fashioned flowers crowding around it. It is just the kind of house Hawthorne would have liked to’ write about. Her nests and birdhouses for finches, robins, bluejays, goldbeaters and the other for the But lock! to tu and to the left, street the she key Fran- rn_ it to but with Europe for several weeks. and self - confi-| dent. Quite the contrary, she was and a fresh, rosy | countengnce. She hadn’'t been a member very long, she had never been to a convention before ashington’s and ave- | to the| THE the (_]ity SUNDA who for seve ears, *ity” column of The Sunday Star, During her absence students ieorge Washington University will Washington and its dally life. Lancaster, feathered folk are numerous and va- ried. In Massachusetts the quail is on the hunting list still. She enthuslasti- cally advocates making it unlawful to kill quail, for their cheery ‘“Bob | White” s an essential, harmonious note in her feathered chorus. EVERETT D. JOHNSTON. EE Tragedy Averted At the Memorial Pool. E was a small colored citizen whose elders had brought him to sail a boat in the lagoon at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. While they lolled at a dis leaned over the edge of the pool, blissfully directing the mimic voyages of his full-rigged schooner. In a vain effort to execute a naval maneuver he lean- ed too far and plunged into the! shallow waters. The sloping con- crete bottom of the pool, with its thick coating of slime, afforded no foothold, and with each struggle the little fellow slip- ped farther into the water. Three times he regained his feet only to fall forward o his face. The child’s cries attracted his elders, | who stood helplessly watching him | Two young men fmmaculately cloth ed in fashionable garments halted their Sunday afternoon stroll, and without a word one of them stegped into the pool and in a few moments restored a frightened and very wet little boy to his mother. Disregarding all thanks, the un- | known benefactor walked away with his companion, his trousers dripping wet to the knees and flinging drops of water to the chilly breeze. “Kindness knows no color line,” marked an observer. IDA A. V. * ok k% While the Big City Rushed and Hurried By. T was one of those cloudy, misty afternoons that seem to cast a gray haze over every one, but in the White House grounds it seemed to emphasize the light green of the grass. Inside a couple was walking down one of the drives Outside a city rushed by, going somewhere — no- body seemed to know where, or to care, either — but inside, this pair walked in the fet of a misty paying no re | | [ heed | They were talk- i ing—about what? | People on the outside could not hear, | but it is probable that conversation | was not upon questions of state, but rather homely little things, the weather and 1,000 other things that people talk about on such an after- noon. They were quite alone—with the | exception of the two White House | dofs. The Airedale romped about on | the lawn, trying to find trails of rab- bits, deer, wolves or other animals | equally impossible. The collie sniffed occasionally at the caressing hand of | the woman, and then bounded away |in invitation to play. | The invitation to play was not ac- | cepted, although the mistress twirled |a leash, and the dog was at last |forced to be content with trotting | dutifully and staidly along behind | The woman's gay dress contrasted | with a sad dignity in her walk. And | the man, hatless and free from care for a time, walked with the bewil- dered gait of a workman on his way home from a day of strenuous toil. And ever floating inside were the rushing, hurrying noises of a city, | -iremiudln;: the couple of stolen min- utes and urging them to quicken their pace and hurry back into the harness, he as Chief Executive and she as first ladv of the land. | EDWARD GALLAGHER. Wedeiw e | Hunting the Hyla By Light of the Moon. T was after midnight of a moonlit night. Several pedestrians gath- ered at the entrance of a broad alley and gazed searchingly at the walls and roofs of the adjacent houses. What's the trou inquired the st arrival. Lost canary, sounds like,” said some one. Just then the sound be- gan again—a loud, clear succession of birdlike notes. A canary? Per- haps a canary with a megaphone! So close and loud was the sound, it seem- ed to vibrate through the alley, now directly over- head, and then, with instant change, almost un- der their feet. ‘an’t be a canary. ‘Must be some kind of night bird.” What's a_nightingale sound like Maybe somebody’s got one of them? Just then a woman came into the alley with a flashlight. Glancing at a window overhead, where a white pitcher, closely covered with a cloth, gleamed in the moonlight, she focused her light in the shadow at the foot of the wall, directly beneath. There, on a pebble the size of a quarter, sat tiny frog. His throat was puffed out like that of a canary in full song, near- Iy doubling him in size, and with its vibrations sounded the ventriloguist like bird notes. “It fsn't a canary, but a tree frog, a hyla,” said the lady. “I got it for a zoology specimen and put it in- that pitcher with a cheesecloth over it, fas. jtened down tight with a big rubber jband, but it squeezed out.” Slowly she crept upon her specimen There came an adroit snatch, a final, startled grunt from the little hyla, and the concert was over. EDITH R. KELEHER. —_— First Rotor Yacht on Trial. Correspondence of the Associated Press. POTSDAM, June 15.—The world's first rotor yacht was a feature of the exhibition for aquatic sports held re- cently. It made a trial trip each day of the exhibition on Templin Lake and performed satisfactorily. Veal Cutlets. Have the cutlets trimmed, dipping each in egg beaten up with a table- spoonful of water. Dip next in bread crumbs which have been combined with equal quantities of grated cheese. If an Italian dish is desired, saute cutlets in hot olive oil. Otherwise, use any desired fat. Serve with lemon slices and spaghetti mixed with grape Juice. A Y STAR JULY WASHINGTON, D HOLY YEAR VISITORS SPEAK ALL TONGUES Rome Hears All Ia'ngungu s 10,- 000 Pilgrims Arrive Daily in Holy City. BY WILLIAM Our Friend the Snake. Instinct is stronger than reason in an eniergency, and projudice seems stronger than instinct. Many obser- vations have proved that the common fear of snakes is not instinctive, but a matter of education. Infants show {no such fear untll they have been |taught by their elders that snakes are to be feared. The leks one knows about snakes the more one fears them. People who know much about snakes Correspondence of the Associated Press. ROME, June 15.—Rome cannot compare with New York, London or Parls as a cosmopolis, but the 1925 Holy which is now bringing the city an average of 10,000 pligrim ar- rivals dally, has given the city a type of cosmopolitanism of which none of vea the three great w > have no fear of any kind of snake, boast. great world capitals can |i},ough they have respect for the ven: Whereas the sidewalks of Times|Mous Kinds and they know whether a snake is of the venomous kind when they see it. Peovle who are well in- formed in this branch of natural his- tory not only feel no fear or repulsion for' the common snakes but often ad- mire the beauties of snakes and even Square, Piccadilly Circus or the Placc de I'Opera are thronged nearly every day of the year with polyglot crowds representing scores of different na- tions and as many tongues, the com- plexion of the main thoroughfares of Rome in point of foreign pedestrians | cultivate beautiful specimens as pets. changes from week to week, almost |1 don't know enough about P e | myself to be able to understand this, One day—when a large group pil-|Put I know enough about snakes to grimage from Warsaw has arrived to |realize that tMey are our friends and patricipate in the Holy year cere.|that it is cruel to kill them wantonly, monles the streets resound with the |8 so many people do. harsh accents of the Polish tongue.| People so steeped in ignorance of Then, within a few days, not a Pole is | nature as to belleve that mosquitoes to be found and instead (ierman Swiss | develop from nothing but the shade of with their quaint peasant costumes |tall grass, weeds or underbrush are walk the streets, peering into shop |likely to believe that the forked tongue windows. of the common, harmless snake is a The santification of a new French | “’stinger.” and the deeper their igno- saint at St. Peter's Basilica brings to | rance the harder it is to make them Rome scores of thousands of French |understand the ridiculousness of that men and women and for a week |notion or the ridiculousness of the no- nothing but French is heard. Almost |tion that mosquitoes or any other form overnight the French have disappear-|of life can arise spontaneously or ed und have been succeeded by Ger-|without parentage. The tongue of a man and Dutch snake has nothing to do with the Swarthy Portuguese have their |fangs. The venomous type of snake inning and are succeeded by blond |bites with his fangs, long sharp teeth Scandinavians. V en the Roman has |in the upper jaw, and through these become accpstomed to hearing the |teeth the venom or poison is injected Spanish laniguage, he is greeted by [into the wound made by the fang or Lithuanian or Hungarian or English |fangs. with the savor of Dublin Even bites by the venomous snakes FPALTAI RENAISSANCE PHONOGRAPH.S Nationally Advertised at $175 You need not e less than half price. Nationally Advertised at $100 Queen Anne model Pooley phonograph in beautiful two-tone walnut. No first payment. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE snakes | BRADY, M. D. found in North America—rattlers, cop- perheads, moccasins, chiefly—are not nearly so fatal as the popular preju- dice leads one to imagine, Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Park, asserts that more than 100 persons have died trom snake bite in the United St annually for three or four years past, but he has not heard of a single death trom snake bitg in New York, New | Jersey or New England in the last 15 ears. In one county in North Caro- | lina, he tells us, three persons died | of rattlesnake bites one Summer. Mr. Ditmars merely estimates. As a gen- eral rule, persons bitten by rattle- snakes soon recover. Fatalities are certainly rare in proportion with the number of persons bitten. A pretty reliable way to distinguish | the venomous snake from the harm- less kind is the shape of the head, which is triangular with widened jaws in the venomous snake and round or | narrow in the harmless varieties. The venomous snake has a vertical or elip- tical pupil, like a cat’s, and the harm- less snake a round pupil, like a man’s. The venomous snakes of North Amer ica are mainly pit vipers—that is, there is a pit or depression on each side of the head.in front of the eye— while the harmless kind has no such depregsions in the head. Some of the common, harmless black snakes and water snakes are useful because they destroy fleld vermin, and certain kinds may be considered Zood friends to man because they kill venomous snakes. Dr. H. F. Biggar reports in a recent number of the Central Journal of Homeopathy that jodine applied in and about the wound and adminis- | tered internally is an effective anti- dote for rattlesnake poison. Drop doses of the tincture of jodine are given internally every 10 minutes for | the first hour, then every half-hour for_three or four hours. This is the best first aid care in a | case of snake bite, according to au- thorities with experience: 1. Twist a bandage or handkerchief around the limb about the bite, as a torniquet, to delar the spread of the venom through the circulation. 2. Cut into the punctures left b: the fangs with a razpr, or a penknife, or a plece of glass, or a sharp pin, or anything which will”induce blecding, to wash out as much of the venom as_possible. 3. Suck the wound for several min- utes, to draw out more of the venom 4. Rub into the wound some crys- tals of pota permanganate, or, better, if pot , inject into the tis sues around the wound a hyperdermic syringeful of a 1 or 2 ger cent solution of the permanganate th boiled water. This is not an “antiseptic,” but an active oxldizing agent, the oxidation destroying the venom in the tissues 5. Of course, burning gun powder on the wound or cauterizing or sear ing with a red-hot iron, if immediately done, is the most effective way to de. stroy the venom in the tissues, short of excision of the mass involved 6. Hot, strong coffee the best stimulant, or a half teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in a little cold water every half hour, but never whisky. No stimulation of this kind is necessary less the patient be. comes pale or stuporous. A serum antidote called anti venene, discovered by Calmette, has been found effective in treating pois- oning by rattlesnake bite, cobra bite and other venomous snake bites. Such serum is obtainable in a few hospitals, nd is produced in the Institute of erum Therapy, Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil 5. mentioned, the treatment and care of the wound should be as nearly aseptic as possible; that is, the same treatment | The city was indignant one would give an ordinary wound. | “How do I was exceed 9. The torniquet should be loosened | the speed when ve aven't for a few seconds after the first 15| watch or an in, he demanded minutes and agan every five minutes, | “Wal, ve seen valler dog a to prevent mortification chasing ve, didn’t ve?" inquired the 10. Hypodermic injections of adre-|rural constable. “When that dog naline solution are probably an aid to|can't keep up with a feller I kr the destruction of the venom in the | that feller's more'r miles an blood. Aside from the specific measures | \G. F. DEMPSEY FREED IN DEATH OF CHILD | Exonerated From Blame for Auto | Accident Fatal to Four-Year- | 01d Oliver Boy. | i - George F. Dempsey, 3014 ace northeast, was exonerated by a coroner’s jury veste in the case of the death of 4-year-old James Ran dolph Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. 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