Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 75

\ + THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, True History of Underworld Queen Is Now Made Public for First Time Like 2 Romantic Figure of Fiction, Polly Carr, the Swan-Neck Beauty, Baffler of World’s Shrewdest Detectives, Finally Conquered. BY ELEANOR BROWNE. cisely what happened ostume | me Bols of in the o Bolou 10 o' ung and roman- Baron IHenri de he banking fam Roupin manston ded at once to his re to his equally young esting hoste i English girl new. married to the rich M. Roupin. The arvival of Laron mt a 8o il affair is something of an event. le knick of s things that ring a flush into the cheeks of his ostess of When he found v Mme. Roupin, whose fresh British beauty was a by-word in Parfs, he fingers with elab: rate en Madume the s iasm, is clever.” the baron said, the loveliness “Others ornament wels that blind the Madame alone us the Uy with- ms ive “Whateve ar madame ¥ of your delfc I've glven you i the lily no liltes £X 3 nded to his madarael It is the ul il that grows, And of all your guests, scorn to jewel. The result, vou. and not your Your is It is ecorate it ten minutes past The Baron de Rotschild has £ manner of peying his flat fes slowly. liberation gayly. but hand to baron s M Roupin, puzzled, put an exquisite white throat of which the It was n unconscious 1at suddenly it became fran prise, a dismay, paraded padunie’s ey Her pearls, a_fa- rope that M. Roupin had . prince of the Bona- which were sou- mpress Josephine, Baron om 11 for the hild, the most tn Paris, to pa coruted 1 ro eclate the thrill by experi really, she »cretly, that e and her husband had ar lavish dinner dance at n 2s one of the notable s of the Ste. Cathert It was tHe time » worgeous neck ven u b n an ent cnced M. 1 worn was why ranged the thefr mans! socfal functic {ostival season «he had exhibited r on aron was alert. considerate « Josephine pearls were valued 300,600 At once!” he exclaimed. Loudof Be certain that leave them on your mmon the servants, : 1t had now becon 0 TR records compile police when th besar ne I Amer, Deputy Inspec . detailed to inspect all arting gue 1t the to make ‘sure that us which were not e Imitted, was s his mann rar person itation card had identified she arrived earlier in the the Countess de Clair- he countess, it seemed, was Jdong to another social func- Inspector Labouche had, him- self, gone out Into the Bois to sum- mon the chauffeur for Mme. la Count- esse. Sh s of the fragile superla le Baron her pea “To your u did not ng table. \ft hun for the Joseph procesd across rriving and de Roupin n one nsion with ecredent nd voung rer when ing monte w ¢ tive sort for whom inspectors of police ! the ne ( vthing vyou, so much!” the count- + delightful English led her reward. “‘Dread- that 1 1 be going; in has triumphed tonight. promised also at the Ste. dance at the Ritz.” Labouct was not unac- 1 to the smiles of women. In notebook there > half 4 hun- ackmalers, plifters and thic consorts who smiled fulsome- 1y upon b snever he had a notion v Kick doors and look them over. But gracious smile of the Countess ¢ irmonte, a reminiscent breath 1 the fragrance of past him with a_new and warn; Comtesses, who are slighi, wit ins and eyes that hide the A thousand ren ous, 1 mere police rugzied with was nter- butler, wh Admost Thank She s Inie. Rou it 1 am Cutherine tor w exclaimed wout delay ter Josephine pearls peirls HE inspe apologized rmonte. T the presence 1 startling robbery in the hor had been detailed to ird the T man had no time for Please murmured You will n, I am = condol juntess of mind.” ti once. ountess I am e to Mme. Rou moment 1 reach the Ritz inspector had arrived at his conclusions. The Josephine pear] had been stolen from madame’s throu At a quarter to 10 o'clock M. Roupin, madan adorning husband, had him elf remarked them upon his wife” broat. At that time had hap pened e standing beside a_tail ilt, empire e h; neonsciously noted the hou de Reothschild was certain th precisely 10, such circumstances there is e police rule. Every guest, ghest well s the lowest, Is olice question marl Inspector Labouche ordered 1} tants to close all exits from house. To Mme. Roupin he made wpology for sitles of the occasion. “Your guesta ame! They will understand must leave for the present. They submit gracefully it need be, nt; n to interview ately none of s left the house. whom we maj iss as above th quir interrogtion— Mnie. lu Comtesse de Clairmonte. She ieft but a few minutes ago.” Mme. Roupin wrinkled her brow. But the Comtesse de Clairmonte, nspector! It cannot be. Mme. la Comtesse is i1l in her home. She was ot present this evening.” Inspector Labouche’s brow was next , wrinkle. But he flung his words <harply. “Please to describe the omtesse de Clairmonte. Was sk Jght, rather tall, of an extreme pre iness, with a throat and neck that reminds of— " Inspector Labouche stopped short sentence unfini: i His eyes widened she clog 1 invie the madame s Zycept, #or the and in- | of | open- | 13 1t only after due de-{ laughing | abruptly | be clever enough | T shall tele e country Ot his George Kemp, has i : A LONDON NEWSPAPER ! WORGE KEMP, THE MASTER AND RTICLE ANNOU CAKY KEMP. | - Fence and His Girl ~ Accomplice. | Cm;ienougbmev’a isf for the last fifte jous “ fence it “at hig home i pent thirty hat he dieq CING THE “END” OF CRIMINAL WHO TUTORED “THE pregnant with sudden Madame was shaking her head inspector almost shouted at her I oreie ¢ your Mme. la Comtesse @a Clairmonte pos neck like that of & swan? dh. mo inspector! turned, smfMng g lttle despite consternation ut the loss of her p ““The countess is not at all like wh vou say-—a swan. She {s quite the op pos But M. le Inspector?” Labouche, a noted policeman who seldom made mistakes, was as if sud denly overwhelmed bLy inner dejec | tion. “Proceed with your ball said to Mme. Roupin. “It will not b ary tc memory. The Madame her arls { you to give me only the ow who has vour pearl 10 o'clock had come and gone, but according to the time stamp on the documents which record the next police event of the evening it was barely half an hour later, a little past 11, when Deputy Inspector La. bouche sat with Chief Inspector Pie Maxim, then famous as the best | etal match in Eurepe for the b of criminal adventur in the cabinet. “There is no doubt at all,” Labouche reported. “It was ‘The Swan.' She has pulled our noses—pulled mine, at rate. Mon Dieu! I actually called her car!” It is not written in the rec- . but there is little doubt that In- PIERRE MAXIM, INTERNATIO AL DETECTIVE, WHO SPENT YEARS ON THE TRAIL OF “THE SWAN” BEFORE HE CAP- TURED HER IN A PARIS spector Maxim smiled slyl. Polly Carr, who was once a flower girl, but become the acknowledged queen of thieves, once upon a time lled his nose also, presents many heroines of | crime shaped after Polly Carr, whose and nimble brain have nderworld of Burope during ce the World War. Hers | has "been a shadowy, evasive figure, | flitting across the police perspective as | romantically as the imaginative hero. ines patterned after her have flitted | through the pages of noveli Her dventures have been one of the most carefully guarded of international po: lice secrets. It was Augustus John, the noted artist. who first floticed the extraor. dinary beauty of the flower girl at London's railway station. He per. suaded her to become his model, and by him she was 1 masterpieces. From London she disappeared sudden afterward rumors came derworld of France, Eng many of the beautiful directed amazing jewelry coups; who had gathered around her the mc ister thieves of the continent: w pearéd one night to administer disci pline in an apache den in Paris and ihe next as a guest at a ball in Lon don’se Piccadilly, and who was alwa referred “The Swan-ne Beauty.” v Aid that no one with an artistic eye who ever studied the graceful, symmetrical lines of Polly Carr’s throat could forget their suggestion of the majestic grace of the swan. Deputy Inspector Labouche was an artist at heart. ing throat of the “Countess de Cla monte” had fascinated him. The loss of a rope of priceless pearls identified the owner of that throat once. j * ok ok X | | studios Not long it of the un- and and Ger- Jung girl who HAT “The Swan" should stop for a chat with a police inspector while she was emerging from the Roupin mansion with the Josephine pearls doubtless wrapped about her garter was not considered extraordinary. | bouche recalled that the supposed ‘‘countes: had deliberately dropped her mask and opened her wrap. Her decollette display was intentional, with afterward. That was like “The Swan.” She had done that before. |" To “The Swan's” counterparts in fiction this daring gesture would be | credited as sheer bravo—the bravo | that enjoys pulling the officlal noses of the police. Both Inspectors Maxim and Labouche knew that Polly would iste brave. They saw a pur 4 > discommode your guests. | mortalized in many | The charm- | La- | the fixed purpose of belng recognized | | carefully pl | bouche to_ know escaped who had stolen the Jc | pearls. And by this purpose of “The | Swan's” the police knew that unles they were on her trall within a few hours she would again shp through their tingers, and afe from lift_he 155 to th onable restaurant her own lips how she credentials of the r Clairmonte, who was Once before *The Swan” had st her fancy gor pearls by disappearing from fashionable b oom Wwith a famous collection. taken from a cibl- net in the a London hostess That time also she permitted herse to be recognized. Consequently, ipolice knew “The Swna” had the | jewels, and, too, how difficult it would be to find then They could not ob. ect when, after a few days. the owner { was given oppe nity, through my | terious miess to anted La- as soon as she had perhaps hear from had secur recover them They hostess who wanted her | wanted justice settled upon t f that the police might cateh “The Swan,” but that would not insure that the pearls also would be discovered So Polly got the huge ransom, which tisfied her for an evening's wor The pearls were returned and th was no one to pro Inspector Maxim b Iy's procedure with the Josephine pearls. Until she was ready to act, she would be safe in | some underworld harbor, guarded by thieves' outposts, unreachable. | Tnspector Labouche at that meet | ing with his superior a half-hour after | the aisappearance of the Josephin: pearls was gloomy. he will beat us again, said tor Inspector Maxim. nd Inspector Maxim was of much ame mind. “Unless sometk can’t expect,” he returned. Roupin will have her orn within a week, Polly will have or so, and the madame will notify that it was all a mistake and that she found her pearls under the carpet or in a fireplace. But something will happen to ‘The Swan.' " And sométhing did Inspector Maxim set in motion the cuitomary police wheels. Meanwhile re Swan,” who had actually gone | to the Hotel Ritz from the Roupin mansion, was safe in her apartments | there—the last place in Europe the | police would look for her! | ® Kk X ¥ | | WHEN the telegram from the Paris i police announcing the theft and ¢ the theif ar- , in London, it a The commis sioner had taken a personal interest in reports of the activities of Polly Carr. He had confessed that he had some private theories which he was working out in secret. soon after daylight the next morn- n inspector attached to the com. oner’s confidential aff hovered aimlessly across from a substantial residence in Upper Marylebone street {one of the quiet residence streets in London. A maid servant shortly appeared with her pail and brush to | perform her morning duties to the | white stone steps that led to the foyer of the house on the other side of the street from the commissioner’s confi- dential inspector The later took a ecute chief,” ng happens that we T | the supposed identity | rived at Sc was imme commissione turn about and POLL: G amn omoais, | ONCE A FLOWER GIRL AND | AN _ARTISTS' MODEL IN LON- DON. THEN A QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD. | i Lo | sauntered past the house. The busy maid did not notice him, nor did he give her more attention than early | pedestrians give to the white-capped | servants who make London's door- Isteps spotless against the coming forth of the master after breakfast. The voung maid, from under whose cap whisps of brown hair threatcned to escape, finished her polishing of the s regurded then with satisfac ephine | the | ;| him her coups us | before the | | tion, picked up from the little square | of lawn a few fallen lewves, some bits { of paper that had blown in from the street, some other litter that didn't { beloni on the grass, and went into the house. The casual pedestrian con tinued his sauntering until he came to & subway going the opposite direc- tion from Scotlund Yard Inside the house the maid properly disposed of her pail and brush and deposited her litter in the sculler can. Not even a close observer would have missed one of the bits of paper she hud gathered up fresn: the lawn that flanked the front steps—the tightly folded bit which she keot in her hand and which later in the morn- ing, when she had opportunity to un fold it, informed Special Agent Drake of Scotland Yard, the youngest and prettiest detective in Iurope, that The Swan” had stolen the Josephine iris at 10 o'clock the night peclal Agent Drake's brown led with the gerness of i patient huunter come upon i new lu nt. The spark 1t out of them, however, and the dullness of a house. maid’s outlook upon her work-i-day domain was in them when the master, { Mr. Kemp, a retired business man of some sort, came down to his break fast George Kemp, retired business man of some sort. wis, it may be said. the undisputed master criminal of the world. Again, in him was personified ‘(h" intriguing pe: nality so often met with in the fmaginings of fiction. It” has beew estimated that George Kemp controlled at one time a for tune of £5.000,000, or $25,000,000-—the proceeds of gigantic robber that mystitied Europe and America. Yet | N0 crock was ever seen in his pres ence, and the visitors to his imposing mansion in Upper Marylehone street were men of literature, artists and other retired business men But it had been George Kemp who took pretty Polly Carr out of the studio of Augustus John and sent her forth, his chief representative, into the under. world. F(vr( more than two yi ial gent Drake of cotland d had capably performed her duties in the Kemp residence, during the first s scullery maid: then, havin earned her promotion by her knac t learning what to do and how to do it, the parlor mald, and last few months in the most | post in the British home ald. As upstairs maid was closer to the master, | bis personal belongings and to his moods and his letters and telegrams | Scotland Yard badly wanted those | letters and ams watched. In { them, hi ehow, was the se | cret ‘of Kemp's method of sendin forth his commands to the “apaches | and “escrocks and “evening clothes™ | thieves who maneuvered for him stu pendous fewel robberies. Scotland Yard was certain, n, than his first | Mleutenant, “The Swan.” communi {cated with him regularly. reported to and received his ad nd instructions. But shadowing visitors and of him and exami natlon of his mail between the nd his door had given no re ars Sp ipstairs “Bertha closer to upstairs maid watched closely during the 24 hours. Letters came from from Brussels postmark It Place Vendome. Agent Drak ever, that Hotel Ritz As was his custom, Kemy through his mail at the breakfast table and then gave it to his upstairs maid to put on his bedroom desk Also, as was his custom, Kemp ther went out for a morning stroll through the perfumed paths of Regents Park When she heard the front door close hehind her master. Agent Drake dropped her broom and duster and sad the letter from Paris. bastily written note from some corre next Jerlin, and one with the Par: had heen posted at It did not occur to t that moment, how Place Vendome fronts the the | post | the | It was a | D. C., JANUARY 10, 1926— PART 5. \Mighty Ice Drama of the Atlantic BY MAUDE (. LUKENS. UT of the great frozen spaces of the Arctic each year come huge marauding ice- bergs, released like the evils from Pandora’s box. They are beautiful to gaze upon, but deadly to encounter. Their color is an opaque white and scatiered vein-like through them are stripes of deep blue, formed by fresh water freezing in the fissures of the old ice. In places the wally exposed to the sunlight take on | an exquisite shade of jade green. | The North Atlantic Ocean, then, be- | comes about the middle of March uf; each year the stage upon which is| played one of the mightlest dramas | ever enacted. The performers from | the cold, green waters of the Arctic, | the great marble-white lcebergs, travel slowly, majestically toward the warm blue waters of the Gulf Stream. | Thetr leisurely course is influenced | by currents, sea and wind, while fox {18 their greatest allv. Bearing down {on the fleets of tshing boats, cross Ing the lanes of freight and pasen- | ger ships, invading the Great Banks, | sailing on and on, impervious to« ry effort of man to destroy them, on to the one sure point of defeut, the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, it tent the while on such conquests as that of the Titanic The size of the bergs beyond belief. Often they feet long and rise 200 feet ou the water. The first berg of to occupy the stage was some 00 feet long and 175 feet high. In shape ft resembled o dry dock, and, indeed, that is the name it was gl n for identification purposes. It was sur rounded by tulmars, lurge Llack birds that find sustenance in the water about the icebergs as long as they {are In the Arctic current. Hard on the heels of the first player jin the great drama of ice came four others surrounded by the attentive | fulmars. These bergs were sighted {and plotted the day efore the anni- | versary of the sinking of the Titanic. { possibly ghosts of the great monater | i« almost are 500 that Lok toll 1731 lves -on { Aprl 14, 1912 | The patrol ship, the Modoc, of | | the United States Coast Guard, paused {in the shadow of this gr berg | while the officers and men joined in |a memorial service for the Titanic { victims. A more fitting setting for services could not have been A rough sea mouthed and lapped the Modoc's sides: the cold was |intense and a biting northeast wind howled through the rigging. Astern as if in a rendezvous with death, lay a replica of the great berg that sank the Tita The crew of the Modoc { was mustered aft; Dr. J. J. Shipp, the | cutter's surgeon, delivered a brief | uddress, and Comdr. H. H. Wolff led | the officers and men in praver. On | this rare occasion the church flag was raised above the Stars and | Stripes. The following day three new bergs were sighted, identified and plotted. | All were hastening to the trysting | obtained. i ran | spondent who-signed her initials only., | a friendly of such in timate things sie sons and her progress in Frenc A woman's intuition warn that in her hand she held a from “The Swan" to her master. she saw only a bit the education of an unknown Grace It is the privilege of even a girl de tective to be petulant. Speclal Agent Drake exercised her right ’(Ih::phu,ffiznl; letter onto the desk with dabbed her fingers at it to straighten it out beside the other letters. In her { temper she upset the master's bottle | of ink | The ink flowed over the desk blotter |and the taunting letter, which still was spread open. In her panic Agent no ionger detective but her S upstairs maid, seized a sheet of blotting paper and mopped up the ink puddle. When she litted her blot. ting paper from the surface of the letter iself, which was totally ruined note that spok as Grace's les i her But of gossip about as is the way with women. ‘H] T ROUGH the spludge of spilled ink and from between the lines of the { scribbled confidences about Grace there was revealed the faint, wavering | tracery of letters that shone white in the pale blue, hastily blotted ink stain. The words of one perfectly legible line almost burned into Agent Drake's { brain: “I have the Josephine pearls. | And further down the page, between {two other lines of the orlginal writ- ing, was the sentence: “I am at the Ritz as Mlle. Ducine.’ Speclal Agent Drake lost no time in speculating upon her discovery of the secret she had sought for three years nor in indecision about her next move. The urge of “now or never” tugged at | ber. Kemp would be coming in within | half an hour. She decided to “take & chance.” | Without stopping to doff her maid’s | cap or her apron. Agent Drake slipped out the servant’s door, hailed a taxi nd sped to the nearest telephone oth. When she had been put through to the commissioner she cried out over the wire: “Don’t ask me to explain, but act quick. Surround Kemp's house and | shadow him if he goes out before I get in. Wire Parls to hold a Mille. Ducine who is at the Ritz. She has the Roupin pearls. I'll be in within 20 minutes, but don’t wait to move.” Before Agent Drake's taxi had threaded the traflic to the yard a cor- don of plainclothes men were stretched around the Kemp house and the Paris upon a Mlle. Ducine at the Hotel Ritz Jin the Place Vendome. Late that afternoon the commis- oner of Scotland Yard gathered { around him his chief inspectors. Close to his desk sat the brown-haired girl who had been Kemp’s maid servant | for three long years. Kemp himselt was in the detention cells below and in Paris “The Swan” was in custody. The Josephine pearls in the temporary keeping of Inspector Maxim. | _Kemp's manner of communication with the tools in the underworld, and with ‘The Swan.’ has been discov- ered,” the commissioner announced to his staff. “It is the simplest and most astounding method of secret | writing we have ever known. Kemp {and ‘The Swan' have employed it for | vears. no doubt. and have thus kept us off the track hy having never to S letter | ind flung | v {ll-tempered fourish. Then she | pecial Agent Drake almost screamed, | police had received their hint to aall | ¢ TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER TUSC | Soon to Be Enacted by Great Bergs Gulf Stream Only Real Foe of Monsters Which Bear Down on Fishing Fleet Lanes of Shipping and Invade the Great Banks. SERVICE ABOARD THE MODOC ON APRII ATLANTIC W1 THE TITANIC WENT MEMORIAI those areas: that the first part of | tonzue of cold April was colder than any month di e Grand Buan Ing the Winter; that ice except | herg drifted duc local ice had been scen around ¢ sthwe end R nd the 1 th i up to April S th “In additior 3 ported an open season for little had been seen in Davis St and none except local had heen elsewhere. A weask Labrador current fu existed, and this would necessarily | Guard meen little fce. On the whole, «ll dications seemed to point to season.” Comdr. Zeusler concluded The Gulf Stream called the “Waterlo teptd emt which t to gun fi ments hav within rapidly It weuld this day of ma fective campaign thing as an iceberg. Y effect is obtained from gun small sections being dislodged and almost no r from mines fred depth of four Still other v ployed by the ¢ season of 1427 mines detonated in the air the surface of a large dry-dock type o was approximately its greatest height Five successive ploded in one spot, ing the standard On It 2 t to the extreme the cold stationary day, but and whirled coun: roximately a day westwar: obscu a 1inde wight in an edds er-clockwis vhen s in re up and fog rther viclnity of one tosse the size can he one place to an hither and nature, sound the sea migh of fo by then a south, sunte and might e ebergs v one influence Impregnat mines the One herg was LAl itter for several days ain: having bee the southerl Th and the warm wat were it growl Il a dangerou came to pl and to aid ‘he Saugus . aware of zame mediur fref dange o ANIA CIVING THE PASSENGERS | place, the Gulf Stream, and carried | | along on the lap of the now rapidly | { increasing Labrador current. | i * %ok x | A.\'D 80 each year the United | £X"Coast Guard wims to be sitgl |in advance of the ice and report its | movements to al! ships. Lieut. Comdr. | F. A. Zeusler, appointed to serve as | | oceanographer for the 1925 Interna- | tional Ice Patrol, in reporting the | season's activities says: “The presence of ice i3 a constant | menace to the navigator passing | through the ice area. Were the ice | stationary very little danger would exist, but the movement being depend- | ent on currents, sea, and to some ex- | tent the wind, its location s very uncertain and thus the more dan- gerou: “The season of 1925 offered numerable opportunities to obser the bergs and to experiment with them. At one time 169 bergs were plotted on the operating chart, and at that no berg above latitude 50 de- grees north was considered. Consid- | erable time was devoted to experi- menting with mine and gunfire and to observing the melting processes. “An estimate of the ice situation was made at the beginning of the patrol in an attempt to predict the | future ice. The amount of ice and its | location have been so variable from | vear to year, and the source never having been thoroughly observed, there has yet been no system of ice forecasting_developed to the extent that other forecasting is. Reports in. dicated at the beginning of the se son that Nova Scotfa, Newfoundland and Labrador had had one of the Winters ever_experienced_in approach each other in the wake of any one of their big crimes. ‘We have applied Kemp's corre-| spondence to every known test for hidden writing or secret inks, with no result. Now we find that he simply wrote on ordinary paper an idle letter. Then, with a clean pen dipped in water he wrote, his orders between the lines. When the water-writing dried there was no sign left that any | chemical could reveal. His corre- spondent at the other end, ‘The Swan,’ or any of his trusted lieutenants, had only to spill ink on the paper, blot it quickly, and the traceries of the water writing shone through—even the faint impression of the paper| made by the letters traced with water so affecting the glaze of the paper as | to leave lines of a different color from | the rest of the paper when covered with spilled ink that was immediately blotted up. ‘The Swan’ wrote in this | way to tell Kemp she had the pearls | land was at the Ritz and to give him word to proceed with negotiations for their return to Mme. Roupin. Be. cause of the quick decision of Special Agent Drake to act first and ponder afterwards we have both ‘The Swan’ jand Kemp at last! “In the name of Scotland Yard, gentlemen, 1 pay my compliments to Deputy Inspector Drake. 19 sight | transterring from ship to { more effect { the berg did more damage than thosc | beneath the water! ' about 65 pound the last a pair of min charge The entire fi e a hole about 15 feet deep across, while on the rim o of broken fce was deposited in t of r ox ok u A 1bout started to the ve o 4 mile nd one thal once, en again th 'OMMANDER spent six months in t WEATHER the importan factors lief was afforded the vessel he ard, to the writer rec “Gun fire dislodged only tions of ice from the berg. and this method of attack is considered of appreciable value. Very little could be noted from mines fired side the bergs, four or five havi than shake off fce and possibly set up inter strain. Mines planted under the he or in shallow water near the side of small s icebergs. ( en th visibility is high they ma hted from the mast head of th distance of 18 les; i possible to locate them un into and then usually late to do anythin, For VS, er th will remain practic in the case of the sev during the season fairly deep. The ‘tamping’ effect of | tened herg water at lower depth was v 3 B nounced.” Imagine a solid ws long, 230 feet high and 200 feet wide seven-eighths submerged, which gives it an approximate depth of 1 0 feet Such proportions dwarf the great commercial ships into whose lanes the wande It is an unequal struggle, with no choice but to give them right of way or sink in | Berz No. | traveled 44 miles fron the first encounter. its first position on April 13 until Ma Hard upon this monster berg came 1. when again sighted by the cutte another of the dry-dock tvpe, some- | It retained its original drydoc! thing over 500 feet long and about shape and had reached the 300 feet wide, having two distinct | most arc of ice. For 24 hours walls of ice. This great berg was the | speed or drift was us high as 2 first to break the warm water barrier | per hour. of 1925, drifting as it did down the An interesting experiment was now S5 Crashed rather = on great berg: nchanged a nuth berg sighte It and eigh ecognized o < first sighte days later wa: having remained a ne in cold Arctic water. Agai May 9 it was sighted stil but shortly thereafter the invasion ¢ warmer water from the southward se ih and it w 1 an eddy warm wate! northwests ind, wt in the warm water, sized arf began disintegrating rapidiy 1 of ice T00 feet it mile: the striking to throw the bersg, a most placing and clear days 925 and chris- | intact, souther- Cross TOOK PLACE IN THE DOWN. i suppo turn are ) ¢ | appear: their exhausted th T p considerably e Grand Ra 38 cessation degrees of on continus ich it d 1 d | depends e | dissemin vl " | radio r n nd co-operat »orts of dere weather of e 2 were thout it o what natu a nning from year Will it dragons early tight in A more op- reminded 1are united - and g W ofte = is icebergs, d | 8 frozen embrace portune ti men that t} in conflic plies to nature the Arctic currer and fce form u j | man falls the ¢ m | forces Inimical case the radio is his strong sst de | Pando box is again ! | Winter's grip is hard upor it. W | it new evils are taking <hi pe: the s |curtain call of il find 1 forces of nature answ their cue nd the great ice will ain be on f assembling ti rnd i drama