Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1926, Page 6

6 * AMUNDSEN'S HOPES TOFIND NEW LANDS| Flight Over North-pole Area of 1,000.000 Square Miles Belicved Assured. e e BY (APT. ROALD AMUNDSEN. T supreme ach of the wilt first unex some o have w fled by into Men e, baf or making any extend We know he shores of the D'clar Hea. but the great wh 00’ squar miles wh 1 We hope to Our eves will engerly for of its des rewarded | may not perience A re and feature + ma + observa w, seeking world which, wnch more | the world o 1n's hase el of than con- s, i solid i covered the ¢ his goal. ifting, It is time be i, One mu than the Even to move thin strik- muct rch center ! so, it tor s i the Me- what 8 had good rea there » per- Aretic ) travel those who with it diffi- Rob- | ship ®on wh 1o realiz over the n have cultics which ert Bartiett commander luk on 11 Island to the mair difficulty, and yet h gin of known and exy If be had been f never have been al here has much sa’d friendly ) been made th without provisions killing wild ani stand how that could be made by Jowed on and the expeditic o The Maud on_the 3 proved that ed of starvation that the c line. They day for food, and rn_em handed riles from where 1t in the ice they ! for lack of food.” We | 1l we could, but there much we could do. If the short of food that way. white man, an adventure h. exist without provi- n? Those who e -d on the animal life of the Polar do not Wi coast jons in the spent in the Eiberia in 1922 The natives year, even so went out cda we saw Not mc we wer tually perisk helped was not natives r how can from t I £ more difficu life. In 1.000 m birds such by th who call mistaken may cav The Arc But sible to 1 the life on: travel ma as to mak mainland in the realm of actually e: is any land to suy Suppose, f fsland, a 1 north one it is to find anv animal ¢ flicht of more than al and three ume would be m y_thin » he got through. Those ndly Arctic are floes from | nd althe over the ice ance, there is an n the intes ounded by com- Sum- a little is oceurs seals and b> found. That would be « o life could be maintained indefinitely; but there would have to be land H months the and when will Cause for Wonder. 1 have often wonder have happened if ong of ce in days when icebergs to into the inter had been e of the floe and had ich an island. The ice from Ilering is to the| north, toward the nt where we ex- ! pect to find Jand, if it exists. These | whalers shipped about 50 men each, and the vays took native hunters and women with them. If they had drifted to the north and struck land at last, they would have been able to build houses with the timbers of the ship, they would have had a large store of provisions to keep them until they rot in s of food from the seals and other sen animals and from the b They would have found a comparatively mild climate in the Summer months. The sun would have been warm for a good part of the vear. They could have lived, multi- plied and thrived, but they would have been cut off forever from civiliza- tion by the drifting ic Such a pictu seem fantastic beyond words. i’er it is, But it is one of the things 1 have often won- dered about. And yet it is not im- possible, if one assumes that land may »xist there, as it does in the Antarctic. We do not expect to find such a col- ony. It would be far two much to hope to find human beings there. It would be the most dramatic and amaz- Ing discovery in all human history. Region of Perfect Quiet. To see people—live, human beings— onany land in the midst of the Arctic ice would make the traveler in a diri- zible pinch himself hard and blink many times to make sure he was awake. It just couldn’t be, and yet it is not impossible. Nothing is. To one who begins to speculate on'¥ he unexplored Arctic there are many | one’s fr .| miles from the land. { the barrier and into the interior, the | find the wa. | the food wi THE ROUTE AMUNDS SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 1 ) C, APRIL 1 70 Top: Leaving Leni From this point the re Lower lef used by Norge zrad, the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nob ile di 1 polar dash across the froz The Norge, as she appeared leaving Italy, where she was built. Lower right: n route from England to Leningrad. wastes to Point Barrow WioE WORLD. cible Norge will sail across the seas to Spitzbergen. Alaska, will start. Mooring mast at Oslo, strange possibilitie where man ha a region of snow and ice and t quiet, where all ordinary human values los proportions. I have been asked whether north or sout quiet, the absolute peace which sur- rounds one—the sense of complete om to do what one wants to_do. to interfore. The absolute. ke it. Men o mad when isolated in or Antarctic. but I like There is no sense of loneliness, only peace and quiet and freedom. Of course there is nothing to do with dom, but you have it, and No man can lift his it is satisfying, ou should not do this voice and s or that. One lives, does what is nece: v to live and to accomplish his purpose, and that is all. I suppose the same thing is true of the jungle, but there is more life there. In the wastes of the poles there is nothing but one’s self. North and South Poles Differ. There is a vast difference between the North and South Poles. I had the good fortune to reach the South Pole first, achieving my purpose ¢ careful planning and luck— vs a factor in such expe- ditlons. But there is a difference in the method. The South Pole lies on a great con- tinent, with peaks about as high as the depths of the North Polar Sea. It is surrounded by a huge ice wall, formed by glaciers on the interfor plateau which move down and make an icy barrier that stretches out 400 jut once over explorer is on ground that does not shift. as the polar ice constantly does, and he can make his way forward | with the certainty that he can always retrace his steps over the same ground. This cannot be done in the Arctic. It is this great physical difference be- tween solid ground, or ice, and the shifting ice surface of the Arctic which distinguishes exploration in the two regio In the Antarctic also one climbs over mountains, some of them at an elevation of 11,000 feet. That is quite different from making one's way along the comparatively level but” much more dargerous ice of the north. Zasy to Locate Caches. Another thing about the Antarctic 1s that you can always find your caches, if you know how to mark them. The old custom down there used to be to plant sticks as one went alonz and try to find the way from stick to stick. But in a fog or a storm it was easy to overlook them. We originated the idea of planting sticks on each side of the cache for some distance, so that it would be almost impossible to miss them all and to back to the place where But it would be im- possible to do that in the Arctic. The cache would drift away or be en- gulfed before it was reached. The Antarctic was the coldest place in the world. We found that at our Winter quariers, where the thermom eter registered 78 degrees Fahrenheit below, much colder than it was in the coldest place in the Aretic, the Northwest Passage. We shall never encounter such average cold in the north as we had in the south. Strange contradiction in terms, but it is so. T do not know if it would be possible to use a dirigible for exploration in the Antarctic. The high peaks might be too great a barrier, for 1 am not I sure that a_dirigible dependent upon gas for its lifting power would go to such a height in such a low tempera- ture. It is an intetesting point for the experts to work upon, and if they decide that it can be done, much nore of that fascinating continent can be explored. Very little of it has been covered, despite the fact that I went in about 400 mfles from where Scott entered. Swift Travel Possible. That is another valuable point about travel by air in the cold regions. On our last trip, for instance, we survey- ed 120,000 square miles in 17 hours. It was not the extent of the survey which was significant. It was that 'never before had man been able to fly gver that part of the polar ice. If it AMUNDSEN LEAVES FOR SPITZBERGEN TO AWAIT AIRSHIP an we hope for, we may reduce the crew to 15 or even 14 men and re- place the weight thus saved with soline. If conditions are favorable ‘e may reach Nome but, of course, Point Barrow remains our real ob- Jective.” Lieut. Riiser-Larsen, the Nor- weglan vice commander of the Norge, expressed no less satisfac- tion at the ship's performance in the flight from Rome to Leningrad than Col. Nobile, to whom Larsen paid a high tribute for his conduct of the operation in trying conditions. Shown Every Courtesy. Larsen also sald the Soviet thorities had given most eflicient istance. Not only was the handlir plendid, but 2,000 soldiers were set to clearing the road betwear the air drome and Gatchina and every cour- tesy was shown to the expedition. The lieutenant was optimistic in re- | gard to the final flight across the Pole. He said the perpetual light the need of Holmes lights, wh; dropped between Pulham aad Os indicate any drift from the wind. Drift will be calculated by taking a line from a prominent ice hummock with suflicient accuracy to give ap- proximate position. Ile s there would be no attempt at landing at the Pole, but the flags would be drop- ped as a symbolic gesturz. Currents undoubtedly will remove or ice de- stroy them before lo just as Peary's traces doubtle: long have been obliterated. He thought it pos- sible that land would be discovered toward Canada, and perhaps toward ska. “Between Spitzbergen and the Pole ve do not expectsto find much rew data,” he said, “but there are great possibilities on the other side. By that time the ship will be lightened and we can fly 800 or 1,000 meters high, hich will give visibility for 700 kilometers on either side. ven at | that height we can easily tell by the formation, variation and height of the ice above sea level ethev there s land or sea beneath. “This will be most interes was attempted on foot with sleds one would have to work agalnst the polar drift to the south, and becanse of the high hummocks the drift would more than counteract the speed of the ad- vance over the ice. It just could not be done. That one feat alone shows the superiority of air travel over travel on foot in polar exploration. The Poles have been the object of adventurous men for many, many years. There has always been the mystes the unknown about these great white flelds, a greater mystery probably than has attached to the un- known "parts of the world in the tropics. Just why it should be so I do not know, unless it is that the Poles are so devold of life. There is only silence there—a déad, What secrets they s they have kept these many never has man on his own feet been able to wring these secrets from them. Little Known of the Poles. True, the Poles have been con- quered, but how much do we know of the territories around them? Virtu- ally nothing. They have lured men for centurles, but they have kept their silence; their secrets are locked in the ice. For man to be able to take to the air, to free himself from the hin- drances of a terrestrial contact, to fly over that on which he toiled painfully for so long, will give him a new and quicker _insight into these secret places of the earth than he could gain in any other way. The Poles have kept their silence long and well, but if they have any further mysteries they will not retain them, now that man has made himself independent of his earthly path. ‘There will soon be no more unknown places, and nothing for explorers to do. I am glad that I did not live much later. The moon would be the only possibility. A giving data about currents in the Polar Sea, which in turn affect currents in the North Atlantic. have aboard 32 cases of gasoline and as each is emptied we will drop it | with a stamp bearing the date and | also the namo of the Norge. Some of these cases doubtless will be found and are expected to give valuable in formation regarding currents.” Russian aeronautical circles enormously interest light. Today the ship wa: a group of 45 officers of the aero- nautic school, who examined every de- tail and made sketches and photo- graphs. Col. Nobile sa o0 there had been a question of the purchase of one or more of his diri- gibles by the Soviet government. An expert visited the factory and made an elaborate study of the question. The same expert Visited the dirigible at Gatchina, but Col. Nobile said: ‘I do not think the subject will be raised now, as we are pressed for time nd have other things to think about. Moreover, you must understand that my factory works exclusively for the Italian Government, and any purchase of airships would have to be discussed by the respective authorities.” Asked to Address Group. He added that | to speak Thursday Engineers of W. nd Communica- tions on the following subjects The dirigible factory from ncial and technical viewpoint. The _technical details of ible Norge. 3. The flight from Rome to Lenin- grad and the lessons therefrom. he had been asked the Institute of the the 0 1432 K St. NW. We | some months | EEEGEITE | 1926—PART 1. LS WITHDRAW CLAMS BL AD Author of War Reimburse- ment Measure Finds His Company Is Affected. By the Asspciated Press. The legislative course of the Mills Dbill to adjust German-American war clalms, took an unexpected twist yes- terday when its author, Representa- tive Mills, Republican, New York, an- nounced in the House that he would withdraw his support from the measure, He has learned, Ife explained, that he was a director and stockholder in a company that would be affected by the measure. Under such conditions, irrespective of House rules, he sald, he considered it proper to decline fur- ther to support the bill. Mr. Mills informed the House he would not participate in consideration of the proposal either in the ways and means committee, before which it is pending, or on the House floor. In- formation, which he confirmed, that he was an official in one of the corpora. tions affected, he said, had been con ved to him by Representative . Democrat, Texas, who character ‘stupendous st Doubts Most Could Vote. Addressing the House after Mr. Mills had made his announcement, Mr. Garner said he doubted if 23 members, under House rules, had a right to vote on the bill Tt was introduced several weeks ago by Mr. Mills after its provisions had been worked out by the Treasur: It proposes adjustments of war claims between the (ierman and American Governments and citizens through issuance of bonds. It is estimated that unsettled claims total about $250,000,000. It is indicated that some other Republiean on the ways and means committee would sponsor the bill in- stead of Mr. Mills. At the same time, Democratic members made plans to oppose the measure to the limit. Showed Great Surprise. Mr. Garner said that as soon as he found out definitely that Mr. Mills would be personally interested in the measure, he felt it his duty to call his attention to it, adding: “When I did he expressed surprise and said he did not know that the company had a claim or an award under the Mixed Claims Commission. 1 want to commend him and all other ance of the ship and its low price as ed with rigid aifehips or se warships cannot fail to appeal to the Russians, whose naval strength is vastly below the average of the great powers. The reception by the Academy of Science to the visiting alrmen_has been postponed until 2 o'clock Wed- nesday. In the evening Col. Nobile is to address the aeronautic engineers. Meanwhile, excursions and visits to museaums and other points of interest prepared for the members of the expedition. (Copyright. 1026, by the New Y, and St. Louis Globe-Democrat through ¢ News Featiures. rights re: rk Times Released o All GIRL HELD UP IN STORE. Colored Robber Loots Cash Reg- ister in 13th Street Grocery. Holding up Miss Frances Epstein, 16-year-old daughter of Lewis Epstein, grocer, at 1629 Thirteenth street, with a pistol in her father's store last night, a young colored man looted the cash register of $15 and escaped. The man entered the store two hours before the hold-up and bought a few lemons, the girl said. Detec- tives Varney and Brodie said the de- scription she gave was similar to the one given of the young colored man who recently held up several women at different times and robbed them of Obviously the magnificent perform- | small amounts. AR AR R AR R AL R tR LR LRt thtRtRhthth! FIRST OFFERING! b - Motor Out Today To This Detached Residence - 6524 8th Street NW Corner Eighth and Van Buren Streets, One Square East of Piney Branch Road Thoughtfully Planned—Center Hall Entrance Briet Deseription—Seven spacious rooms—four bedrooms—complete tiled bath. Jarge living room with open fireplace, oak floors throughout. with builtin ice chest and one-piece sink. pantry, built-in garage, : The latest hot-water hesting system and automatic hot-water storage boiler. Price, $13,950—Easy Terms William S. Phillips and Company Incorporated Realtors bright Kitchen members who will investigate and ex- cuse themselves if they find that they have a specfal Interest in it. The Secretary of the Treasury, so far as I can ascertain, and I think I have conclusive evidence, is a stock- holder in seven different firms which have had an award from the Mixed Claims Commission amounting to something over $1,000.000. The Sec- retary, according to the records, is the gentleman who made up this bill. ‘He says that the President has SUFFRAGE BACKED AS MOST PRESSING * ISSUE IN DISTRICT ___(Continued from First Page.) ing an amendment to the zoning regu- lations to create an additional zone to be known as “AA" restricted. In this zone, under the terms of the amendment, no so-called “‘community houses,” or row houses, could be erect- ed. All would have to be detached houses with side yards, while super- vision also would be authorized over depth of yard and landscaping fea- tures. A resolution that a building regu- lation be made that would require for every new building operation {h undeveloped territory in Washington an official certificate that the struc- ture wiil conform to the established grade was carried. FREE PAID TRIBUTE BY CALIFORNIA BODY State Society Meeting in Honor of House Member Brings Fore- cast of Re-election. Predictions that Representative Arthur Free of Californio would be returned to Congress for many terms and that he would receive even higher honors for his faithful service and good record, were made by fellow Congressmen last night at a meeting of the California State Society, at the Hamilton Hotel The meeting was held in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Free, on the occasion of ‘the retirement of Mr. Free as president of the society, a position he has held four consecutive terms. Maj. Charles W. Freeman, new president of the soclety, presided, and Harry F. Ashion was chairman of the entertalnment committee. Ad- dresses were made by Representatives Henry E. Barbour, Albert E. Carter, Clarence F. Lea and Philip D. Swing, and by Patrick J. Haltigan, reading clerk of the House of Representatives and by Guy W. McCord, vice presi- dent. James H. MacLafferty, as- sistant to Secretary Hoover, was toastmaster. A musical program was given by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Loria of Wash ington. P SENATE YIELDS TO SPRING Takes Saturday Had-Holiday. De- laying Buildings Bill. ‘The call of Spring proved too strong for the Senate yesterday and Saturday half-holiday was taken. After two and one-half hours of debate on the $165.000,000 public buildings bill and with less than a core of Senators in the chamber, Senator Curtis, the Republican lead er, consent_of Senator Fernald, Repub lican, Maine, manager of the meas- ure. There was no objection and the Senate adjourned to golf courses and the base ball park. Saturday ses- moved for adjornment with the| OIL MAN 15 LOST ON NORFOLK BOAT Missourian, in 1l Health, Leaves Note in Stateroom on Northland. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., April 17.—While not overlooking the possibility that he may have fallen overboard, the Nor- folk police, after an investigation, are of the belief that Alfred H. Ramage wealthy oil man, of Joplin, Mo., leaped to his death in the waters of Cheas peake Bay early this morning, while en route from Washington to Old Point on the steamer Northland. He was last seen about 5 a.m., walk- ing toward the stern of the steamer and clad in his bath robe and shoes His valuables, including a sum of money, watch and $3,000 worth of Iiberty bonds, were found in the state- room with a note addressed to John H. Copelli, 608 Frisco Building, Joplin The note, written on a telegraph blank and tied in a bundle with the bonds read: “For you Cappy. My blessing with you—Alf.” Rumage wi en route to Pinchurst . to visit his parents, his father Ramage, a retired oil blished a Winter Young Ramage, who w: about 35 veurs of ae, was declared to have heen in ntly as the result of overwork, which re. sulted in a nervous breakdown g Although he hoarded the steampr in ‘Washington yvesterday afternoo he did not obtain u stateroom until shortly before midnight. He appea ed preoccupled and several times in dicated lapses of memory. Coast Guard authorities have beea requested to keep a lookout for the DANCING In a beautiful environment MAYFLOWER GARDEN Tea Dance 4:30 P.M. to 6:15 P.M. Cover Charge, $1.25 Including T Saturday, $1.50 Dinner Dance 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. No Cover Charge Supper Dance 10:00 P.M. to Closing Cover Charge, $1.00 Saturdays and Holidays, $1.50 Incomparable Music by the MAYFLOWER ORCHESTRA examined it and is anxious that it shall become a law."” NN N\ 2277 \ 7% Low Heel— Parchment Snake Low Heel— White Kidskin Low Heel— % 1 1207 F St. creation. Short, round toe. straps, with silk lacings in your School Colors. Dedicated to Washington High School and College $8 $8 fons have been running well after 5 p.m. the same as any other day. nother Shipment 1n For they “Scored”’ Instantaneously, and we were soon almost *“Out” of these brilliant new “KIDDETTE"™ TIES N exclusive new “Hahn Special” Basket - weave vamp. Open instep and Young Ladies Parchment Kid; High Spike Heel—$8 Crystal Gray Kid High Spike Heel— $8 Kid; $8 Parchment Cuban Heel— trasting trim— Spike Heel— ket-weave model, $8 W. Spencer Tupman, Director | Ettiecis el % W 2 % 22 % Now ready in F;zshionable Colored Kidskins and the new Snake Leather Gray Snake Calf $8 Patent Leather, con- $7 ; High 57 Black Satin; Bas- 2%, Black Satir 2%, 7277, “KEDS" Crepe - Rubber - Sole Tennis High Shoes for Young People. 7th & K e Spe 233 Pa. Ave. SE. : 3212 14th St. “Women’s Shop” 1914-91‘}6; l;: Ave. 414 5 boys of all ages. HITE duck, atches.” or brown with ankle For girls and Very ecial at—