Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 7

NORGE EXPECTED TOLEAVE SUNDAY margin for the possibility winds. (Copyright, and the of head 1926, by the New York Times e St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ARCTIC WEATHER FICKLE. Sudden Change Delays Work on Hangar at Kings Bay BY RUSSELL D. OWE By Wireless to The Star. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 19%. Maryland Town, Taken by Bees, Wins Freedom With Streams From Hose Special Dispatch to The § . one orchard to another for pollenizing HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 30.— purposes, when in some manner they | The sale of corks, bottles, jugs and | escaped. ! other moonshine and bootleg para-| Millions of bees swarmed over the phernalia he | streets, in the alr, and for a time the casionally. Water is carried to the houses and stored in barrels for both \ SHOLT INDR I INTARRF NQURY drinkirg and washing, and it be- hooves oné to examine the water bot- tle carefully before drinking, as many things about the size of a pinhead may be dasning about. The natives smile and pay no attention, but the tenderfoot going fishing in a wa ter bottle is rather appalling. Wil- liam Beebe wouid probably get a whole essay out of one bottle. |may God help the American con- | sumer.” The witness said that Commission- er Brossard, then a member of the commission’s advisory staff, became known as “a rather active partisan of the sugar beet interests,” and was reported to be a friend of Senator Smoot. “He had been seen frequently passing between the office of Senator Smoot and the chairman of the com- You'll Save " —by getting Winter damages to roofs rem- edied now. Delay means more trouble and con- sequently more ex- pense. recently outlawed by mission without reporting to any other .members of the commissioft,” Mr. Costigan said. He also declared the national tariff council started a | program in 1924 to raise $10,000 to | get a “protectionist Democrat” to succeed Commissioner Lewis, whose term was about to expire, and to break down the opposition in the South to a protective tariff. F. W. Stokes, the artist, is sitting ‘ . in the snow, despite the cold, nmkln.' ‘ senate InveStlgators TOId e e rmaneaina no when ine | Part Played in Sugar Controversy. Norge comes he will be able quickly fColbert tinning service provides for every re- quirement —voofs, gut- ters, downspouts, cor- nices, etc. Work and prices that yowll ap- \ prove. aurice J. Colbert Heating—Plumbing—Tinning 621 F Street Phone Mam Nobile Says Storms in Spitz- bergen Have Delayed Work on Big Hangar. vers s . r. P. Elwood town council of Hancock, near here, Rients pNorg doncaved Dn ol Stigers, in front of whose house the which has been ignored by the mer- | hecs bees escaped, was marooned for nearly chants of the town, fell off suddenly |an hour, while apiary experts turned a yesterda. hose upon the lawn and pavement in An investigation by the merchants | front of the physician's home to dis- | sent them scurrying back into th possess the army of hees. The h(*»x‘ shons when they discovered the town | iad, 32 (0T ROSSRIOL 0T (v | had been invaded by millions of honey | (he muchine outside the city Hmits to v bees. fally clear it of bees. | | ones who let their stove go out tucked | Threa or four trucks filed with | Finally all the bees were captured “1 fear it | their three blankets about them and |bees, owned by the American Fruit |or dispersed and today Hancock was | | shivered through the early morning ers, were being transrerred from 'normal again. | | hours, — = Beidisdidinn - To get more coal one must dres down stairs and shovel it out of the v, appalling sacrifice for Snow piled in long windrows of tiny round balls like ooped out in strange shapes ening in the sun. [ But at o contrast Wednesday! S T iday | It was then to imagine one’ N e e by | at 80 latitude north. But what can ice occupied with parades, but we hope to [2nd snow do to camouflage a locomo- arrange for our departure Sunday.” |tive whistle Nothing smacks more of = ¥+ | civilization. Yesterday morning the Russians Have Holid! petulant toot of the tin four-wheeled Sunday is the Russian Faster and |Mmining engine, skidding away over the both that day and Monday are holi- |ic¥ rails, evoked startled screams. The ays, but religious and social. rather | Ngine did not go far because the than national In o or. v0 the 300 | trench dug for it so laboriously during or 400 men necessry for the depart. |fOUr days was filled again with snow. ure of the Norge will be available. and the wheels hit the snow and went Col. Nobiie expressed keen regret | 'oUnd and round. The smoke puffed SChE s e | up in quick pants from the tiny stack of 10 days of invi |as the Kings Bay fast freight came it would be i | to a quick and ignominious halt. The > i b B e |little engine snorted, wheezed and did best part of ‘a week in Spitzbergen, | ;! s 4 o i sl Bt e |ibergen. lits best, but it retired again to its : R the daté of the trans-| .ounjhouse until the tracks were polar flight danzerously near the pe-|potter cleared od when warm weather makes fogs| “ probable. He has spent the most of his time while in Russia at Gaichina and oc. | the world—everything is northernmost cupies himself with writing a long | here. the same latitude as Etah, technical report which he expects to | Greenland. which is only a hole in the finish tomorrow and mail 2 copy to|ground—no fare is charged, London for the New York Time. may jump on the freight at any Shil i and ride all day. It will be several Bk Aitscts Whewms. | days betore the railroad is running in Meanwhile the Norge remains an ob- | order, which is a_severe disappoint- Ject of great popular interest. It has|ment, as it was relied on to transport already been visited by upward of |all the heavy materials to the Norge's 50,000 people, including ever variety | hangar. of technical organization. | The storm not only prevented work Col. Nobel said that the departure|for a day, but by filling what was of the Norge probably would he at|previously done, has caused further of the Norge would be probably at|delay. To dig a trench 4 to 6 feet deep Vadsoe, wnere there is a mooring (a mile long is a terriffic task, as it is mast, well before the light ends. | not sheltered from the wind. ity and full of laughter. Watching With favorable conditions this jump| The storm Wednesday bfought the | them scrambling along on skiis about should take only 16 to 17 hours, but | drift ice back into the bay, and all a barrel stave is always | Col. Nobile wi to icave a wide|uight the Heimd s 7 steep KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, April 30. —This is the most fickle weather in the world. The storm is gone b Spring is still far behind. Two d: Lincoln Ellsworth was sure Spring was here. He found the rivers melt. ing and threatened to go out and pick bunch of daisies for the table, but, , vesterday morning it was 4 de. | grees below zero, and the unlucky OZ="TooR to place the alrship on the can Ie must prepare his paints especially | %o he can manipulate them in the | zero weather. When they get too stiff he gives up, the brushes and uses his | knife. | Comdr. Byrd's ship is just entering the bay, feeling its way slowly through the drifts of ice frozen to-| zether. The people are rushing to the shore to see the American ship. (Copyright, 1926, by the New York Times nd St Louis! Globe ) BY WALTER DURANTY. By Cable to The Star, LENT RAD, is impossible for betore By the Associated Press part ed by Chairman moot of the ate finance commit tee in the celebrated sugar criff con was inquired into vesterd Senate tariff investigating com kA . April 30. the Norge to leave Col. Umberto Nobile informed correspondent yester day. “1 had hoped to sail : but T have just received This is not an age when the clever person geaerally succeeds, says the | Office Boy, but more often the shrewd o Sunaa ., 80 your ed up and down, dodging the floes to avoid getting caught and squeezed, for the ice travels fast before the wind and exert, terrific pressure. even small quan of it. This morning the bay was partly trozen again, and if the cold lasts Comdr. Byrd may be provided with a place to take off. Capt. Amundsen has just received wireless message from Comdr. Byrd saying he would arrfve tonight and wishing Capt. Amundsen good luck and offering any assistance in his power. Norwegians Are Anxious. The Norwegians are more eager than ever to get everything ready so the Norge may fly from Leningrad, as after the long preparation they do not wish to be late on their trans-Pole flight. When Comdr. Byrd’s 50 men dis- embark, Kings Bay will be busier than ever before, and one-third of the popu- ill be Americans. ile, the colonel's brother, | was ont this morning with toy bal- loons measuring the wind velocity and direction. The little balloon went almost straight up, but it was inter- esting to watch the change of direc- tion at different heights, showing the divergent air currents above the sur- | tace of the earth. The blue balloons, more than 2 feet in diameter, were filled from the hydrogen tank before the hospital where he lives and has his instruments. When the first rose the little Spitz- bergen children came rolling and tum- bling over the snow heaps. Their are red, their eves bright and | re just like healthy children all | over the world. bubbling with curfos- est banks, tumble head over heels and | pick themselves up with serene grav- | ity to tackle the next bump. Ap parently it makes little difference to them whether they stand on their | heads or feet In the snow. Snow Balks Tractor. The tractor has given up the ghost for the deep snow. It stalled, slid backward down a bank and smashed its rear axle trying to extricate itself. Snow is no place for tractors. Balchen is now making a new axle from a piece of steel he found in the machine shop. He must heat treat it himself, Apparently there is nothing that this man cannot do, and, in_addition to being an expert mechanic, he is an| aviator, forester, boxer, ski racer and knows ‘all the Latin names of the | plants, animals and birds of his coun- | try. | Incidentally, 52 species of birds and | 140 species of flowering plants were | catalogued by u Gern physician who lived in Kings Bay for yea in the Summer things spring bloom here with the same luxur as Alaska, although the snow is ways on the mountains. Along the base of the mount: and between | them and the sea is strip of vel tered by the | stigan, a member of | ssion, told the in le the commission S““’W ase Now Smoot | on March 1 telegraphed the commission . f City ad- | vising against reducing the tariff. wriff has nothing to do with speculation in " the telegram d. “Rate advanced but 16 cents per hundred pounds. Cuban_ sugar ontrolled by sugar If they icceed in reducing riff rate to stroy OUR ENTIRE BUSINESS Now Located in Our Own Bldg. 922 14th St. Opposite Franklin Pai CLAFLIN Est. 1 Op'icians Optometrists THE WEATHER DID IT— It will pay you to wait and find out J. E. CUNNINGHAM CO. T 666 is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. 1t kills the germs. R o | Amateur Reaches Byrd. 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