Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1926, Page 4

A e UNSTINTED PRAISE GIVEN AMUNDSEN Elisworth and Nobile Included in Capital’s Tribute to Norge’s Flight. By the Associated Press Unstinted praise of Roald Amund- sen, Lincoln C. Ellsworth and the of- ficers and crew of the Norge was mixed with the expressions of grati fleation in Waushington over the news that the first airship to fly from ipitzbergen to Alaska across the orth Pole was safe in Ame! n ter- ritory. Since the sudden discontinuance of radio messages from the Norge more than two » ago there had grown eeling o here, notwith standing the « » of those fa millar with pols ds in the abil ity and resou af those who were blaz of Arctic travel. To indicate 1he eagerness of the of the Norge., to President Capital officials for nev the White House sent (volidge at W msbhurg a wireless received from Eilsworth. The latter is a cousin of Vice President Dawe who has icept his office ing for word from the big ship. President promptly sent his cong ulations. Moffett Draws Lesson. Admir hief of the Rear ivantages of lighter ¢ polar fights nd mfluencing z.cal ele stics are absent, Is ment of the t aiv ship,” he said States, and s reason the large airship will be utilized in the future when advantage ken commer- y of the Arcti ite for trans port between I and the East. “The s at an oppc justificatio! Ilghter-th of continuf field of avia Courage of Men Lauded. 1 sincerely adr ve the attenti rkabl Norge ac North Pole, @ gratulate them on belng the reach the Pole and cross the an_afrship The flight nere as one outstanding alr craft. The first « German 1 World W medical supy Vorbeck in ( ship was in hours and Anothe was the 1 3,450 miles on the return. Shenandozh’s Long Trip. The West ('oa doah is conside cials as perhaps the greatest achieve- ment of any lighter-than-alr craft ever built. On tl ght the Shenandoah traveled miles and was away from her 19 a nd 19 hour during which she crossed mountain ranges, plains, deserts and sea The Los Angeles covered 5.100 miles im October, 1924, in &1 hours, in her flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakeht Norge {n her polar flight Spitzbergen to Nome from ghould have covered 2,800 miles, but this does no distance she Jjumping-off OSLO GREATLY EXCITED BY NORGE TRIP SUCCESS U. S. Minister in Norwegian Capi- tal Sends Congratulations to Amundsen by Way of Nome. By the Associated Prese. OSLO, Norway, May 15.—News of the arrival of the Amundsen-Ellsworth Norge at Teller, Alaska, caused great excitement here. United States Minister Swenson has sent greetings and congratulations to Nome. Another congratulatory message was sent by Frederici Herman Gade, Norweglan consul at Chicago, who is here on leave. Before renouncing his American citizenship in 1911 Mr. Gade was mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., and was a close friend of Roald Amundsen. Mr. Gade first introduced Amundsen into the United States and has sup- ported him in all his expeditions. GASOLINE TODAY AS GOOD AS THAT SOLD IN 1920 Bureau of Mines Reports on Survey Made in Many Cities, Involving 150 Samples. Gasoline being sold today is as good as that sold six years ago and in the intervening time, the Bureau of Mines announced last night, following a special survey made in many cities of the United States, involving a total of about 150 samples. ‘Whether gasoline of the future will have the same characteristics it has had since 1920 will depend to a great extent on whether it will be necessary or desirable to have those character- istics, A. J. Kraemer, associate petrol- eum chemist of the bureau said. This question, he added, is bound in the tapic of automotive developments. The bureau said there Is a distinct advantage in using a motor fuel a3 heavy as the engine can utilize, in that the energy contest of a heavy fuel s in general larger per gallon than a lighter fuel. Another factor is that the demand for gasoline is enor- mous and everything which can be made to serve as motor fuel, will, sooner or later, have to be so used. “When crude oil and gasoline are as plentiful as they have been during the past few years, there is not the incen- tive to the most economical utiliza- tion,” the bureau said. count for the great rom Italy to the CRUDE OIL ADVANCES. Price Jumped 25 Cents Per Barrel at Dallas, Tex. DALLAS, Tex., May 15 (#).—A gen. eral advance of 25 cents- per barrel on crude ofl was announced by pur- chasing compenies in the Mid-Contl- nent-fleld today. Prarle Ofl and Gas Company, initiated the Increase,( postponed new prices ranging from $1.65 a barrel for crude of 28 degrees, baume, to §$3.75 for oil testing 52 degree and above. Other companes followed the Prarie’s. ‘IM | | | i | | |t S D gerin ST | . [ BERING # SER ‘ 57 e/ 0 e i MELVILLE |4 Mw{/flfi A REFIN, [ \\BflY\ ; ‘ | sides of the bug. | Above: Map shows course of dirig- ible from the time it left Kings Bay - | until the arrival at Teller, Alaska. Center: The Norge under full speed. Tower right: One of the few photo- graphs in the United States of Teller, the tiny Alaska settlement, where the Norge landed, RUSE USPECTED Garbled Report, Using Call Letters of Siberian Station, May Have Been Norge’s. By the Associated Press. BREMERTON, Wash., May 15.— ‘The words “Roger Dog George,” used ina message caught by St. Paul Island at 11:45 this morning, Eastern stand- ard time, were explained here as standing for RDG, the call letters of a Russian wireless station at, Sredne Kolymsk, Siberia. The message, it was suspected here, might be a ruse of Roald Amundsen who arrived at Teller Thursday night in the dirigible Norge after passing over the North Pole. One fact advanced by those who took this view of the message was that while it appeared garbled and contained blanks, it vet spoke of a gale, though Government reports had indicated no bad weather in the vicin- ity of Nome or Teller, which are on Seward Peninsula across the Bering Sea from Siberla. The Norge, when she disappeared from communication with the world after reaching Point Barrow, northern tip of Alaska, ‘Wednesday night, was heard calling that same station in Siberia. All this, students of Amundsen’s history, a long and brilliant one in exploration, discovery and publicity, were inclined to regard as a new trick of his. The Assoclated Press received the message from Cordova today. It was also recsived here by Lieut. Comdr. Norman L. Kirk, communication of- ficer of the thirteenth naval district. U. S. S. CONSTELLATION ARRIVES AT EXPOSITION Famous Warship, Built in 1708, Will Be on Display at Philadel- phia Sesquicentennial. By the Associated Press. 2 A PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—The U. §. 8. Constellation, sister ship of the 0ld Constitution, was eased into her berth at the Philadelphia Navy Yard late today. It was the first trip of the famous old-time warship since 1888. She came from Newport News, Va., where she had been for years, be exhibited during the Sesqui- 2:ntennla| exposition. Tonight the Constellation is moored ‘heslde the lymj Adm;wl:vg; ‘s flagship ttle of Y. e ohne) ging of the sturdy old vessel has n replaced and her furled and stowed below decks. A crew of 18 honor students of the Newport School for apprentice sea- men, one for each of the 13 original States, was on board. The Constellation was bullt in 1798 and was first used against Barbary pirates. Automobiles, radio, electrical ma- chinery and liquors were the promi. ent exhibits at the Spring fair in '&nfib Jugrelayis, Lis Feak IN RADID MESSAGE. | i oy % mmm\;,m@ “Teller, Alaska, reported landing place of the Norge, is a trading post and reindeer station on the west coast of Seward Peninsula, notable chiefly as the introduction placo of one of Alaska’s most important latter- day industrles, reindeer,” says_ a bulletin from the National Geographic Society. “The little town lies about 50 miles northwest of Nome, within Port Clarence Harbor, one of the best shelters on the coast, and frequently many fishing boats from Nome take refuge there from storms. “The first importation of reindeer occurred on July 4, 1892, when 162 reindeer, along with Lapps to care for them, were landed at the little settlement. And from that mother herd nearly 200,000 reindeer now graze on the tundra from Point Barrow to the Alaskan Peninsula. It is estimated that the herd increased more than 200-fold inf 30 years. More than 100,- 000 of the animals already have been slaughtered for their meat and skins. “The town took its name from a former Secretary of the Interlor. It was a Government station from 1892 to 1900. A United States post office now is located there. Across the har- bor from the town is a Norwegian Lutheran mission. “The town still is known locally by its Eskimo name, ‘Nook.’ It has only a few shacks, its population varies as Eskimos come and go. “Effort was made, in 1898, to intro- duce draft animals and steers from Norway, but they did not thrive and became extinct, while the reindeer multiplied until they have come to vie with gold in industrial impor- tance, and have been called ‘the camels of the frozen North.’ “The introduction was made under the auspices of the United States Bu- reau of Education, which brought them over to give Eskimos employ- ment. “Teller is a gateway to areas where gold is found, particularly the Blue- stone and Kougarok districts.” Says Landing Planned. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,, May 15 (®).—If the dirigible Norge descended at Teller, Alaska, she probably landed in the back yard of a former Twin City family. Harold J. Lomen, friend of Explorer Amundsen and a member of the Lomen family which owns at Teller the world's biggest reindeer ranch, arrived here on business today. “That's funny,” he said, when told of Amundsen’s arrival at Teller. “Be- fore Amundsen left New York he called me on the telephone there and said he’d meet me on the beach at Teller. Teller, Coast Trading Post, Flourishes As Center of Alaska Reindeer Raising 1 -companied by Crown.Princess Louise. He will be present at the unveiling of | wmmmbu i3l plania of the cation between Teller and the outside world. We have a wireless station there, but no operator. The operator from the Norge must be running the station.” The reindeer ranch which the Lo- mens own covers all land within a radius of 90 miles of Teller. The town comprises about 30 houses. Prac- tically the whole town is made up of employes of the Lomen Reindeer and Trading Co. “There are tens of thousands of reindeer on the ranch there,” Mr. Lomen said. “I don’t know how the Norge got down, of course, but we have about 50 men up there, enough to bring her down, I should think.” AMUNDSEN TWICE FELL IN FLIGHT, BUT NOT HURT Explorer Dropped While Learning to Fly in 1914 in Norway—Sec- ond Accident in U. 8. in 1922. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 15.—Roald Amundsen, whose name will go down in history among the world aerial ploneers for his transpolar flight, has been twice near death in airplane ac- cidents. The first time was at Chris- tiania, Norway, in 1914, when he was learning to fly in order to qualify for a pilot’s license. ‘With an instructor he was going into the air from a military camp near Christiania, when the machine’s elevator broke and the airplane fell 40 feet, nose downward. He was not | injured. { Again in 1922 an airplane in which | he and four companions were flying | from New York to Cleveland was ‘wrecked when it made a forced land- ing from an altitude of 6,000 feet. He ‘was not injured in this accident. P e PRINCE SAILS TOMORROW. Swedish Royalty to Be Present at Ceremony Here May 29. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 15 (#). —Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who will tour the United States as part of a trip around the world, will leave Stockholm tomorrow and will embark on the Gripsholm at Gothenburg Monday. He will be ac- the John Ericsson’ monument in Wash- ington on May 29 and will visit nu- merous museums of art and antiqui-, ties, national parks and leading indus- EX-WIFE IN COURT TO ASK CAROL’S NAME FOR SON Mme. Zizi Lambrino Appears in Person in Suit—Prince’s Coun- sel Opposes Her Demand. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 15.—Mme. iZzI Lam- brin, former morganatic wife of Prince Carol of Rumania, today appeared in person before Seine Court, which is hearing her demand that the status of her son, Mircea, be established, in order that he may obtain admission to a well known French school. Prince Carol failed to appear. De- cision was reserved until Tuesday. Mme. Lambrino has demanded that Prince Carol furnish evidence that Mircea is his son and entitled to take his name. Joseph Paul Boncour, who repre- sented the prince, opposed the de mand, on the contention that the boy was born more than a year after Mme. Lambrino’s marriage with the prince had been annuled. He said the prince gave Mme. Lambrino 500,000 lei at the time of the annulment, and has since paid her 110,000 francs a vear on the understanding that she would not bother him any more. _The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical and fair—it is not necessary to have had an you, a‘m to de- t $1 per week n an Account, MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervisior 1408 H Street N. W. «Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit” cessibility. “40n Tuesday | lowed by | fact NORGE DISCOVERS NO NEW LAN ON FLIGHT ACROSS NORTH POL tinued from First Page.) i within 400 miles of the pole of inac No others have approach. ed so close. This was Amundsen’'s third pole. In 1911 he reached the South Pole he reached the North In 1905 and 1906 he spent 19 months relocating with greater pre cislon and studylng the character. istics of. the magnetic North Pole, which has @ wavering position, in Boothia La 1,200 miles south of the North Pole. Ice Batted Myrough Ship. ‘The flyers seem to have anticipated | and guarded against évery possible source of danger except' the one which nearly resuited in disaster. The chdnce that the propeller blade would bat chunks of ice through the skin of the ship and practically keep them under bombardment had not re- ceéived sufficlent attentfon. It was not_absolutely expected. The possibility of such trouble had been suggested, but it was minimized That this danger was suggested but not considered important is shown by a message sent many weeks ngo froni Rome which said: “The gondolas are about four yards from the side of the Fole. about twice their diameter from the sides of the gas bags. freezing on the propellers might be thrown off in tiny plecds of ice with such force that the bag might be cut, but when this was called to the atten tlon of the Italian constructors, e.t strips of fabric were fa Driven With Terrific No one entertained the ic ver, that great chunks of ice might | break off from the ship's structure and be driven with terrific force into the body of the ship by the propeller blade: . Similarly a year ago, an unantici | pated source of danger nearly caused disaster to the Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition. Motor trouble, exhaustion of fuel, a crash in an attempted land- | ing and other catastrophes were all foreseen: the thing that did happen— | perfect landing in clear water fol its immedlate freezing and locking in the two airplanes—was not among the risks calculated on \ The dispatch from the Norge at | Teler gives 230 am. Greenwich | sday (10:30 New York day- | light saving time, Tuesday) a the hour at which they were able, by ob- | servation of the sun, to confirm the that they were at the North | 2, 'he Pole. Schedule Was Beaten. Fredrik Ramm's dispatch from the North Pole on Wednesday gave the | time of reaching the North Pole as| 1 am. Wednesday Eastern | standard time). He explained that the Norge circled the Pole several times, so that the Norge probably arrived there at 9 am. Tuesday. New York daylight saving time, according campass and dead reckoning. but the sun did not penetrate the fog to per- | mit them to verify thefr position at | the North Pole absolutely until i p.m. Tuesday (Eastern standard time). | One surprising feature of the trip was the bettering of the proposed schedule. In his dispatch Comdr. | Nobile said that he expected to make the flight from the Pole to rmm.[ Barrow in 70 They covered in hours. | that distance in 46 hours, and made near Nome, in 71 hours. The time schedule of the trip is as follows by KEastern standard time: Left Spitzbergen 3 a.m. Tuesda: | the entire flight to the town of Teller, | | | | verified position Pole 9:30 p. Tuesday, arrived Point Barro 55 a.m. Thursday, arrived at Teller 0 a.m. Frid The total distance covered by the | Norge in the polar trip, not coun m:] the forced travel out of its course, | was approximately 2,700 miles. The different stages of the trip were made in the following approximate elapsed time Kings Ba the Pole, 750 miles, covered in 15 hours Circling the Pole and taking ob- servations consumed 2!z hours North Pole to -Point Barrow, miles, covered in 281y urs. Point Barrow to Teller, 700 miles, covered in 241z hours. Allowing two hours and a half for ling the Pole, the Norge's speed over the course from Spitzbergen to Alaska was approximately 46 miles an hour. Due to snow and fog, the pace from Point Barrow to Teller was less than 30 miles an hour. Amundsen Ran True to Form. In turning up unexpectedly after many persons had given him up for lost,” Capt. Amundsen ran true to form. le had been gone three years, and the world had long assumed him to be another victim of the Arctic, when in 1905 he arrived at Nome, at the end of his long explorations of and his voyage in the Gjoa through the Northwest Passage. When he came out of the Antarctic in 1912 with the news that he had discovered the South Pole, he took the world by surprise again. Last vear, 28 days after he and Lincoln Ellsworth had disappeared into the Arctic in two airplanes, they came flying back in one. The flight of .the Norge bisected the greatest unexplored region on earth. The explorers saw no land below ,them. They proved that this area, previously unknown, contains no great body of land. It may still be that small {islands or volcanic peaks are to be found in parts of the area still unexplored, which lie on either side of the plane's path. The unexplored area was some- thing less than 1,000,000 square miles in area. Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile sliced it in tw They ran an explored path through the center of it, varying in width from probably 10 to 100 miles, according to the clearness or mistiness of the atmos- phere. Allowing them a field of vision averaging 60 miles wide, they ex- plored an area of 60,000 square miles on the flight from the North Pole over 1,200 miles of unknown Arctig account at this Bank Loans are pass- ed within a day or two after filing a 'glicqt on— few escep- tiom" = MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made 1 n U.S. Treasury | lying north of the steamer track off | trip was made in six laps, as follows: | Laps. Rome to Pulham Pulham 1o Oslo Christiania ) 8 : Spitzenberk: | Mght. of the United States Army flier By the Associated Press worth and two others of th t had been predicted that moisture | a miles northwest | tic_viewpoint. | ol Y Point Barrow. | The entire trip from Rome, Italy, to Teller, Alaska. is the longest ever | made by a dirigible. The total dis. tance covered was 6,820 miles. The | n Teller [ Total miles 2 : PXE This is not the greatest human frplane trips have exceeded | it, notably the round-the-world Hlight | It. was hoped that the Norge might | resume her flight from Alaska, cross- | ing this continent and then fiying back to Italy from a round-theworld | flight, sut_dispatches from Nome in- | T dicate that it is to be dismantled in | ‘Alaska, apparently because it so badly riddled by the fiying chunks of | ice from the propeller | Copyrizht. | 1028, by the New York and the St. Louis Globe Democrat Party Leaves for Nome. May 15.—It was au learned here at 10 o'clock | tonight, Eastern standard time, that | in ship, the tops of the propellers being | ( | ‘apt. Roald Amundsen, Line 1s- | the dirigible Norge, were en route launch to Nome from They were expecte to arrive here tomorrow morning. ROME CELEBRATES TRIUMPH BY NORGE - Wife of Nobile Sheds Tears|. of Joy When Message Announces Safety. By the Associated Pres | ROME, May vous enthusi asm akin to Am first celebra tion of the armistice greeted the As sociated Press bulletin today which ‘ed that the Amundsgn-Elis-| obile dirigible Norge was in commun! i with Nome, Alaska,| after a silence of two days The word quickly spread over the city and many impromptu parades were held. A group of Italian E who h one crowd, wef and carried on tk excited, ha 5. The Norge's feat was hailed as Roman victory™ by newspapers, which issued specigl editions Despite the worry of the last two days, the Roms ever reaily dowbt i at the Norge would | arrive safely s trip over the top of the world. Although a cease less vigil was kept for news of the expedition, there never was any dis position to accept any but an optin bra Quickly following the Associated Press bulletin was an urgent wireless message from Col. Umberto Nobile, builder of the Norge and its com mander on its transpolar flight, to his wife, Mrs, Carlotta Nobile: “Arrived safely Teller, Alaska." the message read. Mrs. Nobile burst into tears of Jjoy, while eympathetic friends quickly read the remainder of the message to her. ““This trip seems like a dream.” Col. Nobile said. ‘“‘Kisses and affectionate greeting: ¥ PLANE IS FORCED DOWN. Two Army Aviators Land Near Fairmont, W. Va. FAIRMONT, W, —Lieut., C. W. Consland and chanic I.. R. Ellis, both of Post Field, Okla, damaged a wing of their machine in a forced landing Va., May here today. 'hey were flying from Langley Field, Newport News. Va., to Langlin Field, Moundsville, W. Va The damage was slight and the fiyers saild th would make temporary repairs and continue to Moundsville tomorrow. e Robert L. Steele Is Dead. ROCKINGHAM, N. C, May 15 (®). —Robert L. Steele, 73, widely known textile mill executive, died at his | the sl tathers from the B | years ago. a|a UYING BACK HOME BYRD'S BIG WISH Friend Hopes Flyer’s Exploit at Pole Will Enable Him to Purchase Westover. Hope that Lieut. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd's successful alrplane might to the North I will _enable the intrepld naval fyer to realize his life's ambition, to pu e Westover, his ancestral Virginia hot is expressed by ( Ralph Earle, U. & N.. a 4 id of Lieut. Byrd > hope was revealed in an inter view prinied last week by the Fve | ning ette of Worcester, Mass. Capt e is president of the Wor- cester PPolytechnic Instl Byrd's one gre s in the interv mily Westov which is B ames River a descendant I don't know ions of grand yrd who built Wes: He i it how many Lost Through Reverses. “The fine old mansion dates from the early 1770s. As time went on the family became impoverished and fina! Iy Westover passed into other hands Now' f the voung proper e fit to make the = in appreclation « intar aviator soon the latter n from the al Acaden Early Preferred Aviation. yrd had an ambitior rle in the W to go into aviation. I continu ter interview, remember that his wife and he came to our house and he discussed his plans with Mrs, and me. We advised frankly a ation. His wife, naturally, w sed to it. But he finally decidec this was his place in the Navy. That was only 10 In those 10 years he mas tered his profession, and this pola flight demonstrated that he was i deed a master pilot “There are two kinds of aviators. continued Capt. One is the men phlegmatic who procee E rely and take no un es. I ther who trust to thes lertness and skill to take them our of difficuities. Byrd is of forme: type, careful, painstaking, with no ) his make-uj touch of the daredev “In the Navy we have long rec nized these types. We have learns 4 man of the phlegmatic type e better aviator. As we watched our fivers we felt sure that certain mer could not survive, that sooner or later and d Some of than others. I longer recall one man who lived to be a {lieutenant commander. But finally he, too, was Kkilled. Byrd is not of that type. “Let me tell you what he did de manded the very highest type of irage, a greater courage than that required to go into battle. it In action s, in a sense, a momentary dange: . then again, one has to do i her he w to or not. But to hop off deliberately over the Arctic | wilderness for the North Pole. know | ing to a ce t any mishap to the engines death, that i brave deserve | greater | Sure He Reached Pole, There need be no apprehension as to Byrd's finding the exact Pole. M | guess is that he circled about it fou | or five times, making his observations | and deciding to a certainty his posi | tion, to be worked out by the exact laws of navigation. To show the kind f aviator he is, he concentrated n study of air currents and the varlous other phenomena which con front the airman. He developed in struments to give exact knowledge of whereabouts, among them an i strument affording _the artificlal horizon which must be used at the Pole in making observations by the sun. Peary used an artificial horizon of mercury. Byrd's instrument ac- complishes’ the result in another way but with undoubted accuracy. Sci- ence will accept his observations to prove that he literally did fly ovér mea of o home here today. 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