Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1926, Page 19

502 UP New Apartments The most con- venient and prettiest rooms in Washington. Open Until 9 P.M. 1460 Irving Mt. Pleasant i ‘;i're‘_-&-aqf - ] Storage JE Merchants Transfer | andStorage Co. is & prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria, It Kills the germs. NORGE SAILED NEAR | TO POINT BARROW Scribe With Wilkins Explor- ers Vainly Tried to Signal Airship From Ice. BY WILLIAM C. LYON. By Wireless to The Star. | POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 29 (by cour Sotzebue, vin Seattle, June 6.—This is a story of bitter dis | appointment and of at least partial failure from a land which perhaps has seen more and knows more of those qualities than any other on the | of the earth. After two months of the most gruel fng grind_over 1,250 miles of har going trail we arrived at the top « the world too late to fulfill the most important part of the mission we were sent to do. We arrived at Point B | row in the late afternoon of May 13 | The date may explain some of it.” Our | failure, however, was typical of thi {part of the world. One may ma | fine plans for an expedition into the tie, but if ever there was a place where is demonstrated the truth of the ada “Man proposes, but God THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1926. conversation, and who, if he could have spoken, most likely would have been little interested in the ups and downs of polar exploration and polar flights. On the other side of my mind ran the pessimistic thoughts that it had been so long since I left a source of communication that almost anything could have happened, and in the meantime I was riding on the sled, iiling over the surface of the snow and ice covering the Arctic Ocean at the death-defying speed of three miles an hour. Gets Glimpse of Norge. I was gazing rather listlessly and dreamily out to the northward over the hummocky ice and pressure | vidges which stretch eve could reach. I : | spot low down on the horlzon. | spots appear frequently. They may | mean most anything. Sometimes the spot is a seal away out on the ice, sometimes igloo situated out on a sand spot toward which the traveler is making his way, and again it is but the broken edge of a huge pillar of ice on the pressure ridge. This ope, however, as 1 watched it did not seem to “stay put.” It ap- peared to move above and in a little while it seemed to be rising above the horizon. 1 could not with the naked eye see it move, but it ap- peared to me in the course of a few moments to be in a different location. I drew my binoculars from a bag on the sled and “drew a bead” on the spot. 1t was a dirigible. Plainly I could make out the cabins under the big bag. it is the first glimpse of an | | convinced him little load to carry. That looked fair, also the plant ran for about half an hour, but then lay down and died. Examination revealed a cylinder had been completely demolished. the one last chance and it was done. Here we were sitting on the top of the world and absolutely gnable tell any'one about it i other example of the fortune Arctic, if not of Alaska in gene (Copyright, 192 w St. Loul Democrat. ) YOCKVILLE, Md., June 8 (Spe- cfal.—F. Herbert Bonnett of Wash- ington was found not guilty by Judge Robert B. Peter in the Circnit Court here yesterday on an indictn charging him ‘with embezzling | from” William . e | proprietor of D The case was tried 4o ago and dge Peter reserv cision to consider a point Bonnett’s attorne E. dman Prescott and Walter Dawson of Rockville, namely, that the proof ad- duced at the trial as to Bonnett’s con- nection with the hotel was at variance with the allegation of the indictment in that it showed that he was a minor employe and not manager, as set forth in the indictment. Judge Peter de- cided that the point was well taken and freed the Washingtonian on the technicality. In announcing his decision Judge Peter made it plain that the evidence that Bonnett had r tained money belonging to Westlake 1 his de- ed by | ville 1 to | the pre It 19 but an. | was attenged by the largest gathering of the |that ! released on $500 bond pearance in the Police C trial. The June meeting of the Pooles- It was | ville Community League, which was held in the auditorium School and harles \ %ot heen pre {ing of the organization York Times ana | Welsh of the Rock | | | | lle the address of the eveni gram of vocal and in: and other features Irank 1. Davis, wutt, M as ryles, es Vir Ji . H mer, M. Dorothy g Helen Norris and ¢ much enjoyed Wor Mrs. Ida Elizabeth M wife of Claude E. McLa < accidentall She is surviv son and a_daughter. Reginald J. Darby and Mrs. an Asphyxiated. for their ap- “ourt. here for CAPITAL BEING BGOMED. Convention Bureau Is Drawing Many Sesqui Visitors Here. is being made by the Washington Convention Bureau at o meet. | through various organizations here . I, Barnard |and throughout the country to bring bar " delivered | ng, and a pro- of the Pooles- conducted by V. Woodward, | Bvery effort nt centennial celebration now being held rumental music | in Philadelphia. given by Mrs. | (. E. La Vigne, director of the bu- . Robert W. All-{reau, already has secured a number R of large parties who will visit Wash- Il by Hoa | Ington on their way to Philadelph Doris Bod- | Rajiroads and other organizations Fyffe, | taking 2 & o t=an o Moxley, | tKing advantage of the suggestion d all, | every inducement to visit Washing- Representative TLowery ssippi commissioned the Con- wughlin of Be- | vention Bureau with charge of ar- v asphyxiated | rangements for the “Know Missi d by her hus-| Better Train,” which will arrive here The fu-|in August with Tieut. Gov. Dennis cLaughlin, neral will be conducted at 2 o’c'ock | Murphree and his staff, officials from tomorrow afterncon from Pumphrey’s Bur Chapel, Rockville. Rockville Unfon ( <hlin formerly wa i, For man a resident of mete on Wi this count Tockville The ladi Church supper_in the of Tuesda wford h eveni o Fleze ne aM and at one time lived in uls the committee | | every county In the State and repre- 1 will be i | centatives of practically all the husi- ery. -“;?fi :I:‘:Enflu» organizations in Mississippi. L Miss Jollis of | This party of about 300 will o hington and | Washington for two davs en route to the Sesquicentennial exposition Arraneemeants will he made for a = hall_the | une 15, Mrs. || Demonstration h to Washington benefits of the Sesqui- | ey, | 5 to give the visitors to exposition | e oXtey; | to give the visitors to the expositio sippt | vistt | TAT T AT _%1 All this week! |1 Snow in Baltimore. | BALTIMORE, June 8 (# weather always is good for a linc. | vesterday in Baltimore. aercury was above 1 Gare sightseeing tour, luncheons and ban | Other parties are now in with the local convention bu- reau to make arrangements to visit Washington while en route to Phi delphia. 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Amundsen ] ssful flights over the Polar |, By "gther dirigible had any regions had been completed, t00 1ate | ;o™ 1y this locality, Now I also a of assistance riving | e ¥ (als o nee in gleing the | iew T was helpless to communicate b o e, e, 1 [ with 1, as we could not set our radio might be downhearted and terribly | Outfit for operation until we reached b ramed over it all were it not for | Polnt Larrow, then but a scant thirty the ‘philasophy T have picked up on | five miles away—as well for present the long mush through the frozen |Purposes might it have been thirty- North. Here one soon learns to bank | five hundred. i 7 AL | “hrough the glasses I watched the | heth Luclle Hamilton, # »” - ship come in toward the shore, I|SPring Md Watched the Wilkins Failure. s on a trafl probably not more than Held on Liquor Ci or the past two wee since our from shore and a big black | Gladys Luckett and Willis Tack |arrival at this topmost point of the |cliff ran a couple of hundred feet N0 | gon hoth colarel. e bomn Tack: | [North American continent, I have | the air directly behind me. I thousht | Gav’ night swhen o wquad ot connty | 115, Ures of an automoblle in which | | watched the hear ings _expert- | there_ might be a_chance of signaling | officers. led by Denuie chaet Gl | Kiehardson, Faust and the dog were | |ences of another failure, far more |the Norge if it kept the course it ap- | T, toward, visitad their homes at | \C1VINE his place. after Richardson | pigantic and costly than mine. 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PURR SILK el % - SPOTLESS TO WATER 1 deep | | | 4! i 3 | L] Everywhere | Coast, hoping o reach Herschel Hoped to Board Airship. ‘Gharses of violuting i | 1sland, at the mouth of the Mackenzie | [ ran on the sea ice, probably a HERiEdh ey (ete b1 River, and out through the great | quarter of a mile, while the big bag | £ them, and they v ~ | viver of the Canad orthwest to | came steadily toward me until I could | Edmonton and the x {read its name on the side. | “T"am leaving behind me the one re- | \aving frantically, wig-wagging with maining plane of the Wilkins-Detroit | a big red bandanna, as before I had | | holar expedition, with @ big crew of jor - Seattle last Februa Tien laboring spasmodically in the | {niundten and T had di | hope that they may b able to per- | i patine A0 ke Dick wme Bp With | suade the big bird to fly back over the | §io rope at Point Barrow if the flight Tondicott. Range to Fairbanks, thus ;8 FoPC ot o e Cccesaful. ending the big fallure. Since that discussion I had been (The Detroiter, Capt. Wikins forbidden by my employers to go up i neSat SEebR kS AN in any sort of aircra However. MERL Y e here W once when orders would WL LS o T s have been forgotten had I been able introAuetion, 1iturn to my own fall: (have beenttomeotien BEC L een Ut | ire, 1L was Jate in the arternoon of [ ST Sl G [V SN SO [ May 12, Outside we would call it e¥e- | ) nce to retrieve what I had already {ning. It was atter T o'clock, bat fom | feared was a slim chance at success. [ the light about us it looked to be after | Wy o ghijy came steadily toward me. Imioon. It was kit clondy,‘oramurky, | THe BHD €are SISl EIC e Te {but the visibility was fair. It 1 Lt g [ been more than two weeks since 1 had |} cqp in"the door on the side of the any word from the outside,; hag, above the little platform for e e ing. Probably that was an hallu- gt g | cination born of a great wish, but w we would Sold by Kresge 5 & 10c Stores | nation, set up our present purposes it served me and sllgoodretailstores. Anyretsilstorenot |and soon be in position to commun ¢ a few hundred vards E 4 Richard | vy Charlevoix Bld E A D = - w hundred yards to my right kins expedition. ot the line. At Skull Cliff she | her | Byrd had made his successful flight |A¥a¥ SO0 WE GRS neral direc. | within_ hail distance. Ve were|mqopar” where she eventually came | tee as the time of our arrival,at FPoint | 4 ¢ SEUCEC, & YO8 B tting off and { consoling conclusion that I was safe In an hour or so we camped for the obstacles to prog | next morning took up the grind which mdsen would hop off from Spitz- | far as we had originally planned it outside world that Comdr. 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Our troubles, however, sailed from New York for storage batteries and put us quickly Dergen before I could get to Point|mission, irreparably so until parts mistic guesses of mine patch up the power plant. After my only companion in ince was | To make sure that it would go we \ 4 G, | his dirigible expedition one | ¢ D-M MFG. CO. bag nosed abruptly downward, write eyewitness stories of the Wil |*01€ i She turned in again toward shore ittle did I dream then that Comdr. |, cav from me, lifted it again in the | [that Capt. Amundsen was virtually | pon O RN SFC o™ o nate | we ‘had believed was a safe guaran- | a0 1 was not me. but the | Optir ally 1 had reached the M e L | Radio Refuses to Work. out to cover had been me | night Jenst the middle of May before Capt.|top of the world. Our journey reach of communication the | were not. The power plant upon | around the first of April. in direct communication with the Barrow. could come from the United States. along over the Arctic t about a week we were encouraged | n Eskimo ¢ pealk | hooked it up to some oid batteri Top—Flow- ered chiffon dinner frock $29.50. Via B a Below, left —Floral pat terned geor- gette with separate scarf, $25. i ARTHUR J. SUNDLU. Treasurer ADOLPH KAHN President MEMBERS OF AMSTERDAM DIAMOND EXCHANGE ‘oAahnone. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AT 935 F Street Delightful Summer Location TILDEN HALL Hotel cut Avenue Park Trees 2 ROOMS suites Kitehen Elevator and afe <onihl 1L Clevelas THERE are patterned frocks and patterned frocks! There arc for example, many patterned frocks that depend entircly on the attractiveness of the fabric for their appeal. But even the most attractive fabric will lose much of its effectiveness if it is not cut carefully, styled clr‘:'m'l'_\' and trimmed artistically. ! JEWELERS ] ummer Home IN THE Mountains BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA. 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