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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1926. g e whose name was emblazoned across the fusilage of the giant monoplane,-which Mrs. Nels Sorensen, U. S. N.; Dr. and Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Herbert M. and Mrs. H. C. Richardson, Maj. : Hi & - Nold, U. S. N.; g s 3. Porter, Commisst d [H. Gunnell, Maj. Mme. : GH"-[] HE AI-'I'H 'I'ES]' ering, porhaps, was Anthony Tokker, | THE MAN WHO SHOOK HANDS WITH THE PRESIDENT—By WEBSTER. |§04, U- S N Aseietant Attormey | ten toudoiphe " oo et 0% | e, s 2l el i was depicted gliding over the awe- some polar ice pack and the more . level ice tlelds to the north. | Two women, whose interest was . crapt from start to finish of the cere- | s. Robert E. Pea District Department to Aid Parent-Teachers in Cor- recting Defects. Plans for a concerted campai Summer to encourage parents en in the | * the first time in Septem- ber to have them examined and their ical defeets corrected, were dis- 1 at a conference today between i Officer William €. Fowler and t_committee of the District Congress f Parent-Teacher Associations, head by Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, its president The movement will be pushed vigor- v of the North of t sident Coolidge and Comdr. Byrd pay tribute to the feat of their loved of s of the Pre dent, “‘achievy only veary month vel over the frozen arctic ) wastes.," President Coolidge handed Byrd and | Bennett the medals with the following vemarks: 1 ““\Word that the North Pole had been reached by airplane for the first time was flashed around the globe on M: An American naval officer had tflown over the top of the world. He had attained in a flight of 15 hours and 30 minutes what Admiral Pear also a representative of our Na weary months of travel over the frozen Arctic wastes. The thrill fol- lowing the receipt of this news was e It achieved 17 years before, only after | REALIZE THAT THS AETUALL reous tribute to a brave| |[HAND HAS ACTARY) STEP ALONG | HAD A LITTLE CHAT WITH CAL YESTERDAY WHILE Mrs. C. C. Abbot, the superintendent of ‘public schools, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, and Mrs. Ballou, and Dr. L. S. Rowe. Envoys Are Present. The Brazillan Ambassador, the Itallan Ambassador, the Minister of Hungary, the Minister of Switzérland and Mme. Peter, the Minister of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Minister of Poland and Mme. Ciechanowski, the Minister of the Dominican Republic and Mme. Ariza, the Minister of Guatemala and Mme. de Sanchez Latour, the Minister of Bulgaria, the Minister of Venezuela, the Minister of Lithuania, the Min- ister of Bolivia and Senora de Jaimes Freyre, the charge d' affaires and Mme. Chevaller of Panama, the Netherlands charge d’ affs , the charge d' affaires of Paraguay and Mme. Ramirez, counselor of the lega- tion, Mr. Lundh and Mme. Lundh of Norway, Comdr. Silvio Scaroni (Ttallan air attache), Mr. and Mrs. or David egation of Salvador), Mrs. S. Okamoto, Japanese embassy; P. O. de Treschow, Royal Danish legation; Capt. E. D. Wiilm Lord, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles McK. Saltzman, Rear Admiral and Moffett, Rear Admiral and Mrs. . Eberle, Maj. Gen. and sker 1. Bliss, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Campbell, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Bloch, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. C. L. McCawley, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. H. C. Smither, Rear Admiral and Mrs. W. L. Capps, Rea iral and Mrs. T. J. Senn, Rear and Mrs. Gregory, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Stitt, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John L. Hines, Maj. Gen. Creed C. Hammond, Maj. . and Mrs. William J. Snow, Maj . and Mrs. Mason M. Patrick, Maj. nd Mrs. Eli A. Helmick, Maj. . Frank McIntyre, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.. J. A. Lejeune, Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard. Rear Admiral and Mrs. J. BE. Beuret, Maj. Gen. Frank W. Coe, Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, Brig. | Gen, George A. L. Dumont, Col. and Mrs, Willlam J. Donovan, Lieut. Col. F Greene, Comdr. John Rodgers, . and Mrs. E. M. Pace, jr. Comdr. and Mrs. Kenneth Whiting, Comdr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Zeigler, Comdr. G. L. Smith, Comdr. and Mrs. stapler, Comdr. and Mrs. J. Willlam E. R. Covell, Maj. and Mrs. Joseph Charles Fegan, Capt. and Mrs. W. S. Crosley, Capt. and Mrs. G. Lincoln, Capt. F. L. Sheffield, Capt. and Mrs. W.'R. Gherardi, Capt. and Mrs. Edwin T. Pollock, Mrs. Emory land, Capt, and Mrs. E. L. Bennett, Capt. and Mrs. F. L. Oliver, Capt. J. R. Y. Blakely, Capt. and Mrs. Harry A. Baldridge, Lieut. Comdr. Pownall. Lieut. Comdr. F. W. Penno: Capt. and Mrs. G, E. Gelm, C Mrs. Puleston, Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. V. Cassard, Capt. and Mrs terfield, Ijeut. Comdr. D. Royce, Capt. | Kellogg, Tdeut. and Mrs. C. Cham pion, jr.; ILieut. and Mrs. Reichel- derfer, Lieut. and Mrs. H. L. Thurber, Lieut. Edouard Henri Gripon, Lieut. ¥. H. Conant, Lieut. H. F. puncill, Lieut. J. N heehan, Lieut. ond Mrs. A. 1. Price, Lieut. O'Connor, Licut. Richardson, Lievt. R. & y, Licut. Benjamin H. Rigg, Lieut. and Mrs. Schoeffel, Lieut. and Mrs. L. W. Curtain, Lieut. and Mrs Mullinnix. If you need work, read the want columns of The Star. the g - FWAS TN WASHING [- WAS TN 5, and Dr. Fowl s | man for @ daring feat, We, his coun- | [(SHAXER TS : or Aro H whole-hearted o of trymen, were particularly proud. HAMO 2 z Health Department. — All of the de-| This man, with a record of distin PRESIDENT OF - Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, tment's ehild hygiene centers will | zuished Service in the development of | The UMNITED . Senator and Mrs. Andricus A. Jones, examine the pre-school children free |aeronautics, had by his crowning act $TA‘TE" € o nator and Mrs. Robert. S. Howell, of charge, the health offi pointed { added luster to the brilliant history | ) Senator and Mrs. Frederick N. Sac! wit, but no treatme will be given. [of the American N: ett, Senator and Mrs. Carter Gliss, statement showing the defects found “In no way could we have had a - Senator and Mrs. id Reed, Sen- will be given to parents, and they will | more striking illustration of the en- - Z ator and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, Sen- 3 7 This new beauty ie urged to have them remedied. tifc and mechanical progress sinco 7 4 T 4 Yy |ator and Mrs. Guy D. Goff, Senator %o in pabfler.tdxealz;q 6,500 eteein the year 1909. Then Peary’s trip to lam MeKinley, Senator and Mrs. | or blonde mately 6500 children will enter the néws of the achievement reached the 7 ' : Ernst, Senator and Mrs. Joseph E. . $5.00 ublic first time at | outside world. The naval officer of Z = . Ramsdell, Senator and Mrs. Jesse H. e new term, iShE e an<invention 7 5 o Loz p) ) | Metault, ‘Senator and Mrs. William wrt their school d his way fro s i s o s 1 his way from his M. Butler, Senator C. C. Dill. ditfon.” she declared. (naval attache to the Irench em- : Bay, Spitzbergen, and XY/ ‘ " > .| back again in less than two-thirds of Z : Members of House. I'he best way to bring this about is | o g8y 5 And. a few hours later the 3 Representative Grant M. Hudson, 18 Lo e their children ox | radio had announced the triumph to F.i§ T Hiveenentativet € A Woodwan, s D ot T the four quarters of the earth. Scien — Representative and Mrs. Robert C. The pre-school child is the | it Fo% fectod By this or § : , ectelshunian Melnssbut oF | 00 IS (D EOcE by TEE NEP. BEEN UP To WASHINGTory 1 DON T THINK. THE AFTER A NEAR OR TWO o | |Simmons,” Representative ana Mrs. et e i PRESIDENT WOULD HE GETS A FROCK COAT A George C. Peery, Representative and s difficult to bring ps s 2 Ve i et St 5, Parcnts 10 8 | tive of this crganiztion, were in no AND 1 HAD A LONG-, HEART e physical examina: |courage of the man willing to set PRESI0ENT. GRE VILLAGE fathers come home and object. Feature Line Shoes for Women Robinson, Representative nd Richard Yates, Representative Think of them as the famous Mrs. Ernest R. Ackermar. Repre- “35-53” Shoes! ‘35" is the number sentative and Mrs. . IL Foss ALL AROUMD SAGE Arnold, Representative and Lloyd _ Thurston, Representative George Holden Tinkham, Representa- tive and Mrs. W. M topresentative and Mrs. forth on such a great adventure in \WEEKLY e oo the unexplored reaims of the air. But, Ixamination Centers Listed. we must not forget, nor fail to appre- ne centers at which | clate, the vision and persistence which s will be given follow: [led him ultimately to achieve the 2 dream of his Naval Academy days. He never ceased the effort to prepare southwest, 1205 | himself mentally, scientifically and ‘vlvania avenue south physically to meet the sapreme test. vland avenue northeast, Hospital and Children’ wo other centers w opened after July 1, Dr. Fowler an- nounce One will be Anacostia and the other in Brightwood. Mrs. Rene Rauscher, chairman of pre-school health committee of e John Eaton ¥ wher As- sociation, and Mrs. Harry N. p \body-Hilton rent-Teacher ition attended the conference I These two of fowler was advised, ady mulate inter- His deed will be but the beginning of cientitic exploration considered diffi- cult of achievement before he proved the possibilities of the airplane. “Lieut. Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd, your record as an officer and as a man is illustrious. You have brought things to pa It is particularly gratifying to me to have the privilege of w oming you home d of con: gratulating you on behalf of an ad- miring country, and to have the honor of presenting to you the Hubbard medal of the ional Geographic Society. / I THORITY OM - Mrs. Carl Hayden, Representative pn,_that tEds, A1 small degrec responsible for success. = LW TH THE || REPRTER | \wanT mg To REPEAT BECOMES AN AU Daniel Reed Anthony, o T e N aReat ekamini | qrolVe cannot but admire tho superd | T HEAR T T e o Boy || FoR THIS BUT — ] POLITICS AND A GENERAL, | | (ol et An oy it > 51/ Representative and Mrs. Henry 1T Rair Representative Allen Towner Treadw: Representative and Mrs. | James V. McClintic, Representative and Mrs. Anthony Griffin, Representative Morgan G. Sanders, Representative James P’. Buchanan, Representative Roy 0. Woodruff, Rep- resentative John Charle thicum, John Philip Hill, 10 Mrs. Rose and M of styles you can select from, and “53” is the number of vears that have witnessed Satisfactory Service to all the Family! ... .. ... in their pective tel And T ce further pleasure in pre- | every man in the Navy was proud|that the Pole area is a level waste of | secretary of State and Mrs. in the necessity of ph senting vou, Mr. Floyd Bennett, avia- | of Byrd and Bennett, and “feels that | broken fce, covere with snow, “sub ant Secretary of the exa tions for children of pre- |tion piloty U. S s success is his success.” The |stantiating Admiral Peary’s descrip- | Robinson, the Secretary to e school age. awarded to you by the M - | Secretary paid particular com- [tion of it.” He said that he dozed off | dent and Mrs. Evere Gt b e graphic Society for your distinguished | pliment to Comdr. Byrd for over-|once on the return trip, to the drone |S: Justice McReynolds, Anthony Sl L = service in a ing and in flving to | coming the many difficulties of n: of the three motors, and that he had | gner of the plane used by A S ks 2 ks BYRD IS ACCORDED orth Pole with Mr. Byrd.” gation involved in flying to the|to relieve Bennett several times when | C: 3 Mrs. Edward Stafford L kg & Bionde Kid, lizard . Grosvenor, in his introductory | Pole, and praised the part played by |the latter, too, got drowsy | (nee Peary). daughter of the discoverer| o e e trim; Patent, g TR'BUTE OF NATION statement, pointed out that, by unani- | the Geographic Society’s sun com- | The film, taken as part of the official [of the North Dole. . lizard trim. Others mous vote, the board of trustees of | pass in this connection. reccrd of tha fight. depicted the prog-| Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd, ir.; Dr. g the National G i on |, “I was only one member of the ex- | rocs of the expedition from the ar-|Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the 3 Gt e | . y -/ - + €88 e el 1tio! o - H 3 1 an, -J ors. IN CEREMONY HERE | venais o it i g pedition,” Comdr. Byrd said, in Heal of the Chantier in Kings Bay to | Natlonal Geozraphic Soclety, and Mrs.| 1op e % SHson } Curry, Fritz Office Efficiency starts with a Cool Suit of Palm Beach It is hard to believe the man exists who approves of all the modern office equipment— dictaphones, multigraphs, automatic type- writers, and the like—and then arrives at his office, with the thermometer registering 94, wearing a heavy woolen suit. 2222 7 7 ik decided on the aw = cepting the Hubbard metal. In be-|the return from the Pole. Gresvenol John Oliver La Goree. | Represents S. 0. Bland, nt- | “We have assembled,” he said, “to| half of the other members, I wish to | The scenes around Kings Bay prior | Vice pr of the tional | 4yive Toatherwood R == = [welcomel iome anditelicltate o mem: | exsrassiithele jappresiation for, L8 froithe talie off, wero flimeq by regulie c Soclety, and Mrs. La|ative Niever J n, Representa- | " vi er of our society whose Arctic ex-| great honor, made doubly great be- |pews cameramen, but the actual pie- | g Joy. Dr. J. Howard a ) by a small group of spectators, Which | plorations began under its ausplces | cause of it having been conferred by |tures of the great polar ice pick nd | Gore, Dr. and Mrs. C. Hart Merriam,| voatiie e R i A ents Smuel |and who now returns from an achieve: | your hands, Mr. President. O rola™ 1toalf ere talen by Byrd|Col. and Mra. E. Leater Jones, Mr.| rasentative Hheraval, atial to Secretary Wvilhny, |ment that has filled the hearts of all |* Byrd took occasion to thank all|from his plane. The “Pole” proved to(And Mrs. Frederick V. Coville, Dr.|pherson, Representative 0B xiimber. of selatives AnSIENmR ] s ML B d1d oy | who helped him in undertaking the |pe hut a stretch of snow-covered ice,|and Mrs. John Foote, Commissioner| Carss, Repr ative and e ot Sngimauding | ~TFor your Information, I would state | expedition, particularly the National|rent by great fissures, which showed | of Education and Mrs. Tigert, Mr. and Holaday, Represen Coik Dom Bion | s of =it | oot dhie necorls of hisEbL, @t MK (| GeographicBdLisiy e e dark against the. whita background | Mes. J. W. Crabtree, Dr. and Mrs.| D. Letts, Sentative SiNhbrn G Wb Aviator, ginla, | request, have been examined by a|the wealthy sponsors. who ass from the 2,000-foot elevation of the|Charles D. W €. J. Bell, Miss| Anigust H. Andre: Representative rothers of the aviator. " commitiee of the National Geographic | in°the financing. He said the suc- [gmort B0, S “ACh CHIA P Crg ex. | Ruth Jones, Robert' Bunibete. Thhas orfum, | Society and found to have been care- ot the filght was due in areat | mononi ware fragan over with thinner | Albert Frandis, U. S. Andiew G R where they entered so quletly onto | fully and accurately kept. The rec: | mensure to the experionces mained | Doiled, Yere frozen oyer i o mor. | Hmm————— the platform that for a few moments |ords, in the opinion of the committee, | a5t year in the Arctic with the |en e Aon thedmirtace tithe foe were | the audience was not aware of their | substantiate in every particular thé | Navy planes. Five members of the | beared 2 the, SUFtace oh iy Hotel lnn .(\ [ ] appearance. Those ushering Byrdand | claims of our member that he at | last " expedition were regular Navy Fohowing the pletures, which_con- Jlfo a d ennett to the pltform and sitting | tained the north apex of the globe by | men, e said, and 50 per cent of the | cimged the program, Byrd posed dgain 604-610 9tk St. N.W. ¢ with them fneluded Secretary Wilbur, | airplane on May 9, 1926, the first to | ramainder were former Navy or ma- | and again for the Acore of news pho Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 int Secretary Robinson, Capt.|reach the North Pole by aerial navi-| rine men. e who Jammed one end. of | , 7 rooms 86 weekly: $10.50 rooms, 38: ardl and Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, | gation. i i | The sun compass was fnvaluable | ¢ja platform. Many persons remarked | $1f ath 1gict: shower, and lasaiory, $10 dent of the National Geographic| Secretary Wilbur paid a tribute 0| quring the fight. Comdr. Byrd stated, | that the explorer looked like a Yeal il the courageous litile woman.” the | holding up one ot the compasses and | movie actor. his handsome features ) few moments later the Marine | Wife of Comdr. Byrd, “who risked all | explaining briefty its operation. ile!gtanding out strongly under the glare Band Orchestra struck up the familiar | that she held dear, With so little to | o\Uined sketchily the progress of | ot tho mre lights, - ail to the Chief,” heralding the |£ain, had he falled.” He asked it Mrs. | tho fileht from Kings Bay to the |COr the Or¢ HEnts. ' resident and Mrs., Co Byrd would stand up o that the au- | pole. and told of the anxious hours Guests at Reception. aUhenyou Lo John and Everett |dience could see her, and prompuy | cpent after discovery of an ofl leak | Among the distinguished guests in i hi O e s e o 1 ot | nionclorih samatovs. the audience at the Washington Audi-| think of 1‘)‘1‘l \l":l"orfum el\r{'{;;;\l‘rrl“l(l‘l‘i;millii:“(p\r |‘-r'(:);‘ “It was the big moment of the |torium last night for the reception| el e e ageeation that ~mavbe it | flght” Byrd told his audience. | tendered Lieut, Comdr, Richard E. ; : F.| (Goolings!|theroties Hy 5 | “What were we to do? We decided | Byrd, jr., by the National Geographic O acGollilge (e ot rom o DoUld it Sovm Mo |tofeat toishe olaintat ania thenide-1| Sooiatyiwere: MORRIS PLAN BANK of the Pole by air would |this juncture, however, and the audi- | ;’gflf,d:};}'fls‘g‘uomf‘*‘:i"i The crowd ap- “.f)’;:;fl’d‘:;"lw‘fii‘n"‘fl.““‘c""\‘;gfl(‘hfli‘i'“r;- Under Supervision U. S. Treasury i e o ite SPRprtunity | P Commenting on the motion pictures | Herbert Hoover, the ~ Postmaster 1408 H ST. N. W. tor, ; of the flight, the aviator pointed out|General and Mrs. New, the Under-| is deed will be but the be it . b T When Comdr. Byrd came to me it of achievement before and requested leave for his polar Proved tho potsibiitics of ihe aie, | liEht, T asked him just two pertinent | e Tunibilitles of Mr. Wilbur declared. “The it ione . ‘Are you married? and he i e sajd he was: and_the other question S il oo o (0o ‘Is your wife willing that you : lights turnéd the into bl il e i e light of midday and the group of | e B0 ) S or £0 mews photosraphers. huddled | that he thought it was his duty to go. 10 the right of the platform, and even | SO I approved his request.” There Do, and €¥en | was a prolonged outburst of applause ra pit, crystallized into fever. | 1D tribute to Mrs. Byrd at this point. ish action. Arrangements had called Witbur _declared that for but one photosrapher, but when the time for work e it seemed | t all the movie v and “still” m g @ ists in the v omgregated. President Coolidge was generously | - . indulgent tc the camera- Yt - Aling By < after he had bt R at ir v that other . ses mis snapped. Mrs. Cool- Al a as proud of Byrd and Bennett s though they we! her ] M own sons, and she beckoned several Ty (d umes to the latter in an effort to get l il . 9 him to stand out more prominently z “in the limelight.” . These formalitics over, Comdr. Byrd ve a brief description of his flight ‘ §n connection with the first showing i of the official motion pictures of the expedition. These pictures, notably One of the many nd featuring the “movie ) wpex of the globe, were marked new Palm Beach ¢ frequent outbursts of applause. ' i One of the proudest men in the gath. Trousers. Patterns now in 7 stock. 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