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WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY. APRIL 23, 1928 " MINERALS MINED AT SPITZBERGEN Land Reached by Wilkins Is Rich With Arctic Deposits. Spitrbergen, landing place of Capt George H. Wilkins, has a unique in- terest because it is one of the few Arctic or Antarctic lands that are being made to yield up minerals to the tem- perate vones, according to a bulletin from the National Geographic Society “The northern tip of Alaska to which & few Government officials push each CAPT. WILKINS' OWN STORY ' [FiEl SONMAY JOIN | OF FLIGHT ACROSS ARCTIC (Continued from First Page.) We would have given much to have been able to sound thereabout. but our experience in getting off at Bar- row and the chance of breaking our | light wooden ski brought me to the decision that it was too hazardous to land for just one sounding. There were places we might have landed in an emergency, as we landed twice last year, but getting off would have been | very different matter. If we should see new land with extraordinary fea- tures and & perfect landing surface, a landing might perhaps be worth the risk Our engine functioned perfectly The sun was clear and well above the horizon. Frequent sextant observa- tions kept us more or less on our course, but even without those obser: tions, our ordinary boat navigator's magnetic compass behaved much in the ordinary way, reading within a few degrees of what we figured it should Summer, may m all too close to the | read at its position. North Pole for the average dweller of the warmer regions of the earth to live in unless he is pursuing sclentific in- vestigations.” savs the bulletin. “In Spitsbergen, however, which is 600 miles closer to the top of the world. several hundred ordinary men of | We were quite comfortable in the plane, The temperature in the cabin at the start had been 22 degrees Fahrenhelt. In 8 hours It had dropped to 10 degrees above. Ouiside it was 20 below when we started In latitude 84, longitude 75, we could Furope and America are making their | see. slightly west of north, dark clouds homes the year round while they strip conl from beneath the ice-covered mountains. It is excellent coal, too. and there is every reason to believe that the mining operations will grow steadily ltes back to the world's a sovereignty over it well worth claimins after it had been abandoned for gen- erations as a no-man’s land. Barents a Dutchman, discovered Spitzbergen in 1596, according to the usual records but the Norwegians claim that their seamen visited the islands at earlier dates. Henry Hudson. searching for a Northern passage 1o the Orient in 16( Jearned of the vast number of whales near the islands s a result Spitz- bergen's waters became for a time the world's greatest whale fishery “The Dutch were foremost in this development. By the time of America’s Revolutionary War, whalers from the Netherlands had taken about $100.000.- 000 worth of whale products from the | region. Catches became so great in the early vears of the exploitation that the ships were embarrassed to haul the | blubber home ‘A thriving ‘summer town.” Smeeren- berg. was established and flourished for & score of years. It was an anomolous | eommunity. a Dutch town in the frozen Aretic. with its shops. drinking places and bakeries, in addition to the oil re- fineries, cooperage establishments and smithies of the whaling industry. When the whales in the immediate neighbor- hood of the islands were destroyed and | the whalers had to go farther afield for their catches, Smeerenberg dwindled away. About the only reminder of this | one-time thriving Dutch community is the cemetery of a thousand or mors graves in the cheerless, frozen earth. Sovereignty Established. | “In 1920 a treaty signed by most of the leading European nations and the United States recognized the sovereignty | of Norway over Spitzbergen. The . is- lands have an area roughly of 25.000! square miles. about that of West Vir-, ginia. Its lofty, needle-like peaks are mantled aimost from bottom to top in| perpetual snow. and between are huge | glaciers. One great ice river, the Queen | Maud Glacier, is 50 miles wide. | “The ill-starred expedition of the | Swedish explorer, Andree, who hoped to | reach the North Pole by balloon, took | to the air from Spitzbergen in 1897. The fate of the members of the expedi- tion was never learn~d. A few message- | buoys dropped the day of the start were | found near Spitzbergen. No later word was received | From King's Bay. Spitzbergen, Comdr. Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett took | off for their flight to the North Pole that we might have mistaken for, or which might even have been, land clouds. But we assumed that Peary would surely have seen land if it existed in that vicinity Soon after reach- ing the position mentioned. the cloud bank off nt Land coast blanketed ice clouds and extended for many wnd ranged high Above Low Clouds. The machine, which by this time car- ried a normal load. climbed above the Jowest clouds at 6.000 feet. The highest banks were too high to climb over We dodgec some and plowed through others. We hoped to check our course by actually sighting Grant Land in the distance, but a heavy high storm ahead gave us an excuse to turn more southerly, and in & half hour. just 13 hours from stariing, we caught fleeting glimpses of (he tops of Grant Land Mountains peeping (hrough the clouds. Our course turned sharply there, The real flight of exploration was over But we still had 900 miles to go to reach our goal. Guided by the sun's position aud our compass. we headed straight for Spitzbergen. Through the clouds we caught glimpses of ice be- neath us. Our drift indicator showed a strong wind in our favor. On the far horizon toward Greenland a heavy stormy sky forbade a cross-flight (5 that ice-covered country. so we edged along the storm area. Our course here was almost due east. The wind was at our back ‘Three hours after sighting Grant Land one lone peak of the most northerly end of Greenland showed dimly in the clpuds far to the southward. Each hour Ben Eielson swung the xhip steadily on the plotted course, and as the course trended southward the wind swung. speeding us on our way. It had been 48 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in free air since heading out from Grant Land and flying close to 80 north latitude (300 miles from the North Pole, which was as close as we planned to go): in the cabin the temperature had dropped down to zero. It was then that hot coffee from thermos bottles, chocolate and biscuits were acceptable. Obscured in Clouds. The high northwest wind and low temperature were sure to lead to touble were it to meet the warmer open water and warm air at Svalbard. Sure enough it did. We left the clouds be- hind at Greenland. Within 200 miles of Svalbard high curling cloud masses :0se to heights that even our now lightly loaded plane could not reach Ben climbed the machine to 8,000 feet and selected the lanes between the feathery mas: Observations for | ground speed and drift were now no longer possible. We had to trust the observed sun’s position and our compass. | we could scarcely have come &0 far the air we had no means of checking our drift or accurately gauging the force or direction of the wind on the ground. We knew it was furlous and from siightly west of north, Marooned in Gale, For the next four days there was no opportunity to judge our position more accurately. High winds blew from the north-northwest, then changed sudden- Iy to southeast and as suddenly back to north again. I have never seen worse weather in the Spring in the Arctic. Drifts four feet high formed about and over the skis of the plane fortunately holding her fast to the fc otherwise she would have toppled du ing the gusts. We were housed com- fortably in the windproof snug cabin | waiting to form the Alaska Consolidated | of the plane, eating biscuits and choc olate, smoking the few cigareties we had and jently waiting for the weather to clear. We sighted Svalbard at 6:15 pm. lo- cal time. on Monday, just 20 hours after | leaving Barrow. We fust lan 20 | exploration, minutes later. It was not until Satur- day at 3 am._ that the weather was agaln fit for flying. We rose at th hour and cut and shoveled snowdrifts | for six hours before a clear runway for the machine was made. We planned o take the air and from an altitude defi- course. We made a downhill start smoothing the snow as much.as pose sible We were soon to find that our de- ciston not (o land on the pack ice with a half load was wise. The tanks now held about 20 gallons of gasoline. With that and two of us in (he machine she would not budge an ineh. When 1 got out and pushed the tail she started fine but 1o climb in as she moves was diffi- cult. The first time 1 hung to the step and tried to climb in. but soon fell oft Eielson, unable to see behind from the pilot's seat, thought I was in and took off. When he turned, he saw me forlort on the fce. He circled and landed slinging out a rope ladder. provided for such emergency Teeth Are Loosened. 1 decided to hang on at all costs. We started again. As the machine gathered speed 1 climbed to the tail and struggled desperately to gain the cdekpit. M hands, free of mittens to climb better soon stiffened with the cold. I grasped the rope with my teeth to help han® on Eiclson, feeling the weight on the | tal thought I was safe and took off, but | just before he left the ground I slitherc from the shiny fusclage, was struck by the tail of the machine and flung 1o the snow. When the snow was (¢ from my eyes and mouth I found tiat I had escaped with no more harm thau loosened teeth. As I now sit and write 1 can rock every front one with my tongue. 1 expect they will tightea in a day or so Eielson in the air soon discovered 1 was still on ice, so he circled and landed again. We decided on one more try. We had been running the engine for an hour. using half our precious gasoline. If we falled again Elelson would drop me a riffe. ammunition and food and go on alone, returning by boat for me. The next time I stuck one foot in the cockpit and pushed. sit- ting on driftwood found on the iand As soon as the machine moved I tum- bled into the cockpit, regardless of bruises, and off we climbed in the air . Since the sky had cleared we had been far t0o busy trying to geL away to think of our exact location, but soon after we circled a headland, having climbed to 3,000 feet. we could see in the distance the wireless mast at Green Harbor fce bay. We had been storm bound for five days on Dead Man's ! l;:xxlr #mbition to run for the Senate to \WILKINS EXPECTED Island at Green Harbor. Norwegians Hospitable, Herr Islen, manager of the Gieen Harbor radio station, and all other officials at the station and the neigh- boring mines treated us with bountiful hospitality. Our Norweglan pilot. Ben Eielson, had brought us safely through Our new Norwegian friends are friends forever, { Many observations of icg fnd meteoro- i Two 0Id Partners Await His | Return to Seek Mail Con- traot in Alaska. | | The Ohio campaign has been bitterly | By the Associated Pross. ! NEW YORK, April 23.—When Lieut { Carl B. Eielson returns from his flight with Capt. Wilkins over the “roof of the world” he will find two partners | Alrways, Inc. George E. King and Joe E. Crosson. | | who are waiting in New York for their alr-faring partner. described Elel-on as « pioncer in Alaskan flying who prefers commerelal aviation in the North to| ! In 1924 Eielson and King formed an | aviation corporation in Fairbanks, where | Eiclson ching English In the | high school obtained an experi- | mental award for carrying mail, but | the dog teams proved so much cheaper | Capt. Geocze M. Willans climbing into his plase befor | the idea was given up after eight flights. | ;, ( Durrow, from where he nitely fix_our position and choose our | The corporation now owns 3 of the | 10 planes in Alaska, and operates a sort of aerial taxi business The mail bid comes up again this vear, and the three partners hope that | | after they have completed their organi- | zation and acquired some more equip- | ment they n to secure a contract to carry the mail by plane. Flvine conditions in Alaska are ideal, King says. For seven months of the year skis are used. and a plane fiving | at a height of 3,000 feet can always | find a frozen river or lake on which to land in_case of trouble. A tempera- | ture of 50 degrees below zero seems un- pleasant to-the novitiate, but alr-cooled motors, cabin planes and warm cloth- ing solve that problem. 'PRIMARIES TO GIVE TIP ON G. 0. P. CHOICE | AT POLLS TOMORROW (Continued from First Page) vention, and a few less in the Demo- 'eratic national convention. In Alaska | delegates to the national conventions | | also are to be selected tomorrow. add- | Ing two mors to the Republican cnn-; vention wazed. The anti-Hoover forces have centered their efforts largely on this | Staie as the field o which to “stop™ | Mr. Hoover. Before the death of Sen- etor Willis, the favorite son candidate the lines were formed behind Mr Willis. with the Lowden, Dawes, Curtis and Wat-on forces backing Mr. Willis Mr. Willis' name still stands on the ballots. and his list of delegates still have him as their official firsi choice. | The Republican organization in most of the districts has been with the | Willis candidacy from the first. Carmi Thompson Is the Willis, and now anti- Hoover field marshal. The organiza- tion in Cleveland, Cincinnati and one Lor two other citles been pro-Hoover | and anti-Willis. | Back of the Hoover and anti-Hoover | contest in Ohio is the fight for control of the Republican State organization and much turns on the result tomorrow | Want Peace After Primary, | Carmi Thompson is credited with the vacancy caused by the death | of Senator Wiilis. 1t is predicted by Ohio leaders that once ihe primary| 10 QUIT SPITZBERGEN fight is over tomorrow, there must be peace or Thompson may fall in his ambition to run for the Senate, and WITHIN FEW DAYS | might even drag Senator Fess, Re- | bublican, who is seeking re-election and | (Continued from First Page) Is a candidate for delegate at large | | on the Willis siate. also to defeat next Basin, Wilkins and Eielson {afled to see November. ~Senator Fess has gone to | Keenan Land, Harris Land, the land flew over the s and Eielson landed. having contributed much to govern- ments of today. He declared all the basic laws of every civilized land was based on the fundamental principies of POINT AND FIN v 'u: FLIGHT GA“M[]R[ m FA[:E BOARD THURSDAY Policeman’s Trial to Proceed, Despite Absence of Blanton. Motor Cycle Policeman Dalion E Galimore will go before the polics tr board Thursday, despite the absence of Representative Blanton, one of the wite nesses and a principal fiaure in the case. it was announced today by Maj Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police Mr. Blanton now is en route to Texas 1o open his belated campaign for clec- tion to the Senate. He left Saturday night, following tne action of the House in granting him an indefinite leave of absence. The unexpected departure of the exan caused the Police Department to ndon plans for issuing a subpoena ordering him to appear before the hazardous | board to produce an affida Galimore is said to have signed denying that he stopped the Representat speeding on Sherman avenue, March Maj. Hesse said it would not be neces. ary for the Police Department t the affidavit to try Galimore Slanton’s _absence. therefore € 1o affect on the trial Charges of conduet prejudici reputation. good order and diseip! of the police force. and maki tement to a superior off preferred against Galimore a of his alieged conflicting n with respect to the speeding incident Besides the Galimore case, Mr. Blan- ton also left behind the case of Police~ man Orville Staples, which is now pend- ing before the Commissioners on an ap- peal from the trial board’s decision The Commissioners met today to review the brief filed in support of the appeal and indications are that the fate o Staples will be determined before thy end of the week. BNA BRITH OPENS PARLEY INHOUSTOY Jewish Mayor of Mobile 4 Given Keys to the City. Pastor Speaks. By the Associated Press, HOUSTON, Tex.. April 23.—More than 600 persons, including dele- gates from seven Southern States attended the opening session of a three- day convention of District Grand Lodge. No. 7, Independent Order of B'nai Brith, at the Rice Hotel, yesterday. When Maurice Hirsch of Houston, president of the District Jewish organ- ization, called tr= meeting to order. the elaborate program which includes auto- mobile tours, cultural advancemen lectures, banquets, balls and business sessions. got under way. Mayor Oscar Holcombe presented the keys of the city to Leon Schwartz Jewish mayor of Mobile, Ala. and warned him te “rule with care over Houstonians as mayor pro tempore.” Rev. Frank Smith. local Methodist pastor, gave the Jewish race credit for the Ten Commandments “It also i to your credit,” he averred, “that you are the only race who has In 1926y | Shortly afterward Roald logical’ conditions were afhed, 1200 Ohlo to east ? " 3 Amundsen end Gen. Umberto Nobile in thmll?n:lommh:;‘: :”:;.Ku n;'relge: more miles of Arctic exp¥ration done. | resentative 'rn’::m‘.."r"n'.‘-’rm.:'"\:i.u“f-g: B r"rd"mux"‘ Ou;nkA N !'flwfn.l‘." e Norge Jeft the same port for their | dark streak of aimost ice-free water | 2200 more miles of Arctic fiying cov- |led the Hoover speakink campatgn i :‘,:““"::'“‘)’m; s T e 1 ind c t T ip acrose the Pole o Alaska, ~Nobile bencath us. “We'figured i the wind TR roughly at | € State. has been in Ohio for several | hat which Stefansson thought he had 0 Induce Longress to | LODGE TO CELEBATE g . i 2 g € n our favor we shoul g y 8¢ | davs 5 58 in 1917 i expected tc arrive soon at King's Bay. | nearly at tie mountains on the north | times. but In a {riendly manner. Mere |~ On the eve of these important primary | ’"U'(,,'.'.'.: i slovy of Al fleht Raze Structure. 3 pi rgen. from Germany end of Svalbard, but even the highest We shall stay until some boat can take | elections, the Hoover headquarters here ystematically, Stefansson traced hi A SR | mountain tops would be cloud-covered | s and our frusty Lockheed monoplane | isued a statement claiming that Mr | couse and concluded that visibitity 2 NATIONAL CAPITA { We ‘could Dot go beneath ihe elouds | o more southern climes. Tomorrow 1 | Hoover will have more (han 500 vois Ald have allowed the fiyers to. see 109th Year of Order. L CHOIR | for fear of running into the moun- Wil briefly describe sea apd metcoro- |on the first ballot in the Kansas City :,'.'y or all of these land masses If they Renewed cfforts are being made by ! Dispateh to The LI T o ” tains. logical conditions and selentific and convention. It takes 545 voles Lo nomi- | had existed. cretary of War Davis and Maj. Gen.| CLARENDON. Va. Abrfl STS “THE REDEMPTION. Our engine had burned much gaso- Cmergency equipment carried. nate. The sume headquarters issued a | i % Jadwin, chief of Army Engineers, to in- | 109th anniversary of the for et i line. We knew we had g8s for 1W0.| gy 1y the first of & serles of storles ;‘lmc‘ 0t criticlsing claims of anti- Reported by Sailor. Y entation by Chorus of 50 Voices |70 trouble to locate it. To go too far | (KOG, Others printed as e | vember. A poll of Republican news- | Wi captain, who thought he had| Map shows districts in Greece where Adueduct Bridge. across the Potomac | Odd Fellows' Hall here with a special east, even if we landed safely, would s 9 papers in Kansas confirmed the Judg- | leen mountains a hundred miles north | many were killed and heavy damage RiVer at Georgetown, on the general program of addresses and enteriainment at Washington Auditorium. |take us far inland and probably mean | ‘“RINUENS SIS n A Toiled bidce | ment. given here, by Willlam Allen | of"hig ship's location. was caused by series of earth tremors, Sfound thal it is a menace to naviga- | features. : S & tedious journey on foot over moun- Burope by Ui vork White and Henry J. Allen. former gov- ™ Harrls Land was deduced by the late 2 tlon, | - Representative L. J. Dickinson of Gounod's oratorio, “The Redemp- | tains and glaciers. Too far west might " pomprihe (1 GRA Britai and | ernor, the statement declared. Dr R A Hartis of the United States | The old structure was condemned | Towa and Edmund H. Allen. past srand tion.” will be presented at the Wash- | force us down in the sea. Southward S e i) Willlam Allen White sald: “The ' Coust and Geodetic Survey from tidal | 30 DEAD AS QUAKES {many vears ago as unsafe for use and | master of Odd Fellows in Vieeinin Lo ington Auditorfum on May 28 by a|the clouds seemed lower, so we turned » | friends "of Senator Curtis first of all| Suservations. as an Island of almoet | {has not been in operation since the com- | among the speakers. Lodges of Accoting, chorus of 250 and an orchestra of 65,/ in that direction, hoping o spy moun- | resent the ~statement coming from | continental size, but it was never re- | CAUSE BIG DAMAGE pletion of the concrete Prancis Scolt | Dumfries, Alexandria and other e under the supervision of Arthur W | tain peaks and locate our exact posi- RURAL LIFE PARLEY Easiern sources thal Hoover cannot | Utied as having been sighted { Key Bridge more than five Years ago. | tions of northern Virginia hare heen Harned, director of the National Capital | tion. carry Kansas ws the Republican nomi- | ™Wiien Stefancon and Wilkins spent Annually since that tme, the War De- | invited to. send delimmn W Choir. A number of other singing or- PRI A [ nee. o veiie Ao 18is GaIY e the! IN CENTRAL GREECE partment has recommended the removal | Fuffoan head et ¢ sauons - ganization il joim with the cholr for | e e T Y TO BE HELD IN OHIO e are l for Curtis frst, last and Arctie, they found conditions north of : |of the dilapidated structure and the | rangements. = He Is being accisiod ‘oo ction o ost | all the time V| s | > o | » s B 3 s i st i 2 - - Mr. Harned said rehearsals would be- | needle-pointed, appeared bencath us. | M nomination. DU (o sy thet Haniey| Horden N e (Cmbhtied Hom FIEes Eugh) Tonle of $336.000 Tor ihe work ihvolved, | YViliam L. Bragg and H. T. MacFal gin in & few days. Washington has not | Down we spun through a break in the | under Curtis' leadership would not be | G, ot e T s ot | Maj. Somervell in his last annual re- | = - had 50 large & choral offering in 20 | clouds for a closer view. The air was Members of Parents and Teachers' for Hoover in November Is deeply un. | ficovered lan ness of o, of | papers, teachers and other intellectun! | Lore*uid that “the structure serves no | Maj. Scofield Transferred years, he #sid, and it has been 25 years | turbulent above the heavy clouds, and P § Just to Curtls. Why, if Curtis had not | Seimnssons - (hree sied = compailons | jyierests have formed a committee 10 |Corul purpose and Is very unsightly be- | ’ #ince any major chorai production has between and beneath them it was ongress Will Gather at |obliged him to turn back before he | .oiiec” funds for this stricken country rtad Maj. Frank C. Scofield. Coast Artil- ce an chorai | ’ | run, the very men whom he chose as could verify or disprove his belief | side the graceful Francis oy Lk et S til been given in full here boisterous. Our now almost empty Cleveland April 27, | bis delegates at lJarge at the national | prederick A. Cook, who in 1909 an-| Border Restrictions Dropped. Bridge ‘,l)m, w('-,,‘n,m 'g,:,’,"‘;,",,{;“,["‘ ",".‘, euo;’:’v, Rg;{:,”;’”f‘l ,;‘:"Bli',",' it st s ",“m"'”“‘} ",:' ‘f,,n"':'k,n“"m:' convention would have led the fight for | 1o unced that he had reached the North| Jugoslavia's solicitude is reflected . Fssvanverth, Kan. atd Srabes oo festival in 1882 and was dedicated 10| cabin tumbied and rattied, Wit noth- | Hoover, and the State would have sup- | pole only to have his clubms disallowed | further in action by the department of | The Suez Canal is longer than the | instructor. Coast Artiliers Diori: s Shote ooy ey | Cabin tumpled and rattled st mot kep| Because of the widespread desire on l"""'“‘ them. But make no mistake, | b "logeniisty und the public generally, | the interior of that country, which has | panama Canal, the former being about | Columbia Militia. with station in this ¢ % . the part of the National Congress of 'N¢ Kansas delegation is a Curtis dele- | Lo the definite discovery of land | relaxed its frontier regulationssand has | 100 miles in length or approximately 60 | city. The change takes effect on ¢ the work as “setting forth the three | my seat. FEielson's valuable training gation with . ol . . y . great facts on which depend the ex- | and skill then proved its worth. Wilh | Parents and Teachers to promote fur- :\rr" 'l[““lm\‘:lr‘ m.‘zl'glu'rml':::mhl::"‘m.1ulmul 84 degrees north latitude, and 105 | ordered that all Bulgariun immigrants | miles longer, according to the Liberty | completion of the present course at dursr gy . ,A o e. The late Ad-|be transported to the ‘interior of the | Mag -+ A dstence e Christian Church—Arst, | the plane nosed down and engine full | iher the work of the congress of rural | will compliment Curtis by piling up A | 48 west longitude. The late Ac P Magazine. General Staff School this Summer ::l,'mr:’a»;'x;l 2nd death of the Savior: |on, he held her as she bucked like OOITIRIteE. & var | Bisjority Tor Hoover, It for REOUSE feas :.““’.“ll ,;;,b,‘,‘.. x,.;‘ .).;‘A:,'\'l,::.,:;‘,.,‘,:l.:.,“:x"“l:: i?..‘“ff).lm.“( there may be no ‘m“,‘m: vd, His gloriou on earth 0 i 3 ¥ : staind. BlsoBverer o . i : glorious on earth, and ' a bronch | ral IMfe conference | son than to prove the loyal quality urg""m i o e than 100 miles| Light shocks were experienced yester third. the spread of Christianity in the |~ Close 1o the lce-strewn water the | has been called at | Curtls' leadershi " e 5 o | P you f ” | s C p. But there are other > 5 " day at several places that have hitherto SO HTOuEh the mission “of the | wind was furlous, Salt spray whipped | Cleveland for April | reasons; Kansas naturally likes “"!'z'f::.“ gl l"‘";'l'_lm"l"";i‘,‘;““,'""""‘"‘ Peaa SuoTaDt frods the Viiation. Thaty | { from the sea filled the air. Over the| 27 and 28, imme- Hoover kind of mun | f # ' were no casualties, as the people fled ! : . | land the snow drifted high and thick. | diately preceaing | £ s 7 Tiunee Cotreberien: | from thelr hagses at the Orst sign of & W. C. T.U. CONVERTION |20 ute s o e jand ] the convintion of Calla 14 “Grotesque. trewor. The® Panaguerichie, Ladiane e Ve 1. Ve | smooth patch of snow-covered land the national con-| “In & contest with Al Smith Hoover | Stefunsson said that the inference SO, AL RERRIC CRE, . by flashed by for a moment, then dead | gress in that city, | Would carry Kansas by 400,000 ma- | that none of these lands really existed. | SO0 b SFo ey © 3 TO BE HELD TOMORROW | ahesd » mountain loomed. With & | Miss Plorence i | Jority. Any Republican will carry the | which he drew from Wilkins failure to | YOStrdas . quick swerve it was avoided by # nar- | Ward of the De-|State by & rousing vote. This, In my | sight them, was corroborated by various | Re BBy row margin, We swung broadside o partment of Agri- | Judgment, will be the experience in the | partial explorations which he and others | Indicated the possibllity of a race be- presentative Nelson of Missouri| the wind and crabbed low over the | culture will serve | entire Midwest country.” had conducted tween (wo exploring expeditions in to Address Spring Quarterly water, Boon it appeared that what we | an chalrman of the | Former Gov. Henry J. Allen of the | The greatest scientific contribution of | South Polar regions--that of Wilkins diid | had missed was an istand. The| conference, which | Wichita Dafly’ Beacon, who was here | the Wilkins fiight, in the opinion of Dr.| with & scaplane aud that of Comdr Meeting glimpse was 0o fleeting to identify it | ] will bring together | 0 speak before the American Soclety | Isalah Bowman, director of the Ameri- HByrd with three planes 4 | " As we were running short of gas, | 3 a group composed |of Newspuper Editors, when shown the | can Geographical Sociely of New York, | Wilkins s eager to learn of there is The Bpring quary tion of | the safest procedure was 1o find the | 4 of Btate and na- | statement, said: "It is grotesque. Her- | was the fact thut he found no land i | an unbroken continental chain at the | perance | smooth spol we had noticed and try | tonal officers and | bert Hoover was born and bred in the | the Arctic “blind spot.” | Pole. From the Australlan side the on will be he 5 the Epworth M. | to land. I ssked Elelson (o do this ‘ committes chair- | Middle West and the natural feeling It was not Capt. Wilking' plan to | region has been seen. Capl. Wilkins | Church Bouth tomorrow, beginping | Practically blinded by the snow and| ., men of the nu-|which we have for him has been | fly over the North Pole and he appar- | plans o go aboard a whaler into Ross NAFEMILIC 10 o'clock in the morning ! oil on his windshield, he landed With |y, with educators and | strengthened through years of his efi- [ently did not, Dr. Bowman said in | Sea and past South Victoria Land 3 7o BABIES™ S Army Heads Renew Efforts eiven a God to the worid ~ Clarendon Odd Fellows Will Marlk ding of duce Congress'to make immediate pro-| l‘hr Order of Odd Fellows in America Keenan Land was reported more than S o . # vill be celebrated by Arlington Lodge, half a century ago by a New England vision for the removal of the obsolete | No. 193, I. O. O. F.. tomorrow night at e morning program will include | the same skill and perception With | jeagerg of y phase of the rural life | clency and his service to the American | statement lasued here, ‘The society was | There he and his pllot plan to launch voUonal wervices, 1eporis snd an ad- | which he brought down our plane In | pgvement, many connected with va- | people, Kansas in the past has fre- | aclentific sponsor for the flight their seaplane, and, taking to the air, | s by Repres Selson of Mis- | Lhe dark on the jce near Point Barow | riouy Government departments. ‘This | auently noted the Inability of some of | Capt. Wilking' achieved his object | swing toward King Edward_VII Land Saourt Chaplain A C Oliver of Walter | a year ago. The wind was such that | grguy will devote two days of considera- | these gentlemen who analyze her polit- | which was to fly over the “blind spot,” | Reed Hospilal will deliver an address in | the machine stopped 30 feet ufter the (ion 1o the problems of the rural home, | lenl situation.” taking & 2.300-mile swing over that | U l LD l N c \ Wise Broth Bthe sfternoon. Reports by the heads | skids touched snow the rural school and the rursl com- | veglon regurded ax most probable to \f others of various departments of the W. C, I potes R g | munity. Suve Muney wn Vour U. devotional wervices and programs | " | hold undiscovered lunds It such existed q e 4| ‘ . ’ We could see but & few feet on each | Among those from Washington who Workmen Get Cheap Seats. “He planned to swing to the south- | Bhwtics New y € music are included in both the morn- | will 8ttend are: Miss Ward, ChIEman: | Coneopondonce of the Associated Pross ward and penetrate (0 the area in which porio BuRNE Muteriule ) A ) fe e f " lside. An ice pick was handy in the d » ’,2‘,1"7," erhood peagrasns. Mrs ¥ e At W diseovered we were | Julis D. Connor, Better Homes in Am ROME.-Workmen in Fasclst Iabor [ Crocker Island was thought o exist,” iocs. pressgent of the District of | TREBAY” 3 BRANCHES U8 C Sisw Columiia W. C. T. 1 d on iend, fast in the ice, ‘The|lcs Inc. Mrs. Katharine Cook, chief ates have vt call on cheap seats | Dr. Bowman sald. “This was the land S\ Vi dve NI " Education, United p 1 ¢ 4 achine wae undamaged, We were Division of Hural at the new Royal Opers, that Peary thought he saw from the | e ou mlllrl»-"‘;,p‘;“ Coust-t-coust | Slates Burewu of Education; Dr. Lewl: | north end of Grant Land. It was the IPLAN FOR PUBLIC HACKS, | miu ows ooiea " we " haa boen 20 hours and 20 minutes In the wi | The thick drifL of the snow prevented 109 K to Be Designated at|us from examining our location. ‘It only thing W do wiks W bestl the snow Various Points In ity from our clothes, chimb ol Uk cubin of e [rEnt and awall clear wealin We were nol pduly tred nor P Kings Boy or Green Harbor Phe Board of District Commisisoners §s expecied Lo Leke sclion Lmoow on the recommendutions of Mal. Edwin B Jesse for Lhe establishment of 199 pub Yoo hack stands wl various designaved Jo gations which have been pending for thit we had burely enough gas o sl o the @ tor another buns AL L PUsgost & year, s Tt A [ bost snd reach some habitation or wall The proposed rication of e Dack oy the coust untl some bost came by tands wes 1nd0red by Ui s xicah com When we awoke from our sleep the penies sl & recent heaning belore Uie | gy shone dimly. We sppeared 1o be on o an dsland, Acrows he Open Weler 4 g o ingusteisl Division, United chiefly by Lhe Howl OWn- e hary distance we falnlly saw whial ers’ Associmtion, aysinst e placemnent | oged ke houses. But the Aretic mirge such sands wdpmoent | up resemble any known physical thing . ;W* conld ot belleve we were lucky enough o just bindly come within 20 | Congress Members Honor Guests, | OO0 10 0 Represniatives Meswaln and Fulmer | Bnow drifung in the high wind sow of Boutn Cerolns wil be guests of | obscured the horion, bub the sun could Bomor &% & Juncheon of 1he Weshington | be seen, Two observations gave us ol Chapter of the Clemson Alump Bdxes Mors Wi e ks Linssler, could not be tar away. Our fear was | worst we might walk or construct @ | | phnye curious tricks with objects, It is axl Comps 1 casy W dmagine thet shadows thrown Az~ | position near the end of King Oharles o e Ciab tomorrow, ) loreland, not far from - Green Harvor, | imported from Sictly, bat 1t 15 possible Ul he ul we fgygied by desd reckoning that | to grow thyee or lflx CEORS & YEBL, |1t Alderman, chief, Adult Education | United States Bureau of Education; Dr C K. Waller, surgeon, United 8t | Public Health Bervice: Grace ¥ | shuger extension home ccong United Btates Depurtment of Agricul- e, Dro € J, Gulpin, economist in charge, Farm Population and Rural Life, United States Department of Ag- | |riculture: Dr. Harey B, Humphrey, se- wior puthologist, Ceresl Crops and Dia- casen, United Blates Department of Ag- rieulture; A, B, Greham, i charge subject matter speciulists, United States Depurtment of Agriculture, Adelaide 8 Baylor, chief, Home Economics Edu tion Service, Federnl Bowrd of Voew- tonal Educktion; Ellen N, Matthews | Btates Children’s Bureau; Mrs, Arthur 1O Watkius, executive secretary, Na- Uonal mgress of Perents and nehs Prances Hayes, extension secrotury, Natlonal Congress of Parents wnd Tenchers; O H. Benson, dirkelor, De- prrtment of Rursl Beouting, Boy Seouts of Americs . Parming 18 done on novel lines on the Ixland of Malta. The soll has 10 be | 2 L s reglon which MacMillan sought to pene- Mother of Wilkins, |t ome yers laier Nobile to View Area, 8 1 Exvl wer (hix wren, and 115 populurly knowi | . » X 1 #an Lhe ‘blind spot’ of the Arctie. The [ Scored ',V ‘xl’ or water s relatively shallow, and for thi reason sclentists thought It more ke Iy than any other o huve land, Capt By tha Aaciatad Prosh, Wilkiny' report that he found no land AIDE, Australin, April 23 don’t say n but wald Mrs. Wilking, old mother of Capt, Ceorge H. Wilkins, s she talked with MAY BRAVE ANTARCTIC, vivacily today despite her years of h 5 grewt polar feat, B very ‘glad George has done | Wilkin' Friends Say Explorer Plaws wht he net out o do" she con- tinued with bewming face. 1L In 20 Pilght iw-Bonth Poine Roglons, years since he Nrst went away, and | LOS ANOELES, April 23 (). The he has never lived al home since. | Los Angeles Examiner, in & copyrighted he wan n good | article today, nld that Capt. Wilking' son, kind both in words and action, | next great Alght would be over the un- He has always been n great reader | charted wastes of the Antaretio and made more of whal he learned | J. K. Northrop, engiweer who de- in & Htle country achool than many | signed Wilkina' plane, and a few asso- men have been able to on college | ciates In disclosing the plans sald they educations were far enough advanced (o make 10 this, perhups, Hes the greateat sclentine contribution of the expedition Mrs, Wilking 1s the mother of 12 aln that the fiyer would be back in chpdrep. . et . L0 YJAGIEN 10 TOUN OF five Weeks. Thiy S92 Ga AN W 8(), l'l'l)llil Of SUCCESS| Nobite ntends to take his dirigible | Decorate the WiEh wne ol these Ladders his definitely clenred up this polat, 1o | f8ee us about & window sereens & “K st /| J. Frank Kelly, Inc. Lamber and Millwark North 1343 2101 Ga. Ave. emrsanss—————— \‘ PHONE WEST Switehhoard Service