Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1928, Page 5

INTARCTIC WASTE LAND OF NO LIFE Barren Continent to Be Sur- BITTER COLD MAKES veyed by Byrd Has Coldest Weather on Earth. BY JOHN L. COOLEY, Decembe non evidence, how- a was once a liv- Important fossil flora | presence of vegetable 1 e com f the ice ts have suggested and animals be- migration from | . the section yiel g in the forgotten nmr heyday of a plateau of the Indo- and West Antarctica 3 The struc- Andes, for the tarctica i\«'nd= he tip of South formations of nd beneath the in in the ranges of ushern continent is an ice- whose average eleva- timated at about 7,000 t is highest near the South Pole, where the mountains tower to a reported height of 15,000 feet The about 10,000 feet above retica parcel the vast ands.” but the nomen- is rather indefinite, since few se strips of territory have been superficially explored. Explora- niefly along the coasts. ivisions are named ‘: explorers who first sighted them Man has glimpsed only a little of the great that it embraces g near the mag shortly. It is known, however, party from the Carnegie Institutio the one at the right, 500 feet above the lhr g 1( ice Inrvwr BYRD' POLE DASH MAY COST MILLION Antarctic Expedition Will Be Most Stupendous-in Annals of Exploration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. 1st 15.—The Ant- arctic expedition of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, which starts from this port next week, will be the most stupendous ex- pedition in the history of exploration and may $1.000.000. ** the expedition’s headquarters at the Hotel Biltnore it was said the cost would be not less than $: 000, and before the expedition returns to this country may reach $1,000,000. Contributions reccived to date in- clude $435.000 worth of equipment and 237,543 cash. Costs to be met by the expedition amount so far to $343.000. | The total expense of Comdr. | North Pole expedition in 1926 was | $140,000 | The largest single item in the expe- | dition's expense account will be the|j salarics of the 26 men comprising the crew and scientists. For the two-year | period this will total $90,000. The next highest expenditure is for two airplanes | and spare parts costing $70.000, and | two ships, one of which cost $40,000 and the other $34000. Two airplanes, tractors, much scientific equipment and food have been donated. Arrested e police of a in sending children out charges of receiving impairing | woman. Children’s Village proprietor Queen: Winck vear irl, stealing questioned visited the said, they found dres stolen from anothe: T | Obregon, San Angel Court asking that his son Land. Enderby Glasses Fitted O Cotlere Eves Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 321 such - familiarities achlen Bldg. W. 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