Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 7

ANTARCTIC REGION INCLUDES LANDS Early Geographers Proven Correct by Later Ex- plorations. Fgtors note. This is the eleventh of & geries of stories en forthcoming expeditions ©f expieration mte the Antarctic BY JOHN L. COOLEY. | of coast were added to the continental ! map, and men first learned how for- { midable a place Antarctica really was. | experiencing its terrific storms and | blizzards, seeing the towering ice cliffs | that guard its shores and watching the eruptions of volcanoes on some ol the | ranges near the coast. . | Interest in polar exploration then | switched to the Arctic. and the Ant- {arctic was all but neglected until the | beginning y Activity was then renewed vigorously | by the expeditions of Bruce, Drygalski. | de Gerlache, Scott, Borchgrevink, Char- | cot. Nordenskiold and others, who made | important discoveries and conducted significant scientific investigations on the fringe of the continent. More recently went Shackleton. Scott for the second time, Mawson and Amundsen to make important eontribu- tions to the store of information about this frigid land. And now the airplane it going Antarctica. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd. of the twentieth century. | BACKERS WILL SEE - BYRD SHIP DEPART | 24 Distingiushed Group to Sail Down Harbor and Return. By the Associaird Prass NEW YORK, August 24 —What prob- ably will be one of the most distin- to | guished gatherings that ever safled on & | barkentine will be aboard the City of New York when it starts fown the THE EVENING | edge of the Ross Sea late this year. tion to bring the Bremen fiyers out from_Greenly Island: Mrs. E. Guest, back of the Friendships flight to England; Amelia Earhart, George Palmer Putnam, Lincoln Ells- worth, Paul Block, James I. Bush, Otto H. Kahn, Clarence Mackay, Charles V. Bob, Bernard F. Gimbel, Admiral de Stefguer and Grover Whalen. Mrs, Byrd also will be in the party. ‘When Comdr. Byrd steps off the ship | in the lower bay it will probably be the last time he sees the City of New York until he arrives at his base at the He is to sail on one of his other ships, the Chelsea or the Larsen. is reached. The discovery that visitors have car- | ried away the larger part of 10,000 paper cups which had been especially made for the expedition was made by Comdr. Byrd when he went to get one STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. and may not | overtake the ice breaker until the base | of the cups to autograph for a friend The cups were made of special paper to hold both hot and cold liquids and had & picture of an airplane and the name of the xpedition stamped on the side. An order has been put in for 10,000 more. Presidents of the United States who | were married twice were Tyler. Fill-| more, Benjamin Harrison, Roosevelt | | and Wilson. Quick, safe, sure relief from painful callouses on the feet DzScholls | Zino-pads "= | FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928. 1845 4th St. NE. se Prices Prevail in Washington and Suburban Stores Associsted Press Science Bditor At o8 ubert Wilkins snd Dougies > o Wi - pt. S 0 N!:":f;fi‘x. ;:h:l;“x'::ep::\ct:e:: ‘x;“ George Jeflery hope. with its mid, to | harbor lnm&rrn; toward the open sea B = ts Srdl ahasen it | (2ke wnithe twork suRie iRt 8 (e T G i o e e aits~ "they ‘mde’ - yeod | Dlobuers Sipsed “oicving’ Sl AR, Nt e o v s DInE from the w.r vast Stretches of | the passengers will include many of the | f | P Gesert that could never be |leading financial backers of the polar reached with any other vehicle. expedition. of which the ship is the first (Coprright. 1998 unit to get under way. Byrd and his H e | guests will be taken off the ship in the . | lower bay and return to Manhattan Australia and the island groups off | The Lot Angeles League of Women |aboard the municipal tug Macom. those continents substantiated the hy- | Voters has written to Gov. Young urg-| Among . those invited are Mayor |} pothesis that the lower latitudes of the ing that he appoint a woman to the | Walker, Mrs. Floyd Bennett. widow of flflb'm Fond by no means occupied only | Superior Court bench | Byrd's pilgl. who died on the expedi- v T Barly sixteenth century maps extend- | ed the south polar lands as far morth as the Tropic of Capricorn. but this theory was quickly dispelled by the vovagers who circled the tip of South Americs. 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Before them will be unusual opportunities for achievements: behind them the records of other sturdy adventurers who in the course of the last four centuries braved fc» and storm and ocean to extend man's knowledge of his pianet. i Partly because it was made so in- | accessible by nature and partly because eivilization was alwavs at such a dis- tance, Antarctica was forced to wait for recognition. even for discovery. un- | til the lower Arctic regions had been fairly well explored. The earliest con- tacts with the island groups off Aus- tralia and southsrn South America were madr by the first circumnavigators of the globr and bv ships that were Blown by accident into Southern Iati- these movies are easily made by any one. See them on our screem. Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. 607-14th St.,, N. W. Peoples Hardware Stores | 15th and H Sts. N.E. Cottage City, Md. 18th at Columbia Rd. N.W. 3655 Georgia Ave. 713 7th St. NW. 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