Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1929, Page 4

SHIP FILIBUSTER PLAN IS CHARGED Senate * Group Seeks to| Wreck Bill, Oddie Declares in Address. A group of Senators is planning a flibuster to wreck the pending cruiser bill in the Senate, Senator Oddie, Re- publican, of Nevada, charged last night in an address before the American Bo- clety of Naval Engineers, held st the Willard Hotel. A doctrine of destruc- tive pacifism, being preached by a num- | ber of organizations, the Senator blam- | ed for the impending filibuster and ex- | pressed the hope that “correct informa- | tion” would be conveyed to these Sen- | ators to avert a filibuster. Secretary Wilbur, another speaker, | fnsisted that the Nation needs an ade- | quate Navy, pointing out that real pre- paredness means “the development and appropriation of scientific problems.” Navy Called Laboratory. “The Navy is a great laboratory where scientific discoveries are first tested out and then put into operation, but it is only by conscientious and long continued development that a Nation will find itself fit in another war,” the Navy head asserted. Explaining that the life of an air- plane is three vears, the Secretary told the engineers that day will not be & match for the plane WILFRED T. GRENFELL. ‘the airplanes of to- | LABRADOR PATRON WILL SPEAK HERE Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Physi- cian, Became Benefactor of Fisher Folk. | of 10 years from now. and unlese we | visualize & war within that period every dollar spent is for developing a plane that is yet to com Vigorous_ eriticism of pacifists was ven by Rear Admiral C. W. Dyson, 8. N., the presiding officer at the banquet. who asserted that if no more ships are built, the United States will e brought face to face with the condi- tion that prevailed in 1883, when there was none competent to build ships. Crities’ Reasons Ridiculed. “When 1 read in the papers of the reasons offered by some as to why we should not build any more ships, then T am driven to the conclusfon that the zoologists haven't told us everything,” he said. ‘The American merchant marine will have an opportunity to develop through the passage of the Jones-White bill last year. Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone, re- tired. said. J. E. Burkhardt, chief engineer of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. and Dr, Phillips Thomas of the Westinghouse Electric & Manu- facturing Co. were other speakers at the banguet, ot which Rear Admiral R. H. Leigh was toastmaster. WIDER H STREET URGED. Broadening From Massachusetts Ave. to Seventeenth Recommended. ‘Widening of H street from Massa- chusetts avenue to Seventeenth street, provided the property owners along the strest approve the plan, was urged on the District Commissioners by the com- mittee on police. fire orotection and mlbl.lc safety of the Washington Cha r-of Commerce at & meeting yester- day afternoon. Harry M. Bedell, vice chairman of the committee, presided. Lengthy con- sideration was given the project, held to be needed for relief of traffic conge:tion. H street between Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue recently wes wid- ened. THE WEATHER District of Columbia — Increasing cloudiness and colder tonight, followed by rain tomorrow: lowest temperature tonight about 38 degrees: diminishing northwest winds, becoming east or southeast by tomorrow. Maryland—Increasing cloudiness and colder tonight, followed by rain tomor- row: diminishing northwest winds, be- coming east or southeast by tomorrow. Virginia—Increasing cloudiness ‘and colder tonight, followed by showers to- morrow; diminishing northwest, shift- ing to east or southeast winds. ‘est Virginia—Cloudy and colder to- night, followed by rain, beginning late tonight or tomorrow. Records for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 63; 8 p.m., 62; 12 midnig] .m.. 20.76; 8 pm, : : 4 am., 29.67; m., 20.82; 1 29.92. Highest temperature, 69, occurred at 1 am. today. Lowest temperature, 57, occurred at 7:35 a.m. today. ‘Temperature same date last year— Highest, 51; lowest, 36. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today—Low tide, 8:18 a.m. and 9:18 p.m.; high tide. 1:35 a.m. and 2:32 pm. Tomorrow—Low tide, 9:19 am. and 10:28 pm.; high tide, 2:58 am. and 3:34 pm. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 7:24 a.m.; sun sets 5:14 pm. ‘Tomorrow—Sun rises 7:23 am.; sun sets 5:15 pm. Moon rises 12:10 p.m.: sets 1:14 a.m. Automobile lamps to bé lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Falls—Very muddy. ‘Weather in Various Cities, P Temperature. 3 H ; s Stations. any. 5y Atlanta, G 0. Atlantic City ' Md . Clear Pt cloudy Clear Huro; Incianapol. ymaha, & Philadeiphia.Pa. oenix, Ariz.. 29 Pistsburgh. Pa ortiand, Me .. Ored’ 30.02 N C..2994 Anton; io n Diego.Caiif. 2098 60 Clear Pt.cloudy . Snow . Clear iear H., D. C #iit Ficlouay 982 FOREIG! ©7 a.m., Greenwich time. today.) o eather rt cloudy ndon. Bprt England aris, nc Snow Part cloudy Part cloudy Part cloudy today.) Fart cloudy 8.) Part eloudy Clear Clear » | sir wilfred T. Grenfell, well known { physician, who became the patron and | | benefactor of the Labrador fishermen, | will reach Washington this afterncon for a several-day visit, during which he will tell of the life and hardships of the North Coast fisherfolk in a radio talk and in two addresses at local churches. Sir Wilfred will speak over radio station WRC tonight and he will talk tomorrow morning at the Church of the Covenant and tomorrow night at the Central Presbyterian Church. Having worked first among the fisher- men of the North Sea, Dr. Grenfell went to Labrador in 1892, where he found a people demoralized by their fruitless struggle against poverty and disease. Dr. Grenfell stayed with the people of Labrador and-lived as one of them. He inducted sanitation methods to the barren coast, fought the epidemics with courage and skill, established several hospitals and dispensaries along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador and founded the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. He also founded a chain of supply stores in which the fisherfolk themselves have interest and in which they may buy the necessities of life at small profit, thus freeing them from the traders. A splendid home for sea- | men has been built at St. Johns, New- foundland, where men of the sea have a wholesome place to stay while in that port. ‘Throughout his efforts for the better- ment of the conditions in which the fishermen of Labrador live, Dr. Gren- fell, who recently was knighted by King George, has been aided by his wife, the former Miss Anna McClanahan of Chi- cago. Lady Grenfell has been an en- thusiastic worker and adviser at the Grenfell Mission and she is accompany- ing Sir Wilfred to Washington. ‘The doctor’s visit here is sponsored by Dr. James H. Taylor and Charles Henry Butler. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY Bethany Chapter, No. 24, O. E. S, will give a card party, 8 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Adele S. Leibert, 5013 Fourteenth street. Columbia Chapter, No. 15, O. E. 8., will hold its annual dance and card my at the Washington Hotel. Special c. Federation of Citizens' Associations will meet, 8 o'clock, in the board room of the Municipal Building. The Dramatic Club of McKinley High School will have its annual dinner :In?ex. entertalnment at the All-States of The Confederate organizations of the District will celebrate the birth anni- versaries of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Btonewall Jackson at the Confederate Memorial Home, 1322 Vermont avenue, at 3:30 o'clock. Franceska Kaspar Lawson will sing. ‘ Dr. Lee W. Esterbrook will talk on | “The Art of Living,” 8 o'clock, under auspices of the League for the Larger | Life, at Stonleigh Court, 1706 L street. ‘The Missouri Soclety of Washington will meet, 8 o'clock, in the rose room of the Washington Hotel. Miss Isabel Craig Bacon will sing and there will be instrumental numbers by Miss Fran- ces Gutelius. Dancing at 9:30 o'clock. Admission by card. Mrs. Sam C. Major will head the list of hostesses. ‘Tennesseeans and their friends will meet, 9 o'clock, at the Willard Hotel | for an evening of music and dancing. The congressional delegation from ‘Tennessee will attend. John A. Chum- bley, president of the Tennessee Society, | will preside. The National Museum announces an exhibition of drawings, etchings and lithographs by George C. Wales, today and continuously until January 27, in the division of graphic arts, Smith- sonian Building. Hours, daily, from 9 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays, 1:30 to 4:30. A dance will be given by the Curley Club for the benefit of the scholarship fund, 9 o'clock, in blue room of the City Club. FUTURE The Red Triangle Outing Club will meet at Sligo road, 3 p.m. tomorrow, to Chevy Chase Circle. and Alaska avenue cars on Ninth street and transfer to bus at end of line to Sligo road, or take Forest Glen or Four Corners bus. ‘The Wanderlusters’ hike for tomor- row will start from Mount Rainier, D.C., at 2:45 pm. Miss Kennedy, leader. Frontier, Sea,” will be the subject of a free lec- ture by Lewis E. Van Norman, world- traveler, tomorrow, 8 pm., at 1216 H street, under auspices of Washington Lodge, Theosophical Society. a joint meeting with the Social Hyglene Society of the District of Columbia, Jan- uary 21, 8 pm, at Y. W. C. A. Build- ing, Seventeenth and K streets. Sub- ject: “Protective Social Measures with Special Reference to Value of Women Police.” Speakers: James M. Hepburn, director Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission, and Maj. Bascom Johnson, director division of legal protective measures, American Social Hygiene As- soclation, New York, N. Y. Miss Kath- erine Lenroot, program chairman. Fillmore Parent-Teacher Association will mee{:‘ Monday, 8 p.m., at the Fill- more 00 SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE FIRE-PROOCF “Where Europe and Asia Overlap: the from Finland to the Black The Monday Evening Club will hold TWO WOMEN HELD FORKIDNAPING MAN Facing Trial for Forcing Ray- mond L. Schwenck to Drive to New Jersey. Mrs. Sadie Christinia Altizer, 22 years old, and Mrs. Mary Helen Wozniak, held here as kidnaping suspects on com plaint of a taxi driver, were brough! into headquarters this morning and went through the usual routine of being measured, fingerprinted and photo- graphed and were questioned by dete: - tives, Mrs. Wozniak, incidentally, ad mitted a previous conviction on an au'c theft charge. The girls were brought here yester day from Penns Grove, N. J., by De- tective Frank A. Varney with Elmer on complaint of Raymond L. Schwenk, 1447 East Capitol street, alleging that they kidnaped him in this city Tues- day night and compelled him to drive them to the New Jersey town. No formal charge has yet been pre- [ ferred against the trio. Identified as Jail Inmate, Mrs. Wozniak., who appeared espe- cially amused, told detectives she was from Winchester, Va., and was accus- tomed to driving an automobile, al- though she did not take hold of the wheel while on the trip from here to Penns Grove Tuesday night. While Mrs. Woznlak stood before the detectives answering questions pro- pounded by Capt. Walter Emerson, acting chief, Detective Henry M. Jett recalled that he had seen her in the jail at Harrisonburg, Va. about 18 months ago, and the young woman ad- mitted he was not mistaken. “Have you ever been arrested be- rnrex?"hcapt. Emer‘:on asked. “I have." was her prompt response, “but not here.” G Bnse “Stealing an automobile.” Admits 8-Month Sentence. Mis. Wozniak said she was sentenced to eight months in jail and that she was in the Harrisonburg jail part of the time. Mrs. Altizer said she had been ar- rested only once before. That arrest, she said, was followed by her marriage to Altizer. Robers W. Kidd, county detective who_arrested the trio, has been asked by Detective Varney to ship the be- longings of the trio here from Penns Grove. Their effects, consisting of two suitcases, a hat box, wooden box and two pasteboard boxes, were shipped from here shortly before the trio and Schwenk started their automobile trip to New Jersey. o CONGRESSIONAL EEUNTRY CLUB LISTS NET PROFIT John C. Koons Re-Elected President at Meeting of Board of Governors. The Congressional Country Club made a net profit of $9,500 during 1928, a re- port on operations of the club submitted to the board of governors at the annual meeting last night at the clubhouse, near Rockville, showed. John C. Koons, under.whose admins istration the club has prospered during the past year, last night was re-elected president at the meeting of the board of governors following the annual meeting of the membership. At the membership meeting, 12 mem- bers of the board of governors were named for three-year terms. They were: David H. Blair, Edward F. Col- laday, Thomas P. Littlepage, Benjamin C. Carey, Edgar P. Copeland, John J. Pershing, Albin B. Parker, Royal C. Johnson, Edwin C. Graham, Leonard P. Steuart, P. M. Anderson and Cooper C. Lightbown. Other officers of the club will be elected at the meeting of the board of governors Friday at the club house. PRESS CLUB PLANS MADE TO SEAT NEW PRESIDENT Pre-View of New Film Will Be Shown Prior to Inau- gural Ball. Prior to the aremng of the ball given at the National Press Club tonight, a pre-view of the new film “Behind the German Lines” will be shown. The film, produced by the Paramount Pictures Corporation, will be for the entertain- ment of ladies, associate and non-active members and guests. . Immediately preceding the ball there will be an inaugural parade, led by the United States Army’ Bahd, when Will- mott Lewis, chief justice of the club, will administer the oath to the new Eresidenl of the club and introduce im for his inaugural address. It is the custom of the Press Club to celebrate the induction of the new administration into office with an inaugural ball. “Czar of Great Lakes” Dies. CLEVELAND, January 19 (#). — Harry D. Colby, who as a penniless outh walked from New York to Cleve- and to begin a career that earned him the nickname of “Czar of the Great Lakes,” died at the Ritz Hotel, London, England, Thursday night, friends here were advised by cablegram yesterday. Kyle Altizer, 31, husband of Mrs. Altizer, | | see his relatives, who reside in Bruns- | D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929. 1 faflure to meet them as adequately as possible. On his short exploration flight the other day it was found that not a com- | FUGITIVE CONVICT FOUND IN COAL CAR West Virginia Criminal, En Route| to Florida, Is Caught by Policeman. A trip to Florida to spend the re- mainder of the Winter season nmcng‘ the orange groves, started yesterday by William Rinker, 25-year-old fugitive from the State prison at Moundsville, W. Va.. was interrupted early today by | Policeman George Nicholson of the twelfth precinct. who took him from a coal car in the freight yard at Eckinz- ton. Nicholson had advance informa- tion as to his identity and no effort was | made on part of the prisoner to deny it | or offer resistance. An illustrated cir- cular, offering a reward of $50 for Rinker's capture, shows he escaped from the West Virginia prison Novem- ber 11, last year. having been admitted March 1, 1926, from Wood County, to serve a sentence of 10 years for armed robbery, Discussing with the policeman his escape, Rinker said he got out of the prison by cutting a hole in the roof of a building and lowering himself to the ground. Shots were fired at L during a pursuit, but he was not hit. Leaving Moundsville, he stated, he went West as far as Oklahoma, return- ing East a short time ago, wanting to wick, Md. He then concluded he would | g0 to Florida for the Winter and re- turn North the coming Summer. He | had nearly $50 in his pockets when cap- tured this morning. L. M. Robinson, warden of the State prison at Moundsville, has been no- tified ot Rinker's capture, He will send an officer for him. BURGLARS CARRY OFF 450-POUND SAFE Reward Will Be $5 in Obsolete Coins if They Open It, Owner Declares, About $5 worth of old coins, some business papers and non-negotiable se- curities and a few pictures was all that will reward the thieves who last night carried away a 450-pound safe from the Acme Window-Cleaning Service, 512 H street, according to Leon L. Cahoon, manager. Entrance was gained by breaking the lock on a rear door, and apparently the safe was removed through the same door. Belief that more than one man was involved in the robbery was expressed by Cahoon, who declared that four men were required to carry the old safe when the Acme Window-Cleaning Serv- ic moved into its present premises 10 years ago. The safe stood by the front window of the store. Cahoon claimed he col- lected old coins and kept several Co- lumbia half-dollars and other obsolete coins in the safe. No light was left in the store last night, except that afford- ed by a gas burner near the safe. The burner was discovered turned.off this morning. ‘Howard Dawes, an employe, found the rear door lock broken when he came to work this morning and discovered the | safe missing. Nothing else had been taken from the office, Cahoon said. e ; Two Couples Licensed. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md. January 19.— Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: George Albin Wahl- strom, 21 years old, of Silver Spring, and Miss Ruth Helena Bryant, 24, Ta- koma Park: Leonard L. Rutherford, 23, Point of Rocks, Md., and Blanche C. Reid, 21, Lovettsville, Va. Conductor Dies of Injury. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., January 10.— Willlam Henry, 45 years old, of Har- risonburg, Va., a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad conductor, injured Thursday when he fell under a train at Wever- ton, died at the hospital here yesterday. Henry was found with his leg crushed. He is survived by his widow and two children. The body has been sent to Harrisonburg for burial. | Comdr. |a full knowledge of the difficulty of HALLING RECORD Build Polar Sledding Epoch With Two 16-Mile Trips Daily. __ (Contirued From First Page) loads of 1,200 to 1,500 pounds hauled by nine-dog teams at a good trotting pace the whole distance of 8 miles. Sverdrup found that six dogs easily hauled 650 to 800 pounds and averaged 20 miles a day for many days, and Sir Ernest Shackleton learned that 14 dogs would haul 1 ton. 1t is also worthy of consideration that Byrd's dcgs have not been worked too severely, and that at the present time 78 of the 87 dogs are in harness. Occasionally one is taken out for a| rest or because it has been injured in a fight and replaced by another, so that it may be sald that almost the entire group has been at work. Two Houses Erected. tons hauled to the base. This achievement has been the more remarkable because everything else has gone on at the same time. Two houses have ben erected at the base, marerial has been checked and stacked, the air- plane has been assembled and flown, radio work both in connection wita the base and the plane has gone ahead and | Cemdr. Byrd has been enabled to do a tremendcus amount of correspond- ence, plan rations for journeys, correct | compasses and do some preliminary navigational work. All this has been a cause of intense gratification to Comdr. Byrd and the other members of his expedition, be- cause it has been proved that the! preparations were properly carried out and that the various divisions of the expedition are able to function as had been planned. This feeling arigec from | | Yesterday the record was made of 8| 1 1 proper preparation and the risks which accompany any deficiency Amundsen forgot snow shovels. Sonte things have been forgotten on this ex- pedition. but nothing for which a sub- | stitute could not be found or which can be replaced by some expert work- man. Preparations Win Success. Expeditions are won by preparation and the dogs are a good example of this. If dependence had been placed on Amundsen’s success in getting inland so far by the middle of January and sufficient dogs had not been brought to de the heavy freight sledging, the work | of the expedition would have been | stopped and its success jeopardized The commander of a polar expedition stakes everything on his preparation. In this case Comdr. Byrd is risking his entire career. His reputation not only as an explorer. but also as a navigator and his fortune in one of the most haz- ardous undertakings ever attempted in Antartica. ‘There has been time after time when success might have been jeopardized by a mishap. There was the long tow down to the pack ice from New Zealand, which, if not undertaken might not have enabled us to reach the whaler Larson in time to be towed through. This saved us coal. so that a full supply for every purpose seems now to be as- sured. Pack Ice Heaviest. The whalers report the pack ice the | heaviest they have ever known at this time of year and it is certain that the City of New York could not have reached here for some time if the pack had been bucked without assistance. ‘There was danger to the Eleanor | Bolling, a steel ship, in pushing ahead through the ice-filled waters in the fog, and danger to her from the pack which caused the delay in her recent sailing from New Zealand. There were also navigational difficul- ties in a region full of erratic magnetic phenomena, difficulties overcome by the use of many aids, including the radio. And then came this present phase of freighting across the ice made possible only by the preparations and the loyalty of a diversified crew. Then there are risks to the personnel on which so much depends.- « Constant Watch Kept. Dog drivers, for instance, never leave either the ship or the base without be- ing reported by radio to the other end of the trial and a constant lookout is maintained. ‘The watch is kept from the crow's nest of the ship. The number of men who leave with each party, their load, the number of dogs and every item of information about them, all this is con- stantly recorded. so that it would be im- | possible to go astray without being re- ported in a short time. Any of these | things going wrong might spell disaster, | if not to the expedition, at least to the | leader of it. Comdr. 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What it would mean to be without sight because of an overcast sky and unreliable compasses when flying over hour may be imagined. time one might penetrate to a distance |1t would be too far to walk back. | These navigational problems have been uppermost in Comdr. Byrd's mind for many months, even with all the other details of the expedition crowding his mind, and upon his solution of them | depends to a large degree his success. One dwells on this subject of prep- aration because it is not possible until one has been here to realize what ex- plorers mean when they talk about it. Home and all the things which a man may call to his aids in civilized com- munities are a long way off. Listens in Loneliness. This country grows on one despite its lonelinass, or perhaps because of it. After an airplane flight to the base it was a tremendous contrast to go out to trail, past pressure ridges and small cracks through which the seals make inquisitive noises. The bay ice then seems a great plain, varied only in its contours, silent, rigid and beautiful. Sverre Strom, who loves the ice and has seen all the myriad colors of the polar ice, who has experienced this terrible silence and menace, took me with him, and when we were coming back, riding behind the softly padding dogs, he turned around and sald: “Sometimes I stop here all alone and you can hear your heart.” Not the sound of your heart, Strom meant, but your heart itself speaking strange things, uplifted, perhaps, all by the limitless white. There is nothing more purely white than the light here reflected from the ow. All the changes in color, the softly glowing shadow of the barrier cliffs, the shadows with just a hint of rose in them. are caused bv the back- ing up of this pure white light. Prism Colors Glisten. And as one rides along the trail or trots behind the dog team, the surface gleams with gems, points of fire re- flected from the perfect crystals of the snow. They look like opals glowing with changing and marvelous color. No larger and no longer snow crystals have cver been seen than down here, made of almost pure water vapor, and the color comes from the cumulative effect of the prisms in these many large crystals. The effect is almost startling when first seen, for it is some- thing unknown except in polar regions where the air is pure. The dogs trot along with their load at even dog trot. the runners sweeping over the dry surface, and not another sound except the calls of the driver to his leader or the snap of the whip over their sides. Our legs get tired after a time, and as the load is only a little more than half a ton, we jump aboard to ride a short distance. Far ahead is another dog team, for the ice is secure enough so that teams may become separated with safety. Barrier Bounds Plain. On_either side the plain of white stretches to the cliffs of the barrier, those cliffs which seemed so low from the airplane, but which become more imposing as they are approached inore closely. But we never go within more than a hundred yards of them. The first obstruction is a long pres- sure ridge about half-way out, which lles directly across the path. There is a gentle slope up through a narrow passage and a short drop down on the other side. Beyond the trail begins to WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRIN Clocks Called For - Delivered - Guar MAIN 7108 Next to Keithis No Finance Charges We Absorb Fire and Theft Insurance Cost Ofbee | this country at a speed of 90 miles an | In a very short | where rescue might be impossible, where ‘ his lead dog to pull over to the right. the base with a dog team over winding | Champlain Street at Kalorama Road wind about ‘gentle sl over which the sledges swing sideways and are checked by the driver with gee pole, a long pole which projects upward the front end of the leading sled, two of which are linked together. The next bad spot is between what is known as the seal holes—holes made by the dropping down of the bay ice between pressure ridges. ‘The trail swings here so that all the drivers’ skill must be exercised to prevent the sledges sliding first into one and then into the other on opposite side. Every sled has tipped over here at some time, and every driver, even Walden, with all his skill, has been in difficulties. The sled swings viciously to the right toward a hole and escapes it and then slides down toward the left, while Strom leans all his vigorous 200 pounds on the pole and yells, “Gee. Dinty, gee,” as he calls Sledges Hard to Hamdle. With gasoline drums weighing 500 pounds each, these sledges are not so easy to handle. Beyond the holes the trail winds in and out among huge pressure ridges, blocks of ice forced up 10 or 15 feet in the air, a movement which is going on all the time. There are many places where sledge tracks show on top of un- scalable chunks of uplifted ice, tracks which a few days ago were on level ground. Even though the bay ice is not going out, it is moving, and the pressure against the barrier is almost beyond comprehension. Cape of the barrier is turned, the trail slides down a slope with ridges on either side and far ahead and to the left is our future home, yellow house on the top of a gentle incline from the tiny bay. Up this slope the dogs gallop. There is a final hard pull in which Strom puts a rope across his big shoulders and helps. The dogs haul around in front of one of many big piles of supplies, which are being checked by Capt. McKinley, who just now is general supply officer. A cup of coffee and bit of bread for Strom at the house, erected by the Antarctic construction firm of Gould & Gould, composed of Larry Gould, geologist, and Charles Gould, carpenter, and we start back. Half way we meet other teams coming out with more gasoline drums, teams driven by Goodale, Crookett, Bursey, and then a sight which made Strom exclaim again. A team of yellow husky dogs came by pulling four big gasoline drums and some other material, more than a ton | altogether. It was Walden, who moves in and out, silently and efficiently, his dogs moving just as he wants them to at a word from him. “What a team of horses,” cries Strom in admiration. @he Forming Htar STUDY OF HOSPITAL COSTS IS BEING MADE Trade Board Committee Seeks Data on What Patients of Limited Means Must Pay. A study of the cost of hospitalization for paying patients of limited means in the District has been started by the committee on public health of the Washingtor Board of Trade, of which Dr. D. Percy Hickling is chalrman. Questionnaires have been sent to all local hospitals asking for information needed in the study, and replies are asked for within the next two months. In letters to hospital heads Dr. Hickling stated: “We direct our studies toward ascertaining what, if anything, can be done toward bringing adequate hospital treatment within the financial strength of the average working man or woman, likely with dependents, who wants no charity and yet must of neces- sity consider ail personal expenditures before running a hospital bill.” Dr. Hickling also informed hospital heads his committee would be glad to receive suggestions along this line. The committee expects to continue its study for about two years. Statistics con- cerning efforts being made to provide hospital care at reasonable rates to salaried families in other cities also are being gathered by the committee. Some of these drivers have handled dogs before, but the remarkable pary of their operations is that more than half of them never drove a team before or had even seen one. 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