Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 3

/ AINGTON. T. C. FRIDAY. MARCH BYRD PARTY HAS ITS OWN STATIO! ERY l ¥PUI_AR PER"_S Tm_u ' OF INVIVID LETTER 'Son, With Byrd, Writes to Mother in Washington, Describing Jaunt. 1929. ief BYRD ADES FIGHT POLAR GALE'S FURY 6 BELLANS | i Trio, Marooned by Antarctic| | l | | | -Sure Hel { ;’W N Hot water Sure Relief LL-ANS FOR _INDIGESTION 25¢ and 75¢ Pkg's.Sold Everywhers Tempest, Loses Plane and Radio. ____(Continued From First Page) VASHINGTON, D.C. | UsSehs A Washington mother, Mrs. Leroy < P. Kessler of 40 Foxhall road, has re- celved her first letter from he son | | Charles since he reached Antarctica | with the Byrd polar expedition. From “down under” the world, Charles h: { written a vivid account of the trials which have beset the expedition in its | preparations for an air and land ex- ploration of the icy wastes surrounding the South Pole. Since Charles left Washington in August to join the Byrd party in_the [ role of a seaman on the Eleanor Boll- {ing, one of the three Byrd ships, his only communications with his mother have been via the radio. The follow- | ing letter, mailed in_ Dunedin, New Zealand, on January 29, arrived here | Wednesday. | | i 3 2 | i ! next morning there was a perfect calm. { The sun was bright over the eastern ' | horizon and we thought ‘We will sure i go back today.’ i “After breakfast we went to work like imad to clear away the snow around , the plane.” H | Left the Anchors Buried. | | June hesitated and laughed, a quick. | doubtful laugh, as he went back to that 'm;m‘-n:nt ul'lnen it scemed that lhfl‘; - | might get home. T S FBut"We left the dead men (buried| Envelope which brought to Mrs. Leroy P. Kessler. 40 Foxhall road, the anchors of the plane) where they were " | first leiter from her son Charles, who is with Comdr. Byrd's expedition in the | he resumed. “We thought we might | Antarctic. The envelape is one of those printed before the expedition sailed for ineed them, as we did, all right. | the use of members of the party. | gpAL 7:30 the weather was stil good 5 | There was a light north wind and it | | A i | & ski buried In the snow, and we lay on | Eot quite warm. We were told by radio | ipe.jines while he did it. So it went all | e weather here at Little America | gai diging snow blocks, fighting the e T, it we kept the engine NOt | wing, Iying on the lines in gusts and i ope that we ling i | eosiil gt o %o DemE R huddling fogether there for warmth. June stopped for a moment and hungry, wei and exhausted. We went | seemed to be turning something over | [0 the tent to eat. |in_his mind, Winds Roars to Climax. Wanted — Life Insur- | “You know, we never changed the| St { posttion, of the plane from the time We | i b Sy K o e ta. and. o ance Agency Organizer 3 | landed.” he said. c . : v s, couldn't keep our radio schedules witn and Supemsor !ngAi:o‘::h]:':idfh:' ‘camel dy\m {le- - ’u-.p base, for at dinner the wind sounded | to it, except that I don’t want to see | safely’ unloaded on the ice. The man qualified to Al this || oo L orsih 0d the plane lay that way | twice as loud as it had before. It any ‘more wind like that. Once s <We hit a peachy storm a few days o iy N from o aomny W kot Were | zeached & deep note that sounded bad, | enough.” out of Dunedin and we had to work &nd training ability and a pest || would be from the formation and the | 04 e el O ae 1 | Coomdn kG Jfaw Yk rises, AL S TS T keeh ont loltie (ote A . e tent and the snow wall. We 0 "and the Bt. Louls Post-Dispatch Co. | deck cargo. She came through the :‘tlgmgxrg:mm:: 8 producer or f|drifc and we were right. But that why it dian't rip the clofh o pieces. &1 s for Dubiication recerved throus | G Dicely and a few days later we #4000 per year po mo}}e st | “We crawled into our bags for a whil b sighted the icepack at 69 south. e i i Begin Defense as Wind Rises, {to try to get warm, and the ice under ] “The pack completely blocked the en- Salary, commission an onus x | ' us was jarring. trance to the Ross Sea and was 300 arrangement. A permanent posi- || moune shook his head and, after & .1y was probably from the piane. She miles in width. We had been a little tion with a future goal to the . fitness. | in front as high as the Wing and 81ong | .. VS could see her dimly from the | “After three days of smashing and | Address Boz 372-H Star Office Creeted pos I see that “The Washingtonian” remarks that they have heard that Mr. Coolidge is only writing for a magazine tempo- rarily. Later he may become economy advisor for the Bank of Edinburgh. S Wilkine Coffee is always selected by those who want only the best quality and don’t wish to pay exorbitant prices—and after all this is the only true economy. = GARAGES s METAL otk PORCHES REMODELED :: REPAIRED BUILT ENCLOSED 20 MONTHS TO PAY REASONABLE PRICES ‘WE REBUILD-REMODEL-REPAIR BERKNER. Star Staff Photc MRS. LLOYD to pass by he tore open another bomb; | His Letter. just ripped it apart and dropped it on “Dear Mother: he didn't see us when I heard his radic | “Here we are in the Bay of Whales | stutter and then signaled back that he 'at the famous ice barrier. We had a | had seen our blinker. It was the sput- 'great trip coming down. Our ship was tering smoke bomb that he took for a | greatly overloaded and looked more | blinker. 1 quit then and got out of the | Ilike a haywagon than a haywagon does | good old Fokker, and there was the | itself. We were carrying chemicals of | commander up above us just gliding in ' all descriptions and other highly In- for a landing. Maybe that wasn't a flammable cargo, and Comdr. Byrd was | welcome sight. 'And that’s all there was | greatly relleyed when he saw the stuff To Join Husband Who Sailed | on Expedition Week | After Marriage. WESTERN PONER PXPENSES BARED Next Tuesday will be an important day in the life of Mrs. Lioyd V. Berkner of Chevy Chase, Md | On that date she will go aboard a ship at New York and begin a trip half w round the world to the Fiji Islands where she will join her husband, radio expert and airplane pilot with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. | ‘They were married in Chevy Chase on v 21, 1928, one week after. Berkner learned’ that' he was to accompany | Comdr. Byrd as a representative of the | Bureau of Standards. | A few days after the wedding the | “We were now in the Ross Sea and | husband left with the expedition. The | we stepped on the gas, A few more | UnCertainty of his itinerary made it ! days and we sighted the great ice-bar- | impossible for the brlde to accompany | ey This was at 78:30 S° It rose ver. | him. so she remained in Washington. ticaily out of the water and looked like a | Hence the trip to the Fiji Islands will white desert, ."n“.be‘x:: l:: 1:1:‘?1" of a delayed honey- eight around the edge was about 40 or [ 0N, Bhe Said. ielght around the edge was about 40.cr | Berkner has recently been transferred It is like rolling country in the States 0 the University of New Zealand at and Is dandy for fiying, being remark- | Dunedin. He will conduct further e { tent opening, swaying and tearing at banging (there is quite a bit of noise ; wf:gfierz”z’fi‘e"skfl“’wfl“mi‘,'fi‘i;d thes ‘her fastenings. We didn’t see ho me} ging qui of nolse { we anchored the tail ski that wa; T | could stand it, but there was nothing "By 10:30 it was blowing 36 ‘miles | MOre we could do. We had done our ut- and we couldnt st & hIng" The dric; | oAt - Sometimes a driving sheet of | went by like a solid 1t made you | "% would blow her out and we would | dizzy o look at it. I went in every | \NIRK she had gone. =~ . 0t wind | hour and worked the radio. About 11:30 the sound of the wind | e began 1o get pretes wet, -At 1 |suddenly changed from s roar and the | o'clock 3t was, Just about freezing, for | S0und became thin and higher. There | the temperatire went up. withy, the | ¥as:a little shake, and we looked ou wind, and the snow melted when it hit 30 saW “l;"l‘“m:nl:l“;fihgflfw :“ e us. We were sopping wet. e palchén “Blown” fo (he Plane. ~We declded we had befter cul more | . «gyg of sight went the plane, into the | | when plowing into the ice) we emerged | . | from the pack at 74 S. Public Great White Desert. The La Salle Washington’s Newest California Interests’ Relations Work Expendi- tures Described. | By the Associated Press. 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Plane Trembles in Gale. “We were begining to be s bit wor- ried this time,” said June as he leaned | i “It blew harder and harder and at| 4:30, when I tried to get a message through to the base I spied the indi-| cator on the e. “It showed 88 imles an hour. “And that was the beginning. The plane trembled under like a leaf and' the wings were bending five or six inches at the tips, “I sent word that the situation was critical, that I did not see how the plane could stay there much longer and that I was not going to stay there myself. “And yet the plane stood nearly ure. sald ll'.l&hpn, who hmn hound for [ pressure in- mmm of the velocity of eeds and it' must have been as much as 150 miles an hour when the plane tore away. If her skis hadn't been pulled free, the wing would have gone to pieces in & few more min- utes. Balchen Loses in Radio Tussle. “Then June picked up his story 2gain, saying: “While I was trying to get this mes- sage through—a message which would have explained our silence later—the antenna blew down. “Bernt went out to fix it and blew “T can see Bernt wrestling with that ski yet,” he sald. “We had the wire on the end of a ski stuck in the snow and it threw him over the place. “Once he slid away so far that he the ice to crawl back. I could just see him through the gray drift. “That was a sirange sensation, too. We could see only a few feet and, with the wind tearing at us and hitting. us solid blows, blowing our feet from under us and toppling us over so that we grabbed at anything in reach, we seem- ed to be in a gray cell battling with in- visible giants. “We were so all alone, cut off from things even 20 feet away! We could | hardly breathe at times. and ‘couldn’t sideways into it or crawl with our heads tucked in. “We had breakfast at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, nothing else to eat all day, and it wasn't much of a breakfast. But | | the hot tea cheered us up and warmed | us. I wanted to try to send another message from the plane, but Larry Gould woludn't let me get into it, and 1} guess 1t was just as well. | Pounded by Snow Barrage. | “The wind was blowing great guns | | by this time. How it roared! We went | jout to hang onto the rope again, for the plane was trembling and lifting on the shock absorbers. “Once in a gust Gould, who was holding the rope on the wing, was blown out straight like a flag. After | that we lay down on the ground io | hold the Tope. “We took turns lying in the lee of | one another for warmth. We would shift over and huddle up close together. | We were a miserable lot by then. i | "It seems to me now as if our main | | feeling was one of bewilderment and | | helplessness. We had so many things | | to do and no time in which to do thei And we had to fight, so far, every- | thing. “The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pleces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. one was throwing snow around for Bernt. “But he was in front of the other wing. The lumps banged against uurI heads and shoulders, thumped us hard, and we didn’t dare turn in the direc- | tion from which they were coming. | “Sometimes there were whole showers of them. We finally decided they were pleces of packed snow. from the moun- tain two miles away. One of ‘them ! knocked me flat on my face. Battle to Maintain Rampart. : “When we tried to cut more blocks | | with the shovel we couldn't get the thing down to the snow. We almost had to fall on it and force it parallel | | with the snow before we could use "'i It pulled and fought with us as if it were alive. We cursed that shovel, clung to it and wrestled it as if it had been a part of the storm. “The blocks of snow would disappear out of our hands when we picked them up. Sometimes, when they were loos- ! ened, they would fly up in the air and | shoot away. : “The only way to carry them was to wrap yoursell all around them and crawl along Larry would pick up a | block and roll over, the snow and Larry all mixed up together. “It was a fight to get them in posi- fion, but once they were placed on the and looked {down some and when we went out| | face the wind at all. ‘We had to bend | ini | from the plane. 1 thought at first that some | | | cor darkness and the snow. We felt pretty but there was nothing to do, so | we turned in. | That was the worst of the storm, | but it had done all it could do to us. You should have seen our faces. were ‘a_miserable-looking bunch before, but we were worse than we looked—so miserable that we laughed. So we crawled inside again. “The next morning the wind had gone | ing about half | there was the plane a mile away, looking apparently un- injured. We couldn't believe our eyes, because we had thought she must have | gone to the South Pole. “The snow blocks around where she had been anchored were untouched, and | we could see that she had been lifted | straight up and had glided off flying. | The blocks of snow which had been piled on her skiis were strewn along for a quarter of & mile. “We wanted to go over to her, but it was too dangerous then on that icy | surface. A litlle later Balchen per- suaded Gould to let him try it, and I| wish you could have seen him go. He werit like & shot. Three steps and he was there, sliding, falling and slewing all over the place. ‘Did you tack, I tacked, too,” replied Bernt, with a flash | of his white teeth. Craft Flew to Her Deséruction. “But he had a hard time coming back,” June continued. “We could see him edging his way back on his stom- | ach, erawling along with his knife and | a .ski stick to hold him from being| blown away. “He was A long time returning. When he got back he said: ‘Well, she’s a wreck.’ | * “We knew it, but had hoped against| hope. In the afterncon we were all| able to go over, for the wind was only | blowing 40 miles an hour, nothing at| all after what we had had, and there | was no more loose snow to drift. The| plane lay about 50 feet from where she | had first hit. i The ice was all splintered there. I forgot to tell you that the whole basin | was ice under a thin coating of snow, because in the Summer water runs off | the mountain sides and makes a regu lar.pool in the valléy in which we were | camped. “The plane had bounced after that| first smash and then skidded to a rest- | g place.: “She evidently had been flying, for | she landed at a gliding angle and a little on the left wing. The controls were lashed and she just flew backward, but was not going very fast when she hit, Radie Outfit Strewn Half Mile. “We went inside and everything that was loose was lying all over the cabin. | The radio transmitter, which had been hung on springs, was lying on the floor | and the springs were straightened out. | ‘The antenna, which had been fast- | ened to skis outside, had been taken along with the plane, skis and all, and when she hit the wire had broken off | at the fuselage. | ‘We found the antenna wrapped around the skis as neatly as if we had done it ourselves about a half mile ‘They must have hit rolling 3 | > ship itself was & sad sight. The | lonerons and struts were bent and | twisted. The skis were not hurt, but| one of the pedestals had been torn ml two. “The propeller had evidently been | turning fast, for the ends of all three blades were curled up the way they are in & full-throttle crash. The steel struts of the landing gear were split and | curled back like the skin on a banana. “The most remarkable thing was that the wing was practically undamaged, except that the bow on-the left wing- tip was broken for about three feet. It uld be repaired in a few hours. “The tail from the radio installation back was in perfect condition and the tail surfaces were not even touched. Radiation Hook-up Made. “We bad some peanut tubes and I} decided to try to solder them to the, Wires of the transmitter in place of regular tubes with a screwdriver for a soldering iron and the little solder lhltg was on the tips of the tubes. I worked | half a day at them and finally got; them hooked up and got good radiation. “That was encouraging, and at 4 o'clock the day we were found I was all ready to transmit, but they were not listening, as it was not on schedule. All of a sudden I tuned.in on the Fair- child plane and yelled to Gould and| Bernt, ‘I hear the Fairchild; she just took off, 1 guess.' We had recefved a message that morning about fixing a tee at which to land and they began running around getting it 1>udy. It was = grand feeling. “I never did get a chance to try out my patched-up transmitter. I finally heard Hanson in the plane say, mountains are in sight’ Then, ‘don’t see ‘anything.’ By that time Gould hearing a little north of us, and Bernt twall they stuck there. #: “Berni_put down anther dead man, £e’ off a smoke bomb. ‘When he shought they were golng We | ktributed in 1928 $64.000 to the national Bernt?' he was asked. | «. did everything else, so I guess| | and that he was not & member. of it. | | not employed any writers. and Bernt saw the plane. They were | 000 during -1928 by power interests in' California for public relations work wa: related today In testimony before the Federal Trade Commission investigation | into publicity activities of public power | uttities. i | Walter L. Frost of Los Angeles, for-| | mer president of the Pacific Coast Elec- | trical - Assoclation, testified that his| organization, ‘which is & branch of the | National Electric Light Association,.ex-| pended. $32,500 during the past year. Testimony. given last week by Victor M. Harlley, secretary of the Calilornia Electrical Bureau, who had told of the spending last year of $50,000 by his organization, ‘'was reviewed by Robert E. Mealy, commission counsel. Contributions Described. Frost said his organization had con- | sssociation, which had refunded to the | Pacific Coast group half of that amount, to: be expended in that section. He| testified that the Pacific Coast Elec- | trical Association embraced California, | Arizona, Nevada, the Hawalian Islands and the Philippines, Questioned on the activities of another anization, the Light & Power Asso- tion, Frost sald this body was com- posed of executives of power companies He said the Light & Power Associa: tion had engaged in the study of rural | 2lectrification and “has co-operated with some University of California profes- | sors” in this work. He added that there had been no payments to any col- leges or professors for this work, but that the association expended betwecn $5,000 and $8,000.a year upon the study. Thinks Farm Groups Aid. “Dges anybody else beside the power companies contribute to this work?” | asked Healy. “I cannot say, authoritatively, but I think some ‘of the farm organizations contribute,” Frost replied. He testified also that the Pacific Coast Electrical Association last year had given $250 to the University of California for conducting an extension course in training meter men, He added that this organization in 1927 had form- ed a committee to co-operate with ed- ucational institutifon under a plan of the National Electric Light Association, but he said he was unable to describe the committee’s activities. He testified that his association had | County Peddler’s License Urged. a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 22-—Hawk- ers and peddlers of fruits and vegetables in Montigomery County would be re- uired to take out a license, unless their produce was grown in the county, under the terms of a bill introduced in the House of Delegates yesterday by Richard H. Lansdale of Sandy Spring. Keyle: ;It;;ln“ Il H;norcd. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., March 22 Special).—Mrs, Bertha Spotts of Key- ser, W. was elected State oracle of the Ro; eighbors of America, auxil- lary to the Modern Woodmen of Ameri- ca, and Keyser was selected for the 1929 convention at the annual meeting in Fairmont this week. Will Rogers Says: NEW YORK CITY.—Best line in | teur. | group of very small men in evening | |ishing this letter at sea, and we are| | our 17,000 miles of travel so far. ably smooth. Beind solid ice and snow, it | in the wind. “We unloaded our gear on the ice and were lucky in not losing anything. | The first time the ice broke it was cov- ered with-men and aeroplanes and fast work was all that saved both. Every- thing had to be salvaged immediately and reloaded back onto the ship before it drified out to sea. | is naurally very cold snd extremely ‘so | periments there and will maintain com- | munication with the Byrd expedition, ing the effect of various atmospheric | conditions on radio. | Miss Blanche Fulks, sister of Mrs. ' Berkner, will accompany her as far as | Vaneouver, B. C.. where the latter will | | g0 aboard ship April 3 for the final' GAS PROTECTION SOUGHT | |1ap of her long journey. 1 “The next time we were even more ucky. - We had just landed the big| plane when in came the ice and two | men with it. One fellow grabbed a| rope as he was falling and this saved | him from s very dangerous. situation. | ‘The other fellow got his money's worth | and & cold bath besides. He was lucky | he was not crushed or drowned in the mix-up. Comdr. Byrd and two others | dived to his aid. It was bad dope, be- | cause the whole works had to be fished | aut. This water is too cold and soon' saps your endurance and you have all you can do to save yourself. The im-| pact of the ice was great and our lines were carried away aft. The remaining lines saved her Irom "being capsized. The ice continued to break off and fur- ther discharging of cargo was aban- doned on the . We pulled out from | the ice and transferred the remaining cargo to the City of New York, Whales in Abundance. “The bay is seven miles deep and got | its name through the . abundance of | whales to be found there. They are everywhere and splash about like kids | in a pool. They are very ferocious and | more dangerous than man - eating | sharks. They, will overturn small boats and break through thin ice to get at! o : | “Seals are plentiful here and we kill them for dog food. They weigh as' much as 500 pounds. Hunting them is | simple. They lie on the ice and you! hit them over the head with a stick. ‘They' taste like vinegar and don't make much of a hit with the gang. Whale | meat is much like beef, but has a slight fishy odor. Haven't seen anybody cry- ing for either so far. “The funniest thing down here is the venguins. They stand very erect and | walk with a stiff-leg motion like a kid | on stilts, They get about 30 inches high and weigh around 75 pounds. They have very short wings, but cannot fly. They can certainly swim fast, and in this respect they make up what they lack as aviators. When they turn, they make Charlie Chaplin look like an ama- Their heads, necks. ulders, backs, legs and feet are jet black, the | rest snow-white. They look like a dress. Writing at Sea. “If you have noticed that letters ap- pear misplaced and the writing uneven, | vou can blame it on the sea. I'am fin- rolling more than at any time du‘l;lnli ery little sleeping and practically no eating is the routine at the nt. It is not new to us, but never have we rolled so heavily (45 degrees) and continuously before. The ship is absolutely empty, and the seas smack us around like a toy balloon. A 60-mile gale has been | blowing since yesterday, and no let-up is in sight. We are holding onto our course in spite of the weather, We have another trip . to make, and time is —— e The Argonne 16th aiid Colambia Road N.W. Four rooms, kitchen, bath and reception room, south- the news today comes from Mexico. Gen. Acosta wired the President: “Captured Gen. ‘Aguirre, and am holding court- martial,” Presi- dent Gil an- swered: “Take photographs be- fore and after.” Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, Mass., was a vis- itor in the county seat here today; stopped-at the leading hotel: was trying to sell some stories of his early life to confession maga- zine. No wonder comedians come from Ok'ahoma. 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Mr. Van Dyke and his party of | 30, a specially selected cast, are at the Mayflower Hotel en route to the wilds of Africa, where the director will film ' the movie version of the novel “Trader Horn.” The party will penetrate 1.500 miles into Africa and will film the picture in the realistic atmosphere of jungles and wild beasts. It was for this reason | that Mr. Van Dyke came to Washin ton in an effort to secure fumes from the Chemical Warfare Service to pro-| tect his cast from the wild animals during the filming of the picture. The screen party expects to be in Africa for a year before the film is com- | pleted. | 1 precious. This will be our third trip, and when that is completed, we will have established a record for Antarctic | transport. Our. ship has been farther South than any of steel to date. The Bay of Whales is the nearest body of water to the Pole. “Comdr. Byrd has not changed a bit. He is a wonderful man, and with him his men come first, then equipment. 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