Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 7

THUKSDAY., JUNE 20, 1929. systems eastern borders of South vu:tmu le'l Our inland trek will bring us to the foot of Mount Nan- sen, which is 15,000 feet high. We sh: attempt to climb this mountain by wi of getting a cross-section of the mlo:y of this great e. On his polar fl Comdr. Byrd will bring back invaluable | information about the Queen Maude Range and its probable continuation across continent. ! ‘The method which the geologist uses | in attacking problems here differs in no respect from his method in other places, yet the combination of the inaccessi- bility of sources of information and the | severest climate of the whole South | make search here fraught with diffi- culties not duplicated elsewhere. | One often hears the argument these | days that the old method of polar| travel is obsolete, but this cannot be uite true. For detailed studies in the eld, such as the geologist must make, there is still need for such transporta- tion as that afforded by dog sledges. There is always an element of hazard in landing an airplane away from the base, but our experience of last season, which resulted in the loss of our plane, must not be taken as an indication that such a method of approach is out of the question. True enough, when one uses a plane in this fashion it is not feasible to move camp about from place to place, as would be the case with dog teams. Terrific winds, together with the blinding blizzards which they cause, made ‘it unsafe for us to venture far afield, both from the standpoint of our own safety as well as the need we felt to be on constant watch over the plane. Ymportance of Preparations. It is easy thus to speculate upon what we want to do and how we shall try to do it. Actual accomplishments of this ; " refully become the " BYRD'S WIEN PLAN [éugticsas s g RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO |5t St B STt T 7ol FOXHUNTERS PLAN |8 e B Tonlis™® haves e, aleo belng made Tor ANTARCTIC RANGES STUDIED (855 e Guia that wit revear the afi,“".’-u‘?"&‘é‘.‘i“h%“’.’%’?uflifl"’#? ANNUAL FIELD TRIALS | yion®tor e Sear Tote. Foue sitver th! doble-enned sledges. l’elluflfl!hlpfl between these two moun- owledge of geology. Every one wil hies will be awarded in this class to FOR SOUTHERN TRIP i s it v - : . e e it S i it o Do | o B Ul 8 T Byrd Expedition Geologist Describes Small | distinct continuation of sreat mentatr | ve A sl irophics aad rivbans will bt e ‘the (c”"'fi E'ts X2 Soet B for publication reserved tmuflwt worl WOULD MAKE "COUNTY UNIT FOR SEWER WORK Petition Presented to Arlington Circuit Court to Set Up Single District. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON ‘COUNTY ° COURT- HOUSE, June 20.-—State Senator Frank L. Ball and Commonwealth Attorney William C. Gloth today presented to Judge Howard W. Smith in Circuit Court a petition to have the entire county set up as a single district in considering the establishment of a sewer system. Judge Smith set July 24 as the date for a hearing. Previous petitions prcsontzd to the! court have called for various sanitar: districts, the first being known as sani: tary districts numbers 1 and 2, no other petition having been presented as yet for other districts. When the matter came before Judge Smith he expressed the opinion that if possible the county should be consid- ered as one unit and suggested that a further study of the situation be made. It was as a result of this suggestion that today's petition was presented. In the petition the court is asked to. set a date for a hearing at which time it is requested to set another date for a_county-wide election to determine whether a bond issue shall be floated to cover the cost of sewer construction. ‘* Arrange Events of Meet for Week of November 4. Mountains in King Edward VII Land and Distant High Peaks. lands already discussed that constitute King Edward VII Land? These are but two of the questions that immediately came into my mind as I looked at them from the tops of the Rockefellers. To the last question it seems more reasonable to suggest that here lles the culmination of Car- men Land, if, indeed, it has a counter-| part so far from where it was noted by Amundsen. Do the heights of Carmen Land and the Queen Maud Range coalesce and continue the superstruc- tures of the mountains of South Vic- toria Land on across the continent? If| 8o, does the range culminate in Graham | Land or in Prince Luitpold Land? On his flight over the Pole Comdr. Byrd should bring back much new informa- tion about the trend of these ranges. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROQKVILLE, Md., June 20.—At & meeting here of the directors of the Maryland Fox Hunters’ Association the various committees appointed at a re- cent. meeting to make arrangements for | the annual fleld trials to held at 'y Rockville the week of November 4 sub- mitted reports. = It was decided to run the Derby Stake Tuesday - and Wednesday of the week |ppm; of Npovember 4 for the Abbe Challenge Cup, presented to the association by Ed~ ward P. Abbe of Chevy Chase, the cup, however, not to become the permanent mperty of any owner until his entry won the stake three years. county. Injured in Fall From Ladder. Walter Langstroth, 62 years old, 1712 street, fell from a ladder placed against a wall at 3349 M street shortly before 5 afternoon. His right LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, June | 18.—There are no real crevices about the mountains; what fractures there are appear to be due to contraction caused by temperature differences, and are always small. In other words, there is no active glaciation here. In fact the terrain about the mountains is com- posed of granular snow like that of the Ross Barrier about the Bay of Whales. It differs only in that the surface is covered with a glazed surface of snow- ice caused by melting in the warm months on account of the nearness to the rocks. Like the Alexandra Mountains—judg- ing from the few specimens collected Scott’s nunataks by Prestrud of mundsen's expedition—the Rockefeller Mountains are composed of granites and associaf rocks, A precursory ex- amination of the few specimens we were lised. The inj surgical aid at Ouulty Hospital J. W. Jordan. Hickory, & native of the United States, is the vood mmt suitable for The All-Age:Stake will be run Thurs- | the handles of tool a year about day, Friday and Saturday, the winner to | 27,000,000 board !ut ol lumber is used be presented the Crawford Memorial in’ this industry. FRIDAY ONLY! COUPON BARGAIN DAY Plans for Summer. It is further hoped and planned that the main field for our detailed geolog- ical work for next Summer will center in the Queen Maud Range and so much of Carmen Land as we can reach. Shall we find mountain ctures here such as are known to characterize the high- lands farther to the northwest? Shall we find coal-bearing sandstones on top of Mount Nansen? These questions and others are of deep interest to the geol- ogist and geographer, and a few of them we hope to answe 1 In the preceding paragraphs I have| |set forth the general notlons about Antarctic geology, with the . problems will probably take three Which will most eciently melt snow t the sas y type unube mb:dc I;\mthe ;a:m:; "fi';,‘; Tents are being built and tested to Dog Teams Will Leave in OC- | one which will be strong s well as [light and give the memixum amount of room. toher for Queen Maud The food for the men is all packed Mounfains and ready for the trail. It has been | ins. | divided In portions which provide | W a | Gally tation for nine men and Is packed | BY LAURKNCE (M. GOULR. ‘ —_— | in bags. When the bags are taken cut, GWI:II;‘ of the Byrd An!ur;l,:: z:nedt;ior: % oA they contain the food for that day. 7 Radio to The Star and The New York | BY RUSSELL OWEN. The biscuits, psmmican, concen-| .M Wireless to The Star and New York Times. ' trated soup, malted milk. cocoa and| (This is a continuation of a story | LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, June bar chocolate are packed in this way. begun yesterday in The Evening Star).| 13.—This _darkness-enshrouded and | Sugar, powdsred milk and tea a mole-like village is busy these days with 'packed in oil silk bags holding a weekly preparations for the southern trin next ' ration. | season. Long before the weather is| Butter is packed in tins. All these good enough 1o fly, dog teams will start | things are packed in canvas boxes for southward, probably about October 15,! convenience in lashing them on the in_order to reach the mountains of the | sledges and so that at each depot the Qucen Maud Range and establish a |requisite number of boxes may merely base under the towering peak of Mount | be,lified off the sledges and cached. Nansen. | “'The delays in getting started in the And while waiting for Comdr. Byrd morning, which every explorer has to take off for his Poler fiight, Larry | found difficult to overcome, will be re- Gould, the geologist, wi'l lead a siedging | duced by eooking oatmeal, the principal party into the Queen Maud Mountains | breakfast dish, in a thermos jar over and gain all the knowledge possible of | night. It has been tried out of doors their structure.. He will also try to| here at 40 below zero and it was found alimb Mount Nansen. [ that the oatmeal cooked perfectly and It is 400 miles from Little America | kept hot for 12 hours while the jar to the foot of the mountains, and it is | rested in the snow. expected that the journey wil take about | Each man will have 214 pounds of a month because of interruptions due | food a day. The dog pemmican is now o blizzards. 'The geological party |being made Into cakes, which will pro- hopes to spend at least & month there, | vide each dog with 113 pounds a day. | aimination of the few specimen rere and. although the tri jome 1 E’ able to bring Cl rom e central quicker 1t o Periods Devoted to Studying. an o(( the range after the dlslstr;:us weeks. |, With all these preparations going on |loss of our plane, suggests that U ey | . ” | it can be s re is little time |are pre-Cambrian deposits. Specialists Work on Equipment. | fi, “43, e ceen that there 8 Hle v | The _discovery of the Rockefeller | Sc careful preparations have to be‘ which is one reason every one is healthy | Mountains adds greatly to the known made to keep a group of men in the | and contented. land areas of King Edward VII Land, | field for three months, a period dur-| Here is a man sewing on a tent, an- | 8nd vet when we consider the rang vhich they will on the provisions carried-with them. ave to depend | other working on their own resources and | two or three oth: slesping bag, and working on sledges or grinding and packing dog food It is this work 70f preparing food | or making begs for the sledgcs. and clothing, tents and sledges which | Every- man wiho has not some special is occupying the earnest atiention of | scientific or rouiine task has enough nearly every one in camp, for the tal- [ to do, and at odd moments he is often ents of every specialist can be exercised | found studying. in some part of the equipment. Those who will go on the sledge party ‘The equipment has aiready pro\:d‘to the mountains are studying geology its worth and shown that the sledging | or meteorology or radio so that they rties are as well equipped as those | may be able to help in the collection cf pas of any expedition which the Antarctic, and possibly in some re- spects improvements have been made. But, as Comdr. Byrd and every one concerned in the work has a desire to add something to the art of sledging and give protection in these bitter lati- tudes, every, attempt is being. made to bring each’ article used as near as pos- sible to pertections Tg attain this end, each detail to be worked out has been made the re-|fallen in the last few days. |ing. I refer to the mountains that lie | mountains of this land and bring back | strument for steering courses in other | 2ger tomorrow night at “the engine | MIRRORS With This Coupen sponsibility of two or three men who, | (CSPYFIERt. 1928, by the New York Timet far to the east of the Rockefellers, | Intormation that will enable us {0 sug- | regions, the magnetic compass, is here | house. Frank Cockrell is chairman of Mhs e eron s .69 Attractive Smoking working ‘on the experience of others | - Kiinis foi- bublicstion Reserved Thioush. Wthin Marle "BYid ~Land. = Thest |gest more accurately the relationship of | unreliable. Comdr. Byrd has always|the fSremens committee making ar- With etched destsn. —_— | | & "o‘x"{é"‘""n"“‘n‘ and their own experience in the field, | out the World. mountains were seen by all who made | these high mountains to other parts of | found the Bumstead sun compass of | FAngements for the affair. Friday oaly ors. priday only. O devise what they believe to be the best thing to meet the difficulties of the trails by us when we were working in the |flight over the Pole. It was always part | navigation, this being designed and & 2 7 Rockefellers. Even our rough meas- |of® his carefully thought-out plans fo| consiructed by v T Every $49 to $69 BOW END & $49 Large 3'D°'f Expefiment With New Devices. OUTLINED BY SPEAKER | urements piaced them more than 70 |jeave mo stone unturned to insure the |man in the sledging party will be SQUARE BEDS , These recommendations and models i miles away and we estimated the high- |safety of his men, He long planned that | equipped with a safety belt, so that ad- s 75 Refrigerator are then' turned over to Comdr. BYId, | a3 wyvell Tells of Importance | “pPetk {0 be well above 5,000 feet. |{requent depots for food and supplies be | vance members can always be roped LEtE oyer trom 4350 . Wih Taow Coptie Who examines and approves them of | M: M. Wyvell Tells of Importance | This highest peak bore such a re- | distributed from Little America 400 | together to prevent any one being lost 16" W0 " Wainur == | S, znow, 3 semblance to the Matterhorn that we |miles inland preparatory to the polar|in a crevasse and to further safeguard L e A Best | nsulation suggests . improvements. In this way many new things have been invented, and adaptations have been made of tried articles of equipment used by other explorers, Such procedure requires a great deal of painstaking work and experiment, | States might engage was emphasizeq | group not only higher, but much more | 1t is a happy circumstance that this | collecting geological specimens. Always but it promises to eliminate much hard- | 1ast _evenine by Manton M. Wyvell, | perfectly defined as a mountain r‘““‘depflt-lnylngppv{ork, which the dog- | in shnrp! Sontrast to such mdifference | NO ASHES—NO DIRT ! witn §,.‘.l.“ce..,,,_ s 95 'port Table s ship due to defects. Washington attorney, in an address de- | than any that have yet been found in | sledging parties can perform, will fulfill | will stand out the heroic example of Velour overstul- e i g Dressing, for instance, offers the most | livered before 60 invited guests in the | Eastern Antarctica. Ahe the high peak | the commander’s needs for safety pre- | Scott and his men. Here was a party | Estimate from Adams 6245 fed suite with 72 e nnned diffieult problem, for it has proved al- | Parish hall of Christ Church, Alex- |and its chain of smaller peaks dis- | cautions and combine opportunities for [of men suffering untold hardships at | ales & e your choice of hish back or | | mahossnr. Frid most_impossible to keep dry while on | 8ndria, Va. The meeting was called | tinctive landmarks of a former more | detailed geological work in one of the | the hands of nature at her worst, and G,,,,,.,. jorvice (erporation: (2-1::;!:\:“"5}:\:& 5 m.’:"h 1 Eacelent s Spr st : . the trail or to keep sleeping bags free of moisture and ice. All sorts of sleeping bags have been made in an effort-to make one that will stay dry, and- attention has been | “OUnc given to the condition of clothing, the construction of tents and many other Comdr, Byrd has experimented with at least a dozen types of foot-gear to find the one which will keep the men warm without causing téo much per- | yior i e 5 ® 'a‘.?";‘,‘:’“um‘;‘&' et Tect are dangerous ,,;’g;,, o nfi'%fifl;fiz\;flw nter‘ est to esl ents $24.50 Heywood-Wakefield | | $22.50 Pure Layer F el! r speakers 1C] e n. has also- tried ‘out: many Kinds | mos A, Fries, U 8. A, retired: Chap- CARRIAGB&STROLLERS '“l.fl:‘:trcm s of m.sn to protect the face against|jain A, C. Olver of Walter Reéd Hos- wun This c:nnl Exira heav ‘:;‘dl m ".‘&:fix"f&"u which hr-: caused 5:"3 5{4{; N}‘X)b{fo N.elwpw" Potts, presl- I h V. o o f 4 uuulllble um: s Syturel-wip Bt bct, Taived R ahints ang | Ser ottty 'm';und;;mm mn;m n the Vicinity o Bal el hed R socks are being made, and several ex- periments are being’made to produce a perfect glove. Nearly every man has his own ideas as to how this should be Sledges are being made, and the ones s0 much last year are being. re- | paired. Each team of dogs will pull two double-ended sledges. The first one | will be a little sledge with a gee -pole . j i@:{%flf‘.‘i Tk st ihm el e LINEN SUITS tb ;:2:: ég'nl:: Dim“ a‘,‘,;,.g‘.‘gt‘:m s195 Building Sledge for the Trail. $1 650 —— an d g s fiw"l‘g"'l;“"‘fi‘.‘m- s].27 S mfi? o work through- ° o ° Day— Only! Regular $2 BlueFlannel Sport Coats Golf Hose GO FNI RS 1)25.F. STREET as been in |specimens or weather data or operate an _emergency radio set. 'he weather still continues freakish. For a week a warm wind from the north has kept up the temperature and today it is 2 above zero. and wire outside is coated with ice and hoarfrost. Our weather has bzen about as different as can be imagined from that experienced by Capt. Roald Amundsen. Several inches of snow has RADIO’S PART IN WAR of Beacons in Address in Alexandria. ‘The importance of radio beacons in the next war in which the United by Miss Helen Norris Cummings of Alexandria, a member of the official board of the National Patriotic Coun- cil, ll:‘d was under the auspices of the Speaking on. the subject, “The Im- portance of Radio in the Next War,” Mr. Wyvell predicted that the Govern- ment would také over all radio stations and facilities in \the event of armed conflict, whether commercial or ama- teur in character. Many of these sta- treasurer of the council, and Col. Edward Cassidy, pmlflenl of the Un‘fcd States Air Force Assoclation. Open a charge account EISEMAN'S, 7th & F prices as a— Friday Special Regular $15 Friday Only Every rope | together with its surroundings, it a pears to be somewhat smaller than has | generally been supposed. The snow | surface ‘about the mountains averages from 300 to 400 feet above sea level and does not appear to change greatly for many miles on all sides. Were the | snow to disappear, it seems likely that to tho south, and some of the more | remote peaks might be isolated from the rest; indeed, the whole might take on the aspects of a rugged archipelago. In other words, Carmen Land of Amundsen’s _description does not cul- | minate in the Rockefeller Mountains | of King Edward VII Land. Peaks in Marie Byrd Land. ‘There is another new land mass in | this part of the Antarctic, as yet un- named, which must be taken into ac- count in all future geological theoriz- flights in the vicinity of King Edward VII Land and beyond, and were noted so named it for the time being. Con- nected with it and disappearing toward the southeast from it is a serrated or comblike ridge of smaller peaks. It is at once evident that here is a mountain extensive glaclation, as they appear to be from the great distance from which we saw them? Are they related to the ' corner of 15th and Washington. at all times. Quality vears. Fruits justly proud. a shallow sea would be found at least | Fresh Meats: | they suggest, together with a brief ac- | count of the first season's work Naturally, we look toward the next Summer season for our major accom- plishments. This work will largely cen- ter in two flelds. From what has pre- | ceded it is apparent that this first Sum- | mer's work is in the direction of the discovery of relationships of West Ant- arctica to the Antarcticandes and South America, as well as to the other great portion of the Antarctic Continent. Not until specimens collected have been more carefully studied can more be said | about the relationships. It is of utmost importance, however, that more work be undertaken in this direction. Therefore Comdr. Byrd is planning for flights not only over King Edward VII Land, but farther to the southward over Marie | Byrd Land. | It is hoped that he will be able to locate the:limits of the new unnamed ‘West Antarctica. Fleld operations nat- urally center around Comdr. Byrd's flight and flights and possible sledge journeys from these depots to the un- | known areas to the eastward. | Safety Precautions. most critical areas of the continent. It is therefore planned that I shall navi- gate this party inland, laying bases en 4B Sts. SE. meats. . Groceries: work call into play a high degree of preparation and careful attention to de- tail which can only be faintly compre- | hended by one who has the task before him. Of supreme importance in all these preparations for both airplane and sledging parties is the need to keep weights of all supplies reduced to & minimum. Even our food and clothing must be considered from this stand- point as well as from that of comfort and necessity. Under the personal scrutiny of Comdr Byrd experiments are in process that will last throughout the Winter as to the best type of cloth- ing, food, fuel, stores and many other items which we must use. The very question of getting to any place Fresenm problems that we do not meet in_lower latitudes. It is not enough that we must sledge across 400 miles of icy desert to reach our field of study. That valuable in- great help in flying. We shall use such compass with modifications for land our sledges. One of the most serious reflections upon the scientific temper of altogether too many past field parties in Ant- arctica has been their indifference to yet, after the hopelessness of their | | situation must have been lpmr!nt to | | all of them, they continued add to A Beautiful New “SANITARY” COMPLETE FOOD STORE We could not rent a store in your neighborhood thaf exactly suited our needs, so we erected a building according to our own specifications. This store will offer only the finest quality Government-inspected .reasonably priced at all times. This store will offer the same high-quality fancy and staple groceries which we have offered in our other Washington stores for the past twenty Retiring City Manager of Alexan- dria Gets Gift From Business Men. Special Dispatch to The Star. 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