Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 46

POLAR PARTY BUSY Winter months, 3 model exact to the slightest detail. The talk shifts from Norway to music and the dangers of sailing along the THE SUNDAY tered sbout and outlines the strongly T 1 it pl the Block It is a pleasant place, oc! Huuxe.u:d:uone es there on & bunk STAR, WASHINGTON, REPORT MRS. CONVERSE PLANS TO ASK DIVORCE DOl M. Converse, wealthy sportsman snd clubman, now in Hollywood. Mrs. Converse daclined to say on what grounds her suit would be based. SEPTEMBER 15, 1929—PART 2. trate and one time president OVERCOME BY ARIMONI/ Workers in Hotel Hit \by Fumes it fince quickly after first The hotel, an 18 lding | been completed ond was | for its formal opening ace of un- s oot 10 e Winjen thng. | o KR e T Giitin Balchen will tell of his hunting and ;he heart and makes one reluctant to flying experiences, leave. yTh'ure are long periods of quiet when (Copyright, 1929, by New York Times Co.) Strom fills the small room with melody B A and the open door of the stove throws a soft yellow light over the gear scat- She explained it was “just a natural drifting apart.” The couple was max- ried in 1922 at a wedding that was one of the social events of the season. They have no. children. ‘Mr. Converse last month accompanied New York Life Insurance Co. Mr. Con- verse inherited a fortune from ther, Edmund Cogswell Con- From Bursted Pipys. BIRMINGHAM, Als., September 14 (#).—More than a dozen worhers were | et overcome after ammonia pipes in the ial ate his brother, George Peabody Co! Leeward, a nautical term, means in | DAsement of the new Thomas Jefferson "xnn 3'}“‘&“ 1:ws‘md“gx'u5gfi:-fg b verse, New York banker, to Holly- the direction of the win to hospitals, but the others recoversd the States risk. The HUB Furniture Co., 7th & D Sts. N.W. 52 forOver 29ears Allowance for o il Jor Dependable furnitre ~ When Buying a Suite at the & sk M) [ =il Regular Marked week. It 1s owned by the Baker ration, which operates a cha otels in Texas. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 14.—The New York American, in a copyrighted story today, says Mss, Marian McCall Converse is preparing to ‘leave for Reno to obtain a divorce from Converse verse. PLANNING FOR TRAIL Brilliant Sunshine at 60 Be- low Finds Byrd Men Work- ing Like Bees. — In 1783 there were but 43 newspapers in, the United States. BY RUSSELL OWEN. By Radio to The Star and the New York ‘Times, LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Sep- tember 11.—Brilliant sunshine and 60 below zero. The last few days have | averaged 50 below. | The two large houses are crowded | with busy men getting ready for the trail, making charts, overhauling tents, repairing sleeping bags and footgear, and in the mess hall there is a con- stant hammering on an anvil and on the long table, where trail stoves, stoves for heating the airplane engines, dog harness and radio sets are being made or put in condition for the Summer work. There is no room for quiet discus- sion from early morning until dinner | time and no escape from the din of | manufacture and the bantering which | accompanies all effort. About the only place in camp that is relatively quiet is in the house which Arthur Walden and Chris - Braathen built, a tiny house for two men where at present they are repairing sledges. It is not noisy and there is only room for two men to work. By climbing up on a bunk, one may keep out of | !ge way and talk without disturbing them. | Snow Cellar Entrance. | The entrance to it is through a snow | B cellar, two rooms divided by a snow | partition, filled with ski and sledges and dog harness. The floor has been cov ered with tracked-in snow so that f undulates and one's head brushes the feathery festoons of rime that deco- rate the, ceiling with all sorts of fan- |- tastic designs. i One room is used for cutting up BN¥. seals as food for the dogs, and from BT it runs a long, dark tunnel, from which | J% come the growls and impatient barks of two teams which have lived there all Winter. It is very much like the whitewashed cellar of an_old-fashioned | house in which there are half-concealed | Tecesses and_dim vaults, but instead | of holding the family preserves, they |& contain articles that are seldom seen outside the Polar regions. Pushing through this tangled pas: sage one comes to a door and opens it. There is warmth and light, the‘ fishy smell of burning seal in the stove, two work bench | sledge filling most of the floor space | and two bunks, one over the other, in | a corner. Chris is sitting on a stool working away at something with a knife and Walden is lashing a sled. | “Come in, come in,” says Chris with a cheery smile. “Sit down and be com- fortable. Sliding Top Kitchen Cabine Made of hardwood with (] convenient compartment, aluminoid SLIDING top. ss«ml priced. ay 31.00 a Week ; $179 Genuiri Walnut-Venered 10-Pc. Dining oom'Suite 1 Notice the massive understructure of this beautiful ten-piece ensemble of It is a dining room group that you will enjoy seeing in your own home. Included are full size extension table with extra leaves, magnificent china cabinet with glass door. Large buffet and server add great desirability. A host chair and five guest chairs complete the group. The 3 seats are covered in jacquard velour. No Added Cost for Credit on This Suite—T he Hub walnut veneer on gumwood. Metal Day Bed Outfit 514 A ‘This outfit consists of a wood-finished day-bed, n:.mnne mzptLess and valance. Complete. Curly and Bearded. His hair curls in every direction, | most of his face is concealed by a | beard, of which for some reason he is inordinately proud. He bends over his bench and works rapidly, with con- | centration. Walden is shorter and more silent, a pipe in his mouth, his face wrinkled | by wind and sun. He is a veteran of | the Klondike gold rush, when he freighted goods into the interior of Al-| aska, and he introduced the tandem | double-ended sledges and the gee pole to_Antarctic trail work. | He thinks the Antarctic the most | monotonous place in the world, for there are no hills, nothing to look at, no game—just snow and ice. When | he talks, it is like a machine-gun sput- tering, so rapidly do his words fall from () A handsome suite, carefully made and expertly finished. As sketched, a buffet, server, exten- Dining Room Suite sion table, china cabinet and six his lips, ‘and he s decided i his tapestry seat chairs. 1 1 E opinions. M Cheis s a salor, has been one et s 5 No Added Cost for Credit at This Low Price life and never drove dogs before. | Proud of Mongrel Team. But how proud of his team now. 1t composed of .all the mongrels and | t-off dogs which other men did not | but Chris gets work out of it. der is half blind and an animal whc.e meekness hides its intelligence. | Chris will fight for any of them, the | Goat, the Rat or Moose-Moss-Mouse, the leader. e is the best leader in camp, yes, ,” Chris says. “He does just what I want him to do, that he does. All Winter he has been loose in the tun- nel and has gone out, because I told him not to. A good dog. Don't anybody anything about my dogs. They wr for me and I stand up for them, that I do. Yes, sir.” | | ; » d It is a comfortable house built of T % 3 3 9;1125“223‘?(1:. metimes it is called % . t e craf ecause part of it : Davenport Table Period design table $3 98 ] Floor Lamp $64 nce shade - with _siass 4 frings. A most artisiic lamp. 50c a Week Student Lamp $1.98 Adjustable 'to various 3 positions — cor wita shade, cord and sucket No Phone Ordars 4 $169 Combination Mohair Living Room Because we want every homemaker in Washington to acquaint themselves 2= with the marvelous values in living room furniture we offer this outstanding value —a handsome combination mohair covered suite consisting of a settee. an arm- chair and throne back chair with mahogany finished top rail and loose spring filled cushion seats. The reverse side of cushions is covergd in moquette. No Added Cost for Credit on This Suite—The Hub Sui i l’:!!n ;{1 some way crammed themselves o it nEut 1(!; real name is the Block House, after the sons of Paul Block, th Newark publisher. o held an engine, and sometimes the “Twenty-two Club,” because onge 22 finished in mahogany. Specially priced at...... $149 Loose Cushion Bed-Davenport That house was put together - fully. Three times pchns gnudewglflt?n got_ together the material for it, and three times it was taken from them for other purposes. They picked up bits of wood wherever they could find them and hid them in the snow, and | when freighting over, annexed an engine crate and with other bits of wood constructed the only two-man house that has ever been used for a | IS Winter in the Antarctic. “Were Lucky to Get It.” 1t is a place of seclusion and retreat. They call it Luckheim, because they were lucky to get it and “heim” is Not- wegian for home; half 'American and half Norwegian are the inhabitants. | Building the stove was one of the |/ life. Chris is a capable engineer as well as sailor, but everybody has ideas as to how a’ blubber stove should be uilt. They wrangled with Chris over for two days while he was trying to memorable incidents of the early camp | g cut up a steel gasoline drum. He | o ‘would hit it a crack and the drum ! would bounce, with Chris after it; it | leaped and skidded and rolled all over the place while good advice was offered to him, until such a steady stream of Norwegian imprecations came from him that he could not say a coherent *°A¢ ditn er he was joshed some more and picked up a flimsy camp chair to throw. The chair collapsed and Chris gut l},l t‘lm;!led upl in it, and when he vas finlly free of the thing he too tired to throw it. = . Tlhmdmnw%e Comdr. Byrd. “I understand you are mal Chris,” he said. . Kok ¢ siare, Chris’ jaw dropped as he glared in | speechless rage and involuntarily his hand closed over a roll. Then he realized he couldn’t throw it and sub- sided into a profound silence. But he made the stove, and it has burned seal blubber all Winter, giving out an intense heat. The fat drips down below and is ladled up and poured on the flames, so that nothing svl)u to’ ‘l;l“gebe x:' m‘“ld when & fresh plece of blubber is spread and on the fire, » o Norwegians Gather There. At night the house is a gathering place for the Norwegians, who under- stand the art of silence. Baichen and Strom are to be found there them, Strom playing idly on his accordion, | &7 the sailor instrument, songs of his Northland, gay tunes of Italy and France and some of the Southern mel- odies of America. His huge bulk tow- ers up above the others, as, mouth, he smiles benignly on the m& ‘WIldon ]c. ls up in a wn;? with , or Dl 8 D, per] think- l';:‘;‘o{ his old dog Vhinook; gd is busy on the model of the Suite This comfortable suite of three pieces consists of a long loose cushion bed-davenport, an arm- chair and a wing chair, uphol- stered in velour. Save $30.00! $5.00 Down—The Hub AR i "i‘w $109 Veloor Living Room ‘Sult You save $40! Actual value is Velour-coyercd settee, armchair wing chair to match. $100. and Loose cushion spring-filled seats add to the comfort of each piece. *69 $5.00 Down—The Hub The HUB SEVENTH .:%VND : 50c a Week Fiber Rmker Brown fiber rocker With roll arms. $3.98 No Phone Orders o Tabouret $1-00 ', - nait Gholiy Mihae® No Phone Orders Three-Piece Fiber Suite Settee, armchair and rock- er to match, of brown finish fiber. Con tonne cushions. 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