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VALUE TO SCIENCE OF BYRD HOP TOLD Great Mystery of Whether Antarctica Is Diyided May Be Clarified. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 3.—The greatest scientific mystery of Antarctica which the Byrd expedition may help clarify is whether it is one or two con- tinents. 3 . Byrd's camp is on the outer tip of the world's largest glacier, called the Bar- rier, which bites far southward into the land masses of the continent. Around on the other side of Antarctica, nearly | opposite his camp, is another huge bay | that extends southward far toward the | interior. It is the Weddell Sea. Ex- plorers long have claimed that frag- mentary evidence indicated there might be a connection between the water be-| neath the Barrier, where Little Amer- | ica lies, and the Weddell Sea. One of | the Darwins pointed out that tides in- dicated this possibility. " Elevation May Be Answer. The elevation of the country where this break in the continent might exist would go far toward answering the riddle. If the elevations are thousands | of feet, scientists believe the heights would indicate dry land buried in the | ice beneath. Should there prove to be| a low, comparatively flat plain between | the Weddell Sea and the Barrier, it would be taken as indicating the pos- sibility of a thick coating of ice over- lying either shallow water or a series of low islands, about which water might flow beneath the ice. Byrd already has made some short flights in the general direction of the ‘Weddell Sea. In those flights he has found granite mountains sticking up through the ice. His explorations in that direction have not been extensive. Sir Hubert Wilkins plans, if possible, to fly south- ‘ward over the territory where this split in Antarctica would lie, if it exists. One of the reasons for interest in this possible division of the great polar continent is to learn more about the ori; of the earth itself. It is thought that two continents are found, one may prove to be a continuation of the Old World southward, while the other will mark the southernmost extension of the New World. Geologists have learned that there is much sameness in the forms of texture and time of build- ing millions of years ago of the moun- tains that reach from Alaska to the tip of South America, that are named the Rockies in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Andes in the Southern. Rocks Are Similar. Due south of Cape Horn, where the Andes seem to dive below the sea, in Graham Land, & part of Antarctica, the rocks rising again above water have been found to be in some respects like these of the Andes. & But on the opposite side of Anurcéfi the few geological researches m&m passible have indicated a quite er= land structure, one more nearly re- to Australia, Asia and Africa. Geologists long have suspected that detailed examination of Anarctica may show that at one time it had a warm, if_ not.subtropical climate. Dr. Law- rence Gould, Byrd’s geological leader, now nearing his long-sought mountains, is one of the American geologists who has given this idea much thought. The evidences of such a former climate, if found, are likely to lie in layers of what new is rock, but which many millions of years ago was loose wind-blown sand that covered the vegetation, insects and animals, later being pressed into rock and fossilizing the remains of living things so that their shapes and struc- ture are preserved indefinitely. Barren of Life Today. Antarctic to date has been peculiarly barren of indications of former animal or vegetable life. Geologists have had t no opportunity however, of studying the place. If some parts were once below sea level, and later pushed up into mountains or plateaus, fossilized remains of fish and other sea life should exist. Gould's analysis of the rocks which he finds, whether or not it re- veals former life, may help to answer the scientific questions as to what part of the world structure that part of Antarctica belongs to. His researches might reveal existence of valuable minerals. Far to the east- ward of Lis present exploration some evidences of minerals have been found by Australian expeditions, also traces of coal. There is, however, now noth- ing known of Antarctica’s minerals that would indicate it as a possible future El Dorado. ‘The weather. studies conducted by.the Byrd party are of immediate interest to the whole Southern Hemisphere, be~ cause Antarctica is believed to hold the key to the rainfall and other important weather conditions south of the Equator. Iunghdem and cold currents run far northward and influence precipitation. Winds Blow Outward. Available. records show that much of the year on all sides of this ice-covered continent the winds blow outward—that is northward—as if somewhere above its great ice dome there is a keyhole in the | atmosphere, that sucks higher currents | downward and starts them back north | along the surface. ‘There are peculiarities of atmospheric pressure the origin of which is sought. They sometimes sweep rhythmically | across Antarctica at the rate of about | 40 miles an hour and scientific writers have referred to them as mysterious. Belief that their rainfall depends largely on Antarctica is one of the prin- cipal reasons why Australia has been Air Transportation Opens New Field in Fish Stock Shipping “The development of air trans- portation, particularly the pros- pective Zeppelin transocean serv- ice, is opening new possibili- ties in the transplantation of fish,” according to a bulletin of the Nal Geographic Soclety issued today. The United States Bureau of Fisheries, the bulletin says, has shipped abroad since 1923 8,191,- 525 fish eggs and 40,525 young fish. These included trout, bass, white fish, crappie and Gam- busia. The Gambusia are in great demand in Italy and Spain be- cause of their propensity for eating the Anopheles mosquito. ‘This country has imported in large quantities German brown trout, Loch . Leven trout and German carp. Carp now consti- tute an important American fishery. sending expeditions to the cold conti- nent. A few meteorologists say that | when Antarctic weather is understood better, it can be used to predict general weather condittons a year or two ahead in South America and Australia, with | consequent increase in the world's crop | | wealth. Byrd's party is several hundred miles | southeast of the south magnetic pole, | that spot in the Southern Hemisphere where the lines of magnetic force, that curve north and south over the earth’s | surface to guide compasses, dive | straight downward into the earth. Any facts, however fragmentary, which the expedition can bring back about the magnetic glole will add invaluable knowl- edge to the store of information used by scientists to learn more about the earth’s magnetism, with the object finally of finding something to man's advantage. In air transportation, radio heating, cooking, studies of snow and ice, of ocean depths, temperatures and marinc life the expedition is gathering a fund of the sort of first-hand information that scientists the world over long have wished for. REFUSES REVIEW OF LAND BANK CASE U. S. Supreme Court Will Not Reconsider Ruling on Stock- holders’ Liabilities. By the Associated Press. The recent decision holding that the rsonal liability of stockholders in joint stock land banks could be en- forced only by the creditors of such banks will not be reconsidered by the Supreme Court. The decision declared that the receivers of failed joint stock land banks could not enforce the stock- hos"ld.m‘ liabilities. A 2 | Strong.pressure was brought upon the urt to &apen the controversy,.which t had dmed in & case brought by a sharehold€r In the failed Bankers' Joint Stock Land Bank of Milwaukee. The receiver, acting under instruetions from the Farm Loan Board, assessed the stockholders 100 per cent on their stock, as did the receiver of the failed Kansas City Joint Stock Land Bank of Kansas City and the receiver of the Ohio Joint Stock Land Bank of Cincinnati. The Supreme Court held that as Con- gress had not specifically provided that the Farm Loan Board should have au- thority to assess the stockholders, their liability tould be enforced only by suit of the creditors. Declaring that the decision would have a disastrous effect upom the bonds Issued by joint stock land ‘banks and would in large measure retard the Farm Loan Board in its work to aid agricul- ture, the receivers of the banks in Kansas City and Cincinnati joined in petitioning the court to reopen the con- troversy. ~ The bondholders' protective ! committee of the Kansas City bank also filed a petition urging a rehearing. L — JUNE SENDS WORD HOME. Wife and Daughter in Stamford Get Message From Polar Flyer. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAMFORD, Conn., December 3— From the Antarctic there came to Mrs. Harold I June and her 15-year-old daughter, Marguerite Emma June, yes- terday morning their first message from the husband and father since June's flight over the South Pole with Comdr. Byrd. The message, dated November 29, read: 4 “Dear: ““Back to Little Americd again with a big flight behind us, tired but happy. Will be more so when I see you again, LoVe to Marguerite and all at home. “HAROLD.” CONTINUE RELATIONS. Detroit U. and Michigan State to Remain Friends in Sports. DETROIT, Décember 3 (#).—Officials of the University of Detroit and Michi- gen State College agreed last night to | continue athletic relations and the De- troit eleven will play Michigan State -t East Lansing again next year. The celebration of the Detroit foot ball ‘victory this year, which ended with some of the" celebrants in the Lansing | jail, was referred to by officials as “the | objectional action of a comparatively small minority,” which “should not be | permitted to prevent friendly relation- | ship between the two institutions.” e Pay You your IBYRD DESCRIBES FLIGHT IN PEAKS Staked All on Unknown Pass, Winning by Scant Margin Over lcy Barrier. (Continued From First Page.) above it. It was, of course, too tiny to be seen from our altitude. When we had landed at that base the | mountain ridge running In an easterly | and westerly direction about 4 miles south of it loomed above us from the snow as a very large mountain. Now south, southeast and southwest were great towering peaks that made our base mountain look like a pigmy. We real- ized forcefully then how very little, in- deed, the foot traveler sees. Terrible Crevasses Below. Now below us was the ice line of the great glacier, For a distance it was terribly crevassed, cracks running par- | allel, looking like a huge washing board —not a good landing place. The moun- tain peaks and formations that were in our view now were awe-inspiring in their majesty, terrible in the colossal shapes that had been carved into ex- traordinary jagged and rounded forms by ice cutting through them for the untold years that the bottom of the world has been in the clutches of an ice age. B:s we eagerly looked around, we fot insignificant and small among these lofty and eternal peaks, which since the childhood of mankind have sym- bolized its aspirations. Everywhere we looked was some formation probably no living thing ever before had seen, for this area, the coldest on the earth, is dead. Too Busy for Thinking. i But there was little time for such thoughts. Our plane was & busy plane —a great contrast to our lifeless sur~ roundings. There was Mas with his great aerial camera, elated at his opportunity " to record for geography the unknown things about him, snapping picture aft- er picture and panting from his strenu- ous efforts in the rarified atmosphcre of the high altitude. The air bumps were throwing him about as he aimed his 50-pound camera through the win- dow, but all of it didn't prevent him from looking around and smiling at us occasionally. Good old Mac, an in- vincible, straight-shooting fellow to whom .one can't help becoming at- tached. . June Hops About Plane. ‘There was Harold June cranking away at his moving picture camera to get a panorama of the mountains or dashing over to the radio to report our position. The critical time now has cofne. The moment we had discussed a thousand times. What had been our gasoline consumption? Would we have enough left to reach the Pole? Would we have too much aboard to climb over the hump? Calmly, even tranquilly, Harold stands examining the gauges of the five gas tanks in the great wing. ‘Then he unscrews the cap of the tank in the fuselage and measures with a graduated stick the gas left in that tank. He cuts open some of the sealed five- gallon tins, dumps the gas into the tank 5o that we can throw the tin overboard. Each can weighs hardly a pound, but every pound counts at the critical ceil- ing of the plane. He figures for a mo- ment on a pad and hands me the re- sult with a smile. We have enough gas to go beyond the Pole if we don't have to dump any. Then Harold looks at the engines, listens to their hum and ex- amines the gauges. Harold is as expert a mechanic as he is a pilot and radio operator. Balchen Fights for Altitude. ‘There was Bernt concentrating on his | fight to gain altitude, with uncertainty ahead, for the glacier was a long one and the lowest point of the pass before us still was above the nose of the plane. The confused air currents from the cliffs had begun to toss the plane about more violently. We could note tenseness and strain on Bernt's face-as he put hhfisel( into the job he was doing so | well. As T stood there at his shoulder there flashed into my mind for a moment the time we were tossed about in the night storm clouds in the inky blackness over. France on the transatlantic flight. I kave mighty good reasons to know the 'stuff that is in Bernt. In the air and on the ground he plays the game, al- ways true, a capable and dependable man, Air Gets Rougher. ‘The air began to get rougher. Bernt hugged the peaks on the lee side of the pass, where the bumps would be more likely to carry the plane up and down, We were gettipg close to the highest altitude the plane could reach. A 9,000-foot peak was near-us on our right and the wind from our left was striking it and being shot upward, help- ing us, we thought. The altimeter showed 10,000 feet, but we could not depend on that. The barometer here was likely to read the same as over Little America because of local pressure changes. Our weight was a bit over 13,000 pounds. To the right we saw some deep gorges that surely would mean turbulent air. Bernt eased over to the left, where there was a long, fagly smooth slope running up to a pefk, B we could see that behind it and to the |, to his base at Little America. MRS. WILLIAM BYRD, Grandmother of Comdr. Richard Byrd, in her Baltimore home, reading the dis- patches telling of her famous grandson’s flight over the South Pole and his return HOUSE CONGRATULATES BYRD Longworth Radios Praise From Legislators to Explorer as Moore Resolution Is Adopted by Unanimous Vote. Congratulations of the House of Representatives were radioed to Comdr. Byrd at Little America yesterday by Speaker Longworth in compliance with a resolution unanimously adopted soon after the House convened, The resolution, introduced amid applause by Representative Moore of Virginia, was as follows: Resolved by the House of Representatives, that the Speaker is request- ed by means of the radio to convey to Comdr. Richard associates the congratulations of the House on their recent successtul flight over the South Pole, which was marked by such unerring skill and daunt- less courage, and to express its confident hope that the future activities of the expedition under the able and brilliant leadership of Comdr. Byrd will greatly contribute to the world's scientific knowledge. READ NT |. ING OF GRANDSON’S ACHIEVEME —Assoclated Press Photo. E. Byrd and his here made more difficult the flight for altitude. The ailerons failed to respond and the wheel turned loosely in Bernt's hands. Still we were not high enough to safely get over the pass ahead. We saw now the great plateau through the clouds hovering around the peaks to the right and left. 200 Pounds Must Be Dropped. It was a eritical moment. The air was too rarified to hold up our heavy load. Bernt yelled in my ear above the roar of the engines, “We must drop 200 {)ounds immediately or go back.” Harold was standing by the dump valve of our fuselage tank. A little pressure on the valve and we could let go 600 pounds of gasoline. If we dumped that gas we couldn’t reach the Pole and get back to base. Food was the only thing left to throw overboard, but would it be fair to those three fellows if we dumped precious food? We would be a long time on the plateau if we should have a forced landing. We had the Jfood packed in 125-pound bags near the trap door ready for quick action. “A bag of food overboard,” I yelled to Harold. He signaled to Mac, who was standing by the trap door. “Shall I do it, commander?” Mac shouted. I nod- ded. Over went one of the brown bags. Bernt looked around and smiled. That little weight had an immediate effect. A plane when it is hovering near its absolute ceiling is like a balloon. A few pounds overboard will make her shoot up. Not High Enough Yet. Things were better now, but I wasn't sure it was fair to those fellows to dump food. Bernt was easing her over to the right now, where luckily it was clear over the lowest part of the pass. We would get out of the descending currents and probably be helped by the ascending ones. We were not high enough yet. I looked around. Mac was hard at work with his camera. No mat- ter what would happen he had to record those mountains. I felt then that if we had gone down in & tallspin Mac would have taken pictures on the way down. If there had been time I might have told Mac he would have to throw his heavy camera overboard to gain altitude. Mac is a true soldier and he would have obeyed orders, but I am sure he would have followed his camera through the trap door. Harold went nonchalantly about his many duties as if it were ail in a day's work. When he listened to the engines, his pleasure plainly showed in his face. The great Cyclone and two Whirlwinds went on roaring sweetly. If one of them should stop, down we would go to the glacier unless we could dump many hundred pounds very quickly. We had gradually gained more altitude, but not enough. Few Hundred Feet at Stake. A few hundred feet now might make the difference between success or dismal failure. How much_ hung upon those few hundred feet. It was very rough some 15,000 feet high. He avoided the turbulent area, but the down currents ration for ATS off to the Byrd men! now, and Mac and Harold could hardly hold their feet. Very slowly we went | Milk Chocolate forms emergency ByYrp EXPEDITION North Pole in 1926 . . . because up._Suddenly the wheel turned loosely in Brent's hands. “‘Quick, dump more!” he shouted. I pointed to another bag of food. Mac shoved it through the trapdoor, and we watched her hit the glacier. Two hundred and fifty pounds of food—a month’s supply for four men—lies out there on that lifeless glacier. Again it did the trick. We seemed to shoot up. We couldn't let any more food go. Nor could we dump gasoline and have any reserve supply left for reaching the Pole. There was nothing more to dump. We must make it. The minutes went very slowly. At last we reached the pass. We had a few hundred feet to spare. Bernt gave a shout of joy. There were no mountains beyond the pass. The plateau stretched ahead, cloudless and glisten- ing in the sun, giving an unobstructed route to the Pole. ‘We were over the dreaded hump. The Pole lay dead ahead over the horizon. (Copyright, 1920. by the New York Times Co. and the St Touls Post-Dispatch. ~All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) The third and last installment of Comdr. Byrd's own story will be pub- | lished by The Star tomorrow. i BYRD POLAR FLIGHT SEEN AS AMERICAN IDEALISM S Aregntine Press Praises Flyer, Cit- ing Material Prosperity of U. 8. as Helping Factor. By Cable to The Star. . BUENOS AIRES, December 3.—The newspaper El Diario, commenting on Comdr. Byrd's South Polar flight, says: “For those with any imagination, | Comdr. Byrd's flight over the South Pole Is as exciting as the most legend- ary adventure, But for Ameficans this capture of both Poles by & member of one of their oldest families must be particularly moving. “The world frequently refuses to for- | give the United States for its economic preponderance, forgetting that it is only | this material prosperity which makes possible ~ far-reaching ~ spiritual and idealistic achlevements which to coun- | tries less prosperous materially can only r'emlln dreams impossible of realiza- tion, “The latest achievement of Comar. Byrd and his companions must remind | us of the great idealistic capacity and | power for the general welfare of the | Nation they represent.” | The famous asphalt lake at Trinidad, Spain, is a huge mass of seething pitch, | 110 acres in area. At least 5,000,000 tons of pifch have been removed from the lake since its discovery. @he Foening Htar - AIVERTISENENTS RECEIVED HERE B o Riverside Pharmacy—2134 New York Ave. NORWEGIAN DOUBTS AGCURACY OF BYRD Explorer With Scott Calls Expedition a “Speculation in Sensations.” By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 3.—The Mail to- ddy says that the accuracy of the report of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd of his south polar flight has been challenged by Maj. Tryggve Gran, Norwegian airman and explorer, who was a member ofsthe Scott Antarctic expedition. A dispatch from Copenhagen cites a statement Maj. Gran made to the news- paper Ekstrabladet, in which he said, “I am not justified in saying Comdr. Byrd did not pass over the Pole, but the whole expedition appears to be a| speculation in sensations.” Doubts He Saw Cairns. He stated that the report of the American aviator did not inspire confi- dence, and in particular doubted the | statement that Byrd saw the cairns of Scott and Amundsen. Gran said, “In my opinion, ft would be nothing short of a miracle if the cairns weré so well preserved that they were visible from the air against the white snowplain.” The terrible mountains which Comdr. Byrd describes are, according to Gran, a “fantasy.” He sald his own experi- ence ahd that of Amundsen, discoverer. of the South Pole, as revealed in dis- cussion with himself about the char- acter of the landscape, show that there are no mountains, Could Use Motor Cycle, He says. “When we returned from Scott's ex- pedition, we agreed the trip might be made with a motor cycle, the land be- ing, on the whole, a plain, except for crevasses and ravines.” Maj. Gran is about 40 years old. As & lleutenant in the Norwegian Navy in 1914 he flew from England to Norway and accomplished the first air crossing of the North Sea. Capt. Scott took him to the Antarctic as a ski expert. In 1919 he was navigator of an air ex- pedition which was to_attempt At- lantic crossing _from St. Johns, New- foundland, to Europe, but which was abandoned after the narrow escape of Harry Hawker in the same attempt. In 1922 he was reported to be plan- ning a flight across the North Pole from Spitzbergen. At that time Raoul Amundsen was in Alaska planning a similar flight in the opposite direction, but neither of them actually made the attempt. TIMES ANSWERS GRAN. Mountains Are at 86 and 87 Degrees, Where Plateau Starts. NEW YORK, December 3 (#).—The New York Times, commenting upon dis- patches saying Comdr, Byrd's descrip- tion of the South Polar area had been | ggve Gran, said patches from Little America has ever told of Comdr. Byrd coming upon traces of the camps of Capt. Amundsen and Clpt. Scott. “By Capt. Amundsen's own record of the position of the base—Framheim— Comdr. Byrd has been able to go to the approximate site, and Little America is located not far from it. “Capt. Amundsen’s book tells of the ‘woodwork of his hut and the heroic task of his carpenters. Radiating from the house were snow tunnels and caverns. “‘As for mountains reported by Comdr. Byrd on the Polar flight, they were be- tween 86 and 87 degrees, and south of | that the commander described the ter- | rain as an ‘almost limitless plateau.’| ‘Thus Maj. Gran would be correct in as- | suming that there were no ranges south | of 88 degrees.” s LR 2 A IO LA We owe the Christmas, stocking and | the excellent use to which it is put to St. Nicholas, the patron saint of chil- dll'el'\l generally and of 00lboys in par- ticular. | Scientific Results to Be of { Angers could never be so exact, or spread GERMANS PRAISE BYRD'S POLAR HOP Great Value Through Aerial Mapping. By Radlo to The Star and the New York *" Times. BERLIN, December 3.—Comdr. Byrd's flight continues to be acclaimed as an outstanding sclentific achievement in the German press, which points out the difficulties confronting the explorer in the Antarctic as compared with those to be overcorte in the North Pole re- gions, where open stretches and drift- ing ice packs often facilitate the prog- ress of ships to points in close prox- imity to th= Pole. Curt Seibert, who accompanied Dr. Wilhelm Filchner on the German South Pole expedition in 1912, designates Comdr. Byrd's flight as an extraordinary accomplishment in ~ that he had no predecessors in those regions. “He is the air pioneer of frigid zones, and he has pointed the way which must be followed if the Antarctic is to be successfully explored from the view- point of geography,” Herr Seibert said. “Even 1if his first flight was in the nature of a sensation, and assuming that Bjrd succéeded in bringing back pnotographic records as the result of favorable visibility, the scientific yields of his flight will soon be forthcoming, for it will now be possible to establish permanent bases from which regular flights can be undertaken which would ultimately result in accumulating the photographic material required for the preparation of authentic maps.” Herr Seibert believed that Comdr. Byrd's ability to keep his three-motor plane aloft in the frigid air of the Antarctic suggested the question whether the dirigible was preferable to the air- plane, in view of existing impressions that the dirigible, because of its slower speed, was better suited for photo- graphic observation. The Graf Zepgeun. he added, will have an opportunity to demonstrate the relative merits on its flight to the North Pole. RASMUSSEN AIDE COMMENTS.* Bryd Took Big Step in Solving Puzzle of Antarctic, He Says. Special Dispatch to The Star. COPENHAGEN, December 3.—Comdr. Richard E. Bryd's dramatic flight to the South Pole and back is hailed with enthusiasm in Denmark, which has sent brave explorers into the polar ‘wastes. Amateurs with short-wave radio sets in Copenhagen were able to hear the historic signals from the Ice Barrier flashing the .ews that the South Pole had been conquered from the air, One of the first to spread word of Comdr. Byrd's achievement here was an ama- teur named Peter Jensen, who, on a small short-wave set, heard the ex- change of signals between the Bay of Whales and the New York Times office in New York City. Proves Value of Planes. Peter Freuchen, Danish explorer, who accompanied Knud Rasmussen on his most perilous journeys in the Arctic, said Comdr. Bryd’s flight was of ines- timable value to all polar wom “Comdr. Byrd has given double proof of the value of the airplane as a new tool in the explorer’s hands. From a scientific point of view, the flight was without object, but it demonstrated the efficacy of using every modern technical aid to success. From the sporting point of view, it was simply wonderful, “For me, as an Arctic explorer, the special interest of the flight lay in Comdr. Byrd's photographic charting of unknown territory. His charts should be virtually error-proof and of much greater importance and reliability than those we made in the old-fashioned way. We had to make our charts on sledge journeys, and what we drew with frozen The Flower said to it grew: Look how up-to-date Results Do Produce Causes inknown ' territory Amundsen did on all his long, hard derings over the ice. If Comdr. Byra supplements his mapping work with a complete study of weather phenomena in the Antarctic, he will have done much toward solving the conundrum of the frozen continent.” Minute Plans Are Lauded. Helge Bangsted, the young Dane who had charge of f. W. H. Hobbs’ weather station on the inland ice of Greenland, said Comdr. Byrd had now triumphed in the world's three most dangerous flights, . “Some of the glamour of his early adventures has been left behind him,” Mr. Bangsted declared. “There remains & mature and sober man who has been able to carry through this great feat only on the strength of preparations which went to the minutest details. It is not a stroke of luck that Comdr. 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