Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1929, Page 124

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—-DECEMBER 8, 1929. COMPANIONS Bernt Balchen, who piloted the huge ON AIR DASHTO Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, leader of S . o 3 he Antarctic expedition, who in flyin, i i Harold . June, one of Comdr. Byrd's trusted pilots Ford tri-motored monoplane most of SOUTH POLE : pedition, ying Capt. Ashley McKinley, aerial surveyor of the Byrd on his great Jflight over the South Pole from Little the way on the hazardous dash to the over the South Pole is the first and expedition. who made important geological surveys and America, the Byrd expedition base. South Pole. Wi OTR R oaly man to have crossed both Poles. photographs on the polar flight. A bad mix-up. It happened when Capt. Herbert L. Earnest’s horse failed to clear a jump at the Fort Bliss, Tex., Horse Show. Neither rider nor horse was seriously hurt. ANECEIRYE S EO! The Notre Dame run that beat the Army. Elder. speedy halfback, starting on his run for a touchdown after intercepting a pass near his own goal. © P &A Photos. An impromptu lunch in Rainier National Park. A hotel garbage Thomas Mann, the German novelist, who was award- pail is the bear’s lunch ed this year’s Nobel prize for literature, with his wife and dish. daughter at their Berlin home. ) Wide World Photos. 2 Underwood & Underwood An eagle takes wing from its nest. An unusual close- up as a plane is A greyhound of the Atlantic undergoes a major operation. Fifty men worked in shifts for 24 y i . o ::‘:l;‘fll{legclefsra;:?; hours to put this big patch on the bow of the liner Mauretania. The ship was held in port that long { ~ A - > 3 battleships. after colliding with a car float in New York Harbor. AN e ROl F A 3 e ; © Universal Newsree]