Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1931, Page 4

“m m Perilous Journey Made to Sketch Possible Message From Couple Today [Nells of Plans to Leave Baker Lake for Hunter Bay. ' (Continued Prom First Page.) ] zoute, which is 1300 miles long, will him to Hunter Bay for his next 8top, & flight of 650 miles; thence across Lake to Fort Norman, 275 . From there a 350-mile will bring him to Aklavik. Better Than Shorter Route. This route was chosen in preference 0 a shorter line along the northern rin of Canada, where fog over an uninhab- fted wilderness increased the hazard of the flight, although the distance of ,100 miles could be negotiated in one day under favorable flying cond:io:s. Northern flyers pointed out the dan- B R A they were forced down in the wilderness and were unable to take off again. FLYERS HELD IN SIBERIA. Bad Weather Virtually Ends Chanoes to Beat Post and Gatty Record. TOKIO, August 4 ().—In the face of jvorable weather reports, jugh =4 and Clyde "“""’..‘.i‘é jome, | party. We compr .y, althol ; yosszziay scanned the cky. ne ihe fiight thw m&n reporis were hour i i I 5 §a i !§ i it 1 1 i i £ I i i £ i 1 into Un- After they ! TRIP OVER ARCTIC ICE DESCRIB England-to—Canada Route by Expedition. In the following 1%«& Jomer M. eott, n«m,w end driver o) i [ with !az ‘compgnions over the A eTue n She Touthuwest: at Tvigtut was enounced on Se BY JAMES M. SCOTT. By Radio to The Star. L e b O AR vk The ides of this y was conceived last November when H. G. Watkins, Jeadsr of the expedition, and I failed 1to qur the expected distance on our scutharn journey. | X av air route is to cross Greenland its courms must ng sout last Autumn from the center station. '7s found that the height de- creased .cuthward in a line between De Queriaine ndn‘fld :’v;tum't t‘hs hicheué points, it we lar enou 5" complete. the at that sicrmy season profile. On the evening of July 1 Andrew Stephenson, Lieut. Martin undnynlnflfl an ther. the ice cup to find out what we could about its altitude. Find Companions. For t)): first two nights we were ac- comparied by a small vhotorr-vmc re very glad of their h at times a emba;rassed by their attentions. They had ihefr shers of adventures among the crevoeses, hvever, for t Lieut. Cozens stok to lis armpits s snow bridge whim taking a photograph of the camp. me: i i il E " §;§g | 5 : " i q i g f i it & g i & 4 L] & i i H g : 1 i: %§ I j o i i s; 5 i E g7 i Fped . i Eg s | sacks and Mountains, which inland to do on the map. i f 1 3 v } d !l E : ] i 8, i i ! M i ; t i i i 57 3 éfip '-! n £ 1} necessarily be modm:di by iht tldtude of the ice cap. Travel- |For the | i | Jjust before we reached the mountains, Follow Flowery Trail. 4 Next morning we started on our first two hours we fol delightful flowery route through the mountains. Then we came Glacier. Here we had quite & lot of trouble, for the nlor was steep and tollsome ending to such a pleasant sledge journey. ~ Find Home Comforts. came hot baths, our lettérs from home, delightful of food and up- te of fhom Ivigt: for Burope or America, W previous m.é’mh. » « ht. 1931, in the United Sta - American Rewspaper Adisnce. ng, 5. g e eurhere Y 350 the New York Times, London. All rights reserved. GERMANS PRESS STUDY. Expedition Passes Winter in Central Part of Greeniand. BY DR. JOHANNES GEORGI, Ohlet of the Central Station. Glerman Green- Special Correspondence of The Star. CENTRAL STATION, German Green. land Expedition, May 8 (via Berlin July 21, NANA)—~We have passed | the Winter in the center of the inland ice without mishaps and in the main i to mho:me Our health was a ical and glaciological ried on without interruption, as far as the limits of equipment and labor per- uwurw‘n the sinking of Lh:“lm'pnnture degrees below zero D ornmcryluhmmhmhm cticable, we dug in on October 5. | while fle I was staying alone here last Summer, between July 30 and Septem- ber 13, T had dug out, to a depth of about 6'; feet, a shelter for the station baromet The cold was kept out by curtains of reindeer skins, and for ven- tilation we made a hefe about 4 inches | in diameter through the ceiling ‘was at first about 63 feet, and later in- creased to 10 feet. For sleeping places we had cots SNOW snowfalls to close | Wall imipro: plgf«:&uw had in ample quantity. we am| 3 Even the addition of Dr. Loewe caused no e d , at the height of the table be- tween 5 and 18 degrees below freezing | and near the floor it fell as low as 4 | degrees below zero, so that at table or doing any work one had to sit in a sleeping bag. An unexpected difficulty arose from the condition of our comrade, Loewe. ‘Thro we ugh massaging saving his feet. but all the toes of the right foot and four of the left had to be amputated. The fifth we had to leave ‘.‘m""..“.‘v.%fi“m"' e by the doctor at Umanak. Pocket knives, tin shears | m-h&mnvmmmm- FRTLAL] T iy I of the SO0 I JEWELS TAKEN BY BANOIS New York-Man Says He Was Foreed From Hfinois Bus and Robbed. By the Assosiated Press. DES PLAINES, Ill, August 4.—Julius Dreytus, presidient of the firm of Aaron J. Dreyfus, “jewelers, New York City, Wiis robbed of $100,000 in unset Dreyfus, who spent yesterday in Rock- was bound for Fond-du-Lac, Wis. There were three passengers besides himself and the driver. At Oak Grove two of the passengers ADAMS DISCARDS NAVAL POLICIES OF Governors Meet THREE STATE CHIEFS AT WHITE SULPHUR. ) | ford, boarded the bus at Wateriown and | ROUP of Governors photographed at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where they are spending a few days. They are, left to right: Gov. John G. Pollard of Virginia, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and Gov. William C. Conley of West Virginis. —A. P. Photo. DENBY AND WILBUR|\; ¢ PREPARES STYLE BOOK FOR EDITORS AND PRINTERS 5 “To operate airplanes from aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, and with fleet. .|the Marine Expeditionary Forces to their full authorized complement. “To develop by trial the types of airplanes best suited for: “Increasing the effectiveness of naval | vessels. “Destructive attacks on all classes of naval objectives. “Scouting and patrol. “To_determine the practicability and desirability of operating airplanes from all classes of naval vessels. ¢ “To complete the rigid airships now under construction, or &) iated for, with & view to by opera- 3 %fl'flh the fleet, their operations. only such non-rigid air- ships as may be necessary for training To Exercise Economy. In line with President Hoover's de- mands for economy in governmental xpenditure, the new policy statement udes the following paragraph: ““To exercise such economy in expend- compatible with ttie effi 5 “To make war iclently the onjet | of all training and to maintain o:i cy during the entire peace,” was one of the more important the necessity of & West , the statement said it build the e ‘The | San thickness of the neve covering our abdde In the end we compelled to lower the the space usable, several times, the amounting to more & half. of the load of snow on our roof—almost 10 feet, with a weight of about 22 “mum; ¢ |than 30 wi; | Committee of Experts Ponders Old Rules in Attempt to Clarify Standards and Bring Them Up to Date. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Uncle S8am is now preparing what 3t is hoped and expected will be accepted as a national standard of style—a man- ual of practice for editors, publishers, newspapers, printers and writers—to be used as a text book in colleges and business 1s. schools. 5 ‘The initiative in this important task, two sections of which have already hu:n ised by Congress to fix the style to be followed for all Government His style manual is already & wi used suthority, but it is his aim to have the new revised handbook repre- sent & most thorough study of the com- m«m t, so that it may merit as & standard. ‘The Public Printer has held back the publication of his revised manual to se- cure the co-operation of an Interde- ental Committee, with the idea of s0 perfecting the manual that it would be & model not only for all ml:olmmao vernment visory Go “lcih l.)nl‘;‘m fenry D. Hul muom at the Bureau of because of his work for mofe years in the standardization fleld. Others on the committee are ‘Webster P. True, editor, of the Smith- sonian Institution; Frank D. Smith, ;ll':nl ncehle:m(:l f"h"}""m' UlllM ent of Agriculture Martin A. gberu Library of Congress. Alice M. Ball, State t, and Mm,“lflne of the United States rvey. ‘The Public Printer W upon this Co-operating Comm! that the chief aim was to do the job carefully w thoroughly. Tl}ey have been meet- year. the which covers questions of capitalization. the interdepartmental todsy and the use w The second section was approved by | group will be presented to the Public Printer | tomorrow. This second section covers | of compounds and hyphenated | ords. These two subjects are consid- ered the most m&“ flmmemtm of t publ n-udnndmemm,‘fm., " in vised Government style manual. MRS. VANDERBILT'S SUIT [ FOR DIVORCE UP TODAY “leno Judge to Hold Private Hear- ing in Action on Cross Complaint. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nevada, August 4 —Mrs. Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, jr., was to present a plea for a divorce before Judge Benja- min F. Curl here toda At the request of her counsel a private hearing was arranged. Attorneys said Mrs. Vanderbilt, the 0% | former Mary Weir Logan of we h‘VhMllod"w'lrdflnmfl- tion. ‘When this_information reached the west station Prof. Alfred Wegener, the expedition's leader, set out for the cen- tral station on 21, accom- panied by Dr. Fritz Loewe and 13 Eski- mos, they carrying 2 tons of i Forty days later Dr. Wegener, Dr. Loewe and ‘Rasmus T e i sty et S T on dump their last provisions 6 miles the central station. i § q 4 il . i 3 i i fi! it T §»’h§g§§ fifet 4 i H i § By ¥ i 852 i 4 ¥ i g EE § i a4 1 i i i ) } ks ! is ] : | f ] gy 9 2 ;/l £ 1, probably would obtain & decree without a contest on her cross-complaint charg- ing crueity. Vanderbilt, paper also an suit. Specific allegations were not made public. The Vanderbilts were married here July 3, the day she obtained & divorce and 'e‘lku vloll:‘ C‘l’\‘l’e‘ the former had been divorced nine mom ;egrne Executive Officer FORMER STAR REPORTER GETS APPOINTMENT. former news- | 1928, from Waldo Logan. Vanderbilt | Rattler Collector Dies of Bite With Snake Serum Near Pike County, Pa., Re- cluse’s Body Found by Neighbors. By the Associated Press. PORT JERVIS, N. Y., August 4— SPEEDERS’ FOE IN CRASH Motor Cycle Policeman Sinclair, Struck by Car, Escapes Injury. j | ARGENTINA CLOSES SOVIET TRADE FIRM Yushamtorg® Found Political Rather Than Commercial in Its Activities. R, ; Al il | i it i By the Associated Press. L BUENOS AIRES, August 4.—On the basis of documents seised in & raid, the Yushamtorg was described by the i pre- - ® WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE & The Great Clothing - Classic is on! 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