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B—12 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932 | /NANCY HOYT CURTIS name. She was married to Curtis at|and “Bright Intervals” | At the alumni meeting that is being s |La Piata, Md. in November. 1927 a| She established residence here early president Bryan and Department | Arransed, Senator James E. Watson of e | | MRS. SHAW AVERSE TO POSING | few “days after she was lmlhflr(:" lom‘;:lsl month and while waiting to file T | Indiana, alumnus of De Pauw Univer- FOR PICTURE. s : .| Paris of a final decree in her divorce | her suit has been reading the proof ol \ eads tten 'ucators’ | Washington Novelist Charges Non | oot against Gerald Wynn Wynne, a|a new book, “Try Again." sity at Greencastle, Ind.. will be the | Associati principal speaker. Representative Fred | Support and Asks to Resume British newspaper man. | The novelist's brother, Morton Hovt, | sociation. Maiden Nanie. ' Mr. Curtis served under Herbert Hoo- | Was twice married to a sister of Tullu- T T I | f Boston, ner second husband. | Under the name of Nancy Hoyt she ‘g‘;:“:u‘:- ha?hre‘n docketed for today. ‘wmt:rlnd pu;ll.!hed in 1926 the novelileANA U. GROUP TO Mrs. Curtis charged non-support and | “Roundabout,” an expose of New York VISIT ALUMN' | attending the sessions of the National Ecucators’ Association during the week Extra Special_. | asked permission to resume her maiden | society. Later she wrote “Unkind Star” HERE | of February 22. Camera Beat Any Size New Auto Door Glass Installed, Not Over $2 “GLASSER’S” 2nd and Florida Ave. N. Canadian Explorer Met. 8867 Eskimos Found Franklin Party’s Food. Purnell will be the toastmaster and Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president REPresentative Arthur H. Greenwood, : e e of the American Relic | 1ah Bankhead, the actress, Mrs. Eugenia g e Bryan, president also will speak. Mrs. Purnell is on the says = | Commission in Belgium from 1914 to Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee Srith White. of the University of Indiana, and head musicu_l program. i Special Dispateh to The Star | So18 " when the United States entered | Mrs. Curtis' sister, the late Elinor HOYt of various departments at the institu- ' It bt f},flflls lgflj:] e -Elzg;;}j RENO, Nev.. Pebruary 15.—Nancy |the World War. He and his estranged (Wylle. was well known a5 a poet She | tion, will be the guest of local alumni man. i3 in charge of arrang-ment Ho,. Curts, W'umngmnryn & hovel. | wife have a 3-year-old daughter, Edwina, | dled in New York several years 880. | gy 0ry 24 at the University Club. L ist and daughter of the late Henry M.| Mrs. Curtis was born and educated | . = e e e s o e Hoyt, former solicitor general, filed | in Washington and for several years| Poland has exempted military equip- ity officlals and profes- suit for divorce here against Edward D. | played a leading role in Capital society. ' ment from import duty. | sors will be in Washington at that time - BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Final solution of the century-old mystery of the Arctic—the fate of Sir John Franklin and the crews of the Erebus and Terror—probably is near at hand, according to a report just re- ceived at the National Museum here cf findings last Summer by Maj. L. 'T. Bur- wash, explorer for the Canadian De- part of the Interior The disappearance Britich_explorer and the Winter of 1848 of the famous resulted in the . impetus ever given Arctic ex- xpeditio fter expedition, d American, pushed into ch of the t men, and tting the Polar Tegions definitely on the map Icebound Two Years. s before any clue was 1s and Terror had spent o vears locked in the ice off am Land. deposited a record on the shore the final entry in which stated that both ships were being abandoned and that the crews hoped to make their way along the coast to the mouth of the Back River, which they hoped to follow down to Great Slave Lake, where it might be possible to get in touch with the outer world ¥ m this time on accumulating dis- co have since traced the fortunes of the party from Victory Point. the lace where the Tecords were found Starvation Cove, on the Prince Wil- It was a trail of ‘tons. The record at stated that 105 men had was early April before was due 1o and have been low A S ation Cove there accumulation of skeletons, but r they account for only half the party. They evidently were in hard straits, the living too enfecbled to bury the dead hast Victory Poii left the months With this part of the story recon-, structed—the last Teport was by the Norwegian explorer, Peter Norberg, in 1923—1t has been assumed that the rest of the party continued to press on into the Canadian mainland, perish- ing one by one along the trail. But there is no trace of their skeletons nor his men during | north of Canada. | | | | | | | | MRS. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. | Seeing a plcture of George Bernard , Shaw, noted English author, is nothing | new or unusual, but when one happens | gei @ “shot” of Mrs. Shaw that is something to get excited and talk about Mrs. Shaw, who is not very receptive ‘0 cameranien and has very scldom been | photographcc. 1 here shown as she jarrived at Cape ‘Town, South Africa | Wide World Photo |CHORUS REGISTRATION DUE TO CLOSE TODAY |8,000 Already Have Been Enlisted ’ to Sing at Bicentennial | Exercises. any record of them among the Indians | they might have encountered. Food Supply Nearly Gone. ah's discovery throws a s, on the faie e believes., vhere 1t be- ¢ 3f they went any perish. The slender was neatly exhausted cen cn the road for nearly | It was now approaching when the ice which had e ships would be breaking ‘The on! lope was for the strongest to turn back, try to Tegain the ships, get them 1 to Starvation Cove with fuod for the sick who must be left there. The men, Maj. Burwash’s discovery indicates actually reached the Erebus and ‘Ter- got them clear of the ice and ed sail to Tescue their comrades before n he had submierged s, some dis- On the last! Id m:n who ¢ of the ice and sail them | they reached them both | | Registration for the Bicentennial | Chorus which will sing &t ceremonies [0 be conducted here February 22 will | close today. the Community Center De- partment aunounced Approximately 1.000 persons have | been eniisted to date for the occasion. in_ addition to the junior chorus of 000 children. The chorus will sing “America” under the direction of Wal- ter Damrosch at the exercises | _Groups participating _will include ! the Inter-High School Chorus of 250; {the Washington Choral Festival Asso- ciation, the First Reformed Church Choir, Lincoln Road Chorus and St | John's Choir of Georgetown | MOVIE PRODUCER WEDS LOS ANGELES, February 15 (#).— | John W. 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Both gave it as their opinion that the boxes had been put on the island by white men who had come on the ship which lay on the reef off shore. Both said that when they visited the island a few years ago only the marks of rusty tins Were to be seen. The writer visited this island, but found a low, flat terrain still rovered with snow, and therefore was ble to check up on the rust stains.” The location of this cache found by the Eskimos, Maj. Burwash believes, tends to establish the fact that the chips were brought from Victory Point, where they first were abandoned, under gail. At this place something happened hat made it impossible for one of them, at least, to go any further. The crew had tried to save the food on The kind that makes OLD GOLDS board by bringing it to land before the & g allurin’. craft went down. Doubtless they also had_in their possession the log books Y of the expedition. This would account for the inability to find any written records of the expedition. 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