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A—4 =» ELLSWORTH FLIES CVER ANTARCTIC Balchen Lands Plane Safely at Bay of Whales—Will Meet Byrd. (Continued From First Page.) make. He said his chief desire was to settle down and establish a home. SURVEYS UNKNOWN. Ellsworth Exploration Adds to Value of Byrd’s Expedition. This story, telling of the dangers Ellsworth would encounter, was written before the flight. NEW YORK, December 26 (N.AN. A) —Lincoln Ellsworth’s flight with Bernt Balchen across the Antarctic continent is an effort to bisect one of the great unknown areas of that iand, an area which has been in recent years of most interest geologically. ‘The flights made by Admiral Byrd and Harold June recently from Little America have added to the im- portance of Ellsworth's flight, if any- thing, because their discoveries indi- cate that the land masses of Marie Byrd Land and the polar plateau it- self are ioined some distance inland, southeast of the Ross Sea. The flight is one of the most dan- gerous ever undertaken and if Ells- worth and his pilot are so unfortunate as to come down, with®no hope of getting off again, on the first half of their trip, they will probably be beyond rescue. Walking out would be impossible and even if Byrd's planes could reach them by relays—which is doubtful— it would be a miracle if they could be located in that vast and desolate ‘waste of snow. Their greatest danger at this time of year is due to cloudy weather or quick changes. If they can be as- sured of good weather at Little Amer- ijca when they reach there, their dan- ger from this cause will be removed because Balchen has proved on many flights, particularly the one with Byrd | across the Atlantic, that he can fiy | blind for long periods of time. And ! this time he has better instruments. | Bad weather in the middle of the | flight would prevent careful study of the surface contours, but it would not necessarily be dangerous if the plane's motor keeps running. But good weather at the start and | at the finish of the flight is essential. | Ellsworth will hit the unknown, be- yond the limits of Sir Hubert Wil- kin's flight, very quickly because of | the speed of his plane, and what he | sees on the first part of the journey | will be second in interest only to | his observations just before reaching | the limit of Byrd's trip to the south- east. (Copyright. 1924, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc., and the New York Times Co.) MOST HOBOES FOUND FLEEING FROM WORK Louisville Tests Show Odds Are 7 to 5 Panhandlers Should Not Be Aided. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (P can you spare a dime?” The question, according to findings of the Louisville welfare and police de- partments, is not whether you can, but whether you should. And the odds are about seven to five that you shouldn't “Brother, | nation of Swedish cultural life, Louisville’s panhandlers are being subjected to tests to determine whether they are compelled by cir- | cumstances to beg or do so to avoid work, | The study thus far has revealed thay 7 out of every 12 who beg are unworthy of cash assistance. The cases are investigated . by trained social workers, following the arraign- | ment of panhandlers in police court. Relief and corrective agencies extend help or fix punishment. | The chronic “bo” gets scant sym- pathy and is sent to the workhouse. ‘Treatment is given drug and alconol addicts, while relief is given tnose honestly in adverse circumstances. PRIZE STEER PROVIDES EDUCATION FOR OWNER | 20-Year-Old Nebraskan's Entry Wins First Prize at Recent Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition. By the Associated Press. OMAHA —Twenty-year-old Mervin | Aegerter of Seward, Nebr., is going | away to college and the bill is being | paid by Don Laurel, a Hereford that thrived in the drought. All Jast Summer when the drought made feed scarce, Aegerter saw to it that Don Laurel was nourished, but he little thought the Hereford would win for him the grand championship of the 4-H Club baby beef di\lslon’ at the recent Ak-Sar-Ben exposition. | Later when Don Laurel went on| the auction block it brought $1.05 a| pound for a gross profit of $1,113 to| its proud owner. With that money Aegerter intends to finance himself through the College of Agriculture at the University of Nebraska. . Largest Organ in House. ‘The world’s largest organ to be in- stalled in a private house is nearing completion at the home of C. H. S Parsons at Sheffield, England. It is of the four-manual type. has nearly | 7,000 pipes, 56 speaking stops, over 30 couplers and transformers and 40 miles of lead tubin, STOP, LOOK, LISTEN After-Christmas Sale We have to vacate and rather than move all the toy stock we will Every Piece Lionel Equipment, Toys and Games 15 Off Sale 1328 G St. Store Only Phone Metropolitan 9439 OFFICIAL LIONEL FACTORY SERVICE STATION Superior Lock & Electric Company 1410 L STREET N.W. Headquarters Electric Toys—20 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934 Vacationists on the Florida Sands Mrs. H. J. Green of Greenwich, Conn, and her two daughters, Helen (left here as they enjoyed their sun-tan on the sand at Miami Beach, Fla. Winter colony. SWEDISH CULTURE IRKS “PURE” FINNS 300,000 Expatriates Face Ostracism in Row Over Language. By the Associated Press. HELSINGFORS —In a strange his- torical twist of Pinno-Swede rela- | tions, 300,000 Swedes residing in Fin- | land face the possibility of becoming an unwanted minority group. For epproximately 600 years, lead- ing up to 1810, when Russia gained control, Finland was & part of the realm of Sweden, and Swedes, as money and land owners, dominated the country. The Swedish barons built up a definite Swedish culture, which per- sisted, and use of the Swedish lang- uage in Finland still has & constitu- tional justification in ordinary and tegal usage. “Pure” Finland Sought. Finland now seeks to end the domi- just as she ended foreign influence in her national affairs. The cry for a “pure” Finland is now being heard, much as Nazi Germany has cried for a “pure” Reich. This demand for “one language, one people,” in Finland has had its center in a desire to curtail the num- ber of Swedish-speaking professors in Helsingfors University, and a pro- posal in this direction has been made to the Finnish Parliament. No open persecution of the Swedes has developed, but boycott of Swedish tradesmen often has been threatened by student groups. Many professional men with Swedish-sounding names are, it is reported, finding it advisable to change their names in order to continue to receive certain Finnish patronage. Boycott Is Hinted. Intense national spirit. nourished through centuries of foreign domina- tion, is regarded as the cause of the “pure Finland” movement. Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Ice- land a total of 758 professors, repre- senting the highest academic life of Scandinavia. have protested, declar- ing that Finland needs a language in which she can converse with the Scandinavian countries. Approximately 150,000 Swedes in Finland then signed a petition of | their own, asking that their constitu- tional rights be respected. Pinnish students immediately went over the list painstakingly, to gather evidence of a possible boycott. The fact that Finland's Swedish population—an estimated 10 per cent of all persons living in Finland—pay a high percentage of taxes, through their important position in industry and business, only adds to the com- plications. Too, Swedes continue to rank high in public life. Swedes Point to Record. The real development of Finnish, as a national and cultural language, goes back only to the beginning of the nineteenth century. For many long years, under Swedish rule, only the Bible, Psalm book and almanac were published in Finnish. Finns now in- sist their language is as good for cul- tural purposes as any. Meanwhile the Swedes in, Pinland indignantly point out that they helped drive out the “Reds” in 1918. The Finns, on the other hand, are not in- clined to forget that Sweden, as a na- tion, declined to aid Finland in the fight against the bolshevists. The high point of the present lan- guage quarrel, which is being regarded with real anxiety in some quarters, was reached during a recent street demonstration when fear of open vio- lence led the fire department in Hels- ingfors to bring out its hose lines. At that time the cry of “Down with the Swedes! They're worse than the Rus- | sians” was heard. J. A. Hartness Succumbs. STATESVILLE, N. C., December 26 (#).—James A. Hartness, 71, former North Carolina secretary of State, died early today in a sanitarium here following a heart attack. take a loss. Sterling 9023 From | They New U.S. Calendars Indicate Economy Program for 1935 The Roosevelt administration today gave evidence it has started Government economy for 1935. Calendars for the new year were distributed today in various branches of the Government. Hitherto it has been the custom to print the name of each de- partment on the calendars. But for 1935 the calendars bear only the all-inclusive legend, “United States Government.” BERLIN WHITE WAY PROMOTED BY NAZIS “Brighter and Lighter” City Is Adopted as Slogan by Mu- nicipal Heads. BERLIN (#).—What Broadway is to New Yorkers, the historic Unter den Linden, leading from the former imperial palace to the Brandenburg Gate, must become to Berliners this Winter, says the Municipal Council. “Berlin brighter and lighter” has been adopted as a slogan by the Nazi city fathers to halt the post-war “lure of the west” which has moved | the greater part of the capitals night life to the fashionable West End district, to the detriment of the “in- Unter den Linden and other main thoroughfares of the old city are flood lighted every evening. Shop windows are ablaze far night, the merchants having been granted lower electricity rates. Berlin's traffic company adver- tises the campaign, many of its street cars and busses displaying in huge red letters the invitation: “Eve Berliner once a day in the inner city. War Lord Wins at Golf. mer ruler of Manchuria, recently won a handicap golf tournament at Han- kow. In the finals he defeated | Comdr. Harland of H. M. S. Alphis by |5 and 4. The “young marshal” was the dark horse of the contest, as he never had played in a tournament | betore. | Jos. May | Overcoats Formerly $55 . ... 17 ¢ 60 .. .° Years Repairing Lionel Trains ‘Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, for- | Suits $45 & $42, $75 & $65, Including Fruhauf Clothes and the Famous Jos. May English Coats ) and Ann (right), are shown ‘re among the recent arrivals at the —A. P. Photo. GRANT RECOENTZES CORNELL N DRAMA Rockefeller Fund to Aid Laboratory and Studio Units of University. By the Associated Press. ITHACA, N. Y.—Cornell University, seeking the return of old-time glory | to the American stage, has received recognition of its efforts in the na- | ture of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, to be used in its labora- tory and studio units. Since 1929 one of the few institu- tions of the country giving the Ph. D. degree in drama and the theater, Cor- nell “points with pride” to those who have gone into the professional thea- ter since coming under the university’s | dramatic influence. These include Sidney Kingsley of the class of 1928, | Pulitzer play prize winner for his | paly “Men in White”; Franchot Tone, | | class of 1927, and Jacob S. Fassett, jr., | | class of 1912, movie actors. The university theater and the dramatic club, which opened its twen- ty-sixth season this Fall, are under | direction of Prof. Alexande: M. Drum- | mond, a Corpell man, class of 1909. | | Under Prof. Drummond the club has expanded from a small group giv- ing one-act plays in the lecture room | of Goldwin Smith Hall to an organ- | ization in which more than 400 stu- | | dents work in the completely equipped | | theater in Willard Straight Hall. | Into the | They give weekly performances of | mill Island on December 2. | three-act plays of wide scope. | The quarter-century record counts the full-length plays produced at 136 and the one-act plays at 636, of | which 51 were original Cornell plays. | WATER FATAL TO DUCK | Mallard Dies of Chill Contracted | | After Getting a Bath. | WAUCOMA, II. (P)—Dr. J. M. Smittle's mallard couldn’t stand water and died of a chiil contracted after being given a bath. The duck. which he says was at least 25 years old, min- gled with the poultry flock until it was taken into the house as a pet. ! Now $20.50 3550 3950 4750 5650 Formerly $35 $40 $45 $50 $60 14th & G Sts. EUGENE C. GOTT, Presiden A & $5 AR TRIP COVERS | ABOUT 2,100 MILES Elisworth Hopes to Unveil Last Great Continent of the World. Editor’s mote: This story by Lincoln Ellsworth was written be- Jore his take-off. In it he outlines his plans for the journey, which, according to Associated Press dis- patches, has been accomplished. BY LINCOLN ELLSWORTH, Leader, Ellsworth Transantarctic Flight Expediti SNOW HILL ISLAND, WEDDELL SEA, Antarctica, December 26 (by wire- less) N.A.N.A—The great adventure, so long awaited, is at hand., The Polar Star’s motor is warming up and soon its roar will be breaking the silence that veils the earth's last great unknown, as Bernt Balchen and I wing our way across Ant- arctica, with the opportuity of all that pertains to the unveiling of a continent for the last time in hu- man history. For the earth else- Lincoln Ellsworth. where cannot contain any land-mass approaching the size of this southern continent, nearly the whole of which is unexplored. I think of my flight merely as a voy- age of discovery, for not until the whole of Antarctica has been charted will the time come for intensive scientific research. ‘The journey will be over a terrain the very magnitude and nature of which preclude the possibility of laying bases in advance. We ex- pect to span the 2,135 miles of continental from Snow Hill Island, in the Weddell Sea, to the Ross Sea, with lendings, if emergency de- mands, in about 14 hours. With trust in God's guidance Bernt Balches. gnd faith in our plane, we are off “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” in the effort t oadd to man's knowledge concern- ing the planet upon which he dwells. Early in the season we found snow conditions ideal for a take-off at De- ception Island, but as the time passed the snow gradually disappeared, until at last the volcanic cinders of which the runway is formed lay bare. It was too our base. Moving farther south we decided to investigate the usually unapproachable | and dangerous area along the landfast ice in the northwest corner of the Weddell Sea. Unload Plane. We reached the barrier of Snow The low shelf ice which clung to the eastern edge of the berrier was al- ready honeycombed 8nd unsuitable for a flying field. The barrier itself afforded a better surface, so we moored the Wyatt Earp to the barrier edge, which was about 10 feet out of water at high tide, and unloaded the air- plane. The snow surface of the barrier near the edge was soft and deeply pitted. With some difficulty and not a little danger, the plane was taxied to the rim-like shelf, part way up the dome of the island. The next day three men took a sled and dragged two tons of airplane sup- plies to the camp. Within a few hours everything was Fruhauf Clothes Beginning Today . . . " OUR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE Affording Substantial Savings in Regular Stock Overcoats NOW 365 5, 47 . THIS is the seasonal event the better-dressed men of Wash- ington look forward to for genuine savings on excellent quality clothing.” All merchandise is from our regul.ar stock authentically reduced for clearance. A splendid selection! Sidney West, nc ice| late to use Deception Island as| in readiness for the trans-Antarctic flight except the weather. First, of | course, we made a trial flight to test | the radio and the machine, At last the day for our flight has come. I have decided to fly a Great Circle course from here to the Bay of ‘Whales, Ross Sea, and to maintain a constant ground speed of 150 statute miles an hour. This should be easily possible, since the Polar Star has an approximate speed of 220 miles an hour. We expect to maintain a con- stant speed which will greatly facili- tate our navigation. 600 Miles From Pole. The computed distance is 2,135 stat- ute miles, which should be covered in approximately 14 hours, and the south- ernmost point reached will be latitude 80:45, or within about 600 miles of the South Pole. We should reach Little America in | time for coffee in the afternoon. This | in spite of 14 hours of travel, for the | difference will be made in the differ- ence of longitude. For the first three and a half hours the route lies along the eastern side of | Graham Land. After crossing Ste- | fannsson Strait and entering Hearst Land, the coastline between Hearst | Land and Charcot Island can be lo- | cated as to direction and approximate | latitude. If any islands exist south | of Charcot Island these also should | be seen. Between the fifth and eighth | hours of our flight the Queen Mnud' case of necessity be able ta reach the coast and subsist on seals and penguins during further foot travel, if such is required of us. (Copyright. 1934, by the North American Newspaper Alliance and the New York Times Co.) PATRON OF QUACK T0 BE PUNISHED Vienna Authority Widened Campaign to Purify Profes- sions and Business. in VIENNA (#)—Officials of Vienna | have received new authority in their | campaign to rid the businesses and | professions of the city of so-called “‘quacks.” In Vienna a quack is not neces- sarily an irregular practitioner in some field of medicine. Viennese quackery may involve the unau- thorized sale of coal or eggs. Or the thrifty storekeeper who makes an | extra shilling by giving clandestine haircuts in a rear room of his shop may come under the police definition | of a “commercial pirate” whose un- | licensed activities injure the trade of regularly established barbers. In a nation in which opportunities FRENCH TORETAIN AMERIGAN LIBRARY Flandin Saves U. S. Collec- tion From Collapse Over Low Finances. By the Associated Press. PARIS—The American Library, last of the World War foundations of the United States in France, will keep its doors open after a hard fight against financial difficulties. ‘The institution, outgrowth of soldier libraries during the war, has seen its membership fall in four years from 4,250 to 1,225 with disintegration of the American colony. A c uent drop in revenue brought on a financial crisis. Now the French government has recognized the value of the library to its professors and students in their studies of the United States, and Premier Flandin himself arranged for the transfer of 60.000 francs to save the institution from collapse. ‘The library management says that 804 of the 1,225 members are French, 200 British and the others American. Of the native members, 504 are pro- fessors and students, entitled to a re- duced membership rate of 25 francs (approximately $1.65) a year. Ameri- tan students are given the same rate, as are members of the American Legion and the American Embassy and consulate. All other users pay from 100 francs (approximately $6.60) a year and up. The value of the American Library to French professors and students is illustrated in the fact that its books are mailed to 9 universities and 15 libraries in all parts of the country. Through an arrangement with the National Library free postage is pro- vided for such mailings. Housed in an old private dwelling near the center of Paris, the library contains 70,000 volumes and has 300 periodicals available for lending or reference. As part of its service it seeks to answer any questions con- cerning the United States, either by telephone or by mail. PHOENICIANS FIRST TO USE AN ALPHABET BEIRUT, Syria (#)—The Phoe- Range, if it extends northward, should | are limited police have determined |hicians were the first of the ancient be seen. 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