Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1935, Page 12

A-12 x THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO BIRDEXPEDTION MENBERS BACK Eight of Crew Arrive With Films and Scientific Specimens. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 23— Their faces reddened by polar gales, eight members of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole arrived here today, bringing with | them motion pictures, sketches and | scientific specimens from Little | America. They are the first of 74 members of the expedition to reach the Ameri- can mainland. Although no official greeting had been arranged because of the wishes of the expedition to subordinate ceremony to the arrival of Admiral Byrd in New York, friends and relatives swarmed over them as| they walked down the liner Mariposa’s gangplank. Will Prepare Film. The little group of explorers re- turned in advance of the main party | for various reasons, one of them being to prepare 150,000 feet of motion pic- | ture film taken by John L. Herrmann and Carl Peterson of Paramount Studios. It will take a month to cut and assemble the film here. “Many of our pictures were taken in the air,” Herrmann said. “On December 31 last, we took off at 10 pm. and landed at 2 am. January 1, | in daylight all the time, of course, as | the sun doesn't set during the long Antarctic Summer.” | Charles J. V. Murphy, radio tech- | nician who supervised the broadcasts from Little America, said Admiral Byrd was crossing the Pacific on the British steamer Rangitiki for a rest | away from members of his crew, to | repair his shattered nerves. He is| accompanied by Mrs. Byrd. They will rejoin the Jacch Ruppert, official ex- pedition ship, at Panama. Enjoyed Police Broadcasts. “We had lots of fun listening to police broadcasts all over the coun- | {HOSPITAL FESTIVAL try,” Murphy said. “It was remark- able how good we found the short | wave reception.” Quin Blackburn. University of | Washington graduate, brought back | many geological specimens that are | to be distributed to scientific institu- tions for classificatiol Others in the party on the Mari- posa included David Paige, artist, who | worked on photo colors and drawings; ‘William McCormick, autogyro pilot, used chiefly as a meteorological ob- server; Irskine Rawson, air and ship navigator and aide to Admiral Byrd, and Charles Anderson, Washington, D. C., assigned by Postmaster General | Farley to handle regular mail and | stamp collectors in Little America. McCormick was met at the dock | by his mother, Mrs. Clara H. McCor- | mick, who drove here from Phila- | delphia. Rawson told of a flight in a tem- perature of 70 degrees below zero, | during which the temperature became warmer at higher altitudes. The postmaster handled 100,000 pieces of mail in six months, much eof it special *“‘caches” for collectors. MRS. J. T. ELLYSON DIES IN RICHMOND ‘Was President of Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, March 23.—Mrs. J. ‘Taylor Ellyson, president of the As-| #ociation for the Preservation of Vir- | ginia Antiquities for many years, and the widow of a former lieutenant- governor of Virginia, died at her home at 10 East Franklin street here early | today. She had been in failing health and | under the attention of a nurse for the | plads! several years. She was 86 years old. 1 Mrs. Ellyson was elected president | of the A. P. V. A. in 1911 to succeed‘ Mrs. Joseph Byran of Richmond. under whom she had served as associ- ste president for the seven previous years. Under her direction, the as- gociation, which has members through- | out Virginia, has done a great amount of work in rescuing from oblivion old home places and relics associated with | the history of the Old Dominion. MAN, FOUND ON ROAD, DIES IN BALTIMORE Fractured Skull Fatal to Uniden- tified Boulevard Accident Victim. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 23.—An un- identified man, about ‘45 years old, was found unconscious on the Wash- ington Boulevard near the Laurel State police sub-station early today | and died shortly after being removed | to a hospital here. He had a frac- tured skull. The injured man was found by a | passing motorist. Police expressed a | belief the man either fell from a truck | or was the victim of a hit-and-run | driver. In a pocket was found a slip of paper containing the name of J. R. Richardson of Lost Grove, Va, In & pocketbook was $4.62. Court Goes to Witness. PITTSBURGH (#.—T. C. Llew- ellyn is the alert watcher for alarms in the Fire Department and he hasn’t time to go places—even to court as & witness. | So Judge Norman T. Boose brought a court stenographer and the plain- tiff to Llewellyn’s cubbyhole. | ‘With one eye on the slarm system,i Llewellyn told what he knew about | 1 the accident in which Dorothy Rees was hurt. ! Night Final Delivery The last edition of The Star, known as the Night Final, and carrying a row of Red Stars down the front is printed at 6 p.m. and delivered throughout the city at 55¢ per month or, together with The Sunday Star, page, at 70c per month. This 1s a special service the very latest and complete Call National 5000 and say that you want the “Night Final” delivered regularly to your home, and delivery will start immediately. Housing Exhibit Open to Public Col. Horatio B. Hackett, director of the P. W. A. Housing Division. showing Miss Helen Patton a model of the Indianapolis housing project—a afternoons, for the next five weeks. part of the exhibit which will be kept open every day, including Sunday The exhibits tell the story of the American slum and what the Govern- ment is trying to do to alleviate conditions and make living more comfortable, healthy and sanitary for an esti- mated third of the rural population Atlanta, Cleveland, New York and C room, form an interesting part of t. Skillfully constructed models of the great housing projects under way in hicago, where modern apartments will rent for as low as $5 a month per his educational exhibit —Star Staff Photo. PLANS COMPLETED Spring Fete Will Be Held April 4 at Chevy Chase School for Board's Benefit. The Women's Washington University Hospital has completed arrangements for a Spring festival to be held April 4 in the Chevy Chase School under direction of Mrs. Frederic E. Farrington. The festival will be in the form of a card party, bazaar and fashion show, and the proceeds will go toward aiding the work of the board at the hospital. There is an urgent need there, board members point out. for 12 bedside units, 12 special bed lights and the | installation of portable telephone serv- ice in each private room A report received by the board at a meeting held last Wednesday with Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor. president, re- | vealed the total number of visits to | out-patient departments during 1934 | Board of George| | | was 14.660; new patients admitted to the clinic, 2.248; patients treated in the emergency room. 2,552; total num- | ber of laboratory tests for dispensary | patients, 5.061, and the average num- | ber of patients treated daily, 47. | : \ Few Women Seek Votes. Advocates of votes for women in France report that only a minority of women care about being enfranchised. 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