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Phone NAt. 9369 * LAST * | bav FRENCH GERMAN SPANISH BATES TO SEPTEMBER ENTRANCE FOR COMPLETE SCHOOL YEAR COURSE ENDING JULY 3, 1937 CLASSES PRIVATE 2 lessons wky. $75 | 1 lesson wky. $85 4 lessons wk. $150 { 2 lessons wk. $170 Registration Fee. $10 20-Minute Sessions—Native, Teachers Small Classes 7:45 AM 0.0 BRSY PAYMENTS “ENROLL NOW! THE nl:nu'rz SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES 1115 Conn. * N.A).—Leo Kieran, reporter for the New York Times and the North | American Newspaper Alliance, leaves Times Square, New York, at 8 o'clock tonight to start on a trip around the world. Throughout his 22,000-mile journey he will make use of only scheduled and regularly established commercial modes of travel. From Time8 Square Mr. Kieran will go by automobile to Newark Air- port. An American Air Lines plane will fly him to Lakehurst, and the dirigible Hindenburg will carry him to Frankfort, Germany. From Frankfort he will travel by airplane, train and steamship eastward across Europe, Asia and the Pacific Ocean to the United States on a schedule which should land him back in New York 20> days after his start. The trip is being undertaken in search of no records, although the schedule Mr. Kieran has laid out should bring him back to Times Square in record-breaking time for the journey. It is being undertaken primarily to show that today, with existing means of transportation, without chartering airplanes or spe- cial trains, it is possible to go around | the world in a few hours under three | weeks. Magellan Trip in 1519. It is more than four centuries now | since the first adventurer able to get together an expedition said, “I am | going around the world.” Fernando | Magellan started out in August, 1519, | with five ships and 237 men. He | died in the Philippines, and his cap- tain, Sebastian Del Cano, finished the voyage—with one ship left out of the five and with 18 survivors of the original expedition. It took 1,083 days—a month over three years. Nearly 60 years later Sir Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth and re- | turned to Plymouth again, having cut a month from the time of the | Spaanish expedition. Then came the record-breaking journey of Thomas Cavendish in 2 years and 51 days. With the establishment of trade routes following these explorers, the building of the Yankee clippers for the China trade, the Australian wool |and grain trade and the discovery of gold in California, those old records | were surpassed and cut hundreds |of times. It remained for the imaginative Jules Verne to draw | world interest to the establishment |of world circumnavigation speed | records with his story of the 80-day {joumey of Phileas Fogg. The Eng- |lish hero of this novel used steam | vessel, trains and an occasional chartered elephant. Phileas departed at times from conventional modes | of travel, but not very often. His use of elephants in the Far East might well be considered conventional under the circumstances. Nellie Bly’s Record. The first important effect of the | book on world travel was the trip of Nellie Bly, reporter for the New | York World, who made the journey | by boat and rail in 72 days, 6 hours |and 11 minutes in 1889. However, | her record was made possible by the chartering of a special train from San Francisco to Jersey City, so that it cannot be said for her that she used only the established and sched- uled means of transport. | A year later her record was cut four and one-half days by George Francis Train and, in 1901, Charles | Pitzmorris tightened the travel girdle ilround the world by traveling from Chicago to Chicago in 60 days, 13 hours and 29 minutes. J. Willis Sayre of Seattle lopped seven days from < ) CCOUNTANCY .. OF THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES in the 1936 District C.P. A. Examination who received their basic account- ancy school training in the District more than half were Benjamin Franklin graduat For the benefi t of those whom we were not able to accommodate in the four scheduled classes Ask for 30th Year Book October 6. already enrolled, new beginning evening classes are being formed to commence on October 5 and Day Class Baguu September 28 Benjamin Franklin University MEtropolitan 2518 Transportation Building 17th and H Streets M ACCOUNTANCY NEW CLASSES OPEN Owing to the exceptional demand for Strayer College of Accountancy spe- cialized training, it has been found necessary to form new class sections. IT IS NOT T0O LATE TO REGISTER Classes will be formed Monday, Octo- ber 5. To be assul red of a place in a class section, limited in size, registra- tions should be made this week if possible. NEW CLASS IN C. P. A. COACHING The outstanding record of Strayer trained students in both the C. P. A. examinations thirteen who passed 1935 and the 1936 (in 1936, seven of the had received either their complete Accountancy training or spe- cial C. P. A. coaching at Strayer College of Accountancy) has reauired the addition of extra classes. Only a few vacancies remain. STRAVER COLLEGE of ACCOUNTANCY Homer Building Pinckney J. Harman, Director Thirteenth and F Street National 1748 THE EVENING the Fitzmorris record in 1903 and Henry Frederick cut six days from Sayre’s record that same year. ‘The completion of the Traans- Siberian Railway and the establish- ment thereon of through passenger service gave the next record seeker an opportunity to shorten the journey in both time and miles by staying altogether in the Northern Hemis- phere, well away from the long dis- tances of the tropic zones and the Equator. The Englishman, Col. Burnlay-Campbell, in 1907, by using the railway made the circuit in 40 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes. He was followed around and bereft of his record four years later by Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, who traveled from Paris to Paris just a day lacking 14 minutes faster. ‘With trains and vessels increasing their speeds steadily, it was possible for John Henry Mears in 1913 to make the journey—sticking to the Northern Hemisphere—in 35 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes. His was the last record made by conveyances held to the earth’s surface. Maj. Martin’s Crash. ‘The United States Army was to achieve the honor of the first flight by air and they roamed back and forth from within the Arctic Circle to a point just north of the Equator, traveling thousands of miles further than their ground competitors. Four Douglas planes, commanded by Maj. F. L. Martin, set out from Oakland, Gov. Winthmp Secretary, ‘I 9 walnut finish Drum Table, walnut finish $ 2.98 Drop-Leaf Duncan Phyfe Table 3]495 5-Piece Metal Bridge $‘| ‘l 95 Set Comfortable Chaisette Attractive $9 95 covering Kitchen Cabinet, enamel Sl 795 finish Calif., proceeded north to Alaksa, where Maj. Martin's machine crashed into a mountainside and was elimi- nated. Off the northern coast of England, Lieut. Leigh Wade’s ma- chine made a forced landing in the water and was wrecked in the waves, but the other two came on around to complete their journey in the elapsed time of 175 days. Their actual travel time, however, was 14 days and 15 hours. Making use of the air for a part of their journey, Linton Wells and Edward S. Evans in 1925 set a record of 28 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes. They did not, however, use air lines, but chartered plane service, so that their record was not made by estab- lished carriers. Mears entered the race for records again with Capt. C. B. D. Collyer in 1928, when they took an airplane with them for the land jumps and used established sea lines for the ocean legs, making the circuit well north in the temperate zone— where the distance is shorter—in 24 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes. Grat Zeppelin Record. The next year the Graf Zeppelin established a mark when, with a load of passengers, she flew from Lakehurst to Lakehurst in 21 days, 7 hours and 34 minutes. She stopped at Fried- richshafen, Tokio and Los Angeles, and zigzaged across Europe, Asia and the United States, saving distance and time by following the great. circle routes over the Pacific and Atlantic. 8-PIECE Wiley Post and Harold Gatty startled the world two years later when they flashed around the northern part of the globe in 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. That record, people believed, would stand for a long time. Then Post, going alone in the same plane and with the same engine, in July, 1933, flew from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., into the East and landed again at Floyd Bennett Field in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. Beginning with the use of airplanes, these records were all established by the use of special planes, flown for the purpose of making records and cutting distances to a minimum. For comparative purposes, the last record made on established routes with regu- lar scheduled travel conveyances was that of Mears in 1913. Leo Kieran is holding his travel WALTER T. HOLT Mandolin, banjo, guitar, Hawaiian gul- tar and ukulele. Pupils trained for home, orchestra, stage, radio playing. Ensemble Practice with Nordica Clubs 1801 Col. Rd. N.W. Col. 0946 P ] SHORT-STORY WRITING Registration 5 to 6 Daily—Nat. The Moneyway studios ‘The Penthouse 912 19th St. N.W. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1836. for today has become the conventional means of travel, the airship and air- plane, save for the journey from Hong Kong to Manila. 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