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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
BYRD AIDE TELLS
OF POLAR PER|LS
Letter to Navy Pressroom
Describes SideIights of
Expedition.

The rescue Of Washingtonian,
Henry Harrison, q Weather Bureau
.,eterologist, in q snow and ice slide
somewhere near the South Pole" Is
described in q letter to the Navy De-
partment pressroom by Charles Kessler,
former Marine Corps orderly there, who
now is with the Byrd Antarctic Expe-
dition, aboard the S. S. Eleanor Boiling.
MANY interesting sideligfts on the expe-
dition and life In Little America" are
contained In the Kessler letter, written
on February is Of this year from Dune
din, New Zealand, and received late yes
terday.
Kessler, who used to live at 40 Foxhall
road here, Is a veteran OF the ByTd
Arctic Expedition, also. He made such
q hit with Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, U.
S. NJ. retired, the skipper Of the North
and South polar expeditions, on the trip
towards the North Pole that Kessler was
engaged to form part 9. the Antarctic
expedition.
The letter from Kessler. giving an in
sight into the details Of exploration work
and the wild life that roams the icy
wastes, follows:
"A few sidelightS on our recent trip to
the Barrier" might prove interesting.
Our good friends in New Zealand
were wagging their heads when we
showed of and many said we were slated
for 'watery grave
General Cargo Shipped.
I'm all fairness to them, we must
admit that cur ship looked anything
but seaworthy. Our cargo was per-
haps the most general one ever shipped.
It consisted Of everything from tooth
picks to sirplanes. In weight we were
not greatly overloaded, but greatly
so in bulk Tremendous crates con-
tanning the planes had to be carried
on deck, and this called for q superior
Of flashing down. Every passageway
was completely filled with gas drums
and acetylene tanks. You had to dc
the juggling act when moving fore and
aft, That was not all, our ergo con-
sisted Of everything imaginable in the
way Of explosives. Gas was carried in
the hold and hatch covers had to be
removed every day to allow ventilation.
Smoking or lamp was out.
"All this weight proved mighty handy
later on.
Things Slip IN Heavy Sea.
Things went well for the first few
days and then we ran into heavy
weather. Our deck cargo began to slip
In spite Of the laShings and the situa-
ton was anything but pleasant with
heavy seas running. We did all that
was possible and she weathered the
gale with flying colors. AL hands now
were looking forward to the icepack.
Having recently towed the city Of
New York to the ice, the pack was no
novelty, but We were thirsting for q
crack at IL.
Having beaten the City 50 m-
mercifully in the race to Dunedin. they
were anxious to get something on us
and thought they had found it. They
nicknamed our ship the Little Tin
Ship and were 50 sure we were going
to be crushed In the ice that they were
wishing us all kinds Of good luck on the
ice after she had sunk.
Here's where our heavy load came
in and we smashed our way through 800
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been completed. The flying field Is not
a problem like up north, and one can
be found most any place. The narfier
rolls slightly, but Is remarkably Smootn
and resembles q great, white desert.
There Is haze here at times, put no
fog: ..,.
region is the wind.
Animal and bird life is limited
whale and seal in the mammal line and
the 'skua' gull in the bird.
Seal is plentiful and we kill only
enough for food. The fellows don't
howl much for it, but the dogs DO.
1.-THE killer whale makes his nome
direction, blowing and diving.
Dunedin Called "Home."
II shall never forget our trip coming
home, as we call Dunedin. The peo-
pie here are much on the American
line and have been so hospitable during
our stay here that 1t really seems like
home. If we accepted all the invita-
tons we received we would have little
time for anything else.
I'VE were a week making the last
1000 miles and it was the toughest
ever have experienced. Food could not
be served on the table and sleeping was
postponed. All hands were little
tired when we arrived They are work
ing overtime In order to get loaded
and get away. A ship should never be
in the bay after March /, and we must
hurry.
Hoping this finds you all well, am,
sincerely yours.
CHARLES KESSLER,
Byrd Antartic Expedition.
IS. S. Eleanor Boiling"
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free and eliminated the danger Of in
dividual bergs capsiZing.
There was quite an overhang to the
barrier at this point, and 1t was Is
feet higher than the ships side. The
average height is about SO or so feet at
the edge and increased to 90 or 100 feet
toward the inland. We had just url-
loaded and hauled the fuselage OF the
Ford plane to comparative safety
when the big slide came.
All Fished Out Safely.
"Two men were caught near the edge
and came down with it; one, a, Wash
ingtonian, named Henry Harrison. q
meteorologist from the Weather Bureau,
was lucky and grabbed rope. ANY.
thing might have happened to him and
he Is all smiles today. The other chap,
a technical sergeant of the Army by the
name of Roth got his moneys worth
and the coolest bath of his life. He was
fortunate in not getting crushed or
drowned between the ship and the Ice.
Comdr. Byrd and two other fellows
dived in to his aid and a boat was
lowered and all we're fished out, none
the worst for their experience. After a
good rundown and a change of clothing
they were back on the job.
"The falling ice nearly capsized our
ship and were it not for the lines
to the City of New York believe she
might have gone over.
THE ice continued to cave in and
the ships had to get away. We pulled
we'll into the bay ice and discharged the
remaining cargo onto the deck OF the
City
I'VE Immediately were under way for
Dunedin to reload and return. The
main base is about three miles inland
and six miles from where we unloaded.
Several houses have been built and
two radio towers $50 and so feeD have
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miles Of ice in three days. The jolting
and scraping (now full ahead and then
astern and so on) was very annoying
at FIRST. The trip through was any
thing but monotonous.
I'VE emerged from the ice at "a
south and, except for large bergs, we
had open water from then on.
I'VE were not many days in sighting
the great ice barrier.
"Only a couple of hours more and
we were entering the Bay of Whales
The bay runs back about seven miles.
Seek Place to Put Load.
"our first problem was to find suit
able place to discharge our cargo.
"A place was found with a natural
runway up to the barrier and we were
soon pounding our way through the bay
ice In order to get close enough.
I'VE were soon moored fast to the
ice and unloading began In earnest. II
necessarily was slow, because the gear
had to be pulled or dragged back tc
safety, for fear the ice might carry
away.
"The center section Of the Ford
plane and other miscellaneous gear was
on the ice when the ice started cracking
in all directions These cracks soon
widened into crevasses and had one &C.
CURED directly under the wing section
or some Of the men working. 1t would
have been costly to the expedition. This
is the plane especially built for Iona
flights.
Dock Splits Into Bergs.
"The crevasses widened into small
canyons and a once splendid dock be-
came a mass Of individual bergs. To-
lines from the ship were made fast IN
the barrier, and this saved the day. This
prevented the ice from drifting entirely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
MUNICIPAL PLANTS
PAY TOWNS BILLS
Utilities Provide New Buildings
for Community Out Of
Earnings.

HOPE, Ark. R.-Whenever this city
needs new public building it gets it.
No bond issues plague the city fathers,
and no special taxes worry the people.
II they need new city hall, hospital
or park they simply 60 to the city
treasury and make the municipal power
plant pay for 1t.
Hope, q city Of 5000 population, be-
lieveS 1t set q record when 1t COM
pleted an $S5, 900 city hall in 1927 with
out issuing bonds or changing its nor
NAL tax rate. Part Of the construction
cost was paid In cash. but a balance Of
$4,000 was borrowed from local banks,
the loan being underwritten by the
municipal water and light plant. In 81
months the utility revenues paid on
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SSH The entire debt is expected to
be lifted this Summer.
Nine Arkansas towns and cities oper-
ate their own water and light plants,
the two largest being at Jonesboro and
Hope. They maintain an association
which furnishes legal and political ad-
vice to the member cities.
The municipal power plant also pro-
vides the surrounding farm lands an
important industry. The boilers burn
wood, which Is purchased daily from
Hampstead Country citizens.
About 10 cords are consumed daily.
At an average price of $3.50 per cord
the city has returned to the farm $40 40
every day, which Greats farm pay roll
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Of sls,o3i q year. It Is estimated that
since 1922 the power plant has given
$126,217 to local farmers, some OF whom
make q large part Of their living from
this one source.
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Lindsay, Calf. high school pupils are
building monoplane In the school shop
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-04-25
15-HoUR JUSTICE

CENTENCED within Is hours of
his capture. This is the record
of the local police department in
the case of Hilarion Rosario.
Rosario, young man of about
"a years, was caught, armed, in
the basement of the Grange ware
house by Marvin Canadian, chief
of police, and C. E. Copeland, night
patrolman, about 1:30 o'clock last
Thursday morning. Thursday aft
ernoon at 4:30 o'clock, he was ar
raigned at Prosser, pied guilty,
and was sentenced to from one to
fifteen years in the penitentiary
at Walla Walla.
This specific instance of the eff
ficiency of the local police force
should he most assuring to Kenne-
wick. With such records of speedy
justice, burglars and other crimi-
mails will find this vicinity most un-
healthy.
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Mrs. NJ. w. ZINDEI
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Mr.. and Mrs. Dunlop of Pasco
were visitors Sunday at the home
of their uncle, w. l.. Cochran.
Robert Mckinney from Airing
ton is visiting and attending to
business in this vicinity.
There will be Sunday school at
the usual hour. Epworth League
at 7:30, led by Mrs. w. Moore,
followed by preaching by Mrs. R.
Thompson.
The fifth and seventh grades in
our school won the banners at the
spelling contest in Kennewick last
Saturday.
Floyd Kirby and his family, who
have spent the last winter at the
home of his mother, Mrs. F. A.
Smith. left Thursday for their
former home in Texas.
The Epworth League will hold
their social May / at the home OF
Imogene Zindel.
T. C. Baker and C. Zeller are
farming the Rorick place and have
Mr.. Laumadier getting it in shape
for planting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Thompson
who have been away for the last
two weeks, are expected home on
Thursday. They will be accompan.
led by Mrs. Lawson and daughter
Gladys, who are coming to be
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KIWANIs SPEAKER

The series of Kiwanis Club
speakers are still advising the high
school students on the necessity of
ooking before one leaps. This week
Mr.. Durdle spoke for the second
time on extension service work,
which as he inferred is an inter-
esting handful for anyone. Espec-
ially in Washington there is big
field and a marvellous chance for
advancement, because Washington
is comparatively new at the game.
Since the close of the school year
is: approaching, this speech just
about concludes the Kiwanis pro-
ram, which has certainly been APP
preciated and has succeeded in
arousing many queries as to the
value of one profession or another
as a life work.
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vo1 III Hi STUDENTS
PUBLISHED By HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

takes all the wears of a lifetime
and is rarely perfected. Some clay
is stubborn, resisting and VIII not
be nodded for God can not make
us good when we have no desire
to learn good. As rule, however,
when hard clay is once NODDED, II
will remain in the same cast Tor
ever and so it is with human be-
ingS.
There is the too soft, utterly
resistless clay which is easily
shaped but crumbles away and Is
scattered to the winds, and is new
er of use until stronger clay is
mixed with it. Often one is never
strong enough to face alone what
has to be done but with the sup
port and help of someone else, ne
gains the courage and strength to
go ahead. :.
Some clay is lbrittle-it is easy to
mold and gives great promise but
after it has set, it cracks into q
million pieces. Rarely can it ever
be remolded, for when disillusions
come in middle age, they are bit.
terest of all and never wholly pass
away. -,
But after all our little life is as
grain of sand in the desert-ne
more, no Lessor a drop of water
in the ocean. We were clay in the
beginning and we go back to clay
in the end.
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Sunday. She said she was feeling
pretty good, but is weak yet.
R. r. Wooden visited at A. w.
Thomas in Horse Heaven Sum
day.
Harve Hendricks went back to
work Monday as Waterman on the
S. P. and S.
Delphia Franklin visited in
Prosser Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wadsworth
went to Prosser this week to at
tend a trial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Cochran of
Kennewick visited at w. F. Ash
.by's Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mass of Berrian
visited at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Dahlin last Sunday.
The city scales, depot scales and
store scales were inspected and adj
justed by Ralph Bailey Friday.
The All Club meets Saturday
at the home of Mrs. Walter MUIR
awski.
There will be a al Club and
children's day program Friday eve
ming, May 8, at the schoolhouse.
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Mrs. j. R. Ayers is visiting with
Mrs. B. B. Stewart.
Mrs. Cohenberger from Pasco
visited Mr.. and Mrs. I. j. McKen-
ney Wednesday.
Mrs. Harlan Kahler went to
Hermiston Wednesday to visit her
mother.
B. B. Stewart went to Portland
Thursday on business.
Alvin Murawski visited in Van
couver and Portland this week.
Mrs. j. r. Ayers was an all-day
guest at the home of Mrs. w. c.
Muldrow Saturday.
B. B. Stewart returned Sunday
after visiting at Portland.
Rev. and Mrs. Calander of Yak
ina were in Hover on Sunday. Mr..
Oalander delivered the morning
sermon.
Mrs. w. F. Ashby visited Mrs.
John Brugger at Albion last week.
Mrs. w. F. Ashby went to Ell
berton on Saturday to visit her
daughter, Sue Jean Ashby and also
to Palouse City to visit Rex Ash
by and family and returned home
Monday.
The Nazarene young people held
a weiner roast at the "Willows"
on Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Weber of
Hedges were Thursday evening
visitors at the F. M. Bens' home.
Mrs. Lulu Hampton went to
Moscow, Idaho Saturday to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Joe Olson.
Mrs. Oliver visited at the T. j.
Mckinney home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Ayers at
tended joint session of the East
ern Star at Pasco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bens and
Leslie and Elenora Moe and Mrs.
Croonib visited at the John Web
her home Sunday evening.
Irving Gleason of Kennewlck
was in Hover Wednesday on bus
mess.
o. A. Fisher of Kennewick was
in Hover Monday doing some
plumbing work at the schoolhouse,
Mrs B. B. Stewart and MRS. An.
ME Hutchinson visited MIS-. everett
Carmen Wednesday.
We were all pleased to nave
Mrs. John Cochran out to cnurcn
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present at the graduation of Ruth

present at the graduation of Ruth
Lawson.
Mrs. C. Tholman made a trip
to Spokane the first of the week,
eturning Wednesday.
Miss Evelyn Harris of Spokane
was a visitor at the j. Kenneth
home Sunday.
Mr.. Heluniki, his son, Edward,
and daughter, Lucy, were guests
at the A. Lecholt home Sunday.
They are Hawaiian singers, who
were with the carnival which was
in Kennewich last week.
Elmer Satterburg and wife of
Baker, Oregon, spent last week
at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Satterburg.
Imogene Zindel was an over
night guest at the Mansel Tewalt
home Saturday Mr.. and Mrs.
Stockdill of Mottinger were visit
ors at the w. Tewalt home Fri
day afternoon and were accompan-
led home by their daughter, Lila.
Winifred Zindel was a visitor at
the Ole Johnson home Saturday
night.
Watermelon planting was be-
gun the first of the week on the
Harry Heddington place.
The Junior Epworth league met
Monday afternoon at the church
and had their lessons under the
leadership Of Mrs. Fades, Mrs. w.
Moore and Helen Fades, after
which Mrs. Fades served refresh
ments.
For the remainder of our school
term, school will not begin until
10 o'clock. This gives the children
an hour longer to work in the
mornings during asparagus time.
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RIVERSIDE
Mrs. L. Smith :
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Yesterday as L. A. Tweedt was
working on the A. 1. Smith ranch,
he discovered smudge pot con-
tanning seven gallons of oil fitting
over to one side and splitting the
contents on the ground. Upon in
yestigating, he found couple as
paragus stalks lifting it clear off
the ground. Who says Washington
grass lacks pep? -
Mr.. and Mrs. Illmer are visiting
their daughter, Mrs. w. Billing
sly. ~.
Mr.. Fred Berry and family called
at the Cullen home Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Tweedt STEPHENS
spent Tuesday at her brothers
home, L. A. Tweeds.
/. P. Wallace returned Saturday
fran a business trip to Colfax
Wash.
l.. w. Ternahan called on Rob.
ert and Loren Tweedt Saturday In
regard to club work.
Mrs. Frank Mills went to Pascc
Saturday to visit Mrs. A. R. Nc.
Camish, who underwent an opera
ton at the hospital.
Elmer Olson went to Spokane
Wednesday on business.
Elmer Martin is working at the
Three Rivers warehouse.
| Mrs. C. S. Hughes and children
spent a week at Hatton with Mr.
Hughes.
Mrs. Elmer Olson had her tonsil'
removed at the Linn hospital las
Wednesday.
Mrs. Leroy Kratzer is visitins
at the w. FL. Kratzer home,
Mrs. John Luke from Bremertor
was visitor at the Wallace Bate
man home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mills spen
Sunday in Yakima.
| Mrs. A. j. Falk and children o.
Amber left Wednesday after Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L
Smith.
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DEPARTMENTS

The Freshman English classes
re finishing up the study of gram
mer which includes gerands, par
ticiples, and infinitives. After the
completion of this work, Julius
Caesar" will be studied as the fl
nal project in Freshman English.
Sophomore English students in
period III are taking up the study
of early American literature. This
chapter deals with the early Col
onial period and goes on to the
literature of the present day. Mr..
Smith, the instructor, promises
the class that this is no easy chap
ter so the poor Sophs will spend
their last three weeks in hard toll.
The biology class is studying
physiology, the skeleton, bones and
their uses. Mr.. Clark had been
showing the class the skull and
leg bones of an old Indian skele.
ton that was found on the high
school grounds a few years ago
Everyone was quite interested II
| the remains but when Mr.. CLARK
said the Indian had died of small
pox the interest took a sudden
drop.
Something very sad occurred in
the advanced tipping class last
Friday when Edwin Neuman made
seventy lone words minute in {
fifteen minute test. The sad part
of it all is that if Ed had beer
taking the monthly Remington
test he would have hade nice
little gold pin with pearls set in {
barber around the outside.
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1t seems that man was shot
in the corner of his office. The
criminal was suspected of having
committed the murder from the
dentists office which was parallel
with that of the victim, two win
dows being in line from either of
flee. After much heated discussion
as to the past record of the ac-
cused and witness to the effect
of his present milk toast diet, and
few fines for contempt of court,
the iury's verdict was mot guilty.
because they decided that bullet
could not go around the corner,
such a curve being necessary if
the bullet were to travel from one
office window to the other.
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HOVER

William Bell visited at A. w.
Thomas Saturday.
ivafs Evans went to Walla Wall
la Friday on business.
Sue Jean Ashby will teach IN
La Cross this fan. She will have
the first grade,
The s.. P. & s. railroad men are
building a stockyard in Hover 1or
sheep and cattle. -.
Wednesday morning the two
seniors, John Harper and James
Harper. and Bill Thomas with MI :;
Kahler went on the "senlor sneah.
The group visited the Penoie s ~,
Wooden Mills and the insane asy y,
INN At noon a delightful !un'i'
was eaten in the Blue mouhIslns.
a ". Thomas of Horse HeaVe. =
so1d truck load Of fat hogs ~
Mr.. Lane in Kennewick. - RI
Mrs r, p. Toothaker went ~ ~
prosser Tuesday to serve Oh ~
jury. low class of the
Hover high school, Gonsls consist John
James Harper, John Harpe Ril1ie
MCCOY, Harrison Hmgnes, with
Thomas and Marie Thomas, Viz Nc
Mr. T11cker went to Prossel " VIC
If the court Tuesday. ur.,,a woua
~ Did WcCarty from Waiia Waiia
u .,-;,s,s for ]. X. Franklin.
10 wo - W lodge will meet at MRS
AZ. ". wn..Ilin's May q. Mrs
Johh cd Mrs. Gardner viii
en NJ Martin of Spokane, repre-
sent;n. the childrens' home in Sc
sen.liE p,as in the Hover on Friday
a;.i ;n. We" out .sblue birds" for the
Mike shelton was an over nigh,
onest of Harve Hendricks last
A. OVERLY, who has been employ
| ed on the Ayers ranch, left thu
latter part of the week for hi
, home in Walla Walla.
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WASH TUBS VS.. BATH TUBS


AN article on the recent home
makers meet at Spokane APP
pears on the Woman's page of this
issue. At this meeting farm women
discussed the essential needs of the
home and family. They decided
that two pair of silk stockings
should last year if woman wear
cotton ones at home and that pow
er washing machines were more es-
sential than bath tubs.
However, the basis for the dis
cussion at the meeting was furn-
ished by answers to questionnaires
sent out by the extension service
of the state college. The women
of Spokane county endeavored to
determine what was essential as
a standard for farm home out
side and inside and how much it
should take yearly to maintain
such home with a father, mother
and three children in it.
1t should be interesting for the
women of Kennewick, who live on
farm homes, to compare their
ideas of the necessities of life with
those of the women of a neighbor-
ing county. Such comparison
should be valuable to the women
who make it because it should sug-
gest wealth of ideas for the fam