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Evening star., 1929-11-30
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MESSAGES TELL OF FLIGHT
Graphic Picture of Trip Pole and Return Is Painted in
Brief Radiograms Sent From Plane by Byrd and
June O Base Camp.
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Evening star., 1929-11-30
STUDENT FREEZES
TO DEATH ON STEPS
Baltimore Freshman at Carnegie
Institute Was Clad in Pajamas
When Discovered.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, November 30.-Clad
only in pajamas, Paul OFT, 10, Balti-
more, freshman at Carnegie Institute
Of Technology. was found dead early
today on the steps Of welsh Hall, where
he roomed. Police said they believed
he was frozen to death.
With the mercury registering one
above zero in the Pittsburgh district
this morning, two other deaths were
attributed to the cold. An unidentified
man was found in the doorway Of a
rooming house in the "Hill" district,
and Peter Istanvan, As, Munhall, be-
lieved blinded by the cold wind, stepped
in front of a train and was killed.
A physician and fellow students
worked nearly two hours In an effort to
revive OFT. The youth apparently had
fallen from the doorway upon cement
steps leading to Welsh Hall.
John G. French, student, said the
youth was in his room for few min
utes and left about midnight, saying he
was going to make coffee for himself
before retiring.
The young man was found by Mat
hew c.. Fairchild Of Monterey. Mexico,
who was visiting a friend at the hall.
When Fairchild's attempt to arouse OFT
failed, he called other students. who
summoned a physician.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
WF1ITE-1AIRED NAVY SCIENTIST
AIDS BYRD IN SOLVING PROBLEMS
Calculations Tell Explorers
When They Have Reached
Goals of TrekS.
Nautical Almanac" Worked
Out by Him Gives Figures
for Instant Use.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
George Washington Littlehales, a
white-haired Navy scientist to whom
Comdr. Richard e. Byrd has come with
his navigation problems for the past 10
years, sits in his cozy office at depart
ment headquarters making calculations
to tell Arctic explorers when they have
reached their goals In the frozen white
wastes at the earth's ends.
Comdr. Byrd took set Of Little
hales' computations with him on his
successful dash for the South Pole. BY
comparing readings on an everyday
mariners tool--a sextant Of reflection
with figures supplied by the scientist
Ccmdr. Byrd could tell in q moment
where he was at any time.
Once, Littlehales said today, it was
impossible for a navigator in the cock
pit to compute mathematical formulas
as quickly as the airplane flew-and the
result was that the goal was reached
before the explorer knew it-if it were
ever attained.
Reason Mcmillan Failed.
That was the reason Donald B. Nc
MILAN returned from the Arctic in 1925
and announced that the plane had not
been shown to be practical for Arctic
exploration.
Byrd had been along with Mcmillan
and he saw that there was his oppor-
tuntty," the aging scientist continued
He understood why AmundSen, fight
ing those icy wastes a year earlier, had
been compelled to land to make his
computations. And Byrd knew the
hardship and peril and failure that
Evening star., 1929-11-30

landing cost the Amundsen expedition" T"
Not long after Byrd explained the
dificulty Littlehales saw it all at
once" he said. 1t occurred to him that
the computations Amundsen and others
had attempted to make as they went
along could be prepared In advance.
This he worked out in columns of
figures, 4 to the page and 80 pages
long. He called these computations a
nautical almanac"
Ever since our Navy planes flrst
crossed the Atlantic, in 1919, when
three seaplaneS few from Newfound-
land to Spain," the scientist added
Byrd has been q frequent visitor with
me. I got the almanac ready for him
soon after he came back that Spring OF
1926.
He knew navigation" continued Lit
tlehales, "and he could talk convinc-
ingly with Rockefeller and Ford and
others who financed his undertaking
He went back into the Arctic that Sum-
mer and, Of course, locate the pole"
He used Littlehales' almanac In To-
eating the North Pole.
One other invaluable tool-that which
told Byrd how to keep his plane fly
ing in the direction Of the pole--wa'
worked out by Bureau of Standard;
SclenClSC, WIN material assistance IRON
Littlehales. It Is the sun compass" q
little instrument that tells directions ir
the desolate places where magnetic
compasses have no value. A simple
dial with an upright pin in it to cas-
a shadow, it tells directions on a prin'
ciple directly opposite from that Of th'
sun dials that were in every ones gar
den a generation ago.
Mathematics for Seamen.
Since 1885 Littlehales has been Dor
ing over his computations in his offic,
in the Navy Department. He has work
ed out many other intricate processes
always adapting principles of mathe
maticS and astronomy to the use o
navigation.
Among his scores Of scientific paper
and thousands Of pamphlets life
work that has brought his acclaim
among fellow SCIENTISTS q transla
ton Of mathematical principles int,
words understandable to the averag
seaman. thus giving him q valuable as
sistance in setting . course and keep
ing his vessel upon 1t.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
HOPE FOR MISSING
FLYERS ABANDONED
Engineer of Ship Nanuk Re-
ports Failure to Find Trace
of EieISon and BorIand.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NOME, Alaska, November 30.-Hope
for the safety of two Alaskan aviators
lost since November 8 on the frigid
coast of Siberia was dashed today by
report of Engineer Deersdoff of the ice
bound ship Nanuk that he had secuted
90 miles Of the coast without finding a
trace of the missing men.
Deersdoff, searching for Carl Ben
Eielson, pilot, and Earl Borland,
mechanic, of plane which was lost
while seeking to rescue passengers OF
the Nanuk. explored the coast and
inland foothills with dog team.
He talked with the Russian trapper
who heard the motor of Eielson's plane
November 9. The trapper said the
pilot was flying lightly offshore, In
stead of inland as previously reported
He could not see the plane because of
heavy fog.
The region Of North Cape, Siberia,
where the Nanuk and a Soviet ship
Stavropol, are locked in the ice, cracked
today under a ground temperature OF
80 degrees below zero. Alaskan planes
ready to join the search for Eielson
and Borland are unable to leave the
ground for at height of 1000 feet the
mercury drops to nearly 40 degrees
below zero, and bitter wind has pre-
vailed for days.
The two missing flyers carried q
gasoline stove in their emergency equip
ment and plenty of food but it now
is feared their plane may have been
lost in Bering Sea. 1t did not have
pontoons.
Deersdoff's report was received here
through the radio of the Nanuk. Aboard
the ship Is Olaf Swenson, president of
the Swenson Fur Trading Co., which
owns the vessel, and his 20-year-old
daughter, Marion.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
MOFFATT IS NAMED
DEFENDANT IN SUIT
Plaintiff Charges Investment
Broker Connived to Defraud
Him of $16,123.

From the s:so Edition of Yesterdays Star.
william L. Moffatt, local investment
broker, was named defendant today in
a suit to recover $16123, filed in the
District Supreme Court by Jonas A.
Rudolph. 666 E street northeast. Alice
Moffatt. wife Of broker, is named aS
co-defendant.
Moffatt himself Is now under indict-
ment in connection with stock tranSac-
tions. 1t was his arrest which brought
about the recent Doyle-Allen imbroglio
in the Police Department.
Rudolph alleges that Moffatt and
his wife connived to defraud him of
408 shares Of City Service stock. which
he had purchased for $16,123. The
plaintiff said that on July the Moi
fats induced him to turn over his stock
as security for the purchase of 100
shares of the stock of the Chase Ma
tional Bank. He alleges that the de-
fendant broker sold the Cities Service
stock and converted the proceeds to
his own use without buying the bank
securities.
Rudolph is represented by Attorneys
c. H. Merillat and G. H. zeutzius.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
BAND CONCERT.

BY the U. S. Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra, Stanley Hall, this evening At
$50 o'clock; John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant
leader.
March, Heavens Artillery" -. Lincoln
Overture, Bohemian Girl. .Balfe
Entreacte-
(a) Dance Of the Flower Girls"
(b) March of the Brahman Priests"
(Two numbers from suite "A Night
III 4nula ...s.. .CopD
Excerpts from musical comedy, This
Year of Grace"
Fox trot, I'm Just Vagabond
Lover" ..............Z Zimmerman
Popular waltz sond, IN Close My
Eyes to the Rest of the World"
Friend
Finale, IF / Can't Have You. Never
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1929-11-30
GERMANS SHOW INTEREST.

News Of Flight TO South Pole Printed
on First Pages Of Newspapers.
By Cable to The Star and the New York
Times.
BERLIN, November 80. - Comdr
Byrd's flight was followed with the
keenest interest by the German press
and scientific circles and the news of
his start early yesterday morning occu-
pied a place on the front pages Of all
Berlin newspapers.
Capt. Bruins, secretary Of the Aero
Arctic Society, said the meteorological
conditions In the region Of the South
Pole favored the flight and he consid-
cred that Comdr. Byrd was able to
gather luable Photographic material.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
BRITISH SHIP SENDS SOS

SAN FRANCISCO, November 80 up.
The Radio Marine Corporation here
heard an sos call at 5:25 am. today
from the British steamer Norwich City
The vessel gave its position as 800
miles north northwest of Honolulu
The message stated only that the ship
was in distress.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
BYRD SENDS LOVE
TO MOTHER AT HOME
Radio Message From Little Amer.
lea Is Received at Winches-
ter About Midnight.

BY the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, November 3O.-Safe
at his Antarctic base after a flight over
the South Pole, Comdr. Richard EVELYN
Byrd hastened to relieve anxiety OF
relatives with a message Of his safety
and love to his mother, Mrs. Richard
E: Byrd, sr., through the New York
Times.
Back after q fine fight" his message
read. 1T was full of thrills. A world
Of love to you all"
Mrs. Byrd reEeived the message at her
home here about midnight.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
AWARDED CITATION.
Milwaukee Veteran Rewarded for
Gallantry in World War.

.tanley Tarzynski of Milwaukee, Wis.
has lust been awarded by the Var De-
partment, citation for special gal
iantry in action during the advance on
the Sorny road, France, September !,
1918, while serving as sergeant, Company
K, 127th Infantry, 32d Division, A.. E.
ed gallant leadership, energy and cour-
age and with having rendered valuable
aid to his company commander"
Evening star., 1929-11-30
SET EXAMINATION DATES.
War Department Announces Test
xor Medical Commissions.

Announcement is made by the War
Department that the next examination
Of candidates for appointment as first
lieutenants in the Medical Corps Of the
Regular Army will be held. January 20
"a at all military posts and stations in
the United States. Detailed information
regarding the examinations will be sup
piled on application to the surgeon gen.
eral Of the Army, War Department.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
FAMILY FOUND DEAD.
Parents and Three Children Acct
dentally Asphyxiated in Home.

TAUNTON, Mass, November 80 CED.
"A family OF five. including three small
children, were found asphyxiated in q
room on the second floor of their home,
at ale Cohannet street, here late yes
terday afternoon. Medical Examiner
caused by accidental gas poisoning.
The dead are: Michael O'Neil, 20: his
wife, Lena, IS; william. S; Michael, jr,
2, and Eleanor, II months old.
Evening star., 1929-11-30
FAMILY
HEARS OF SUCCESS
Virginia Governor Relays
News to Mother, Awaiting
Word at Winchester.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
RICHMOND, Va, November 30.--Al-
though he knew that his brother
Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd. intended
to hop to the South Pole about this
time of the year." Gov. Harry r. Byrd
said in his ofhce last night that no one
in the family or any one else had known
exactly what day the plane Floyd Ben
net would leave the base.
Comdr. Byrd's mother, Mrs Richard
E. Byrd, Sr.. and Thomas Byrd, his
brother, received news of the successful
flight at their home in Winchester.
Gov. Byrd few to Richmond late yes
terday from Norfolk to get news of his
brother. He had been at Chapel Hill
for the Virginia Carolina foot ball game
on Thanksgiving day and stopped in
the capital to be the guest Of Gov. o.
Max Gardiner Of North Carolina. Ac-
companying Gov. Byrd in another plane
was Col. Willard D. Newbill of his staff
From the Executive Mansion the
governor relayed news Of the flight to
his mother at Winchester.
Commanders Wife RejOices.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
O61ON, november 5U.--MfS. Hlch-
ard z. Byrd, when informed last night
of her husbands successful flight over
the South Pole, would only say that she
rejoiced in her husbands safe return.
While the commander was flying yes
terday over the Antarctic plateau his
wife and four children In Boston con.
fldently awaited the news Of his success.
The commanders long absence and
his perilous undertaking have not
caused any change in the daily lives of
the family he left at the Brimmer street
house under Beacon Hill here.
Carrying on as usual, they were all
happy and well and daily received all
the wireless messages broadcast to
civilization from Comdr. Byrd's base
in the Bay of Whales.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. Byrd, ac-
companied by her mother, Mrs. Joseph
H. Ames, took the children for their
usual playtime in the public gardens
and expressed confidence during sew
eral chance meetings with friends that
her husband would achieve his object.
Ten-year-old Dick Byrd, jr., how
ever, was authority for the emphatic
statement that my dad will win All
right" He is the oldest Of the four
children and has followed every move
OF his father in Little America with
unbounded pride and youthful conf
dence,
Evening star., 1929-11-30
RETIRED OFFICIAL DIES.
w. A. Breckenridge, 46 Years Con
nected With Water Projects.

SANTA BARBARA. Calf, November
30 P.-William Algernon Bracken-
ridge, 65-year retired senior vice
president of the Southern California
Edison Co., died here last night after an
illness of three months.
During the last 46 years Bracken-
ridge had been connected with many
ma jor water developments In the United
states and sevgRl Mexican and Cana
dian projects. He retired 10 months
ago.
Evening star., 1929-11-30

The highest hotel in Europe is built
near thes ummit Of the Jungfrau, in the
Swiss Alps, at an altitude of 1880
feet.
Evening star., 1929-11-30

Men had waited up all night in the
mess hall, clustering about the radio
room to get the news of the progress
Of the flight.
AS the reports indicated the slow time
the plane was make on the way in,
there was some anxiety, and mechanics
checked and rechecked figures to esti-
mate the amount Of flying time the
plane had with the gasoline in the
Evening star., 1929-11-30
Wins Hubbard Gold Medal.

without that Instrument" GrosVe-
nor said, "Comdr. Byrd said 1t was
doubtful II he could have attained the
North Pole and still more doubtful that
he could have made his way back to
6pitzbergen"
When he returned to the United
States Byrd was awarded the Hubbard
Gold Medal of the National Geographic
Society for his epochal achievement
III first reaching the North Pole by
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
Work To Start Soon
On New Congr. Church

The building of new church is a
slow project. To decide on just the
kind of building that is desirable re-
quires much discussion and research.
Ofttimes the public may have the i'm
preston that a church board is as
leep, when there is the keenest activ-
ity in an endeavor to make sure they
are on the right track before they
go ahead. This is just the thing
which is occupying the mnds of the
Congregational Church Board re-
Gently. A reconsideration if the
plans which had been adopted in the
light of other plans submitted for
study by F. M. Jasper, the new pas
tor, caused the board, Monday even
ing, to decide in favor Of an entirely
new dea. The plan now is to build a
church entirely above ground, give
room for flexibility in seating capac-
ity of both church auditorium and So
cial hall, and provide adequately for
departmental and class rooms for the
Sunday school. Just as soon as some
expert specifications can be received
concerning some Of the details, the
work on the social hall will COM
mence.
A building committee was appoint
ed consisting of F. M Jasper, Chair
man; c. C. Johnson, Mrs. VIM. Erick-
son, c. B. Peterson and M. S. Nelson.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
N. D. SHERIFF
IS ARRESTED ON
ASSAULT CHARGE

Columbus, N. D.-A warrant
charging Sheriff Fred Burau of Burke
county with assault and battery has
been served on the officer and a
hearing is scheduled to be held here
Wednesday afternoon.
The warrant for the sheriff's ar
rest was obtained by Lewis Souther,
of Minot from Justice c. B. Vogen of
Columbus, the complaining witness
alleging that the sheriff beat his son
Leroy, Is, who has been employed
on a threshing rig in this vicinity.
The alleged assault is charged to
have occurred Aug. "a.
Service of the warrant on the sher-
if was made by DR.. King of Colum-
bus, county coroner An attempt
was made by Souther to obtain a war
an. for the sheriff's arrest from
States Attorney Earl Walter of Bow
bells, but after he conducted an in
vestigation he refused to issue one.
Mr.. Souther obtained the counsel
Of States Attorney f. j. McIlraith
Of Crosby, who made out the neces-
sary papers and informed him that in
a case of assault and battery, the
okey of the states attorney was not
needed. The alleged assault took
place while the sheriff was policing
a dance,
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
GOOD PROGRESS
IS BEING MADE
AT ARCHER WELL
Numerous Obsticles Over
come in Sinking of First
Test Well

The fifteen and one-half inch cas-
ing has been set seven hundred fifty
five feet and the we'll is now drilling
close to the eight hundred foot mark
Sixteen hundred feet of twelve and
one-half inch casing is being unload
ed at Archer and is being hauled to
the well. This is 81 lb. seamless
pipe.
The drilling company has had con-
siderable trouble with quicksand.
They got this cased off and then
struck an enormous flow of artesian
water This water flows continuous
~ between the twenty inch pipe and
the fifteen inch pipe. A fourteen foot
ditch was dug a distance of three
hundred fifty feet and the water is
now drained into the Big Muddy.
The we'll is logging several hun
dred feet high and the officers of the
company are in hopes of completing
the well before winter.
Several of the stockholders are ex-
pected here the first of the week
when they will inspect the property
of the company and then go to the
Sweetgrass Hills near Shelby, where
the company has extensive holdings.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
Wolf Creek

Miss Florence Young was reported
as ,-ery i'll on Wednesday and called
DR.. Wright Of Grenora.
HRS. Deb Chapman, who is at
Gre shy at resent, spent day with
hel husband and friends in town the
fore part of the week.
Miss Hanke of south of Dagmar,
is teaching in the Whittier school
where it was reported last week Miss
Ann Ator was teaching. Miss Ator,
it was announced was transferred to
a school in the Fairview country.
The many friends Of Mrs. Bert
Amundson, nee Theresa Grimsrude,
are sad to hear of her present seri-
Gus condition. Theresa was operated
upon for appendicitis, at Billings
and has never fully recovered from
which she now is suffering.
Hans Dixon of Washington, came
Saturday to spend a week with
friends and look after his farming in
terests here.
Louise Knight of Redstone and
Raymond Guenther of Plentywood
drove out to the c. E. Chapman home
Saturday evening.
The next meeting of the &C. L. F.
Club will be held Sept. 19 with Mrs.
Annie Guenther.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

In the new books which we receiv-
ed this month is "The Magic Island"
by w. B. Seabrook. Four days off
our Atlantic Coast lies the Island of
Black Magic, peopled and civilized by
the descendants Of negro slaves. This
book recounts adventures and emo
tional experience of an American
author who went to Haiti because,
though he had travelled over half the
world, he sensed its mystery. He
found among the millions of blacks
who dwell in electric lighted towns,
jungle covered mountains, dark val
leys, an emotional wisdom that we,
and perhaps the whole civilized world
have lost. He found a people who
know that life itself is beautiful
and terrifying adventure. He found
living religion, Voodoo, wherein
is the ritual of eating of flesh and
drinking of blood, witchcraft and sor-
Gerry and black magic; religion
whore the image of the Catholic vir-
gin and the cross stand with a host
Of gods, the black counterparts of
Priapus, Aphrodite, and Bacches. He
found living things that we have long
thought dead in the storehouse of an
thropological lore. He is the first ar
ticulate white witness to its rituals,
songs, it's sacrifices. Read t!
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
United States Of Europe"
Dream Of French Premier
Appeals to Nations to Study
Proposal-Creeted With
Great Applause

Geneva, Sept. 5-Premier Aristide
BRAND of France, orator preeminent
among the statesmen Of Europe, to-
day added new laurels to his crown
as he launched his ambitious project
for the establishment of a European
federation which has been popularity
interpreted as a "United States Of
Europe"
He appealed to the nations to make
deep study of this proposal and ap-
plause greeted his remarks. He raised
the subject during a stirring tribute
to the decade of work by the league
in which he made memorable ap-
peal to women of the world to protect
their children from false ideals of
strife and from those doctrines cal
culated to inculcate prejudice and
hate among peoples.
The address before the league was
mainly devoted to a review of it's
work and analysis of problems still
to be solved, but later at a luncheon
attended by international journalists,
NJ BRAND went further into the plan
for a European federation and indi-
Gated the goal was a political as we'll
as economic organization. He said
that although the idea had been de-
scribed as dream he was, neverthe-
less, convinced that the nations of
Europe could establish closer ties to
their mutual benefi.
Premier Brind in asking the gov
ernments to give closest attention
to the possibilities of a European
federation said that in addition to
military disarmament also was need
cd and in his opinion this problem
could be attacked from the political
standpoint. The ovattttttton shrdlu
standpoint. The ovation accorded
the veteran French statesman did
not end in the assembly hall itself.
Crowds had gathered in the streets
and they hailed him with cheers as
he left the hall to attend the journ-
alist's luncheon.
There Prime Minister Ramsey
Macdonald of Great Britain shares
the attention as in his romarks the
labor leader voiced his answering
conviction that Great Britain and
the United Staes, overcoming all diff
fculties because the people wanted
them overcome, will eventually reach
complete agreement on naval prob
lems
Macdonald declared the tremen-
dous desire for peace shared by 95
percent of the peoples of the world
will enable President Hoover and
himself to solve the naval power
problem .lllllllllyiiqffy rdhu rhdsu sttt
problem.