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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-10-17
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S
FIT TO PRINT

Mr.. w. w. Stringfellow, in or
dering the address of his Democrat
changed from Blowing Rock to
Admission, Ala, says: please send
me the paper that carries all the
news that's fit to print"
Mr.. Stringfellow has enjoyed
reading The Democrat since his
early days in Watauga County,
and few years ago, when on a
tour of Italy, the Watauga jour.
nal went to his address in the CITY
CT Kome for a number of weeks.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-10-17

In Asia in ancient times there was
q considerable number OF monumen-
tai acqueducts, the largest of which
were in China and India.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-10-17

Frozen meat first became known
to the civilized world when a party
of Eskimos brought frozen game in
alright cases to Harwich, England
in January 1916.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

over such big areas as Comdr Byrds
photographs from the air. In q few
hours Comdr. Byrd did more in chart-
ing unknown territory than Capt
AmundSen did on all his long. hard wan,
derings over the ice. If Comdr. Byrd
supplements his mapping work with q
complete study of weather phenomena
in the Antarctic, he will have done
much toward solving the conundrum of
the frozen continent"
Minute Plans Are Lauded.
Hedge Bangsted, the young Dane who
had charge of Prof. w. Fl. Hobbs
weather station on the inland ice of
Greenland, said Comdr. Byrd had now
triumphed in the worlds three most
dangerous flights.
Some of the glamour Of his early
adventures has been left behind him."
Mr.. BangSted declared. There remains
mature and sober man who has been
able to carry through this great feat
only on the strength Of preparations
which went to the minutest details. 1t
is not a stroke of luck that Comdr.
Byrd has flown over the South Pole,
but it is the result of that stubborn
endeavor and honesty which have al
ways characterized Comdr. Byrd's work.
"Comdr. Byrd is the greatest per-
sonality in modern exploration. Admiral
Peary dreamed of making the same trip
in the same way. Now it's q country
man of Peary'S who has done 1t. Could
anything be finer?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

here made more dificult the flight for
altitude.
The ailerons failed to respond and
the wheel turned loosely in Bernt's
hands. Still we were not high enough
to safely get over the pass ahead We
saw now the great plateau through the
clouds lowering around the peaks to
the right and left.
200 Pounds Must Be Dropped.
It was a critical moment. The air
was too rarified to hold up our heavy
load. Bernt yelled in my ear above
the roar of the engines, I'VE must drop
200 pounds Immediately or go back"
Harold was standing by the dump valve
of our fuselage tank A little pressure
on the valve and we could let go 900
pounds of gasoline. If we dumped that
gas we couldn't reach the Pole and get
back to base. Food was the only thing
left to throw overheard, but would 1t
be fair to those three fellows If We
dumped precious food? We would be
long time on the plateau if we should
have forced landing. We had the
food packed in 125-pound bags near
the trap door ready for quick action
"a bag Of food overheard" I yelled to
Harold. He signaled to Mac, who was
standing by the trap door. shall do
it, commander" Mac shouted. I nod
ded. Over went one Of the brown bags.
Bernt looked around and smiled. That
little weight had an immediate effect.
A plane when it is lowering near its
absolute ceiling is like a balloon. A
few pounds overheard will make her
shoot up.
Not High Enough Yet.
Things were better now, but I wasn't
sure it was fair to those fellows to
dump food. Bernt was easing her over
to the right now, where luckily 1t was
clear over the lowest part of the pass.
We would get out of the descending
currents and probably be helped by the
ascending ones. We were not high
enough yet. looked around. Mac was
hard at work with his camera. No mat
ter what would happen he had to record
those mountains. I felt then that If
we had gone down in a tailspin Mac
would have taken pictures on the way
down. If there had been time I might
have told Mac he would have to throw
his heavy camera overheard to gain
altitude. Mac is a true soldier and he
would have obeyed orders, but am sure
he would have followed his camera
through the trap door.
Harold went nonchalantly about his
many duties as If 1t were all in a days
work When he listened to the engines,
his pleasure plainly showed in his face.
The great Cyclone and two Whirlwinds
went on roaring sweetly II one of
them should stop, down we would go
to the glacier unless we could dump
many hundred pounds very quickly.
We had gradually gained more altitude,
but not enough.
Few Hundred Feet at Stake.
A few hundred feet now might make
the difference between success or dismal
failure. How much hung upon those
few hundred feet. 1t was very rough
now, and Mac and Harold could hardly
hold their feet. Very slowly we went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

up. Suddenly the wheel turned loosely
In Brent's hands.
Quick, dump more!" he shouted. I
pointed to another bag Of food. Mac
showed it through the trapdoor, and
we watched her hit the glacier. Two
hundred and fifty pounds of food-a
months supply for four men-lies out
there on that lifeless glacier.
Again it did the trick. We seemed to
shoot up. We couldn't let any more
food go. Nor could we dump gasoline
and have any reserve supply left for
reaching the Pole. There was nothing
more to dump. We must make 1t. The
minutes went very slowly.
AT last We reached the pass. We had
a few hundred feet to spare. Bernt
gave a shout of Joy. There were no
mountains beyond the pass. The plateau
stretched ahead, cloudless and glisten-
ing in the sun. giving an unrestricted
route to the Pole.
We were over the dreaded hump. The
Pole lay dead ahead over the horizon.
(copyriEht, 1929, by the New York Times
Co, and the s. Louis Post-Dispatch All
rights for publication reserved throughout
the worldly
The third and last installment Of
Comdr. Byrds own story will be pub
lished by The Star tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

sending expeditions to the cold CONT
nent A few meteorologists say that
when Antarctic weather is understood
better, it can be used to predict general
weather conditions year or two ahead
in South America and Australia, with
consequent increase in the worlds crop
wealth.
Byrd's party is several hundred miles
southeast of the south magnetic pole.
that spot in the Southern Hemisphere
where the lines of magnetic force, that
curve north and south over the earth'S
surface to guide compasses, dive
straight downward into the earth. ANY
facts, however fragmentary, which the
expedition can bring back about the
magnetic pole will add invaluable knowl-
edge to the store of information used
by scientists to learn more about the
earth'S magnetism, with the object
finally of finding something to mans
advantage.
In air transportation, radio heating,
cooking. studies of snow and ice, of
ocean depths. temperatures and marine
life the expedition is gathering a fund
of the sort of f1rst-hand information
that scientists the world over long have
wished for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
REFUSES REVIEW
+. OF LAND BANK CASE
U. S. Supreme Court Will Not
Reconsider Ruling on Stock
holders Liabilities.
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The recent decision holding that the
personal liability of stockholders in
joint stock land banks could be en-
forced only by the creditors of such
banks will not be reconSidered by the
Supreme Court. The decision declared
that the receivers of failed Joint stock
land banks could not enforce the stock
holders liabilities.
i Strong pressure was brought upon the
court to reopen the controversy, which
1t had decided in case brought by a
shareholder In the failed Bankers Joint
Stock Land Bank of Milwaukee. The
receiver, acting under instructions from
the Farm Loan Board, assessed the
stockholders 100 per cent on their stock
as did the receiver of the failed Kansas
City Joint Stock Land Bank of Kansas
City and the receiver of the Ohio Joint
Stock Land Bank of Cincinnati.
The Supreme Court held that as Con-
greSS had not specifically provided that
the Farm Loan Board should have au-
thority to assess the stockholders, Their
liability could be enforced only by suit
OF the creditors.
Declaring that the decision would
have disastrous effect upon the bonds
issued by joint stock land banks and
would in large measure retard the Farm
Loan Board in its work to aid agricul-
ture, the receivers of the banks In
Kansas City and Cincinnati Joined in
petitioning the court to reopen the con-
troversy. The bondholders' protective
committee OF the Kansas City bank also
hled petition urging a rehearing. p
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
Air transportation
Opens New Field in
Fish Stock Shipping

1.-THE development of air trans
portation, particularly the pros
pective Zeppelin transocean serv-
ice, is opening new possible
ties in the transportation of
fish," according to a bulletin of
the National Geographic Society
issued today.
The United States Bureau Of
Fisheries. the bulletin says, has
shipped abroad since 1923 8,191,-
525 fish eggs and 40,525 young
fish. These included trout, bass,
white fish, crappie and Gam
busia. The GambuSia are in great
demand in Italy and Spain be-
cause of their propensity for
eating the AnopheleS mosquito.
This country has imported in
large quantities German brown
trout. Loeb Leven trout and
German carp. Carp now consti-
tute an important American
fishery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
TIMES ANSWERS GRAN.
Mountains Are at SO and 81 Degrees
Where Plateau Starts.

Mountains Are at SO and 81 Degrees,
Where Plateau Starts.
NEW YORK, December 3 (P)-The
New York Times. commenting upon dis
patches saying Comdr. Byrds descrip-
ton of the South Polar area had been
challenged by Maj. Tryggve Gran, said
today:
"None Of the New York Times dis
patches from Little America has ever
told of Comdr Byrd coming upon traces
of the camps of Capt. Amundsen and
Capt. Scott.
by Capt. Amundsen's own record of
the position of the base-Framheim-
Comdr. Byrd has been able to go to the
approximate site. and Little America is
located not far from it.
Capt Amundsen'S book tells of the
woodwork of his hut and the heroic task
Of his carpenters. Radiating from the
house were snow tunnels and eaverns.
LAS for mountains reported by Comdr
Byrd on the Polar flight, they were be-
tween SO and 81 degrees, and south of
that the commander described the ter
rain as an almost limitless plateau.
Thus Mai. Gran would be correct in as
Stunning that there were no ranges south
of 88 degrees"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
NORWEGIAN DOUBTS
ACCURACY OF BYRD
Explorer With Scott Calls
Expedition a "SpecuIation
in Sensations"
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, December 3.-The Mail to-
day says that the accuracy of the report
of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd of his south
polar flight has been challenged by
Maj. Tryggve Gran, Norwegian airman
and explorer, who was a member ofsthe
Scott Antarctic expedition.
A dispatch from Copenhagen cites a
statement Maj. Gran made to the news
paper Ekstrabladet, in which he said,
IT am not justified in saying Comdr.
Byrd did not pass over the Pole, but
the whole expedition appears to be a
speculation in sensations"
Doubts He Saw Cairns.
He stated that the report of the
American aviator did not inspire conf
dence, and in particular doubted the
statement that Byrd saw the cairns of
Scott and Amundsen.
Gran said, I'm my opinion, It would
be nothing short of miracle If the
cairns were so well preserved that they
were visible from the air against the
white Snowplain."
The terrible mountains which Comdr.
Byrd describes are, according to Gran,
a fantasy" He said his own expert
ence and that Of Amundsen, discoverer
of the South Pole, as revealed in dis
CuSSlOIl WIFI 1llIIlScll dUUuO IAlC S1ioi
acter of the landscape, show that there
are no mountains.
Could Use Motor Cycle, He says.
"When we returned from SCOTS ex-
petition, we agreed the trip might be
made with a motor cycle, the land be-
ing, on the whole. plain, except for
crevaSseS and ravines."
Mai. Gran is about 40 years old. AS a
lieutenant in the Norwegian Navy in
1914 he flew from England to Norway
and accomplished the first air crossing
of the North Sea. Capt. Scott took him
to the Antarctic as a ski expert. In
1919 he was navigator Of an air ex-
petition which was to attempt an At
lantic crossing from st. Johns. New
foundland, to Europe, but which was
abandoned after the narrow escape of
Harry Hawker in the same attempt.
In 1922 he was reported to be plan
ming flight across the North Pole from
SpitZbergen. At that time Raoul
Amundsen was in Alaska planning a
similar flight in the opposite direction,
but neither Of them actually made the
attempt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
GERMANS PRAISE
BYRD'S POLAR HOP
Scientific Results to Be oil
Great Value Through
Aerial Mapping.
BY Radio to The Star and the New York
Times.

BY Radio to The Star and the New York
Times.
BERLIN. December 3.-Comdr. Byrd's
flight continues to be acclaimed as an
outstanding scientific achievement in
the German press, which points out the
difficulties confronting the explorer in
the Antarctic as compared with those
to be overcome in the North Pole re-
gions, where open stretches and drift
ing ice packs often facilitate the prog
ress of ships to points in close proX-
unity to the Pole.
Curt Seibert, who accompanied DR..
Wilhelm Filchner on the German South
Pole expedition in 1912, designateS
Comdr. Byrd's flight as an extraordinary
accomplishment in that he had no
predecessors in those regions.
HE is the air pioneer of frigid zones,
and he has pointed the way which must
be followed If the Antarctic is to be
successfully explored from the view
point of geography" Herr Seibert said.
Even if his first flight was in the
nature of a sensation, and assuming
that Byrd succeeded in bringing back
Photographic records as the result of
favorable visibility, the scientific yields
of his flight will soon be forthcoming,
for 1t will now be possible to establish
permanent bases from which regular
flights can be undertaken which would
ultimately result in accommodating the
Photographic material required for the
preparation of authentic maps"
/ Herr Seibert believed that Comdr.
Byrd's ability to keep his three motor
plane aloft in the frigid air of the
antarctic suggested the question whether
the dirigible was preferable to the air
plane, in view of existing impressions
that the dirigible, because of its slower
speed, was better suited for photo
graphic observation. The Graf Zeppelin,
he added, will have an opportunity to
demonstrate the relative merits on It's
flight to the North Pole.
RASMUSSEN AIDE COMMENTS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
BYRD POLAR FLIGHT SEEN
AS AMERICAN IDEALISM
Argentine Press Praises Flyer, Cit.
ing Material Prosperity of q. s.
as Helping Factor.

BY Gable to The Star.
BUENOS AIRES, December 3.-The
newspaper FL Diario, commenting on
Comdr. Byrd's South Polar fight, says:
For those with any imagination
Comdr. Byrd's flight over the South
Pole is as exciting as the most legend
airy adventure. But for Americans this
capture of both Poles by a member OF
one of their oldest families must be
particularly moving.
THE world frequently refuses to for
give the United States for its economic
preponderance, forgetting that it is only
this material prosperity which makes
possible far-reaching spiritual and
ldealistic achievements which to coun-
tries less prosperous materially can only
remain dreams impossible Of realiza
ton.
THE latest achievement Of Comdr
Byrd and his companions must remind
us of the great idealistic capacity and
power for the general welfare Of the
Nation they represent"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

TYATS off to the Byrd menl
IL They have reached the
South Pole by airplanel New
names are being written on the
pages of the worlds history.
In his famous book "Skyward,"
Byrd wrote =. "hke wars, expedi-
tons into polar regions are won by
preparations" and charac-
teristic of the Byrd expedition was
the great care given to the choice
supplies for this South Pole trip.
The expedition selected every
item with greatest care for the
comfort and well-being of the men.
Over the South Pole with the
Byrd men flew Nestle's Milk
Chocolate-just as it flew over the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
HOUSE CONCRATULATES BYRD
Longworh Radios Praise From Legislators Explorer
Moore Resolution Is Adopted by Unanimous Vote.


Resolved by the House of Representatives that the
ed by
associates the congratulations
greatly o scientific ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
JUNE SENDS WORD HOME.

Wife and Daughter in Stamford
Get Message From Polar Flyer.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAMFORD, Conn, December s.
From the Antarctic there came to Mrs.
Harold I. June and her 15-year-old
daughter, Marguerite Emma June, yes
terday morning their first message from
the husband and father since June's
flight over the South Pole with Comdr.
Byrd. The message, dated November
20, read:
Dear:
:. Back to Little America again with
a big flight behind us, tired but happy.
Will be more so when see you again.
Love to Marguerite and all at home.
HAROLD"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

North Pole in 1926 because
NesdG's delivers the goods. Here
is a delicious milk chocolate that
provides, in compact form, con-
centrated, easily digested food.
Food to supply bodily warmth -.
quick energy. tofght against the
iciness of penetrating polar winds.
So, in the triumphant fight
across the dazzling, white wilder
ness of the South Pole, Nestle's
flew with the Byrd expedition -.
again an important part R the
emergency ration.
For quick energy, rich, concen-
trated nourishment, Nestle's Milk
Chocolate is the inevitable choice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

The famous asphalt lake at Trinidad,
Spain, is huge mass Of Seething pitch,
ITO acres in area. At least 5000, 900 tons
OF pitch have been removed from the
lake since its discovery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
CONTINUE RELATIONS.

Remain Friends in Sports.
DETROIT, December 3 (P)-Officials
of the University of Detroit and Michi-
gan State College agreed last night to
continue athletic relations and the De-
troit eleven will play Michigan State
It East Lansing again next year.
The celebration OF the Detroit foot
ball victory this year, which ended with
some of the celebrants in the Lansing
Jail, was referred to by officials as 1.-The
objectional action of comparatively
small minority" which should not be
permitted to prevent friendly relation
ship between the two institutions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03

We owe the Christmas stocking and
the excellent use to which it is put to
st. Nicholas, the patron saint of chill
dren generally and of schoolboys in par
ticular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
BRITISH GREET BYRD.
Lord Thomson Sends Congratula-
tions of the Air Council.

LONDON, December 8 R.-Lord
Thomson, British air secretary, yester-
day sent the following congratulatory
message to Comdr. Byrd:
I'm behalf of the Air Council tender
hearty congratulations to yourself and
companions on your splendid flight over
the South Pole"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
Proves Value of Planes.

Peter Freuchen, Danish explorer, who
accompanied Knud Rasmussen, on his
most perilous journeys in the Arctic,
said Comdr. Bryd's flight was of ines
Unable value to all polar work
"Comdr. Byrd has given double proof
OF the value of the airplane as new
tool in the explorers hands. From a
scientific point of view. the flight was
without object, but it demonstrated the
efficacy of using every modern technical
aid to success. From the sporting point
of view, 1t was simply wonderful.
For me, as an Arctic explorer, the
special interest of the flight lay in
Comdr Byrd's Photographic charting of
unknown territory. His charts should
be virtually error-proof and of much
greater importance and reliability than
those We made in the old-fashioned way
We had to make our charts on sledge
journeys, and what We drew with frozen
fingers could never be so exact or spread
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
RASMUSSEN AIDE COMMENTS.
Bryd Took Big Step in Solving PUBL
of Antarctic, He Says.

of Antarctic, He Says.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
COPENHAGEN, December 3.-Comdr.
Richard E. Bryd's dramatic flight to
the South Pole and back is hailed with
enthusiasm in Denmark, which has
sent brave explorers into the polar
wastes.
Amateurs with short-wave radio sets
in Copenhagen were able to hear the
historic signals from the Ice Barrier
flashing the .ews that the South Pole
had been conquered from the air, One
of the first to spread word of Comdr.
Byrd's achievement here was an anna
teur named Peter Jensen, who, on a
small Short-wave set, heard the ex-
change of signals between the Bay of
Whales and the New York Times Office
In New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
Results Do Not
Produce Causes

The Flower said to the Stalk on which
it grew:
Look how upto-date and fresh, and young,
and beautiful am; how all the world admires
me; am a success, while you are drab and
behind the times, and have not progressed.
And the Stalk said:
You are foolish young thing; you are what
you are because of me; you have youth and
beauty and success because | was drab and
conserved my powers out of which you grew;
the very things you condemn in me produced
the things in you of which you are so vain.
And the winter came and the Bloom bowed
its head and shrivelled up and died. The
Stalk was only little drabber and looked
little more unprogressive, but in the next
spring it put forth more Blossoms and those
Blossoms in the next summer said to the Stalk:
Look at me, you
'Aash in the pan is of no significance. The
qualities that produce results ephemeral.
They stod, solid, and sturdy. Progress and
success do not grow from vain boastings or from
ideas whose only recommendation is that they are
different" Ideas are not necessarily good
sarily bad because they new; neither are they
necessarily good necessarily bad because they are
old. Be sure your progress not alone sounds the
bugles and carries the banners of but make
certain your progress is progressive and is
The way real progress is TO las tbs1 Jas
produce. ~' ~
New Britain herald., 1929-05-01
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