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Evening star., 1935-05-16
Nebraska Society's
Reception and Dance

The Nebraska State Society will
have a reception, entertainment and
dance In the dragon room of the
Wardman Park Hotel tomorrow at
$50 O'Clock. pm, when the Governor
Of Nebraska, Roy L. Cochran, will be
guest Of honor.
Music for dancing will be by Buddy
Tracy and his Statesmen. During in
termission several numbers will be
presented by the Donna Taggart
Dancers. Mrs. Taggart is q former
Nebraskan.
Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, jr., 4237 Gar
Geld street, Is secretary.
Evening star., 1935-05-16
Play Slated Tonight.

BLADENSBURG, Md, May is (spe-
ciaD The play Midnight In the
Toyshop" win be presented tonight by
students Of the Bladensburg Junior
High School in the parish hall Of st.
Luke's Episcopal Church here at 8
o'clock. Approximately 10 students
are in the cast.
Evening star., 1935-05-16

return to his country, but will sail
from England. taking the eastern
route to Japan where she will join
her husband.
Evening star., 1935-05-16

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Evening star., 1935-10-22

ofthe old New Deal planned the whole
on the single keystone of honest fiscal policy"
The fatal thing that pledge had been dshonored
the priceless ingredient Of the whole New
integrity which makes confdence-had aduerated.
with the abandonment of sound money went also its
fiscal balanced budgets
a n taxat
-" unemployment is being . not now even
being attacked The PWAWPA program complete flop
maybe you can't beat four billion dollars billion
dollars nbeaty
Sound money and balanced budget business
re-emPlo,ment and agriculture
20 support that restoration and coapse-these
the ndlspensables They are the original New Deal"
1here enough country to elect
President"
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Evening star., 1935-08-14

like the roar of waterfall; and
even the tiny, irregular noises of my
shack-the ticking of the clocks and
the hiss OF the stove-merge with and
become part Of the silence. But the
silence is always there, real, perma-
nent, solid as sound; and no thought
will wander so far as not to be
brought up hard by its suddenly re-
curing reality
Byrd was handicapped from the
start by an injured shoulder, wrenched
in unloading the tractors. He was
forced to do much of the work of
Strengthening out his hut and building
fuel and escape tunnels with one
hand, he wrote. Constantly there was
the threat of fire from the crude oil
stove and most of glass chemical
bombs brought along as fire extin-
guiShers had been smashed by the
fierce cold.
On March %, 1884, Herd made his
first diary entry shortly after dig
ging in
'"I've searched conScientiously for
the alarm clock and the cook book, and
the suspicion is growing that I left
them at Little America" he wrote
| 1T would be an ironic joke if. in the
pretentious planning for every con-
tingency, we forgot these most COM
monplace and vital necessities"
Cook Book Brings Joy.
/ When Byrd finally discovered the
cook book-he never found the alarm
Evening star., 1935-08-14
BYRD'S ACCOUNT
OF VIGIL IS TOLD
Diary Bares Hardships in
Icy Hut and Importance
p. of Little Things.

Alone for seven months at the bot
tom of the world in a shack not much
bigger than an apartment kitchenette,
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd fretted
over a missing cookbook and sleepless-
ness produced by detective stories
The small things are important"
and my greatest trouble is getting to
bed at a reasonable hour" Byrd wrote
in his diary of vigil probably un :
matched for loneliness and hardshipS.
First installments of the diary, COW
ering Admiral Byrd's experience from
the day last March when he was left
alone in hut 1913 miles from his base
at Little America to a nearly fatal oc-
casion when he was knocked out by
stove fumes, will be published tomor-
row in the American Magazine. They
are accompanied by comment from
Charles j. v. Murphy, member of
the Byrd Antarctic Expedition Mr.
Murphy fills in the blanks in the mar
rative.
Byrd is so i'll at this writing from
the effects of more than 200 DAYS in
his icy isolation that it is feared his
exploring days are over. His diary
describes how he was poisoned by car
bon monoxide escaping from his stove
and how he faced temperatures of
more than 70 below zero.
Two Reasons Given.
There were two reasons. according
to Arthur Murphy, for Byrd's sepa-
fati00 bir1oSalf hi
live alone in the stormswept outpost.
One was the necessity for an inland
base to get important meteorological
data. The breakdown of one of the
expeditions tractors, aggravated by
other difficulties, made it impossible
to equip a distant base with supplies
for three men.
IT'S got to be two men or one" "
Byrd told Murphy. so it's got to
be one"
The admiral explained that to put
two men "out there would be to in
vite tragedy.
Anybody who knows Arctic his
tory knows that" he said "A third
man IN a crowded shack is always
IltulIdl
of man, court of appeal, the man
outside the quarrel. After a couple
of months two men might be at each
others throats."
The other reason, Murphy writes
was that Byrd welcomed the chance
to come face to face with himself in
q time OF pure and dangerous loneli-
ness"
After Byrd had been established in
a specially constructed hut, built to
Withstand temperatures of 80 degrees
below zero, the men and tractors that
helped him dig in" vanished across
the snow wastes toward Little America
123 miles away on the seacoast. Byrd
was left to loneliness so superlative
that even his own description falters.
1T is unnatural" he jotted in his
diary, "to be so utterly alone Not a
blade of grass, not handful of earth,
nor even rock to remind you of
living things. A shipwrecked sailor
has the movement of the sea, the birds
flying. to comfort him. A man lost
in the woods possesses the reaSsuring
presence of trees and the life that
moves among them.
Lifeless for Centuries.
Here no lite has moved for CEN
trrieS 1t is the heart of inertness,
The dark memory of the Ice Age.
And the utter silence, too. is un-
natural. 1t fills the air with it's mood
of soundlessness It lulls and hypno-
ties you, as steady familiar sound.
Evening star., 1935-08-14

clock-he gave "a whoop Of JOY" he
told Murphy later.
:, Then I remembered, with queer
elf-consciousness," he said, that 1t
was the first word I had uttered In
more than week."
Byrd's only thread to the world Of
living men was his wireless, and
sometimes this was very thin thread,
the article reveals. Messages cracked
from the snow-buried hut to the
colony at Little America several times
week, but often there were long
stretches of silence which caused fear
for their leader to clutch at the hearts
of the others. They had been ordered
by Byrd not to attempt relief ex-
pedition during the Antarctic Winter
night.
Suppose we lose radio contact?"
Murphy said he asked Byrd.
"You probably will" Byrd was said
to have replied. I'm the world S
worst radio operator. Any attempt to
relieve me in Mid-winter is almost
certain to cause loss of life, perhaps
many lives. I cannot permit the risk
of several lives in an effort to save
one" .- ..
On May 3. 1884, Byrd wrote in his
diary:
MY greatest trouble is getting to
bed at a reasonable hour. 1t was
2:30 before I blew out the light last
night. Reading, of course, and very
poor detective story, at that. That's
the insidious thing about detective
story; no matter how bad it is, Curl
osity won't let you put it down until
you've finished it."
An observation so commonplace
that it might have been written by a
Washington cliff dweller" in the COM
fort of a six-room suite, but for what
follows.
The temperature in the shack was
only II degrees above when I worked
Little America on the radio today. "A
glass of water from which l was
drinking froze hard on the table be-
fore got through. However, cold is
a blessing. The foods I wish to stay
frozen very hard leave on the deck,
Just ordinary hard on the lowest
shelf and partly frozen on the top
shelves have to break vege-
tables out of the can with a hammer
Evening star., 1935-08-14

and chisel and cold chisel makes a
fine butter knife"
Trail Marked With Sticks.
Byrd used to take daily walks for
exercise and scientific observations.
He marked out his trail with bamboo
sticks, since his hut was invisible
under the snow drifts and the terrain
was so desolate that there was no
gauge of distance or direction. Once
he strayed beyond his markers and
was lost for some time. He built a
snow beacon and walked away from
it on radial lines, each time returning
to the center when he failed to find
the hut. Finally, he found his bam-
boo markers and returned safely.
Feeling too rotten lately to do
much writing" Byrd wrote on May
28. Something is sapping my
strength. I'm convinced the fumes
from the stoves and possibly from
the pressure lamps are getting into
my system. I'm doing everything
within my power to lick this problem
and I'm not discouraged"
On May 20, Murphy recounts,
Byrds diary told of hearing many
snow quakes, sounding like great can
non in the distance. There was no
entry for May 80.
Even now" Murphy writes, "he is
not wholly sure of what happened on
that day. 1t was like being slugged
from behind
Byrd told later of how he had
gone to repair the engine which
powered his radio set. The engine
had been skipping.
MY last conscious act" he said,
"was to try to close the switch.
Then things went black before my
eyes I'm not sure that I was
knocked out. I remember there was
a long mental struggle, and lovely
drowsiness. l was on my knees. and
I suppose I was freezing
1T was hell for a long time after
wards
Evening star., 1935-08-14
Tunnel Dug in Snow,

After an avalanche had fallen re-
Gently on the road leading to the
Great st. Bernard Pass in Switzerland
tunnel over $50 feet long was dug
through the snow.
Evening star., 1935-08-14
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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-04-03

the result. The question at issue 10 the
passage of the ordinance before US.
3rd Member for Christiansted Town
(FGbGo): Mr.. Chairman. The Presidents
of tho United States has decided that this
island also should be rehabiIitated. but
rehabilitation here Is to be found only a.
mong the people from the mainland. Some
people believe if the people of these is
lands subscribe fifty thousand dollars to
the capital stock of the bank they will
have some control. believe different.
My belief is that as the people of the
United States are going to subscribe the
greater share of the amount the people
up there will have the vote and direct the
affairs of the bank Many members are
stressing the fact that if we pass this or
dInance we would not be Offering any IN
suls to the National Bank of the Danish
West Indies. That is not so. 1t behooves
membe RS of this Council to look carefully
into the affairs of the people and not
leave it to people on the mainland. be-.
cause apeOple from the mainland
do not know conditions here as our peo.
pie do.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr..
Henry z Persons of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation explained the bank
ing situation to the Council.
9Th Appointed Member (JosepD: Mr..
Chairman. have listened carefully to
the distinguished guest. but want him
to realize that the United States Govern.
menG is not a responsible government
and we cannot rely on any statement an
official makes. because az soon as he goes
intoahignr position and anothe: man takes
his place we are confronted with other
statements. Now, as far as that is con-
cerned know that the bank is not up for
discussion at this meeting, that should
be left to people who are buying stock.
but we have to deal more or less with
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-04-03
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
OF THE
FOR ST. GROIX.
Concluded from April LIST. 1886.

3rd Appointed Member (PenthSny):
Mr.. Chairman. You have practically
taken the word cut Of my mouth Every
one in st. Crox is on friendly terms with
the Danish Bank. There IS no doubt
about it that the Bank will start iiQui-
dating on Marcn let. The Directors have
told members of this Council that it
would be agreeable to them if this bill is
pass ed, and feel that if we do not pasR
il we would be hampering the openingof
the new bank. The honorable 3rd meru-
Der for Chrstiansted Town says why
don't the United States Government opan
a bank here with its owns money. | take
it that we are favored here, because in
continental United States the people
have to match dollar for dollar while we
have not got to do that here. The new
bank will bs very good Institution and
we should = try to have it established
90 shas money could be loaned to the peo-
pie.
Ath Member for Christiansted Country
District (ALe1ander): Mr.. Chairman. |
do not care to rise every minute. This
matter is troublesome one. The passage
or non.passage of this measure has moth
ing to do with the establishment of the
natIonaI bank | do not want to discuss
the merits OF dement's of tina new bank.
because know how 1t is going to be con.
Quoted and know what it is going to be
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-04-03

the ordinance which is now before the
Council. just Want TO remind memb is
that this Council is a mutual affair. eich
member mas bis responsibility to his
Cheats. | realize that there are sufficient
members here to vote the passage of
this bill, but want to ask them 60 con
slider the p)sltIvn Of other members VINO
do not want TO vote for it We know Ehat
the ordinary people have 90 conf lence in
the ADMINISTRATION. they feel that 80
long, as.o ne is ssagreea ole to the Pearson
Administration you are no. Friend OF
the people. You members who are will
ing to vote for this m sasure because you
are satisfied with the explanation given
are going to do an injustice to the people.
you are going TO regret 1t when it is dis
coveredtnat the explanation given ls not
genuine as it should be. We can do the
Bank no harm if we do not vote for this
bill today. but we would be doing the
people great harm if we vote for il. be
cause they will be forced to take their
money from the National Bank of the
DANISH West Indies and deposit it in che
new bank and panic might be created
and the paople might rush to the Bank
and withdraw their money. and may lose
some. have said should like to see he
uSW Uduh Slds %COs Oub IL Ill doukC Sou
nothelp to establish il do not see why We
should pass it, la order to organize this
bank you must have shareh llders. clerks,
etc., aud have tina Bank prop .tly organ.
lied, you can go ahead and do that and
then afterwards come to this Council with
this ordinance, if it is found necessary TO
pass it. do not see iC is necessary for
this Council 20 60 to work and pass le2is-
iation providing for the Ilqudatng Of tbs
National Bank of the DANISH West indies
wnen the Bank itself il doing that.
want you to realize, gentlemen. that you
held the wniD hand. You who ale sup.
porting the Government must give US
chance to satisfy the people that we are
legisIatng for them IN the right way.
Ihe vote was taken as ts whetner lst
discussion should be closed with the re-
suit that members voted for: 3 against.
LIST discussion closed
3rd Member for Frederiks|ed Country
District mold moved that 2od discussion
come on today.
The motion was put to the vote.
memoirs voted for; against.
The necessary NUMBER of votes not
having been Obtained End discussion on
the ordinance goes over TO the next meet
ing.
The meeting closed at 4.S5 P. NJ.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-04-03

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Smyrna times., 1935-03-28
DELAWARE VETS
MAY GET BONUS
Patman Bill Passes HOuSe-If
1t Becomes Law Delaware
Vets Will Get 81 Million
AVERAGE OF 1924 APIECE

-Four thousand eight hundred and
elghty-four veterans in Delaware,
including a number in Smyrna, will
get an average Of S724 apiece from
the United States Government if
the Patman bonus bill which pass
ed the House of Congress last week
continues on its way successfully
thru the Senate and is approved by
President Roosevelt. The amounts
that will be paid out in Delaware
by counties will be as follows: New
Castle, S2,382,629 Sussex, S673,-
321, and Kent, S471 ,119. The aver
age payment to eacn adjusted ser
vice certificate holder in the State
will be S724 This is considerably
higher than the average for the
country, indicating, presumably,
that a smaller portion of Delaware
veterans have obtained loans on
their certificates than in most
other states. So if the Patman
bonus bill becomes a law So, ,527 ,070
will be Delaware's share of the
huge fund. The figures, compiled
from veterans administration rec
ords, were presented to the House
by Representative Tex,
author of the measure. They take
into account deductions for loans
and interest which would be made
under the bill The Patman bill
provides for the payment of the
money! which would total S2,015,-
162,456 for the entire country-by
initiating the currency to that ex-
tent
Smyrna times., 1935-03-28
ROTARY CLUBS
WEEKLY MEET
William Shoemaker and Will
liam Minor of Whining
ton Give TravelOgues
EXPERIENCES ABROAD

The Smyrna Rotary Club at
their meeting last Thursday even
ing were entertained by travelogue
experiences of two Y M. c. A. boys
from Wilmington, accompanied by
Mr.. David Creighton, an executive
of the Wilmington Y. NJ. C. A.
These two boys, William Shoemak-
er and William Minor, related
their experiences in England, Ger
many, France and Switzerland.
Both boys gave very interesting
lectures on the many historic plac-
es they visited. In England the
customs and manners and historic
places. In Germany they witness
ed the great Passion Play. They
described mountain climbing in
Switzerland In France they Wis
tied the battlefelds and saw the re-
suit of the war; hey paid tribute
to the arrangement of the graves,
the marking and the inscriptions
Ol1 lIlC llldI Dlc CIOSStS 6ISClCd dI
each grave. Mr. Creighton lauded
Rotary as an international organ
ization and for the hospitality
shown by the Rotarians to the Wis
iting boys in foreign lands. D. H.
Bell responded to the fine address
es given by the two boys. The
nominating committe gave a report
and their recommendation for Of
ficers for the ensuing Rotary year
were accepted The election of Of
ficers will take place Thursday ev-
ening, March 2Sth. The club will
be represented at the statewide
Rotary meeting in Wilmington on
Thursday, March 28th, at twelve
o'clock noon. Some very promin-
ent Rotary men will be present at
this meeting. Visiting Rotarians !:
j. McFaddin and ]. r. Brown of
Dover Club; w. S. P. Combs of
Middletown Club.
Smyrna times., 1935-03-28
10Th
CENTURY CLUB
Rev. EsSel p. Thomas of Do
yer, Former Pastor of As
bury, Smyrna, Talks
TALK "VTTAL RELIGION

Rev. Essel P. Thomas of Dover,
former pastor of Asbury M E.
Church of Smyrna, was the guest
speaker last Friday at the Twen-
tieth Century Club meeting. Mr.
Thomas broughtV a most inspiring
message on Vital Religion" Mrs
Frank Hynson sang two solos, "Ill
Take You Home Again Kathleen
and Mother Machree," accompan-
led by Mrs. Westfall. Mrs. J. W.
Clifton conducted Club Question
aire which was very interesting,
bringing to memory events IN the
history of our club. The meeting
next Friday will be in charge OF
Mrs. Frank Webb and Mrs. Will
liam Norris, who have prepared a
program of pleasure. Members are
reminded of the White Elephant
party and may bring a guest. BE
sure to bring a White Elephant. a
from Delaware Safe
ty Council will give brief talk on
Safety in the Home Facts.
Smyrna times., 1935-03-28
HOME INMATES
RIGHT TO VOTE
Lower House Gets Around
Question and Passes
Dugan Bill
BILL GOES TO SENATE

By party vote of 81 to II, the
House Friday afternoon passed
Representative Dugan's substitute
bill to allow certain inmates of the
State Welfare Home near Smyrna
to vote. The Republican members
supported the bill and the Demo
cratic members voted against it.
The original bill was intended to
give the right of franchise to all
inmates of the Home. Last fall
after large number of the in
mates of the Home had registered
the Democratic county committee
Of Kent county filed appeals
against their registration. The
court held that under a provision
of the constitution they were
"paupers' and consequently did not
have the right of franchise. The
Dugan amendment which was ex-
planned by H. Albert Young, a
House attorney, is intended to get
around this provision of the con-
stitution. Mr.. Young explained
that the bill would give the fran
chise to those inmates who con-
tribute in part to their mainten-
ance. He said it was contended if
they pay for part of their mainten-
ance they are not paupers and
would therefore have the right to
vote. Mr.. Brown inquired what a
part of their maintenance meant
and if 81 a year would be consid-
cred as part of their maintenance.
Mr.. Young said he did not think so
but that would be a matter for the
court to decide. Representative
Brogan said it looked as though
someone was fearful that they may
not have enough votes next cleo
tion. He argued that the inmates
are being maintained by the State
and that all they desire is to be
allowed to rest and that he did not
believe many of them even desired
to vote He said it looked to him
as though there was some Interior
motive back of the bill. Repre-
sentative Paskey also spoke
against the bill stating that in his
opinion no person maintained by
the State in such an institution
should have the right of franchise.