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"Icebergs are both a hobby and specialty . with Commander Smith. For several years he studied â€"the movements of Icebergs in the North Atlantic, on the Coast Guard cutters assigned during the danger season to warn mariners of the location of these floating menaces to navigation. This is one of the little explored cornersâ€"of science. â€"Why â€"are iceâ€" bergs more frequent some years than others? Can ice conditions be preâ€" dicted in advance? These and kinâ€" dred questions press for an answer, if navigation in northern waters is If and when the Graf Zeppelin starts for the North Pole it will have on â€"board a distinguished ~American who is an tenant Commander Edwin H.â€"Smith, who will make observations for our government. . In speaking of this proâ€" posed trip by an Americanâ€"scientist, Oliver McKee, Jr., says in the curâ€" rent issue of the National Republic: Almer Coe Company Lieut. Commander Smith, Exâ€" 18 AMERICAN TO GO ON GRAF ZEPPELIN pert on Icebergs to Be One re of Crew on?ole Dash 18 8. LA SALLE 8T. 78 E. JACKSON BLYVD. 105 N. WABASH AVE 1645 ORRINGTON AVE. *â€"â€"BV A NSTON has been a more successful zgngiblie pilot than Eckener, but his triumphs have not been won in the face of the trying conditions of the Arctic. He now hopes to demonstrate to his friends that the Graf can cross the Arctic region as easily as it can cross the Atlantic. of arctic communication Watch with Interest "Scientists will watch with close interest the results of the Graf expeâ€" dition. It aims to widen our knowlâ€" edge of the polar region, and make new discoveries, if it can. A further purpose is to demonstrate the pracâ€" to be carried out more safely, and if mariners are to have a greater knowlâ€" edge of the conditions which they are to meet. "The selection of Commander Smith T HE P RE 8 8 "North Atlantic, i North Atlantic, in 1929, for example, Coast Guardsmen counted: 1,850 iceâ€" bergs; this year, up to date, very few have appeared. Had the captain of the illâ€"fated Titanic known that 1912 was one of the heaviest iceberg years on record, he might have steered a safer course. variation from year to year. in the as the expedition‘s ice expert. was a fitting one. While collaborating with other scientists at the Geophysical Inâ€" stitute at Bergen in 1926, he worked out a forecasting system. This has proved fairly accurate in four years out of five. Smith takes occasion to point out that if we can forecast acâ€" curately the number of icebergs that will move into the North Atlantic every .year, it would be a_great help to ‘ocean <mariners. ‘Note the wide Some of the Jeffersonian leaders deny that John Raskob speaks for the Democratic Party. Well, he puts up the money and doesn‘t money talk ? "Studies which he has made at Bafâ€" fin Bay indicated to Commuader Smith that there is a greater movement of icebergs when an ‘ice fence‘ is built up along the coast of Baffin Land through which the icebergs float when they break off the polar ice cap. This ‘ice fence‘ acts somewhat like a bulâ€" wark to throw the bergs off and into the â€"eurrent=â€"szouthward. â€" In â€" those yearsâ€"whenâ€"thereâ€"isâ€"noâ€"ice fence â€"alongâ€"â€" this coast, the bergs wash ashore, and comparatively few break away, and start their long and lonely march into the ocean and down toward the transâ€"Atlantic steamer lanes." Studies Icebergs Thursday, July 16, 1931 *L y