14 ^ fyrv-el) Many is the 4 ime th&t I listened to Lowell Thomas broadcasting the news when I was thousands and thousands of miles away. I’ve heard him from the neighborhood of the North Pole and the vicinity of the South Pole. I’ve heard fynm him from ships and from the floor of the polar ice. The last time I was ¥jithMi»f|wioglii Biowwfrh in the Antarctic I heard him almost every day. But I never dreamed that I would one day be talking on his time. Well I remember most dramatic occasion^ when his L ILfiJ voice came to me over thousands of miles of ether. It was the f irr>t time I tried to get to the North Pole under the ice. Tha^t-was during the cruise of the NAUTILUS. We had been submerged for some time under the frozen -fty«t tk xandxfgje Arctic and for days we hadn’t been able to send any word to the world at large. When we I 1 I 1 jag 1 J came to the surface we tied to the ice, got out our radio - we had a complete equipment both for receiving and sending. And as we got it set up on thft ice, the first sound that came to us was the voice of Lowell Thomas telling the world that ve were lost. We tuned up our sending apparatus in a hurry and sent out a quick message from C” A K UP there cm the pol£r fee, asking anybody who picked it up to get INTRODUCTION - 2 immediately into communication with Lowell The,**, and tell him we were not lost. That flash was picked up in France by a station at Marseilles. From there it was promptly radioed to a short wave station on Long Island, which inuaedlately relayed it to Thomas. As a matter of fact, a copy of that message is tanging framed on the wall of the trophy room at his home in the country. After such experiences, you may imagine that it’s a thrill of a different sort to be talking here at this time. Naturally, I don^ pretend to be a news commentator. So I’m going to look at the events of the day through the eyes of a traveler. Here is something from Canada that sounds exciting, a I !i § I f I i f new gold strike, and a rich onel It was made on a claim way up in jvl " the northwestern region of the Province of Quebec. Already prospectors, professional and amateur, are on the run to the scene of that new bonanza and claims have been staked over ten square miles in the neighborhood. One engineer reports that samples from the strike have assayed as high as a hundred and forty ounces of gold to the jauuHi ton. That means almost five thousand dollars to the ton. And as j happen to have been born in a gold mining country, I can tell you that is fabulous. You might suppose that crime stories are out of line for Arctic travelers. It's true, there is no crime as we know it at the North Pole or the South Pole. But in the long Arctic nights one of the favorite pastimes is reading crime stories. Here^s one out of today’s news that will undoubtedly make food for conversation on the next expedition to either Pole. The front door of a prison in New York opened today and out walked a principal actor in one of the big dramas of the year. Dixie Davis, former lawyer - mouthpiece I think they call#$ him - for the Dutch Schultz mobjkDixie Davis, the man who turned state’s evidence and procured the conviction of Tammany Leader, Jiimmy Hines^ got his freedom today. He hwwk served his short term, a sentence of only one year, in consideration of having turned state’s witness. One hears that though he is free now, he is not altogether to be envied. For thefT'are desperate and murderous men at large who would like nothing better than to punish this ex-mouthpiece for the one crime that is considered unpardonable among criminals. He told upon his confederates, or, as they put it themsel , he ’’sang”. And they have only one penalty for that. DAVIS - 2 However, it is also said that there is one factor which may protect him. The current issue of COLLIERS Magazine carries tne third instalment of this Dixie Davis's story, in that instalment he tells about the missing treasure of the late Arthur Flegenheimer, better known as Dutch Schultz. It seems to have been something like the missing treasure of Captain Kidd and other historic pirates. It is buried somewhere in a large steel box. Dixie Davis says that his late boss kept his jawoey in casei, and the steel box in which he kept it was three feet long and two feet wide. Davis feels certain that the Dutchman, as they called him, sneaked out one night and buried that box somewhere. All the millions^that he piled up from his rackets could not Just have vanished. Now a lot of people would like to know where that box is buried. Dixie Davis writes in his article that he has a couple of hunches himself and hopes to give it a try some day. As one observer puts it, "To the mobsters who would like to murder him, Davis with all those millions would be worth more than Davis with a lot of holes in him." BYRD flow we have a topic that's not far out of my line. It concerns one of my most distinguished friends and fellow explorers, in fact the most celebrated of them all. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. He nas just made known some of the outlines of his plans for the United States Antarctic expedition that he is to lead south this autumn. His principal goal this time will be to establish a permanent weather station in the Antarctic region. That is something that all of us who are interested in the Poles have been aiming at for years. I have hopes of ding something in that domain myself the next time I leave so-called civilieation. : : It seems that so far the greatest advance ii; I 1 f I »i * in obtaining data about Arctic weather has been made by the Government of Soviet Russia. They have numerous observation stations within the Arctic Circle. And naturally it!s just as important that this should also be done near the South Pole. As Admiral Byrd said today, the Antarctic is the world's Greatest \rJ |Th Th£ fl/A °F ^ weather maicer. It observations of weather conditions there that storms, droughts, climatic disturbances, can be predicted in the populated regions of the earth far more accurately than «. canBJt JrCsent. Permanent weather observations near the Poles , will tiius not only help shipping but help save crops and protect life in all parts of the world* Admiral Byrd will have three ships. They will be under the supervision of the Department of the Interior, of the Coast Guard, and the Navy. The Admiral will be equipped with tanks, airplanes and dog teams for use over the icefields. And his scientific equipment will be the most elaborate ever taken to the polar regions. We can expect from his efforts much scientific data but most important is the fact that he will establish permanent meteorological stations. It is hoped that the governments of Australia, Africa and South America will take advantage of Admiral Byrdfs initial effort and cooperate with him in every way. gold ijlM I have a letter from Lowell who tells me of things heT been seeing in the West, fie writes;- "l^e Just been cheeking up i on one of the most gripping human**interest stories I have had a chance to relate on the air during my nine years as a radio commentator:- the story of Baby Doe}—widow of the mining king* Horace Tabor, Many will remember the Hollywood film telling the story of Tabor and Baby Doe. Governor Carr of Colorado,” says Lowell, ”rounded up Sheriff Calvert, and asked him to take us out to the shack where Ij i i i ! 1 «I Baby Doe spent her last years. I had the story in mind,” he continues, ”how Tabor, the fabulous gold and silver king, became infatuated with the most beautiful girl in the West of those days. Baby Doe. Tabor got rid of his wife, and married the young beauty. The two of them cut a wide swath. He lavished his fortune on her. I I, 1 h I Then he lost his millions. Baby Doe stuck to him Just the same. On his death-bed he told her to hold on to the Matchless Mine, at Leadville. He was sure she would get another fortune out of it. And, for thirty years after Tabor’s death she lived in a little Dt +hf, aatoh.ess, lived there in poverty, shack beside th* shaft house at the Matciu I II GOLD kliME - 2 In the eerie moonlight," Lowell relates, "we drove out there with Sheriff Calvert. He had known Baby Doe, in fact was one of the first to reach her when she froze to death just a couple of years ago. Baby Doe had two windows at one corner of her shack so that she could command all approaches to the Matchless Mine. And there she sat for thirty years with a shotgun across her knees, keeping everyone away. She would accept no charity. She thought she was still rich. There was just one child, a daughter, who had been old Tabor’s idol. He named her "Silver Dollar." They tell stories in Leadville of how wild she was, a handsome girl, tearing up and down the streets on horseback, utterly untamed. Later she went in for journalism for a year or two! Then drifted in the wrong direction - down the wrong trail. Xes, Silver Dollar finally died in the toughest section of Chicago. Baby Doe never would believe that her daughter Silver Dollar was dead, right down to the day when the shotgun dropped from her lfi-P> an(^ "they found her lifeles _c> 4-v.o, u/0cf- which Lowell sends us from That’s the story of the West wmcu his vacation in the West. Tnere appear to have been warm doings in dear old London. The British government moved swiftly to drive the Irish Republican Army out of England. The new law giving Scotland Yard extraordinary powers was signed today by King George, And the yard immediately began to act. First of all, they declared both houses of Parliament closed to the public, only members and officials admitted. Within the next hour they arrested ten men suspected of being I.R.A. leaders. They mobilized fifteen thousand police in the metropolitan district of London alone and brought in detectives from Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and other big cities to help round up suspicious characters. In a short time, police sent in thirty names to Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, recommending that they be immediately deported. The Home Secretary signed eight of them by virtue of the special powers vested in him by that new law. Tin, r/rr 1 triniim4-- 't~hp dr-UMTir Qi -affirm— The Japanese government is singing a somewhat different tune today. An official spokesman for the foreign office of Tokyo made a statement of a far more milder and friendly nature than the words uttered from Japan yesterday. The fokyo government is evidently still shocked and hurt because we abrogated that treaty. Yesterday the foreign office spokesman said €hat) if Uncle Sam wants a new treaty six months from now, he’ll have to recognize a new order in eastern Asia. Today, the Japanese foreign office backed down and says that the statement made yesterday should be construed broadly and not taken too literally. And the Japanese today go so far as to express the hope that the old treaty will be replaced by a new one. leading The Senators in Washington have been sniping at President Roosevelt*s bill to authorize the lending of two billion, four hundred and ninety million dollars. Ever since Mr. Roosevelt suggested it, this proposal has been a target for plenty of verbal attacks. Today the words crystalized into action. F0r the Semtors cut out one of its most important provisions. That was the clause which set aside five millions for the building of highways, bridges and tunnels. By a vote of forty-two to thirty-eight, they struck it out of the bill. ™ ffilAVELEBS There were two Colorful groups of travelers aboard the Italian liner Conte di Savoia when she landed in Mew York today. One of them consisted of His Eminence Enrico, Cardinal Gasparri, whois President of the Supreme Council of the Vatican, with his staff. Hets the nephew of the late Cardinal Gasparri, one of the most famous of all Secretaries of State at the Vatican. A glittering contrast was afforded by another group of visitors, Mohammedans in shining idiite robes and turbans. Isa Sheik Mohammid bin/Al Kh&lifah is the head of this group. He*s the yranger brother mfeSkitk and chief counselor of Sheik Hamid, supreme ruler, in fact owner of Bahrain, better known as the Isle of Pearls, in the Persian Gulf. He was dressed in tta*r f ull worn only by direct descendants of the Prophet. Sheik A1 Khalifah and his o3k^wr brother, kheik Hamid, belong to one of the oldest CX a C'j E/a cC&xf M Y' and proudest of the Sherifian families^ Also, one of the ?i They own pearl fisheries which employ seventy-five thousand people for They own date groves, lands, oil lands, the use of which American, oil companies pay them huge royalties. panoply, with z jeweled daggers and the curved sword Sherifian ^pAVELERS - S The Sheik* s interpreter told the New Hork ftorld Telegram that he is also a poet* That makes him undoubtedly ^x®fc2dB±y the richest living poet. The visiting Sheik, by the way, has only two wives. But he left both of them at home. Even we travelers with only one wife do the same, though not always from choice. And home seems to be a good place for me to go now, so Good night,