SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. October 31, 19SS
Adm. Byrd, Always a Dreamer, Planning New South Pole Trip
By H. D. QUIGG
New York (U.R) Once upon
a time there lived, in a state
called Virgina, three brothers
named Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Eut they were not just any Tom,
Dick and Harry. Their last name
was Byrd.
Tom grew up to be a farmer.
Harry became a U. S. Senator.
And Dick became, in time, the
greatest American explorer of
the Earth.
It has not been recorded what
the unpublicized one, Tom,
thought as he watched the ex
ploits of the other two. But Dick
once recalled, "Tom, he just
sits there and he watches us,
and then he kind of shakes his
head." , . .
Virginia Accent
Dick, who was named Richard
Evelyn after his father, is a
compact, pipe-puffing man with
a pronounced Virginia accent
and a Southern laugh that goes
"Hyah, Hyah, Hyah." As Rear
AW, WHO'S AFRAID?
Mexican dancer Rosalinda
may startle the diners in San
Francisco's Sinaloa where
she performs vflth "Satin's
scalding breath" flowing
from her unusual headpiece
but she can't scare us we've
seen far worse goblins.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, he
has been the type who gets
things done, a "doer."
But when you know him, he
turns out to be sort of a dreamer.
Once again, at 57, he's ready
to shove off on an expedition
bound for that misty region that
explorers always call the "un
known." This will be Admiral
Byrd's fifth expedition to the
lost, utterly dead continent called
Antarctica. If all goes well, this
time they'll set up a base at the
lonesomest, coldest (100 below),
deadest, most inaccessible place
on Earth the South Pole
where only Amundsen and Scott
have stood before, with their
parties.
One Returned
And from which only Amund
sen emerged. Scott, the heroic
Englishman, and his entire party
died on the long walk of agony
back to the sea.
The South Pole is 10,000 feet
high, in the middle of the
world's largest and highest pla
teau, atop an icecap 500,000
years old and a mile and a half
thick that shrouds a continent
nearly as big as South America
and bigger than Australia and
the United States combined.
Because of its killing cold and
desert aspect, the continent
holds no life not even a germ
or virus of the common sniffles
except at its coastlines, where
seals and penguins play.
Most of this continent has
never been seen. We know less
about it, as one writer has said,
"than we do about the sunlit
side of the Moon."
If ever a man fevered to know
more about it to look where
no man has looked before
he is Richard E. Byrd.
On his last expedition, I was
along as a correspondent at Lit
tle America. I watched him
come in from exploratory
flights, eyes alight with the won
der he had seen vast new
mountain ranges curving off
over the horizon, tortured glaci
ers, and the dismal white waste
land beyond the pole. From his
plane, he bouqueted the pole
itself with the tossed flags of all
the United Nations.
New Yorker Prowls Around Broadway To
Keep Pace With Manners of Hipsterland
Talked His Dream
Between flights, he puffed his !
pipe and talked his dream that
someday Antarctica would be
come a big deep freezer for man
kind, a place that wouM banish
famine from the earth. ,
"The nations of the world may
someday use this great refrigera
tor," he said. ."When countries
have a bumper crop, they can
put the surplus down here for
use in famine years. The world
food supply will even out."
There's no doubt that the per
petual cold beneath the icecap
surface will -keep food. We ate.
in 1JJ47, food that Byrd had put
in snow-tunnel caches 20 years
before, on his first expedition.
The admiral loves that for
saken place. "I feel better down
here," he used to say, squinting
out over the soundless, antisep
tic wastes. And when we left,
he tacked up a little note in his
hut: "This has been a peaceful
place. It deserves better than
to be vandalized. Otherwise
welcome."
Cargo Vessel Sends Message of Distress
Tokyo (U.R) The cargo
vessel Flying Eagle messaged an
SOS and reported water pouring
into the vessel off the Aleutian
Islands today, the Japanese Coast
Guard reported.
The Coast Guard " said that
the 8199-ton vessel, owned by
the Isbrandtsen Co., Inc., New
York, flashed a "brief distress
signal" picked up by the Jap
anese ship Toho Kaiun-Maru.
An American Coast Guard
vessel was reported racing to
ward the Flying Eagle which
radioed that water had flooded
its hold. The ship gave its loca
tion 500 nautical miles south of
the Aleutian Islands, 42.02 north
latitude, 173.34 west longitude.
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By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) A rose
may be a rose in your town.
But not in our town.
For this, you have the word
of. Alex Freeman, a student of
Follies Start At
Craterian Nov. 2
Short, catchy acts and skits
of music, dancing and patter
make up the program for the
Junior Service league Follies
which opens Wednesday, Nov.
2, at the Craterian theater for a
two-day run. The show is a bene
fit for the league's kindergarten
for deaf children.
One of the act features Har
vey Fields, vocalist, with Mrs.
James Cummins and small Bar
bara Collins, 7-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H,
Collins. Fields was also one of
the featured singers in the Fol
lies which the league gave two
years ago.
Gladiola Girl
Another act, "The Gladiola
Girl," has Mrs. James Henry,
Don Herried, Mrs. Berwick
Wood, Mrs. George L. Lewis,
Sam Richardson and Don Wood
in the cast. "A Day at the Olym
pics" stars Mrs. John Crawford,
Mrs. Wood, Hal Todd and Don
Whalin. In the cast of the "Quiet
Girl Celebration" are Brad Cur
tis and Linda Durkee. Curtis,
Shakespearean actor and night
club entertainer, is extremely
popular with southern Oregon
audiences.
Tickets for the Follies are on
sale at Barker's, Swem's and
Purucker's stores, or may be ob
tained from any league member.
Curtain time is 8:30 p.m.
the language and manners of
hipsterland, a curious region of
about 20 square blocks centered
roughly around part of a trail
called Broadway.
Freeman, a stock broker by
day, is technical consultant for
TV's "Damon Runyon Theatre"
by -Agli': Notebook in hand,
Freeman stalks through cheese
cake palaces, waterholes, bar
bershops, billiard emporiums
and other culture centers in
scholarly pursuit of such whim
sical characters of his acquain
tance as Sick Maxie, The Gim
rick, and Slicker the Bookmak
er. Their Own Language
"They speak a language of
their own," says Freeman. And
as evidence, he offers such ling
uistic bon-bons as:
Show Postponed
Until Alter Jan. 1
An arrangement by the Foot
iighter's board of directors to
postpone their production, "Foot
lighter Fantasies," was made at
a meeting held last week.
The show, a musical review,
was scheduled to open for a run
of five days on Nov. 5.
Several major mechanical dif
ficulties, including parking prob
lems at the fairgrounds theater,
which could not be overcome by
the opening date caused the
board to make this "unhappy
decision." However the show
will definitely be produced after
the first of the year, they stated.
Tryouts for a mystery drama,
"The Nightmare," and announce
ments regarding further activ
ities of the Footlighters will be
made the latter part of this week.
A man who has lost his bank
roll "He blew the whole ban
ana stand."
A square "He gets up early
Sunday to watch Omnibus."
A flop effort "It was from
Bombsville."
A piggish eater "He has
frequently known to play a
symphony in his soup."
A drunk "Man, he's flying
over Pittsburgh."
This sort of word madness,
said Freeman, is difficult to keep
abreast of since the styles change
so rapidly. But as of the moment
he said, a cigaret is being refer
red to as "a joint." A cigaret
with a filter as "a joint with a
waffle," a wealthy man as "a
wall to wall," a cop as a "fuzz,"
a smart guy as "a Lloyds of
London," and a sucker as "a lily
of the valley."
In the interests of space and
social science, we will devote
the rest of the column to some
cullings from Freeman's note
book. From here on, you're on
your own:
Tap City Mayor
A fellow who's broke The
mayor of Tap City.
An ulcer case He's with the
milk bit.
, A marriage A merger.
A rich marriage An amalga
mation. An engaged man A sick
ness. A serviceman He works
for his uncle. ,
An illegal activity A good
morning judge.
To jail for life The stars and
stripes forever.
A man who'll do anything to
make money He takes in wash
ing. A girl with a big protective
brother or boyfriend She's
unionzed.
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