Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
There Commander Byrd Will Fly Next
Pr UnNulM Mt. E0erest May Go the Young
and the Atkantic as the First Achievements
of Aerial Exploration

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w Brazilian forests possibly hide?
Admiral Byrd might locate some vast vol
canic plug comparable to Conan Doyle'S Lost
World. He might sight isolated South American
mountains rising from the level lands of the
forest like the Kivu Volcanoes of Central
Africa, the only place in the world where man
may still find the monstrous wooly gorilla.
Byrd has heard the legends of lost races OF
men in the interior of Brazil. The South
American Indians told the first Portuguese and
Spaniards who landed in the New World thas
once men with white skins had cities of gold
in the junges. The Aztecs of Mexico told Corr
tez of the white god' with the long golden
beard that no Indian can grow. Marsh, who
brought several white Indians from Panama.
has sought lost race in Venezuela, Colombia
and the Guianas. Perhaps Byrd might sight a
village of survivors, cut off from the world by
vast reaches of rubber trees, mahogany, tree
ferns and lianaS hitherto impossible.
A similar condition exists in ancient Arabia
Admiral Byrd could not be the first to fly
across those burning sands. During the last
seven years many British flyers have passed
there. bound for Persia, India, Siam and Aus
tralia.
CCARCELY 100 miles south of Jerusalem is
~ the lost city of Petra, to which explorers
have gone by camel caravan. Petra lies inside
q hidden canyon, reached through a crack in
the rock mountain. Petra is a page in the
ancient history of the world. Other pages tell
of ancient abandoned cities in the vast deserts
of Southern Arabia, over which no airplaneS
have flown.
Vast expeditions have worked for two decades
and more in Yucatan, uncovering and recon-
structing Maya ruins f1eeting trip by air,
few hours untrod jungles, and the Lind
bergh- Kidder- Robertson party located many
ruins, each of which may prove another
marvellous city like Chichen-Itza.
Similar flights of reconnaissance over South
I,r,o To lioI0f ,f
Old World of even more Importance to the
archeologist Byrd may even consider remote
Burma Tibet the unknown interior of
China. He may cooperate with DR.. Roy Chap
man Andrews and help locate beds of fossil
dinosaurs and extinct mammals in the Cobb
Desert.
AS far as spectacular flights concerned,
their day of first Importance has passed. The
United States Army flyers made it around the
world in 1924 following the land masses of the
north, proving the endurance of motors and
planes and the accuracy of navigating instru-
ments.
Maj H. A Dargue and other United
States Army flyers have already circled South
America on a goodwill tour. The French have
crcIed Europe; the British, Africa and Aus
tralia. Asia has been crossed in the north and
south. Capt. Charles Kngsford-Smith and his
crew flew from the United States to Australia.
Maitland and Hegenberger of the United
States Army made a nonstop flight in 1927
from CaluOrnla 70 honolulu, ana TOUR others
successfully repeated the feat during the tragic
Dole air races.
Two airplane expeditions have even pene-
trated into the last mysterious wild country,
the interior of New Guinea. One was led by
DR.. M. W. Stirling of the United States National
Museum, the other by DR.. D. w. BrandeS,
United States Department of Agriculture.
But there still remains huge UNEMPLOYED
area in Antarctica larger than the whole United
States. Antarctica itself Is mapped on guess
work, for it may consist of several pieces Thou
sands of miles of its shore line have never been
seen, and hence require mapping
Also there is still possible land in the Arctic,
and Admiral Byrd has expressed wish to re-
turn there and search north of Greenland and
northwest of Alaska.
But with regular armail routes spreading
like spider webs over the maps of North auA
South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and AuAs
tralia, it is indeed sad outlook for the AVIATOR
explorer who seeks thrills. who wishes TO be
first new land
BEFORE the polar veteran Capt Road
AmundSen made his transpolar drigible
flight he asked if there would be any
more thrills left him after he had successfully
conquered both poles.
"None, probably but marriage" said the
gray-hared viking.
Two years later Amundsen went to his death
= hero, in effort to rescue Gen. Mobile and
the crew of the dirigibe Italia He was still
q bachelor, and had been denied the one great
thrill that remained to him.
Admiral Byrd, having also conquered both
poles has had that third thrill for Is years. In
1915 he married the beautiful Marie D. Ames of
Winchester, Va, and Boston. She was his
childhood playmate, and it was in personal
tribute to her bravery and high Sportsmanship
that he named Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica,
Mrs. Byrd and the four children are hoping
the admiral will find no more lands worth ex-
ploring, at least for while. He is great fel-