The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
ADMIRAL TELLS
OF ice PACK AS
10000 LISTEN
Other Famed Filters Share
PIauditS of Exchange
Club Throng.
SPEECH IS BROADCAST
Admiral Describes Found
ing of Little America at
South Pole.

Ten thousand persons damned
Cadle tabernacle and 5000 others
crowded around amplifers outside
the auditorium Monday night to
hear Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
describe briefly the dreariest place
on earth, south polar regions.
Guest. of honor at the Famous
Filters night program, sponsored by
National Exchange Clubs, featuring
their national convention, the polar
hier and explorer was the center Of
interest in the city from MS arrival
by plane at Mars Hill at 2 p. m.
until his departure by train for
Buffalo, N. Y, at 1855 p. m.
Sharing plaudits of the 10000
we're several other famed filters,
among them Miss Amelia Earhart,
first woman transatlantic f1ier;
Lieutenant Walter Hinton, pilot of
the NC-4, first transatlantic plane;
Fraulein Antoine Strassman, daugh-
ter of the late German chancellor;
Charles Casey Jones; Paul Siple,
Erie CPa) Boy Scout member of the
Byrd polar expedition, and others.
HonOred at Dinner
Preceding the meeting in the
tabernacle, a dinner by Governor
Harry G. Leslie in the Riley room
of the Claypool honored the city's
distinguished guest.
Admiral Byrd, in a short speech
at the tabernacle contrasted his dis
coveries at the north and south
poles, describing life found in the
formers regions, and the utter desc
lation of the Antarctic ice pack.
THE Antarctic is practically
new world-a cold, lifeless and silent
place-the most silent place on the
face of the earth" he said.
THE foot of woman never has
been set on the Antarctic wastes.
Perhaps that is why it is so silent.
However, in justice to women, 1
wish to say it also is the dreariest
and loneliest place on earth
Describes Little America
He described the founding of Lit
tie America, the base camp from
which his polar flight was made, an
outpost 1900 miles from the nearest
human habitation. The party lived
in snow rooms, many feet below the
surface Of the snow, in order to
keep warm. In these quarters the
temperature was about 20 degrees
below zero, he said. Above the snow
it ranged from IS to 80 degrees be-
low zero.
Guy K. Jeffries, Indianapolis, past
national president of Exchange
clubs, presided at the meeting, and
introduced Mayor Reginald H. Sui
Ivan. Governor Leslie welcomed
the guests, and Harold M. Harter,
Toledo, national secretary, intro
duced J. P. Muller, president of
Exchange clubs.
Miss Earhart spoke briefly on the
theme of womans part in avia-
tons progress. Fraulein Stress
IIldlll acknowledged S4SSblA1S VI Vic
crowd as she was introduced.
Siple Lauds Commander
Siple lauded his commander on
the expedition, and Lieutenant
Hinton and Jones closed the pro-
gram with short talks.
Honor guests at the Governors
dinner, we're: Colonel Russell G.
Langdon. comnandant at FIT. Ben
jamin Harrison; Captain William S.
Evans, Fl. Harrison; Otto C. Fifield,
secretary of state; former Governor
j. P. Goodrich, Colonel Harold E.
Hartney. New York, commander of
the First Pursuit squadron. A. E. F.;
Major Floyd Evans, Detroit; Colonel
Walter G. Cole, Detroit; Lieutenant
w. R. Morgan; John M Vorys, CO.
lumbus, o.; Lieutenant H. H. Max
we'll; Lieutenant A. r. Mcconnell,
Mary Louise Case, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Bailey, Meridian, Miss, and
Exchange Club officials.
The program was broadcast from
the tabernacle by radio stations
WKBF and WFBM.