Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-10
Read Admiral Byrd
To Begin Lecture
On October II
Will Unfold An Epic Scene And
Verbal Narrative Of Mans
Conquest Of Civilizations
Most Bleak And Haz-
ardOus Outpost

Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd. who
last May returned from another
epochal expedition to the vast and
eperilous ice-rimmed frontier of tho
South Pole, will launch a coast-to-
coast illustrated lecture tour in Cam
bridge, Maryland, on Friday, October
IL, as the guest of Colonel Albanus
Phillips, President of the Phillins
Packing Company.
On October %, 1888, RearAdmiral
Byrd left the United States with 12o
men aboard the two ships-the' iron
Jacob Rupert, resurrected from the
government graveyard, and the 6o
year old barkentine, Bear of Oakland
Below the decks were stored tons and
tons of Phillips Delicious Soups. Vepe.
tables, Meat Products, Juices and
other canned foods to sustain them on
their sojourn of nearly two years at
the bottom OF the world.
Nearly five months ago, when AID.
miral Byrd and his hardy adventures
returned to Washington, to receive the
official greetings of the nation from
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Colonel Phillips was one of the ner.
sonal guests of the expedition leader
aboard the Jacob Rupert.
Since that time Admiral Byrd has
worked increasingly piecing together
graphic and gripping story of his
tory, romance and adventure, unfold
ing an epic scenic and verbal nara.
tive of mans conquest of civilizations
most bleak and hazardous outpost.
Upon completing this story of
matchless adventure, augmented by
thousands of feet of motion pictures
revealing scenes of indescribably
splendor and terror. Admiral Byrd
accepted the invitation of Colonel
Phillips to come to the home-city of
Phillips Delicious to launch a lecture
tour which will carry him to New
York City the following day, and
from there to every important metro
politan centre in the nation.
! Rear Admiral Byrd will speak at
Grand Opera House, Cambridge, at
2:3O and P. M. Friday, October IL.
The proceeds will be for the benefit
of Cambridge Hospital.
Among the numerous intensely in
teresting messages Admiral Byrd will
probably convey to the world in this
series of lectures will be a recital of
the expeditions food experiences,
amid surroundings and conditions
never before recorded.
One of the outstanding chapters in
the history of the expedition is the
story of Admiral Byrd's voluntary
isolation for five months, when entire
ly separated from his companions at
Little America, he took up his abode
In tiny hut, 123 miles nearer the
Pole, and dwelt there alone, amid the
monstrous cold and bleakness of the
Antarctic night. Here he recorded
temperatures of 80 degrees below
zero; his lungs were frosted and DUR
ing the five months of utter darkness
and unrelenting cold his only contact
/. with this fellow men was his own tap
tap of the wireless key.
This chapter of the expedition mar
rative also discloses how Admiral
Byrd bravely fought off slow death
by carbon monoxide gas from faulty
stove; how with failing strength he
completed his daily meteorological OBJ
servations; how he sternly refused aid
from his men who suspected the con-
dition; how after two gruelling I'M
successful attempts to reach him they
: finally penetrated the ice barrier and
! were greeted by an i'll and broken man.
Following the launching of his lee
ture tour in Cambridge, among hun
ureds OF men and women who helped
create food products which he carried
to the Pole, Animal Byrd will conf
tlnue his tour in many states, telling
IN his own words and showing pic
lures, many of which were photo
graphed by his own hands, of the ex-
PLOTS of hardy adventurers on the
: worlds last secret and most ominous
i frontier.
Maryland Society To Meet