Milford chronicle., 1935-10-11
REAR ADMIR- All BYRD
TO OPEN LECTURE TOUR
ON SHORE TODAY

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Rear Admiral Richard &. Byrd
Rho last May returned from anothe
epOchoal expedition to the vast AM
perilOus ice-rimmed frOntier OF tn.
South Pole, will launch a c0ast-to
coast illustrated lecture tour ii
Cambridge, Md, today, as the gues
Of Colonel Albanus Phillips, bresi
dent of the Phillips Packing Com.
pany.
on October %, 1888, Rear Admira
Byrd left the United States with 12t
men aboard the two ships-the iron
Jacob Rupert, resurrected from the
government graveyard, and the go.
year-old barkentine Rear of Oak
land. Below decks were stored tons
and tons Of Phillips delicious soups
vegetables, meat products, juices and
other canned foods to sustain then
on their sojourn of nearly two years
at the bottom of the world.
Nearly five months ago, when Ad-
miral Byrd and his hardy adventur-
ers returned to Washington, to re-
ceive the official greetings of the ma
tion from President Franklin ID.
Roosevelt, Colonel Phillips was one
of the personal guests of the expe-
ditiOn leader aboard the Jacob Rup-
pert.
Since that time Admiral Byrd has
worked increasingly piecing together
a graphic and gripping story of his
tory, romance and adventure, unfold
ing an epic scenic and verbal narra-
tive of mans latest conquest of civil
ization's most bleak and hazardous
outpost.
Upon completing this story Of
matchless adventure. augmented by
thousands of feet of motion pictures
revealing scenes of indescribable
splendOr and terror, Admiral Byrd
accepted the invitation Of Colonel
Phillips to come to the home city Of
Phillips Delicious to launch a lee
ture tour which will carry him to
New York City the following day,
and from there to every important
metropolitan centre in the nation.
Rear Admiral Byrd will speak at
Grand Opera House. Cambridge, Nd,
at 2.30 and p. M. today, Friday, Oc-
tober IL. The proceeds will be for
the benefit of Cambridge Hospital.
Among the numbers intensely in
teresting messages Admiral Byrd
will probably convey to the world in
this series of lectures, will be a re-
cital of the expedition food ex-
periences amid surroundings and |
conditions never before recorded. |
One highly significant phase of the !
Antarctic food story is the fact that |
the dreaded scOurge of scurvy, which |
frequently has wrought such havoc |
among earlier Polar expeditions, was |
conspicuous by its complete absence. |
The juice of the tomato is scientific !
ally. recognized as the perfect anti
scorbutic food. essential to the pres
ervation of good health in regions
where foods with the sunshine vita
min are not available and a large |
quantity of Phillips Delicious To
matO juice accompanied the explor-
ers.
Treasured relics of the Byrd Ex-
pedition, carefully preserved in the
archives Of the Phillips Packing
Company, are a series of wireless
cables from Admiral Byrd and other
members of his expedition, vOluntar-
lily and enthusiastically testifying to
the merits, high quality, steadfast
purity and superb flavor of the many
Phillips Delicious foods used enrOute
to and from the South Pole area and
isolation in frigid Little America.
One of the outstanding chapters in
the history of the expedition is the
story of Admiral Byrd's voluntary
ISOLATION for five months. when en-
.irely separated from his cOmpan-
ons at Little America, he took up
MS abode in a tiny hun. 123 miles
nearer the Pole, and dwelt there
alone, amid the mOnstrOus cold. and {
Ileakness of the Antarctic nights.
Here he recorded temperatures of so
legrees below zero; cans of Phillips ,
Delicious foods frOZe, his lungs were
rOsted and during the five months !
If utter darkness and unrelenting
,old his only contact with his fellow {
men was his own tap-tap of the wire ,
ess key. 2
This chapter of the expedition mar
ative also disclOses how Admiral s
Byrd bravely fought of slow death /
" CARBON mOnOXide gas from 7
aulty stove; how with failing \
trength he completed his daily !
observations; how he
ternly refused aid from his men :
rho suspected his condition; how :
fter two gruelling unsuccessful at
empts to reach him they finally =
enetrated the ice barrier and we're !
reeted by an i'll and broken man, =
Tho bravely called. out the greeting: {
Come on down fellows I've got some
Ood hot soup for you"
Following the launching of his lee :
Ire tour in Cambridge, among hun !
reds of men and women who helped =
reate food products which he car
led to the Pole. Admiral Byrd will
Dntinue his tour in many states tell !
lg in his own words and showing j
ictures, many of which were photo
raphed by his own hands, of the '
Iploits of hardy adventurers on the 4
Orld's last secret and most Omin-
Us frontier. 2