| Show BARTlETT ASKS GIANT AIRSHIP BE SENT Gives House Naval Committee Committee Com Corn Stiff Talk on Possibilities Possibilities Pos Pos- of Exploration I ants Wants to Make History w WASHINGTON Jan 19 Hells I bells What are we going to do with tho the Sh ah put It on the mantel piece Lets Let's hang the stars n stipes on the north pole With this Introduction Lieutenant Commander Robert Bartlett who vent went to the north pole with the 1 Admiral Pear Peary Peery toda today told tolI the bouse naval committee what he thought should be done with the I glant airship J caking In a broad Irish bogue j i I IJ aUd d' d spicing his testimony with lile the Other tongue oC ot se ea faring men Ia the the picturesque sailor 1 TUng with the committee not not to t American history but let the make male 1 It lt 1 What In hell hen are arc vre we going to do doHi W wUi Hi the airships JC If we dont don't rna maRe e f p's ps with demanded Bart Bart- 1 his bla black black k eyes ees ablaze t or nt f leavens I w want nt to see the 8 And nd stripes hanging hanging- on the pole Were Weve got a hot navy wIlli the punch and l n admiral in n of if flying who has t the e nerve so let tho o ot Am America make history Lets Let's go PLEADS FOR PEP Hell were we're getting soft sort were we're losing our punch standing around hero Wo We Yo get killed In auto rides Let the young oung fellows put It across Bartlett was asked what advantages advantages advantages came to America through Peary's Penns discovery of the north pole Well eU he said Taft TaCt was In the White House and when he heard that Peary leary had discovered t tho e pole Taft TaCt said Now that you have hae found It what in hell are you going to do with it But I say Stay I ir i- Tart was in the White House toda today there thero would be something doing The committee members leaned forward In their seats stats to catch ev cv every ry word uttered b by tho the explorer Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Secretary Denby sitting beside him chuckled and made no effort to check his vigorous language GIVES A CLOSE UP Bartlett gave gae the committee a close up of or conditions inside the Arctic circle and many details of ot the Peary expedition In making a to the north pole tho the Shenandoah would be safer than an automobile on a road Secretary Denby said sald toda today before belore the committee The proposed flight Denby said I Is a a. serious sellous expedition and not aeronautical The objects objects ob- ob are I 1 To discover er and claim for America a vast unexplored unexplored unexplored-conti continent conti- conti nent neat bell belled believed ed b by scientists to be Inthe Inthe in inthe the Arctic circle 2 To survey and map Alaska from the air 3 3 To hang up a n new aerial record record record rec rec- ord for America b by making malting a round the world flight light I liv h dirigible ROUND WORLD FLIGHT I Denby revealed re for or the first time I that It k is the plan to have the Shenandoah start on a round the I t I world flight ht immediately In finEr after roin- roin omI I the mapping mapping- of ot Alaska From I the dirigible would fly to England and on around the globe Denby said laid Denby said the polar flight should bo be undertaken this year because next year ear will be too late Some other progressive power with tho the facilities will beat AmerIca Amer Amer- ica to it and add dd to its possession j an unexplored area of ol one million I J square miles that scientists believe bellee i lies Just north n rth of ot Alaska he said Whether that land is Is' Is or j not not not-It It would be the possession of ot I the tho United States he said caid The Flight Denby continued will wilt remove remove re remove re- re move all nfl skepticism as to the fu future future fu- fu future ture of ot aerial development We Ve will live ll to see the day when nl bases are established In hf the Arctic circle for tor aircraft plying be between between between be- be tween Europe and Siberia he ha said OUTLINES ROUTE Denby outlined the route of ot the Shenandoah as follows From the base at Lakehurst she will fly fl to San Diego to Seattle and then to Nome The oil tankers and Patoka are areto areto areto to bo be equipped with mooring masts to serve as mobile bases I The Th will go 0 to Nome I and the Patoka to Spitzbergen I The rhe Arctic circle offers the very I best flying conditions of ot an any place in the world for the time Shenandoah Denb Denby said in support of ot his Place contention contention con con- contention that the tho flight would not entail extra hazards Denby explained there was no al alternation alternation alternation al- al I of ot weather conditions In Arctic circle circle no no expansion or con con- traction The Shenandoah could stay Inthe in the time Arctic indefinitely and not lose iose any hell helium gas goas he lie said |
