Show A. A P. P Writer Brav s D Death ath To Give World Amund en en's ens s Exclusive News Story NEW YORK July 13 AP AP How How Howa a staff correspondent of the A Associated Asso ASSO- O- O dated Press who was sent to the Arctic cUc regions ns to learn the fate of the Ellsworth Amundsen-Ellsworth pole polo expedition unflinchingly braved the perils of the icy seas can now be told S Si I ILess i iLess I Less than a month ago when the I World was praying for the safe re return return re- re turn of ot the Norwegian explorers explorer's ers I believed forlorn party party by many a hope hope ope-J. J A. A Bouman of th the London bureau of the Associated Pr Pre Pres s s was 8 en encountering hazards as great as those of ot the explorers His risks were in the line of duty He Ho had no thought of fame His work like that of all of his cr organization organization was to be anonymous His reward vard was to be only the knowledge knowl edge that he had done his bast had ha-d me met courageously the hazards that beset his Journey The public is entitled to the story When the Amundsen party hopped off oft from on May 21 in two airplanes in an effort to flY to the north pole their aim was to beback be beback beback back within two or three days When days and weeks passed without without without with with- out any word from the adventurers the world speculated as to their fate There was insistent nt demand that a relief expedition be s sent nt to Spitzbergen and as much nell nearer r the thep p pole lle as ships and airplanes could reconnoiter The Norwegian government government gov gov- finally responded REPORTS FROM OSLO Meanwhile Bouman had b been bee cu sent from Crom London to Oslo the capital of ot Norway He reported dall daily the ac activities nc- nc of nr the rrt rd of ot the Norwegian Aero club which h had d bought the exclusive rights to the personal narratives of and mem members ers of his part party It was arranged to send airplanes and fliers t to Spitzbergen on the coal I carrie carrle Bouman a man mali manof manof of 52 yei ye rs s and not ro robust robust ro- ro bust che cheerfully accepted the assIgnment assignment assignment as as- to pro proceed eed With t 3 relief ship notwithstanding that ol 11 suffered suffered suf suf- suf- suf feted severely from a 1 cold caught u l t ton on the hour fifty-hour jo Journey front from Lond London Lon Lon- LondOn d don n to Oslo as his office later learned He met met his his his' first barrier when both the Norwegian government and the a nero aero ro club undertook to ta 3 protect protect pro pro- what they conceived to be 2 a contract right of the purchasers or orthe orthe orthe the Amundsen personal story to bottIe bottle bottle bot bot- tle tIe up the details of ot the rescue work as well Refused aid by both the government govern govern- ment meat and the club left to his own resources in finding means of ot trans transportation through the and strewn ice-strewn Arctic waters water Bouman Bouman Bou Boil man did not nt falter Twice he hd imperiled imperiled im Im- im- im periled his me life and suffered genuine ine inc hardship to re reach ch his o. o oJ objective STORIES HELD UP That Mr Bouman failed at the time to get his story to the outside world was duo due to the contract contra t made mado b by Amundsen to sell the narrative of his experiences to a group rup o ot newspaper newspaper- syndicates of various countries whose representative at atI I Kings Ings Bay Day controlled the only means of communication wit eless s. s He refused to allow Boumans Bouman's dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches to be sent I The news along with Amund- Amund Continued on page 2 A. 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P MAN BRAVES DEATH TO REPORT AMUNDSEN SAFE SAFET v i T Continued from page 1 sen's sens ee s 's personal narrative was al al- allowed 4 l lowed wed to go only to a a. relatively ly few v n newspapers being controlled In the 1 country by the North American Newspaper alliance The bottling up of the news In this thle manner was w I a done done one in s spite lt of ot the tremendous Int int interest in- in t test crest awakened wakened throughout the I world by the mishap to the u expedition cds cd- cd s lion tion and notwithstanding that the governments government's action Ih In dispatching a rescue expedition had t t raised the enterprise from the category category cate- cate I gory gol of 4 t. private affair to a public one Jone ne In which a government shared kf And ad fo for th the results of which th the world orld anxiously waited a i Until it became evident that i 4 f mund en and his companions i be lost the Associated Press J d no extraordinary efforts to report the Amundsen flight considering considering consid consid- ering the expedition a a. private en en- which h it was not it its f inc inc- port Uan on to help finance When b n how how- t Amundsen f failed to return on 3 time and fI It seemed that disaster c h had d overtaken him and Wh when ll tl the government in re response JOnse to appeals the world over announced its ln- ln to send fiend a relief expedition th story transcended transcend d the field of ot otI I Ate rJ enterprise The Associated Press responding responding KUo do 0 the public interest at once began be- be gan its endeavor to to obtain the I IiI facts It applied to the Norwegian Rot government go for permission to have hA I Its r representative e go on the rescue Finally the permission inS in- in S the promise e of the ships ship's wifeless was obtained ed Later the the- r rescuers left this ship eventually transferring to another nother government nt IS s. s ship the Hel Heimdal al and Bouman gy was not permitted to board it it ft He was was left stranded at Advent ent bay where ships r rarely rely touch This constituted the only instance in- in In-I In stance in the history of ot the tM Assod Asso- Asso d Press Iress that any ny government as not willingly accorded facilities f f for t r obtaining the story of an n ef- ef J tt ft to save human life When Ine in ine M e face fAte of ot these obstacles Bouan Bou- Bou An at t last lut reached His JUs objective nd obtained the news three days Went nt by before he was as permitted to 10 send it IL It was waa said that the r wireless station at Kings King's Bay was privately controlled As to the wire wire- f less ess aboard the steamer Heimdal Alt Mao Iio at U Kings King's Bay a message menage re re- re r 1 from that vessel by the Associated As As- sedated Press Preel explains why Bouman Bou Bou- man was Waa not heard from Crom it reads read I s binka Your t Bay correspondent Found arrived Amundsen Amundsen- at at Ellsworth good health but In Ip J ac ae accordance accordance ac- ac with agreement with Norwegian Norwegian Nor Nor- Aero club I I. I its pre press press' gen am compelled to stop all aU news me mes sages regarding Amundsen Amunds h tion TWO WRITERS ABOARD It was with hardly more than his summer clothes as an Arctic outfit that Mr Bouman hastily left London for tor Oslo to board the re relief relief relief re- re lief ship There h he found a n. fellow lenow newspaper man who substantially shared his ex experiences fence William Bird of the Consolidated I Press ress Writing aboard a vessel by which he was m making his wb way back to Oslo which he reached before belore Amundsen did Mr Bouman wrote a report to the general office of the Associated Press which fol tol follows lows low The main difficulty in Joining the relief expedition was to break breakthrough breakthrough tl through routh the objections of the Amundsen press monopoly which aimed at annexing the Ole relief story as AI well veil as the polar expedition story tor One they held was part and parcel of the other The Norwegian Norwegian Nor Nor- Aero Acro club which promoted Amundsen's ex expedition had perfect erect interlocking arrangements with the Norwegian admiralty the air lr de department department department de- de and the Spitzbergen Spitsbergen coal companies which virtually rule the Svalbard archipelago and it took tooka a vast amount of at trouble IncludIng including including ing a R. cabinet council to get an any move mo at all in the matter malter American American American Ameri Ameri- can Minister Swenson and Consul General Snyder however howe gave gae most valuable assistance and eventually 1 I was p permitted to Join the relief I mission aboard the The as you ou know was first scheduled to go to Kings King's Ba Bay How we would fare tare after that no noOne noone noone one could tell us but the obvious thing for us to do was to get there TRANSPORTATION SLOW Spitzbergen may look sm small U on a worlds world's map but the distances are enormous and means meane of local transportation transportation transportation trans trans- necessarily b by sea rare and slow at this time of the year With Ith Kings King's Bay Day radio monopolized ed b by the Amundsen press organization tion one might as well be in London London Lon Lon- don or New York as s at Green Harbor HarbOr HarbOr Har- Har bOr or Advent Ba Bay As a matter of fact tact the first public announce announce- of ot Amundsen's return reached I Green Harbor In a- a wireless a n. from fromN N Now New w York Instead ad of from the port porton on the other side of the Island Our next troubles began at Advent Advent Ad Ad- vent flay Day where the land landed d the relief men and ourselves The former flew to l Kings icings Bay and despite de de despite spite our our most ur urgent ent appeals we could get no transportation farther north nort i on the patrol ship Heimdal We had to find a ship of our own to take us there Incidentally we had a taste of adventure here nere while white trying to get getto getto getto to Advent ent Bay rl radio ito from the In In which was coaling about a amile amile mile Or so away from the tho jetty Jett Walking along the broken shore was impossible but three men offered of offered of- of to row ud ul Bird and me ina in inI ina a I crazy cruy boat which W was s leaking through every s seam am and with a afre afresh fre fresh h breeze blowing over turbulent turbulent turbulent lent waters TOO late We discovered ered they were drunk as all owls and later they became quarrelsome One of ot them conceived a a. fancy that I Ivas Iwas Iwas was vas a a. German in Jn which case ho he roared he would take extreme pleasure in throwing m me overboard rd without ter ceremony mOny We Ve endeavored to placate them but he kept right righton on re repeating in all Ml intonations Intonation the cheerful refrain You G German tm nO er overboard overboard over over- board you go RETURN TO LANDWe LANDWe LAND We e zigzagged across those choppy waters for an hour and a 0 half holding on to the gunwale for dear life lite with our our baggage and feet in cold water and were ultimately ulti ulti- ultimately conveyed to land by bya a launch from the steamer Farm There were no sealers or coal ships available in Advent bay or anywhere else and the only means offered as we ascertained by wireless wireless wire wire- less was an old foot 35 motor sloop at Green harbor which We agreed to charter for at least three weeks We e therefore left Advent bay for tor Green harbor 1 uy by y the For For- sete a cargo steamer which by a lucky chance was to call At t our destination three destination three hours' hours steaming At Green b harbor We found our sloop on a small slip way undergoing undergoing under under- going repairs repair Even Een to a landsman like myself It was wu perfectly obvious that this frail craft would never survive even a moderate gale but butI I was aB determined d to follow in lh the track and get the us use of her wireless Our first t call would n necessarily c be Kings King's bay thence to Dane island and farther north to and along the Ice bar bar- rier I r have no hesitation in saying that If ever thue thera was a foolhardy enterprise ente it was this thili People at Advent bay and Green harbor thought us crazy but there was no other way Then the ship having been made what was euphemistically ly Iy called seaworthy the news came that Amundsen had returned which made it all aU the more urgent for us to go to Kings King's bay forthwith forth forth- with We Wo sailed Juno 19 at p p. p m HIT IC BARRIER The distance from Green harbor to Kings King's ba bay is roughly miles mUes our course being outside Prince Charles foreland Moreland passage by the inner sound being block blocked d by solid ice Jee At about six knots an hour I t reckoned vv wit we e would do this in about sixteen hours but instead it took twenty-one twenty hours First of all our drinking water was vas as found to be befoul befoul foul roul so we had to moor to an Iceberg iceberg Ice ice- berg from which we took a a. fresh supply from a pool on the top of It lt Year old ice of course is quite sweet The Tho mouth of the ice fjord was full of flo floes S large lUge and small and we got some from them while nos nosing In our course through Then W we got out into the open Arctic Arctic Arctic Arc Arc- tic ocean and headed due north In a heavy swell well our boat was Wall tossed about like Ilke a cork and four times that night the motor broke Our crew w v worked h heroically lly but when we limped d into Kings King's ba bay the next for forenoon we found our connection bearings were burnt through and our bo boat t was temporarily temporarily tempo tempo- out of commission MOUTHS SEALED Next C came me the great problem how to get off such news as I could gather in chats with Amundsen Ellsworth and their companions Of course they were perfectly friendly Ind Indeed ed we were happy party to together to- to gether but gether-but but by the terms of their contract their mouths were sealed Amundsen repeatedly expressed genuine regret at being thus tied Hundreds of ot tel telegrams to Amundsen beside th the official story kept both operators at Kings King's a b bay y and Green harbor busy for d days ts throughout the twenty four hours h ur Here was vas I with A a. real story and no possible chance of ot getting m my stuff away lIy Our b boat t was Wa still useless use Use- lOss less otherwise we would have sent her back to Green h harbor rb r with the messages Suddenly a a ray of ot hope The relief aviators were going up for tor a practice spin and It was arr arranged they should go to Green h harbor These young officers were fine sportsmen thoroughly good fellows and nd entirely in sympathy with my plight They hey could not of course undertake to deliver my mess messages at the r radio dlo station but I arranged that the they should drop a parcel addressed addressed ad ad- d. d dressed to the proprietors of ot our boat This parcel contained my nt messages with A letter asking him to deliver them to the radio i I W was s overjoyed when the airmen airmen airmen air air- men went Up but my hopes V were re dashed when half an hour hOut later I heard their motors again A fog I had suddenly descended and ihly hl I w were r obliged to come corne back Finally Final Final- ly Iy the W. W Selmer came 11 1 1 made a dash for the Marconi operator oper oper- operator ator who cheerfully accepted aUthe all aU I the copy offered More elation follow followed followed fol fol- fol- fol low lowed d by further disappointment for tor after several attempts Green Harbor told him to shut up they would not take his r radio dlo offerings I TRIES TO GET BACKOf BACKOf BACK Of course I made every attempt to get back to Norway with the Amundsen party part but found it quite Impossible By t taking the tM Hob Hobby r to how however ver we reckoned we could beat the party into Oslo and prepare for tor the reception cere ceremonies cere- cere monies That voyage from Spitzbergen rg n to I am not likely to forget The IM Hobby is reputed to be the worst roller in the whole Norwegian mercantile service and certainly ly rolled caracoled caracol d sUp ed and did everything but capsize In the angry polar sea I did not get out of my clothes for tor four |