Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-07-20 | Page 3 | Eskimos Awed by Radio Talk off Labrador

ESKIMOS ESKIMO AWED AED BY RADIO TALK Off lABRADOR Communication Established Established Established Es- Es Es Es- Between Bowdoin ow oin an and Peary e r CHICAGO Ju July y 20 20 AP AP Eski Eskimos mos like the radio A A message from Lieutenant Commander E E. F. F McDonald Mc Mc- McDonald rc- rc Donald Jr with the MacMillan Mac Geographic Navy society Arctic Ardic expedition ex- ex now v off oft Labrador to an associate here H II H II Roemer made public today gave an account of ot radio communication n. n For the first time members of ot the expedition can an talk by radIophone radiophone radiophone radio radIo- phone at will without without prearranged schedules between the he ship Bowdoin Dow Bow doin doln and tI the e a S S. S. S Peary Commander Commander Com Com- Commander mander lac Is on the Bowdoin Bowdoin Bowdoin Bow Bow- doin and McDonald MDonald Is on the Peary We Ve are using 1 phone hone exclusively between the Bowdoin and tie the Peary the message said All AU that was vas necessary was to go SO SOto goto goto to the transmitter built like liko a tue- tue l phone hone start the generators and nd call c out This is WAD WAP calling A loud Joud speaker receives the voice on the Bowdoin the ra radio radio ra- ra dio dlo expert gets the call caU goes to his transmitter and answers McD McDonald asks for tor l MacMillan who go goo i i l to the transmitter and the two m men n converse This evening we entertained the Eskimos at t Hopedale by letting them talk to their friends across the the- harbor on the Bowdoin McDonalds Mc ife- cDonald's c- c Donalds Donald's message added all like children and cant can't compre compre- cOm comprehend pre pre- bend hend what its it's all about Western Vestern radio stations now nO- are heard more distinctly each day b bv by bythe the expedition expedition- members mbel's Indicating the same conditions MacMillan Mac found on his last expedition when western stations heard his radio signals more frequently than stations ita- ita elsewhere on the continent