Show WHA L ROGERS at EA U ON OM THE HIGH SEAS well all I 1 know la Is just what I 1 read in the papers and what I 1 see as I 1 prowl hither and thither and believe me brother I 1 have 0 been prowling hither forthe tor the last few weeks it would tako take mo me a week to tell you all about i it but this one will busl have to kinder start me off I 1 left the american shores shares when my plane crossed the canadian border up above a town called bellingham washington on my way to beautiful vancouver and say eay by the way that Is un doubt edely the prettiest aeroplane trip I 1 over ever made that Is from seattle to vancouver you fly over all those islands and inlets and str straits alts and the mainland la Is in places low and level and a wonderful dairying country it looese looked d to me exactly like holland there I 1 Is a lot of rivers and canals and lots of old milking cows out chewing on the green and it was green well we was to sail from vancouver on the empress of russia in the morning I 1 had heard along the line that floyd gibbons the worlds champion reporter and radio announcer was to lo be 10 on his way to blan manchuria churla too but I 1 dasent sure but when I 1 finally got to vancouver and they told me it was so I 1 was tickled to death just think of tho the privilege of traveling and being with him here Is a man that has been in every nook and corner of the world knows everybody everything I 1 got acquainted quain ted with him in warsaw poland in the summer of 1926 1920 and have been good friends with him since well we shoved off the tha next morning about eleven thirty it looked like a long trip eleven days to yokohama Yoko homa I 1 am the worlds worst sailor anyhow I 1 got get sick before the boat unties fr from am the tha dock but you know I 1 says 1 I am going to lick this I 1 am going to eat everything they got drink well anyhow I 1 stayed with em and do you know I 1 kept kepi walling waiting to get sick and kinder looking forward to it and days went by and nothing showed up and dy by golly I 1 begin to believe that maby the old oklahoma kid was a sailor after all then wo we hit rough weather and when you hit rough weather on the pacific Pa drother brother you aro are encountering some weather the tha atlantic is only a fish bowl the captain and a vory very fine capable man captain hog HOB kien ken really did agrest a great job of handling that boat in that hurricane ile he practically had bad to stop then he be turned south off our course as we were not so BO tar far off tho the islands the one these aviators try todail to sail along coming from japan well we was trying to keep off of em the waves got so high we lost a lifeboat washed off one of nf the top decks but I 1 was still riding it and retaining beautiful why any other trip I 1 was ove ever r on I 1 would have died this foolishness kept up with this 0 ocean cean for over two days it was a chinese typhoon that had bad run into a monsoon mansoo n that was crossed with just plain hurricane and oklahoma norther combined but I 1 kept eating and HOW they gave good food on that line and aird they are always passing something and I 1 was always not letting anything pass me we had a fine little bunch on board as travel like all other commodities has been curtailed b by Y hoover I 1 suppose and there Is not a w whole liole lot of world travel now to Is tho tha tinto to go you are not run over by what one traveler always calls the other objectionable people you see overy everybody body Is doing the wrong thing when you travel but you road read of lot of books I 1 nevor never was much of a book reader I 1 am kinder like A al smith I 1 never road read one through but I 1 knocked off some on this trip that T hat old genghis khan t that h a t flourished around over in all this country around 12 hundred it you enjoy jessie james al capone and the younger boys you want to read about this baby oh 01 lori lord the world was his oyster ile he ruled everything from all ot of china clear to the gates of vienna and aid from tho the north pole to africa and he ha did it all horseback thero there was a rk real ial buckaroo Buc Duc karro for you then I 1 read a book by general graves about our adventure in siberia with our Sold Uia ho he tells you ho he was visa in charge of fm em and he dont know yet what we sent em ein over for now that its all over and ho he has been looking up till now ie he still dont know what they were doing there J I 1 guess it will go down as one of the prize boners of all our foreign invasions I 1 want to drop up there to vladivostok on this trip it if I 1 can you knowse know we havo ha vo all heard of that place and 1 I want to get a crack at it I 1 am anxious to see this japan and china and all this and I 1 will write you more about it whan we land which is right now oh lord hero here Is what they call a rick hick a thing where man pulls you in a chair what ft a traffic jam I 1 am going to get into in one of those 1931 au 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