Show Denby In Role 0 Of f Columbus Asks For Chance To Explore Secretary of Navy Fears Other Powers May Get Polar Territory and Use It for Air Air- Airship Airship Airship ship Base Unless United States Acts With Shenandoah By H LI K REYNOLDS International News Now Service WASHINGTON w ASHINGTON Jan 9 19 1 of the Navy Denby draped the year old year old mantle of Christo Christo- Christopher Christopher Christopher pher Columbus about his ample figure today and went before congress to plead for authority to venture forth in search M r li of undiscovered f tin lands t Out of ot the th dust of tour four tong tanK centuries he h trundled the th same am ar- ar arguments ar that the th J great treat na to lOng Kini nand of pain to t r raise l e fund to Jill voyage across the Atla I I by aides aide and attaches chu Came cam eforo the committee on naval affairs of the th house hour and I explained why he h wanted to send the tho dirigible Shenandoah Sh nando i the th big big- biggest eest bie-eest gest airship In the tho th world to the thc North Pole NO ACROBATICS TICS Denby declared that no aerial acrobatic stunts were on the th na navys navy's program but vast va t unexplored and undiscovered regIons reelon north of Alou 1 Alas Alas- Alaska Alaska ka charges chart the he h manhood of Amer Amer- AmerIca Ainer- Ainer America ica ice to plant there thereon an the th Stars Star and Stripes Stripe and to claim the th Und land thus discovered Let Lit tho th navy make mak American history was wa the th appeal of ef the th naval officers officer who accompanIed Donby Denby to th the capItol capital The Th secretary asserted a there were wr moro more than a million miles of af olt territory bet een Alaska and the th North Narth Pole Pale Pol that had bad been the property of the th United States State MAY Y COME IN DC RANDY HANDY W Wie We have hav no knowledge of what war may be b In the th future because of af airplanes and other inventions invention he said aid I I have hav no Idea whether there Is I of material or commercial value I have hav a a firm conviction that the th Arctic zone son will wll give lv a II bas base bac to airplanes airplane In flights fram Europe a to Asia Aria I cannot cannat look without concern conc rn to this thi area being In the hands hand of af others other than thai the th United States Staf Some Same of the naval officers officer who expect to take tak part In the th Polar expedition were wre not so eo o soft seft oft Hells bells belle b ll shouted Ll Commander Robert Rabert Rob rt Bartlett pound pound- tag Ing the th committee table until the Ink wells rattled what are ar we w going tolne to t do with the th Shenandoah put put It on the tho th Lets Let's L t bang hanc the th Stars Star and Stripes on the North Narth Pole rale Why ow we w are getting soft Boft oft We W are ar losing our punch sitting round around here V We even get zet d In rIdes ride Let the th young fellows fellow put It across acreus Wove rot got at a secretary of the th naY nav with the th punch and an admiral admin Maffett In charge chirr of at flyIng ha aho has the nerve so o let the th young men of America America- make mak hl history tory rOLE POLE TERMED USELESS Bartlett was wa asked what the th Untied United States State bad had gained by Ad- Ad Admiral Ad miral Peary's discovery of af f the North Pole Pol Bartlett was wa with Peary OB OR this historic trip If It Teddy had been ben in the th White Rouse Haue there thero would have hav been bB some some- something om thing thine doing he be h told the tb commit commit- committee tee t Taft T tt was wa there and when win told that Pary Peary had bd discovered the ta orth arth Pole Taft Tatt cald Now that you yau have hav found It what hat ar are you yeu going to do with It It They did nothing with It I Secretary Denby made mad It plain I that the th navys navy's navy primary purpose was waa not nat to redIscover the tb North Narth Pole but to explore the th Polar re- re r elon glans We W must mut go ro quickly he h de- de declared dared If we w dont don't go c this thi YeAr yai another anether power pow r will go ro and map mai and now naw this area arelL We W plan to go 0 because we w have hav th the means and the equipment and at an estimated t cost t of only We W will send Bend end the th Shenandoah to Nomi 1 Alaska 1600 mile mIles from fron the tb North Narth Pole Pol There he h will be b met wt by the th naval hip which will have hav a mooring mast mat We W do 10 not know or the tb Shenandoah Is I of military value She Sh must mu t bG b tried Shed She Sh must mu t go to goto sea iea c Th The h Shenandoah will start from fram Nom Nome traverse the th unknown lea ea a photograph and make mak surveys explore and If It land m Li discovered dl plant the th American Am rican flag Denby saId aid the th return to the th United States State might k b be made mad by bythe bythe the lay way of and end Europe OD |