Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1925, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,” MONDAY, JULY 13, 1925 CORRESPONDENT BRAVED ARCTIC’ PERILS TO GET AMUNDSEN STORY Hardship and Dnnger of Death Were Routine of J. A. Bouman of Associated Press on Trip to Kings Bay—W as Refused Aid. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 13.—How a staff Sorrespondent of the Associated Press who was sent to the Arctic regions to learn the fate of the Amundsen- Ellsworth North Pole expedition un- fiinchingly braved the perlls of the fcy seas can now be told. Less than a month ago when the world was praying for the safe re- turn of the orwegian explorer’'s party—believed by many a forlorn hope—J.. A. Bouman of the London eau of the Associated Press was encountering ha as great as those of the explore His risks were in the line of duty. He had no thought of fame. His work, like that of all employes of his organization, was to be anonymous. His reward was to be only the knowledge that he had done his best, had met courage- ly the hazards that beset his journey. The public is entitled to the story. Demand for Relief. When the Amundsen party hopped off from Spitzberzen on May 21 in two airplanes in an effort to fly to the North Pole their aim was to be within two or three d: When and weeks passed without any d from the adventurers the world speculated as to their fate. There insistent demand that a relfef ex- pedition be sent to Spitzbergen and as much nearer the Pole as shipsand afrplanes could reconnoiter. The Nor- weglan government finally responded. Meanwhile Mr. Bouman had been sent from London to Oslo, the capital of Norway, He reported daily the activities of the government and of the Norweglan Aero Club, which had bought the exclusive rights to the personal narratives of Amundsen and members of his party. It was arranged to send airplanes and fiyers to Spitzbergen on the coal carrfer Ingerts. Bouman, a man of 52 years, and not particularly robust, cheerfully accepted the assignment to proceed with the relief ship, notwith- standing that he suffered severely from a cold caught on the 50-hour journey from London to Oslo, as his office later learned. He met his first barrier when both the Norwegian government and the Aero Club undertook to protect what they conceived to be a contract right of the purchasers of the vAmundsen personal story to bottle up the details of the rescue work as well. Bouman Imperiled Life. Refused ald by both the government and the club, left to his own resources in findin® means of transportation through the untraveled and ice- trewn Arctic waters, Bouman did not falter. Twice he imperiled his life and suffered genuine hardship to reach his objective. k » Mr. Bou- man failed at the time to get his story to the outside world was due to the contract made by Amundsen to sell the narrative of his experiences to a group of newspaper vndicates of various countries, whose representa- tive at Kings Bay controlled the only means of communication—wireless. He refused to allow Bouman's dis- to be sent long with Amundsen’s personal narrative) was allowed to go Y to a relatively few newspapers, being controlled in this country by the North American ‘ewspaper Alliance. The bottling up of the news in this manner was done in spite of the tremendous interest awakened throughout the world by the mishap to the expedition and notwithstanding that the Norweglan government's ac- tion in dispatching a rescue expedi- tion had raised the enterprise from the category of a private affair to a public one in which a government shared and for the results of which the world anxiously waited. Until it became evident that Amund- sen and his companions might be lost, the Associated Press made no extraor- dinary efforts to report the Amundsen flight, considering the expedition a private enterprise which it was not its function to help finance. When, however, Amundsen failed to return on time and it seemed that disaster had overtaken him and when the Gov- ernment, in response to appeals the world over, announced itg intention to send a relief expedition, transcended the field of private enter- pri: Permission Obtained. The Assoclated Press, responding to the public interest, at once began its endeavor to obtain the facts. It ap plied to the Norweglan government for permission to h: its representa- tive go on the rescue ship. Finally the permission, including the promise of the ship's wireless, was obtained. Later the rescuers left this ship, eventually transferring to another government ship, the Heimdal Bouman was t permitted to board it. He was left stranded at Advent Bay where shiy touch This cor the only instance in the history of the Associated Press that any government s not willing- 1 rded facilities for obtaining the stituted ‘Philadelphia or Balt NSFER AND STOR- the story | and | story of an effort to save human life. When, in the face of these obstacles, Bouman at last reached his objective and obtained the news, three days went by before he was permitted to send it. It was said that the wire- less station at Kings Bay was pri- vately controlled. As to the wireless aboard the steamer Heimdal, also at Kings Bay, a message reoffived from v by the Associated Press It reads: “Your correspondent arrived Kings Bay. Found Amundsen, Ellsworth good health, but in accordance agree- ment with Norwegian Aero Club, I, its press agent, am compelled stop all news messages regarding Amund- sen expedition.” It was with hardly more than his Summer clothes as an Arctic outfit that Mr. Bouman hastily left London for Oflo to board the relief ship. There he found a fellow newspaper man, who subsequently shared his ex- periences—Willlam_Bird of the Con- solidated Press. Writing aboard a vessél by which he was making his way back to Oslo, which he reached before Amundsen did, Mr. Bouman wrote a report to the general office of the Associated Press, which fol- lows: Bouman's Report. “The main difficulty in joining the relief expedition was to break through | the objections of the Amundsen press monopoly, which aimed at annexing the relief story as well as the polar expedition story. One, they held, was part and parcel of the other. The Norwegian Aero Club, which pro- moted Amundsen’s expedition, had perfect interlocking arrangements with the Norweglan admiralty, the air department and the Spitzbergen coal companies—which virtually rule the Svalbard Archipelago—and it took a vast amount of trouble, including a cablnet council, to get any move at all in the matter. American Minister Swenson and Consul General Snyder, however, gave most valuable assist. ance, and eventually I was permit- ted to join the relief mission aboard the Ingertre. “The Ingertre, as you know, was first scheduled to go to Kings Bay. How we would fare after that no one could tell us, but the obvious thing for us to do was to get there. “Spitzbergen may look small on a world’s map, but the distances are enormous, and means of local trans- portation (necessarily by sea) rare and slow at this time of the year. With Kings Bay radio monopoiized by the Amundsen press organization, one might as, well be in London or New York as at Green Harbor or Advent Bay. As a matter of fact, the first public announcement of Amundsen’s return reached Green Harbor in a wireleses from New York instead of from the port on the other side of the island. “Our next troubles began at Advent Bay, where the Ingertre landed the relief men and ourselves. The for- mer flew to Kings Bay, and despite our most urgent appeals. We could get no transportation father north on the patrol ship Hefmdal. We had to find a ship of our own to take us there. Drunken Oarsmen. venture here while trying to get to Advent Bay radio from the Ingertre, which was coaling about a mile or so away from the jetty. Walking along the broken shore was fmpossible, but three men offered to row us (Bird and me) in a crazy boat which was leak- ing through every seam and with a fresh breeze blow g over turbulent aters. Too late we discovered they were drunk as owls, and later they became quarrelsome. One of them con- ceived a fancy that I was a German, in which case he roared he would take extreme pleasure in throwing me overboard Without ceremony. We en- deavored to placate them, but he kept on repeating in all intonations the cheerful refrain: ‘You German, over- board you go.” “We zigzagged across those choppy waters for an hour and a half, hold- ing on to the gunwale for dear life, with our baggage and feet in cold water, and were ultimately conveyed Shipping News Arrivals at and Sail ARRIVED AESTERDAY Minnewaska London. July 4 ! Cristobal July b Liverpool. July 4 sGlaseow: July 4 ambur SLLU00 Port Limon! Ju!' DUE TODAY. ......Montevideo, June 23 Naples. July 3 Hamburg: July i Liverpool, July .Havre. July ST Guay, Albert Ballin, Laconia . Rochambea " ‘American Banker.. London; Jul: artinique e Pu‘en’ Colombia. July ... Trieste. June 2 “Incidentally, we had a taste of ad-|g | to land by a launch from the steamer Farm. “There were no sealers or coal ships available in Advent Bay or any where else, and the only means offered, as we ascertalned by wireless, was an old 35 foot motor sloop at Green Harbor, which we agreed to charter for at least three weeks. We therefore left Advent Bay for Green Harbor by the Forsete; a cargo steamer, which by a lucky chance was to call at our des- tipation—three hours’ steaming. “At Green Harbor we found our sloop on a small slipway undergoing repairs. Even to a landsman like my- self it was perfectly obvious that this trall craft would never survive even a modetate gale, but 1 was deter- mined to'follow in the Heimdal's track and get the use of he- wireless. Our first ¢all would necessarily be Kings Bay, thence to Dane Island and far- ther north to and along the ice bar- rier. Was Foolhardy Enterprise. “I have no hesitation in saying that it ever there was a foolhardy enter- prise it was this. People at Advent ad Green Harbor thought us zy, but there was no other way. Then, the ship having been -made what was euphemistically called ‘sea- worthy,’ the news came that Amund. sen had returned, which made it all the more urgent for us to go to Kings Bay forthwith. We satled June 19 at 1:30 p.m, “The distance from Green Harbor to Kings Bay is roughly 100 miles, our course being outside Prince Charles foreland, passage by the in- ner sound being blocked by solid ice At about 6 knots an hour, I reckoned we would do this in about 16 hours, but fnstead it took 21 hours. First of all our drinking water was found to be foul, 50 we had to moor to an ice- berg, from which we took a fresh sup- ply from a pool on the top of it. Year- old ice, of course, is quite sweet. “The mouth of the ice fjord was full of floes, large and small, and we got some buffetings from them while nos- ing our course through. Then we got out into the open Arctic Ocean and headed due north. In a heavy swell out boat was tossed about like & cork, and four times that night the motor broke down. Our crew worked hero- ically, but when he limped into Kings Bay the next forenoon . we found our connection bearings were burnt through and our boat was temporarily out of commission. Hands Were Tied. “Next came 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; indeed, we were a happy party together, but by the terms of. their contract their wmouths were sealed. Amundsen re- peatedly expressed genuine regret at being thus tled. “Hundreds of telegrams to Amund- sen, besides the ‘offical’ story, kept operators both at Kings Bay and Green Harbor busy for days through- out the 24 hours. Here was I, with a real story and no possible chance of getting my stuff away. Our boat was still useless, otherwise we would have sent her back to Green Harbor with the messages. “Suddenly a ray of hope. The re- lef aviators were going up for a prac- tice spin, and it was arranged they should go to Green Harbor. These young officers were fine sportsmen, thoroughly good fellows and entirely in sympathy with my plight. They could not, of course, undertake to de- liver my messages at the radio sta- tion, but I arranged that they should | drop a parcel addressed to the pro- prietors of our boat. This parcel con- tained my messages with a letter ask- ing him to deliver them to the radio. “I was overjoyed when the airmen went up, but my hopes were dashed Streets Are Being Cut But NOT the Trees IN Hedges & Middleton, Inc. REALTORS 1412 Eye St. Frank. 9503 Don’t Read when half an hour later T heard thelr, them. It is a perfect working exam- motors again. A fog had suddenly descended and_ they were obliged to come back. Finally, the Albr W. Selmer came in—I made a dash for the Marconi operator, who cheerfully accepted ail the copy offered. More elation followed by further disap- pointment, for after several attempts Green Harbor wold him to shut up; they would not take his radio offerings. “Of course; I made every attempt to get back to Norway with the Amundsen’ party, but found it quite impossible. By taking the Hobby to Tromsoe, however, we reckoned we could beat thé party into Oslo and prepare for the reception ceremonies. “That voyage from Spitzbergen to Tromsoe: I am not likely to forget. The Hobby is reputed to be the worst roller in the whole Norweglan mer- cantile service, and she certainly rolled, caracoled, sidestepped and did everything but capsize in the angry Polar Sea. I didn't get out of m) clothes for four nights and three days and couldn’t eat anything for 3| hours on end. There was no bun for me, and I lay down on a narrow- ledged ' chief engineer’s cabin, not caring whether the darned ship went down to Davy Jones' locker. Coal Managers Kind. “The ship had been in continuous usé since March and was pervaded by all-imaginable sorts of smells, in- cluding those emanating from car- casses and skins of all sorts of polar fauna. A dense fog oft the Yron- bound north Norwegian coast made entrance into the fjord leading to Tromsoe very dangerous. “Let me place on record the unfailing kindness and hospitality of the coal managers and chief engineers at the places we visited. Their homes were thrown open to us, and they were veritable havens of refuge from our discomforts, but the frozen wilder- ness begins at their back doors. Those coal managers are kings in thelr own domain: there is yet no Norwegian authority of any sort in the islands. The companies make the laws and the managers enforce TOPHAM IN THE GQODS BUNINESS IN LUGGAGE During Our SUMMER SALE The name Topham has stood for the best in leather goods and honest values for over 60 years A SUIT CASE BARGAIN A splendidly made cass 55 WARDROBE TRUNKS £ High-grade Standard Makes At Honest Reductions $31.50 Trunks, now $25 $50.00 Trunks, now $40 $55.00 Trunks, now $45 Dress and Steamer Trunks greatly Reduced Traveling Ba, Suit C. 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