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DYOTT EXPEDITION
SEEKS VOLUNTEER
Party to Enter Jungle in Hunt
for Fawcett, Lost Brit
ish Explorer.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW TORK, November 12.
Wanted—Man, 20 to 30 years old,
small, spare, of wiry build, to join re
lief expedition and party of exploit
tion into Brazilian wilds. Must bt»
willing, with habits of discipline.
Travel experience and technical train
ing unnecessary. Apply at once, let
ter only, to Comdr. George M. Dyott,
136 East Sixty-first street, New York
City.
“That, briefly, describes the man 1
am looking for,” remarked Comdr.
Dyott, as with alert, nervous fingers
he stroked the beautifully marked
skin of a little ocelot which is among
the thousand trophies of his adven
tures in the wilderness.
Incisive, keen, swift, this close-knit
blond British-American Is soon to
s tart for those "green hells of Ama
r.onia,” which hide the secrets of for
gotten ages and the whereabouts of
nnother explorer, Col, P. H. Fawcett,
last heard from in May, 1925.
Comdr. Dyott is going in to find thi9
man, and if his hunt is fruitless, or
if he finds Fawcett dead, he will push
ahead in the very quest which led
Fawcett into the jungles south of the
Amazon, tho search for ruins of a lost
civilization.
Dangerous Venture.
A menacing venture, beset by the
danger of savage Indians, of wild
beasts, of tropical fever, and the en
tirely unknown perils of an unex
plored area of 100,090 square miles.
And for this undertaking, Comdr.
Dyott needs one more man to com
plete his party of four, a man to
w hom money and the comforts of life
and life itself mean very little.
“He must be thoroughly prepared
and equipped for hardship,” explained
ihe commander. “He must be willing
to subordinate himself, to obey his
leader without question. He must put
himself into my hands completely, do
anything he is told to do, and do it at
once.
“And one thing more; this is most
essential.” The trace of a smile light
ed. Comdr. Dyott's lean, rather
severe face. "He must be a quiet man.
No chatter-boxes need apply. Talka
tive men are the bane of an explorer’s
camp. My camps, anyway.”
A quiet man himself, with the quiet
that gives confidence, is this former
officer of the British Royal Naval Air
Service, whose expedition into the
wikis in search of a lost fellow-coun
tryman “ recalls the glorious hazards
of Stanley's search for Livingston,
and its triumphant result.
Man Under 30.
‘‘l ask for a man of not more than
30,” said Comdr. Dyott, “because
he is not likely to have formed rigid
habits of mind. He is not set in his
ways. He will be amenable to dis
cipline.
“And I ask for a small man because
a small man, if physically fit, has
greater endurance. A big man has to
exert so much energy to carry his
hulk that he has no surplus. More
than that, he is difficult to stow in
a canoe. He is too big for the physi
cal restrictions of camp life.”
“What do you mean by a small man
—how tall should he be, how much
should he weigh?”
"In height, five feet six, or seven—
even five feet ten wouldn’t bar him.
These things are all approximate. And
weight, well, we’H say 140.”
The commander weighs 140, and is
about five feet seven inches tail.
“But I exceed my own age limit,”
he observed, wrinkles of humor spread
ing in a little network at the cor
ners of his blue eyes. “You see, I was
born in 1883.”
Comdr. Dyott was asked what this
volunteer he is seeking would have
to do.
Handy Man Needed.
“He must be a handy man,” was
the reply. “And willing to learn. He
doesn’t have to be a photographer. He
doesn’t have to know how to handle a
gun or paddle a canoe or run a radio.
If he is intelligent, he’ll learn all
these things with us.”
“Should he have had & college edu
cation?”
“Preferably. And he should be fond
of outdoor life. He should have an
interest in birds and animals and
trees. And he should have an In
genious mind, a practical mind. Also
manual dexterity. He should be able
to handle tools.”
Comdr. Davis was asked whether he
preferred a bachelor or a benedict.
“Single,” he replied, lighting a
cigarette to disguise an embarrassed
half-smile. For Comdr. Dyott will be
a bridegroom when he sails for Rio
on the first stage of his long journey.
“Single,’’ he reiterated, more firmly.
“Married men are used to creature
comforts, and they're always thinking
about their wives. Give me a bache
lor.”
The volunteer accepted by Comdr.
Dyott need supply none of his outfit
himself. His passage money will be
paid. His living expenses will be met
by the expedition. And he will receive
pay.
Only Small Pay.
“Only a small recompense,” ob
served the commissioner, dryly. “No
riches.” , , , ,
He went on to say that a physician s
certificate of physical fitness was de
sirable, and that volunteers should be
prepared to endure a constant steam
bath.
“We are going where the weather
is hot and wet," he remarked. “Our
balmy days will show a temperature
of 86."
With Comdr. Dyott when he 6ails :
from New York December 10 on tho
Lamport & Holt liner Voltaire will
be a wireless man, an expert in pho
tography and the selected volunteer.
The little party will arrive in Rio de
Janeiro Christmas day, thence by
train 1,000 miles to Corumba, then 350
miles by launch to Cuyaba-
From there the Dyott expedition,
augmented by native bearers, will
strike out with pack bullocks and
mules for the vast unexplored terri
tory north of Cuyaba.
The undertaking will have the un
official co-operation of the Brazilian
government. “The Brazilian officials
I have always found most helpful and
courteous,” said Comdr. Dyott.
Hopeful of Resuce.
Comdr. Dyott is definitely hopeful
of rescuing Col. Fawcett, who was
accompanied into the jungle by his
son Jack and a youth from Los An
geles, Raleigh RimelL But he does
not expect to find Fawcett in the vi
cinity of Diamantlna, in the Matto
Grosso region, where a Frenchman,
Oourteville, reported having seen a
man resembling the lost explorer.
It is possible Courteville saw Faw
cett, Comdr. Dyott believes, but, if so
the explorer has vanished again and
the mystery surrounding him becomes
even greater than before. Fawcett's
friends, however, think it improbable
he would have come so close to civil
ization without communicating with
his anxious family.
“No, my search will lead me far be
vond Diamantlna,*’ said Comdr. Dyott,
wno expects tp be in the wilderness
at least six months. During this pe
riod he will keep in touch with civ
ilization through radio messages sent
exclusively to the North American
Newspaper Alliance, of which this
newspaper is a member.
foo.vrifrht. 1927. la all countries b.f North
Newspaper Alllancs.
WILDS OF BRAZIL GOAL OF FAWCETT SEARCHING PARTY
•* ? *\ * ‘
Ipper: A native villa ß e in the Brazilian wilds. . , ~
Iv>wer: A head hunter. A savage type Comdr. Byott will encounter in his
expedition into the Brazilian wilderness to rescue the lost British explorer.
Col. T. H. Fawcett > *
Dyott—Air Pilot, Miner and Explore*—
Can Boast of Adventurous Career
• I
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 12.—Al
though an Englishman. Comdr. Dyott
actually was born in New York., The
year'of his birth was 1883. His father
was an Englishman and his mother
was American. He was taken to Eng
land as a child, and was educated at
Bedford and Wellington.
Dyott early became interested in
mining. He camb to the United States
in 1899, and was a miner in California,
Alaska and Arizona, also visiting the
South Seas. In 1903 he returned to
England. Desiring to extend his edu
cation, he took a course in electrical
engineering at Faraday House, Lon
don, winning a degree.
Once more he came to the States
and got a position with the Westing
house Electric Co. He watched the
Wright brothers at work in their early
airplane ventures, and became so in
terested that he went into airplane
building himself. He constructed the
first American-built monoplane to fly
in this country, and he and Henry
Walden established a plant at Mineola,
N. Y„ for the building of planes. Dy
ott’s attainments as a flyer are shown
by the fact that he has several rec
ords to his credit.
In 1909 he went to Europe to study
aviation methods there, and was one
of the first hundred pilots licensed by
the British government. Returning
to the United States in 1911, he got
planes for exploration w-ork in Central
America. He was imprisoned during
a revolution in Yucatan. Escaping,
he fled to sea in a small boat and sig
naled a freighter, which took him to
safety. Next he was engaged by the
late Lord Leverhufme to organize and
direct an expedition to the Kongo.
Then the war broke and Dyott join
ed the British Royal Naval Air Serv
ice. receiving a commission* He sewed
throughout the war in the Dover Pa
trol and in the north of France.
The war over, Comdr. Dyott went
out to South America to survey air
plane routes for the Peruvian govern-
he made an Andean
railroad survey, traveling I.COO miles
on- muleback. , The next year he was
commissioned to Investigate the killing
of white settlers by the Peruvian In
joined a mining ex
pedition into central Peru. In 1922
came expeditions into northern Peru
in the interests of copper and vana
dium mining concerns. There followed
a general ocular survey for a railroad
from the Amazon to the Pacific.
In 1923 Comdr. Dyott went big game
hunting in the Far East with A. S.
Vernay, bringing back ,a vast assort
ment of photography of wfefl anirm 1
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THE BUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, P 0„ NOVEMBER 13. 1927-PART 1.
|
I life. In 1926-26 the volcanoes of Ecua
dor drew hiß interest.
Then, in 1926-27, came Comdr.
Dyott’s famous expedition along the ,
River of Doubt, retracing the path of i
the late President Roosevelt’s adven- j
tures. He returned late last Spring
and now he is about to set forth on
the greatest and most perilous under
taking he has ever essayed—the search
for Fawcett.
His expedition will parallel in risk,
importance and interest the historic
search Stanley made for Livingstone
in Africa. The public will be kept in
touch with the progress of the under
taking through radio messages which
will ho sent by Comdr. Dyott from the
depths of the Jungle. These messages
will be sent exclusively to the North
American Newspaper Alliance, of
which this newspaper is a member.
Comdr. Dyott .is known to many
thousands through his books, his news
paper and magazine articles and his
appearances on the lecture platform.
He Is the author of "Silent Highways
of the Jungle” and "On the Trail of
the Unknown." . Comdr. Dyott has
shown In London three films depicting
his v.:periences.
(Copyright. 1027. In All Countries by North
American Newspaper Alliance )
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WEARS 1912 OVERCOAT
■
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Respected Rather Than
Money for Work.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 12.—Charles
M. Schwab, the steel executive, came
back to Chicago wearing his old 1912
overcoat and thereby hangs a tale.
"What have I worked for in these
50 years?" he asked himself and his
audience at one of the free meals
he continually is plied with these
days.
"Is it money? No. I get all my
dinners free; 1 still wear a 1912 coat.
‘Til tell you what has given me
happiness and peace of soul—what
you may wish to emulate.
"It's the satisfaction of living a
life that will make you stand well
in the opinion of your fellow citi
zens, of having their good will and
their love and respect.”
Rubber balloons with electric lights
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———
CHRISTMAS MAIL RUSH
APPLICANTS BARRED
More Than 2,000 Already on List
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in Post Office.
So many applications have been re
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mail rush that Postmaster Mooney has
put up the bars against more appli
cants. The. names'of students and
others who wanted to swell their In
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and now the list numbers more than
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Mr. Mooney said yesterday that if
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force of 2,000 mail handlers, but that
the facilities .of the post office will not
permit hlsemplqytng more than about
half that pumber. T.here is no chance
of new applicants''being appointed, he
said.
ELECTRIC STILLS SEIZED.
Police Capture SIOO,OOO Plant in
Brooklyn Warehouse.
NEW YORK. November 12 (/F
An electrically-operated distillery,
valued by prohibition officials at
SIOO,OOO, was seized by police tonight
on the top floor of a four-story ware
house in Brooklyn. Two men were
arrested.
There were two stills, each of 1,500
gallons capacity. Police said they
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; - IS EXPECTED SOON
Brilliant Phenomena Will Be Fre
quent in Near Future, Say
Observer!.
The season for the display of bril
liant celestial phenomena is approach
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through the Autumn nights the as
t-onomer is on the alert for the pass
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that appear and burn otit in our at
mosphere.
The great Perseid display
about the middle of October there
are a great number of minor streams
which apparently come into the play
at the same period.
In the early morning hours of this
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repaid with the sight of radiants in
Pices, Andromeda. Aries. Perseus and
other constellations in the same gen
eral region of the sky. Some of these
are directed from places south of the
Equator.
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of the world of nebula of which we
still know so little. The splendor of
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we reflect that each one of these stars
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