Tex Wyly Dived Overboard to Resc 

 Drowning Brazilian Stevedore 



Bearing gifts for South Ameri- 

 can zoos-, Dr. William M. Mann 

 director of the National Zoolog- 

 ical Park, is en route to points in 

 Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay 

 to collect birds, reptiles and ani- 

 mals. Among those accompany 

 ing him is William H. Shippen 

 or., feature writer of The Star 

 staff, who here presents the 15th 

 of a series of articles abl ~~ 

 Mann's expedition. 



By W. H.~SHIPPEN, Jr 



Star Staff Correspondent. 

 ABOARD THE S. S. URUGUAY 

 —The hero of the Uruguay's maiden 

 voyage with the "Good Neighbor" 

 fleet is helping care for Dr. Mann's 

 animals up 

 forward. 

 Clark (T e x) 

 | Wyly, 28, now a 

 ! bos'n's mate, 

 i dived overboard, 

 1 last November 4, 

 and rescued a 

 Brazilian steve- 

 dore drowning 

 in the narrow 

 space between 

 the side of the 

 ship and the 

 wharf at Rio. 



Tex never 

 mentioned the 

 story during the 



W. H. Shippen, Jr. 



many days we worked together at 

 sea, cleaning cages, carrying water 

 feeding, reinforcing the crate of 

 Wild Bill, the buffalo. All we knew 

 was that he was quick, handy, cheer- 

 ful and a worker! 



The story came from Tex's ship- 

 mates forward. It seems that Tex, 

 an able-bodied seaman then, was 

 painting the side of the ship when 

 a crate being shifted from a hold 

 | knocked the stevedore into the 

 I water. Only the floats or fenders 

 held the rocking ship away from 

 the concrete wall of the wharf 

 Down in that black well, between 

 walls of steel and concrete, the 

 stevedore floundered and sank. 

 # Went Back to Work. 

 A lot of men ran about on the 

 wharf, yelling and gesticulating. A 

 life preserver was thrown down but 

 the stevedore could not grasp it. ! 

 Then Tex dived overboard. He tied 

 a line under the man's armpits and ! ' 

 ! saw him hauled onto the wharf. ; 

 I After that he climbed a rope that 

 held a fender and went back to 

 work— painting. 



It was not known until later that 

 the fall between the ship and wharf 

 had knocked out the stevedore and 

 broken his leg in two places. The 

 officers of the Uruguay heard noth- 

 ing of the incident until the ship 

 put in at Santos, Brazil, on the re- 

 turn from B. A. A message re- 

 quested Wyly's full name. When 

 the ship pulled in at Rio a recep- 

 tion was ready. 



Tex was very much surprised and 

 a little taken aback. He was pulled 

 into the main salon to listen to 

 speeches in a strange tongue, and 

 presented by the stevedores of Rio 

 with a beautiful gold filigree model 

 of a Portuguese galleon, 14 inches 

 from stem to stern; a gold medal 

 and a scroll signed by the President 

 of the Republic of Brazil granting 

 him citizenship and guaranteeing 



hin ? 5 lifetime job any time he 

 wished to take one. 



Then followed a parade, led by a 

 band in splendid uniforms to the 

 hospital where the stevedore was 

 recovering. Tex shook hands with 

 the man whose life he had saved 

 and hurried back to work. He won 

 his recent promotion by seamanship 

 rather than heroism. 



Presented With $25. 



^7^ot eVed ° res also Presented Tex 

 with $25 Tex still has the gold 

 galleon, the medal and the scroll 

 he keeps them in the purser's safe' 

 As for the $25 . . . well, that's an- 

 other matter! 



Just now Tex is almost as anxious 

 as Dr. Mann to bring the gift col- 

 lection from the National Zoological ! 



£™ k lt m l through t0 its Na- 

 tion—the Buenos Aires Zoo 



When Wild Bill, the buffalo, begins 

 trying to tear his crate to pieces 

 Tex usually is first on deck P ' 



"What that fellow wants" he 

 says "is water. He's a wild one 



dSnk^t d ° n \ like his meals «d 

 drinks at regular hours. He wants 



what he wants when he wants if" ' 



,Z e u u a J ned t0 handle s^ck on a 

 ranch before he was 16. Then he 



ITnf thG NaVy and has bee * ^ sea 



chief"™- 12 ? em ' He sa * s hi « 

 chief ambition is to be a Govern- 



6St 1 ranger or ^ ame warden. 

 Every sailor, it seems, wants a 

 cnange— a job ashore, to hear them 



talk, I wonder how many would 

 take such a job if they could get 

 one. I asked Tex about that. 



head ^ grinned and shook his 

 He is a pretty competent man 

 at sea. He started out as second 

 assistant to Dr. Mann. I was first 

 assistant, and worked pretty hard to 

 hold my job. 

 Now I'm helping Tex! 



* * * # i 



Climate Bewildering. 

 This shifting climate — spring 

 summer and fall in two weeks-is 



traveler ildedng t0 an amateur 

 This morning, some 16 hours out 

 of Santos, and still a day from 

 Montevideo, I went on deck for a 

 pre-breakfast swim to encounter a 



The officers had changed from white 



wprp a ^u uniform \ a ^ d Passengers 

 were following suit. 



Already people are packing sum- 

 mer thmgs, yet it seems only yes- 

 terday the sun struck with blister- : 

 mg force-m fact, I'm still smart- I 



ing from my introduction to the 

 equatorial sun. The sun lived up to 

 all I ve heard about it, although the 

 Southern Cross (while we're on the 

 subject of astronomy) was a bit dis- 

 appointing-lopsided at this time of 

 year and not as bright as I had 

 imagined. 

 "But wait," the sailors sav, "until 



PaUonia r' C1 ° UdS ° f MageIlan from 

 Tomorrow: Arrival at Montevideo. 



Zoo Ship s Passengers 

 Are Eager to Reach 

 Buenos Aires 



Montevideo Stop Brief; 

 Dr. Mann Most Anxious 

 To Get Pets Ashore 



Bearing gifts for South Ameri- 

 can zoos, Dr. William M. Mann, 

 director of the National Zoolog- 

 ical Park, is en route to points in 

 Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay 

 to collect birds, reptiles and ani- 

 mals. Among those accompany- 

 ing him is William H. Shippen, 

 jr., feature writer of The Star 

 staff, who herp presents the 16th 

 pf a series of articles about Dr. 

 Mann's expedition. 



By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr., 



vStar Staff Correspondent. 

 S. S. URUGUAY AT MONTE- 

 VIDEO, Uruguay— We arrived here 

 at dusk tonight, in the midst of a 

 •gaudy sunset that dimmed, tem- 

 porarily anyhow, the glitter of the 

 city's lights — 

 and will shove 

 off in the morn- 

 ing before we 

 sight-seers get a 

 chance to do the 

 town. 



But a lot of 

 people on board 

 want to get on 

 to B. A— jour- 

 ney's end for 

 many. The Ar- 

 gentines have 

 been a long time 

 away from 

 home, and busi- 



nessmen are w. h. shippen, Jr. 

 anxious to get back on the job— 

 they have to be on their toes down 

 here, they tell me, what with plenty 

 of competition from abroad; 



Nobody on board will be gladder 

 than Dr. Mann when our ship pulls 

 into B. A. The welfare of his gift 

 collection for; the Zoo there has 

 been his constant anxiety since we 

 left New Y^offc just after midnight 

 Friday, April. *7— it seems a long 

 time ago. 



The young buffalos, including 

 Ferdinand, alias Wild Bill, appar- 

 ently will pull through O.K. — a bit 

 emaciated, perhaps, after* almost 

 three weeks in crates on a tilting 

 work deck, but still able to take on 

 nourishment. For a time it looked 

 as if we would lose Wild Bill, who 

 kept trying to buck himself over- 

 board, crate and all. He has.calmed 

 down, however, as he nears the end 

 of the journey. 



Four Gila Monsters Left* 

 h After giving three gila monsters 

 .fco the Sao Paulo "snake farm," Dr. 

 Mann still has four left, along witn 

 the bald eagles, the Texas red 

 wolves, the civet cats, binturang, 

 turtles, etc. He is making arrange- 

 ments from here to have them 

 , cleared through customs and quar- 

 antine and transported to the Zoo 



Another passenger who .will be 

 glad to get ashore at B. A. is Charles 

 Twist, formerly of Albany, N. Y., 

 who, since he was graduated from 

 Yale in 1932, has been knocking 

 'around down here with a gang of 

 prospectors— from Bolivia down the 

 Andes to the Argentine, working 

 for a great. North American min- 

 ing company. 



Young Twist (galled Oliver by the 

 passengers) is a sort of "stream- 

 , imed^ prospector, 1939 style. He 

 and his fellows— several score of 

 mining engineers not too long out 

 of colleges in the States— comb this 

 continent from the Amazon and its 

 tributaries to the lower reaches of 

 Patagonia, searching for minerals 

 in pay quantities . . . gold, silver, 

 tungsten, etc. 



They have discarded the burro— 

 that faithful companion of the old- 

 timer who said, "Thar's gold m 

 them thar hills, stranger"— in favor 

 of a Ford "tin goosey balso rafts on 

 the wild rivers, trucks, automobiles 

 and various other types of loco- ; 

 motion. * j 



The aviator who flies the young j 

 prospectors here and there— into 



homemade landing fields no bigger 

 than postage stamps, tucked away in 

 some mountain cove— is "Santa 

 Tinkapaw, formerly of New England. 

 Santa, as he is known up and down ! 

 the Andes and its foothills, won his 

 nickname by flying toys and gift 

 packages at Christmastime and 

 dropping them to isolated lighthouse 

 keepers along New England's "rock- 

 ribbed" coast. ■ 



"Santa," said Oliver, "can fly that 

 tin goose around a corner of the 

 Andes and set it down on a pocket 

 handkerchief. He also can fly it out 

 again. He can't go back and try 

 again if he misjudges things . . . not 

 on that kind of field!" . J 



Just now Oliver, and his friends 

 are prospecting for tungsten in the 

 foothills of the Andes, about 400 

 miles west of B. A.> in the province 

 of San Luis.. 



He flew up to Mo to meet his 

 mother anoV is returning with her 

 to B. A. She expects to visit him . in 

 the camp— just to make sure he 

 wears his overshoes and doesn't go 

 out in the rain without an umbrella. 



Oliver— from the way he greeted 

 his mother at Rio— doesn't seep to 

 mind a bit of maternal supervision 

 for a change. 



Tomorrow:; Arrival at B. A. 



