THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF REVIEWS THE UNITED STATES FLEET, 
President Roosevelt and Admiral Claude C. Bloch standing on the bridge of the Houston as the cruiser passed 
the sixty-three men o’ war anchored in San Francisco Bay. 
(Times Wide World Photos, San Francisco Bureau) 
FOR GALAPAGOS 
Cruiser Leaves Clipperton 
With Refrigerators Full 
star. 19 ie 
By the Associated Press. • 
ABOARD THE U. S. S. HOUSTON, 
EN ROUTE TO PANAMA, July 22.— 
President Roosevelt’s vacation fishing 
cruise led him today toward the 
Cralapagos Islands, locale of one of 
the strangest mystery death stories 
ever to come out of the Tropics. 
A voyage of 1,300 miles lay ahead 
of the Houston w'hen she left Clip- 
perton Island yesterday, her refrigera- 
tors overflowing with fish the Presi- 
dent and his party caught in a five- 
hour expedition. 
Also aboard the W'arship was new 
information concerning the location 
of Clipperton, 675 miles off Acapulco, 
Mexico, but 1 mile southeast of its 
present charted position, according 
to observations taken by Capt. G. N. 
Barker, commander of the Houston. 
Specimens of the volcanic island’s 
bird, animal and marine life were 
gathered by Prof. Waldo Schmitt of 
the Smithsonian Institution w'hile 
presidential"^ 
CRUISE NEARS 
GALAPAGOS IS. 
‘Pollywogs’ Face Trial 
At Equator 
ABOARD THE U. S. S. HOUS- 
TON, ENROUTB TO GALLAPA- 
GOS ISLANDS (Via Navy radio), 
July 23 (I.N.S.).— Far off ocean 
shipping lanes, the cruiser Houston 
carried President Roosevelt and 
his party toward Galapagos Island 
today. 
It was another day of rest for 
: the President and his staff, marred 
jfor the “Pollywogs” only by the ex- 
pected arrival of “Davey Jones”' 
special ambassador to King Nep- 
tune as the ship neared the equa- 
j tor. 
the President fished, and three Navy 
planes surveyed the island and sur- 
rounding waters from the air. 
The weird death story of the 
Galapagos, lying along the Equator 
500 miles west of Ecuador, involves 
a supposed paradise once ruled by a 
German baroness. 
In 1934 the bodies of two men, 
who had died of thirst, were found 
on bleak Marchena Island, one of the 
Galapagos group. 
They were idem 
Rudolph Lorenz, forr 
a Norwegian sailor r 
Lorenz was known 
a colony of Charle 
by the Baroness Elr 
Subsequently, it 
baroness and a r 
Philipson, who p( 
shed some light c 
tery, sailed one 
Seas, never to b 
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Roosevelt Hails Davey 
Presidential Cruise Party ® 
Enjoys Equatorial Initiation I 
ABOARD U. S. S. HOUSTON, EN ROUTE TO GALA- 
PAGOS ISLANDS (VIA NAVY RADIO) July 23 (I.N.S.) . 
“Davy Jones,” special ambassadoi' to Neptiinus Rex, king of 
the deep, boarded the “Presi-' 
dential Yacht” today to prepare 
for the visit of his majesty sched- 
uled for early tomorrow. 
President Roosevelt, after per- 
sonally greeting the aged mon- 
arch’s ambassador, watched the 
members of his staff, who had 
never before crossed the Equator, 
take the first portion of their in- 
itiation into the Ancient and Hon- 
orable Order of Shell Backs.” 
Many a hearty laugh was in- 
dulged in by Mr. Roosevelt as he 
watched the “Pollywogs,” dressed' 
in nondescript garments ranging! 
from full dress to barest scanties,' 
man the rail in watch for “Davyi 
Jones.” 
“Royal Bears” and “Royal Po- 
licemen” stood guard over the un- 
fortunates, forcing them to per- 
form ludicrous acts. 
Tonight, the President took a 
leading part in the maritime court- 
martial. 
MANY INDIGNITIES 
Those members of the staff and 
crew who had never before crossed 
the equator, or who failed to bring 
their certificates along, were 
forced to undergo many indignities 
during Iasi night and today. 
They face acid tests tonight 
when it is expected “Davey Jones” 
will make his delayed appearance. 
Clad in garments of every de- 
scription from full dress suits to 
scanties, they set a watch on the 
maindeck to welcome “Davey” 
aboard. 
President Roosevelt took time 
off from his study of two volumi- 
nous Government documents to 
prepare special charges for which 
members of his staff will be tried 
before King Neptune’s special am- 
bassador at the maritime court- 
martial. 
Half of the voyage from Clip- 
perton Island to Galapagos had 
been covered early today and 
ships’ officers were confident 
they would have the President at 
the famed island group Sunday 
afteiuioon at 1 p. m. (P.S.T.). 
OFF BEATEN TRACK 
Except for the Houston’s con- 
voy, the destroyer McDougal, not 
a ship nor scarcely a sign of civ- 
ilization has been sighted since 
the presidential party left Cape 
San Lucas, last Tuesday evening. 
The vastness of this area of the 
Pacific, the desolate sea-ravaged 
islands, best tell the story of how 
far behind the President has left 
the beaten tracks of commerce 
and the habitable regions of this 
hemisphere. 
And yet, as the President pointed 
out today: 
“Our separation from home 
is but physical. Modem com- 
munication makes it possible 
I for us, in less than five min- 
i utes’ time, to hear from Wash- 
ington or let Washington hear 
from us.” 
