heaped upon his 
Hi 
Roosevelt 
‘Relief’ to Isle 
Presents Supplies From 
Houston to Needy 1 2 
Inhabitants 
ASHINGTON TIMES, 
PRESIDENT GETS 
KICK OUT OF HIS 
“ORDEAL” 
Directs Neptune Rites 
At Equator Crossing 
ABOARD THE U. S. S. HOUS- 
TON, EN ROUTE TO ALBER- 
MARLE ISLAND, GALAPAGOS 
GROUP (VIA NAVY RADIO), 
July 25 (I.N.S.).— After more than 
a week of bickering, the pollywog j 
members of President Roosevelt’s j 
staff met up with the loyal mem- : 
bers of King Neptime’s realm to- 
day as the cruiser Houston 
steamed from Sullivan Bay, San 
Salvador Island, to Albermarle 
Island. 
There were plenty of charges 
against members of the presi- 
dential party, and Davey Jones as 
high ambassador for Neptunus 
Rex, saw thac justice was meted 
out today in accordance with 
sentences passed at the court- 
martial held la.^t night, soon after 
I he boarded the ship. 
EARLY CHIEF GOAT 
Stephen Early, secretary to the 
President, was one of the chief 
offenders under charges prepared 
by Senior Shellback Roosevelt and 
reported to Davey Jones. As a 
result, Early was meted out the 
“royal works” by Shellbacks. i 
Everything from the electric 
chair, stocks, operating tables, the 
“royal dentist’s” mouthwash and 
the tank was administered to the 
unfortunates who had never 
crossed the equator before, to- 
gether with good old-fashioned 
i swats from canvas beaters in 
hands of long rows of Shellbacks. 
ROOSEVELT DELIGHTED 
Mr. Roosevelt stretched himself 
under a canvas awning where, as 
Senior Shellback he could see the 
; proceedings and enliven it from 
'time to time as some especailly 
■recalcitrant Pollywog needed extra ^ 
discipline. He enjoyed rnany a 
hearty guffaw at the indignities j 
t Anchored in Sullivan Bay, wnere 
iProf. Charles Darwin first de* 
i veloped his theory of the evolution 
I of man during a visit aboard the 
Beagle in 1835, President Roosevelt 
slept a few miles south of the 
Equator last night. 
WHOLLY VOLCANIC 
At Tower Islands, Galapagos 
group. President Roosevelt was in- 
tensely interested in the report 
prepared by Prof. Waldo Schmitt, 
of the Smithsonian Institution, 
I which said: 
■ “There is no mistaking the 
wholly volcanic nature of the 
Galapagos. On every hand 
are craters of primary, second- 
ary, and lesser degree, fumaroles, 
cones, and vents, a graphic ex- 
ample of vulcanism to the nth 
degree. 
“Darwin thought there must 
be at least 2,000 craters of one 
sort or another. The Valley of 
Ten Thousand Smokes would 
suffer by comparison.” 
Roosevelt Arrive 
At Galapagos 
ABOARD THE U. S. S. HOUS- 
TON, EN ROUTE TO COCOS 
ISLE, July 26.— (By Navy Radio 
to the United Press)— President 
Roosevelt worked steadily at his 
desk today w^hile the U. S. S. 
Hou.ston carried him through 
tropical waters to an anchorage 
in Elizabeth Bay. Albemarle Island, 
largest of the picturesque Gala- 
pagos group. 
In his capacity as honorary 
chairman of the Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y., committee for the celebration 
of the 150th anniversary 'of the 
j ratification of the Constitution, 
iMr. Roosevelt sent personal greet- 
ings to his home county and to 
Poughkeepsie neighbors partici- 
pating in the observance today. 
The President decided to modify 
his cruise itinerary to reach Bal- 
boa, Canal Zone, at 4 p. m. August 
4, half a day earlier than origi- 
nally planned. 
fl- 
WITH PRESIDENT ROOSE- 
VELT, ABOARD THE S. S. HOUS- 
TON, CHARLES ISLAND, GALA- 
PAGOS GROUP (Via Navy Radio) 
July 27 (I.N.S.) . — The “business 
recession” in this South Pacific 
island felt the benefits today of 
the spend-lend recovery program 
after the “Presidential Yacht” 
anchored here for what was to 
have been a brief visit. 
Members of President Roose- 
velt’s party, together with some 
50 officers and men from the crew, 
explored the island by land and 
air. Tliey left the 12 inhabitants 
of the island, including two 
Americans, much richer. 
A group of volunteers, headed 
by Commander Daniel J. Callag- 
han, the President’s naval aide 
carried generous quantities of 
foodstuffs, newspapers and mag- 
azines and medical supplies up 
the steep mountainous trails, in 
response to the Pi'esident’s appeal. 
They found Heinz Wittmer, hu 
wife and family of three, and Mr 
and Mrs. Elmir A. Conway, ai 
American couple who put ou 
from the California coast some It 
months ago. The Americans told 
Commander Callaghan they had 
been struggling for an existence 
ever since their arrival here 10 
months ago. 
