MAN OF A THOUSAND THRILLS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 6

MAN OF A THOUSAND THRILLS

, Floyd Gibbons. America’s dispenser of thrilling stories per medium of the \ newspapers, magazines and radio sta- | lions has been signed by Warner Bros. | to present a series of new short sub- ! j-cts to be known a. “Your True Ad- , i ventures ’ series. Each short is packed j with thrills, adventure and drama, and 1 is a portrayal of a true adventure that ■ has befallen some living person. Thousj ands of people all over the world have i j written to Gibbons telling of their most ! exciting happenings and the best of them will now appear in these Vitai phone featureties. Floyd Gibbons himself has had a ‘thrilling and adventurous careci. lie I was born in Washington. D.C.. 16th j July. 1887. Educated G . and Georgetown (D.G.) University. Sold 1 [newspapers when 1! during the Spanj ish American War. Got a job on his ; own on "Minneapolis Daily News" I ! when in his teens. His father, a public- j ity man. secretly had him fired, to keep ' him from being a "half-starved report- ! er.” Floyd didn't know why he got the sack —till years afterward! Floyd at j once travelled to Milwaukee and got a ; job on the Free Press. Then transferred i to the "Minneapolis Tribune.” He was successful but had the big city com- *

| pic:: and went to Chicago. Began years . cf exciting service for the "Chicago .Tribune.” Later was \vs ’ correspondent ' for “Tribune, "foreign director and edi- ! lor of Paris edition. War work began at BattU of Nacu on j Arizona-Sonora Frontier. Nineteen filI teen sent to Mexico to report Jack i John son-Jess Willard fight. When the ! fight tailed to come off. got permission ; to join Villa revolutionary forces. Ins strumental in the preliminaries that brought about the Pan-American Conference on Mexican matters. Accompanied General Pershing on his clash into Mexico. Wrot- scries of articles on poorly equipped state troops on Mexican border. Accompanied Gen- i era I Funston on his last inspection tour of American militia and regulars on the border and in Mexico. As London correspondent for the j “Chicago Tribune” in 1917 was a passenger on the S.S. “Lr eonia” which j was torpedoed and sunk two hundred I

i miles oil Irish coast. Was rescued alter many hours at sea in an open boat. Cabled four thousand w-ord account of the disaster in which American citizens lost their lives. War correspondent at the front in France in 1918. Wounded at ChateauThierry and loss the sight of one eye. Awarded French and Italian Croix de Guerre with palm. In I**23 made Chevalier of Legion of Honor. Has lived on the dangerous edges of hli for quarter of a century. Has bc.*n in China—Manchuria. For seven year* he has been a top American radio name on leading coast-to-coast programme* as news commentator and Headline Hunter. He has formed an Air Adventures' Club asking for persona) trua thrill and mystery stoiies from all wh» hear his broadcasts or read hi* widely syndicated newspaper thrill-page. He is known as "the man of a thousand thrills.”