Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 29, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THRILLING ADVENTURES © (Continued from Page One) site direction to a point farther than he ‘reached via~the west on his final voyage. So it was with Jack Harding. In 1919 he had flown across America from Atlantic to Pacific on what was known as the ‘“Round-the-Rim Flight.” And when the world flyers reached. the coast of Maine, they had crossed the traf] that Jack had helped blaze on his previous flight. ‘Therefore, when he reached Maine he’at’that moment could say he had been all the way round the globe by air. However, as to the charge that he parties and the Hardings were known far and wide for their princely hospitality. Most of the prominent people of the day, includ- ing statesmen, poets and pioneers ike Davey Crockett, hero of the Alamo, were entertained there. The finest traditions of the old south were upheld by the hosts at Belle Meade. After the civil war, the Hardings, lke nearly all of the other old aris- tocratic families of the south, en- countered vicissitudes. Parts of Belle Mead had to be sold and to- day sons of the new south in “plus fours” hunt the elusive golf ball in the blue grass where the ancestors “flew round from one woman's) of Jack Harding hunted buffalo and arms to another,” that rumor has} cetablished their Tenensee home. spread simply because “Smiling} Teut. John Harding, Jr., is the son Jack” has such a winning personal-| o¢ inventorand. cheinioetnaekes ity that everybod ywhere, Sin: | neer As a youngster he attended s tim out special attention}; small red brick country. school and affection. As a matter of fact.| house where, in his own words, he the only real sweetheart Jack Hard. jokin event iane? ing ever had up until the end of the mother harming ‘southern world flight was his mother. Since then—-ah,but that would be gettine ahead of our story. And surely it's not surprising that six handsome bachellors, after successfully carry ing out one of the most hazardous and daring feats in all history, family came from Vir- says that her lways wanted to know :what made the wheels go round and pre- ferred tinkering with alarm clocks to fairy tales. Before he was 10, he had the woodshed full of wheels, Jack should be even more sought after| rusty dynamos, and everything in than the Prince of Wales. Nor in| the mechanical line that he could that afventurous and romantic se-} put his hands on. Instead of buy- quel to the world flight did “Smil-| ing candy or other nick-nacks with ing Jack” shrink from his share of the hazard. But we will not go into the romantie tale of the world f'y ers’. triumphal post-fiight tour until we have gone with them around the globe. “Smiling Jack” Harding, Ifke all money earned doing chores, he would invest it in bits of iron, cop- per wire a always dreaming of the day when could build engines better than any one else. The soundest hiding Jack ever got of the other world flyers excepting] Was one day when he disassembled Lieut. Erik Nelson, comes of a long| his mother's sewing machine and line of ploneers who have played af scattered it all over the room just prominent part in American history, | when she was in a h to put the ‘This same Harding ily, through] finishing touches to a gown she another bfanch, produced the ldte| needed for a party that afterpoc President of th United States. One| Jack’s father thought that this w ot hig ancest was “Stonewall’| carrying the ec icity of ‘genius Jackson. We tave already seen how Lieut. Leslie Arnold made the acquaint ance of “Smiling Jack." When Ar- nold “took off’ from Dayton with Mr. Harding beside him, he thought hfs passenger merely a civilian who had succeeded In gettin, the air service to allow him to take a joy ride to Washington. But an Inci- dent occurred on the way that open- 4: Lieut. Arnold's eyes. In addition to himse!f and his passenger, Hard- ing, Arnold had two others along in the Martin bomber. They were the regular mechanics assigned to take care of the plane. While flying over West Virginia, thirty miles west of Moundsville, one engine started to tter om{nously, “Before Arnold ad a chance to spot a place to land id before the two mechanics could » anything, Lieut.. Arno’d was mmazed to see his passenger crawl out of his-cockpit and start tinker- ing with the engine in mid-air. ‘The. result was that engihe kept running until 4 landing could be made at Moundsville. The two mechanics immediately bustled about and after a few min- utes" inspection informed Lieut, Ar- nold that it would be necessary to stop overnight in order to give the motor a complete overhauling. “Beg pardon, leutenant,” interposed Mr. John Harding, ‘‘but if you like, I will fix your motor so that we can push on to Washington In a half hour. So saying he pulled on a palr of overalls and got busy. In less than thirty minutes he had that engine in order and the flight was resumed. Instead of being just an ordinary civilian, Jack turned out to be a man who had served two terms of that he might select any one liked to accompany him in the he w a step too far, ana althougn he was delighted that his son was able to put every thingamajib back where id batteries, and he was | (Copyright it belonged, that did not stay his hand when he ushered his son to the woodshed. Jack Harding not only was the first man to complete the circuit of the world by but he also has the distinction of being the first boy enlistment in the air service and] in the south to ever ride in an auto- j was still, employed as an aleplant mobile Tt vhslorgedtooaeitat bar motor expert at the aviation head-| ang was a Woods' electric. When quarters A PRIS. - it was, superceded by another model When Lieut Erik Nelson was told| tne original was turned over to Jack who took it to pleces and put it together many times, and thus Orleans, -he chose “Smiling Jack.’ gained his first real experience wit Nelson himself 19 one of tle best | Sine we era ae Oa AAHECIOD Ge ey aeronautical engineers in America gt antic Hadeslectatiiey hiner tn at After finishir de school in the self no small honor And intry, he went off to Webb Prep- proved that Nelson knew man. ‘atory t Belle ckle, Tenn., one From Seattle to Alaska, from the} f the most straight laced institu Aleutian islands across the Pacific, | UOns south of the Mason-Dixon line. ail the way across Asia and Europe There ‘© no dormitories at Webb, and the Atlantic Lieuts. Nelson and} 8"@ the boys live in te homes Harding flew without a single delay. |!" the vi Upon arrival at Their record until they landed back school, they are obliged to sign a on American soll was 100 per cent pledge promising never to go out perfect. There are few men in rk! America today who know more| There is no gym at Webb, and the about Liberty motors than 1k | boys are not even allowed to play Harding. match games with other schools. Maj. Martin and Sergt. Harvey tin, Greek, and algebra are the crashed into a mountain on the| mainstays of Webb. And when a Alaskan peninsula, Lieuts. Wade] boy finishes four years there—pro and Ogden came down in the north | vided he survives that long—he is Atlantic and the Boston went to the| not given a diploma nor even a ottom of the sea; and Lieuts. Smith | simple card to indicate that he has and Arnold were delayed by. engine graduated from any prep school trouble several times during the | Stall. To be sure he ts encouraged flight But Nelson and Harding | to go on to col but if he does, came through without trouble until] he gets no credentials or letter of obliged to make a forced landing| recommendation from Webb. He hetween Baltimore and Washington at the moment when they were on thelr way to be welcomed by Pres! dent Coolidge. The son of John Harding and Mrs. Roberta C. Harding of Nashville, Penn:, “Smiling Kk,” as he is familiarly known, was born on th second of June, 1896. All hi cestors on both sides of the fo riginally came from England. must take the entrante examina- tions for that college and stand of his own merit. Of course the re- sult of this is that Webb produces self-reliant young men. And young i Harding, who worked bis way through Webb cutting wood for the | classroom stoves, got as fine a prep | school training as this country has to offer Three summers during his prep Hardings were among the first fam.|rchool days he spent working as a ilies of Virginia to migrate west to] keysmith, opening locks for careless the blue ss country of Tennessee. ople who had Icst their keys. Later B the H plantat to work in a garage at near Nashville, was owned by four | earned enough money erations of John Harfings and | elf through course was one of the most famo tes |in mechanical engineering at Van- in the south in slave: Its | derbilt university where! he remain- pastures were once the h of |ed for two years. Then he capped great herds of t lo and a | this, with three months’ special work favorite Indian hunting ground in engineering at the Univerrity of When the early Virginia colonists ere lured west t Tennessee at Knoxvil'e and pushed the tales brought | off north to Detroit, where he be- back by explorers, tales of rich|came.a road tester for the Chal- lands, deep in blue grass, John Hard- | mers Motor company. His job was to ing was one of the pioneers. to|take new cars for their trial spin in ross the Alleghenies to what is now | order to locate rattles, squeaks, and Tennessee. He t t his 1 cabin | knocks and eliminate them. From near where the city of Nashville| there he migrated ,to the Dodge stands today. There he carved out plan, where he spent months jug- the vast Belle Meade plantatton | gling pound engines at) the rate which for generations remained one | of 160 of them a day. This gave him of the most widely known centera| arms and shoulders Ike the strcng of plantation life in all the south. ntan in the circus. And it was while lie Meade passed on to his son, | wit Dodge Brothers that he deve) Gene William Gi Hard'ng, fa t wt t gh fl 1 w e T t 1 t se fight the fury of the arcti. n o 00 a s of at threatened to wreck th a Meade was! world orut ff the Al Derticularly famous for its house * In A 1917. just as Jack was ‘GRIME AND NOBILITY” Pacific and Che Casver Daily Cribune = RO HONOR ROLL I Atlantic. Schraga, Gus. Sullivan, E. J. Stevenson, Charlotte. Sterle, Gus B. “Stout, C. 0. Switzer, Sam. Bjolander, E. A. Switzer, Bertha. Smith, Hartiett. Sparr, C. W. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Thomas, O. L. for a flight to Panama by, the navy W. Woolworth Company. Zeppelin Los Angeles, disclosed in Wilson, Theodora. Lakehurst by Read Admiral Moffett Warren Construction Company. | have brought up the possibility that Wyoming Building and Loan As-| the great ship may become the sociation. a means of revolutionizing long dis- Winslow, Lorainé B. tance air communication and com- Walsh, Edith M. merce,. : White, T. J. The Panama flight, as well as fs oc Dorothy. that to England mentioned by Ad- Younger, J. H. miral Moffett, is said at the navy Young, Harry L, departmént: to» be in a tentative Stage but it is one of the trips sug- gested by a special board whose re- Port now is in the hands of the Lakehurst officers for study and comment. The report sketched a suggestion ef a series of flights which might be of value in determining the ulti- mate peacéful use to be made of the ae District President _ Los Angeles in exploring the com- mercial] possibilities of Zeppelin air Of Scandinavian | Lutherans Coming routes from the United States, Of- ficers at the department do not feel that there is any obstacle to mak- ing, use of the Los Angeles for the Panama. flight although to establish any sort of a regular Zepfielin route southward would require an exten- sive hangar building program at the terminal points selected in Panama or elsewhere, In the course of a journey of this kind and with the extraordinary cruising radius the Zeppelin has demonstrated, it is thought that while in the vicinity of Panama the Los Angeles also could make flights over the nearest Pan-American cap- itals if tho offic'als of these govern- ments desired that she be thus ex- Carr, C. L. Coulehan, Helen. Curran, Frank M. Campbell, W. J. Coons, Lois. Crary, W. A. Casper, Wyoming Theater Co. Doudy, Lucille. . Duncan, Ninean. Duncan, Hugh. Dessert, Katherine. Dolan, Myrtle. Dorcas, Elizabeth. Evans, Wm. T. Ehlest, Agnes B. | Edwards, W. B. Feustemaker, D. C. Frederickson, Anne. Foley, M. J. Fergtson, G. L. Glenn, Hugh 0. Gross, C. F. Groom, Mike. Grand Grocery Company, Garrison, A. W. Goodwin, Lester E. Hil, Cc. 8. , Hinshaw, H. BE. Harman, Mrs. Ruby Lee. Henry C. B. Hayes, Dwyer. Hall, Jess. Tha, Harry Johnson, Thurmsa. Jewell, L. King, Alex B. Kamps, Gertrude. Keefer, John L. Kiker, Grace. Liebenstein, Chas. Lee, Homer J. Mokler,.A. J. Mulvaney, June. Midwest Commissary Company Malone, Mik Madison, C. J. ~Morvee, S.A. Dell Hanlon Is-.. Given Beating In Prison Bout CANON CITY, Colo., Nov. 29. Dell Hanlon, the filling station ban. dit, who last spring terrorized Den. ver with a series of holdups, escap. ing from police four times, the last time leading a jail break of 12 pris. oners, and self declared “hard boiled guy,” met his match here in the penitentiary where he is serving a life term. In a four round boxing bout with Thomas. J, Coleman, anothér prison. er, “Slippery Dell” managed to stay the route but was badly damaged and finished the final rouhd in « daze with one eye c’osed. The bout was the feature ono of 12 staged insid@ the prison walls as a part of the ‘Thanksgiving day celebration, Rev. N. Boe of Sioux Falls, S. D. president of the South Dakota di: trict of the Norwegian Lutheran church of America, will preach at Scandinavian Lutheran Sunday morning and evening. The raorning services, at 11 o'clock, will be con- ducted in the Norse language; the evening services, at\7:30, in English. Rev. Boe is a man with a message for our. times, direct, earnest, con- vincing, and inspiring. Those who heard him when he was here last spring will need no urging to hear him again. . Sunday school at the usual hour, 9:5 a. m4” A hearty invitation to the services of our church is extend- “PROUD MOTHER: * Photo shows, right to left: Mrs. Jasper Smith and Mrs. Roberta Har- ding, the mothers of Licu(s, Smith and Harding, as they appeared at Clover Fiell, Santa Monica, Cal. pointing to the ships carrying thelr heroic sons. Santa Monica was the officia! starting point of the great trip. (Copyright: Pacific and Atlantic.) flyers to actually complete the cir- cult of the globe by air. 4 When his first period of army. service ended in 1920, he re-enlisted for another year and served most of the time at Bolling fie'd, Washing- ton, D. C., and McCook field, Day- ton, Ohio, where he first became in- OMING MAP AND BLUE PRINT CO. Geologists, Petroleum Engineers Drafting,» Blueprinting, Maps, *Photeooeiiee 7 timately acquainted with Erik Nel-| Mathers, A. L. ed to all. Take Kenwood bus on| hibited, ; son, the man who was later to show | McLaughlin, E. McKinley aventie to Sixth street and| The trip to England would present All work confidential his great faith in him by select-] National Supply Co. walk balf a block to the right. none of the difficulties that might ing him for the round the world flight. When his second enlistment was up he retained his position with the air service as a civilian expert mechanic and when chosen for the world flight he was acting as: an assistant chief of airplane and en- gine maintenance at Dayton under Lieut. Nelson. Although he had always been. a mechanic and for’ somé timé~ had been a lieutenant in the air service reserve he had never been given an official opportunity of realizing his dream of becoming a’ full fledged birdman. But he did enough flying on the sly to earn him his wing: 1 before he even started on the world flight he*had a record of over 500 hours in the air,.most “of it cross country flying. However, just before the world cruisers hopped off from Seattle Jack was given an ex- mination, as a result of which he \\ 5 Atlantic.) about to return home to respme his ity work with the funds he had-earned in Detroit, America en the war and he immediately air service as a buck private. Instead of Uncle; Sam tak ing advantage of his mechanical gen his physique for the hardships of boots and spurs of an officer. How ever, his officers. eventually found out that he was just as good at re pairing thelr staff, cars hs he was at digging stumps and ladling out soup to the rest cf the rookies, He finaly got to the aviation mechanics’ train- ing school in St. Paul, Minn,, where | he made such a high record that he tior mechanician. His fight great flight was in 1919 came about in this way: Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon had been sent. down to, Langley field,, Va., to look after the repairing of a Mar: tin bomber. A group of mechanics had been vainly attempting to get the engine running and were just about ready to give up in despair when a powerfully built young #er- as we saw on that similar previous occasion when he met his future fe’ low circumnavigator, Lieut Leslie Arnold, Jack got the motor working a mental note of him as a mechanic worth remembering and a little later, when he needed\a man to help him round the rim flight,” he asked per- mission to take Harding aleng as his mechanic. The feat was attempted by a single Martin bomber under the command of Col. H. Hartz,-and across the continent to Puget Sound, on down the Pacific ccast from Can- ada to Mexico, and back to Wash- ington by way of the qult states Casper Dry Goods Co. The Maytag Shop Casper Mi & Pict Frame | tisk Pree tide thane trmitea Mteten Casper Gas Appliance Co. The Lee Doud Motor Co. Co. had eben eleadtad Casper Business College Mi a 9,000 m Jack was sent to Fort Og e-| side of his face when: he got up to pe ut on kitchen police f 2n altitude’ of 24,600, feet. mont rv transferred to Kelly} Jn sever pects Jack differs field, San Antonio, .T, where | from the othe! was given the rating of junior air- plane pilot, despite the fact that-he hod never had any official instruc- tion. Like Lientenant Leigh Wade he Jone considerable high nltitde work, and on one oc sion froze the world flyers. In ads after several more months’ scour-| aitién to his justly celebrated smile, ing pots and pans and engaging !n | which has gained him the nickname a rough and tumble fight with a cook] o¢ “smiling Jack," he has another he was demoted and put to digging | jhysical peculiarity. One of his eyes stumps. Here again Fate was fitting |is biue and the other is brown. But s does not detract one whit from the round . the .w fascination. He ts also unlike Jack did everything he could to|three of his fellow round the world get into the air 2 pilot, but once | flyers in that he never ran. away you are a buck private, it's a dlffi-|from home. In fact, his mother 4s cult thing to blossom forth in the] fack’s best pal, and when he, got he surprise of his life by being tn- vited to go on the world flight he at once put it up to his mother and-told her that he wouli not think oi ac- vepting unless she wanted him to go. But his mother was 4 good soldier and ‘urged him, to selze the oppor: unty, although her heart sank when she said it, because she, fully realiz- Because of his magnificent phy- sique, his magnetic personality, and that-infectious smile of his, Jack has been a favorite with the fairer sex in every land over which he&nd h fellow circumnavigators winged their, way. But his mother ts still his sweetheart, and she relates an anecdote In support of this: Shortly before Jack started on the world flight he returned to Nash- Cebitante, the belle of the town, who cooed softly and slipped her hand in- to his. ‘ “Sure—great,”’ Jack murmured ab- hanically “minded ever, got with a is, until he arrived as far the me miling Jack’ ourtship—that on the first flight, ever attempted in America after having flown all’ the way around the borders of | sround the world. the United States, known as “the |» But that’s ancther story, and we must walt until the end of our nar- rative to hear how America’s world flyers went from the conquest of the air to the conquest of the hearts. SHOGREN’S 112 North Center St. from November 30th to December 25th And it will be so-convenient and so sat They are the best in this cit prices are most:reasonable. And you can literally “shop at-ho was transferred to Wilbur Wright] oq the oxtremely hazardous nature A 3 2 e e field, Dayton, and first made # ser-|o¢ tie undertaking and knew that geant and given the rating of | just one small accident might pre- . f 1s mds (6) Z master electrician and ayla-| vent her seeing him again. in These Shop-o-scope Stores f sant “stepped up and. remarked: | ville for a vialt and one “evening “Ch It willbe so easy to “look through” the Shop-o-scope — that handy collection of ron oi asst SURE ESSA | tine RSA a Oe OL ‘Christmas Gift Suggestions” ads that will appear in the Tribune’s Classified Section —preat isfactory to do your holiday buyi th fn a few minutes and, with a epin|sently. “If I could just figure out: “ é y buying at e of the, propeller, arte it oft with | enders — manele ava ~"| __ Stores.and shops that you will find represented in the Shop-o-scope. to fame. Lietit. * Harmon made } hand away in pique. 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