Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 10

| Near Tragedy | ) Delays Flight y Vorld Aviators Mark Time for Two Long Weeks in Far North While Search for Martin Is Continued Y LISTEN. SUNSHINE” “HERE-s . ‘Neu THar NAG | S525 cowit tr au SSPARK PLUG" 15 ie cous Se eo SLOWER THAN A NEW. WOR! bas . ~tF GONNA LET You Keep BOSC LONER Py tT For Me =rM ca a@rRAIO I MIGHT ~g GET HELD UP ~~ {2 — GE CAREFUL By LOWELL THOMAS. re Pyright, By the Chicago Tribune Newspapers Syndicate and the Moc- . Clure Newspapers Syndicate) For two weeks the flyers waited on the barren island of nalaska, hoping that Martin and Harvey would soon g) ‘atch up with them. Here, while the “willie-waws” e} \owled, the boys had an opportunity to see something of sy ife in one of the most remote places under the American 5y '28- Between hunting and fishing trips, waiting eagerly oF radio messages from the ships the way along the coast from Sew: iat were out searching for the lost ef ard, they were nothing compared ve Viators, playing tennis in the snow,| with the ‘willie-waws’ here in the ari ttending an all night Easter service Aleutian islands. I suppose they a: , no the little Russian church at Un caused by the cold winds from the a /aska, and protecting their planes | Arctic ocean coming in contact wit? pr "Om the gales,.they wrote their! the warmer breezes of the Pacific ot}, ("St Jong seseer Fcacclete Del ‘Fusee At any rate, to protect themselves e :| from them, the c = abrador and Greenland are the} isiands aitivas pCLSSUTDIEe waa Ves, WELL soon SUES Sonnet Weles th ‘eakest and most inhospitable places | arth called “barraboras,' or if they CONE OUT FILTV DIDNT GET Thacr nu | fhe World,” wrote Henry Ogden. | have enough money, they build WITR LUCRE oR WINDFALL, WALT, ay -nO_was flying wi sigh Wade in| houses and hold them down by | CLEAN AS A INSTEAD OF OLS By 26 Boston, “Bu n't see how) means of cables thrown over the ° KITTEN. all 207 aiee m aa a roofs and anchored to the ground. ese Jeutian islands uman ows ©® .gs don't live up here, they merely We are all living in the home a ea rete on the edge |0t Mr. Strauss, a white trader, who otat Ah, the ice drifts | DUYS fox skins from the Aleuts, and wn into the North Pacifie from ives them the stmple necessities of s% se north pole. There are no trees, | fe in return. The only living thing fo} nd except for smoking volcanoes, |!" these remote islands are the half- ju here is no shelter from the winds|>Teeds descended from the original Md iat sweep down from the Arctic| Aleut tribesmen and the old Rus- th ‘cean. sian fur traders, reindeer imported s€ Aleutian “Willle-Waws” Terrible. | {t0™ Lapland that the natives have Wt “Although we met ‘willle-waws' all| owed to rurn wild, and arctic birds and animals such as the ptar- a migan, the auk, the fox, and the | giant Unimak bear. In the waters B all around us here live schools of Ph q ean, fighting, humpbacked whales, | Dont t: which when harpooned race through th the water with the speed of a sub- to hide marine, There are also a few sea skin trouble- otters, but they are nearly extinct, and neither the native nor the white ¥ man {s supposed to kill them. Oc. ~» Getriad fF tt/ castonally an Aleut paddling between iflands in his skin kyak will arouse team! TO amount ot cosmetics eancon- |a dosing herd of nea Hons. ei eens preyed roe Woatead ceal an ugly skin, They only Volcanoes Se us ealiats iy neta Sher. cay attered About. lk® Bogosolof which on several oc- “There are two villages here casions has erupted and reappeared eq pndition worse. Resinol Soapelean- | putch Harbor on thia ialend of Wine again as if by ‘magic. , te °s the pores, giving them a chance | jaska, one 1s called Duteh Harbor,| This, little arm of Bering sea ob breathe and throw off clogging | where the wireless station and ofl] where our planes are anchored, is wi npurities—the first step inovercom- | tanks are, and the other is the na-|one of the finest. land-locked ha: t®ig skin defects. tive settlement at Illifllyook, where | hors in the world. Mr. Strauss tells A touch of Resinol Ointment for |the old Russtan-Greek orthodox | us that these islands have seen many Wrlotches and inflamed spots, relieves | Church and Mr. Strauss’ trading post| strange sights, but none quite, as obie soreness and reduces the angry |®*@ located. All whaling ships on| strange as when we. came diving ta .ok. The soothing, healing medica. |the!r.way to the Arctic ocean make|aown out of the alr. This of course t0 on in the Resinol products makes it |‘M" thelr headquarters. Steamers | is the first time that airplanes have sh, easy to get rid of excessive oiliness, |"°'7% t0 and from Nome, Alaska,|ever been , here. But nothing thlackheads, blotches, redness, etc., |in¢ Fuset Sound pass: this way. | strange seems to astonish these lac t@ hy waste time trying to hide them. | L2® ,co#st Suard cutters that pro-| adaisical half-breed Aleuts—not even Be ne to ee Eien | tect the vast seal herds on the Prib-|the eruption of a volcano, the dis- th “Restnol wins by improving skins ilof islands, just a little to the north | appearance of an island, or the ar- tr of us, in Bering sea also stop here rival of white men through the air. frequently. Last night I: picked up a copy of “These islands are volcanic in or!.| Service's poems on our host's tab! gin and on nearly every island there id_in it read few lines that BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG °* ie 411 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1 ; » + “Thar crack Nov MADE ur SPARK PLUG? nere's "53 2S coro CASH Youre ALL - By Billey De Beck on the other side, where we could change our motor with ease. “That afternoon we built tempo- rary runways on the beach so we could haul-the other planes out of the water where the willie-waws deck of cards.” Gale Floats All Planes. Les Arnold tells in his diary on the night of April 24 the ‘would not have so much chance to} were all sitting around in the ward- damage them, and where we could|room of the “Haida” when a guard tie them fore and aft. We put them/came in with the news that near the revenue cutter, so that our|pjgnes were all afloat. ‘Haida’ friends could turn their u them every five out of the way, even at high “These coast guard féllows have been wonderful to us. They simply {gave us their whole crew and have the boards went flying off one by one just like you would deal out a beach and thought they were safely Mi il {{ i I temperature that night wes nearty down to zero. A rope fell overboard from one of the planes, and while how | Several of us were debating as to boys | whether or not it was worth while going in after it one of the crew from the ‘Haida’ jumped overbeard the|into the icy water, swam areund until he found it, and then brought "We had dragged them up on the|{t up to us. When we got back to the trader's house that night we tide.| were so cold that we conldn’t un- But a gale had suddenly swept in| button our clothes. from the Arctic ocean and the waves had dashed so high up on the beach that they broke all of the planes | loose from where we had lashed them down. That was a night we}way here via Chignik. With a will not forget soon. It was es] good luck now, for a change, We and “April 25—Smith has just recetved word from Maj. Martin that. his plane has been repaired and that he has qt last left Portage bay om his ipment and machine shop.|dark as the nethermost pit. It was| Harvey ought to be with us within a has impressed us most | snowing like the dickens, the wind] day or so, and then we will be off been the spirit of the crew| was howling, and the waves were|to Japan.” the officers. The enlisted | booming on the beach. Every ve not been doing things be- | bodied man went out with us to the ; able- hey were given orders, but|rescue, including 130 sailors, the are just because they wanted to. Welten officers from the ‘Haida,’ and ur have all said mee times that we|the six of us. We had no lights ex- the wholesome spreed 4 Z NEW WORLD FLIGHT COMMANDER. would give a lot if we could only|cepting small pocket flashes and for bread th we es When Maj. Martin's plane crashed into a mountain ridge tm Alasica,| have the ‘Haida’ all the way around|the searchlight from the cutter, | Lieut. Lowell Smith assumed command of the world flight The | the world with us. which reached out into the gloom March 17, 1924, and at the right as he appeared cling the globe. The difference is marked. struck ‘me as being rather appro. priate and which run like this: ‘There are stran things done men who moll for There are Arctic tr secret tales that would make your blood run ec And of all the heard here, the mr search. . S we have i : e:orreacmnraAre laska, we found Capt advance man, Wa From “His” Store sf ia _ Nothing will please a man ENT SS A OS i TA more than to get his Christ- ‘ ‘aroha AS mas gifts from the store that is “his” store every day of the year. If it’s apparel he wants you will find the right selection here. Bathrobes....... Dress Gloves............,...-,-$2.50 to $5.00 : Silk Dressing Gowns...,..$20.00, $25.00 Mince ieee Rio Ari Give Bilious, Constipated Child Sport Sweaters.....$7.00, $8.00, $10.00 Collar Bags $2.00 to $8.00 Neckwear ... -$1.00 to $3.00 Smoking Jackets svsasers 8.50 : Mufflers, Silk, Wool and Silk and Wool.................... $3.00, $4.00, $5.00 “California Fig Syrup” ry Hurry Mother! A teaspoonful of | never cramps or overacts. Contains |the street when we heard a clanking California Fig &yra wil} no narcotics or soothing druga. and here came a big iron drum. svreeten the stomach thoroughly Tell your druggist you want only} We jumped out of the way and it clean the little bowels and in a-few| the genuine "California ‘Fug Syrup’ | rolled on until it crashed into a e hours you have a well, pleyful ehild| which has directions for bables and| fence. The first woolie hit a big pile aguin, Even if croes, Soverivh, bil-| children of all ages printed on bot-]2f lumber on dock that had recent- | lous, constinated ¢ 1 of Gold. | Ue | children love vb tt [this gertle harigicss | lagatly ie) Adv, photograph at the left sbows him before he hopped off at San Diego, on his return after cir- the coast guard cutter, Haida, until the day that Martin and Harvey neath the midnight sun by the| Were lost, when along with every “About 5 o'clock the first morn- t horrible are|ing after we artived, an Aleut dash-|the fiight from here on across the those of how the early Russian fur|ed in with the news that a “‘willie-| Pacific and over the Kurile islands traders made slaves of the Aleuts,| waw' had driven one of the planes| will be the worst stage of our whole tortured and killed the men, and car-| from its original mooring place and | trip.” ried the women'off into the Arctic| that it was adrift. Smith and Nel- on their whaling ships. It is one|son raced out without stopping to of the Blackest iuges in history. awake the rest of us. and found Movie Man on Job, that the ‘Boston’ had been carried “When we arrived here at Una-|nearly across the bay. There was|sea is so rough up at Portage bay , our/a big freighter called the ‘Brook-/that so far it hasn't been possible us, and] dale’ unloading coal at Dutch Har- | fo} also a Pathe movie man from Seat-| bor and with the aid of some of|{which Smith had sent up to him on tle. Although we stayed at the|their tackle they towed our plane|the Algonquin. So the major and home of the trader, m f the | alongside and then hoisted her clear| Harvey are having nothing but time we took our meals on board’ up over the Brookdale to the dock| tough luck. Thé ‘Brookdale’ is leav- Mother, you must say "Cal of | fornia. Refuse any fmitation,- All of the islands over going to fly from here on are abso- lutely. barren, and we must leave nothing undone, because if anything and wading around in the water. they were swept out Into the Some of us got in right up to ficult circumstances so far, the gen- eral opinion of everyone whom we encounter here in the north is that ; Busy Writing Letters. , April.21: “A radio has just come through from Maj. Martin -seying that sthe for him to get the motor ashore ing for Seattle in a few days, so we are all spending our spare time in HARMLESS LAXATIVE | writing letters. The planes are right q 5 All Children Love Its alongside of a big pile of coal, and one of these damnable willie-waws came ‘zipping down the mountain this morning and blew soft coa] over all of them. Although we attempted to wash the coal dust off the wings with hot water, it would freeze as fast as we could get it on, and we couldn’t even rinse the soap off, so we had to rive it up: We will all be mighty glad to get out of this land of the willie-waws, or woolies, as some people call them. But when we do, I suppose it will simply be a case of flying on into the typhoon belt, then through the monsoons 6f India, and the simoons of Persia and Arabia. ri "So far thie world flight has just been one windstorm after another. Yesterday the williewaws put on a special show for us. It had been perfectly calm for hours, when all of a sudden the wildest and woollest one we have seen came rushing down the mountains at from fifty to seventy-fivé miles an hour. After it had “blown for a few minutes then another one came along from an entirely different direction. The second oné struck the water, picked up a big sheet of it, and carried it right acrosé the bay. A boat lying on shore pened to be in the way and went rolling end over end. There were a lot of empty iron barrels on the dock, and it scattered them in every direction. Arnold and I happened to be walking down ty been unloaded and which they hadn't as yet had an opportunity to tle down. When the gust hit it : e,|and helped us for a moment before Sy iekataio this asigeamacte reece ieexeoved, on. to ecme other paint: Tat bg babe ital oe We were all rushing about wildly ing to get hold of the planes before goes -wrong our chances will be} necks, in the icy water, and worked ia other vessel in these waters she|rather slim. Although we think we} for two hours and a half, from 10:20 that have} went up the coast to help tn the|have flown under some fairly dif-| until an hour after midnight. -wide government. Lecture will be try- mage from hi; le coconut vay.1$ Fetined peanut of and milk- that’s al The ee ee PICTURES World Dominion Being Transferred Millions Now Living Will Never Die The rapid changes of government among the nations seem only to check temporarily their steady ap- proach to utter collapse. Thrones are toppled over to make way for military dictators. Many officials of republics serve onl: the selfish interests of big bust. ness; and instead of an improve- ment of affairs, each new move leaves the nations weaker. Suf- fering is increased; lawlessness be- comes rampant; and hopelessne: is followed by despair. ss 4 This march of the nations toward destruction and anarchy moves onward relentlessly, Armaged- don, which nations seek to avert by their union, leagues, associa- tions, and federations, looms up threateningly. Yet man need not entirely despair. This troublous period of earth’s history was fore- told as immediately preceding the hew order—a righteous world- accompanied by beautiful art-col- ored scenes. M. L. HERR» OF NEW YORK, N. Y. LECTURE Court House Friday, Dec. 12th 7:30 p.m. nee Free No Collection ERNATIONAL BIBLE 5 DENTS ASSOCIATION. — rx