Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 19

‘SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1924 AY FLYERS IN DASH FOR JAPAN (Continued from Page One) ly rough ayd Jack and Hank met with a rather wild adventure when they went out in a rowboat to fix the lanterns. “The planes were lined up, the Chi- cago closest to shore, then the Bos- ton, and finally the New Orleans. The wind was blowing out from shore, and the boys thought their safest plan would be to row out to the New Orleans, then turn aroynd into the wind and work back slow- ly to each plane. But within the space of a few seconds a willle waw came along and the wind increased in velocity from about twenty to fifty miles an hour, Not being _ex- pert oatsmen, they found it tmpos- sible to maneuver the boat. First it would dip away down into the water on one side and then on the other, They found the only way they could keep from capsizing was to pull in the oars and sit right in the middle of the beat. In this way they were driven forim mice and a half right across the bay, where the boat smashed into the rocks in the dark. Jumping dut, Jack and Hank waded fy water. up to thelr necks,, pulled the battered -boat on to the: beach, turned it upside down, and then walked back-to the shack through a driving rainstorm. ‘Meanwhile, when they had not re- turned, and when we saw no lights burning on the planes, we became alarmed and were all out on the beach trying to find out what had happened. Aleuts a Lazy Crew. “At first we hired the village chief's son and his buddy to stand guard over the planes. One would stay out in the rowboat for a few hours and then the other would take his place. At any rate, that was what they were supposed to do, But at night, when they thought we wouldn't know, they. would come ashore and sleep on the beach. For doing almost fothing we had to pay them $10 a day. My bunk happened _ to be in the attic and with a couple of pieces. of wood I rigged up a sort of trangle thingamajig similar to what ‘surveyors use. I had arrang- ed the planes so that they were ex- actly in line, and by means of my triangle I could wake up at any hour of the night and by merely rolling over, I could take a sight and see just whether one of them was adrift » and whether the chief's son was on ) the job-*I didn’t trust him, so I *~ used to wake up about every hour. Finally he and his buddy decided that this was much too hard work, . anyhow. “Just to give you an idea of how lazy these Aleuts are, Mr. Nye, the school teather, had a cow that save far more milk than he could ever use. So he offered {t to the na- tives, but they were ‘too lazy to even come and get it. We had much the same exper‘ence with them. At the bottom of our gasoline drums there was always considerable sed'ment, | which meant that we could not-use quite all of the gas in our planes. What remained would have been ex cellent jfor the chief's motor boat. But would he come nd carry it away? tor eur W ns Discovered: Islands, nd 3 ¢ age when overed these arch of th iit gl who wire , hunter lived tn pease and contentment, rid maltreated ‘them: IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT But the savage Rus- |) thousand left. Uncle Sam has treated them far better and not only has sent them school teachers but has helped them build homes. The Island of Atka boats of @opula- tion of this one lone white man, Mr. Nye, and seventy-nine natives. Nye, like his predecessors, hi ed them huild houses with surpris- ingly clean lttle yards and gravel walks, However, the Aleuts have thelr redemming qualities. For in: starice, Mr. Goos, the trader, leaves th’s fully stocked store wide open. The natives simply walk in and take }, what they want off th ives. The commodities are a!] staple articles of which everyone knows the price, end they either drop the cash in the open drawer or writo down on a slip of paper what they. have taken. They seem as honest as daylight, “Almost the only trade in the is- lands ts in fox skins. Sometimes the Aleuts get’ slightly bolshev'stic and demand and advance both in wages and in. return for their skins. But when they.do. this, the traders simply raise the price of the things that the natives buy in return. So it doesn’t do them any €ood when they do get their advance, Fuel for’ Next Jump. “On Ma¥ 6 the coast guard cutter Haida steamed in and with the help of her men and boats, we fueled the planes.” Capt. Bissell lad brought the drums of gasoline here some weeks ahead of us and stored them on the beach, It was necessary for us to take a whale boat as‘close in as she would go, then run planks from her to the shore, and wade in the water up to our waists in ordei to roll the“drums down the planks. There was a stif? northeast wind blowing and a choppy sea which would frequently break over the whaleboat and drench all of us. Be- ing wet and cold had by now be- come a sort of daily habit with u: “To our bitter disappointment, the Haida brought in no good news re- garding Martin and Harvey. All they knew was that when last seen, the Seattle was flying toward Black lake and Berjng sea. But we had not given up hope because we felt that they had enough emergency ra- t'ons to keep them alive for about two weeks, and we were sure thi the coast of the Alaskan peninsula had not yet been thoroughly comb- ed.” “On Tuesday, May 6,” according to Les Arnold's diary, “the planes were all ready to go on to Attu, but Maj. Blair on board the Eider at the latter island, reported unfavor- ably on the weather. So we all spent the day hunting ducks, crows and eagles. The ducks are so tame and_so seldom hunted by the BAK-A-TONE Your Car IT LASTS Wide Variety of Colors CASPER AUTO TOP SHOP 633 S. 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After he ‘got tired of ‘around with us he would the volcano. % the boys or the revenue here makes life worth living. | as fine @ lot as we have ‘exer ‘met. eee _ “May'9—Eggs Vienna for break- as usual. I doubt if there are ™many who have enjoyed this rare breakfast dish. The recipe, however, ts a deep secret, which ‘Silent’ Smith has just confided t& me. To prepare eggs ‘Vien’ you first bring your water to a boil, then you drop in your eggs, leave them for two min- utes, and; presto! you have eggs Vienna. .Take-Of Proves Dangerous. “We were up at dawn this mofn- ing, hoping that we might ‘be lucky enough to get. report from Mi: through. In leaving) Atka harbor we had to take off ‘ wind," coming in toward the shore. Erik wi just as his ship left the water he saw a. willie waw whirling toward him. Realizing that at that altitude it might easily dash the plane back intg’the water and“wieck it, he at- tempted to turn ‘in ordér to get. out of its path. “He avoided it partly, but it hit his tail, and as he turned the ship was settling rapidly. For- tunately, by” perfect. piloting, he managed to get straightened out again before hitting the water. When the New Orleans touched the waves she must have-been going fully ninety miles an hour, so fast it looked as though the waves would fairly sweep off the pontoons. “It's at times like this, when you only escape. being wrecked by. the skin of your teeths that you live a whole lifetime in the space of a few seconds. But there was one ny thing about this incident. The pon- toons had been leaking, and we all down J jumped out of us on our way across the Pacific to Japan, of sight of land part of the time This ‘gave us an ‘opportunity check. our compasses, and it was a relief to find that we never got off the’ course. 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