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Fliers Prepare For Jump Over Pacii Aviators Spend Last Few Days Previous| ‘tc Ocean to Pacific Jump.at Extreme End of Land on Aleutian Islands By LOWELL THOMAS. Copyright, By the Chicago Tribune Clure Newspapers’ Syndicate) Newspapers Syndicate and the “Mc: “During our first days away out here on the island of Attu, the most westerly bit of land connected with the American continent, Bureau _of Fisheries boat, Jack” Harding in his diary. ing Captain Paul Beck, Smith, Nelson, and Wade, while other three of us have been s'ceping down in the fo'csle. Captain Beck, incidentally, is one of the staunci est.friends we have had. His long years of seafaring experience, com- bined with the intense enthusiasm he has shown over our adventures, has often saved us from serious trouble. Eor instance, in several places where we wanted to attach 20® pound: anchors to the planes, he Mmsisted on putting down 400 pound ones, and in each case his superior judgment has saved us from having the ships torn from their moorings and driven out to sea by the woolies. “Saturday, May 10—These Aleu- t islands can surely boast of fully 98 per cent atrocious weather. Since ‘we have been down here, life has just been one round of getting soak- edand then getting thawed out, and so on ad infinitum. | “Here in Attu when the-barometer starts to fall, it frequent:y goes away down to 8.45, the lowest I have ever seen it. Our old friends, the willie-waws, have been performing for us again today and, if anything, they have been the worst that we have ever seen them. Pry that's saying a lot, They made sea 50 rough this morning that we couldn't even balance ourselves on our planes and we had tohust-e abroad the Elder. Here on Captain Beck's steamer, we were only about a hun. dred yards from the planes. Each time a willie-waw hits us, the litte Effer leaned way over. And each time this happened, we all rushed to the port-holes expecting to see at least one of the planes blown away. Donald: Douglas certainly did a mar- ‘yelous job when he built these world cruisers. When a wilie-waw hits them, Instead of hopping up and down as you would expect them to do, they simply seem to push their noses into the wind and hold on tight to the waves. We have spent the whole afternoon dashing back and forth to the portholes, expecting to s¢e the planes torn from their |, Thanks to Captain Beck, they were moored secure enough to ride out-every gust that has come so far. 4 . “May 11]—While dozing this morn- ing, I heard some of the members of the crew of the Eider conversing in low tones about the Major and Har- vey having been found. For a time I heard was real leaped out of my when it dawned on me that what I heard was reall leaped out of my unk wtih a bounce. It seemed al- most too good to be true. But the boys told me that Port Moller had Groadcasted the sudden arrival of the lost crew of the Seattle last night that the Haida had caught the mes- sage and tried to re‘ay it to us, and that they had only succeeded in picking up the Elder at 5 o'clock this morning. Well, it's great news. and we are all mighty relieved. Although ‘Washington ordered us to proceed with tae flight, and although we bad done everything possibie to aid in the search ‘by getting every beat in these waters to scour the shore of the Alaskan peninsula and by ~get- ting men with dog teams to comb the interior, we all hated the idea of go- ing on before the search. was over. ‘The rough weather and obstacles the rest of us have encountered seem insignificant to us when we think what the Major and Harvey must have gone through. They have had enough trouble and hard luck to make up for all the rest of us the re- mainder of the flight all the way round the globe. : One Sixth of Trip Over. ‘This is still another day of rain and woolies. The cutter Haida has just arrived off the island, but the harbor entrance is too treacherous for @ boat of her size, so-she is re- maining outside in the open sea. Im- ly after anchoring, she! sent ‘one of her boats to confirm the glor- ious news that Martin and Harvey are safé at Port Moller Cannery. All along we have fe't that they would surely get back alive: Even after a week had passed we lost none of our confidence, but after ten days, and then eleven days, we began to grow more and more uneasy. We. have missed them more than we can say and it’s mighty tough that. they are not here to’push on with us. Al- though we have flown over a lot of wild country, away out here at At- tu we are only a littel more than a sixth of the way around the globe. So who can foretell what adventures may be awaiting the rest of us from here on; At any rate whatever those adventures may be, we are looking forward'to them and anxious to get on. ‘Not only is Attu the uttermost point of America, an island way out here on the edge of nothing, but its inhabitants ‘are of the lowest breed of human. life belonging to, North America: The population of Attu is exactly fifty-nine all. Aleuts. The day we arrived, there was no one here in Chicagoff excepting twenty- four women and girls and one cro- chety old patriarch. Leigh being the shiek of the party, we have renamed the town ‘Wade's Paradise,’ in his honor. Natives Live in Caves. “The harbor is well sheltered with mountains all around it, extinct vol- conoes of course. The village consists of three wooden shacks and # num we have been living on board the litt] the “Eider,” wrote i “ “Three of the officers, includ- lave curned-their bunks over to nos, native huts which the Aleuts burrow !n under the sur- face of the ground. The roofs are made of dirt and sod and sort of ha'f domed shape. Each barrabos has one lone window and from six to eight people live down there in a space about eight by ten feet. Here they cook, eat and sleep and each of these Aleut caves, designed to protect the inhabitants from the willie-waws, {6 abrolutely air tight. We all thought we would like to visit one. Les, be- ing a bold sprit, opened the door and the rest of us started to walk in, but the alf was stifling. We stm- Ply couldn't breathe, se we beat a hasty retreat and did the rest of ex- amining of barrabos by long. dis- tance. Leigh {s the only one of us who has been invited to dine with them. But not caring for fish he has declined. “These curious native huts at Chi- cagoft look more like storn cellars than like places where people live. The cramped quarters down there under the ground are divided into two tiny Httle rooms. The first one is filled with clothes, harpoons, jerk- ed meat, dried fish, and all sorts of odds and ends. The partition between this and the livingroom’ is usualy a curtain made of skins. There the old Aleut women with thelr wrink- led, weather beaten faces squat weaving baskets and making gar- ments out of hides, “Behind the rest, on heaped up skins, + : The oldest hag crouched on her shins. ; Her teeth were worn down to her gums. And rawhide thongs had scarred her » thumbs, She rubs it with her greasy claws Until} each soft and moistened shred Becomes a long and pliant thread, Rubbed‘round upon her cheek.” “Holl Up” on Baskets ¢ “These Attu baskets are world mous and ao few of them are that they are both rare and n- sive. The traders urually get them for from three,.to four dol'ars each: But as a result of their having heard some ‘weeks ago through Captain Bissell that the coast guard cutter Haida was coming in, they boosted the price up to from ten to fifteen dollars. So when we arrived and dis- covered the situation in the local market we decided. to wait for the Haida, and then we all got together and> held out until’ today they fin- ally dropped back down to their nor- mal price. ‘There are only three wooden buildings on this barren island; one is the little Ruesian church which the Aleuts attend, and the other two belong to Mr. Shroeder, who con- trols the trading right at Attu. He also has a number of’ fox farms on the smaller islands scattered between here and Atka. Goss and Shroeder, the two traders who contro} the js. lands of Atka and Attu, respectively, although ‘both charming hosts, are as unlike as any two men could be. Goss, a typical down east Yankee, is the champion yarn spinner of the Aleutians, while Shroeder, a tal! b'onde giant, is the ‘strong,. silent’ man of the north lke you see in the movies, Radio s Great Help, “After the \Bider left Attu to take up a position midway between here and the nearest islands off the coast of Asia, from where she can send us weather reports, -we moved ashore to Shroeder's house and were delighted to find an excellent Nbrary. Qur rev- enus cutter friends from the Haida have just come in and set, up a port- able radio outfit. The poles are on a hill near. by andthe wires have been run right down. here to tho trading post. Although with this outfit we can only send messages for a couple hundred miles, we can receive from a@much longer distance. “Ifthe truth were known the ra, dio has played a rea‘ly vital part in our success so far. In the first place, if anything happens, just as in the ‘case of Major Martin end Sergeant Harvey, radio is the one and only way of sending for help and getting it In time, Secondly, in hopping for hundreds of miles through the skies over uninhabited regions, it is of the utmost importance to find out what the weather conditions are at arious ‘points along the route just fore starting. Then, of course, there is the third advantage of our belng able to send daily messages all the way back to America reporting on our progress. “Our gocd pal, Ensign Leé Baker radio officer on the has open- @1 up on’ his two kilowatt arc and sent messages from behind the mountains of a land locked harbor ofr a distance of 1,600 miles,to a radio station on Vancouver Msland; British Columbia. By ‘the use of radio we have been ab:e to work in close co-operation with three or four vessels stationed at different points all at the same time. Of course dur- ing the time that Major Martin and Sergeant Harvey were-los' Wenum- BARNEY ber of messages flashed back and forth acroes. the north Pacific, the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian islands and the Alaskan peninsula, must have been beyond all calculation. The importance of radio in” connection with this world flight cannot be overestimated, and when an arourtd the world serial transportation sys- tem is established one of these days radio will be one of the most im- portant factors in making it a suc- cers. ** Bince the Elder left, another great storm has swept down upon us, a weather is nearly always indescrib- ably. bad," says Lieutenant Smith, “I hardly know what we would have done without our weather wizard, Major William R. Blair, of the alg: nay corps, who has been living up here on the ‘Eider’ simply in order that we might proceed from ‘point to point with the minimum of danger and delay. Major Blair. certainly ‘de- serves his reputation as one of the foremost meteorologists in the world. So accurate have been his forecasts that except for awaiting and hoping that Major Martin would catch up with us, we would have been able to have taken advantage of every pos- sible flying day. The major has us. ually kept ahead of several bun- dred miles and he has made his ob- servations largely with the use of hig theodolite and with toy balloons made of pure rubber and filled with hydrogen #0 they will ascend at the date of 200 yards a minute. What the major does.is to send up.a bal- loon, take observations each minute for about fifteen minutes with the aid of the theodolite, and then by simple trigonometry figure out the direction’ and velocity of the wirids in the upper air. “The major also uses thermome- ters and barometers and estimates the winds and atmospheric conditions by measuring the flight of clouds. He has been working under the most difficult conditions, but the forecasts that he has sent to us by radio re- garding fogs and: storms have been so accurate as ‘to seem almost un- canny.” ' Leslie Arnold's diary tells, how it continued to’ snow and storm up un- til May 14, when it cleared long enough in the afternoon to give the world flyers an“opportunity of going fishing. They found great schools of mackerel and black cod in the har- bor. i ‘Why, we didn’t even have to bait our hooks,” he writes. ‘‘All we had to do was simply drop a line overboard with a hook on the end of it and Jerk {t up quickly. Invar- jably we would find that we had hooked. fish through the eye, the tall or a fin. A press’ correspondent on the Haida has just radioed his office in Seattle the thrilling news that to- night the world flyers are going to be given a treat on board the Haida in the form of a bath. He said that he one. But we are celebrating tonight because the westher locks clear, and tomorrow there uld be, a good chance of our at last hopping off for Siberia.” id (Continuea Tomorrow.) WYOMING MAP AND BLUE PRINT CO. Geologists, Petroleum Engineers Drafting, Blueprinting, Maps, Photocopying All work confidential SROTHER GLE = 1F You ALL YOUR READY 1S NED UP RIGHT YWOoR A SrorT~ Now, THIS 1-0-0. / come ouT AND OF YouRS 15 . ACCEPTABLE IT _WILL TSKE * AT LEAST 16 MILLION DOLLARS PIPE “THar TO PIPE WATER OVER. THE MOUNITAH MILLIONAIRE AT THE SOME TIME SERMON EXCERPTS Contributions from Ministers for Publication Under This Hvad Are Welcomed; Manuscripts Should *¢ Typewritten, Not K- ceeding 250 Words and*Should Be in This Office Saturday. The Fast Presbyterian Tabernacle Rev. Chas, A. Wilson, D. D. The Brotherhood League of the churches of Casper is to be com- mended for the earnest considera- tion of ways'and means for awak- ening interest in evangelism. It is possible that much good may re- sult fromthe discussion, In the 87th Psalm three great thoughts are outstanding, the universality of the church as a believing brother- hood of humanity, increase by: in- div'dual accessions, and divine es- tablishment of the church by rein- forcements from the nations of the earth. Ideas are embodied in def- inite means and institutions. The home must have a house, order a government, education a school, and religion a church. It is necessary that the church should have an ob- jective and a plan. That objective should conform to God's will, pur- pose and power. His purpose is if local church should see its definite part in the great task of bringing the world to the knowledge and acceptance of Christ. It was said to me recently that what a certain young man needed was something that required LATE LEADER PAID TRIBUTE (Continued from Page One.) tion by the Rev. J. J. Mutr, chap- lain of the senate, closing the pro- gram. Leaders had planned to adjourn both the’ senate and house after the exercises out of respect to Mr. Wil- son's memory. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Wood- row Wilson sought to give the twentleth century a faith to inspire it and to justify the sacrifice of millions of ves in the great war, and if there was failure it was hu- manity’s faflure, Dr, Edwin Alder- man, president of the University of Virginia, declareq at joint congres- sional memorial services for the war President held today in the cham- ber of the house of representatives. “To make him, the one undaunt- ed advocate of these hopes, the of.a world collapse,” Dr. Alderman said, “is to visit upon him inujustice so cruel that it must perish of its own reason.” Speaking In the place where Wil- son delivered the address that car- ried his country into the world con- flict, the, University of Virginia President declared he could not en- visage Wilson as a failure as he came back from the” Paris peace conference bearing the covenant of the league of. nations and the “im- Perfect treaty of Versailles. “I envisage him rather as a vic- tor and conqueror as he returned to America,” he said. “Untouched by sordidness or dishonor, unsur- Passed in moral devotion, and offer- ing to his country leadership in the broadest and worthiest cause in al! the story ot human strugsle for a better ‘ife.” ¢ Dr. Alderman sald it was not for him to undertake the task of appor- tioning ‘‘with nice justice the re- sponsibility for the cauldron of heat and ‘sweltered venom’ of. dead- lock and indecision of partisanship and passion, in which for weary months this largest question of mo- dern times boiled and bubbled.” “Other ages will make that solemn appraisement, he © added. “I maybe permitted the reflection . expression in authorship. more energy. This is true of the church. Its task should, be large enqugh to awaken latent power, en“ gage unused ability, and enlist dor- mant forces. “To every man’ his work." Every Christan has his Program to carry out, his task to face, his life to live, separate from No oR MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1924 MoRE PUDDING ANNTHING FOR You. MAJOR FF genius has left to posterity, behold him in the night watches correcting his mistakes and using even his humility as a sword with which to carve out the victory of his cause. And so it will be with Woodrow Wil- son in thé long perspective of the years. is ambition to serve his country was as intense as Cromwell's. It Was not easy for hm to forget or to forgive. The pride of righteous- ness sometimes froze the more gen- {al currents of his soul, but he was willing to die and did die to guar- antee to humble men a fairer chance every other man in the world, He is not to be lost in the crowd, nor hidden in the organization And every man must give account of himself to God. Methods may dif- fer, but would ¢hat every man should feel on his consc‘ence the burden of neglected duty. Nature teaches us the lesson of, beneficent activity. It issues from the flower, drops from the rain cloud, glows in the harvest, blows in the worl winds, beams from the sun, and shines from the stars. Reflecting the light of Jesus is the crowning manifestation of universal. benefi- cence. Amang d'stinguished lead- ers of the church this has found Such is the volume by Theodore Cuyler on ‘The Passion For Souls; another by Dr. Stone on Recruiting For Christ; and another entitled The Quest For Souls. It should find sustained ex- Pression *illustrated in the member- ship of the church. , that something less of malice in the hearts of his enemies and some thing more of compromise in his own heart, and something more of political genius and firm purpose in the hearts of those who kept the faith, and there might have been another world, “It'ts commonly sald that the his- toric rank of Woodrow Wilson is wrapped up in the destiny of the covenant; that if it fails, his rank will be. merely that of one more radiant spirit whose reach exceeded his grasp, and if it succeeds this apotheosis in histoty is secure. 1 find the formula too glib and auto- matic for the forces and ideas’ it Presumes to envelop. “Apotheosis and immortality are qeisnty. Words that il] fit our poor lesh, so foredoomed to the iniquity of earthly obllyion; but surely the fame of Woodrow) Wilson does not rest upon an instrument the orderly growth of which into final useful nets may chango its structure and modify its form as to cause it to be- come another and an even better instrument. «It depends’ upon an unconquerable *idea, so greatly con celved and set forth, that it must continue to grow into newer and finer form, and his fame must grow with it into whateve? bright renowp: lt may attain, “The world used to be full of peo ple busy discerning, imagining and cataloguing the its of Woodrow Wilson. Dogma: and hermit, rhetorician and pacifist, egocentric and ingrate, dreamer and drifter Were some of the milder coinaes of his more civil and restrained ene- mies. Well, he had his faults. Some of them were protective devices to conserve physical strength, and others lay buried deep in the im- pulses in his blood; but inhibitions born of pride and courage and high ambition are such as nationd learn to forget and to forgive and even to love and-cherish. Posterity {s in- curious about the minor faults of its heroes. “His countrymen do not tattle about Washington's blazing profan ity at Monmouth but see his stately figure riding into the storm of bat- tle beneath the tattered fing of a néw nation he would fain bring into the world. They do not whisper wbout Lincoln's — choile panions or his taste in his cunning in politics. read incised on white marble walls in a juster world, and therefore the savage assaults of his enemies will shrivel into e insign ficance of Horace Greele: editorials against Lincoln's policies, or the futility of the early century pamphleteers against Thomas Jefferson as icon- oclast and anti-Christ, and h!s mere detractors will themselves either at- tain a repellant fame as detractors of greatness or eJBe they will pass out of memory.” Chrysler Claims Sales Record For New Car Industry With production and sales in the month of: October reaching 6,606 cars the Chrysler Motor corporation has not only broken al) of the many ménthly production records it has previously set but has established a pew high mark for the industry as well Never before in history has a motor car manufacturer installed entirely new equipment, rounded out a manufacturing organization’ and reached a monthly sales record of more than 3,600 cars within ten months after the first public intro duction, of the car, it is stated by J. EB, Fields, vice president in charge of sales. Mr, Fields also pointed out that this record produc- tion was all the more remarkable in view of the well-known fact that the Chrysler is built to the highest qual ity standards, Actually this record production was @attained in eight months instead’ of ten inasmuch as pracically the firdt two months were consumed in organizing production for large quantities. 5 —$-_—_—_— THERE'S NO trick to making wishes come true—when you consult the “Christmas Gift Suggestions the Classified Section. the sacred poems which his literary ALL RIGHT - Tur YELL For TRE WAITER To BRING he But Awd Wee WHEN THE DICE LINE Is COMPLETED AND "THE PACIFIC FLOWS INTO DEATH VALLEY I'L PAY YOU $3000 FoR THE FISH CONCESSION. ILL STRAIN ‘EM QUT AS THEY COME THROUGH THe BUY SALT FROM YooR SALT FACTORY ANID GAYE YOU 20 PERCENT. OF “THE PROFITS FROM MY SALT FISH BUSINESS. 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