Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 8

ers by PAGE EJGHT Bp ce ck Lae ee. A fhe Casver Daily Cribune Navy Big Aid To Success of World Flight By LOWELL THOMAS. By the Chicago Tribune Newspapers Syndicate and the Mo- Clure Newspapers Syndicate) That the success of their flight around the world was due in no small degree to the navy, is the opinion of Lieut. Lowell Smith and his fellow army aviators . They are backed up in this by the advance officers who laid out the} “Kasumigaura supply depots, by the press representatives who met the | airmen in fo ped the flyers in China, Japan, dia and elsewhere along the route. there none «who had such an unusual opportunity of see- ng just what the Navy did as the Tokio representative of the Asso lated Press, who transferred from estroyer to destroyer as he followed he progress of the fiight all the y from Bering sea to the Bay of engal I was in Tokio when the world vers left America, and in daily con t with Lieut. Clifford Nutt, who were xreign lands, and by many Americans who {could reach, Captain Frost told us | that they were drifting down from | the Sea of Okhotsk. For a night |and a day we skirted these ice floes. and upon arrival at Bettobu bay found It completely blocked by ice. So despite the protests of the Jap anese officers on board; the captain ook it upon himseif to enter Hito- kappu as he realized it would be to remain wandering about In the ice until permission arrived from Tokio. | danger | “On the 11th of April we left the | for weeks had attempted to charter | destroyer ‘Pope’ at Hitokappu to boat to visit the Kurile Islands. | %tFange a supply depot on a lake a Jutt did his utmost to find a ship| mile inland and set out for Para- captain familiar with the vy mushiru. For two more days we Ajacent to the Arctic eircle, and | Skirted the ice flo But we were dumps for | Unable to get into Kashiv ra bay, illing to help him 1 t ¥ he ch he could rd," comm H. F st, yrnzy d of n hn A. Mec Laren Both belonged to the Ameri They came up left from -Yoko- ile ut t 10th a Lieut. Nutt had able ficulty getting the o-operation of the Japanese authori- ies, who were fearful lést the flight aight bé a ere excusé fet obta: ng airplane views of their fortific lows. But it must be admitted that Lieut. 2 id Ambassador Woods succeed: them at America t iing the boys. did, however, lay out a special ® that the world fiyers should ake, and ordered them to follow a somewhat zigzag r would ‘be sure not to fly o points of strategical importance. It was siso made clear that the airmen must deposit thelr cameras with th smmanding officer of the U, 8. ‘Ford’ il after the departure from Japan It was arranged that the fiyers hould stop only at Paramushiru Ig d, Bettobu, Yetorofu, Minato, on ‘the main island of Hondo, which is the naval se forty miles from ‘Tokio, Kushi moto on the Kil peninsula, and Kagoshima at the extreme southern end of Japan from whence they were to hep off for China. Between these' arioues points they were not to fly as the crow files, ‘but were to tack from point to int in cordance with the w of the Japanese as also arranged that each American destroyer co-operating with the world flyers should’ carry Japanese naval officer and a repre sentative of the Japanese army ‘or were any photographs to- be aken by anyone on board these de: yers except with the consent nd in the presen Jap nese officers. I ne ircumstances were ar t ir t was on the U. 8, 8. ‘Ford’ that failed north to see the flyers land fter makipg the first flight across ne Pacific. When two days out Yokohama we ran fMmto the fee floes I had ever seen. stretched as far as the eye arges hey = ask to Horlick’s es The ORIGINAL \? Malted. Milk / ee Se ae eT E 3 The Agec Rich Milk, Malted Grainext-in powder form,makesThe Food-Drinkfor All Ages Digestible—No Cooking: Allight Lunch always at hand. Also in Tablet form. Ask for “Hortick’s,’’ at all Fountains. 8a Avoid tmitations — Substitutes Safe Milk For Infants 1) Children EARLY # |< |Shopping Days 6 _j ail Xmas $5.00 Reward SHOP oO Five dollars reward w to the party furnishing the Ca Daily Tribune information lead to the capture of the person wh« fraudulently collecting subscriptions from Tribune subscribers. Patrons | of the not pay any one their sub except the urrier who the paper or from the n authorize ” the right collec show edent Telephon so that they | Invalides | Paraniushiru, because of a stiff rtheast gale. So we steamed rig’ jat nd the ‘Ford’ started to drag Janchor. So Captain Frost pulled up Jand went over to Kashiwabara buy, | where remained until the 19th of May. “We had gone up to the Kuriles to remain no longer than two weeks and only had oil, food and other supplies to last that long. But the two weeks passed and the flyers were still over in the Aleutians We knew nothing of what had hap. med except that occasionally w ught a word or two out of the air telling us that Martin and Harvey were lost - “The temperature where we were hovered around zero all of the time. We were running short of fuel and food, and gales of from 50 miles an 101 on upward were causing us to lrag anchor all over the plac | Meanwhile a » destroyer arriv to act as our escort—the H. I. M Tokitsukaze. The Japs had plenty food and would often fhvite us over. | Although Captain Frost would re- turn thelr hospitality by inviting them to dine on the ‘Ford,’ he could give them nothing but salmon and hard-tack. But there was ‘enough film on board for eight full evenings and whatever these dinners may have lacked in food they more than made up in entertainment. Eact night -speeches were made anc (riendly relations between the Jap anese and ‘American navies more firmly cemented. None of the Jap anese officers could understand Eng lish and there were only two on the ‘Ford’ who could speak Japanese But in spite of this handicap, a Captain Frost says in his =report ‘They soon joined us in singing ‘Old Sailors Never Die’." Regarding the Associated Pres representative, Captain Frost's r port states that he commenced the issue of the Paramushiru Breeze, using press news from San Fran cisco, Hawaii, Guam and Cavite, as well as intercepted reports about the flyers from yarious other stations Later in our stay it was voted tc change the name of his paper to the Gale instead of Breeze, as the former ]was deemed more appropriate t | associate with Paramushiru. | “Our communication problem was worl 2 most interesting one,” continues he captain's report. ‘‘When we first arrived there was so little inter- ference in our vicinity that long ranges were covered at night. We communicated almost daily with St. Paul in, the Pribilof , Islands; the Pope at Hitokappu. Wan; the Jap- anese Commercial Radio at Otchishi near Nemoro; the destroyers or our division at Yokohama or Kobe and many merchant vessels. One eve ning messages were exchanged with the 8. 8, Resolute, wheih was jug crossing the equator, from our posi tion in 51 degrees of latitude. Or the evening of the arrival of the | planes about 1,500 words of ptes were received in Tokio within eight urs of the time of their arrival | “The food supply finklly ran so w,”" adds the Press representative, | ‘that two American army officers | attached to the embassy in Toklo, went ashore to if they ‘could see shoot a bear, an auk, a puffin, a guillemot or a doterel. They came to a deserted villaxe half hidden in the snow. As they were approach- ing {t, a shot rang out and whizzed past them. The natives were fright ened at seeing an armed party, not knowing anyone: was within hun. dreds of miles. of them, and had ‘aken them for, Russian pirat were Japanese fishermen, dent ended in thetr giv They ply of cod. Every day | meone from the ship hunting for bear, fox or 1 week we had lived on hard-tack. But on I was resident of now the the old Kurlle days after the ‘Ford’ left AcE OREO FFE through into the Sea of Okhotsk | a anchored in Cod bay on the Three o'clock the following ning the wind suddenly changed BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG MISTAH GOOGLE: 1s Dev NUFFIN’ Dowls IN NOTH CAHLINA - DONE BET ON A HOSS ONCE - HE GIVE HIS 1.0.0. Yves INE Gor & 350! = BET ON SPARKY S Ncs® ABT SATURDAY Au IN 1.0 US tl AIN TGor A DT To Mane Good IF MISTA WALT, | HOPES oma YoU HAS A NICE TIME | GOIN! TO SEE YOUR MOTHER. 'F YOU SEES || Santo creus wilt you GIVE HIM THIS PACKAGE 7 —— WALT WILL You THANK YOU, | OVE IR MOTHER MR. WICKER. ITS MY BEST WISHES VERY THOGGHTFOL AND GIVE WER OF YOU THIS WITH MY COMPLIMENTS ? cenrancy, Cll 18 RACHEL, AND THANIK YOu. ri ('M SORE SKEEZIx'’S ROANDMA WILL A Want To SEE GOMPERS BODY REACHESN.Y. (Continued from Paze One.) to thé Elks club. It did not daunt the 600 labor representatives who waited outside the station to escort the body of theit late chief. The station inside was crowded with abor leaders and workers.~ Soon after the procession started the rain stopped. Dozens of auto- mobiles draped in crepe followed the aisson. . Funeral services at 9 o'clock to- morrow morning fyill be broadcast by radio, if plans made last night by Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the federation, ke carried out. Those unable to gain admittance to the Elks club will be accommodated at Town Hall, across the street, where a speaker will adiress the gathering if the services are not broadcast. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, will. of- ficiate at the services in the lodge hall. The eulogy will be delivered by the dead chieftain’s old friend, James Duncan, first vice president { the federation. Final rites at the @ave in\Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y., will be under the KASUMIGAURA, Lieut. L. H. Smith greeted in Japan by government officials. jirection of the Elks and the ; Masons. ¥, (ves rE WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The body of Samuel Gompers was borne ‘rom Washington shortly after mid aight on the way to its last resting place in Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y., after a day of tribute to his memory here in which hundreds of friends and followers Med past the bler as it reposed in state at American Federation of Labor headquarters. : A military detachment from Fort Myer escorted the body, borne on an artillery’ caisson,gon the return to the’ station from: the headquarters building as it had on its arrival in - that lasted for 60 hours, It was the most violent that Captain McC’aran hgd seen during 16 years in the Na i 4 gale started whether we put om life belts or not. “At that time the ‘Pope’ had both anchors down, her, stern to the beach, and steaming 15 knot straight nerally considered ahead. ‘The beach was only 200|the afternoon. Men prominent in thing from 90 miles an hour upward.’| feet away. But the gale was so sijff| government, congressional, labor This one registered 120 miles.|that.even when we were steaming |and fraternal circles were among. the Throughout these 60 hours Captain rate of 15 knots we were|*hrong who filed past the bronze McClaran remained on tie bridge. holding our own ptain | casket. During this time we draxged anchor all over the little bay and rammed the Jap destroyer, cutting a big dent in her side and smashing in a few porgs. At that ft was the most brillan exhibition of seamanship I have eyer seen. “All during the first night of the gale the ‘Pope! crawfished back ‘and forth across the bay with only one lone object in view—the planet Venus. Occasionally the searchlight of the Jap would gleam dimly thru the snow and sleet, but otherwise could not see her. Venus hap: pened to be hanging In the sky di- over the entrance to thé] it and ft was only by watching | ‘P’ this planet that it was possible fo: Captain MeClaran to get any ‘ide about where h and keep his ship off the beach McClaran didn’t dare put on any more steam because he couldn't tell where the Jap was, and if he moved far he might sink her. "At 10 o'clock Colonél Bratten turned'in with the remark: ‘Well if we ure going on the beach we might as well go to bed and not lost any sleep over it.’ But first he wrote a letter to his wife, and wrote one. About 3 o'clock I woke up and it was perfectly calm—one of the most beautiful mornings have ever seen. When I got on deck I saw something that I would not have believed if I hadn't seen it was the hot smokestack of the ‘ope’ coated with a layer of ice,” STATE ENGINEER AND The labor chieftain's widow and three sons joined the funeral part here for the trip to New York, wher the body will Me in state today in the Elks temple before the funeral services tomorrow. VICTIMS TELL OF PURCHASES (Continued rrom Page One.) we was that subscribers might be able te secure loans in the the next “The gale continued all subser’ptions, but that the contract: day and through that night, aly W. had not been issued in numerical though no one on board thought order. \Furthermore, he testified, that we could even pull through the first night without smashing up on the rocks. About 7 o'clock of the second evening Colonel Bratten and I were sitting In tlt ward room play BACK FROM CAPITAL “loan” or ing Acey Dew when McClaran any appropriate compensation, with came down for a moment to get ‘NE, Wyo., Dec. 17.—] the result that the loan fund had warm. te Engineer Frank C, Emerson] been depleted by thousands of dol- “Well, bi better put on your|#nd S. G. Hopkins, Wyoming mem-| ‘ars. The Habilities of the associa- life preservers,’ he suid, ‘The chances | ber of the Platte River commission.| tion, Joyce testified, exceeded its @ hundred to one that we'll go on returned from Washington,| assets by $8,956.66. the rocks ‘ore morning.’ D. C., where they obtained informa-| ‘The government has forty witnes- “All right,’ we replied, and went] tion bear! on Wyoming interests | ses under subpogna. The ‘largest Acey Deucy g-jin the proposed allocation of sroup. among them is from Campbell water of the North Platte river be | county, where the United Home tween: Colotad Bu lders operated extensively, . that the | braska was or 18 de above ——— THERT'S NBAL Christmas shop- ezing and that {f the ship broke| “GIFTS FOR Him” aro profusely | ng service awaiting you under up we couldn’t live in that, So it| distributed through the column by | ‘Christmag Gift Suggestions” in to didn't make a lot of difference| that name in the Classified Section. day’s Classified Section. to subscribers in numerical order so order of the the same number had been applied several times to a single contract. On numerous occasions, he testified, funds had been transferred from the “reserve” fund, without HERES SOMETHING SANTA CLAUS LEFT” WITH ME.YOU cans POT IT ON THE TREE AT GRANIOMAS HOUSE, WALT. «Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) PARIS—Sleeves, like Cousin Eg- bert on “Ruggles of Red Cap," can] of elastic, be pushed just so far. In the lat- est models shown here, they are pushed far down over the hands with a tasst] to add to. the length but abgolutely unconnected with the dress ‘With which they are worn. A ruber band; holds them up. QUEBEC—A French influence, no stranger to Quebec, is seen in the latest wintep sports suit exhibited here and obviously better adapted for looking’ en than participating in winter sorts. It is of black suede with wrap-around skirt and wth the jacket trimmed with black em- broidery on wh te suede inserts. An Alpine hat of black and white suede goes with it, LONDON—Woolen stockings at the moment are not running un- checked; in fact. there are more checked than ever, but the checks are smaller. In the newest models, the squares are almost as small as shepherds plaid. LONDON—Whenever a feminine Londoner, sees a sign nowadays “‘Be- ware of Pickpockets,” she hangs on to her pouchette. That same is nei- ther more nor less than a beautifully carved and embossed leather, hand- bag elght and a half inches long and four wide with a st rap handle and fitted with morror, purse and compact. NEW YORK—One perfume no longer is enough for one woman. Nowadays she selects a. different perfume for almost every occasion. The names are new but odors show little change since the day of Sheba and Cleopatra. : NEW YORK—Pajammas today vaccillate between the strickly se- vere tailored type of jersey silk trim- med with a wide band in contracting colors, gold and green combinat’ons being popular and the elaborate crepe de chine type trimmed with © ecru lace and ngrrow rows of mstitching. The trousers of the first should be creased and those of the other allowed to bag. W YOR —The lates bandeau Regular sailings from New York, Boston, Montseal: Wed nesdaye Fastest mail service to Souhtmmpton and Cherbou. SIC obh (ucene: { CG THE STYLES) |WOMIN IS FINED $50 SETTIN -IN POLIGE COURT Arrested Monday night by Chief Yohe-on joint charges of driving = car without a license and illegal possession of liquor, Mrs. P, M.-Mc- Comb was convicted last evening of agviolation of the city drug ordi- nance and fined $50 by Judge Murray. Chief Yohe told of finding five pints of whiskey in the McComb car when he halted it to -give-the driver a summons for. failing~to carry a Ucense tag. The lesser charge was dismissed. brassiere is made of delicate lace and satin ribbon, with a front inscrt It is of diminutive pro- Port ons but is worth the money it costs on the theory that “every little helps.” Colored Women In Battle, Police Put End to Disturbance An African vendetta, beginning at 144 North Ash street last night at 8 o'clock, with vituperation and recrimination, progressed by 8:11 to the sidewalk and augmented to an} ebony blizzard of clawing finger nails and thudding brown fists. At 8:16 a knife and Patrolman Hage- mann made a simultaneous appear- ance. The intrepid officer waded cour- agéously into the’ murky blizzard and shortly dissected it into its two component parts. They were Ruth Graham, 258 West A street, and Ethel Freeman, 144 North Ash, and tonight they will appear before Police Judge J. A. 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