Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 10

J PAGE TEN. World Circlers, Icicle-Decked, Arrive Japan Nipponese Isle Reached After 900-Mile Flight Over Pacific; Observers Get Thrill of Their Lives By LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright, By the Chicago Tribune Newspapers Syndicate and the Mc- Clure Newspapers Syndicate) “When the Ford came in with a fresh supply of fuel and provisions to relieve the Pope,” the Associated Press repre- sentative says, “I transferred to her again. Meanwhile not a word from the flyers. Now and then we happened to pick up a stray sentence or two out of the air saying something about Major Martin being los all, from our point of view away over there in the Kurfles, was that the 120 mile an hour gale had passed on, leaving in its wake the most gorgeous, clear weather imaginable. Tt was idgal for flying, and we were hoping they would come through before another gale blew up. Poor Capt. Frost spent sleepless nights ‘worrying about all of this marvelous v ther going to waste, ‘Suddenly a message from Lowell Smith: “Will you go to Kronotsk! and onnoiter for possible landing came in “That was all it sald. Out came the cha an located the Gulf of Kr ict, up on the coast of Kamchatka: ~" Will not enter Russian waters under any circumstances except to rescue a plane,’ was Capt. - adding that the superb and hin up waiting f Pick Up Mystery Message. Sixteen hours later back came an ironical radio from Smith setting h how fully they’ realized the Mardships Capt. Frost and his men we way we Were experienceing, expressing the sympathy of himself and com- pani and adding that they would make a 1 point of rough possible, on of rem > Aleutians. passed, but no further h. Friday morn- mysterious mes- throug The melancholy part of it “And, judging by the way the; whooped and yelled, it seemed to thrill the honorable Japanese as well Uproar Vies With Volcano. “There they were, safe and sound, flying in a perfect triangle forma- Yon. Pandemonium broke loose ti the Kurile fslands that morning. No upr to equal it had been heard since the last voleano erupted in vicinity. “Col. L, C. Broome, advance repre- sentative for the itish round the world fifght, had been through shortly before n Canadian traw- er apply dur and had placed a s t p nee off “Smith sighted Broome's buoy, , owing to the direction of the ut that moment, he knew it much more desirable landing ‘acc than where our three buoys were in Kashiwabara bay. So he anded there, thinking that Nelson and Wade would follow and that the destroyers would then transfer the moorings. But, despite the high sea, an adverse wind, and sheets of sleet, the Boston and New Orleans came down near u BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG (fF SPARKY LOSES BE IN A FINE MESS 1.Q.U%s I Gor me =~ 3501 PRETTY QUICK, ONCA WALT? DAY AFTER TomoRRow I'M Gonne Pluaks Ano ACT A Thw Dime To cover MY BETS --- BE LONG NOW. SKEEZIX THE Race A = AL Those OUT AGAINST "si TO START ao Boss.Yo Att DAT To Suier © AW Mist Wa SPAHKY GUT Fo HIS DAILY Dozen AN’ HE Go ak A STWEAK C' ALAGHTAUN = OH! OSHAT A LOAD OFFA SE. 'WAS FOOLISH OUT IN BOT IF we DON'T GET TOO MUCH SNOW WE'LL BE THERE BV NOON. mv CHEST A r that was passing Jer and the Haida this Ume we had often been hear the Haida, but never had we caught the response Eider. This meant that quite near us and that were getting ready to hop Attu Friday and still not a word morning, t 1ith, it was r ld d snowing and sleeting sain, You can imagine how dis runtled everybody on board was iter waiting away up there in the Juriles for a month, after having a period of perfect weather ithout the flyers attempting to get ‘ h, and.then to see storms s in again. The Thrill of His Life. they won't come today,’ 11:20 I was up in th ling a message to my ce urging them to try thelr » keep the flight story alive in the American newspapers, as the aviators were at Attu and might make the flight over the Pacific by Monday Just as I had finished flashing to Tokio I heard somo one ‘There they come!’ to the door and looking three sailors standin: opposite the starboard raf] looking the south. And there, sure n, coming from the south in stead of from the north, were three pianes. ' “They had just appeared out from behind a cloud. ““Belleve me, that sight was the trill of my Ufe, I have been in the newspaper game for twenty years and as @ result of this some of my fwiends think me hard boiled. But {ter waiting up there on the edge of the arctic for weeks and weeks jist for this event, and then to see these world cruisers appear unex. ectedly from behind a cloud and lize you were witnessing the ar rival of the first men to ever reac Asia from Ame! by air—yes, I'll admit that it sent the thrills up and own my spine. tweer Up to then Friday SE “Suddenly he saw the Russians approaching him in a boat. He was afraid they might be coming over with orders from Moscow to arrest the members of the flight, and he was uneasy, because his motor balk- ed. But, just when the Russians were twenty-five feet from him the motor kicked over and started: off with a roar. So he taxied right: by them and left their little boat toss- ing about in the”»aves left by his pontoons."” When the airmen had changed clothes and thrawed out on board the Ford, the first thing they did was to reply by wireless to the cor- dial greeting sent across the bay by the commander of the two Japanese jestroyers. The weather was too rough for any personal visits that day, Congratulated by Weeks. That afternoon a radio came through from Washington that was mach appreciated by the flyers af- The World Is Told. “As soon as I saw the planes I jumped into the radio room. I had old break- our agreement with the com- ding officer of the Japanese de- stroyer. He had asked us to promise that from the moment the touched the water until thirty min- utes had passed we would send out no radio messages. He figured this would enable him to announce to the world the news of the completion ¢ the first Pacific flight. But be- fore the boys were out of the air I shouted to the radio operator to kill that last mes © of mine and take this: “Urgent. Kokushul, Tokio, and Associated Press, San Francisco. Flyers arrived Kashiwabara bay, 17th, at 11:35." “As a matter of fact, they touched he water at exactly 11:37. But in those two seconds I had scored a world news beat for the Associated Press. “Then, of course, the radio opera tor on the Ford had to shut down for thirty minutes while the Jap anese destroyers were notifying the war office in Tokio. But before the; gave the news to the other press| izations in Tokio, my radio had a Francisco a been | America to be’ quick in order tc ing over SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” —Gonuine Unless you see the “Bayer not getti by millions and prescribed ng the genuine Bayer A Cros on tablets you are pirin proved safe ians 24 years for by phys Colds Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism . “contains proven ditection Tandy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggiste Avpiria is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mchoaceticacidester of Salleylicact ~~ flyers |. KASUMIGAURA BAY, NAVAL AIR STATION, TOKIO, JAPAN Japanese officials welcoming flyers. The New Orleans. Lieut. Hard- ing shaking hands, on right; Maj. Faymonville, U. 8. military attache, and Lieut. Nelson, on left. Rides Deck Avjators. “A few minutes later the boys came on board, halt frozen, wet to the skin, and with icicles hanging | from them. it was not yet noon, and I knew that {it was practically 900 miles from where we were to Attu, in the Aleutians, so I said to Jack Hard- ing: “You don’t mean to stand there with feicles dripping from your beard and try to bamboozle me into thinking you have flown 900 miles in five and @ half hours, do you?’ “O, no,’ rejoined Jack. ‘We stopped over night at the Komandor- skis and started this morning from Nikolski bay.” “Realizing this might result in diplomatic’ complications between Moscow and Washington, I told the boys T was willing to radio any sort of reasonable story that suited them, and it was finally agreed I should reveal to the world how they had been blown off their course to Nikol- ski, But on second thought we saw that any one reading such an ac- count weuld wonder just how it hap- pened that, when tho flyers got} blown off their course, they were so fortunate as to have thelr forced landing near a remoto Russian ter thelr long journey from the Aleutian islands to Japan: Kashiwabara, Paramushiru, Kurile slands, Japan: Con- gratulations. Yours is the hon- or of being the first to cross the Pacific by alr. Through its army and navy our country has the honor of having led in the crossing of both great oceans The army has every faith in your ability to add the circum- navigation of the globe to its achievements. (Signed) JOHN W. WEEKS, Secretary of War. Then, as the boys sat around the ward room on the Ford they. told Capt. Frost and his associates of their flight across the Pacific, their eventful night in the Komandors- kis, and thelr spectacular flight over the peninsula of Kamchatka. Regarding this latter, of which’ we have not yet heard, they describee how they had crossed the Gulf of Kronotski and uipunski and then suddenly encountered a curious layer of fox that obliterated the earth, but only extended up to an altitude of 600 feet? Above the fog the weather was perfectly clear, So all the way down Katmchatka they fnew above it, and saw nothing ex- cept a range of volcanoes rearing Island right alongside an* American boat, loaded with special gravity gasoline made only for use in alr: planes!’ Leave Russians in Lureh. Regarding the interesting tale of how the world flyers visited the Rus- sinn islands where they had not been kupposed to land, they relate: Prik and Jac Harding told me the morning they came on rad the Ford at Kashiwabara bay that Smith and Wade had gotten Into the air a little ahead of them at Nikolski, ‘Erik had some trouble wetting his motor started. their ice capped summits above the billowy cloud continent over which they flew. Volcanoes as Sign Posts. These lofty volcanoes appeared on their maps with such unpronounca- able names as Koryatskaya, Vilyu chinskaya, and Povorotnaya. Other: wise it would have been difficult for them to realize wére not still flying a'ong the coast of Alask: Although they could see neither the ocean nor the terrain beneath these volcanoes loomed up Uke are- tle sign p to tell them where were. As they flew close one towering peak there was noth- ing to break the perfectly smooth surface of the snow excepting a lone track down the mountain which, they imagined, must have been made by one of the giant bears fo. which Kamchatka is famous, A hundred miles south of Cape Shipunski the fog suddenly stopped, as though sliced off with a knife. Goodby to Arctic Circle, But in front of them, at an alti tude of 2,000 feet, was anothe: ba.k of it, and from there on to the Japa- neso island, Shimushu, their. fying ceiling grew lower and lower un- til finally they were skimming the water with the pontoons. The fog cleared again as they turned and flew toward Kashiwabara bay on Paramushiru. From now on they were to fly farther and farther away from the arctic circle and nearer and nearer to the equator, toward. many a trop- ic isle “‘where every prospect pleases and only man is vile.’ JAP RELATIONS. SATISEAGTORY (Continuea from Page One.) to measure up in the same way to all specifications of the various agreements respecting China and the orieut which grew out of the Wash. ington conference. On the proposal to send the Amer- ican navy to Hawali and the Pacific for manuvers next summer—a sub ject which has evoked considerable agitation of an unpleasant nature, particularly on the part of the Jap- anese press—it is known here that on this the Japanese and Washing- ton atthorities are in agreement The Whderstanding between them disposes of arguments that the send- ing of the war craft to Hawaii is a mere display of naval strength in the Pacific intended to affect Japan ese thought. JAPAN CUTS SIZE OF REGULAR ARMY. TOKIO, Nov, 26.—(Correspondence of the Associated Press.}—Approxi- mately 1,400 army officers will be discharged from service within the next year under the drastic retrench- ment schemo approved by the gov- ernment. Z ‘The war department has appropri- ated about seven milion yen ag com- pensation fors those dropped. Some 700 additional officers will, be de- tafled as military Instructors in the middle and higher technical schools under the propose dscheme of mili- tary training !n euch institutions. The new military program abol- ishes four divisions. German Trade Treaty Meets With Fight WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—So stro! an opposition to the German commercial treaty has developed in the senate foreign relations commit tee that a sub-committee was de: nated to confer with Secretary Hughes with a view to modifica tions. 22 INJURED IN CRASH £ 18.— Twenty-two pi injured | hero “when slid dov a steep grade and turned over to on m curve. SF STATIONERY = supPries TEXAS TOWN ON BOOM IN WAKE OF OL STRIKE Wortham Population Up Several: Thousand In Two Weeks. By KO) T T. SMALL. (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune.) WORTHAM, Tex., Dec. 18.—This ‘ttle. mid-Texas town, with its rambling skyline of one-story build- ings, was a sort of Sleepy Hollow just about two weeks ago. Today, it is in the throes of an oil boom which promises to break many modern records—a new Eldo rado. The population grew overnight from a few hundred to.ten thousand and more still come. Where but'a single derrick raised its peaked head above a black hole and a single hope ful crew worked by day and by night a fortnight ago, today stand more than 200 derricks—a veritable forest of them and at about half that num- ber, the rigs are running and the big steel drills are pounding down to the sands more than half a mile deep which, in the end will spell fortunes to the favored few and disaster, perhaps, to the many—the other rigs will swing into action as soon as the tools are placed and the {uel and water for the drilling en- eines can be rushed in. The excitement all dates back to Thanksgiving day, which seems al- most lke ancient history now to Wortham. That day the first big susher was shot, The crew felt the day would bring good luck. There were some tense moments after the big charge of dynamite at the bot tom of the hole had been touched off, but the wait was not fdr long With a roar the black oil came rush. ing out of the black éight inch pipe in a stream that appeared as thick as a man’s body. A,high pressure pool had been tapped. The rush was on. Tho Thanksgiving well has been running 12,000 barrels a day at one dollar and a quarter a barrel. On Thursday last, a second and stiil greater gusher was shot. It is run- ning 15,000 barrels, choked. down, and might make over 20,000 with Jopen valves. It is small wonder, | then, that a hundred crews are fight- ing feverishly to reach the main pool or a sister. poo! while the big pressure lasts and while the black gold comes pouring out in fortune's flood. “Yet the ofl boom of today no longer is a highly colored thing, comparable to the gold rushes of the carly times. Conduct of an oi! boom has become a sort of a set jence. It is a highly organized affair, in which the biggest of the led “trusts” fight footh and ail with "wild catter'y and inde: Pendent for the fruits of the fields, There no ‘longer is any grabbing of land, but wild bidding and over. bidding for leases and drilling rights. The land holders grant these rights to the companies that promise the greatest number of wells and the highest royalties per barrel of off produced. The present rush has not only engulfed the town of Wortham, but a. good part of the surrounding country It is not a haphazard rush, how ever, Tho geologists already have fixed the probable profitable bounds of the field. Great camps have spr up-with the orderliness of big circus or an army on the march. Big ofl companies like the Gulf, the Humble ani the Pure—an odd com bination, the —are behind these camp The Commercial hotel —two-st pride of Wortham—has been turned over to a professional all boom caterer who is feeding 450 people an hour by the simple device of putting plenty of good solid food on one big table and telling every- body to help themselves. Like the crews at the drills, the crews at this kitchen work in day and night shifts. The new morals of our time, or in any event, the new moral laws f the day, have laid their restrain ng ands upon the oil camps, ex. Unguishing the lights that once burnel crimson and wiping out the bar room shacks where the fellow who had raised a thirst could find his fill of slackening surcease, Of course, there still is bootlegging in both the old professions, but or ganized vice has given way to or- ganized effort for commercial gain. Big jails hurriedly thrown up in some of the Texas towns in anticipa- on of heavy tenantage are all but empty and may yet be turned into barracks for the thrifty workers rather than the moral shirkers. This Wortham strike, came at a time when the big companies had hoped the first drillings*would prove a failure because oil production al- ready was running ahead of the de mand. But today they are all here in the ecramble and as President O'Donnell of the Petroleum Institute stated at Fort Worth in his opening address, they are all “organized to the last degree to acquire territory with geologic: and land depart ments and doodle bugs and every- thing they can think of to locate new supplies. And the scramble of the big fel- lows and the little ones is not a mixup in the fie'ds alone. It’ ex: tends to the supper table, where the big operator and business man sit along side and pass “grub” to rough necks, drillers and teamsters. gener a Open evenings until Xmas. 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