Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 12

er Seheet suas ey SUR wt GE TWELVE. Che Casper Daily Cribune : FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1924. lamp to China® Described by _ World Fliers By LOWELL THOMAS. 5 »pyright. By thé Chicago Tribune Newspapers Syndicate and the Mo Clure Newspapers Syndicate) ' “Finally we gave it up and taxied before the wind to e lea of a small island about a half a mile away,” Les rnold continued, telling of the jump to China. “While _ aiting here for the destroyer to pick up the moorings and ;pme over and drop them again, we were all engaged in oking at the Pope, and when we turned around the Chi- s only a few feet from the . the New Orleans was { the same dangerous position, and te Boston was rapidlyl being blown Of course, Lowell and Erik and igh’at'once started up the motors taxied farther out, but it was nother close shave, and had we one on the rocks we probably would ot have been able to save either the anes or ourselves. ‘After we hadfinally secured the -ulsers we went on board the Pope wr the night. The leading officials Koshimoto had arranged to come at to the destroyer and welcome us > southern Japan,,but the sea was > rough that they couldn't even get boat alongside the Pope. So we pent the night in slumber—that fs, ll of us did but Smith and Capt. {cClaran, who discovered the planes ere drifting. Without arousing us hey got some of the sailors, launch- da small boat with difficulty, and hen went out an attached an ex- ra anchér. to each cruiser. It v aining and the typhoon was stil! ago w a 1 aging. Smith said he had never seen more thoroughly drenched in ris Ute. Receive Many Momentos. “Next morning after the storm had subsided we went ashore, lUstened o another flock of speeches, and received more medals, an enormous wrtificial flower trophy, which is now in Gen. Patrick's office, and six fascinating little Japanese dolls. By this time we had accumulated snough souvenirs for an oriental mu- seu! Nearly every city in Japan had shipped something to Tokiq for Among these were six exquisite panels with scenes painted on them by one of the foremost artists of the low sea, tinted/the landscape a har- mony of colors. There was.a range of mountains ahead of us, and we knew that if we flew around them just to keep over water with our pontoons that it would be dark be fore we could get to Kagoshima. So we flew right over them, and came down in Kagoshima bay. F Great Reception Committees. “The shore was black with people. There must have been 50,000 or 60,- 000 of them. Fully 20,000 of them were school children who had march- ed in from all the surrounding éoun- try. Every child was waving a flag, and it was really a great sight. When we got ashore the band from the UL. S. S. Black Hawk and-this vast throng of Japanese kiddies burst forth into ‘My Country, ~'Tis of Thee, which they sang in English as they waved their American: and Japanese flags. It was an inspir- ing as seeing old Fijiyama, and was one of the most impressive recep- tions. that we encountered on the entire world flight. “Although our visit to Japan fol- lowed right on the heels of the pass- ing of the Japanese exclusion bill by congress, at a time when feeling was running very high against Americans, we saw not the slightest evidence of it. In fact, we> were utterly amazed at the enthusiasm of all the Japanese educational au- thorities over our American attempt to fly around the globe. The child- ren met us in throngs, everywhere. The day we went by train from the naval air base to Tokio, school child- ren were drawn up in military for- mation to see us and give us their Japanese yell at every little station country. They are valuable and we aJl treasure them very highly. “Among the decorations we receiv- ed were three presented the day we landed at Kasumagaura, near Tokio. But Lowell Smith only agreed to accept them upon the proviso that three more would be made for Jack, Hank end myself. He explained to the Japanese officials that we were all together and that he wanted all to be treated alike. The rest of us were mighty grateful to Smith for this, and of course Ogden was parti- cularly pleased when Smith cabled Washington asking Gen. Patrick to make him a Meutenant so that he would be a commissioned officer like the. rest. of us. Begin Hop to China. “About one o'clock the weather clearéd up enough to enable us to hep’ on ‘south to the city of Kago- ehima where we were to commence our great flight across the junction of the Yellow and China seas to Shanghai. We had to buck a stiff head wind the first part of the way which cut our speed down to 40 miles n hour. We flew from island to island and had three open water imps of approximately 60 miles h. As we crossed the different lands the flooded paddy fields ed in the sunshine and the s' dows of our planes pursued u water. “In the midst of the long water jumps we frequently passed steam rs, junks and fishing craft of all kinds. We also spotted two of our déstroyers, the Perry and Stewart, where the train even slowed down for a moment. Although we hadn't yet flown even half way around the world they seemed to feel that here was something to inspire the young er generation. Land on Historic Ground. Kagoshima ‘@#the southernmost city of Japan proper. -It is situated on a bay which form’ one of the finest harbors in the orient. Right In the midst of this bay is the im- pressive volcano of Sajurajima. Near here was where the three first Eur- opeans to visit Japan came ashore. ‘They were shipwrecked Portugese saflors. Here it was that one of the greatest missionaries who ever liv ed, St. Francis Xavier, first landed in Japan. This city has been the scene of many a siege. Here only a few decades ago the old Satsuma nobles made their last stand against the leaders of modern Japan. It was here also that the far famed Satsumaware was made until the industry was moved to Kyoto. “Here at Kagoshima we learned many things we had never known before.* After the reception we din- ed with the officers of the U. 8. 8. Black Hawk, mother ship of the Asiatic destroyer, squadron, and one of them told us that Japan really had not always shut out foreigners until the time when Commodore Perry pushed his way into Yoko- hama harbor. It seems that tho priests from Spain and « Portugal were welcomed, then came the Pro testant Dutch led by a“ vigorous English evangelist. All of these sects started quarreling, the Japanese be- out’ patrolling for us. Wade had con- siderable trouble with his motor overheating. Once he landed in a Ittle bay, filled his radiator with salt water and then took right off again. . “It was getting late now, and the sun, ‘sliding out of sight into the Yel- BANK OF HEALTH Do you realize that you must make deposits in the bank of health everyday? "The safest way to keep your health-assets intact, is to keep your body well-nourished. Scott's Emulsion is the food-tonic, rich in vita- mins that helps thousands realize dividends on their depositsin the bank of health. A little of Scott’s Emulsion helps you keep. your deposit of strength intact. } pcott & Bowne, Bloomiicid, 0.4. $5.00 Reward will wu Five dollars reward be paid to the ‘party furnishing the Casper | Daily Tribune information leading to the capture of the person who is fraudulently collecting subscriptions from Tribune subscribers. Patrons of the paper should not pay any- one;theilr subscription except the carrier who delivers the paper or an authorized collector from the| office. If you are not sure you are paying the right collector, ask him » show his credentials. If he can- not do so please call the Tribune. Telephone 15 | we came bewildered, they sent their learned men to Europe to find out just what this western religion of ‘protherly love’ was like at its source, they came back after seven years with the verdict that western nqjions were so corrupt and vicious that they should be avoided: So: the shogun of those days issued an edict stating that every European should get out bag and baggage, and get out before he got thrown out. Those who didn’t hurry fast enough were beheaded. Only a few Dutch trad- ers were allowed to’ remain, and they were held virtual pr a tiny island, but allowed fc to ‘act as intermediaries between Japan and‘the outside world. “Two hundred years went by, Then came’ Commodore Perry. with the American fleet and reopened the island empire. ‘Takeoff Tough Job. “We stopped one day in Kago- shima, only long enough ‘to enablé the destroyers to string themselves s the bay between Japan and The’ following day we plan acrt China ned to get away for China at day- break. The water was calm and glassy, and there was fiot/a breath of wind, Distirrbed water, full of fair sized ripples or waves, is neces- sary to enable’a Beaplane to get off. In smooth, mirrorlike water, when there isgno wind, the attraction of the water for the pontoons makes it almost impossible to break this suc- tion. To overcome this we used a system of taking off in formation, One plane would tax! over the water to disturb and then the other two would follow in {ts wake and thus get off on the rough water kicked up by the two others as they swung around in front and rose into the air, But this day we missed the Waves made by the New Orleans and ane the wholesome spread for bread NUCOA fine as shortening in high grade pastry @ the original - always ¢ sweet e I GoTTa scHeme To GET OUT CF DEBT: FOR INSTANCE —— I OWE THE MiLKMAN $14.53 = 1 GONNA RACE SPARKY AGAINST Wis HORSE = IF © WIN THE Bits CANCELLED WELL, COLO SANTA CAME ALL RIGHT! HERES U4 KEEZIX THE FIRST THING t ARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG - ey “HE ICEMAN « = ¥ xX OWE HIM om ing effort. On the flight fro mJapa Nelson reports flying over ten Navy department destroyers are given much credit by the world flyers for the success of the world girdl- and Chinese seas: join, Lieut. Erik | "2 across the waters where the Ye these doughty greyhounds of the sea. Boston. -Seeing us’ still on the water, Erik and Leigh circled around, but Lowell waved to them to proceed, to China. “We taxied back to ‘our moorings to see if we c®uld find anything wrong. Donning which had been pres the bathing suits nted to us by the people of Potrland, Ore... we spent the rest of the day swimming about under the pontoons. We dis covered that a metal strip had been torn away by the force of the water. It, had resulted in just enough re sistance to prevent us {rpny getting off the water ‘Swimming. around underneath those pontoons was a tough job and we swallowed quarts of water. But We got it/fixed, and the next morn: ing the. Black Hawk sent two’ speedy motor boats in front of us to stir up the glassy, surface of Kagoshima bay. .So we finally, got into the air and ‘on our way to China.” ‘When the ‘Chicago’ encountered difficulty in getting off the glassy water of Kagashima bay, and when Smith signaled the rest of us to push right on to China, we headed the ‘New Orleans’ and Boston’ straight across the open sea, and for six solid hours flew entirely ‘out of sight of land. This was our longest sea jour. ney up until this time,” says Erik Nelson, who was the only one of the world fliers familiar with the China coast. As a sailor before the mast Erik had spent weeks idling in these water over which he now flew in a few hours. “With the shores of beautiful Japan and the cone of Sakurajima rapidly melting into the sky behind us. I am sure the thoughts of all of us were on what an interesting time we had passed in the -and of the Mikado, of what a relief Japan had been after coming down from the edge of the Arctic of the honors that had baen heaped upon us and of the brilliant people we had met. It was all so wonderful that we were in a bit of a Conducive to Thinking. “But my thoughts, as we clipped off mile after mile and hour after hour of open sea between Japan and China, were of the days of long, long ago. In fact it seenfed as though it | must have been in another life, some other planet, that I was a or. on a tramp windjammer. M What a difference there is between a barque that takes from one te two place ip the world to think thay in ‘this on my previous visit to China,| when “Les' to sail round the world, and an aerial cruiser like the ‘New Orleans’ that makes the circuit of the globe in less than three weeks'» flying time! In a little gore than ten years I not only had seen this ciracle, but had taken part in it. And as we flew, on and one toward China, my engine v unning so smoothly that the ship seemed to be flying herself, and I dropped into reverie, and seemed to | See dozens cf giant planes passing me | |ih the sky with passengers making week-end trips between Shanghai it as they do between Paris and I n now, and it seemed to me that the airplane was destined to be the agency that | | would bring the races of the world into such intimate contact with each other that they would no more feel inclined to wage wars than the people of Oregon feel like fighting the inhabitants of Georgia or Flor- ida. “If our flight helps to hasten this era all of us will be repaid a million times over for our efforts. Just what significance it will have, to our fel- low country men we do not know. But on@thing we do know, and that | is that it has done more to stimulate enthusiasm for aviation in. Japan than any other event in the history that country! The Japanese had | made little progress in the air. The more :conservative leaders in both army and navy, just as in every oth: er country, treated aviation as some- thing merely in the experimental stage. But when they saw us land on their island after having flown all the way across the Pacific and when they realized that their coun- try was mearly one of twenty-eight countries we were to ‘visit on our flight, they seemed to wake up to the possibilities of aviation with greater speed than they awoke when Commcedore Perry and his American fleet opened the doors of Japan to the commerce of the world just a little over a haf century ago, They put tn orders for the building of fleets of airplanes and for the con- struction of airships twice the size fenandoah and ZF-3, of are so proud Destroyers Guard Path. Part nich we of the time while speeding | across the Yellow sea, I dif nothing but think and let Jack take the wheel. We often relieved each other | mony ‘to: your: ears, you"and lthe river’ and dtew near "Shanghai J, BS SLL T OWE Is FoR LIFE TLL HANE To SETTLE LTTAAT NEXT — we TL. WOP.WER AND. SEE THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY Wg YO long years -before. But wo found, when-we,came down, that the: har- bormaser-had held up all traffic in the river-for-hours. “Just, in one bunch--there over 250 boath loaded with fith,and-they-did not represent one-hundredth: of 1. per cent ofall that vast mass of water’ craft.. The harbormaster_ ‘hadn't’ kiown just ‘| how. much space we would. require, ‘| so ‘he- bad cleared: several miles in order -that we -would be'sure not to repeat the .experienes of D’Oisy, the, French airman,-who only a few days *| before. .had-crashed on the outskirts ‘| of Shanghai. ried greatly for fear that in coming down in-the harbor we would smash || upon a:sampan or junk. Capt: Eis- Jer’ had spent sleépless nights think- tng aboutiit. -This‘was the main sub- Ject of- conversation, and every one seemed -much relieved to see us’ ar. |. rive without. crashing. “On our way across the Yellow sea the exhaust pipe on the right hand side of my engine had ‘gotten so hot that the rubber had all burn- ‘tdeoff the ignition ‘wires. If we had been obliged to fly an hour or two longer ‘we might. Have had serious trouble and ‘plunged {nto the sea. During our‘ brief stay in Shanghai we ‘had “new ‘exhaust stocks, short open ‘ones, put'‘on all the planes. We had~ been‘ having trouble. with the long ~ones cracking, getting strained, and burning out the ex haust’ gaskets. I succeeded in ar- nging “with-a~machine shop in a Chinese shipyard to work night and day making the short stacks and : : from then’ on we had“nb more trou- the cockpit of a plane as you:race | ble. cross the sky ‘at seventy, or one] «-tmmediately, after the reception hundred, or" one’ huridréd “and \titty,| on the. boat we. rowed.back to our miles an hour. Tf the sky: is clear] pianes and went to work. In doing and you are high enough ‘from the|so we disappointed people ashore earth not to be interested 'in the af-|who had arranged an even more fairs of the world: below, and if your | elaborate reception. We learned af: motor. is‘ sitging’ a rhelody. of- pow- | verwayds that the reserve militia, on er that is one long rythmical har.|hordeback and_in full regalia, were 3 gt! ‘Our | watting* on dress parade. to. receive plane seem to merge into one. The | ys. Butiit was long after. dark when swiftness of your flight seems to| we. finished our work. Of course we blow the cobwebs =from’ your ‘brain | much’ disliked disappointing people, * INSURANCE POLICY ~-$/G5 20< the hotel they had on their greasy unlon-alls. The native footmen at the door of the Astor ordered them around to the tradesmen’s entrance. In the meantime Smith and Nel- son were busy with naval officers figuring out the best way to “‘take- oft” -from Shanghal and arranging for several destroyers to drop down the cbast and prepare a special land- ing police where they-could. refuel, because they knew it was going to be extremely difficult to get out of. the Yangtze’ Kiang without. hitting sampans or junks even though they only carried a light load of gas and oll. May 7, when attempting to “‘take- off.” The traffic on the river was So great that the harbormaster had not been able to clear a very wide stretch. The first time the three planes atempted to get into the alr they couldn't make it, nearly collid- ed with Chinese craft, turned and taxted back, and then made a second attempt. The Chicago and Boston succeeded in getting off, but Erik and Jack went sailing up the Yang- tze Kiang at sixty miles an hour, dodging sampans, freighters, ocean Mners and junks. The other ‘boys watched them with their hearts “in their mouths full expecting to see the New Orleans have a headon col- lision, but were immensely relieved to see her just clear the mast of a junk. With only enough gasoline to car- ry them a short way down the China coast they flew from 7:50 until 12:20, when they descended near a destroy- er in Tchimkoem ,bay. This body of water turned out to be not nearly |as well protected from the open sea us It looked on.the map. Huge roll- ers were coming in, but the planes simply had to descend, because they were nearly out of fuel. Their take- off through the rollers was another one of those episodes of the trip when they didn't know whether they, were going to make it or not. Ex- Periences of this kind were almost an every day occurrence with them by now. On every flight they were and you can do more’clear'thinking | but I am afrald this occurred in in tow hours than you can do \n‘two | many ‘cities. days in a crowded city. “ ale: : Great Reception at Hotel. ‘We had left Kagoshima bay. at| ‘When we finally left the ships 8:25 in the morning. Ahalf hour lat-| we «were, taken to the: Hotel Astor, er we had reached the open sea..Our|a1g@lcn entering, the lobby, had tt flight had been across the water ‘at | not been for the Chinese attendants the place, where the. Yellow and the| andthe throngs of smartly dressed China seas merge into.one. One,hour | People from all over the world we off'the coast we “passed ,over the | Might have thought ourselves.in.a Ford, which was the first of :the yw. York, Paris or London hotel. string of destroyers. strung all the After we had dressed and dined, way across the China to be on: hand | Cars, whisked us through the streets in casé of engine_trouble.: We passed | to a, charity ball which we were told nine \other destroyers .besidés’ ‘the | had: been-postponed in order that It Ford, and when forty’ milesioff the | might coincide with our arrival. It China coast we could” tell that we | Was, held in the home of ‘some mer- were approaehing the ‘mouth of a| chant prince. But {t was more of @ great river. Most of the way the sea | Palace than a mere house, had been a ‘déep blue. Then’ ‘it| “URon, entering we were asked to changed to green and we knew that | Stand infront of some massive it was much. shallower. Butlas ye| fouble doors for= a moment. We neared the: mainland “of “Asia it #1) | Were standing there innocently when of a sudden turned a muddy.brown.,| Suddenly they swung open, and we . . + nearly dropped through the. floor erie garry aie t. There we were facing apptoentiing the delta otionstetahe | meee ee ee Rechen SAisrening largest rivers in the world,'the Yang] kets shove tanmecent us freee cunt i 5: | gentle shove to,prevent us from run- tze Kiang, a‘river longer than .the| ping away. As we entered thro u t ‘ ugh distance from San Francisco.to, New dale the-orchestra-burst. forth York. The Yangtze../Kiang -is-:the | ang little girls in sweet little dresses Mississippi of China and. divides ithe | walked in front of us strewifis saeco country into two parts..Tens of mi?- | and singing... felt ke a burglar lions of people live on, its shores, and | caught with the goods. We nares millions -actually ve their entire} an simply overcome. We were told lives on its broad expanse in ‘house-|Jater that our expressions when the boats, sampans, and junks. Among | doors swung open were ‘ve! the cities on its banks are, Shanghai, about the size of Philadelphia; Nan- king. which-{s-as-large-as-St. «Lou and New Orleans combined; Soocho in the delta, about the size of De- trojt. .and. score.of .cthers..all. over 100,000 in population. “As we flew actoss_the mouth of ‘oe had ‘never seen such a bril- int-affsir’ The women" wore stun- ing evening, gowns, dazzling jewels, and ‘diamond’ tiar: The men were dressed in~the untforms of a dozen different nations.” Next ‘day Smith: and “Arnold ar. rived, and again’ the reception com mittee: the foreign colony, and + throrigs*of Chinese were out onthe Yangtze “Kiang to meet them. The yecond> day the boys all worked on Bi n we were amazed at ‘the ‘number of Chinese water craft) under us: The river’ seemed jamiied with, tens of tHousands of junks, sampans, and like that. Nor is there a more ideal steamers. “I had’ seen*notliing like]}the planes until after dark, and and Leigh returned to ‘ always facing death, flying in all sorts of weather, never knowing just what the country was going to be like up ahead, and realizing that if anything went wrong.and if the mo- tor forced them to land immediately they were almost certain to crash. SUSPENSION OF ANILROAD WAGE PACT 1S DENIED CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Petitions of the conference committee of man agers of western railways to have the United, States railroad labor board suspend operation of an agree. ment between the Southern Pacific company and {ts engineers and ¢ire- men, have been dented by the board The western managers asked that the agreement be set aside under a provision of the Transportation act Biving the board power to do.so if a Wage or salary increase !s likely to increase the rates of the carrier. The managers did not claim that rier, because a similar increase, ex tended a second carrier might pro- duce a rate increase for the second carrier, | an increase in rates was expected on the Southern Pacific, but. made the | plea that other, western roads who made sim!lar wage increases, might | increase rates | The board declared the carrie: | have misintes>reted the law in as suming that {t had authority to sus pend an agreement ting a car By Billey De Beck * 4 Maoxns Pen are FRENGH REFUSE FVAGUATION OF COLOGNE AREA German Failure. to: Dis- arm Is Given as’: Reason. PARIS, Dec. 26—(By The: Amo” ciated Press)—The evacuation the Cologne area of the German oc: cupied region on Janusry 10, 8 conditionally set by the Versafiles peace treaty, is deemed impossible by the French cabinet in view of the reports from the interalMed mil. itary control commission, At this morning's cabinet meeting the min- isters approved a memorandum in which the French government’ ex pressed*this conclusion. Premier Herriott in submitting the document to the cabinet: read a note from the British Government regarding maintenance of the oc. cupation. The French memorandum is based on the control commission's offi- cial report already received, set: ting forth faflure in some réspects by Germany to comply with dis- armament conditions, ~ The cabinet, however, was also informed of later information’ ‘re- garding French discoveries of ‘cor: cealed arms, which strengthened the ¢dasons advanced for refusal to evacuate the Cologne district.” ANDERSON IS . RE-ARRESTED ON RELEASE OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. 26—Re ff leased from Sing Sing prison.on na- role Wednesday after serving nine months for theird degree for- gery, Willam H. 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