Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1924, Page 8

sue ws +the China coast. PAGE EIGHT a Nelson Makes Long Journey To Aid Mates “Chicago” Forced to Descend on Lonely Lagoon in French Indo-China With Motor Out of Commission By LOWELL THOMAS By The story of Erik Nelson’ miles through the jungle to Tribune 2 wspaper Syndicate and the Mc: s night journey of a hundred rescue Smith and Arnold is one of the most romantic chapters in the history of the world flight. When the “Chicago” was obliged to descend on a lonely lagoon in one of the least known parts of French Indo- the other two planes circled y de. hen landed being the nearest tc mith gave his instructions to He ordered the rest the aport of ourane possible w top speed ¥ ned on the t Tourane. leaving up, ied aboard the 4 yer that was in the harbor ewalting them. Between them they decided that while Erik should go k to try and find Smith and Ar- shouted to his friend who had been Aro! d by the barking of the dogs. le told us he had seen nothing of the planes. But after we had all studied the map again in his bun- galow he advised us to journey over. land for a few miles to a place where he said a native priest lived He rounded up some of the natives for us and after considerable bicker- ing and bargaining he and Chevalier found five who agreed to carry the food and guide us through the for- est Just exactly how far we hiked I do not know, proceeded single . and what impreesed me most was the multitude of little shrines all along. Théy were places where the natives said their prayers and left offerings for the tigers and other forest spirits. Every traveler who goes this way leaves a banana or a bit of rice on these altars. There 4, that Leigh should get a now from Saigon by the de- The advance officer for this di- rision was Lieut. Lawton, the same Ncer who had arranged supply ses and moortng places all down Here at Tourane he had appointed the Standard Oil agent, M. Chevalier, a Frenchman, to look efter the boys upon thelr ar- rival. Erik found him aboard the destroyer. They hurried ashore to M. Chevt “s house, hunted up a map of Indo-China and tried to fig- ure out just where the lagoon was and how it would be possible to reach tt. Search for Landing Place M. Chevalier knew from Nelson's description that Smith and Arnold were not many miles from the old Annamese city of Hus. He at once suggested that they motor there be- fore venturing into the jungle. So leaving Wade, Ogden, ané Harding to look after the “New Orleans” and “Boston,” and to get a new engine up from Saigon, Erik and Crevalier started for Hue to consult the French officials. “The highway we drove over was on excellently constructed gravel read.” said Erik, ‘We wound thru the jungle, came dangerously near colliding with native bullock carts a score of times, crossed a mountain range where the peaks were from 3,000 to 5,000 feet high, and clung to mountain walls where a reckless culver might have shot over a prect- pice and rolled for a thousand feet {nto the teak and tamarind forests below. It was hearly all wild jun- gle country. Occasionally we would hurtle through a ‘village, or slow down while belng ferried across a stretch of water by a native barge. Journey in Dugouts It took us three hours to get to Hue, and none of the officials had eard that our planes were in that art of Asia. But when I pointed t on the map where I thought the lagoon was located, they told us it as impossible to reach it by car nnd said we would have to go part way in native campans or dugouts. ‘Returning to the little hotel in }ue we bought a lot of sandwiches, null, soda water and other things take along for the boys, engaged native who spoke a little French help guide us, and at 11 p. m. at night we were in the auto. again. Th © are many terways through this part of An . and M 1er French Chevalier had a friend an, who owned co- rice plantation ver which oon we to, and then ha: d@ other supplt 4 continue by river It was pitch dark, no moon, and not a star. @ natives could 1 1 the bends and aoks in 1 on such an me were shrinss every five minutes, and occasionally we passed quite a good sized terople. On both sides of the trail there was dense jungle, jungle that could only be penetrated if you cut your way through. “At last we arrived at the thatch- ed house of the priest. While the natives remained outside he invited us in, told us he had neither seen nor heard any airplanes, but would gend for some of the natives who had been out fishing that day. At the same time he ordered one of the servants to notify the mandarin, who lived a mile or so away. The fishermen were unable to help us, but they said they had seen two monsters flying through the air that afternoon. Mandarin Helps Search “The Mandarin came to the priest's bungslow all decked out in a gorgeous black silk costume and followed by quite a retinue. He was most polite and offered to place his sampans and men at our disposal, So we set off down the river again. Nearly worn out, I stretehed out in the bottom of the sampan, while Chevalier inspected the banks with the two flashlights we had brought along. Occasionally we passed a native village, and then the night would be rent by the shouts of the nattves on shore and those paddling us. e “An hour or more went by before we encountered any one who could sive us encouraging news. At last & native told us there was an a'r. plane {n a lagoon not far away. Bo we knew we were on the the right track. From then on we kept the Mashlights going continuously and called out every few minutes. At last we heard an answering shout. Smith and Arnold had managed to get very little sleep during the night. But the chief of one of the nearby tribes had come out ‘and taken it upon himself to help them guard the plant. It was a sweltering hot night and the mosquitos nearly de- voured the two marooned airmen. After drinking the sacramental wine together with the bread and bananas ves" had brought back from his trip ashore, Smith curled up in the tool compartment with his head out of the dorway, and Arnold stretched out on the bottom wing. ‘Les’? happened to be awake when the res. cue party approached. Away off n the distance he heard shouting and at first thought it might be a tr of Annamese on he war path. But in a few minutes,” sald Ar- nold, “I heard the unmistakable brogue of Erik Nelson Feast on Pontoans When the sampan came along- Side the first thing we did was to have a fenst. Not only had Erik and Chevalier brought us food and drinks, but they had packed the lat- ter in a box of tce, It was a mm- orable night You can't imagine how glad we were to see old Erik again. There wasn't a sound out better trained ess than ours. r country, and mortal. terror m they rev- as ‘King of s'my as ‘My Lord.’ lesome respect oked rice inte and offered night, imploring them to protect us. Shrines Throughout Country ‘In anoth half hour we arrived in front of tt antat'on and were greeted by a of dogs that set up a tremendous howling. Chevalier $5.00 Reward will be paid & the Casper leading Vive dollars reward to the party furnis Dally Tribune information to the capture of the pe fraudulently collecting s ibune subscribers paper should not pay their subscription except 0 delivers the paper d collector from t Du are not sure you are ight collector, ask him dentials. It he can e call the Tribune, Patrons any the there in-the middle of ‘that lagoon excepting the singing of the mos. quitoes. As we sat on the pontoons devouring the food and constming quantities of delicious ced drinks Erik happened to recall that it was e 12th of June and his birthday.” Surely there had been few strang- er birthday parties than this one held at 8 o'clock in the morning on the pontoons of a staplane stranded in the middle of a tropical lagoon in far off French Indo-China, and at- tended by three American world fliers, a Frenchman, and a crowd of naked Annamese jungle folk. Lowell Smith and Les Arnold say they will never forget the speed with which Erik Nelson came to their rescue, his thoughtfulness tn bringing them such a splendid spread, and the enthusiastic help given by M, Chevalier of Tourane. After they had finished this unique birthday party they went ashore, aroused the natives in the nearest village and arranged with them to have a fleet of sampans tow the Chicago out of the !<goon and for twenty-five miles along the Hue river to the cap!tol of Annam to it the arrival of a new engine. ar Mead De WORTHING’ Fire destroye George T. Harding, Jr., te President Warren G. Hard ON, Ohio, “Dec. 29 the otticn ee Dr wrother of Ing, at t rm here today at estimated lose of $10,000, ee ee Che Casper Dailp Cribune BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG TS LISSEN, BARNEY | Youre Broke FUTTERN A WHEAT cake = Eu TAKe Your Horse OFFA NGuR HANDS For A Weex, ENTER Hin A RACE, Aun WELL SPLIT THE PURSE i He Wince OF COURSE, YOu GOTTA PAY ALL THE TTRAINING EXPENSES OUT OF Your, WNANES = IM To HAVE Couprete CAARGE AND You woN-T BUTT IN =. 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Tickets may be obtained at either the Rialto Fruit*store or the Casper Pharmacy. NO ACTION DUE ONMCLINTOGK a Classified Ad By HERBERT LITTLE (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Ambi- tions ecientists on Uncle Sam's pay- roll have started out to welgh the earth, sun, moon planets and stars with two little gold balls, a couple of cylinders and a gallery of mir- rors. Down in a cave 35 feet beneath the lowest cellar of the bureau of standards building here, they are putting mother earth on the scales. It 1s done by measuring the attrac. tion of the cylinders on the gold balls as they swing in circle from an aluminium beam. The attraction is almost immeas. urably small, but applied to the earth tn retraction to the sun and moon it explains the summer and winter, the tides, and the other nat- ural phenomenon of the changing world. " The figure previously determined as representing this universal attrac. tion of all bodies of matter for one another, called the “gravitational constant” and fixed at .000,000.066,98, is only 99.98 per cent correct and Dr. Paul Rhyl, with special precau- tions for accuracy, hopes to obtain ® figure which will be 99.998 per cent correct, or a ninety per cent reduc- tion in the present error. With this figure and other data, Including the distance to the center of the earth, the sun, the moon and stars, the business of determining their mass, for weight, can be ac: complished. The astronomers have worked out a formula whereby the mass can be accurately computed, the other factors in the equation be ing correct The present estimate for the earth's weight {s six sextellion 6,000,000.000,000,090,000,000 tons. A tronomers admit, however that there is a basic error of one fiftleth quin tillion tons in the total. This dis crepancy has bothered them in their sideereal computations. If the present weighing expert ment works this error will be re- duced to one five hundredths of one per cent, bringing the weight estimates within 120 qu irmail Service, iMr. and Mrs, Wfillam D. Shepherd. On Scales for Weight rilion tons of being right, suffi- ciently close for all practical pur- poses, ‘The sun’s weight is now computed 45 332,000 times that of the earth, an appallingly long string of figures. The same errors enter calculation of its weight and if eliminated for the earth they will be eliminated for the sun. FRIGID SPELL ae ABOUT OVER Continued from Page One. for today, with the steadily rising temperatures to bring snow in the northern, rain or snow in the mid- dle, and rain in the southern sec- tions tomorrow however. In the Rocky Mountain section, moderation was noted last night. Montana, which suffered a pro- tracted period of sub-zera tempera- tures, while most of the rest of the country was undergoing three dis- tinct onslaughts, reported ther- mometer readings of from plus ten to-plus 25 over the state with con- siderable snowfall. Higher tempera- tures brought relief to the Pacific coast states yesterday. A dozen deaths were added ‘to the winter's toll, six'in Chicago, three in Portland, Ore., and one each in Tacoma, Wash., Reno, Nevada, and Indianapolis, Ind. Humboldt, Mich., a high«spot in |the northern peninsula, had the loubtful honor of reporting the low- est temperature in the Upited States yesterday, 50. below zero. In Illinois, Harrisburg, with eleven below zero, had its coldest weather in 2% years. Towa had numerous cities with double figures below’ zero after precipitate drops of more than 50 degrees in 36 hours. Des Moines felt a chill of 21 below, Cedar Rapids 28 below, Fort Dodge 27 below and Body Is Disinterred Red Oak minus 24 By NEA Investigating the death of William H. McClintock, ‘millionaire or- phan," Chicago authorities disinterred the body in an effort to deter- mine positively the cause of his tleath, McClintock died supposedly of ty: | phoid fever, lenving an estate valued at $20,000, $ to His foster patente ~ PROBE TODAY Sthte’s Attorneys Must lait for Doctors Mak- | be ho declined to divulge, explaining that it might be; misconstrued, and that he hoped to be able to make public a report from the chemists not later than next Friday In the meantime, the coroner in- dicated, the inquiry was to proceed with no’ abatement. CHICAGO, Dec..29.—While state's attorneys awaited, the ‘report of doc; tors who examined the ‘exhumed body of William -Nelson McClintock to determine as far. as science can tell, the exact cause of the youthful millionaire orphan's death, William D. 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Shepherd asserted that he will ask State’s Attorney Crowe to: seek the indictment,’ of persons whom | he names only as ‘my traducers"; that he will destroy the’ fatality hoodoo that seemingly rests upon his mil- lion dollar legacy, by separating it -~--121%c Veal Loin Steak, Ib. into several funds. which upon the 2'ac-15c Veal T-Bone Steak, Ib death of himself and his wife; may ar to be used for the bettermént ‘of man- kind, and that he ‘will, provide a trust fund from which Mtss’ Isabelle Pope, McClintock's flance, may re- ceive $8,000. yearly during her life, after which the. fund . may be divided among several charities, Baiid Dolds’ Niagara Bacon, Ib Drs. William B. McNally, William : 3 ; , Hi. 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