Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 16

C "| Live News of | Motordom in This Section) ADUSING WELCOM 5 | that might do. Wade, who of course, | Italian war ace and adventurous| morning of August 21 that we finally knew all our requirements, went| member of the chamber of deputies | finished repairing our planes with | along, and there were also two small| in Rome, arrived in Hornafjord from | the spare parts which the Richmond scout planes on the Raleigh. Next] the Faroe islands in his superfiying | had just brought back to us. As we ve ved a wiretdss from Schultze | boat. The next day, while the Amert-| were returning to the hotel favorable | - | ray that the Gertrude Rask was] can warshi « getting Into posi-| reports came in, and without having | still floating helplessly in the Arctic | tion between Iceland and Fredericks-| had any sleep whatever we bed Jice pack, that it was now eighty | dal, Locatelli reached Roykjavik. We|into our planes and started for | from Angmagsalik and fast| were much impressed by his keen] Greenland on the longest and most | r out of coal. looking; twin motored monoplane | hazardous leg of our entire flight.” —— | this time we were going over | with its steel hull. It was just about ————_-— Continued t Page One. Ia |every inch of our planes faavinol es efficient looking as any aerial were goin t out of lu fjt | aliged to come down In the outer | plane could survive such seas as were sweeping in from | the gray Atlantic, But, fortunately we found that our buoys had bec f an immens kjavik, fully 25 waiting to give us welcome. And we discove apes , are 1 over | wire that they were in shape for the] thing we had ever », and Loea- “phe yecause of their | t¥° Jong Jumps ahead of us—jumps | telli seemed to be a splendid dash , of their) where if anything went ‘wrong It| ing fellow f anish ¢ have blue eyes, just irls of Iceland were be certain to mean disaster.| ‘The following morning we were Pissed F622 | eut down our weight to the bare| up before dawn, out on the planes/| ring operat ade nia [ewe s leaving out many of} waiting for favcrable wireless re: and abandoning all oloth-| ports. At 19 o'clock fairly good news : such things as sweaters, one| came, and at 10:15. we taxfed to the ; 3, 0 flying suits off. There wes not a breath of wind. “ y age from Schultze} but the swell was so great and the id Climate a Myth, sald Gertrude Rask had fin-| planes were so heavily loaded with ) the frigid climate, well ny 1 the ice and] fuel, heavier than ever before on the! ‘gelling cars at the rate of 260 an in ade erial 1 fact, it w r he n. This was alentire flight, that we were unable there we i F believe it, t : to us but to the | to make {t. The propeller on the New | 2our, twenty-four hours a day, for in port with ) sailors on: board. | } e on the edge of the| American newrpaper men who had| Orleans was struck by a rolier and| ‘he 300 working days of 1924, the In fact, we were responsible for a /arctic circle in Reykja there is| turned ultrapessimistic and were’ broken off, A wave hit the Chicago Ford Mot company established the veritable American invasion of Ice: | l¢ land. Up to this time, according to the inhabit not even an Ameri can ms visited them. So crowded w the streets | id docks with our sailors, and so|r numerou® were the newspapef re-|a porters who roamed about like lost!|s Javik an-o'-war had seemed just inu | s after we had| | the prime minister of Iceland. |‘ greatest sales record of its history in the twelve months ended Decem- ber 31. 8 snow and Ice .in ter than] making bets with us that we could] and tore off the front spreader bar. is elther in St. Louls or Den-| never get through and that the flight | Both planes had a great many wires t re, ¥ ir friends | would have to be abandoned. I be-| loosened while diving and careening | > salubrious | the enly one lone news-| through the waves. So we werg re-| Domestic retail deliveries for the escape | a correspondent for a| luctantly obliged to return to’ our|year were 1,873,581 cars and trucks, n Omaha un who sided with] moorings. On this cne day the har- an increase of 87,736 over the sales the company announced. sales of trucks went over the are goin for we could make | bor at Angmagsalik was clear of iceJof 1 for three hours, then it filled again, | Retail uggest as a or the IT they y Italian Flyer ém Job. and from then on it would have been | 200,000 mark for the first time, ex- golf f Iceland On August 11 the advance agent | impossible to land there. ceeding the sales of 1923 by 15,013. Icelan¢ arri The Damages All Repaired. of Lincoln cars, a product s to Denmark, and} fcr the Italian flyers steamed the Richmond | the ministes b ‘P| only thing delaying us now was that “at dinner that evening Lieut division of the Ford Motor com- ky companions, Wade |Pointment from Cepenhage One | iltze had wirelessed it would be | Crumrine, the advance officer for us|pany, totaled 7,501, as compared They immediately put |f the first functions we attended | impossible, for us to light on the| as far as Iceland and noted both for] with 6,018 in 1923. ch and joined us on the | W@s formal luncheon which he} water in the harbor at Angmagsalik | his quietness and his seeming de-| y was also announced that ap- e were being welcomed |#ve f Admiral Magruder, the | owing to the fact that there were too | sire to always remain in the back-|,roximately 2,000 tractors have just many floating cakes of ice. August | ground, astonished us, aptain of ° rican warships as well as the|fcen shipped to Russia, this being old Wade put his arms around |" @) six me and still these young ice-| Icelanders, by appearing in the big|the second sale of tractors to that ell and his eyes filled with tears, | were wére too thick. Moreover, the | cafe in a flaming red shirt. Of conrse | .ountr which first entered the A we were overjoyed to have | 4th leigh was enco y e was th er of a 7 * h we ¥ rjoyed to have | sathering gh v neountering fifty mile] he was the cent ull eyes, and | tractor market last August, when t igain, lumps came | Ones ¥ gales en route. In disgust we now | he apparent! 1 being in the spot-/999 machines were purchased. our the because we, too,| We had to gave up hope of going by way of | light for a change so vowed he would ook the sinking of She Boston to} 4nd khaki Angmagsalik and laid plans for a] wear that red shirt as long as we eart near! uch as they did, [On the scer far longer flight, not to the eastern | remained tm Te | ; Disp! thone oe Greenland, whieh was near-| ‘On the night ‘of the 19th of Au It’s on Display roughly Modern City. while waiting for wire from Lé@ Clair Schultze the ice along the coast of we wandered around Reykjavik. We had expected to find it a village made up of Eskim gloos, & community inhabited by | 7 ur clad, sea) spearing, blubber eat Next ¢ less repo! le ishment when we found that we | yy were in a thoroughly modern city, a | j, metropolis peopled entirely by folk | y of Danish descent, a city with well paved streets attractively illuminated by clusters of electric lights. In stead of igic of ice and walru: hide, we found up to date cafes well appointed hotels, anks, clubs ctive shops, modistes who dis r 1 hats and frocks from the Rut Royal and the Rue de la Paix, and |; even manicure parlors jo, under the circumstances, we thought that splendent ful spect. We we ing natives. So imagine our aston-| But we kept est us, but away around to F wr: | gust we entertained the Ttatan crew || OAKLAND COACH bout as ¢ a couple icksda}, 830 miles away, on the west] and Smith invited them to fly along ngshoremen at a Junior Leasue | coast. Seven hundred and fifty miles} with us in order to thus have the $1215.00 Factory per Bs bie ' a nad ei ied Unie lof Rls flight wii have sie mane mene of the Aan oen ee | Patterson Oakland Co. d yo! celand a great succe right across the open ocean, and] and destroyers cate’ accepter > “a Advance Boat Teebound. much of it over icoberga pan ay Ye fe 438 East Yellowstone ‘Our lon of thirteen days 1 She utter noon, Sig. Locate: It was not until 2:30 a. m. on the il: “Previous re. Engin it was difficult for VARNISH OF NEW CARS. The varnish of a new car ¢s bene it kes so that they would give | fited and hardgned by washing with | eq pr ers devised | clear, cold water. Mud that ts al TAS a © equalizing device that elimi-|lowed to dry upon the body take |nuted this difficulty and greatly] the oll from the varnish and leaves ed the ease of brake adjust-|the finish mottled and streaky Ameriean Automobile Digest. 15 AIM OF CHEVROLET African ‘explorers experience more suffering and loss of life from t attacks of insects ranging from th death-dealing tsetse y to the annoy ing gnat than they do from ma eating wild beasts. Similarly litt! annoyances add more misery to automobile driving than do serious death-dealing taatse fly to the ann come rarities. Some of these “little things” that the average automobile owner hard ly notices are described by O. E Hunt, chief engineer of the Chevrol Motor company, which has + troduced newly des’ modi Z = “Former Chevrolet owners who have purchased the new model un- | doubtedly have wondered why the engineers changed the gasoline tank opening from the right to the left | side,” said Mr. Hunt. ‘The real reason is that when driving with a full tank on a crowned road tho | = 6-Volt right side of the car is lowest and|§ . gasoline splashes through the air|M Standard 2 Extra Fine vent, causing a loss and spoiling the | & Capacity ; Quality appearance of the rear of the car In Kubper Box tars WE SUGGEST Can Be Used in All Small Make A Clean Moter THIS SEASON We Clean by Steam COMPANY Service Station LIBERTY GARAGE $2.00 OSCAR REDENBO 430 W. Yellowstone Phone 1692 FREE SERVICE BATTERIES celand was most irk ‘ @ rts from eard that the Gertrt ytnish bout on which Lieut. Schulte Soo Doep6ee BROTHERS ye #OIr other place a SPECIAL wn Greenla the most appropriate way for us tc celebrate our arrival in Iceland would be to have a manicure,, I and behold the manicurists “even chatted with us jn English! On our Way back. to the’ hotel we had te watch our step to keep from being run down by taxis. Just imagine what_a sad ending to our world 2 NEW M COME IN § PACKARD 326 South David Street HERE TODAY THE HUPMOBILE _, FOUR “The Old Standby” ON DISPLAY Also Another of the Popular HUPMOBILE EIGHT ROADSTERS JOE E. MANSFIELD, Inc. he coast of lit kr re | TYPE-A SEDAN L. D. BRANSON ° . I Everrthing Electrical _ say that the Special ai Sedan 615 E. Second St. | Phone 383 ooks as good as it really is, is simply to pay a just and deserved tribute to the | coachwork and the special equipment. The appointments were determined in the usual Dodge Brothers way— strictly on ‘a basis of quality and not of cost. 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