Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1923, Page 8

Failure to Kill Walrus Sealed Doom of Party on Wrangel Tragic Diary Shows Fatal Delay in! Hunting While They Awaited Ships That Never Came. BY HAROLD NOICE, Leader Wrangel Island Rescue Ex-| vedition. Reading the diary record of the Wrangel Tsland expedition, T feel as| though T were watching a man walk- cake about a hundred and fifty ards from thelr intended victims. Knight stayed there to watch the boat. The others crept across the floe, keeping out of sight behind a pressure ridge. All three men fired simultaneously. 1’1'\\'n bullets hit their mark, the third ing blindfolded toward a precipice |Went v"l“;!' ”“‘“}“r"r killed one wal- and were powerless to stop hlm.J:',"Tm':;is peli e hn, s the three Almost to the last, the boys falled | huntsmen got into the dory and utterly to realize the dangers of their | YOWed across to examine their prizes. Draficamant | The dead heasts proved to be a 2 - | large female and her half grown calf. Summer over and the sealing mors | The boys were in high spirits. Dark or l=ss of a failure, the fate of tl\e“;“'“! ST [nn. b:l. they decided not Faa i bt o risk leaving their precfous cateh party now hangs on the walrus hunl.!m the vamaries of the shifting ice 8ix walrus would have saved the |pack. They sent Galle back to camp situation. Six walrug should k»op!,‘lphfhe 34#3’ for an axe and a lantern. five persons alive and entirely free| The others staved behind to skin. | They ha i e hey had just finished stripping the They would also provide ample food | turned. entire winter. [ hide from the cow when Galle re- turned. 'To their despaic they found kS 5 | that the milling ice had blocked hi Y\_'[”\G Bungry dogs. . ! path. There they were, three mhrr’: culhie monderous, black ekinned crea- | floating helplessiy around on an lce turce of meat and blubber welkh un- | cake, with the dory, their only means When a man isigf e Hving off the country he will mi‘Zw.&’“"' Shet Socmr. five pounds of meat day. Except | the chance of cggs in the spring, | M usReS R oy when the eider and crowbill ducks| Between them and the dory and the snow geese return from the (a number of small and swiftly mov- su)ul.!. )hv has nothing else UPON |ing pieces of ice, sticking up like | which he can count, | 3 = i rocks in a river, but perilously un- 5 Tlive om Meat Aione | stable. Crawford, realizing that Galle | Contrary to the bellef of the civil- | oould never reach th 1 fzed world, where a mah thinks he dSi Alone. [ 8. jeopardizes Nis health if he eats @ )cided to risk a dash across this fice | mutton chop twice u day. the men fleld. With the help of a pole he v'vlr the north n.uw d v‘nq;‘rnl;w‘l that|succeeded, by jumping from cake to 1oy can remain perfectly healthy in- | e definitely on a diet exclusively of |°2Ke In reaching the dory. | Together the two men In the boat | rvy develops, not from lack of [tried to reach their companions. ex. but from lack of fresh | Again they failed. The dory was so food of any kind. Vitamin A, which | neavy and the ice so thick that navi- the scurvy preventive, is found | gation was Impossible. elther fresh meat or fresh vege- |~ Taking as much of the precious i : e g {meat as they could carry in their | e Is nothing in X-xht's diary hands, Maurer and Knight tried to| to indicate that the realized | across the lce as Crawford had | how desperate their condition would done, but It was moving too swiftly. | were | Sc vegeta '!‘-F..Anv 1m§tMmé|vrll§,a‘L T e Steransson ARGT AND Deverom, Company VANgOVVIE Fofden please returnTo 614 Cradit Fomciew- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1923, bt BAL A Lol S . I MUTT AND JEFF—Yes, Boys, It Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter. OUR ATYIC BED-RooM 'S LIke AN (ce Box SO Y 60TTA LOAF HERE UNTIL WE 66T €NOUGH COIN To BULY SoMmE OIL FOR ouR G \, |ing day they had been able to sal- vage only fifty pounds of meat— scarcely more than enough to keep them and the dogs for a single day. Eventually they were able to bring In a little more, but it could not have been a great quantity, for shortly afterward Knight records that they are out of fresh meat, N This was the end of the walrus hunt. They never shot another. Curiously enough, they do not seem to realize even then the impending seriousness of their situation. All through the fall their theughts are on the coming of the supply ship. Early in September they run a lantern up on a pole and keep it burning there. Meantime they watched the ice. It lay in great white stretches, ap- parently an impenetrable barrier be- tween them and help from the out- side world, Ada, whose eyes Knight describes as telescopes, spent much of her time these days on the hill- top, searching for streuks of black 1o Eapronagion Advonce Yarry Fomel cer P n'A . T‘.S"r‘ Blds Uameeuyer B:< ‘acsimile of the title paze of the officlal log and record book of the expedition to Wrangel Island, kept by E. Lorne Knight, second in command of the il drawn piCtures of fratermal orgamisation emblems. Pevelopment Compan party marooned on Wrangel Island. Wnight came from McMinnville, Ore. e if they failed to get walrus. They |It was not until after midnight, saw the walrus swimming in the |When they had been struggling for water, but belleved they must wait | hours, that the o6 finally came to & until they could catch them on the |Standstiil and they succeeded in jce. Because they had neither a skin |making their way, with the help of boat nor 4 walrus harpoon they evi- |0ars and ropes, to the dory. dently thought there was no use try- | By lantern lignt the four of them | ioe [ ths Tokt. ut. the Teo was 120 rougty Could Have Made Boat, the boat too heavy and the leads too With sufficlent ingenuity or experi- [many. At 2 in the morning they had | enco they could have made themreives |Succeeded in working their way back | a bost of seal skin, and harpoons!to camp, but were forced to leave | might easily have been fashioned out | their prize behind them. of bone or scrap Iron They consoled themselves with the Instead, they watched and waited, | thought that the fce was now still. Provided with an umiak, which would | Second Effort Fails, have been light enough to carry, they | By 4 o'clock the next afternoon would have been able to take the|the ice was in such condition that offensive. The experienced hurter |they were able to launch the do puils the umiak up on the ice, drags and try again to salvage their kill. it across the flors and launches it Thev were able to get within & quar- again In the open lead on the other ter of a mile of the floe, but could <ide. In this way he can follow the penetrate no farther, 50 went back walrus into the pack and kill. With to camp and brought the heavy dory, the only boat the Ing the sled by hand over the in boys had, this was impossible. cure ice cakes, théy reached the me: Such entrles as the following sick- | The gulls and ravens hgd been at it cned ma & little when I read them.all the night before. A polar bear They seemed so pathetic. had circled about in the vicinity, but N ive C\alrus seen swimming the [for some reason had not touched the heach from east to west.” And noth- |meat At the top Knight Exploration and rated Stefamscon Arctic on the white expanse. open sea were visible. Hope Fades Away. Late in September they had just about given up hope of open water. Knight writes: “Rained hard all night, with a fresh breese from the east. As far as we can see the ice is not moving. although there appears to be consid- orable water a long way off. All hands have about given up hope of & ship this year. We intend to move camp west a short way soon. The wood for about two miles on either side of us is exhausted. We think it is easier to mové camp than to haul wood all winter.” It was during this time, while the lantern swung aloft and Ada's eyes searched the southern horizon, that Capt. Barnard of the Teddy Bear lay within the outskirts of the ice pack, & hundred miles away, speculating a8 to whether or not he could make the island. No signs of | Editors' Association motion pictures of The_lantern was still alight when SAVE COAL! Have Your ing done about it! Again: “A great many walrus heard oft ehore but too far to be seen and too far to go after because of the ice.” Later, that same di “A herd of about twenty walrus were seen on an ice floe to the south- west about two miles distant. The water was_covered with young ice and large floes. We decided to wait :ntil daylight.” 'he next day: “The walrus seen vesterday were not n today, but we heard them at intervals all day. Even when the walrus finally came | on to_the ice and the whole party turned out to hunt, bad luck still enmeshed them. 1t was late in_the afternoon of a “September day. From their tents on the seacoast of Wrangel the boys saw two walrus. The huge animals lay on the edge of a small cake of fce a mile southeast of camp, and on the outskirts of the main pack. Full of excitement, the boys dragged their heavy dory down the beach and launched it. Here was the oppor- tunity they had been waiting for. Walrus on the ice! They made their Janding on & near- ey e e A R JTro SHOW A~ 4 d b They loaded the sled with six hun- dred pounds of blubber and walrus skin and started back. They had nearly reached the dory when a lead opened across their path. They were forced to unload, for the meat and the skin were too heavy to move across the lead. Returning, they cut off & second load about half the size, but they had failed to lash it to the sled. The sled upget on the edge of a lead and its precfous burden slid off_into the sea. By the end of the second discourag- —_—— e Metal Wfilthcr Stripping e Now Let Us Estimate Diamond Metal Weather Strip Main 1640 Am‘?’ll‘l @ Bt. N.W. §3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAYS, Nov. 4 and 18 SPEOIAL TRADY Fastern Standard Time Lv. Washington (Ulon Station) 7.30 a.m. Ar. Wilmington 10.05 a.m., Chester 10.25 a.m., Pblladeiphia, Broad Btreet, 10.60 a.m. Returning, leaves Broad Street Statlon ~7.80 p.m., West Philadelphla 7.35 p. Chester 7.56 p.m., Wilmington 8.15 p. Tickets on sale Friday preceding Excursion & 8imllar Excursiens Susdays, Deceniber 3 and 16 Pennsylvania RR. System The Btanserd Railresd of the Werld et Us Store Your Automobile Each Car Has Its Own s::n traight storage per m .$16.00 torage with service—dust- ing, washing, pelishing, torage with service and de- livery — keeping car in oo conditien and deliv- ering to any part of city day_or might $27.50 to 30.00 ONTARIO GARAGE 17th St. at Kalorama %t:‘ Phene [ | HeLts, morr) GT'S 60 - LP the Teddy Bear turned back. On the island, hope of a ship came surging up once more., Knight had hardly finished writing the entry de- clearing that all hands had about | abandoned ail cxpectation of this when a terrific gale arose from the west, setting the lce in rapid motion. | About a mile off shore a wide lead | appeared, running east to west, and to the south the marooned party saw | & great expanse of water sky, indl- cating that the ice was breaking up. On October 2 Knight records: : “All along the horizon is water sky, | perhaps six or eight miles off shore, and during the lulls in the wind the sound of surf is plainly audible.” The following day he seys: “The water sky noted yosterday is still visible and 1 am sure that the whole ocean is open outside this belt of ice that is hanging to the beach.” It was true. By the middle of Oc- tober the heavy surf had pounded to| pleces the belt of ice near the beach and the whole ocean was open. For- tunately for the spirits of the {sland- ers, they did not know that the Teddy Bear's captain, insufiiciently equipped for a long sicge, had already given up hope and headed out of the ice pack toward Nome. (Continued in The BStar tomorrow.) (Copyright. 1023, in U. . and Canada by Notth American Newspaper Allianco. Cops- right Dritish Istes by Londun Dally News Copyeight Australia by Meibourne Heraid Copyright South America by La Nacion. All rights reserved.) GLAND OPERATION METHOD EXPLAINED! Surgeon Claims He Has Sixty- Eight Successful Transplant- ings to His Credit. By the Associnted Press CHICAGO, October 27.—Dr. H. Lyons Hunt of New York yesterday showed the | convention of the American Medical | gland transplantatjon operations, sixty- eight of which he clalmed to have per- formed successfully. In five minutes, with 4 local anesthetic and almost no pain, the operation can be performed, he said, and in forty- sight hours, in most cases, the effect is felt. Of the operations he has per- formed, only six failed of result, two were partly successful and the remuinder | were reported by the patients them- selves, he asserted, as highly successful Dr. Hunt told the editcrs he used the glands of newly slaughtered sheep and | that he has performed operations on both men and women. Any part of the patient’s body is suitable for the graft, he said, and the glands are placed in | an fncision made In the skin. The glands | live and aid the cells of the bodv to be- come fresh and young. he explained. NEW DEVICE WARNS AIR PILOTS OF DANGER “Ears” Tell of Obstacles Within 100 Feet of Plane—Invented by Brooklyn Engineer. By the Associated Press. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., October 27. —An airplane safety device, which Army experts say will tend to mini- mize air accidents by warning pllots of obstacles within a radius of 100 feet, was demonstrated successtully | yesterday. Arthur W. Uhl, Brooklyn engineer., who iInvented the /device, known as a landing aitimeter, is at work on plans to increase its sensi- tiveness to a radius of 1,000 feet. The meter, which is said to be par- ticularly valuable for landings at night or on foggy davs, consists of two plate condensers, similar to vac- uum tubes, placed on both wing tips and working in an oscillating circuit. Attached to an indicator in the cock- pit, they give readings as soon as the plane comes within 100 feet of an ob- stacle, recording the exact distance in | feet. ASK KING FOR ASYLUM. Greek Insurgents Cross Frontier Into Jugoslavia. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, October AND <CATCH COLD IN THAT CHILLY Ropp? NIX: We 60TTA GGT SoMe o FiRsT! 27.—A detachment of Gresk insur- reactlonists, headed by Col. Ziras, has crossed the frontier in the region of Guevegell. The detachment, which consists of 200 men and fifteen of- ficers, sent a message to the Kking GENERAL TYPEWRITER CO. All Makes TYPEWRITERS Sold, Rented, Repaired 2 STORES 1438 F St. N.W. 616 14th St. N.W. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION | Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,500,000 $850,000 Ike Moots, brown as a berry, returned t’ work t'day after a most enjoyable strike. Ever’ dog has his day, but th’ teller that’s known as good pay is allus welcome any where’s. (Copsright National Newspaper Service.) REGRETS NOBEL AWARD IGNORED DR. C. H. BEST Winner of Prize for Discovery of Insulin Says He Deserves But Half of Credit. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, October 27.—Telegrams from Dr. F. G. Banting, Canadian physician, recently, with Dr. J. J. R. MacLeod, awarded the Nobel prize for medicine by reason of his discov- ery of insulin, declare he “is hurt” because Dr. Charles H. Best, whom he acknowledged as co-discoverer, was not named in the award. The messages were made public yesterday by Dr. Eiliott P. Joalin, speaking at the Harvard Medical School. “I ascribe to Best an equal share in the discovery of insulin,” Dr. Bant- ing’s telegarm to Dr. Josiin r “and 1 am hurt that he is not knowledged. 1 will share with in it always.” ERIE TRAIN WRECKED. LL. N. Y., October 27.—Erle No. 13, & New York-to-Chi- cago express, was wrecked In the Hornell yards today. Lleven cars were thrown from the tracks and ran for a quarter of a mile over the tles hefore the train could be stopped. ‘The tracks were torn up and the cars were damaged, but the express messengers were un- hurt. The train carried no passen- gers. e RIVER STUDY CLOSES. NEW ORLEANS, October 27.—The special Senate committee, which has been conducting hearings of the Mc- Cormick deeper lakes-to-the-gulf waterway at various points in the Mississippl valley, will conclude its work here today, the committee dis- banding and members returning to their respective home; For Sale One Fordson Tractor and 5-Ton Trailmobile DOUBLE RUBBER TIRES ON BOTH TRACTOR AND TRAILER. EXTRA SET OF STEEL WHEELS FOR TRACTOR. Dome 0il Co., Inc., Takoma Park, D. C. (Copyright, 1923, H. C. Fisher, Trade Mark Reg. OUR OIL WIRRES ARS AT AN END: T'VE 66T TEN GALLonS OUTSIDE & JAPAN OFFERS U. S. NEW EMBASSY SITE Perpetual Lease at Nominal Rental, Near'Where Former Buildings Were Burned. (By Wireless to The Star and Philadeiphia Public Ledger. Copyright. 1923.) TOKIO, October 27.—~The imperial household has offered the United States, through Ambassador Woods, & perpetual lease on a large estate adjoining the site where the Ameri- can embassy was burned. The: property was the residence of | the late Prince Ito, one of Japan's greatest leaders and elder statesmen, being a gift to him from the imperial household, and reverting to the lat- ter at his death. Recently his helr, the present Prince Ito, who is im- perial court chamberlain, has been a resident there. The grounds covering two acresare offered_at a nominal rental, and would give the United States the fin- est embassy site and the best loca- tion in Tokio. The old embassy which burned was neither creditable nor representative of the American nation. Ambassador Woods, who will sail for home on the liner President Cleveland November 1, owing to the iliness of his mother-in-law, who ac- companied Mr. and Mrs. Woods to Japan, will carry plans for a new bullding to occupy both the Ito estate and the present site. The British embassy har alrends forwarded to London plans for & new embassy, entailing &n expenditure of nearly $2,000.000. The Bri now Instailed in temporary on their grounds. 'Ambassador Woods, who belleves an operation on his mother-in-la probably will be necessary. on her reaching San Francisco, expects to return to Toklo by January 1. No one has endeared himself more to Japan than Mr. Woods, and his departure now is the occasion renewed demonstrations of appreciation of the Americans’ _prompt _and bountiful sympathy following the recent earth- quake. MISS CARLISLE TO WED PROMINENT CHICAGO MAN Leading Woman in “The Fool” First Denies, Then Admits, Her Betrothal. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. October 27.—Miss Alex- andria_ Cariisle, leading woman in “The Fool,” was denying to reporters last night that she s to be married to J. Elliott Jenkins, member of a prom- inent Chicago family. when Mr. Jenk- ins entered the dressing room. At once the question was directed at him. “Why, certainly we are going to be Mr. Jenkins sald. “Most as- suredly. I should say we are.” And Miss Carlisle admitted they were— some time in November or December. Mr. Jenkins is a son of the late John E. Jenkins of the old firm of Fleld, Palmer & Leiter. He was a lfeutenant in the air service during the world war. Miss Carlisle for- merly was the wife of Dr. Albert Pteiffer of Boston, head of the Massa- chusetts health department. They were divorced last May. ————— The Osborne estate in Saddle River, N. J., has been sold. This is the first sale of the property since 1704. Re-Finish Your Floors and ‘Woodwork With Berry Bros. Pure Orange Shellac Special, 85¢c Qt. 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Black walnuts have a tang, a zest, that combined in ice cream Is unusually delicious. It's inde- scribably good. Get it this w end at any of our dealers. Special Molds for Halloween Parties. Pumpkins Pears Apples Ears of Corn Grape