Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1929, Page 28

28 SEARCHERS GAIN INHUNT FOR EIGHT ?fl_elief Party Pushes Front Lines 400 Miles North in = Seeking Lost Explorers. - BY FREDERICK GRIFFIN. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. - WINNIPEG., Manitoba, October 1 (N.AN.A).—Relief forces have snatch- #d a victory from advancing Winter in their fight for the lives of the eight fiyer-explorers lost now more than three Dominion Explorers professes to_feel any anxiety yet over the missing Mac- Alpine party. “They probably will come out as fat as seals and wonder why every one has been so excited,” Gen. Hogarth says. n. Hogarth said that probably the lost fiyers kept on to the Canadian Arctic mainland coast, knowing that they would find posts and settlements. His idea was that they were safe and comfortable in some such isolated habi- tation. Brother of One Aids. Norman Pearce of Toronio, brother and colleague of Richard Pearce of the Northern Miner, who is one of the missing men, has arrive¢ in Winnipeg | and is at headquarters of the Dominion Explorers.. He declared he is not worry- ing a bit. Over the week end, Pilot Gill, who had been stationed at Cranberry Port- age, returned to The Pas to purchase a dozen 12-inch butcher knives for use in cutting blocks of snow for building igloos at the various bases now being established for the searchers. At none of them are there any settle- ments, not even the log houses of north- ern traders. To carry in lumber and build cabins for the fiyers would take too long, but there is a plentiful supply THE EVEI\'ING STAR. WASHINCGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, FIRE: HITS_GREEN TIMBE R. | 1000000000 e as the Eskimos have lived on the shores of the Arctic for centuries. old prospectors here when told of the intention of the airmen to build snow houses at the Winter bases agreed that this would be the best plan for the air- men to adopt. (Copyright, 172 WOODRUFFS IN FIGHT. Husband's Suit for Divorce Is Met by Cross-Complaint. RENO, Nev, October 1 (#).—Mrs. Mildred Curtis Woodruff, daughter of Charles G. Black, president of the Standard Oll Co. of New York, was sued for divorce here yesterday by Kenneth Crane Woodruff, and immediately Mrs. Woodruff's attorney filed a cross com- plaint. ‘Woodruff charges cruelty, without giving any specific allegations, while Mrs. Woodruff sets forth that her hus- band told her that he no longer loved y North American News- r her. The couple was married at Elizabeth, N. J., October 22, 1921. The case will be tried Thursday, provided depositions of snow amd ice, and the pilots will live | of Mrs. Woodruff arrive. WIFE SLAYS MATE OVER BRIDGE GAME Stake of 20 Cents After 3- Hour Play Basis of Fatal Quarrel. By the Assoclated Pre KANSAS CITY, October bridge game which caused the shooting here yesterday of John G. Ben- nett by his wife was for but one-tenth of a cent a point, and the particular hand which evoked the fatal quarrel made the Bennetts losers by 20 cents over a period of three hours of play. Bennett was shot after an argument which began when his wife angrily termed him “a bum bridge player.” Retaliatory words were followed by mounting anger and finally Bennett, Western sales manager for a New York perfume ecmpmi.e struck his wife. Sobbing, she rushed to her mother's bedroom and obtained a gun, with which she shot her husband twice. Attempting to reconstruct the cir- cumstances which led to the tragedv, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hofman, with whom the Bennetts were playing, saia they did not remember all the cards of the hand which caused the quarrel, but that the hand on which Bennett went set, after his wife had raised his one-spade bid to four spades, with an lnterven\nf bid of two diamonds, was “wonderful.” Mrs. Hofman refused to name the cards in an affidavit, but informally said she belleved Bennett held six trumps, including two honors, and that the dummy hand on which his wife raised his bid contained the other three honors. Have 58th Wedding Anniversary. MIDLAND, Md., October 1 (Special). —Mr. and Mrs. George H. Shaw enter- tained at their home at Ocean, near here, in honor of their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary and the eighty- fourth birthday of Mrs. Shaw. ‘The Hungarian State Railways now operate 4,224 miles of line. 1929, Leaping Flames Destroying Virgin Forests in Washington State. HOQUIAM, Wash,, October 1 (#).— Transforming the rich virgin timber of the upper North River Valley into an inferno of leaping flames and dense smoke, the worst fire of the Grays Har- boa lecl:.l‘%: in mumben.nama y was eating green T and def; force of more than 400 fighters. e Camp No. 5 of the Saginaw Timber | Co. was wiped out, excep: for three small buildings, iz the Sweep of the flames over three sections since late sunnd;l afternoon, when the fire sta . List Your Rented and Vacant Houses With J. LEO KOLB| 923 N. Y. Ave. 1237 Wis. Ave. District 5027 West 0002 weeks in the upper reaches of the bar- ren lands. This victory consists of having pushed the front line of the relief forces north 400 miles. It may hasten the rescue of the missing men by two or three weeks, as it changes the advanced base of operations from Stoney Rapids, at the east end ot Lake Athabasca, to Baker Lake, on Chesterfleld Inlet. This move resulted from the audacity of Pilots Roy Brown and W. Spence, with Capt. G. Blanchette of Diminion Explorers, who, in two planes. after tilting with Winter on the height of Jand just beyond Beverley Lake, side- stepped the ice and fog and slipped into Baker Lake. Await Freeze-Up. ‘Headquarters at Winnipeg lost no time in consolidating the position which | — these daring airmen had won. They 29t - were told to stay in_Baker Lake and - T await the freeze-up. Plans were rushed . ! 4 Ej | > to get skis to them to replace the pon- toons on their seaplanes, so that they @ [ ] 11t y ~111t anniversary ALIAN comes 1o WASHINGTON Brig. Gen. D. M. Hogarth of Domin- you will find on exhibition a fon Explorers said definitely today that wide selection of personally Established 1874 he would get skis to Brown and Spence before the end of the week. It is likely that they will be sent to Fort Churchill by the Hudson Bay Railroad. Possibly Brown and Spence will fly down the shore of Hudson Bay and get them and then fly back to Baker Lake. Although Dominion Explorers are proceeding with their original plan to make Stoney Rapids the main base of the relief work, they are now concen- trating on the idea of Baker Lake as the farthest Northern post. In Heart of Barren Lands. The importance of the strategy that snatched Baker Lake from the very teeth of Winter is evident. It shifts the advanced outpost of relief from the Northern Saskatchewan bush to the heart of the Barren Lands. Baker Lake is only a little south of the sixty-fifth parallel. It is the post from which the eight men set out before they vanished after stopping at Beverley Lake, with which it is in line. It is within cruis- 4ng range of the area in which the men “must be down. = At Baker Lake there is a gas cache of 8,000 gallons, which will give the pilots a chance to range almost indefinitely, and the steamship Ocean Eagle is on its way now to Chesterfield Inlet and Baker Lake with supplies from Fort Churchill. - But the time factor in the victory is the important one. Winter will ice up Baker Lake at least two weeks before it does Stoney Rapids. Within a week or two Baker Lake and the adjacent ‘waterways will have frozen and, if the $kis arrive, Pilots Spence and Brown 4vill have started ranging toward Bath- Jrst Inlet and Coronation Gulf in an effort to find Col. MacAlpine and his party. May Try Hunt With Pontoons. - At the time Stoney Rapids, 400 miles Bouth and sheltered by bush, will still Thave open water. Planes there will have to wait at least two, possibly three weeks longer for ice, before taking off with skis and heading for the frozen Jands north. - Indeed, it is possible that Brown and Bpence, if mild weather should prevail during the next few days about the sixty-fifth parallel, with an absence of fog permitting visibility, may try to sneak up toward Bathurst Inlet with 3heir pontoon-equipped planes and snatch a still greater victory by finding further trace of the MacAlpine party before Winter finally closes in. _ In the meantime, Dominion Explor- ers are not banking too much on Baker Lake. Their big bet still is going to be Stoney Rapids and they are proceeding not merely on a basis of Winter prepa- ration, but on the chance that the search may be a long one. A long one it may be, with tens of thousands of square miles of frozen and monotonous wilderness to search. Gen. Hogarth said that they are pro- visioning Stoney Rapids to take care of 40 men for four months, in addition to sending in camping equipment and me- chanical equipment. Here at Stoney ‘Rapids, indeed up at the north limits of the Saskatchewan, is being establish- ‘ed an airport, one of the farthest North in the world, where planes may be re- eonditioned and overhauled. A force of mechanics has been sent in and shops will be set up. F Scow to Bring Provisions. On Thursday next a scow will set out from Edmonton, Alberta, and proceed, tug drawn, up the Athabasca River and along Lake Athabasca to Stoney Rap- ids, with a load of groceries and meats. Dominion Explorers are digging in on & basis that is not unlike a preparation for a long war. In the meantime, nothing has been “heard from C. H. “Punch” Dickens, who is making a lone flight up the Macken- zie River to Fort Norman, in the hope of crossing Great Bear Lake to Corona- tion Gulf and Bathurst Inlet. 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