New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1923, Page 12

ADVENTUROUS CREW 10 FIL SAVAGES Sail From San Francisco to Fulfil Boyhood Dreams San Francisco, Cal, March 23 Twenty men, average age 40, have salled from San Francisco on the old whaler Narwahl for the South feas to fulfil a childhood dream of riches to be gained through an ad- venture, But not by recovery of buried pirate gold or robbery of na- tive pearl divers do they hope to accomplish their purpose. | Theirs will be a modern way—the enforced motion picture photography of savage tribes, sald to be cannibals, Against the savages' poisoned arrows they are prepared to match the white men's firearms, Members of Jrew. Among the crew are a TRussi count and three former naval office and two former army officers of the United States, Several of the men have college degrees; most of them fought in the American or British forces in the world war; a few are of mature age, retired from business. Thelr vessel, the Narwhal, is a iAhree-masted bark. Stoutly built of foak in 1883, its history includes seal fpoaching and whaling in the Arctic. |1ts tonnage is 523, and length, inclu {ng bowsprit, is 165 feet. To purchase ighe boat and supplies the 20 men in- Heorporated themselves, each contribut- | “ng $800. Their corporation is called | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH, 28, 1923, where the dynamite will be dullmndiin Moscow three members of the rall. to the United States navy, At Apla, | way administration department were British Samoa, the last of the cargo| found gullty of having turned gov- will be discharged, | Islands Seldom Visited, Leaving Samoa, the Narwhal will set sall for islands ‘seldom visited by white men—islands of romantic le- gend, of languorous breezes and love, of fyphoons and cruel death, These islands are in the New Caledonia, New, Guinea groups To obtain pictures of the islands and their people, the Narwhal's crew go any hardships, and to take any declared themselves willing to under- go any hardships, and to take any risks, 'Their vessel will anchor near the shore, and in a power launch a party will go ashore and proceed to the interior, With trinkets they will attempt to conciliate the savages, but if hostility be shown they are prepared to de- fend themselves with revolvers and rifles. One of the party is an ex- perienced motion picture photogra- pher, and it is from pictures that he will take that the members of the corporation-crew expect to make | their chief profit, if there is to Be any. Will Get Copra. From the many islands visited the Narwhal is expected to acquire a load of copra, Then, turning northward from the South Seas, the Island of Guam is to be visited on the return voyage to San Francisco. The cruise will cover approximately 25,000 miles, The president of the corporation is H. J. Richardson, a mechanical en- gineer who was lieutenant commander in the United States navy during the war. Thomas J. Watson, secretary, is an insurance man of San Francisco who served in the United States medl- cal corps in the war, 5 Among the others of the crew are: Count Wladimir Aywayaglou, former i*The Mutual Trading company.” | colonel in the czar's army and from Captain Charles L. Arey, a member|1917 to 1922 military attache at the of the corporation, commands the| Russian embassy in Toklo; Captain INarwhal. Once he took it into the|Haskell C. Billings, formerly of the Arctic on & whaling cruise. During|United States coast artillery; Hyval |¢he war he was a lieutenant com- 7. Hughes, lieutenant in the British i mander in the United States navy. His|flying corps in the war; Murray N. mate and three able seamen are the|y motion picture man; J. S. Kah- ;pald members of the present expedi- ler, retired insurance man of Newport, ‘tion fo the South Seas. None of the R, 1., and San Francisco, and Fred 120 adventurers ever previously sailed|C, Lindner, who has spent many years before the mast, but all have had exploring the South Seas and the sea experience. | Malay Peninsula. The cargo carried by the Narwhal | ! . . includes two tons of dymamite, cn""RllSSla Determmed to Stop isiderable gasoline, much sacked coal, | motion picture films and lumber. One| Thefts Fl’om Hel' Raill‘ofl.ds Moscow, March 23.—Executioners' of the crew remarked that in event| 1ot disaster they would go up, not“ down- | rifles are beginning to crack in the The Narwhal will touch first at| Soviet government's campaign to {Honolulu. From there it will pro-| weed out bribery and corruption from ceed to Pago Pago, ‘American Samoa.“ government institutions. At one trial | ernment money to thelr own use, and | were ordered to be shot, One of | them had succeeded in smuggling the | profits to England, and had a heavy | deposit in London, This the Soviet | government hopes to recdber, OLDA.C.OFLIS | BOSS INENGLAND Much Absed U1t Conumer S Out of Luck in Britain | London, March 23.—How the poor old ultimate consumer in England, | notwithstanding the many outward| |signg of the revival of prosperity, s/ still paying the piper, is vividly por- trayed by a statisticlan who has com- piled figures shown that whereas wholesale prices here have fallen to| 56 per cent higher than they were in| 1913 the retail prices are still- main. taining a level 78 per cent above that of the year before the war, While it is natural that retail| prices should lag behind wholesale | figures in the return to normal con-| ditions, the statisticlan points @t that wholesale prices have been de-; clining for more than a year whlle" retail prices have remained almost| stationary. Moreover retailers have/ falled to reduce their prices devpite the fact that it has been a year of declining wages. ‘ Several reasons, or given to show why there is this dis-, crepancy. First the retailer, spoiled by the long period of soaring prices when there was an even wjder mar- gin between buying and selling prlces.} is naturally reluctant now to take losses to get rid of stocks purchased ! on a declining market. Other fac-| tors cited by the statistician are: | 1. Bad organization in many dis-| tributive trades, which demands a| big gross profit margin to make a| small actual net profit. ! 2. Growth of trade associations | which dictate retail prices to the con. sumer and also dictate to wholesalers the gross margin allowed to retailers. | 3. 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