Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 74, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1924 — Page 8
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WORLD AVIATORS TACKLE HARDEST PARTOF FLIGHT Now Brave Inhospitable, IceBound Coasts of Northern Waters. Time* Washington Bureau, 1322 Xeie Tork Ave. ■WAS HXNGTON, Aug. 4.—The United States Army fliers are up against the stiffest job of their Jourrey in tackling the Iceland-Green-land-Labrador lap of their historic aerial circumnavigation of the globe. Latitude of Iceland, land of disaster. ice and fire, is 1.400 miles rorth of New Tork —that is, as far north of New York as New Tork is from Honduras, Central America. Iceland belonged to Denmark from 1381 to 1918 when she became a sovereign power. Oddly enough, she still elects to have the same king as Denmark. Inhospitable Spot Nature has made her one of the most inhospitable spots of the world for human occupancy. Under the Arctic Circle she is mostly volcanic table-land covered with ice and snow, unbelievably deep, with here and there a living volcano. Now and then one of these blows its head oft, destroying people and cattle. Mt. Hecla, in 1783, erupted, destroying 230,000 head of stock—-one-half the cattle, three-fourths the horses and four-fifths the sheep—causing a famine in which 9,500 persons died of starvation. The inhabitants vary from 40,000 to 100,000 depending upon Are, flood, earthquake and famine. The climate is not so bad, considering, winters being warm for so far North and summers cool. Greenland, the next stop after Iceland, is the second largest island in the world, after Australia. It belongs to Denmark and has the northernmost settlement on earth. Cape Farewell, southern tip of the island from which the American fliers will take off on their last Atlantic hop—to Labrador—is in a latitude 1,200 miles north of New Tork, or as far north of New Tork as New Tork is from Cuba, 1,600-Mile Ice Cap The interior of Greenland ranges from 5,000 to 9.000 feet high and the entire country—l,6oo miles long by 900 wide —is covered with an ice-cap known as the inland ice. This has an average depth of l,floo feet. The coast is rugged. Being cut into by hundreds of fiords. Between the fiords inland ice slides directly into the sea, Greenland is principal birthplace of North Atlantic Icebergs. Aver- I age daily output of ice from one fiord, that of Jacobshaven, near Cape Farewell, is estimated to be between 8,000,000 and 15,000,000 cubic I •ards. Labrador, about 500 miles from Cape Farewell, waa the first part of America discovered by Europeans —in the year 1,000 —and remains to- i day the last to be well explored by white men. It is nearly as large as the States east of the Mississippi. 14,000 People The country is mostly plateau ranging from 1,500 to 2,500 feet above sea level, but there are no mountains towering above this to Imperil the Army airmen as they near nome. There are only about 14,000 people j in the whole region, 8,000 of whom j are white trappers, hunters and i fishermen. The rest are Indiana and Eskimos.
SEPT. 12 TO SEE TEST OF DEFENSE t _ > Adjt, Gen, Smith Explains Why National Forces Are Being Mobilized in Full Strength.
On Sept. 12 all units of the Indiana, National Guard, organized reserves and regular army units at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will mobilize to demonstrate Indiana’s war strength. Similar military units In all other States will assemble. Civilian and patriotic! organizations in Indiana and the nation at large will demonstrate the strength of the spirit that would support these troops in time of a national emergency. And on that day at Washington Gen. John J, Pershing will officially review for the last time the manpower of the nation whose destinies he guided through months of warfare In Europe—for on the next day,
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Today’s Best Radio Features % l - (Copyright, 19H, by United Press) WCAP, Washington (469 M) and WEAF, New York (492 M), 7:30 P. M., EST—United States Marine Band. WJZ, New Tork (455 M). 7:30 P. M., EST—New Tork Philharmonic Orchestra. KDKA, Pittsburgh (326 M), 8 P. M., EST —United Concert Company. WOS, Jefferson City (440.9 M), 8:30 P. C., CST —State Prison Orchestra, WLW, Cincinnati (423 M), 8 P. M. EST—Cincinnati Municipal Orchestra. . Hoosier Briefs OF POLICE f RETT of Bluffton is looking for a joker. He searched all morning for his car. Some one had parked it several blocks away. Gehrett can't see the joke. Cats are exceeding their reputation at Bourbon. One is the mother of twelve kittens; another has six. The latter also adopted an orphan rabbit. CILARENCE HENDERSON, 12, of Columbus, broke his arm while swimming. Gritting his teeth, he rode on his bicycle two miles to a doctor and then back. A fishing trip cost Samuel and Arthur Donica of Shelbyville, $74. They caught a black bass, under ten inches, while seining. Mrs. Edward Bllnn of Greenville, has sued her husband for divorce, alleging that he weighs 300 pounds and doesn’t bathe often enough. IINUS both legs, Jesse Martin, Logansport, accom- — panied by his wife, has just returned from a 7,000-mile motor trip, tee drove all the ,way. He has a specially built auto that permits operation by hand. Sheriff Frauhiger of Bluffton got two tips. One was Winfield Tfrp of Salem. The other tip came from an interurban conductor that he had a drunk man aboard. Tipp was fined $25. ✓ Mrs. Harriet Burkisher, 74, of Russsiaville awoke on a couch to find herself badly bruised. Doctors believed she was injured in a memory lapse. I j |DG AN SPORT and Kokomo I I police joined hands in a L— J booze raid near Lincoln. Frank Myers, 42, faces a blind tiger charge. Otis Beeraft, 15, farmer’s son, is the first heat victim at Greensburg. He was overcome in a corn field Squirrels around Tipton are nervous. Lon Salter is the first hunter to venture forth since the season opened. PARIS POSTALS 'STRIKE Clerks Plan to Obey Rules and Cause Mail Tie-Up. By Time Special PARTS, Aug. 4.—Paris is threatened with the very latest thing in strikes. Postoffice clerks, demanding raises In pay, threaten to "obey orders and tie the government up with its own red tape.” They say they will, by authority of the rule book, weigh every letter, examine every stamp for forgery, read every word on every postcard and take every other precautionary measure that the law requires. French mails are none too fast at present and the gnetlemen of the post declare that their campaign of correctness will swamp the department. So far their ultimatum has not been answered.
"Black Jack” becomes a private American citizen again. He is tc be retired Sept. 13, according to Adj Gen. Harry B. Smith. Test of National Defense Pershing himself has described the “defense test” in these words: "It will demonstrate and explain what preparation for National Defense means In our country. It Is to be a day given to patriotic gatherings by citizens of eAery community, during which every one will learn his place and portion in the defense of the country, should our security be threatened.” General Smith acts In a twofold capacity during the defense test. He will have charge of mobilization of the National Guard and as Indiana director of the selective service boards, will arrange for demonstrations to be conducted throughout the State by members of the 124 selective service boards in the State. Mintary Policy Cited "Our military policy," points out General Smith, “iflaces reliance on a minimum of professional soldiers, with main dependence on large bodies of civilian soldiers that would be raisedoin a serious emergency. The Unit* States is relying more on partly trained citizen forces than any other great power. Even Switzerland, with Its famous citizen armies, provides a training for them In time of peace vastly beyond anything contemplated by the United States. “Under these circumstances it becomes doubly important not only that the public at large become acquainted with the United States defense system and their hearty cooperation, but that our plans for calling out our citizen forces and rendering them effective in the shortest possible time be tried out in time of peace and perfected to the last degree. Hence the defense test.”
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BEGIN HERE TODAY Sally Morgan, daushter of the owner of the Bar-M ranch In Montana, ha* to go a distance of thirty-five miles from the ranch to catch a train for the east, where she intends to buy a trousaeau for her wedding to Sheriff Bob Wells. Wells is unable to ride with her to the station, so the "Nervous Wreck." an eccentric young easterner who is visiting at the ranch, offers to take her to the station in hia little automobile. The Sheriff ridicules the suggestion. but Sally and the Wreck set out anyhow over the rough, narrow trail. The trip Is a hard one, and in time they are completely lost Sally begins to regret that they attempted to make the journey. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER 111 “If You Start, Finish—” N r ~~ O longer had she any idea that they would find the railroad U! _J and the water tank at which it was possible'to signal the train. When seven o’clock came she dismissed that from her mind; all that was now left was to to the ranch. The sheriff was right: it could not be done, as the Wreck said it could. She felt a sharp sense of humiliation in being lost on the range; that was a trick for dudes, perhaps, but not for a girl born and raised within half a day’s ride. If only she. could get a glimpse of Black Top; they could walk to it, even if they had to abandon the flivver. But Black Top had vanished in a mysterious way, somewhere behind miles of hummocks. “There’s water here somewhere,” she called suddenly. “Watch yourself!” The Wreck circumnavigated a tree, steered straight for a barrier of young alders and- sent the machine crashing magnificlently through. The front wheels dropped sharply, the flivver titled forward at an angle of 45 degrees, plunged, flattened out again and came to a stop, hub deep in a stream. "There!” said Sally. "I told you there was water.” “I never denied it,” said the Wreck. “Now what are you going to dd?” He stepped out on the running board and descended briskly Into the stream, which cooled his legs pleasantly. Wading around to the rear
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of the car. he fumbled in the luggage compartment then appeared with a canvas contraption which, upon being unfolded, was a bucket. "I’m going to fill the radiator,” he said. "Water is exactly what we need.” Sally made a gesture of helpless exasperation and watched him as he went methodically about the task. The flivver drank more than a bucketful and he nodded in a satisfied way when at last it overflowed at the orifice. “And now what?” she demanded. "Now we drive on, of course.” He climbed back into the seat, after returning the bucket to its place, and jammed his foot on the pedal that engages the clutch. The flivver trembled, moved, stopped again. There was a terrifying racing of the motor. He did something more to the pedals and the gears were in reverse but still the motor raced without producing a corresponding movement in the car. “No tracti’on,” remarkked the Wreck, as he glanced over the side and watched the rear wheel spinning in the stream. He stepped out again and tramped around in the water for a while. “Cold water is great stuff for the nerves,” said the Wreck, looking up. She glanced at the sky, then at her watch, and there was dismay in her eyes. m “Do you know that it will be dark in about half an hour?” she demanded. He also took an observation of the sky, and nodded. “And that the train went long ago, and that we’re nowhere near any railroad —or anything?” “I don't admit that we’re nowhere near the railroad," he said. “We’ve made a lot of progress. But I'll admit we’re not right on top of !t.” “Then what are you going to do?” she fairiy shouted. He sloshed his legs about in the stream ip a tentative, exploratory fashion. *“The bottom's hard enough,” hb
said, "biN there’s a lot of slippery stones. She won’t take hold And the way things are, I can't get the chalr.s on. She won't go forward and she won’t back. She needs a chance to cool out anyhow.” He seemed to be actually contented, a fact that was no less amazing to Sally than It was maddening. "Do you mean to say we'll never get out, Mr. Williams?” The Wreck ruffled at once. “I said nothing of the kind.” he retorted. “I didn't even hint it. Certainly we’ll get out. What do I carry a block and tackle for? You don't call this trouble, do you? She’s been in worse fixes thaif this.” “CAN YOU GET THAT THING OUT OF THE WATER?” “After dark you can’t run,” she pointed out. “Can’t I? You wait till I turn on those road lights. She looks like two locomotives.” “You’d try to keep on running across country—at night?” she demanded, her voice incredulous. “Certainly. You haven’t seen those lights yet.” “Then you’ll run without me, Mr. Williams. I’d like to get back to the ranch. I’ll take reasonable chances. If I had a horse I could make it. But” —she paused to settle an uncompromising gaze upon him —"l’m not insane. We’re anchored here for the night." Sally stood In her place and glanced up and down stream. The little river was not more than ten yards across, shallow everywhere and brick of motion, with alders and -cottonwoods and fresh green banks on either side. It was beautifully peaceful and sylvan for a picnic, or a camp; but Sally was theoretically aboard a train, headed eastward, and to be stalled In a sliver In the mid-
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dle of an oasis, no matter how charming, was irritating beyond all patience. She climbed out on the rear deck of the little roadster, gathered hre skirts and leaped, landing clear of the shore, up among the bushes. “There’s package of sandwiches in the back of the car. Get ’em out,” she commanded. “And hand me my coat, too; I want to sit bn it. You might give me the small grips too. And then I advise you to come out of that water. It may feel good now, but it’s liable to get cool after dark, and first thing you know you'll have rheumatism. And if you get rheumatism, you’ll have something real to worry about.” The Wreck did all the things that she commanded. She opened the package of sandwiches, apportioned half of them equally and wrapped up the remainder. “We'll need the rest for breakfast,” she said. “Get your bucket out again and draw some water. I'm dreadfully thirsty. We'll keep that bottlfa of coffee until morning.” They sat under a cottonwood, ate sandwiches and drank out of the bucket. When it grew dark he waded out to the flivver and switched on the lights. But they were pointed the wrong way, so that the adventurers received only an indirect benefit from the glare. He thought It would be better if they transferred themselves to the other side of the stream, but Sally said she had gone as far as she intended to. "Do you honestly think you can get that thing out of the water?” she asked. He snorted scornfully. “Not that It’s likely to be of any particular use, even If you do,” she added. “I expect to be walking tomorrow.” The Wreck strode away among the cottonwoods. For once he seemed anxious to avoid argument. When he returned, Sally had curled herself up under the tree, with the coat over her, and was preparing for slumber. “Better get a coat and find yourself a place,” she advised. "We’ll need to make an early start.” “You’d better sleep out in t'.ie car,” he said. “Why?" “Its saferr If anything comes along—” She laughed; he was such a ridiculous tenderfoot, with such funny ideas about the West. "What do you expect? Indians?” she demanded. "No, thank you. I’ll stay here where I’rih comfortable. I've a gun, anyhow, so don’t worry.” "Suit yourself,” he answered, and
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an Instant later she heard him sloshing in the stream. "You going to try to sleep in that car?” she called. “Because you'll never get any sleep, trying td fold yourself up in that.” “I'm not going to sleep,” came his voice, irritably. "I never do sleep. I've get insomnia. I'm just going to sit here and keep watch, that’s all. If you want anything, holler.” “I’ll holler,” she promised, and smothered a laugh. A few minutes later, as she was becoming drowsy, she was aware that he had switched off the lights. After that it was very dark under the cottonwoods, and very quiet, save for the cool rustle of the stream, which was ceaseless and soothing. Sally’s last conscious mental effort was a dim hope that something would come along to give 'him a good scare; she wanted to find out how he would react. Perhaps a coyote might bark. But if a single coyote lifted his muzzle and howled within a mile of them, Sally did not hear it. She slept like a, healthy young animal. The Wreck felt something punching him between the shoulders. He straightened up in the seat, slowly opened his eye, blinked them and found the glare of sunlight dazzling. The thing punched him vtgain, and
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he turned around. Sally was prodding at him with a long stick. "Hi, you!” she called. “Do you know it’s after seven?” ”G’ morning.” said the Wreck. “Why didn’t you call me?” “Call you? I've been fairly yelling at you. I've scared every jack rabbit in the county, but you nev-.r budged. Is that what insomnia doe.' to you?” "I must have just dozed off,” he mumbled, as he yawned and stood up to stretch. “Oh. yes.” (Continued in Our Next Issue! Cheapest Thing “Courtin’s mighty expensive, “ eaid one man to another. “My girl wants to go to the pictures and dances. What am I do do.” “The same thing I do,” said the other. ’“Meet her Inside.”—Tit-Bits. Green-Fly Invades LONDON.—The green-fly—dreaded enemy of European gardeners—has invaded London and other parts of England In huge swarms. The flies are able to travel in cloud-like formation at least forty miles, and frequently cross the English Channel from France.