Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1941 — Page 10
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MNUTT SEEKS MIGRATION AID
Advocates New Financial Assistance Be Provided For States.
WASHINGTON. March 25 (U. P)) --Federal Security Administrator Paul V McNutt today advocated a new form of financial assistance for states to help them cope with de-
fense migration problems Mr. McNutt made his recommendation to the special HouSe committee inves- § tigating Interstate : migration of destitute citizens. “Today there is an added problem because individuals and families are leaving their homes to go to new communities,
Mr, McNutt either in search of work in a defense industry or to be near a man in military service,” he testifigd.
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| axe in the ship and any other tool
| equipment in the snow some dis-
| me a month, | My plan, carefully itemized,
wreckage from the air.
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work to my feet that second morning. My leg was swollen badly, my back wrenched and my head and face caked with blood. But I reached the big rock and taking pencil and paper, I there made a list of everything that I had and set about studying my map. I had, even the day before, seen@ or heard several planes; but X realized the extreme improbability of being sighted in the great expanse of Newfoundland. I had made several attempts to build A
twigs I was able to break by hand were much too filled with frost to burn. Fir the first and only time in my life, I had no pocket knife. I don't know yet how I came away without it. There was no
that might have served me had been thrown overboard into the sea when we had first got into engine difficulties. I had found my emergency tance from the wreck, but my Verey pistol, my signal pistol, was lost somewhere in the snow. 4 n 5
Hard to Spot
Already, on this second morning, I could hear the distant sound of planes, But without a fire and with no means of signaling. IT had begun to give up hope of attracting attention from the air. IT well knew the difficulties of spotting so small a mark as this snow-mantled bit of
I had a long talk with myself. | I really talked. I debated the whole situation aloud and reminded myself patiently of the absolute necessity of organizing what resources I had for their maximum use. This talk helped we wonderfully. I began to see that I had | a fighting chance, Before I left the big rock where I had taken inventory of the situation, I had decided that I would get out even if it took
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was to stay by the ship until the next day. Should the weather remain flyable, I would remain still another day. If the weather was not flyable and no plane likely to come near, I would set out in a westerly direction, I had my maps, and the the best of my figuring, I could intercept a railway approximately 25 miles due west of my position, 5 n »
Five Miles a Day
I calculated that with a new set of snowshoes, made from the plyboard map locker of the ship, and with a toboggan made of the metal cowling of one of the engines, I could make five miles a day. If I could only make one mile a day, I could make the railway in 25 days. Among the items I inventoried and found in the ship were two red flares, which I decided to take along for signals to stop trains when I reached the railway. I spent much of the second day and part of the third removing one of the two compasses from the ship. This I checked with the other compass that remained in the ship, knowing that due to the dislocation of corrective magnets in removing the one compass, I would throw it several degrees out. I carried the compass some distance from the ship and calculated its error was 20 degrees. This gave me a bearing to work on in my journey out to the railway I took only four sandwiches and a few tins of emergency ration. I took shrouds from the para-
chutes to use as snares for rab-
bits, whose tracks I saw plentifully all about. I did not know how to go about snaring rabbits, but I had the feeling that if I had to learn, doubtless I would,
Bird Kept Up Hope
On this second day, a small bird came and sat on a tree. He sat on the same twig of the same tree every time he visited me through the three days, and he sang most cheerfully—directly to me, He was twice the size of a sparrow and brown, with a bill a
| little longer than the average bird.
I do not know what species he to sing in mid-winter in returnin~ time after time. And as he was the only living thing I saw in those four days, and as he kept reminding me—often in the most hopeless hours—of life, I am most grateful to him. During this day, many planes
| passed within hearing and a few
within sight. IT had rigged up a signal fire by dragging together what trees I could of those struck down in the crash, pouring gasoline over them, During this second day, I lit this signal fire three times, when passed in the distance. The gasoline would burn but the
frost-bitten trees would not ignite, That third night was cold and clear with a brisk wind, so I curled up in a new pit I had dug in the snow by the big rock that was my headquarters, With overcoats over me and the canvas engine cover under me, and a motor cover to break the wind, I managed to get through the night. I was so sore and stiff at daybreak that it took another hour to get to my feet.
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Finishes Toboggan
By now I had my toboggan made, my compass pried free and corrected. I had matches, but I filled a small brilliantine bottle with gasoline to fill my lighters. In searching the pockets of my comrades for a knife, I had found cigarets, a razor blade and other items. From the elastic release cord of two of the parachutes I contrived elastic harness for my new, makeshift snowshoes. The first pair I had made I had fastened to my feet with friction tape, which allowed no lift of the heel and made it extremely awkard to walk. With the elastic loops I made from the parachute cords, I had an almost perfect harness.
Many times during this day planes came in sight and I relighted my signal fire. I used seat cushions, a life preserver and a grease-soaked engine cover, igniting them with gas in the hope that they would create smoke, but none of them did. . I was suffering intensely from thirst, and though I ate snow constantly it did not slake my thirst. But this fourth day, I found a depression on the top of this big rock which had become my headquarters, 50 yards from the plane, and in this I -ignited a pool of gasoline and succeeded in heating snow, making my first warm drink since the crash.
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Tried to Thaw Oranges
Frederick Griffin found some half burned oranges on this big rock days after. He rightly presumed that I had been trying to melt the oranges. The sandwiches and oranges had all been frozen by the first morning of the crash. I did succeed in eating three or four oranges by taking them to bed with me, and placing them against my body during the night. They would be at least half thawed out by morning. Physically my condition was greatly improved by the fourth day. Perhaps not in reality, but at least I felt better, the effects of the shock had worn off and I had steadily got a better control of myself through the device of concentrating all my attention on a plan of escape. : I went to bed in my pit in the snow for the fourth night and in preparation for the morrow, which would be the fourth day. And on that day, if it were not
LEARNS OF BOYHOOD FRIEND THROUGH GIFT
Col. Albert J. Whitcomb, Indianapolis, commander of the 151st Infantry now in training at Camp
Shelby, Miss., today sent his thanks to the Indianapolis Lions Club for an unexpected pleasure, Some years ago wien the colonel was a child, his family employed a middle-aged Negro as caretaker for two horses owned by the family. When the Colonel was about seven, the caretaker left and returned to Memphis, Tenn, from where he had come. Several weeks ago the Lions Club presented the 151st regiment with a radio for its recreation hall. An item about the gift appeared in newspapers, The old caretaker, now 92, who again lives in Indianapolis, saw the item and wrote to the Colonel asking if he was the same seven-year-old child whose family owned the horses Dolly and Dawn, and ending his letter with these words: “I was glad that I had known
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WASHINGTON, March 25 (U, P.) —Juke boxes, slot machines and vending devices have caused a tremendous increase in the demand for nickels, the Treasury
reported today. Mint Director Nellie Tayloe Ross, commenting on the observance of National Goin Week, said that approximately 2,000,000,000 nickels have Peen minted since this coin was introduced in 1866. Of this number, 453,314458 are new Jefferson nickels, struck off since Oct. 1, 1938.
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Mackey’s Own Story — In Agony, He Plans Long Hike
fine, I would set out. I slept with few interruptions the night through and woke to a fine, clear day. My toboggan lay packed and ready. From it I had taken away every little item that did not win a place by sheerest need. I think it weighed in all, with its two overcoats and five-pound compass, about 40 or 50 poundsy It was a real effort to haul it. It was a great temptation to depart. But I held back the desire to give, this last, fourth day, one more chance to the searching aircraft to spot us.
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Was Sure of Search
In any vagrant thoughts I had entertained as to rescue, I had a strong feeling that among those searching would certainly be my old friend, Jim Allison, a Texan. Moreover, I had a strange hunch that it would be Jim Allison who would find me. I did not know how long it would be before I was found, but I though it would be Allison who would greet me. When a plane
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day, I was sitting beside my rock, the signal fire of gasoline ready, my toboggan waiting, my plans for departure complete, when I heard a plane coming. It was coming very near and very low. I hurriedly set light to my signal fire. Then I saw the plane. It was at about 600 feet and coming straight over me. My fire blazed furiously and briefly. The plane flew steadily straight overhead, without the slightest indication of recognition. It vanished into the distance.
Starts His Hike
My decision was made at once. I seized the hauling rope of the metal toboggan, and started. I gave up, once and for all, any hope of being found by aircraft. I abandoned with a completeness impossible to convey every hope of being sighted from the air. All the aircraft in the world could come and look for us, but I would never entertain any hope. I started off with my toboggan, on my new fibre board snowshoes, the long hike to the west that would take me to the railway, 25 miles across Newfoundland wilderness. I did not bid my comrades any goodby. I do not remember feeling any dramatics. It was just a sudden sense of abandonment of all hope for aid from others.
I heard the airplane engine returning. But I did not stop walking. I remember that now with some pity and some humor. So complete was that feeling of lost hope that I did not even pause in my stride, though the engine grew louder and louder and nearer and nearer, Right overhead the plane flew, following exactly in reverse the route it had taken a few minutes before. As it passed over my head, I could not help looking up. And as I looked up, I saw the plane dip one wing and heel over, in a steep bank, to let the pilot look down. » " »
‘Jim Knew Me'
I halted. I waved madly. I flung my arms and shouted. But it was not I the plane had seen. Round it banked, lower and lower. It was the wreckage it had seen. Close down it banked beside the wreckage, and then, as I ‘leaped and waved and shouted out on the river bed, it saw me. I should tell you now that it was Jim Allison in that plane, I did not know it. But it was Jim and he came and flew within
I. I was waving madly.
I give you as it was thrown down to me, just a sheet of log paper: “Bringing help, Jim and Dunny.” Then he started to climb. Nev-
passed far off, I strained to make | out if it might be Allison's ma- |
At noon of Monday, the fourth
I set | out and had gone about 200 or 300 | yards. I was just rounding a rocky | cliff on the river bed, when , . . |
20 feet of me and he knew it was
He dropped a message which
of me. Up and up he climbed to get altitude and send his wireless messages clear. But he circled round and round and never left sight of the spot, and in what seemed an instant, planes came from all directions as Jim Allison's signals were picked up. I was beside myself. . Planes came rushing and diving, and the
clothing, bedding, medical kits, tools; saws, came raining down out of the sky as a regular air show developed around me.
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Supplies for Four Men
Despite my almost hysterical | condition, I realized they did not |
know the tragic truth; that they
were raining down supplies for | four men and here was only one. So I threw off my snowshoes and | tramped out the big 50-foot let- |
ters, “Joe.” I was a sky-writer by profes-
sion and I made the letters big |
and deep. “Joe,” I wrote. And then I tramped out “3 dead.” I was losing hold of myself aft-
make a plan and a design. When could meet. dropped burst open and flung its
There was a can opener amongst the goods, and canned pineapple juice. I drank one can without stopping. Though I knew I should not do it under any circumstances I ripped open a second can and drained it without stopping. I never tasted anything so glorious in all’ my life. But now I was exhausted and trembling from the rushing about. And.I knew that the job was far from done.
tried to figure out how I could run ‘in front of them if any of them - tried to land in thas deep snow that would turn them over. How long would it be before the actual help could arrive? I opened the sleeping bag, laid it out beside my toboggan and crept into it. I did not now that less than two miles away, one of
down to two Newfoundland trap-
pers. I did not know that as I crawled into the sleeping bag there were coming over
ridges and cliffs and gullies of snow and rock two of the great-
those |
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941 °
est men I have ever known, on’ snowshoes, flying like the wind.
TOMORROW: 10 Miles Over Grim Terrain,
first thing they | dropped was a sleeping bag. The | second was a box of provisions | with an axe strapped to it. Food, |
er all my great determination to |
rescue came, it was more than I
One of the cases of food they |
canned goods ahead like a bomb. |
They could not dare land. I |
the planes had dropped a note |
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