Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1951 — Page 4

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= : CHAI In Ship Blaze By RUSSEL WHEN 'ENTEEN mn i / ; d woke the oth ‘ho For his valor in fighting ragin wants to CHAPTER SEVENTEEN down in the direction of the shackle craft which was pre- eyes and woke the others, whe g raging | ~ . ; ‘ ore still 1000 se: Tuamotu atolls, paring her entry into a new and tumbled out drowsily and fires aboard the seaplane tender try he S S EARLY as July 3, when we were sti sea We were now blown out of strange part of the world. stared in all directions as if (a8 Valcour when she collided | “ I» “la belle miles from Polynesia, Nature herself was able to the real South Fquatorigl Cur- With each day that passed, they thought our bow was ’ 0 t All : | th tive raftsmen Tht. and the ocean currents larger flocks of sea bisds came about tg run on to a beach. with a merchant ship in Chesa- ne ior The B tell us, as she was able to tell the primitiy alls were no longer behaving de- and circled over us aimlessly in Screaming sea birds formed a péake Bay, Chester W. Williams “There'll from Peru in their time, that there really was land ahead pendably. One day they were all directions. One evening, Dridge across the sky 0 the has been commended by his com- England.” . . i" there; another day they were when the sun was aboiit to sink irection of the distant island, manding officer. ‘The i : z : . somewhere out in the sea. : . gone. The currents could run into the sea, we noticed that the which stood out sharper against t 8 Er 2 machifist Ever since its establishment more than 53 years ese Until we were a good 1000 sea miles out from the ike invisible rivers branching birds had received a violent im- the horizon as the red back- Mate ret Sass is the brother of ago, Shirley Brothers has observed a strictly “one thor ros coast of Peru we had noted "om x out all over the sea. 1f the . pelus, ground widelied , and turned Mss. D, N, Law, Greenwood, Ind. for all" policy—that is, one high standard of per- their prope : ‘ IT WAS a great moment on current was swift, there was They were flving away in a gold with the approach of "the He was a member of the fire sonal and professional sarvice regardless of the But JOP small flocks of frigate birds. hoard when two large boobies usually more swell and the tem- westerly direction without pay- ‘sun and the full daylight. rescue party of the USS White! t<'' of the funeral. h diff They disappeared at about were spotted above the horizon perature of the water usually ing any attention to us or the Our first thought was that Marsh, which boarded the strick- "Costs" of the funers hi 100 degrees west, and after that tO Westward and soon after- fell one degree. It showed .its flying fish beneath them. From the island did not lie where it en Valcour and fought the fires th m we saw only small petrels which Ward came sailing in over our direction and strength every the masthead we could see that, Should. As the island could for seven and one-half hours. A wide choice of price levels (more than 15, with SSSumP on have their home on the sea. mast, flying low. With a wing- day by the difference between as they came over, they all Jot have drifted, the rari must rem several selections at each) is available. Your choice Some it ng : rida spread of five feet they circled Erik's calculated and his meas- flew straight on on exactly the ave been caught up in a north- : : . in} But qn July 3 the Irigate round us many times, then ured position. same course. Perhaps they saw Ward current in the course of Two Hoosier servicemen with] of 2 price level has no bearing upon the extent of petually evo birds reappeared, at 125 de- 0h hoi Cings and settled On the threshold of Poly- something f ’e. Whi the night. We had only to cast D¢ 49th Field Artillery Battalion services received—thaese are always the same. new; that i 1 from now on- : : i yt ng from up above which : - "* of the 7th Infantry Division re- 2c " nolo] f grest peat ks of frigate ©n the sea alongside us. nesia the wind said “Pass,” we did not see. Perhaps they ©ne glance over the sea to per- . = ware awarded Ar C This "one for all" policy is your assurance of a gen- As a resi birds ae often " be en Dolphins rushed to the spot having handed us over to a were flying by instinct. In any Ceive at once, from the direc- 00 0 "oe for rs uinely beautiful memorial tribute—"truly a remem. o1 the mid either high up in the sky or at once and. wriggled in- weak branch of the current case they were flying with a lion of the waves, that we had | "co. 00 | bered service." io refer XI . or the wave quisitively round the great Which, to our alarm, had its plan, straight hom to the near- lost our chance in the dark- : to all tha I oy wraped up Swimming birds, but neither Course in the direction of the est island, their breeding place, Ness. Where we now lay, the | They are Pic. Alired F., Wal-| Dae hn 2 at which "had taken to party touched the other, These Antarctic. The wind did not We twisted the steering oar Wind no longer allowed us to Jers: a of Mi. lived k al. Joan, Ja Jing were the first living messengers DPecome absolutely still — we and set our course exactly fn Press the raft on a course to- ters, 2417 E. 34th St. and Cpl. ey know

the air to escape from dolphins.

As these birds did not come

that came to bid us welcome

to Polynesia.

never experienced that throughout the voyage --and when it

the direction in which the birds had disappeared. Even after it

ward the island.

David H. Peterson, son of Mrs.

Opal Peterson, Indianola.

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erica astern of us, They did not go 4 : TOMORROW — T boii, L Jzom Am have their homes back in the evening but rested Was feeble we hoisted every rag was dark, we heard the cgdes of. iki «i RR Jo tl The Kon fhe Amer Ey ee try ahead on thefisea, and after midnight We had to collect what little stragglers flying over us against Jk} Mg aiS another Island and Awarded the Combat Infan Precise 1 in Another town - betrayed We still. heard them flying in there was. There was not one the starry sky on exactly the a SeAtth begins for a passage {ryman Badge for exemplary per- phrase It On July 18 haul sly. On circles round the mast uttering 9ay on which we moved back- same course as that which we ous She dangerous coral formance of duty in ground com- orator on pepe AS lod A nine- hoarse cries. ~ ward toward America, and our were now following. It was a Teel which surrounds he bat against the armed enemy was issue; by ” id hy which threw up The flying fish which came on smallest distance in 24 hours wonderful night; the moon was _ Frain the hook ‘Kon-Tiki—Across the EVE. Richard Markle, son of Mrs. haranguing Jo0L shark, 4 ” was 9 sea miles, while our aver- nearly full for the thi Pacific on a Raft" Publishers, Rand Betty Markle, 329 N. Sherman businessms te stomach a large board were now of another and : r the third time in McNally & Co. Copyright 1950 by Thor from its A Which. It muri Tater species: I. rec age run for the voyage as a the course of the Kon-Tiki's Hever Tro Distributed by The Register DT. elevator ol Be nt from nized te Fon fishing Pit whole was 423 sea miles in 21 voyage. pi I Pvt. Markle has completed six metropolita C: “ : : Q Tin 3 ne ho “out wn in the had taken with the natives hours; Next day there were still months in the Army. He attend- the dentis ocean along the coast of Fatu Hiva. THE TRADE WIND, after more birds over us, but we did School to Horo ed Howe High School. drill at a | And the very next day we For three days and nights we all, had not the heart to fail us 10! need to wait for them to ing not to had the first definite visitor made straight toward Fatu right in the last lap. It re- Show Us our way again In the Delver Carder Tn ra b It is iy aight from the islands of Hiva, but then a strong north- ported for duty again and eyenIng. e had An open house at the Crooked hans olynesia. east wind came on and sent us pushed and shoved at the ram- HO me ye a Setected & (Creek School will be held Sun- y ere sc — ee et - : a= = ur s stationary cloud : ; : : the horizon. The othe hii day mfierpoon in honor of Prins 51 TIL 7 is an ambig were small feathery wisps of tipal Delver Oar. | It seems

der. Mr. Carder,

who advoca has served there

wool which came up in the th on e res

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