Fliers Shiver in ^Frozen North as ^Martin Loses Wav • Airmen Hear Weinl Bear Stories of “Sourdoughs” t Near North Pole; Whales Play Water Polo. i Told By LOWELL THOMAS. • ; (f the flight were living in the can jiery bunkhouse at Chignik. They Apent their time between the emer jrency radio station, their planes and fitting around the sheetiron etove In the light of a flickering oil lamp listening to the fishermen spin yarns. ! Chigntk Is in the heart of the region ivhere tha largest hears In the world jtre found—the giant Kodiak brown Jtear that weighs nearly a ton and is stronger than any wild animal with Jhe exception of the African elephant, T The town of Chignik consists of jiothing but two canneries and a few Jlozen native huts. It la shunted on the shore of a horseshoe shaped bay, at the foot of mountains that look like ■Sheer walls of rock rising from 4.000 Jo 6,000 feet right out of the sea. ^There Is not a tree on any of these peaks and they ere coated with Ice. Planes Scare Natives. "Be fore landing we circled around over the village," says Lowell Smith. "Afterwards we learned that the na tives had been nearly frightened out of their parkas and muckluks. As we flew up the harbor the roar of our engines reverberated backhand forth between the mountain walls, snd the women and children ran in doors crying. They were sure that strange monsters had been sent from heaven to destroy them. "In addition to 100 natives, the only Inhabitants were some 20 men who spend the eprtng getting the . canneries ready for the summer run. ' These are the men whom Rex Reach ; has told us about in 'The Silver 7 Horde.’ They are. Americana. Rue - slans and Swedes, and the leading : citizens are the superintendent, Jim ' Osborne, and his wife. "That first night we sent Jack and . Odgen out> to hang lanterns on the planes eo that the watchman would be sure to see them from the shore in case a ‘willle-waw’ tore them adrift. But after they had reached the planes they found the wind so high that it was impossible to light the lanterns, so they returned to the shore and hammered at the door of a native hut. Celebrate "Thunder Birds' ” Coming. "When they got inside and out of the storm they found a dozen or more Aleuts dancing and celebrating the arrival of our 'Thunder Birds. Jack and Hank stayed quite a while watching them and even joined in the dancing. We thought they were 'still out In the harbor and after they OUR j ’8” Coal : : is the best fuel for the money in the city a < Try a Ton Now I CRESCENT [ COAL CO. WE. 7121 . 16th and Laird = V...J ADVKRTIHKMF.NT. jj \ Watch Child's Bowels \ "California Fig Syrup" is Children's Harmless Laxative Children love the pleasant taste of "California FI* Syrup" mid gladly ske It even when bilious, feverish, ■Irk or constipated. No other luxe live regulates the tender little* bowel* in nicely. It ■ wee tens the stomach and starts the liver and bowels with out cramping or overacting. t'nntalriH no narcotics or soothing drugs. Tell your drugglsl you want only the genuine "California Fig Syrup, which has directions for babl-* and children of all ages printed on bottle Mother! You must any "California or you may get an Imitation fig syrup had been gone for an hour or more we were afraid they had repelled, because up to that time they had not yet become very proficient boatmen. In alarm we ran up and down the beach blowing our police whistle*, until we finally discovered them at the native soiree. "We carried these police whistles mound the world with us, in order to signal between planes when not In the air and when the engines were not running. For instance, if some one happened to be out on a plane and wanted to get ashore, he could signal the others to send a boat by blowing his whistle twlre. Queer Yarn. "But the besL part of our stay in Ohlgnik was the time we spent list ening to the old ‘sourdoughs’ tell bear stories to us ‘chechakoes.’ One old bear fighter called ‘Dad’ had parsed his three score and 10, and said, ‘I've the hang of it now, and can do it again.’ His beard was so long he stuck it inside of his shirt te'get it out of the way. He said that he was out rowing a boat up one of the fjords of Kodiak island, when he heard some growling and spluttering. Looking over his shoul. der, he saw a huge brown bear swim right beside his boat. Reaching over, he grabbed the bear by the ears, and the bear towed him and his boat ashore, but having no gun along that morning, before they reached the beach he decided to turn the bear loose and row on home. "But the hear followed along the beach, and when he reached camp it was dark. Dashing into his cabin, he grabbed his rifle, and when he got to the door he saw a bear's head ahove a log not many yards away. Taking careful aim, he fired. But to his amazement the bear's head ap peared again. Taking even more careful aim, he pulled th« trigger, and to his consternation up came a bear's head once more. Nine times in all he fired, thinking that his aim must he completely off. " ‘Next morning when I went out to have n look,’ said Dad, 'there were nine bears lying dead behind that locr.' Climb Mountain* for Exercise. "In between enow squalls, while watting for clear weather, several of us did a little mountain climbing and scaled the cliffs of rock and ice for about 4,000 feet. From the highest point we reached w_e could look off toward the mountains where Major Martin and Sergeant Harvey after wards wandered for many days when the Seattle crashed into a peak " •Smiling Jack." in his diary, de scribes the way the world fliers look ed by the time they got to Chlgnlk: "A strong constitution and plenty of heavy woolen clothes are what one needs up here in Alaska," wrote Jack. "You ought to see us now. With our Alaskan packhoots all greasy with neatsfoot oil, our thick woolen socks sticking out over the tops of these boots, corduroy shirts, sweaters and unlonalls, and our fur-lined flying helmets for hats, we are certainly a picture In comparison with the snappy way we looked In our ‘pink breeches’ the day we had our photos taken with President Coolidgs. "Those same pink hreechea, by the way, are no longer pink. Their leather knee facings have cracked from the salt water and they are black with (ill and carbon. "A radio just came in from out navy friends cheering us up with the new* that all the harbor* In the Kurile islands are filled with ice and that they do not think it. will be possible for us to get through there. Well, we'll go if we have to put the planes on skies and slide serose. “Shiver ami Shake." “Next day—although weather re ports were fine, there waa a stiff wind blowing across t'hignik harbor, and In lying across the pontons to release the planes from their buoys the waves dashed over us and wf were soak«d through. So we did not sing but shiver and shake on that whole flight down to Dutch harbor. "O, boy, what a time we had get ting nut of that hay. The 'wlllle wauws' came whistling down the val leys just as we were getting under way. And being in between high mountains, we struck soms awfully rough bumps in the air. They were the worst jolts we've had since leav ing Seattle. First one wing would go down just off the water, then as soon ns wo would get righted the other one would dip. (>ive ‘‘Willie*" the Slip. "The old w heels were fairly spin ning In both directions and th* rud der tar swinging from slda to aide (o keep It right aid* up. Thanks for a good engine, good rontrola, and a good pilot, or we would hava crashed. Hut after flying for a few mlnutee we got around the corner and gave the playful ‘willies' the slip. "After leaving Chlgnlk we repeated most of the experiences of our last | few flights, going sround nr under or over snow si|U*lls. looking down on rocky islands and flying |iaat Ice capped mountains. If we went down around Castle Rock and over Cape, Ikt.1, the distance would he about 40 miles, • whereas by going up through Chignik lagoon and over a 10-mile portage Into Kulukta, the dlatanc* would be only half that. Smith was leading on this hop and took ua by the short cut. Major Marlin, by the way, w-as trying to do the same thing when he missed the lagoon In the snowstorm and collided* with the mountain. "It was on this Jump to Hutch Harbor that we really left the main land of North America for tha flrat time when we crossed Isanotakl strait from tlvi southern tip of the Alaskan peninsula to l'nlmak Island The only difference we noticed In the country down here was that we istsaed many volcanoes and Islands where there was not nulle so much snow. The reRlnn looked even more barren and desolate then ever. Whales Frolic. "Flying over Cold hay wa passed a school of whales spouting and frol Icklng In the water. They never even stopped their water polo, or w/.atever It wm that they were playing, to look up at us. On Unimak Island a flock of mountain goats were hounding over tile rocks ns we roared by Just n few hundred feel above them. After that we »uw no living thing until w c arrived at Hutch llarbor, although we hit u I'd of situalls that tossed us about. Home!lines we would elrlkr an upward current of air that would throw ue up for e thousand feel. Then av tin we would mu Into a downward current and drop fiOO or Ht>0 feet es though we hnd fallen Inin a hole In the sky. All this was In addition to bucking a headwind of front 30 to 35 miles an hour, which held us down to an average speed of only 53 miles. Arrive "Dog Tired.” "It was 6:05 p. m. when we flew down Unalaska bay into Dutch har bor and lighted a Japanese tramp steamer and the United States coast guard cutter Halda. In seven hours and 26 minutes we had flown only 390 miles. Dog tired, sopping wet from our ducking nt Ohlgnik, chat tering with cold, disagreeable and hungry, we climbed aboard the Halda after securing the hridl'-s of our aerial chargers to the yellow buoys. "The officers of the mlllion-dollar coast guard cutter gave us a chance to get warm end clean up, and then ushered us into the dining saloon, where we sat down to a regular Thanksgiving dinner of roast turkey, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, dell clous salad, and too many other deli cacies to mention. Juet think of a feed like that away up here in the far north, on a barren island, at the entrance to Bering sea, next door to the north pole! "Here as the guests of the nfficera of the Halda we were to wait for our commander—our dontmander who never came." Read (he next installment of the thrilling ’round-the-world flight story in Tbs Omaha Bee tomorrow, LOSTWARVET VISITS MOTHER For five year Mrs. Anna Newberry mourned for her son, • Ellsworth, world war veteran believed to have died In 1919. Today he is visiting, very much alive, at her home In Omaha. He ar rived Saturday front England. Newberry enlisted In the Canadian forces at the outbreak of {he world war. He was wounded in August, 191$, and has been in English h Ykrti t* r>i t" 42* Ends Indigestion Instantly Corrects any Sour, (Jassy, Disordered Stonucl Whin food* "diMHKi1’ In »»tom;oh and causa lmliirr.ilion or K«*r*. limn burn, flatulence, aridity don't atnx m|M*n « at hit rut. Thr> know Hint If thrv i**t too hMv ll\ or of wrong food*, they own aIwpvp dfpond iipim h few tablet* of I'nifi’i I Hm papain to gl\*» almost Inatunt re lief. l«m < out pMrlu<|M gupriinteed by druggists svsiywhtiw Platt* river were unable tn meet the excessive tax payments, and the pen ally of 1 per cent per month on de linquent payments added heavily to (heir indebtedness. This resulted In discouraging not only the farmers on cultivated land, but practically killed all demand for raw Irrigable land. This penalty has now been reduced to one-half of t per cent. This applies to all delinquencies, and these may be paid upon the terms outlined. On the south side, under the now nearly completed tiering and Fort Laramie unit, the owners of the Irri gated land will not be called upon for payments until the receipt of a second notice, and this notice shnll be made within not less than five years after the receipt of the first. The depart ment has construed this to mean not less than five years after th first notice. In other words, the land own ers have five years in which to get their lands Into a high state of cult! ration under the new canal. And still another great relief Is the new policy of charging the office ex pense end Investigating outlay to the general reclamation fund instead of to the repayment fund Means Much tn Nebraska. The relief afforded under th» new act Is even greater than that sought by the lend owners, and means much to th* Irrigated sections of Nebraska. It means that payments may be made tn proportion to receipts from the land. It means Immediate relief from excessive burdens of Irrigation taxes. It means the rapid development of Irrigated territory and a conse quent Increased demand for land That means better land prices. And by no means the least of the bene fictai results ia the renewed hope and cheer that have come to thi* aection, so long laboring under unjust exac tions. The assured Increase in the area of sugar beet lands will naturally be fol lowed by an increase in the sugar industry, which mean* more factories and an expanded labor morket. Nothing has happened in the last decade to make the people of the Irri gated and irrigable sections happier and more confident than the enact ment of the new law governing the reclamation serlvce. ED SMITH TO BE ROTARY SPEAKER Ed P. Hmlth, mayor of Omaha from 1918 to 1921, will be speaker of the day at the regular Wednesday noon meeting of the Omaha Rotary rluh Wednesday. The subject of flmlth's address is to be "Who and Where Are the Recruiting Agencies?" The meeting will be in charge of A. B. Currie, chairman. Upon conclusion of the meeting, the Rotary club members are asked to drop a letter in the Air mall box. A moving picture Is to be made of the ceremony and the Rotarians sre planning to he In the middle of the picture. WOMAN TO MAKE TOUR OF WORLD Table Rock, Dec. S— Mrs. C. D. 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