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.
• ; (<Iopyr)fht, 19J4.)
■ After the forced landing of the
Seattle at Portage hay, and while
Jdartln and Harvey were overhauling
Jhelr plane and fighting with the
Twillle-waws," the other members
J>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
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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<s
pltals until he sailed for America seven
weeks ago, after his mother had
learned of his whereabouts.
Deficiency Bill
Is Big Irrigation
Aid in Nebraska
•
Tanners Will Have Five
Years to Pay for Canal Im
provement Along
North Platte.
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bra.
Gering, Neb., Dec. S.—The passage
of the deficiency bill hy congress,
carrying with it the recommendations
of the fact finding commission for
reclamation, la the greatest plecs of
news that has come to Irrigated Ne
braska In many years.
It solves most of the problems that
have been hampering development in
this section nnd opens the way for
increasing development, and removes
unjust burdens that have been bend
ing ,the backs of irrigation farmers
for years.
In effect, the new provisions gov
erning reclamation hy Irrigation put*
iriTgation farming on the same basis
as the railroads. In the rase of the
railroads, the return allowed Is based
upon the vane of the property in
vested in and used in the service of
transportation.
In the case of the Irrigation farmer
the payments required for reclaiming
the land and the water used is based
upon the production of the land.
Classified for Fertility.
The new provision requires that, the
land be classified as to fertility and
productivity, and payments based
upon the gross values of the crops
produced. This takes the place of
the old arbitrary payments per acre,
regardless of the value of crops pro
duced.
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(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
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ers have five years in which to get
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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
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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
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picture.
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TOUR OF WORLD
Table Rock, Dec. S— Mrs. C. D.
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will take her around the world and
into many foreign landa. In company
with two women, she left Eos Angeles
for New Orleans, where they spent
some lime sight seeing. A few day*
later they left for New York. W'here
she sailed In the steamer “Beljan
land.'’
‘ Mis. Robinson will taka In the
slghta In Egypt and the Holy Land,
India and Java. A trip through Spain
Is planned and she will visit points In
France. Germany, England and Scot
land. According to schedule she will
reach New York City on her return
early next May.
She plans to visit Pawnee county
before returning to her home at Eos
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