.Yank Fliers Land
f Off Japan Shore
Decked in Icicles
*
r Observers Given Thrill of
f Their Lives as Pacific Is
Crossed by Air First
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«' Told by LOWELL THOMAS.
(Copyrlyht, 1»:4.)
, "When the Ford came in with a
£ fresh supply of fuel and provisions to
^"relieve the rope," the Associated
j. Press representa
tive says, “I
transferred to it
again. Meanwhile
v not a word from
the fliers. Now
and then we hap
pened to pick up
a stray sentence
I , or two out of the
J * air saying some
—» t thing about Major
eut Souefi Martin being lost.
.Smith Tf The melancholy
' part of it all.
T from our point
of view away
over there in the
-.Kuriles, was that the 120-mile
f*gale had passed oh, leaving in
J'jjta wake the most gorgeous, clear
. weather imnginalde. It was ideal for
«“flying, and we were hoping they
y$4vould come through before another
* .gale blew up. Poor Captain Frost
£ spent sleepless nights worrying about
of this marvelous weather going
j .to waste.
»* "Suddenly a message came in front
<*■ Lowell Smith: ■
«' “ ‘Will you go to Kronotski and re
connoiter for possible landing places?’
“ "That was all It said.
J" “Out came the charts, and we io
Rented the Gulf of Kronotski, way up
— on the ooaBt of Kamchatka?*
•P, " ‘Will not enter Russian waters
funder any cicumstances except to
wsie^pue a plane,' was Captain Frost's
firepfy, adding that the weather was
*ssuperb and hinting we were all fed up
JJYwalting for them. •
Pick Up Mysftry Message.
"Sixteen hours later back came an
V ironical radio front Smith setting
Jciforth how fully they realized the
'J! hardship Captain Frost and his men
* were experiencing, expressing the
^6yrnpat*\y of himself and ooinpan
•‘.ions, and adding that they would
. certainly make a special point of get
f'ting through as soon as possible, as
Irihey had no intention of remaining
“-.permanently in the Aleutians.
Sj, "Thursday passed, but no further
y%~ord cante through. Friday morning
X<Sve picked up a mysterious message
Y\out of the air that was passing he
f tween the Eider and the Haida. Up
>4o this time we had often been able
VJo hear the Haida, but never before
* bad we caught the response from the
v Killer. This meant that it must be
.vjjuite near us and that the hoys were
„getting ready to hop off from Attu.
* "All day Friday and then Friday
>.plght passed: still not a word. Sat
in rd ay morning, the 17th, it was bitter
yjcold and snowing and sleeting again.
» Vou can imagine how disgruntled
.^.everybody on board was after waiting
♦ away up there In the Kuriles for a
fmonth, after having had a period of
perfect weather without the fliers at
tempting to get through, and then to
- See storms setting in again.
Thrill of His Life.
" ‘Well, they won’t come today,’ we
♦.said, and at 11:20 I was up in the
'"radio room sending a message to my
VTokio office urging them to try their
idlest to keep the flight story alive in
vthe American newspapers, as ' the
? aviators were at Attu and might
..■anake the flight over the Pacific by
J^londay.
v' "Just as I had finished flashing
Ithis to Tokio T heard some one shout.
^jSThere they come!’
"Jumping to the door and looking
Tint. I saw three sailors standing op
posite the starboard rail looking to
f t he south. And there, sure enough.
‘coming from the south Instead of
"trnm the north, were three planes.
: "They had just appeared out from
behind a cloud.
v'J "Believe me. that sight was the
"thrill of my life. I have been in the
• newspaper game for 2T) yeara and as
J* result of this some of my friends
fthink me hard boiled. But after walt
VJng up there on the edge of the
Arctic for weeka and weeks just for
r,Yhis event, and then to hoc these
^ world cruisers appear unexpectedly
• ^rom behind a cloud and realize you
-Were witnessing the arrival of the
-.first men to reach Asia front Anter
Xloa by air—yes, I’ll admit that it sent
J-fhe thrills up and down my spine.
£*• "And, judging by the way they
- W hooped and yelled, it seemed to
'■fhrill the Japanese as well.
> Uproar Vies With Volcano.
* "There they were, safe and sound,
• flying in a perfect triangle formation.
Pandemonium broke loose In the Ku
, rile island* that, morntng. No uproar
*4o equal It had been head since the
last volcano erupted In this vicinity.
Y ‘‘Col. L. ('. Broome, advance repre
sentative for the British round the
world flight, had been through shortly
♦ before on a Canadian trawler, and
"had placed a supply dump and a buoy
'0 shfirt dlstnnee off across Kurile
j- Strait, near the shore of Hhlmushu
’ Island.
Smith sighted Broome's buoy, and,
Sowing to the direction of the wind at
'< that moment, he knew It was a much
'jginre desirable landing place than
ijwhere our three buoys were In Kashi
. Sahara bay. Ho he lunded there,
Shrinking that Nelson and Wade would
ifcllow anil that the destroyers would
tfhen transfer the moorings. But.
despite the high sea, an adverse wind
'■nil sheets of sleet, the Boston and
-New Orleans came down near us.
World Is Told.
• "As soon ae I saw the planes I
-Jumped into the radio room. I had to
'He quirk In order to avoid breaking
,’qor agreement with the commanding
.officer of the Japanese destroyer, lie
. had asked us to promise that from
! the moment the fliers touched the
■ water until 30 minutes had passed we
‘ -would send out no radio messages.
_ Ho figured this would enable him to
Announce to the world tin- news of
the completion of the Aral Pacific
flight. But before the boys were out
or the air I shouted to the radio op
"qiator to kill Ihnt last message of
•rtilne and tHkc this:
#• -
/J* M *1’rgetit. KokuflhuJ. Tokio. nml
^stociatPii l*i enn, 8an Franclucu,
k
Filers arrived Kashiwahara Bay, 17th
at 11:35.'
"As a matter of fact, they touched
the water at exactly 11:37.
"Then, of course, the radio opern
tor on the Ford had to shut down
for 30 minutes while the Japanese
destroyers were notifying the war
office In Toklo. But before they gave
the news to the other press organiza
tions in Tokio, my radio had reached
San Francisco and been flashed all
over America.
Uitle* Deck Aviators.
“A few minutes later the boys came
on board, half frozen, wet to the
skin, and with Icicles hanging from
them.
"It was not yet noon, and I knew
that it was practically 900 miles from
where we were to Attu, in the Aleu
tians, so I said to Jack Harding:
" ‘You don't mean to stand there
with icicles dripping from your beard
and try to bamboozle me Into think
ing you have flown 900 miles In five
and a half hours, do you?’
“ 'O, no,' rejoined Jack. 'We
stopped over night at the Komandor
skis and started this morning from
Nikolski bay.’
"Realizing this might result In dip
lomatic complications between Mos
cow and Washington. I told the boys
I was willing to radio any sort of rea
sonable story that suited them, and
It was finally agreed I should reveal
to the world how they had been
blown off their course to Nikolski.
But on second thought we saw that
any one reading such an account
would wonder just how It happened
that, when the fliers got blown off
their course, they were so fortunate
as to have their forced landing near
ft remote Russian island right along
side an American boat, loaded with
special gravity gasoline made only
for use In airplanes!"
Leave Russians in Lurch.
Regarding the interesting tale of
how the world fliers visited the Rus
sian islands where they had not been
supposed to land, they relate;
"Erik Nelson and Jack Harding
told me the morning they came bn
board the Ford at Kashiwahara bay
that Smith and Wade had gotten into
the air a little ahead of them at
Nikalski. Erik had some trouble get
ting his motor started.
"Suddenly he saw the Russians ap
proaching him in a boat. He was
afraid they might he coming over
with orders from, Moscow to arrest
the members of the flight and he
was uneasy, because his motor balkod.
But, just when the Russians weie 25
feet from him the motor kicked over
and started off with a roar. So he
taxied right by them and left their
little boat tossing about in the waves
loft by his pontoons."
When the airmen had changed
clothes and thawed out on board the
Ford, the first thing they did was to
reply by wireless to the cordial greet
ings sent across the bay by the com
mander of the two Japanese destroy
ers. The weather was too rough for
any personal visits that day.
Congratulated by Weeks.
That afternoon a radio cams
through from Wanhlngftm that was
much appreciated by the fliers after
their long journey from the Aleutian
islands to Janpan:
"Kashiwahara, Paramushlru, Kurile
islands. Japan: Cangratulations.
Yours is the honor of being the first
to cross the Pacific by air. Through
its army and navy our country has
the honor of having led in the cross
ing u'f both great oceans. The army
has every faitli in your ability to add
the circumnavigation of the globe to
its achievements.
"JOHN W. WEEKS.
"Secretary of War."
Then, as the boys Bat around the
ward room on the Ford they told
Captain Frost and his associates of
their flight across the Pacific, their
eventful night in the Komandorskis,
and their spectacular flight over the
peninsula of Kamchatka.
Regarding this latter, of which we
have not yet* heard, they described
how they had crossed the gulf of
Kronotski and Cape Shipunskl and
then suddenly encountered g curious
layer of fog that obliterated the earth,
but only extended lip to an altitude
of 300 feet. Above the fog the weather
was perfectly clear. So all the way
down Katmchatka they flew above it,
and saw nothing except a Vangc of
volcanoes rearing their ice capped
summits above the billowy cloud con
tinent over which they flew.
Volcanoes as Sign Posts.
These lofty volcanoes appeared on
their maps with such unpronouncea
ble names as Koryatskaya, Vilyuch
inskava, and Povorotnaya. Otherwise
It would have been difficult for them
to realize they were not still flying
along the coast of Alaska.
Although they could see neither
the ocean nor the terrain beneath,
these volcanoes loomed up like arctic
sign posts to fell them where they
were. As they flew rinse to one tow
ering peak there was nothing to break
the perfectly smooth surface of the
snow excepting a lone track down the
mountain which, they imagined, must
have been made by one of the giant
bears for which Kamchatka is fa
mous.
A 100 miles south of Cape Shipun
skl the fog suddenly stopped, s
though sliced off with a knife,
(locality to Arc tic Circle.
But In front of them, at an altitude
of 2,000 feet, was another bank of it,
and from there on to the Japanese
Island, Shimushu, their flying celling
grew lower and lower until finally
they were Just sklmndng the water
wilh their pontoons. The fog cleared
again as they turned nml flew to
ward Kanhlwnlcarn bay on I’aramu
shlru.
From now on they were to fly
farther and farther away from the
Arctic circle and nearer and nearer to
the equator, toward many n tropic
tslcc "where every prospect pleases
and only man Is vile.”
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REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
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Why Alfred Asked. “Can't You Take
a Joke?"
Junior's grotesque comment on the
tiny new daughter of tlie Durkee
household stunned us all for a second.
Then little Mrs. Durkee stiffened of
fendedly. Marlon choked buck a
laugh by clapping ber hand of her
mouth. Katie giggled outright and
Alfred roared, while I worriedly be
gan a remonstrating.
"Jtinlop, dear, that was a very
naughty thing to say—”
But I was not permitted to finish
my reproof.
"What's the big Idea, Mrs. Madge,
teaching the kid to He?" Alfred de
manded. "He has the courage of his
convictions, which is more than 1
had when I first gazed on my daugh
ter. I wots so afraid of Leila and the
mater here that I echoed all their
besotted perjuries concerning the
beauty of this infant. Not that she
won't be a raving beauty later,” he
interpolated with as "daffy daddy” an
air as anyone could posses, "but just
now Junior is absolutely correct in
his verdict.”
"Al-fred!” his jnother snapped, "if
you haven't any more sense than to
think like that, you at least might
have the decency to keep your
thoughts to yourself. Of course the
child is not to blame. Children, espe
cially boys, are such odd little
creatures, one never can tell what
queer, dreadful things are running
through their minds. But for a grown
man to encourage anything of that
sort, when it is his own baby that's
in question—well—I—"
A Hint of Tears.
There was more than a hint of
tears In the air, hut, for once, I made
no effort to personate the dove with
the olive branch.
If anyone had told me a half hour
before that I would take seriously
any part of Mrs. Durkee's chatter,
1 would have denied the accusation
indignantly But X found myself as
hotly resenting her adroitly insinu
nted censure of Junior under the
guise of excusing him, as if I were
the most inconsistent feminine per
son on earth.
Thai Mrs. lJurkee was angry
enough at him to box his ears
soundly, if she dared. I knew from
the tone in which she referred to him
as "the child.” 1 always haVe ob
served that when one woman refers
to another woman's child with the
apparently Innocuous statement that
"the child Is not to blame,” it Is time
for disinterested neighbors to climb
tlie fence and go home.
Alfred came to the rescue prompt
ly, in more senses than one, for from
behind his mother's back he sent me
a comprehending and sympathetic
wink, even as he orally abused him
self in the fashion of offending
masculinity where new babies are In
question.
"Now, mother, mine, can't you take
a joke?" he protested with every evi
dence of sincerity. “You know I never
can resist the chance to tease you,
and really what Junior said was too
good an opportunity to let slip. But
you know that I really think there
never was a baby as pretty and sweet
as this one, so won't you forgive
Junior and me? Come, Junior, let's
knock our heads on the floor three
times." 4 /
"(live Her Here.”
This particular bit of horseplay is
one with which my small son Is per
fectly familiar, for Dicky indulges in
It when he wishes to burlesque an
appeal for forgiveness. So with a
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v-c. o t ABLISHED 1 8 9 Olf:
happy giggle. Junior scrambled to a
position beside Alfred, and they both
slumped to their knees, and from
that vantage point, knocked their
heads three times against the floor,
murmuring:
“Mercy, most gracious lady"'
One of little Mrs. ltupkee's thief
charms Is her inability to cherish ill
temper for more than SO consecutive
seconds, and the laugh which greeted
the ridiculous exhibition was entirely
free from rancor.
"I’m glad to sec that you have an
Idea of your proper place,” she ad
dressed her son scathingly, but her
eyes were twinkling merrily. Then
she tient tn Junior with a smiling |J
tenderness that I guessed held u bit E
of remorse. jjf
"Would you like to hold this baby E
girl, Junior'.’" she asked.
I. held my breath for an uncertain I
Instant. Suppose my small son per-1E
veriely refused! Hut Instead he look I
ed at Alas. Durkee with calm inquiry. I
“Is she a girl'.'" he asked. fl
"She -certainly is," Alfred assured ■
hint. ’ H
"Then give her here." He seated E
himself In lordly fashion and held I
out his arms with assurance. "Katie I
salt! I'd soon be big enough to have a I
girl, so X might ns well take this one." E
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