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LOST WORLD AVIATOR RETURNS TO AMERICA Belllnfham. Waah.. May 28—Hn fjor Pradarick L. Martin, original ""■lite "* amy globe en circling flight. wtioee pinna «m ra tomad on tha Alaaka fhwli April 90, arrived km thia Morning with hia mechintc, Staff Sgt. Alva L. Har ray, on Pacific American fiaheriaa ataamahip Katharine D, fro* Port Hollar, Alaaka. Tha fliara stepped aahorc amid tha cheers of 2,000 per Tha major and Ma mechanic wan under orders from General Mason M. Patrick, chief of tha army air aerriee, to proceed to Waahiagton, D. C. with one aewy. Mr*. Martin and her eight year old •on. Bobby, mat the major at •:*) o'clock this morning at Lummi island, about 10 mile* oat from Bellingham. The Katherine D. stopped there an hour earlier to permit newspapermen and photographer* to come aboard. The family waa re-united aboard the cannery tender, Nile, which carried the major'* wife and boy. It wai • joyooa meeting, the boy tackling his father'* lag while Mr*. Martin A mirage was Warned by Major Martin tor hi* misfortune after leav ing Gtfgnfc. "Shortly after leaving Chignik I saw what appeared to be water and thought It was the Paci fic" he Mid. "I ti aval ad toward it for som tiase and finally It disap peared. Then I realised it as s mir age which I had heea following. It ted token ate off my coarse la a northwesterly direction. "The weather was foggy ate th* clouds were law, probably SM feet WdfajTsoth, ^t^dd.T^r kit tb* north side of the mountain. Had w« kit 10 feet lower we would have struck an abrubt cliff and would probably bath have heea killed, hut aa it was, w crashed oa a gradual slope of tbs mountain ate the plane slid up about 100 feat, tearing it to pieces." Harvey was uninjured, but Martin broke a small bone in his nose and one eye was slightly injured. "It would be impossible to state with accuracy," says the Major, "the amount of tisse that elapsed between the moment that I first saw th« mountain before us and the time oi striking. It was all in an instant. "The plane struck, although I had elevated it aa much as possible by human effort in that brief space. The fact that we were soaring slightly upward when the craah came is. per haps, the one Incident which saved "Had it not btm for Sergeant H*r Tfy 1 do not Mim we would bo her* receiving the welcome of friends to day," Mid lUrtin. "Beside* being th« i I have ever flown with. Har He the Pndfle side at the pil—ula hM ataad af the Mrhf aw M» and the*r eharta did not tell the* of • Owing to a bit of food fortune at the time of the rnuk I bottle of (M denaed food eallad W two ■poewflil* of which m (efficient far f meal, aacspad breaking although moat everything alaa waa demolished. With thia food aapply tnillUe they reached the unoccupied trapper'* cab _ in they found mora food. They alao ' noticed a milk bos with the lettering "Pnf, Port Holler" upon it. Thia cine Kare then much encouragement aa it indicated Port M oiler waa not far away. H array Da id V waa slightly snow hlind the first few daym following the wreck bat recovered. Major M^ tin alao Buffered from aaow blind neaa, which crew uteadily worse and j the last three days Harvey broke trail through the snow, leading Maj ! or Martin to the beach along which they followed to the cannery. While the two meu were oat in the open, snow-covered country, there waa no wind, no enow and no rAk* fall for eight days hot K stormed fiercely one day when they were in the cabin and on the day of their ar I rival at Port Metier. With the American aviator* aafr in Japan, "the worst behind than.'' aa they Mim, the world learnt that A. Stuart MacLarm, flying under the Britiah flag. haa had an accidont somewhat similar to the one that daahad the hope* of the French Capt. | Doi*y. Theae misadventure* emphasise the advantage of adequate preparation and s fleet at plana* in such aa ef fort. Th* American chancea of suc ceaa are vastly improved by the mere fact that fear planee mad* the start. Thro* are still in the flying, and tf more than on* flniahea the attempt ful. The rm* plan* entries are I ant (amble* with fertm*. hot the odda again** tham are heavy hM. hi th* first circumnavigation of the globe, Magellan started with five ship*. Only fear got into the Paci fic. Hi* flagahip waa wrecked, and only one ship the Vittoria. completed the journey. Of the 170 or more men who started, only thirty-one return ed in the Vlttoria. Magellan himaelf had wore* hick than Major Martin, for he waa killed ia the Philippine*, and hia title aa the first circumna vigator rests on the fact that he had already cro***d the remaining m*»i dans on aa aariier voyage. Magellan'* expedition frequently en countered hostility when ha soaght to land, and it is indeed a Strang* commentary on how slowly th* world advance* that th* Americans also were warned off when a storm forced them to alight in the Russian harbor on Bering Island.—New York World. mi Late R. J. ttmw Ywfc HMpital /'M«. J. Edwards Johnston, of Win of the lata B. U to a Haw York ko haaa ■ day Hoth she and her infant m, J. Id ward Johnaton. Jr., alt waa bogn on May 20th. were resting wait Tha rejnsin* nwf bfouiht ta law and tha funeral haM Mgnday af ternoon at hw horn* at SaftiaMa. It waa attended by a term crowd and tha entire root* from 4he home to Salem cemetery. where Interment waa mada waa linad with a solid flank of friends aa the TteMral party pssurt by. All induatrial activity mnil and •ill atoraa closed in tha city during r Mm. Johnston waa a daughter of Mr. and Mr*. 2. T. Smith, of Mount Airy, and first married E. J. I»y nolds in IVOR, to which onion wore horn four children. Mr. Keynolda died in July. 1*19. at>h*-ikte*t In 1*21 oho married J. Edward Johnaton who waa at that time teach in* achool at the ffeynolda estate. ^■aidu amwm iiiiw— mm Johnaton la survived by bar parent*, 'wo brothara and throe alatara. E. 0. Smith, caahler of the First National Bank, of Mount Airy, Matt Smith, Mies Irene Smith, and Mr*. Chs*. T.uca*. of Mount Airy, and Mr*. Jaa. Dunn of Wlnaton-Salam. The death of Mra. Johnaton ha* brought a wid"*pre«id wave of *ad ne** over the entire country. Al ready the waa lending her ability and contributing large amounts of her fortune to various csuaea for the up building of tha country. She had fust seen completed a memorial build ing in ber homo city to be aaad in connection with the city school and she is said to have expended nearly a million dollars in its construction. Here in our midst her memory will bo cherished and honored for the good work she had dona in the building of the splendid house of worship for the Salem Methodist congregation three milea north af this city. In this work she contributed about $20,000. Tha church has been in uae only a few week* and the congregation had plan ned to hold a dedication service some tiato to Juno and having Mrs. John ston aa honored guest American Potato Bug Now Foor of Garaum / Berlin, May 26.—Germany has be. run (Harding her frontier aga Inat a Hostile invasion of (he American po tato hoc. which is reported to he ovefronntng parts of Prance. The past is said to have been introduced into Prance in the region of Bordeaux by the American Expeditionary Forces during the war. As a preventive measure the Ger man Government has prohibited im portation of potato, tomato, gooseber ry and similar plants. Highway Commission to Build 1,400 Miles of Lawn t Minyn stew* ana uowTTfT) Beginning u aoon as aeed enough | can be found for the buineu the North Carolina highway aommi»»ion | will become the proprietor of the big | r««t lawn In the State, being approx | imatel* 1,400 milea long aad 10 feat ; wide, according to plana appro red by Commissioner Frank Pag* and direct ed to be put into affect immediately. The work ha* already etarted In the fourth dietrict, and » ready to hag In in other diitricta. 11m "lawn" will ha aowad along the ■boulder* of the 1,400 mile* at pared mat In the State ayitem, the ten feet of n| «■ either Ma of Dm paring being Bet ia aoM tough graae that will resist eroaion, and imI he hurt by autaMobile* that bait the paring them badly. The mil will save the waahing oat of the shoulders and la • large mraiarr prevent the rutting of the shoulder* by the tire* of auto mobile* that leave the pavement. Bermuda grass will be wad. since it offers the gr«at**t reaiatance to weathering and to traffic. Where it ia poaaible the sodding wiU be done by transplanting, bat in mm* instan ce* th* Mad will have to be aown. Th* work will b*gta at th* oatar edge of th* should** aad work la toward th* paving, aad eh— • the gras* 1* fully •at aa almost tnpeoetrahle asss of root* will be la th* way of wa*Uag or traffic burd*ns. Bcanieally the completed work will BOTTLE CM—W AT LANT1C WAS CUPID'S ■"ISITS Tmi ^TIIm ' IiAWWWUm ami N» New York, Mar 1&—A M pm hottle, t%W7 mM with wax, wm picked ay at Katkawy Baadl a month afa. Inside was a yrilsl note which indicated an eicbteea-yaar oM-ctrl, with whimsical romance ia bar heart, had eaat It iato the aaa at Rinotown. Ireland. Dm. 4. 1882 bop ia* "mnm nic« boy finds and returns it to at." Thar* are few authenticated caaaa of rath kind on r and bat yesterday mine spptrcnt proof thit thf hottlt actually did ride the wavaa of the I Atlantic forty-two years. It ia [vonchad for by the firi who wrote Mho note that winter day ia 1882. i> She is sixty now sad the romance S of youth haa bowed to the miafor | tones of life. In bor words: "I aaa no lonpr romantic but a poor widow with only a small peaaioa | allowed me by the British Govern. ment." The "nice boy" >bt found long to fore the bottle turned up was gsssid 0k the wmr and died of tuberculosis. The mm*!* found in the bottle at Rockaway Beach was as foDaws: -This bottle is east into ths ssn at Kingstown, in the County of PuMtn. Ireland, on the 4th day of December. 1882, by EUaabet* Kinch. Pave Lane. Kingstown. age eighteen years. "Hope some afce boys finds and re turns it to leading this Has age in newspa per accounts. Mrs. William Ryan of No. 82 10th Avenue. who comes from Kingstown, remembered that she once knew the name "Kinch." al though she is much younger than the writer of the note. Out of curiosity •he wrote to "Elisabeth Kinch. Pave Lane, Kingstown." telling her of the finding of the bottle. Mrs. K. Kinch Beflne replied, say ing she was the writer of the old note and that eight persons hi this city had written to her about it. Her let ter resembles the forty-two-year-old not in general character of handwrit ing, according to the inrsuaa who hare seen both. It says ha part: "I will relate the history at this let ter as well as I can-remember, first tailing you I am no laager romantic, bat a poor widow with only small peaakm allowed ate by the British Government. My husband died few years ago of consumption contracted during the big war. He was on a ship and get gamed and never got hatter and died in prime of lite. "As a young girl myself and a com panion were very fond of sailors, at that time very frequent in Kingstown Harbor, all the big ships calling there. We made it ap that both of us would write a letter and bottle* H ap and enst it out to esa. "Well, you know the result of mine. I dont know where the other was found. Although I am getting old now I have been Joked about this let ter by my friends and my poor old father says I was always too food of the sailors for his taste. "I received eight letters from New York, but I am only answering yours, and although Pave Lane is no more new houses and new names taking their place, if yea will address letter here 1 will get It allright." L««*i Asylum I* !• Triad For MonUr Taylorsville, May It—Carl White, who. It la alleged killed Kb wife ami children at their home about aeren miles front hers oa the Taylorsrille Lenoir read, nearly seven years ago will be broofkt baek and tried tor at the BsptwuhsT term af the te s aUUaieat issued at the sheriff's office hers. Tie ancussd man has has* In an asytaaa for the eriwlnal insane sines the kflUni oc curred. Though Mm pand Jury rs • taksn to hrinf hiss te trial until re cently when Sheriff Ketonet went to Raleigh to faring ths ma hy the tow Iff and WhHa should >v to the traffedy. it la said I had shown m signs sf Uinsanity hat Ma Meads rlaim that W.J 1 | jj j. - .« to -s- 1). MM IIW||I iriWH ywruiMI I Je saw •* *.1 KIDNAPPERS SLAY SON OF CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE 8m Fraaciaeo.—Of all the diff leuK joke of drllHnf for ail undertaken by the Standard Oil Company of Cali fornia ill this country and to foreign land*, the hardest ever attempted la the wefl being ■ank hack of Fnrtage Bay. Alaaka, H waa explained mart here. The craw drilling h» Alaska haa en countered innumerable difficulties during the year that operations have bean under way. The hole has been driven through solid rock, ft sand stone formation so hard that at ttoaa it haa turned the edge of steal and required repairs in the drill. Inch by Inch the unyielding substance haa bean pierced. Some days the pro gnose waa not ann than five or sis feat. The end of the year in March found th hole 1.406 feet deep, with the sandstone persisting There can he no chance for oil un til the rode is pierced. The eoaipany's geologists, on whoee recommendation the spot waa selected for drilling, de clared it waa the longest stretch of hard formation that they had ever r ui|—nt unri am u—ii causeu by the •srt ptional severity of the winter. Temperature* of 24 below aero hsve been enmnntcrtd. Often it *u nirnssry to thsw out the pipe lines to the boilers. The company of driller*, aeat from San Francisco, reached Alaska in tfei nummer of lKt, carryin* all dm equipment for drflHif and atUtf a camp. Portar» Bay. where the party t lament. The place salactsd for the well was srrenteea mils* inland. To haul the apparatus it was mnesary to build a road crossing two moun tain ran res and several miles of swampy ground. So difficult was the task that actaal drflhc could not be started until the following March. The region, which has been sub jected to something of a stampede he muss of the hope that oil would be •track, is known as ths Cold Bay Ofl District, though ths oil still is hypo thetical The little town of Kaaatak has sprang up not far from the Stan dard Ofl Company's operations. Owing to the sesotHy of the winter, the CaHfornians were without mail 'ram October to January. With a high powered alulsss station near the drilling rig, however, the men were in constant communication with the outside world Broadcast pro grams are picked up there from points as distant as San Francisco. The Alaskan operations are part of the general quest for new nil field* which has taken the company's gsolo rists and drillers into Columbia, Ecuador. Argentina and the Philip pines. "We are anticipating the time when our producing wells will he exhaust ed." explained an official. "New pe troleum fields must be developed." Mr*. Wilso. Hurt hi Fall Washington, May 2S.—Mr*. Wood row Wilson fall and fractured slight ly a small shoulder bene white visit ing friends la Virginia recently. Mrs. Wilson regarded the mishap aa of little importance at the time, hot aa K became more painful con sented to having aa i-ray photograph made, which diacloaed the fracture. Aa soon aa the swelliag aubeldea she will go to a hospital for a day and hare a plaster east applied. Aside from the painful swelling, the widow of the former Prsaident fa suffering Chicago, Mmy «, Aa attoapt to trap a band af hlihiappw eaoaad tha crimiaala to kill M«l Pmta. a fugiiaaa year-oM boy, who had heaa bald by the* for «MN nail Tha lad. Ma of Jacob Fr«nb% Preeidaat of tba Bacfcford Watch Company and oaa of tha wnlthlite S •tract yeeterday wan after ha Ml tha Harvard acbeal. Ha waa nrrW »ff (a a motor car. Tha kidnapping waa aa qaickly aa- : rompllahed that witnaaaaa amid fur ni.h bat little data Hi. With tha bay in their power, tba kidnapyiri da- j "fatchfd & ■nid iul datiytri note It m a»j»^»aa»a 1^®"® *• 0 www i Jacob Praaka, demanding 110,000. Tha latter, peated at J JL K, h- ] formed htm that hb boy would ha returned upon payment of tha l» •om. provided tha polka and other autborltiea were not notified. Tha letter waa well phraaad aa if by a person of am than ordinary eda cation. "Your mo is io safekeeping," it began. "Too most follow explicitly every etipulation of tkk Utter. The *10,000 demand «M the prin cipal stipulation. Following it WM the warning: "If you have notified the police or other aathoritiae do not carry the matter «py farther or «• will Ul jrear boy." A final sentence said Frank could expect "farther instructions at 1 I o'clock." Previous to delivery of the note, Mr. Fraaks had piaeod the affair bo fore Samuel Bttleeon. hia attorney. Franks said he was waiting <or hto boy at haaae when he received a telo has bJl MihlM^yBo safe custody. Too will hew mere froas ua in the motniag. Through IHleoun. Mr. Fraaks ar ranged to teea the tiliphiai Mm liiading into hia heaae tapped in hope of connecting with the klilaappt hi that way. let at I o'clock Mb morning he received by apscial de livery another letter that —»«< Mb ; to change hie plana. . J A trap was evidently eet fc tha kidnappers bat this feature is yet unexplained. The boy's naked body waa discov ered by a laborer at mid-day ia a cul vert under the Pennsytvaaia rail road tracks at 118th street am tha far sooth side. It was floating la two feet of water. The only identi fication mark was a pair of glasses which rhmg about the head. Two penetrating wounds in the skull had entered the brain. Capt. . Wolfe scat hie detecthree eat to In vestigate hot they could not fix the identification or find the clothing, i This afternoon the family heard ai the finding at the body. Mr. Franks had decided to pay the ranaom. rather than risk the life of the hoy by calling in the paUea. Be had prepared himself to neat all the conditions set down by the kidaap- . perm. For that roaaoa he eoald net I believe his hoy had corns to hank J I Only when friends beeaate insistent did he consent to let Cdwia M. Oreo- V ham. hia brother-in-law. go oat ta I look at the body. ]■ "It's Robert," the Mb cried, m I he entered the Mergwe ea Hoaaken | Coolidge Inhale* Chlorine Get 45 Minutes For Cold
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