Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-10
Veterans of Canadian Out
post Fear Blizzard Nav
Prove Severe.
WHEREABOUTS OF HEROES
SECRET OF WILDERNESS
Trappers, However, Say Continued
Absence Suggests No Real
Cause for Alarm.
BY the Associated Press.


NAL IfCE, Ontario. January 10.-
Matt1ce, the small settlement on the
Iranscontinental railway toward
which the three stranded American
naval balloonists are believed to be
mushing from Hudson Bay Tertiary
today was in the grip of a snowstorm
which old-timers thought may prov.
severe.
Inc WIND was sweeping across the
country from the west, and this. ac.
coIulng TO trappers. usually prefaces
a heavy rail- of snow at this time of
year. If this weather prediction holds
IT is bound to affect travelling down
the Missinaibi trail
Ihis morning-fifteen days after
the aeronautS had announced they
would start from Moose Factory, near
thelr landing place-the corps of
newspaper correspondents. who had
rushed north on word that the balloon
mad descended safely, still were
knocking about the Hudson Bay most
three houses, billiard room and sta
tion, which go to make up this ham,
let Not report had been received
or the aeronauts' progress. nor, in
ueeu. assurance that they had started
on the day set.
Correspondents were beginning to
believe that. because of the exhausted
condition in which Lieut. Stephen A.
Farrel reached Moose Factory. the
start may have been postponed. par
ticuiafly as snow has fallen several
times within the last two weeks.
Reporters Have Hard Lot.
Meanwhile, the newspapermen were
finding that reporting in the north
land was different from reporting in
New York, Chicago or other cities
from which they had come, and motion
picture men also were having their
difficulties.
One movie man started out this
morning with two assistants and ten
dogs and had covered eva city half a
mile along the railway cracks when
one of the sled's runners caught i'm
switch and was smashed. Back
came the party.
Meanwhile. the representative of a
Runalo paper was nursing slight but
irritating injuries received when q
sledge dog sampled his flesh while he
was STOPPING over to adjust a snow
shoe strap The nibble was serious
enough. however, to force the news
paperman to abandon his plans for
going up the trail to meet the airmen.
Dawn today brought no tidings out of
the bleak north of the progress OF the
pilgrims.
Continued absence of information.
enced trappers in this section. They
said the Americans and their Indian
guides undoubtedly were slowed up con-
siderably by the established fact that
Lieut. Stephen A. Farrell, the eldest
of the trio, had to be carried on sled,
his feet having been badly frostbitten.
Under ordinary circumstances the air.
men might have made this post two
days ago.
The weather today was unusually mild
for this season of the year.
May Arrive Before Night.
Some of the more optimistic watchers
here believed that the airmen would
emerge from the wilds before nightfall-
According to general calculations by this
tiny towns population and the small
army of newspapermen and photog-
raphers. the long-awaited party /prob
ably was forty miles northwarH when
they camped last night.
While the actual route selected by
the men is not known. by common con-
sent this town is now believed to be
the trails end. 6
George Macleod. one of the Indian
runners who brought the aeronauts'
dispatches here from Moose Factory.
said eleven days. the time consumed
by his party in covering the distance
along the Missnabi from Moose Fac
tory, was a record. 1t usually takes
two weeks to make the trip. he added.
Have Best Mnlamutes.
Newspaper correspondents who gave
up hope that the party would arrive
at Cochrane over the Abititi trail ar
rived here early today. None of the
scouts sent out by them had returned
tonight.
Official documents from Washington
for the naval areorrautS are in care of
a member of the royal Canadian mount
ed police. who was ordered to wait at
this point.
Factor Mavor. of the Hudson Bay
Company. said that Oliver Marks. the
Indian guide leading the Americans
out of the frigid wilderness. is an ex-
ceptionally capable man, and owns
some of the finest and fastest maia-
mutes i'm this country.
The Missinabi trail is open in many
places and the party will be compelled
to make numerous detours.
Deny Jarrett" Rumors.
OTTAWA. January 10.-Ofhcial de-
nial was made here today of published
stories that the Canadian mounted
police would arrest" the three Amer
lean naval balloOniStS on their return
to civilization in a friendly action to
obtain an explanation of why they
violated international air
by landing in Canada
without due formalities.
Commissioner Perry of the mounted
police asserted Sergt. L. mclaughlin
was waiting for the airmen. rushing
down from Hudson bay to deliver to
them official documents from Wash
ington His forces had no intention
of demanding any kind of explanation
he said.
RAILROADS ARE ACCUSED.