The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-12
FARRELL OBJECTS
 ID STATEMENT OF
 HINTON IN LETTER
One Aeronaut Accuses Other of Writing False Reports In Letter to Wife and They
 Engage In Fight
By Associated Press


 By Associated Press
 Mattice, Ont, January h.
 The long trek to civilization of the three American naval bal loonists came to a dramatic climax here this afternoon, when two of them, Lieutenants
 Farrell and Hinton, came to
 blows over statements alleged to have been made by the lat ter in letter to his wife. 1 When they emerged from the bus at 2;2o o'clock after a 16-days journey from the Hudson Bay company post at Moose Factory, near where they descended, De- cember 14 the three aeronauts, bound in a tie of friendship through their facing together of death, apparently were in- separable.
 1 An hour later, Lieutenant Farrell sat 1 in the parlor of the log cabin home of
 H. P. Williamson, clerk in the Hudson Bay company store here., relating the story of the partys adventures to news paper men. l During the conversation. Lieutenant | Farrell was shown copies of news dis 1 patches, among them letter alleged to have been sent by Hinton to his wife. and published in New York newspaper which said. in part:
 | MT. Farrell fell from exhaustion sev- eral times. Wanted us to cut his throat and take his body for food and asked us to go on and let him die but we de- cided to stick and die together. l was l the only one that did not express my i feelings and kept them cheered up." 1 Hinton then came into the room He told Farrell he should not continue hs talk to newspaper men, as he had dis patches from the secretar of the navy forbdding any of them to talk until an 1 official report had been filed.
 SAYS REPORTS FAI.sr
 Yoi4 rat yos, ha4a oFSn taiEnk os sieii fHs%sEs snapps9 hs4ck. aelasRg1s fi~ taeF isH siiates ps st@N ias 1 r@s3rAs Mfertsap r slA cfssrs Hisfoh feIslAd fa&t thG lst had been 4 glbiishaq without his eoassnt s14 that lit's contents evidently had been exag- l gerated. Farrell then went into another | room to apologize to Mrs. Williamson for his language. While he was gone, 1t is said Hinton declared his remark about exaggerat ton was made only for Far rell's benefit. Farrell returned More words passed between the officers. Then Farrell toois off his coat and struck Hinton on tho jaw. Hinton was sent sprawling over | a table. At this juncture newspapermen l and others in the room stepped between l the men.
 The men left the cabin separately and ! went to a special train waiting on a sid | ing to take them to Cochrane. Claiming that he had been double crossed" in regard to the writing of letters for publication, Farrell said l T wrote letter to Frank Bent. conn missioner of contracts. New York city. and he (Hinton) asked me to write on 1 it that it was not for publication"
 He added that Bent was an intimate friend and evidently had done as re- quested He said he thought Hinton and Kloor wrote their letters under the 1 same agreement.
 The balloonists will remain here until | tomorrow afternoon guests of w. E. Way, divisional superintendent of tho Canadian National railway. whose pri- vate car has been placed at their dis posal.
 TO STOP AT TORONTO l The time of departure has not been anno ounced. sn route to- New York tbe 1 party will make only one stop. Toronto, lwhere they will be guests of Mayor Church and the Rotary club of Toronto lat luncheon. They will arrive In To- 1 ronto about 3 o'clock Thursday after- 1 noon. Lieutenant Farrell said tonight l that there was a great deal of quib- bling among his companions and hin- | self during the three days they were 1 lost in the woods above Moose Factory. He claimed he was in better physical condition than either of his comrades, and at night he would lie on the ex posed side of Hinton to keep him warm. "As q matter of fact Farrell said.
 T could have licked both of them. and could do 1t now, in this roonl.'' l Farrell said he held no srudgs against Kloor. who during the days in the bush. he said, had remarked that he did not want to die, as he had too much to live for."s
 The party left Moose Factory De- cember 2s, instead of December aI, as they had intended.
 During the first three days travelling down the Missinad: all three officers rode on the sleds because they were fatigued from their earlier experiences, Farrell said
 When they felt fully rested, he contin- ued they took turns in mushing along with the Indians. They had been ini- tiated into the secrets of snowshoes while at Moose Factory and got along fairly well. but were rather used up when time came to make camp. CAUGHT IN STORM
 They were caught in snowstorm the first Sunday the trail and were forced to pitch camp after travelling but one mile. Eight days down the Missinsdi their dogs began to show signs of fatigue and men were sent back to Moose Fac tory for others. They were well pro visioned and moose meat formed part Iof their daily ration
 They carried four pigeons when they left Rockaway, Farrell said. One of them was released short distance from the point of departure. Two of the others were eaten during their stay in the woods and the fourth was killed ana ' held for the last morsel. Almost immediately after the ascent at Rockaway they went into the clouds. The only time they could see earth was when passing over Wells, N. Y Then thew were caught in a heavy snowstorm, struck treetops in the Adirondacks, bu. were swept by the wind.
 When the earking of dog was heard Lthey opened the valve of the gas bag and descended. The balloon lodged in the branches of large tree and the ofti> COTS climbed down. thinking they were in the Adirondacks. They did not learns