Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-11

down from Moose Factory.
| The officers-Lieutena Louis
A, Kloor Jr., of New Orleans, War
| ter Hinton of Bell Harbor, N. Y,
and stephen A. Farrell of New
York-found a corps of newspaper
men waiting to greet them when
they entered this settlement at 2:20
p. m.
All thre officers were in excellent
condition. While definite plans
have not been made for their de-
parture for the east, it is believed
they will leave here tonight. They
reported no exciting incidents on
their dog sled trip down from
Moose Factory.
Deny Sacrific Story.
The aeronauts were met by
Trooper Louis Mclaughlin. of the
Royal Canadian mounted police,
who handed them a bundle of gov
ernment dispatches from Washing
| ton.
There was not the slightest effort
TO place the Americansu nder tech
nical arrest because of their alleged
violation of international regula-
tions by landing in Canada without
due formality. The first thing that
Lieutenant Kloor did upon his ar
rival was to make a flat denial of
the statement credited to Lieuten-
ant Hinton that Lieutenant Farrell
hi tn h{c
companions. The story had it that
Farrell, worn out, had offered his
BODY to his hunkry fellow aviators
as food.
Lieutenant Kloor declared that
during thed avs they were wander
ing in the wood near Moose Fac
tory their only food had been car
rier pigeons.
Adventure of a kind rarely
known to humans of hum-drum
world befell the three in the per-
formance OF simply navy duty, n
test flight in the routine of general
department orders to test air cur
rents among the clouds above their
home station at Rockaway, N. Y.
The officers set out in free bal
loon about noon, December 10.
The big bag rose gracefully into
the sky and drifted gentle away.
Slowly it gathered headway and |
pointed up New York state, in
creasing it's speed until night found |
it in the path of a driving storm |
which swept it into n desperate
race with death that did not end
until today-twensy- days lator |
the men reached the rail |
head and an open road to civiliza-
tion here.
Early in the afternoon of De-
cember IA, after a wild nights ride |
in the little storm tossed basket of |
their balloon, Farrell. Hinton and |
KIoor landed. wearied from a des-
perate flight. their rations gone
and in a snow blanketed forest of "A
country unknown to them-face to
face with all thep erils of the win
ter in northern wilds.
Out of the black of their flight |
only the tree tops of the Adiron- |
dacks,- the town of Wells, N. Y,
glimpsed far below. and the faint
barking of a dog in the woods in
the Hudson Bav country, were dis
tinct to them. The clouds had
swallowed all else. Now they were
lost, armed with the balloons COM
pass and the uncertain location"
of dogs bark for a hint of habi-
tation.
They set out cropping and Stun
bling through the snow and brush
IF the Canadian woods, on what
proved to be four day journey in
which death constantly stared them
in the face. With hope nearly spent
they spied the figure of a lone In
dian in the woods ahead of them
Their cries halted him and he led
them to his tent and then spec
away over forest trails for help.
On December Is the balloonists
Moose Factory. Northern
Hudson Bay trading post within
striking distance Of the Canadian
Granscontinental railway and the
route home. The nearest telegraph
office was 80 miles away. II took
two weeks for word of their rescue
to reach the outside world.
on January 2. a brief report Of
their safe arrival at Moose Factory
was announced at Rockaway. when
Hinton's age-sent by an In
iian runner to a rail head and
flashed by telegraph-was re-
ceived.
Ninety-six hours after the trio
had sailed away, search was start
I'd for them. Army airplanes were
despatched into the Adirondack
country and the authorities Of New
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