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|sCLUb WILL
OlDCONFERENCE
Iner oe CLUBS is TO RAISE
|sNpARp OF CHARACTER
AMONG YOUNGSTERS.
Be HELD IN FEBRUARY
u.nsred and Thirty Interviews
|.r.re Made During the Year
with the Older Boys.

,nroa-The third annual Sta.e
- Rows, Conference will be nelo
10. probably at Alexandra ac
10 A X. Jones. representative
DC state committee of the young
.s christian Association. who is ~ "a
,roe Mr. Jones said there are ~
[y clubs. Eve student associations
colleges. six Industrial Organize
six employed boys brothernooos
| louisiana. 49,.
|r.rine the year. he added, there
-, 4sO personal interviews Will
- boys on their life problems and
hety boys have been discoVered
4 Christian callings, these being
ony the activities of the state as
[r,ation. according to Mr.. Jones.
|~The purpose of these clubs" SAID
Joues. lis to raise the standards
character among boys of high
kool grades. Their slogan Is clean
r.seh. clean habits, clean athletics
a clean scholarship"
NJ Jones said that the third annual
I.fe Older Boys Conference Will
rpbably bring together more dele
L1es than at the second session at
ahs Charles, when PA boys attend
1
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To Call SoeciaI Session.

Lincoln, Neb.-Gov. S. R. McKelyie
has announced special session of
the legislature will be called about
February to consider among other
things a proposal for a one-cent a
gallon tax on gasoline and kerosene.
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Warrants For Robbers.

Salem, Ill.-Narrants charging four
men neld here with completely in the
robbery OF the State Bank of Lu6a at
Luka have been issued. Between
$4,000 and $4,000 in cash an
were obtained in the robbery.
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Anree On Relief Bill.

Washington.-Senate conferees have
agreed to eliminate the bill carrying
100000 for the purchase Ct food
for starving Russians all Senate a.
n.endments, including an item OF
s5Os.s0 for additional hospital facili-
ties for war veterans.
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Cotton Rate Reduced.

Austin, Tex--A 10 per cent rate re-
duction on cotton in Texas has been
been granted by the Texas Railroad
Commission on application Of the
roads.
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Typhus case IS Found.

who had just made a trip by water
and rail to Jacksonville, Fla, and re-,
turn. has been found to be suffering
from typhus, Health Commissioner
Woodward has announced. Precau-
tions have been taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
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Educator Is Honored.

Washington. Announcement OF
the selection of Eugene Allen Gilmore
to be vice governor general of the
Philippine Islands has been made by
Secretary Weeks. Mr.. Gilmore is a
professor of law at the University Of
Wisconsin.
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Postoffice ls Saved.

Washington.-The Postofiice De-
partment has announced it had re-
scinded its order Of October 25, dis
continuing the Postoffice at Grange,
Sharp county, Arkansas, and that the
Office will be resumed.
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Gas Victim. Succumbs.

Columbus. O.-With the death of
Mrs. W. b. Harris of Continental. o..
at a local hospital, the death toll of
the gas explosion at the Wright's
women's furnishing store last week
was increased to three
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Louisiana Man Decorated.

: New ,Orleans.-Col. L. A. Toombs,
adjutant general of the Louisiana Ma
tional Guard, has been awarded the
Distinguished Servic medal for serv-
ice during the war as provost marshal
in Italy. Col. Toombs, it is believed,
is the only Louisiana emergency officer
thus honored.
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Vessel Under Tow.

Halifax. n. S.-The Canadian gov
ernnient steamer Lady Laurier has
succeeded in putting lime aboard
the United Shipping Board steamer
New England. in distress 80 miles OF
this port, and is towing her here.
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Germans, Still Buying.

Washington.-Despi unfayorable
exchange conditions. German import
ers are continuing the purchase of Ar
gentine products on an Increasing
scale, according to report to the
Commerce Department.
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To End Civil Service,

Washington.-A bill abolishing COM
petitive examinations for postmast-
ers and permitting the president to
nominate anyone he pleases has been
introduced by Representative Lang
ley, Republican, of Kentucky.
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Students Stage Strike.

Fort Worth, Tex.-One hundred and
80 students in the Rosen Heights pub
lie school went on strike recently be-
cause the trustees had discharged .
principal
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ceoroie Bank Is Closed.

Savannah. Ga.-The Peoples Bank.
with capital of 100000, has failed
to open its doors and is in the hands
of state banking officials. The bank
failed to withstand an all-day nun re-
Gently.
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Szechenyi To Be Envoy.

Washington.-Hungary is preparing
TO name Count Laszle Szechenyi, who
in 1908 married Gladys NJ. Vanderbilt
Of New York, as its new minister to
Washington
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u. s. ToTrain Sailors.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
nautical school somewhere in the
South for training former service men
for the American Merchant Marine
is planned by the Veterans Bureau,
Director Forbes has announced.
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Car inspector Killed.

Alexandria. LA. Fl. Beavers, SO,
car inspector of the Missouri Pacific
railway vas killcs by switch engine
at the union station recently.
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All Is Quiet In Lisbon.

Madrie.-A private dispatch sent
from Lisbon by way of the Azores
islands indicates that everything is
quiet in Lisbon.
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Is Nominated For Postmaster.

Washington, ID. C.-The president
has sent to the Senate the nomina-
tion 81 Herbert d. Edwards, an ex-ser.
vice man, to be postmaster at Benton.
Ark.
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Aid For Mellon.

Washington.-Emer Dover Of Ia
coma. Wash, has been nominated to
the Senate by President Harding to
be assistant secretary of the treasury.
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Tax Rate is Increased.

Springfield. Ill-The State Tax
Board has fixed the statestak rata
for next year at As cents, an increase
Of 6ye cents.
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Hk0 Cndlicos "HSh -A1 wy
punkie.-This section was visited
the coldest weather Of the year,
q mercury dropping to 80 recently.
6Slumboh.-A new and modern cleo
~ lixht plant has been installed by
- municipal authorities Of .Colum-
< hexandria.-Michaeps garage and
lInr station, corner Gould and Mon
g streets, was damaged by fire to
- amount Of $500. Fire was caused
kun . defective fiue.
nsnham Springs.-Rev. H.,T. Com
q resident of Denhan Springs
number Of years, has accepted
pastorate of the Baptist church
fnchatoula and will take up his
1once there.
nroe.-E. d. Collins, lately man
kof the Fordyce Lumber Company
Nth Little Rock lumber interests.
zen appointed associate manager
y Crossett Lumber Company at
se<t
lchitoches.-The War Risk Bu-
has arranged to have J. c. Key
u, Of this city, take course in
uber Of Commerce work under
)nther, John H. Keyser, secretary
- local Chamber of Commerce.
nfoe.--J. l. Grow, a Moorehouse
y farmer. was taken to the
sett hospital recently in a SER
= condition as a result of injuries
wed when a tree he had cut down
On him. He was struck by a
III over the eye ard his face and
= we're badly injured.
pna--Wofk is progressing sat
>E1crily on the grading Of the Ba-
Hack road between Houma and
Assumption parish line. 1t is be-
~ that the work of grading will
completed within the next few
oths and that the State Highway
mission will then undertake the
~ q hard-surfacing this road,
~ = the principal artery Of travel
1IVeen Southwest Louisiana and
~ Orleans.
mbia. News was received here
- eject that the home and out
: bqildines Of T. H. Benson of
La, were destroyed by fire last
but the cause of the fire has
= Nm ascertained.
-oaEoe-The 0nachita parish po-
~ has received s1.o15 300 from
eFlin, Barry and Company of New
% representing a bond-buying
cafe' from the sale of the Ouach-
~ bonds. according to announce
eocay BY John NJ. Breard, presi-
= she jury.
Scott l. Hood Post No.
ne American Legion of More
Planning to give communi-
mas tree at the Bastrop High
elditorium on Christmas Eve.
- boys will be assisted by
ms Auxiliary the Parent
Association and various
eehools.
News has just reached
os home Of Ben Lenier,
Ashg twelve miles south
has been destroyed by
81 The Alexandria Oil
Deny's plant here will
aas on Christmas Eve.
d NJ Telle have re-
Dorado, where they
aents for the first ship
Oh The capacity of
2 80 barrels daily.
- we're reelected,
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Roseland.-Ths building occupied
hv the Roseland Herald caught fire
hut was saved fron4 destruction by
the bucket brigade of the Veneer Fac
tory. which was near by.
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Bunkie.-By an agreement entered
into between the local lighting COM
nany and the merchants Bunkie's
main street has been lighted with a
string of bright and colored lights
during the holidays.
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Observation-Disclosures Council lll4
x of c. has appointed building COM
mittee as follows: Charles A. Ba-
deaux. L. Edwin Caillouet. F. l..
Knobloch, X. ]. Braud, E. R. Mar
ouette. P. A. Picau and Ismael Kerne.
The committee will find a site and
get the funds to provide handsome
home for the local council. Scuddy
Rraud was elected as one OF the out
er guards.
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PIERRE PAUL AUTI1ER AND HIS BABY.

But he had shaver off his small
black moustache The couple had
clandestine meetings in Racine. Mil
waukee and Chicago before their
elopement. Author said he was
general superintendent of a chemical
plant at Highland Park and lived
at SIS Laurel avenue.
WON'T TALK BUSINESS.
He was reluctant in speaking of the
firm with which he was connected,
stating: 1T is in the hands of the re-
ceivers. and 1t would hurt them for
m" to talk"
His attention was called to a state
ment in which an official of the com
pany for which he worked called him
tramp. lie rcr!ied, sarcastically:
is that so?'
Mrs. FranZen did not tell a con-
nected story. and apparently was suf-
fering from lack of sleep. She is
much stouter than Author. She weighs
about 10 pounds. She wore a dark
blue dress and ribbon velvet picture
hat and has black hair. which she
combs back from the forehead.
She began her narrative with her
early childhood.
Il was in a convent at Milwaukee
from the time ] was fourteen until
1911. | was married to FrGEZCn on
september -, 1913. | never loved my
husband. ! respected him, but that's
all. And know that he never love I
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that the only thing to do was to put
as much distance between ourselves
and Franzen as possible. first Missouri.
then Kansas, Texas and Mexico. We
checked out of the hotel and to avoid
Sale hotel. where We changed ma
chimes and went to the Illinois CEN
trail station. To throw OF further
suspicion. | asked about the train time
to New York and Philadelphia
II thought they would look FOR
US in the East. Mrs. Franzen was
very nervous, but ! told her to keep
calm. While waiting for the train
we took walk and remained at
the depot until train time. On the
train we tried to attract as little
attention as possible. l talked with
the conductor and got a pillow. We
sat in the front of the car and
moved around very little. We
shouldn't have stopped going, but
that's too late now"
COULD PASS FOR SPANIARD.
Author said he was born at sea
thirty-eight years ago. He is Of
French parentage. Author could
easily pass for a Spaniard lie il
swarthy and about five feet three
inches tall. When the reporter
found him he was wearing the same
soft shirt with blue stripes and the
brown sport vest and dark gray
suit he wore when he left Chicago.
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the balloon down. We landed in a
fierce wind in snow-clad forest.
We left the balloon and everything
but our compass, and started in the
general direction of the hut we had
seen from the air.
You cannot conceive how we suf
fercd-and our suffering had just
started. None of us was properly
clad for severe weather, and it was
agony for US. We walked until p. m
Tuesday and had end our march be-
cause IL was getting dark and our Feet
were almost frozen stiff.
The only food we had with us was
the three carrier pigeons which we
had taken on the trip to send back to
the station with messages.
ATE PIGEON TUESDAY.
Tuesday night I killed one of them.
and this constituted our meat. We
had to eat snow to quench our thirst.
We could not sleep. We were worried
and saw little hope OF ever getting
out of the forest alive. Our clothes
we're wet and covered with snow and
ice.
The fire we built was large, but it
was so cold when YOU turned your
face to the fire your back would
freeze. In drying your feet you al
most had to burn your shoes.
Wednesday morning we started out
to hike through the woods again. We
could only walk about two hours at
a stretch and then stopped to build a
fire and regain our strength. The
woods were so thick that we could
not make more than one and half
miles in day. Our misery lasted
until Friday morning.
FOUND FOOTPRINTS.
At about a. m. Friday we reached
an Recovered stream. On this stream
we found to our great Joy, the track
of a sled and the footprints of man.
We followed these tracks for miles.
Then about | p. m. we sighted man
about two miles away on lake.
shouted to him frantically and ran
for thirty minutes, finally overtaking
him. He was an Indian trspper and
would speak neither English nor
French. I finally made him under
stand how hungry and sick we all
were. He led to this place Moose
Factory.
We are twenty miles GOO miles?)
from a railroad and II will take us
about ten days hiking over an Ice
covered river to reach town. We
begin our march from here on We'd
nesday and will not be in New York
before January 10.
MOOSE FACTORY, Dec. 2t.-
Since last writing you on Deem
Der 1s, change has occurred which
viii delay my return to New York
about seven days. Instead OF leaving
tomorrow, as previously planned, ]
will not be able to do so until De-
cember 81, as | explained in my first
letter ALSO mentions inclosure of
first letter written.)
TRIP "QUITE AN UNDERTAKING"
This place IL about 200 miles from
a railroad The manager OF the Hud.
son Bay Company at this place Is sub
sisting us and liz going to send us
out Of here by special dog sled. lie is
going to make all preparations for
our clothing and Indian guides. dog
teams etc, to make the trip. This
will take time and patience.
The trip Is quite an undertaking.
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GONE THROUGH HE'LL.
II you had gone through the ordeal
and mental and physical tortures of
hell I have in the last few days you
would no doubt partly agree with me.
When left the air station at ! p. m.
(Rockaway Beach, N. Y.,) little did
I think that my free balloon would
come to such an ending.
Monday night, when up in New
York State, a driving storm overlook
us. We were flying at about 5000
feet. For hours during the night w"
Travelled and saw nothing but snow
above, below, and about us. Early
next morning fields of ice were all
that we could see. Not a sign of life
in sight for miles.
1t was time to worry. Our ballast
was low. We were wringing wet,
tired, and hungry. We could not land.
If we had, all would have been lost.
In order to remain in the air we had
to throw over everything but our
clothing.
LANDED IN FIERCE WIND.
At $50 Tuesday. when flying at
about 5000 feet, we could see hut
below us and heard the bark OF dog.
This was our only chance. ! brought
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DENIES BETROTHAL TO
LIEUT.. KLOOR, But"
LIEUT.. l.. A. KLOOR.

NEW YORK. Jan. 9.-Miss
Alexandra Flowerton, sweetheart
OF Lieutenant Kloor. whose let
ter revealed the first authentic
account of the sufferings of the
three American balloonists. viii
celebrate her twenty-third BIRTH
day tomorrow.
She blushed and laughed as
she denied she was engaged to
Lieutenant Kloor. but added:
"Of course. you never can tell
what will result from an adven-
ture of this kind"
Miss Flowerton wears a fra
ternity ring given to her by
Lieutenant Kloor before he be-
gan the flight to Canada.
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non Baoonst Pal Who Wanted Commit Suicide in Wild
HOW STRANGER STOLE
Wife FROM ARTIST |

Pierre Paul Author. ciai usInK
10 be n spanish grand~~. and
Mrs. Philip Fraa1e.. his Glove
bride" whom he IL alleged 90
have stolen from her husband at
the point OF a revolver. are 0.
Jail cells here, awaiting their
return 20 'hIcHRo 10 fnre Mrs.
Author and Fran1ea on the
charge OF larceny.
When Frnnsen. artist ssd chief
decorator NJ the University OF
Wisconsin,, returned home from
the movies. "a stranger confront
ed him and de~Isredi
"Tkis woman IL not your wife.
She In mine ] have hunted her
for eleven years In Australia,
Europe and America. I am go
ing 20 take her away. Sign this
paper"
Fransea turned 10 his wife,
Charlotte, and askedi
.Is this truef do you stiii
love himf"
She nodded and moved 10 the
side Of the man with the pistol.
FrsnHen picked up the pen nsd
signed.
Then the stranger md FRAN
Hes's wife disappeared.
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Hunt MiSSinu Schooner.

PORT TOWNSEND. Wash. Jan. 0.
The coast guard steamship Snoho-
mish left here yesterday for South
western Alaskan waters in search for
the auxiliary power schooner Joseph
Pulitzer. which has not been heard
from since December Is.
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EAT NE, " He
URGED MATES
Farrell, Exhausted, Offered His
Life to Give Companions
Fresh Chance.

CONTINUED from First Page.)
railroad station by the time we gel
there.
Will be home just as soon as pos
sible. Lots of love. As ever.
WALTER.
Here is Lieutenant Hinton's letter
to Talbot:
Hudson Bay Company,
Moose Factory, Dec. %, 1871.
Dear Tai: Just a few lines to
give you the dope and what it's all
about. We struck a deuce OF dow
that Monday night and got into bllna-
ing rain and snow storm. We mace
a good course N. by w. as crow
flies $50 miles from New York, put
about 1900 or 1000 miles from NeW
York by dog sled and rail.
CRASHED INTO TREES.
We maintained an altitude OF ap-
proximately 5000 feet, being driven,
l imagine, w. at lower altitude, then
N. E. atupper altitude. We did not
see a thing the remainder of the
fight. The only place was Welis,
N. Y, and once when we hung up IN
the Adirondack Mountains, crashing
into trees and nearly got sick be-
fore we got out. We kept going,
seeing nothing, and after twenty
five hours fight and every ounce OF
available ballast expended, IN
cluded the drag rope, lining out OF
the basket, &C, and when, at an
altitude Of $500 feet we heard a dog
bark. the kid Immediately chinned
himself on the valve cord and made
knots coming down.
HOUSE" WAS HAYSTACK.
We saw what we thought was a
house, but it turned out to be a
haystack, as we found out four days
later. AS we had no ballast what
ever we hit the ground with crash
and porpoised a couple hundred feet
or so, and then hung up on the side
of some trees and stuck. We aban-
doned the balloon and started walk
ing in the direction we heard the
dog. We stuck it out for four days,
ate two carrier pigeons between US
during that time and ate moss,
snow, etc.
We had a boa of matches and
pould build fire When Steve Would
give out and pass out due to en-
Jdastion. He 1Odnted to commit s1ti-
eide and ,Udnted as to le0Ue him, but,
of course, zoe couldn't see thdtJ 1
carried his flying suit and the conf
pass and led the party.
TRAVELLED IN UNDERWEAR.
discarded my suit to carry
Steve's, and at night Steve and Kloor
had something to sleep in and l did
not. In the daytime / made him
travel in his underwear, so he had
to travel hard or freeze.
We finally found creek, then dog,
and then sleigh tracks on the river,
then an Indian, who tried to run
away from US, but we put up our
hands and followed him to this place.
We have to have some clothes made
and wear snowshoes, travel behind
dog sled for nine or ten days We
leave Monday, December 27, and
reach New York by the 10th or 18th
of January.
We are taking daily practice on
snowshoes. The temperature here
reaches from zero to 40 degrees be-
low. The Indians are still looking
for the balloon. They have made
two attempts, but did not get far
enough. They look r-on us as being
wonders for getting THROUGH.
Kloor and Steve Farrell send their
best. Give my best to the boys, Mrs.
Talbot and Addie. WALTER.
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MRS. PIERRE PAUL AUTHER.

'me. That the first night away from
home ! cried all night. 1 couldn't
help thinking of Philip. / felt sorry
for him. / didn't feel any love for
him, but rather had sort of feeling
of regret that he should be all alone.
remembered that he had always
said that / could have a divorce If /
wanted it.
PROGRESSES HER LOVE.
"I love Mr.. Author and l know
that he loves me. / don't feel that we
have done anything wrong. / expect
to get a divorce. Mr.. Author will do
the same. and then death can only
keep us apart. And IL more trouble
comes, we two have decided that we
will die together.
"Auther has quite a temper, but 1
admire that in a man. ] like man
with spunk.' My husband hasn't that
attribute. | love really affectionate
man, and l think that l have found
| him. It's awful these things they
call Opponents, but, after all, l
wouldn't change the way it has
! turned out"
| After making a denial that Author
/ had pointed a gun at her husband
while in the FranZen home or that he
/ had threatened him in any manner,
she was asked il she felt sorry for
Authors wife. NO, OF course not. L
I don't feel sorry for her because she
didn't make him happy" she replied.
AUTHER CARRIED PISTOL.
What would you do if someone
! stole your husband, if someone would
! take Author swHv?" she was asked.
Her eyes snapped. 81 guess ! would
/ f-it." she replied. do you think
man is worth ii shting for?' was the
next question. 81 should say so, eS-
pecia'ly a man like l have got now.
Author carried an automatic pistol
in his pocket when h. was found.
But he later placed this in a grip. 1t
was taken by the police.
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LAUGHED OVER INCIDENT.

family Little did he know at the
time that the sand ba!'aSt that
was taken in his place enabled us
to continue over the Adj Cndacks.
We estimated we had plenty of
altitude when we were sturck by a
violent storm. We struck trees
alongside of mountain and had TO
throw over quite bit of ballast
to clear the mountains. Finally We
got free and rose to an altitude of
s, 900 feet.
The rain came down in torrents
and completely soaked our clothing.
We could hear the wind below ~
bowling through the trees. Every
thing about us was dark. The
weather became colder. The rain
turned to sleet and finally to snow.
The following morning we checked
our course and were travelling north
by west. All we could see below "
were fields of ice. There was not a
sign Of life for miles. We could not
land. If we had. all would have been
lost, the gale was OF such fury.
IMPOSSIBLE TO LAND.
We made several attempts to come
close to earth. but found IL was inn
possible to land, as we knew we had
gone beyond the st. Lawrence and
passed over that populated valley. II
IL we're possible to land at this time
We would have done so and could
have made our way back to civiliZ1.
ton by walking south.
We had to continue with tho vio-
lent gale, which swept us over tho
ice-covered fields with the speed of
an aeroplanc.
Hinton estimated our speed at this
time to be faster than the speed of
the NC-4 when he made his transact
lantic flight We had to continue our
fight over the forest, frozen rivers
and lakes. watching and waiting for
some sign Of civilization.
We continued until I y. m. Then
we sighted y hut below US. I brought
the balloon down. The wind was fierce
when we landed.