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New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

was at work. He had been observed, and toe
opportunity presented by his absence and the
open door had not been overlooked. He
reached for his nip pocket as he jumped for
the aperture
Come out OF there" he ordered, and the
wavering fiashlight silhouetted the pointed re-
volver
delighted chuckle greeted him
"You had me worried" said the Canadian
purchaser of the flying boat. "Where in hell
have you been?"
THEY finished the night watch togethex
Phe designer was in no mood for sleep,
tired as he was, and the Canadian was well
pleased to have his company. Dawn found
them rushing through the woodlands and pas
lures Of northern Vermont. An hour or so
after daybreak the train dropped their box car
and its precious freight at the little way sta
tion of North Hero, and went on it's way to
Montresl The second lap Of the adventurous
journey was completed.
Their mechanics were waiting for them and
the plane, having made the night trip from
Montreal. A search of the village found ham
and eggs and peaches and cream and coffee for
breakfast, as well as double team wagon
upon which the plane might be trusted for
transportation to the waters Of Lake Cham
plain, which rippled quarter Of a mile from
the railroad tracks There was not an auto
mobile truck in the village Nor had the ma
tive ever before seen an airplane.
The whole town turned out to assist in the
work of transportation, and before noon the
machine, assembled and ready for tuning, float
ed lazily at anchor on the bosom Of the lake.
They worked before an enthusiastic and in
tensely curious audience. Suggestions and
criticisms were freely proffered, and the bolder
among the spectators did not hesitate to ask
pointed questions. which, in the circumstances,
could only be ignored. Finally, to one particu-
larly annoying individual who sported red
flannel undershirt in spite Of the heat, the
young Canadian became peremptory
Go away. be said, Go away and stay
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New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

perateiy the designer stumbled forward and
reached the side rail of the cab. Gasping, he
swung himself to the lower step as the train
picked up speed.
The engineer, intent on his job, was in the
cab, his goggled eyes focused on the track
ahead. The fireman was shoveling coal in
the brilliant glare of the open frebox.
Neither had seen him, and the speed Of the
train was now such that he was forced to
hang on grimly to keep from, being thrown
to the track.
The designer braced his body against the
side Of the cab and yelled. The fireman
looked up and glimpsed the unexpected ap-
partition Of a tousled head and staring wild
eyed countenance above the floor Of the cab
He was man Of first impulses, this fireman,
and he knew what was in the box car on be-
hind. He raised his shovel and swung it
desperately at the intruding head
His aim was wild or this story could never
have been written. Even before the blow
was well launched the man had recognized
something familiar in the face which had so
startled him. He dropped his shovel and as
it clattered on the steel floor reached out
mighty fist at the end Of muscular arm and
hauled the Bostonian into the cab, breathless
and agitated.
II thought you was German spy" the fire.
man apologized, while the designer wasting
no words, explained his errand and the acct
dent which had led to it.
"Well be pulling into White River Junction
in few minutes" the raen in the cab toId
him. "There's wait there. Wen give YOU
lantern. and you can go back to the car
when we pull out again.
The matter was adjusted on this basis and
the designer set himself to await the trains
arrival at White River He was not COM
Portable in the thought that he had left the
box car door wide open, but he had no stomach
after his recent experience to essay an at
tempt to return to the car while the train
was in motion.
Eventually the locomotive slowed down and
halted in the dreary little station at White
river. The engineer wiped his hands on a
wad OF waste, reached down lantern and
handed it to the fireman to light. The safety
catch was obdurate and the reflector was
smutted and smoke stained, so that it was
some minutes before the fireman had the light
adjusted to his satisfaction At last he
handed the lighted lantern to the designer,
who dropped from the cab and hurried back
to his box car with its precious contents.
AS he approached the open door brilliant
beam of yellow light made round spot ON the
wall. which was visible from his vantage point.
Some one with a f1ashlight was in the car.
Cursng the impulse which had led him to de-
sert his post and leave the car open to the
first tramps who might come along, the de-
signer was about to yell peremptory order
to the intruder to show himself, when the
thought darted through his brain that tramps
do not usually carry powerful flashlights
Even in the semi-lighted station his old fears
came crowding back. The German spy system
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

r<HE block letter calendar which hung
over the board desk at which the de-
signer worked showed the date to be
August ia, 1914. The office was a
sonb1e room Of ample size on the upper floor
If Boston skyscraper, and from its windows
,be sunbeam-freeked expanse of Boston Har
bor spread to the sea.
In its outward attributes the office was as
any other cubbyhole of commerce appeared
to be; the name on the door identified it as
the headquarters of a corporation with two
barreled name. A small waiting room was
screened and rallied from the inner offices.
There were even a starch h-waisted stenographer
end a typewriter.
The interior rooms, once the visitor had
penetrated the outer gate, displayed some
unique characteristics. In place Of filing
cabinets and typewriter desks there were
broad tables, blanketed in blue prints The
walls were hung with photographs and paint
ings of sailing Vessels of all possible shapes
and sizes. Models of slender yachts and
broad d-hlpped fishing smacks were displayed
escaslonally In convenient inches and other
models lay abandoned in corners, lacking some
Mysterious element of sailing aristocracy
shich would make them immortal Along
one wall a light workbench ran, and on this
there sat complete model of an airplane. a
flying boat a beautiful little thing of it's
period, although in the light of since acquired
knowledge now obsolete in a hundred details
Of design and equipment
This was the workroom of Startling Bur
CESS famous designer of yachts and fishing
vessels, heir and successor to the fame of an
iAustrious parent whose name is honored
wherever sailing men foregather, and who
had at this time recently brought to the new
science of aviation his inherited and nurtured
genius for the creation Of beautiful craft
light as thistledown and sturdy as the lonely
nk The airplane model was the miniature
enaterpart of his new flying boat startling
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

blackness of the cars interior. At the same
time rush of swift cool air greeted his nos
trils like needle shower.
This was better. He moved his rugs over,
and, setting the lantern between his feet. set
tied himself in the aperture to fill his lungs
with the sweet freshness of the night atmos-
phere. The stars winked at him encourage
ingly and his spirits rose After all, he was
engaged in gallant enterprise and following
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

The essential facts of this adventure were told - +h
yW Straling Burgess, Of Boston, the man who sold to t
madam government the tlrs American aplane to fight in the
World War Mr. Burgess is modest man and while he agreed
ter Some 20 permit the publication an outline Of
incident IN ne tribune he declined elaborate the onor
part which ne himself played in delivery Of the nane
His retcence obges the dressing bare
cona form The basic facts exactly as here stated how
and the records OF the Militia Defense Depart
ment OF the Sanaua government would substanate them
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

the dictates of his
heart. His beautiful
boat was to be a
warrior on the side
0 f righteousness.
She'd teach the war
lords many a lesson.
His Canadian friend
had moved too
swiftly for there to
be any opportunity
of interf e + e n c e
from the other side.
The German spy
system might be SUI
preme in Europe,
but in the United
States, that was a
different matter.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

delighted the Canadian, who was frank with
his praise. The test over, the stranger drove
back to Boston, to make arrangements for
shipping the plane, while the designer stayed
at the anchorage to superintend the prelimi-
nary details of dismantling the f1er to accom-
modate her bulk to the confines of an express
car.
The Central Vermont Railroad was the line
selected for the honor of shipping to the
chosen point inside the United States the
plane which was to make history as the first
American machine to be sent overseas to the
battlefelds. The Canadian emissary was we'll
equipped with persuasive and authoritative
documents and money. He coerced the Gen.
tral Vermont officials at Boston into complete
accordance with his plans, and so arranged
matters that an empty box car was shunted to
the siding alongside the anchored boat at a
few minutes after 8 o'clock The plane was dis
mantled, her wings removed and she was ready
for slowing. Burgess watched his workmen
pack her away, brace her against railroad
shocks, and the car start on it's way back
to Boston to be connected with the Central
Vermont express leaving that evening for the
West. The entire job of testing, dismantling
and shipping had occupied less than four
of human effort.
The designer returned to Boston, threw a
lew clothes into grip, made sketchy arrange
ments for his absence from business, and
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18
SHOE EXPORTS INCREASE.

AMERICAN manufacturers shipped 1,666,9S1 more
pairs OF and shoes abroad last year than
the year before the war when exported 300 900
pairs Cuba our best 1913, bought 600
more than the 1900 took then or about one
fourth OF our total exports. The surprise year
was that Russia. which in 913 bought less IL
per cent OF exports year
mer buying ever SO per of
Another curious feature that while exports
mems footwear larger than before the war, and
bringing in $4.1S pair average against S2.14,
the exports of womens shoes 35S6S6 pairs
IN 1913. Cuban women buying than ever, but
Canadian women, like men, taking much
smaller percentage of total shoe exports Strangely
enough, Russian to have taken to or
had the chance buy our shoes as Russian men did
The explanation is that the mems imports were for
yrctsky.s army.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18
POISON BOOZE EVIL

Poison booze occupies almost prominent place
IN the days poison did in the days Of the
war, and il is difficult which the deadly
The drinker who nduges in the that is sold under
of liquor these days is taking chance
bottled in bond" contraband is becom-
ing day that chance becomes Infinitely
greater.
The synthetic booze sold by the bootleggers is man
ufactured by INSCRIPTIONS who have regard for
and being criminals the of risking jail
few dollars violation OF and federal
statutes, they be depended step farther
market any kind of dope for which they get
money.
There are reckless souls risk life and limb in
speeding motor cars; there others who test new
parachute devices from the OF flying arpanes and
still others who climb skyscrapers over Niagara
Falls, the top of Brooklyn Bridge. All
expect the reward of notoriety with its consequent
vaudeville engagements for large then there
fools who drink bootleg All the reward they
can expect pose figures at coroners
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18
FARMER GETS IT. BOTH WAYS.

letter from a Nebraska farmer a manufactur-
Of farming implements is quoted a current agri-
cultural journal explaining why the is buying
only he must
This farmer. passing up the perplexing question
hieh prices money gets at The question of he
has to sell and what he buy in direct He
says he needs wagon that if buys at cur
rent prices and for it in he will have
go bushels. one wonder that farmer
hes itates to drive his loaded with
times market get the money pay the implement
But the maker or wagon writes in answer
that in selling the wagon 100 per higher
than in 1914 his concern is taking a loss. and he
pushes the blame over 10 the railroads. AT IL cents
hushel increase in freight paying the rail
SIS nsportation necessary
buy this therefore your increased contrbu-
ton to the railroad company in getting this out
there and shipping enough Chicago pay for
it, is $3.50
The latter considerable than cost
Of in 1914. 1t Is truly perpexng condition
when great and important body of the country's
producers is thus handicapped
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18

when the name gasoline coineda
Ans-Within the asst twenty or thirty
years.
what are the six classes Of dogs?
Ans.-The latest, classification consists
of wolfiike dogs. greyhounds, spaniels
hounds mastifas and terriers.
s-Are passports issued to Germany
now? Ans.-Yes
did the Romans invent their
numerals. Ans-It is thought they
slow long has 1t been possible to
talk from New York to san Francisc3
adopted them from the Etruscans
Ans.-since January %. 1915
9-What is the length OF a standard
stegl rail? Ans.-Thirty-thres feet.
Rails vary howver. from 80 feet to
SO feet in length
1o-Which state in the union pro-
duces the most sugar? Ans.-Louis-
lana.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18

ION re SPUR +2z MfO o. q q 81
MARCELETTE.

had worked his position of Importance silk
succeeded but she had worked hard Her
helped Cleopatra
the knowledge
law human psychology that the greatest
fall the hardest
Antony forgot duty
Ceopatras destroy right
Marcel Seinbrugge
IT SHOULD
Ford Witnesses Flv Adent'Headlne
Grand Rapids News.
SPILLING THE SOUP.
The following received local wholesaler
Boston, Mas
your salesmen you
freight office
thing and that box belongs
And the Agant toll is charge
company alright
fall So Do watt please
Thank
WONDERS NEVER CEASE.
DIR and Eman Psaki d. not deny operation
they woman's The
died-Daiy News
of prosperity of
posed at last
their limousines and costly furs.
there been insinuaions? III there have.
But there really mystery about it at all The chorus girls
by the years they
getting then their
They get $40 week
political
political bloc-heads
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18
The
Passing
SholU


IT man ana his own vic
SHOULD be he.1 ~ by auo. bandits
~ secluded spot bv the side Of
M" Ai1'"S d 'o' -
mending
TO other neopIe bat wouldn't
THINK of taking himself.
ORR personal interests
TNEvrrABr,S- tinre orr opinions
ON the great moral issues
loon
LEAGUE win ret so1tdlv behind
THE apti-toba.co movemen.
on account ~ cbew,nr here and
there
AMONG its most active and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-18

FOR embalming fluid at SO e quart
CANNOT be met
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29
SOLDIER SHOT,
FOUR ARE HELD.
Police Are Dissatisfied With
Story of Accident

Dissatisfied with the story or the
accidental" shooting OF Ernest
Touchatt, so. discharged Camp Lewis
soldier. police Monday were holding
three women and man. members OF
the party at which Touchatt was
wounded.
Touchatt was shot in the head at
Arion Court 1918 Minor ave-. early
Sunday.
Mrs. Bertha Darragh. 81. who Is.
alleged to have held the pistol. her
brother, Fred Kurr. 81, Miss Kather-
inc Sloan. ii. of Hydes Court. and
Miss Eva Harvey. %, of 1894 18th
ave. are those held.
The story of the shooting. told By
Mrs. Darragh. is that John +. Messer,
friend of Touchatt's. invited tho
soldier TO celebrate his discharge Sat.
urday, and invited guests.
Touchatt showed his army pistol,
and snapped II three times to snow
that it wasn't loaded. He gave 1t 10
Mrs. Darragh, and she pretended to
''shoot him." at his own request.
Touchatt fell to the floor when 4
bullet glanced from his skull ana
lodged in the ceiling. His condition
was critical Monday. the city hos.
pital reported.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29

tehind the times that you are stiil
fun OF inhIbitions. complexea. urges
and all the other paychoanalysis
what you-may.cal oh. my dear.
how hopeIessly Iethargic OF you.
Nowadays amongst all us alert, up
to the.minute eRoists internal secfv-
tlons are the fullest things we're Of.
Rcpreased desires. iuferiorlty com.
pisxes. phyehoses and what not have
all been chucked out into the cold
world 10 make room for chubby tic.
tie bunch OF glands OF internal So.
cretions or cndocrines. We call them
all by their regular names. too
pituitary. thyroid. adrcual pincal.
thymus. Ronad-Just like that-some
glib | call Il.
Some Of our very best little doctors
Of medicine are responsible for this
very newest inside cult Driven
from writing prescriptions TO writ.
ing books by the high cost OF living
and the disgustingiy healthy state
or their erstwhile best patents.
they are turning out volumes that
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29
7 YEARS IN PEN
FOR BOTTOMLEY
Anti American Convicted OF
Huge Theft

LONDON. May 29.--Horatio Bot.
tomiey. NJ. r.. former editor Of John
Bull, antiAmerican weekly, today
was found guilty Of appropriating to
his own use los. 600 pounds from
funds subscribed for war bonds and
was sentenced to seven years i'm.
prisonment.
The famous independent member
of parliament must begin his prison
sentence at once. He gave notice he
would appeal and asked that bail be
fixed pending a hearing. but his ap.
plication was refused
As the proprietor Of John Bull"
Bottonley vented his hatred of all
things American and constantly at.
tackled Americans In London as well
as deriding the United States govern.
ment's attitude during the war.
During the war Bottomley, among
countless other schemes. organized q
Victory bond club whereby small sub
scribers were TO take chances with
their interest on government bonds
In the hope Of winning a rich prize.
On September IL. 1913, and subsc.
duent dates. It is charged Botfomley
converted nearly half million dol.
lars of this money which was placed
IN his hands by a trusting public.
including, II happened, hundreds Of
war widows. Among other things,
II was alleged tire publisher started
a racing stable in Belgium with the
money.
Bottomley, who Is s2 years Of age,
has been . litigant In divorce, libel
and larceny cases for years.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29
-FOUR HELD AS
JEWEL BANDITS
Identification as Star Pay
roll Bandits Fails

Efforts were being made Monday
by detectives to identify four men
held in the city Jail as the robbers
who bound and gagged Mr. and Mrs.
-. Keith, in the Talcott apartments.
recently. Keith was robbed OF 81 400
in diamonds.
James Madonna, "a, driver. j. Deb
sino, 20, barber: @. NJ. Webb, 26,
salesman. and Leonard Fordell, 81.
boilermaher, are the men held. They
were arrested by Detectives G. j.
Waechter and Tom Hayden, early
Sunday, at Third ave. and Spring
st., on suspicion OF being the bandits
who robbed The Seattle Star OF $4,000
April 20,
Frank Webster. office manager,
and Miss Wilma Mayer, cashier of
The Star, failed to identify any of
the quartet as members of the ban
dit trio.
A revolver found on the men was
said by police to have been borrowed
by Madonna and loaned TO his com
panions.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29

To Oskar Imdahl, lieutenant
In the Norwegian navy, and Odd
Dahl, lieutenant In the Norwegi-
an army. will fall the honor OF
plotting the planes on these
epocliai flights. Both are keen.
ly conscious Of the remarkable
opportunity they have been Civ
en-, and II Is certain that no
"ship" was ever more carefully
piloted than will be the big all
metal plane and the little Curtis
Oriole. which Amundsen's ship,
the Maud. viii carry.
Incidentally. Amundsen's aerial
plans introduce n brand.new type OF
Arctic explorer. In the past such cx.
peditions as his have been confined
10 hard bitten navigators and almost
fanatical scientists. But Dahl and
Umdahl could be classified as neither
hard,hitten nor fanatical.
Rather they are the kind of men
one found In aviation camps in
France during the war, life-loving yet
death.defying youths, with an over
whelming desire for adventure. They
are Viking types. with the same blue
light of enthusiasm in their eyes that
sent their ancestors on no less daring
quests n thousand years ago.
Another new type to be found
aboard the Maud. due 10 the re-
marsable modernity Of the ex-
pedition. is Soren Syvertsen, en-
gineer and radio expert. Amund-
sen Is the first polar explorer TO
carry radio set with him--and
Soren Syvertsen, the man who
will lay u barrage Of dots and
dashcs from the polar basin, is
just as much OF an innovation
on such a trip as Is his APP
paratus.
He Is neither a scientist-in the
sense of seeking hidden data--nor a
navigator; his sole interest lies in
his big internal combustion engines
and In his powerful wireless set. A
big man, both physically and men,
tally. one can imagifat him working
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29
AmundSen to FIy
Over WOrld'S Top
on Historic Trip
By Robert Bastien Bermann

Peary the first to reach the top of the world
But Captain Roald Amundsen the famous Norwegian
porer whose latest polar expedition leaves Seattle this
week, plans to go his American rival better He will
not only reach the top of the world in all probability but
he will go the top-thousands of feet over it.
Amundsen. you see will be the first Arctic explorer in
history to carry apanes into the frozen North And these
airpanes will permit him go at least mile farther
north than Peary could possibly have donebecause OBJ
vously plane soaring the North Pole must be
sideraby farther north than the pole itself.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29
TO RUSH
ALN|)(JR
RIAL !!
Stevenson Win Be
Told Of His Fate
Within a Month
From Arrest

EVERETT, May Donald
Il. Stevenson, 30year-old NM
waukee brakeman, who Is held
without bail In the county jafI
here IN connection with the kill
ing Of A. A. Amour, Seattle
salesman, will know bis fate
within month after his arrest
Prosecuting Attorney Thomas A.
Stiger was preparing first degree
murder charges against Stevenson
today and expects to bring the pris.
oner to trial at the June term OF the
superior court Stevenson Will prob.
ably be arraigned In justice court
Wednesday-Tuesdny sbssfne - l1n11|
day-and IN superior court immedl.
ately afterward.
Altho Stevenson has main
tanned his innocence from the
moment he was arrested yester.
day, Sheriff w. w. West d.
ciarcs he has built up an almost
complete case Of circumsfantial
evidence against him. The only
link I'm the chain that has not
yet been forged as completely as
he would like 1t. according 70
West. Is the motive. And on this
he has very definite theory.
II wasn't robbery. of that much
West Is certain. He believes that the
trouble arose over either woman Or
dope - and expects TO be able to
prove one or the other before the
trial begins.
West today established the fact
that Stevenson and Amour wero
seen together in the Liberty cafe
i'm East Sianwood on the MORN
ing Of March s--the day Of Al
mour's disappearance - Mt
o'clock. Stevenson says he drove
on down to Seattle with Amour
after that, but has been unable
to produce n witness who saw
the two together on the way.
A coroner's jury impaneied Satur-
day by Coroner N. B. Cbalacombe
decided Amour had come to his
death from wounds inflicted by a
blunt instrument in the hands of "a
person unknown"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-29
Presidents Party
Now at Annapolis

ANNAPOLIs, Md. May "a
President Harding and his party
landed from the Mayflower shortly
after noon today. So well had the
secret Of the presidents visit been
kept that not one of the thousands
Of visitors here for the army-navy
baseball game was at the landing
when President Harding stepped
ashore.
The Harding party went to the
residence OF Commandant Wilson for
lunch. Later they viii witness the
baseball game.
Harding spent most OF his time on
the trip here writing his Lincoln
speech TO be delivered tomorrow.