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Evening star., 1925-06-19

~ UR TWO little ShlpS, nnally
loaded with the precious
cargo of Grated airplane
~ members and stores for the
great adventure, leave from.
so, Norway, early in the morning of
April 9. We reach the wharf at )
O'Clock, to find a fresh breeze pleas.
antly in action, dissipating the pc
culiar sultriness of the night. With
in a half hour our boat is swinging
away from the quay, where a little
group of people has assembled to bid
us godspeed and good luck. Most of
them have stayed up all night and
they are not very demonstrative, be-
ing too tagged to give us even a weak
cheer
AS for us-we, too, had been up all
night, and are so jaded as to be ap-
preciative of nothing but sleep. There
is none of us aboard the 400-ton
Farm who stops to realize that this
is a momentous ccasion; we are
! thinking only of finding some place
aboard the crowded little steamer
where we can stretch out or curl up
and sleep.
We are awakened at s O'Clock for
coffee. Warmed a little internally, and
somewhat refreshed by our cat-nap,
we are able to realize how frail is our
little craft for these Arctic waters, and
how frightfully the ship is loaded for
battling with severe weather.
There are 20 men of the crew for
ward in the foc'Sle, more than enough
for comfort-and yet additional
persons. members of the expedition,
must join them. Aft there are four
officers, but already doing double serv-
ice. The remainder of our passengers
are bunked on the benches and floor
of the narrow little saloon.
Baggage and freight are Strewn
everywhere. Boxes and trunks block
the companionways. Hindquarters of
beef and forequarterS of mutton are
lashed against every end of spare rig
ging. Skis, dunnage bags, gun cases.
crates of provisions, are scattered
across the open deck aft.
Again we sleep. When we awaken
it is early afternoon and we are sur.
prised to find the ship riding at anchor
in cove in the lee of a low mountain.
The open sea, our captain fears, is
dangerously rough for ships carrying
as deck load the Grated parts of two
airplanes worth 100000. on which the
whole fate of the expedition depends.
Then, while we wait, we lose our
companion ship in sudden fog There
is a council of war and as the sea has
moderated a little, we decided to pro
ceed, believing that the other ship
has already pushed on.
l make my home in the foc'sle and
find life there as agreeable as any life
can be in a ships forward area. The
sailors, firemen and engineers, who
swing their hammocks here each night
are youthful, clean, happy lot. One
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CHAPTER 6.

lOUR meteorologists are now. per
~ haps, the busiest men of the
whole expedition. They are on the
| job "a hours in the day. Their work
never ends, because there is always
| weather.
They keep at their observations,
their charts and their reports inde-
fatigably. They are working in an
atmospheric area and under condi-
tions hitherto unknown to their sci
ence, for no meteorological work on
so extensive a scale has ever before
been done along the seventy-ninth
parallel of latitude, North.
Four times daily these weather
sharps fill in a chart of the Arctic
! winds, down on the surface and also
up above at various attitudes, show.
ing temperatures, barometric pres
sures and many other important
| characteristics. All this data is studi-
ously assembled and studied in order
to forecast that particular 24-hour
period when the planes can best make
| their polar squirt.
Our veteran meteorologiStS are sur
prised at the quantity and variety of
| weather to be found in these Arctic
| regions. They learn several new
things every day. and are full of con-
versation which means little to the
layman but which seems to interest
them extremely.
Today, however, April 21. they sur.
prised us with tR announcement
that Spring Is coming" Despite the
| three to six feet of snow on their
laboratory doorstep; despite the icy
blasts which bite our faces and nip
our fingers, these men of science de-
clare solemnly that it is beginning
| to be Spring.
And, curiously enough, now that
they mention it, we begin to agree
with them. 1t isn't as cold as it was
and the sun Is warmer and more
frequent. The wind Is more fltful
| During the day furs aren't necessary
so long as you keep in motion. A
wind jacket outside a sweater keeps
| me warm enough. That's the prin.
ciple of everyone's dress up here
something outside to break the wind
and a bit of wool underneath. With
gloves it is the same. Most of us
F, wear woolen mittens, which enable
| the fingers to keep each other warm,
either with a canvas wind covering
| or woven closely enough to keep the
wind outside.
Footwear for Arctic Spring.
Footwear is the most serious prob.
! lem, particularly at this time of year,
when, some days, the snow begins to
thaw. A man needs something now
that is not only warm, but water
| tight. The fancy sports boots which
most of us brought along from New
York, London, Paris or Berlin are
| without exception found impractical.
They succumb especially to thawing
salt ice. Nearly everyone has dis
carded all these costly shoes for the
cheap Laplander's boot, which we
saw in Tromso for the first time out
side of museum. Just at present it
| proves ideal, although later. when the
ice and snow turns to water, in May
and June, rubber is needed.
The pilots of the two planes, Lieuts
Riiser-Larsen and Dietrichson, are
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Writer With An,lIndsen Ciues
Log of Polar Preparations
Infinite Care Taken to Assure Success OF
sEpochal FHght-Skilled Men Chosen to
Accompany Norwegian Explorer.

James B. Wharton. special cor
respondent of The Star and the
North American Newspaper All
once. UdS the only American jour
sndlist ritb the Road AmttndSen
Expedition. Whdrton's log of the
Expedition is complete narrative
of the first attempt to reach the
Pole by dirpldne to the drrirdl at
Kings Bay. Here Amundsen him
5 self took up the LOO.
Evening star., 1925-06-19
CHAPTER III.

I T is 6 o'clock in the morning Of
April when we leave the steamer
Kong Harald at Tromso. Despite
L the early hour here on the 10th
Evening star., 1925-06-19
By JAMES Il. WHARTON.
Chapter |.

- INGS BAY, Sptizbergen.-A
II small group forms in the
n railroad station at Oslo. Nor
i " way, on the evening of March
Evening star., 1925-06-19
CHAPTER ).

YE are now hard at work as
~ I sembling the airplanes for
wv our flight. Amundsen-and
all the rest of us-are filled
Evening star., 1925-08-30

fire at the Pow Wow grounds, and a
riding party TO Mary Mountain over
the Lee highway were other big gen
eral affairs of the week.
Miss Sarah Harrison Powell of Bal
timore, gave Il card party for a small
company Tuesday evening. at which
the prizes were Won by Mrs. Peter
Blanchard of Baltimore. Mrs. George
Freeman Pollock OF Skyland Mrs.
George n. judd, Miss Mary kennedy
and Mr.. b. Frank Gebest of Washing
ton, and Mr.. {. +. Brown of Pitts
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Skyland Flower Ball
Picturesque Event

s1e flower ball, one of the most
BEAUTIFUL % the annual entertain
nents given at Skyland. Va. through
the season. took place Saturday eve
ming, August -, upon more lavish
and picturesque scale than ever. The
great hall OF the Casino. which was
Evening star., 1925-08-30

the most amusing costume. Miss Con-
stance Finckel of Washington: for
the most artistic floral headdress,
Mrs. Paul Cossard of New York; for
tho most beautiful corsage bouquet,
Mrs. Basil Jones of Richmond: for
the best Waltzing couple. Miss Mary
Kennedy of Washington and DR..
Hanson of Baltimore; for the best fox
trotting couple, Miss Constance Finck-
el and Mr.. Harry King of Washing
ton: for the most beautiful child cos
tune. Miss Nancy Crawford of Black
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Mountain, n. c.; for the most amusing
child costume, Miss Phoebe Young of
Washington. as Charlie Chaplin. An
other very beautiful costume. which.
however. did not come under any OF
the prize headings. was that OF Miss
Nancy Spaulding of Washington. as
Folly. At the conclusion of the ball
room program, supper was served dur
ing vaudeville entertainment in
the dining hall.
Sunday afternoon Mrs. George Vt.
Judd of Washington gave an infor-
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ed winners in the special features of
the ball, all OF those participating
representing by their costumes, either
in natural or artificial form, the won
derful floral wealth of the entire re-
eion of which Skyland is the dominant
unit. The winers were: For the most
gorgeously bedecked costume which
was also adjudged the most perfectly
designed in general Miss Juel Dowl-
ing, New York: for the most artistic
dress trimmed with natural flowers,
Mrs. G.. Holmes OF Washington; for
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NAL tea in honor of DIR. and Mrs.
Fell Of Annapolis. who also were the
guests Of honor at small tea given
Monray afternoon by Mr.. and Mrs.
William Ballantyne, jr., of Washing
ton at their cabin in the Sky
land Camp, where they now have as
heir house guests Mrs. Stewart and
Miss Stewart of Indianapolis.
Tuesday there was another big all
day picnic on the Crescent Rock
Cliffs, with dinner cooked in the open.
< cowboy dance followed by a bon
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burgh. Others present we're Mrs. Ed.
gar s. Kennedy, Miss Temple Perry,
Mr.. and Mrs. William" Balldntyne, jr..
Pev. DIR. Qualley and Miss Margaret
Winship of Wa-hington. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown of Pittsburgh. DR.. and Mrs.
Basil Jones of Richmond, Mrs. G. I.
Thomas Fell OF Annapolis, Mrs. Cone
of New York and Mr.. Peter Blan.
chard of Baltimore.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
and Mrs. Clyde E. Aitchison. spent
the last week end at Skyland.
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considerably enlarged for the Appa-
transferred for the occasion into an
immense Woodland bower of balsaIn
and pine boughs and masses of golden
glow, while from the beams of the
ceiling hung hundreds OF electric
lights shaded by vari-colored Chinese
lanterns. The orchestra for dancing
was screened in a side gallery of ever
green's and flowers. Prizes were award
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Radio Photograph
Enables Deaf To
Hear Human Voice

Experiments have been made at
the American School for the Deaf
at Hartford, Connecticut, with a
machine which is a combination of
radio and photograph, with head
piece and speaking tube attach
ments, enabling the pupils at the
school who never before had heard
a human voice or any sound, to
hear not only the voice of the
speaker, but their own voices as
well.
An eight-year-old girl, considered
totally deaf since she was 4, the
first pupil used in the test, heard
and spoke her own name for the
first time, knowing from signs and
lip reading that it was her name.
The problem, according to Prin-
cipal Frank r. Wheeler, will be to
teach the children to identify the
sounds they hear with the words
they speak and read.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25

heavily ladden with gifts, there
will be excellent speaking and sing
ing in both English and Indian,
there will be fun making, Indian
dancing with spiffy costumes and
lots more things to exemplify the
yuletide spirit. In order to put
on this show a subscription list
was passed around and the first
Americans" wish to sincerely
thank everyone, more especially
the local merchants.
Christmas, well at last, the hap
piest day of the year is at hand.
The calendar has been changed
seven times since the birth of
Christ, yet the happiness of that
day has survived through the ages
and will undoubtedly have "ever-
lasting life" in the hearts of hu-
manity.
The spirit in which 1 wish the
roundhouse employees, and whole of
the Meteor City population, my
friends and otherwise a VERY
MERRY. CHRISTMAS is "all wool
and a yard wide"
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
BASKETBALL TEAM
WINS BOTH OF IT'S
FIRST TWO GAMES

The high school basketball team
opened the season successfully
Saturday, by defeating the basket
bali team from the Roosevelt Indian
school at Fort Apache 32-11 The
Indians had an excellent passing
combination and with a little luck
in basket shooting would have
made the score much closer.
Winslow, playing her first game,
her team composed of green men
with the exception of Chase, was
nervous and thus slow in getting
started. The first half, the score
was never more than two baskets
apart. The first quarter ended
Winslow 4 and Roosevelt 5. The
second quarter still showed the
teams evenly matched and the half
ended Winslow II, Roosevelt Z.
However, in the third quarter the
Indians tired from their trip and
Winslow popped up at half time,
the score changed rapidly with the
Maroon and White taking COM
manding lead of "a to 8, at the end
of the third quarter and finishing
the game with a 32-11 advantage.
Tuesday night, the Maroon and
White basket tosses opened fire on
Leupp and shot so successfully that
the Leupp Indians went home with
the short end of 1926 game.
Winslow, with the confidence gain
ed from the preceding game, started
the fireworks by shooting the ball
to Chase, who dropped it in for
two markers, and from then on
the home team was never shaded.
Showing a decided improvement in
team work and basket shooting the
local boys outpassed and outshot
the Leupp sharpshooters. The first
quarter ended, Winslow 10, Leupp
5. The second, Winslow 27, Leupp
10, the third Winslow 80, Leupp Is,
and the game, Winslow 36, Leupp
26.
Chase was high point man in
both games, looping Is points
against Leupp and 21 against
Roosevelt However, he was ably
supported especially in the Leupp
game by all the members of the
team, Hathaway at left forward,
scoring 10 points, Gallegos, at
guard 7 and Shields 1.
In the windup, the shop team de-
feated an alumni team 22-17
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
WinSIOW
Grand Canyon CounciI
Of Boy Scouts Has
Ele ctiOn Meeting

At the annual meeting of the exc
cutive committee of the Grand Can
yon council Of Boy Scouts held at
Flagstaff last week, the following
officers were elected for the COM
ing year: President, c. B. Wilson,
Flagstaff; Charles P Cooley, Hol-
brook, vice-president; Tom L. Rees,
Flagstaff, treasurer; DR.. M. G.
Fronske, Flagstaff, scout command
er; Capt. j. B. Wright, Flagstaff,
chairman camp committee
Scout Executive C. S. Mccormack
was retained for another year. An
effort is being made to have the
regional conference held in Flag
staff in January.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
G1s1sgcia t1l1S
szat't0o11 Schools
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
w. L. Martin. Pastor

Bible school at 9:45. Preaching
at II a. m. and 1880 p. m. This
will be the closing day of the min
istry of the pastor, w. L. Martin
The morning sermon will be in the
nature of a farewell sermon to the
members and friends of the church
The evening service will be a union
service at which the pastors and
members of the other churches will
take part in a farewell service to
the retiring pastor, who has been
with the church for five and a
quarter years. Special music at
the morning service by the Rhodes
brothers and in the evening by Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Siegmund. A cord
ial invitation to all.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
Dagg Sale A Modern
Merchandising Event

On page three of this issue will
be found full page sale announce
ment of the Dagg Mercantile com
pany. The management has care
fully prepared a number of bar
Coins in canned fruits and vege-
t. bles which pepole will do we'll to
Investigate. The event has been
worked up in accordance with
modern merchandising methods and
tho sale will materially reduce the
high cost of living to those who
take advantage.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
Miami Miner Found
Strangled To Death
By Twisted Wire

Thomas Wilkinson, hoistman en-
ploved by the Inspiration Consoli-
dotion Copner comnany. at Miami,
voe found strangled to death by a
copper wire twisted about his neck
in his cabin in Lower Miami.
"he body was found by his son
JNe who declared his father had
hinted at suicide the night before.
A ooroner's jury has been empanel-
ed 70 investigate.
Mr. Wilkinson had resided in the
district II years.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
NOTED AVIATOR
WILL TRY HARD
TO BETTER MARK

Lieutenant John A. Macready,
who was a visitor in Winslow a
few months ago, is preparing to
gamble with his life on the prop
osition that he can get farther away
from mother earth than any other
man that ever lived
In the near future the famous
army fier will get into his air.
plane at McCook Field, Dayton, O.,
and try to fly eight miles high.
To say that this will be gam
bling with his life is not exaggerat-
ing. The perils of flight in such
high attitudes are extreme.
He will ascend to a region where
there is not enough air to support
life. To meet this he must take
tanks of liquid oxygen.
1t will be many degrees below
zero up there above the clouds.
Fur-lined clothes, electrically heat
ed, offer the only possible protec-
tion great enough to enable him to
withstand the cold
The change in air pressure in
descending from such a high level
to the ground is very marked. -Four
years ago Macready set a worlds
altitude mark, since surpassed, Of
34,508 feet. In coming down the
change of air pressure made him
i'll, drawing blood from his nose
and ears.
Only a nearly-perfect plane and
a nearly perfect body can with
stand such a trip. Major r. w.
Schroeder, in 1920, lost conscious
ness at an altitude of five miles.
Down came his plane, with Schroe-
der's senseless body lolling in the
pilots seat. Five miles is a long
way to fall.
By some providential circum-
stance Schroeder regained consci-
BUSINESS when only few hundred
feet from the ground, and managed
to get control over his plane and
land safely.
Such are the things with which
an aviator must cope when he tries
for an altitude record.
Macready wants that altitude
record, and wants it badly He had
held it until a year ago, when the
French flier, Calico, went up to
1886 feet. To get the record he
must fly 400 feet higher than this.
He thinks he can do it.
FuSeIage Is Old
The plane in which he will make
the flight is known as CXO-5. It's
fuselage was built three years ago,
but the wings = the important
things in aerial work-are new,
especially designed for flying at
high attitudes.
1t has 400 horsepower Liberty
motor and a total wing area of
900 square feet. The propellers are
of aluminium alloy, ten feet six
inches in length.
Macready is now busy testing it.
A weakness in plane is bad
enough at any time; but when
you're trying to fly eight miles hig
it is simply unthinkable. Those al
titudes call for the highest type OF
workmanship in all parts of the
machine
VIII Use Camera
One of the uses of the proposed
flight will be to determine the max
imum altitude from which it is pos
sible to take pictures. In war time
it would be invaluable to have a
plane from which pictures of enemy
territory could be taken from an
eight-mile height. Up there the
plane could neither be seen nor
heard from the ground
McCook Field pilots are conf
dent that Macready will break the
record. And so is Macready.
In fact, he's gambling his life
on it.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
Northern Arizona Scenes
Shown In Motion Picture

Magnificent scenes in northern
Arizona are being shown the south
ern part of the state.
The film was photographed by
Dan Patch, who is well known in
Phoenix.
The film revealed every step OF
a long journey taken through an
unusually interesting section of
northern Arizona, avoiding largely
the beaten paths.
Great canyons, lofty peaks, rib
bon-like streams down mountain
sides, intensely interesting remains
of cliff dwelling civilization, Indian
weaving and Indian athletics were
some of the high spots in the film.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25

The Christmas tree, which has
become an almost universal symbol,
and is by most persons supposed
to have originated in Germany, had
its origin in Egypt at period long
before the Christmas Era. The
palm tree is known to put forth a
branch every month, and spray
of this tree, with twelve shoots on
it, was used in Egypt at the time
of the winter solstice. as SYM
boil of the year completed.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
METHODIST CHURCH
Minister, William r. HeSSelI

Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Morn
ing worship II a. m. Sermon
theme "The Record of the Dying
Year" Mrs. ]. H. Robinson will
sing ''There We're Shepherds" In
termediate league 6:45 p. M, leader
Clifford Plog. Senior league GAS
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
PERHAPS HE DID

"Nnd now. children what do you
suppose Balaam did when ne re-
turned home?"
81 guess know, teacher?"
"'Uell, Roberto
cue traded off the ass for a par
rot"
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25

Miss Soledad Olmos, who has
been in the high school of Winslow
and left here in 1923, to finish her
education in Jacksonville, Florida
wishes to all her friends of Wins
low a prosperous and a happy new
year.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25

La Senorita Oledad Olmos, cue
fue estudiante de Ia escuela alta
en- al ano 1928, Sc fue conpletar
sus estudios en- Jacksonville, Flori-
da, les desea a los abitantes ese
simpatico pueblo de Winslow fell
ces pascuos de navidad Y un pro-
psero Y feIic ano nueyo.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
FULL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY.

Sunday school at 945 a. m. Ser
vices at 11:G0 a. M and 7:30 p. m.
Mid-week prayer meetings, Tues
day and Friday evening at 1880
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25

Excavations in the San Francis
co Bay region of California show
that the Indians of $500 years ago
had the same customs and lived
then as their descendants live to-
day
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
Met the President

The Mail is in receipt of a letter
from G.. w. Nelson, delegate from
Winslow to meeting of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen in ses-
sion in Washington. Nelson states
that he had the pleasure of meet
ing President Coolidge and is TAX
ing in the sights of the capital. Mrs.
Nelson accompanied her husband
to Washington.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-25
Christmas Program

The Community hall was the
scene of a happy gathering of
young and old Tuesday evening.
The occasion being a Christmas
tree and banquet, given by and for
the Juveniles of s. 3. A. and their
parents. The crowd, numbering
about sixty, were favored by pro-
gram of readings, songs and music;
which were very much enjoyed. All
departed for their homes wishing
Christmas came more frequently.