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The Washington times., 1925-05-26
CHAPTER Nv.

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4 RIzoNA STATE, PENITEN-
n TIARY. Florence, Ariz..
J March 1s.-My intimacy with
Estslle soon became embarrass-
ing. I learned that she was
quite wen known as public prop
erty to the habitues Of the Oak
land tenderloin district, and she
was becoming more and more in
atstent that I should take her
out.
'SYou act as If you were
ashamed to be seen with me. !"
she pouted one evening after she
had suggested our going to the
orpheum Theater. and had
quickly made lame excuse.
'eYou DON'T think anything of
sneHding hours with me here.
but the minute I ask you to take
me out. you have an abb. George
and Edgar ain't that way
made the mistake Of trying
90 explain to her.
..Well. you see, Estelle. I
said, you see / can't afford to
be seen in public with a--that
is." hastily corrected. ''I have
lot at stake besides myself,
She was up from the couch
like a tigress. confronting me
with heaving bosom and twitch-
Ing hands. There was never any
thing half way about EsteIle.
Her intensity and passion in
everything was her chief lure.
why Didn't You Say It?"
you can't afford to be seen in
public with-with what?' she de-
manded. why did you stop?
why didn't you say it? You
sowardl You can't afford to be
seen in public wfth-with-welI.
with Me- You
And why didn't you say it,
why did you. stop?'' tannted. be-
ginning to seethe. ''I can't help
tt because everybody thinks I'm
setter than I ants my writing
hats done it. I'd, give any.
hing to be free to take you any
where, but : s''
''But you're too good" she In
errupted. insistent upon making
my detection from full fealty TO
her personal choice on my part.
'sAnd what are you?" An ex-
convict with the swelIed head
trying to set yourself up as a
ttf1e tin god. Huh! I'm used to
ae-men. wouldn't go out with
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tEFoxY GRANDPA" asked
Bobby as we sat on the
porch in the country one warm
Spring evening, do you hear
those frogs singing?'
''I do" I laughed. 'It sounds
az if those singing the loudest
are having conrest. =
"I was thinking that myself,
said Bobby.
Like Apollo and Marsyas," I
said.
what about them?' asked
Bobby eagerly.
''It was like this" I COM
menced. "Once upon a time
Apollo made Jupiter very angry
and when Jupiter. who was king
Of all the gods got angry, some
thing happened. And what hap
pened to Apollo was this:
"Apollo was banished from
heaven. sent down out Of the sky,
where the gods lived, and sem
fenced to live on the earth for
period Of nine years.
''Now Apollo had to leave In a
great hurry for fear that Jupiter
would grow angrier and angrier.
And I don't suppose he had much
time to stop and pack, for when
Apollo arrived down in Thessaly
which was the part of Greece
right under Mount Olympus.
where the gods lived-aII he had
with him was his Tyre. And you
will remember that Apollo was
the god of music as we'll as the
sun and played and sang most
beautifully.
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; you now If was in prison for
life and you were the only chance
I had, you 80
She ran to the couch. threw
herself abandonedly upon 1t, and
sobbed pitifully.
For a moment was tempted
ITO tiptoe for my hat and out OF
the room, but even in my anger
her forlern sweetness was mag.
netic. I stood trembling for a
moment, then ran and knelt be-
side her. She struggled to keep
me from turning her face SO that
could look at it. but did it
anyway.
Not Free.
Inwardly, despite real sympathy
for her and her lure, I felt that
there was an element of acting IN.
the situation, and that / was
making fool OF myself. She lis
tened. wept. while did my best
. to explain. / told her was not.
free like George and McGarry;
that I could be picked UP and
recommitted 20 prison just for
being in her company.
But don't think that, alone
would stop me-" lied giibiy,
seizing her hands and carrying
them to my cheek caressingly.
''I'd gladly go back to prison for
you. Estelle. And. as far as that
goes, you're right An ex-convict
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HEARTS OF
ARTICHOKES
BY Alice Langelier

PARIS,
HEARTS Of arti-chokes Print
ania are one Of the best
spring vegetables.
Prepare the hearts Of SIX arti-
clnolxes, removing al hard parts
and the choke. Cut into regular
round pieces and cook In butter in
4 covered casserole. Garnish each
round with a spoonful Of fresh
Young vegetables, bound with q
cream sauce. New carrots, turnips
cut into dice; new peas and green
beans. All cooked in salt water
can be used for this.
Arrange the hearts in a large
baking-dish. In the center put
q little chifEonade Of lettuce. mix
ed with BechaTnel sauce.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
n1oisten with melted butter ana
brown in the oven.
The chiffonade Is made with
the outside leaves of lettuce, cut
into finest pieces and cooked with
butter.
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Ou q CANVAS.
splash on a
fe w primary
coIors a n d
call it "Fu-
turisrn."
.
Men are too
lazy to face
marriage and
t b Q struggle
OF supporting
a family and
women are too
lazy to face
the burden of
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ut may strange but half the Summer
Riviera have fur collars and cuffs This
trimmed with white fox
Boxplais in front Of the skirt
only q popular color. 8.
English the morning froc right which
wraps around hack with belt The
hemstched coral Nile
green blue
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WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

1-When was General Ross the
British commander who burned
washington. d. c.. killed?
2-When was Jamaica, West
Indies, settled.
.s-When did Dickens write
Hard Times?"
When did Phidias. the noted
Greek sculptor, live?
5-When was the first Polish
dynasty founded?
Answers to these queries win be
printed tomorrow.
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To Yesterdays questions.
Spectrum analysis was dis
covered in 1860.
Japan annexed the Loochoo
Islands in 1879.
.s-Kingston. Jamaica. was Wis
tied by an earthquake in 1907.
4-The beautiful Misses Gun.
ming" were the talk of London
in the 18th century.
5-The Kohinoor diamond was
acquired by Queen Victoria of
England In 1850.
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IN reality. it was in that Oak
land hotel room. more than
twelve years ago. that started
on the long, tragic. intense jour-
ney back to bolts and bars and
degradation.
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| hull. Water rises and falls with amaZ-
ing rapidity in jungle rivers, and there
was nothing for us to do but wait
for an ebb that would permit us to get
at the hole.
This was disgusting. We were anx-
ious to get back to camp. and the re-
pair was only a matter of few min
utes. We had marine glue, screws and
screwdrivers I'm our kit.
Unhappily, we sat down to wait for
the water to recede. With luck we
might have had enough recession that
day to let us get at the repair. But
luck was not with us, and IL was soon
evident that we had better begin prep
arations for taking care Of our mount
ing appetites or we should lose vital.
ity and become subject to Jungle
feyers.
Capt. Stevens hunted brush wood
for our camp fire while [ got busy
with the fish hooks. Using a ball of
farina As bait and strips of my shirt
for lines, we soon had mess of fish
ready for our first meal away from
camp. Even without seasoning they
did. not taste bad. We were very
hungry. Our table mapners might
have been subject to criticism For
one thing, we had no table, no plates,
no knives, no forks. We fried the
fish by piercing them with q stick md
holding them over the fire.
We were to have many fish break
fasts, dinners and suppers at that
spot and each one was to taste less
and less savory until finally we would
become sickened at the thought of
having to catch the fish, prepare
toast and eat them. But we had to
live,
-Four days went by, and the river
was still high. The water swirled
over the sandy beach around the bow
of our seq plane, then 1t got higher
still.
Capt. Stevens Ia wonderful ma in
an emergency of this sort Nothing
feazed him any day, excepting the
montony of unseasoned fish, l really
believe he grew to like our camp. al
though neither of us could sleep we'll
with the swarms of vora cious insects
buzzing about us all night.
We soon gave up the idea OF keep
ing watch at night, We would have
entertained being visited by the most
warlike of Indians. We wanted
change, and wanted 1t badly. The in
sects kept us on the alert, so that
even in a browse we probably could
have heard the pad of n bare Indian
foot in the middle OF the night-hut
we heard nothing hut the whining
song OF death OF the insects.
However. on the fifth day three
naked Indians broke through the
jungle on our side OF the river and
slowly approa ched us. | was using a
machete at the time to cut brush
wood. and a machete or knife OF any
kind has a fascination for an Indian.
One of the Indians stepped up to me
and tried to take hold of the ma chete.
We had n bit of n tussle. and then
Capt. Stevens and | were able TO con.
vince them that If they kept on down
the river they would come to a white
mans camp where machetes would
he given them. This was true. DR..
Rice presented many machetes to the
Brazilian Indians. which was a great
boon to them. as nothing ia better
than machete for trail blazing.
+
nN that fifth day the river quickly
receded until our seaplane was
soon high and dry. The hot equatorial
sun took the dampness out of the hull
quickly. and we wasted no time in
making the repair.
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given us up for lost and had moved
up another river.
At 3 that afternoon we decided To
make an attempt TO get UP over the
rain cloud and find our way TO camp.
We took off. The rain proved to be
local affair and we We're soon out Of
It.
In about a half hour Gt took the
Rice party n week 20 cover the SO me
distance in their canoes later we spot
ted the advance camp and made our
landing amid the cheers Of our eXpe
dition leader and his staff. The cheers
of Capt. Stevens and me must have
been heard above the roar of our
motor.
A week later I was down with jungle
malaria. and had TO fly the plane
several hundred miles down the river
10 A Manaos hospital. Though l was
shivering with Chills, l decided thai
was the quickest way to get TO the
hospital. As no one could use the
plane without me, it meant no de
privation for the party. They spent a
month reaching that Indian village
we had spotted that day in a 70min-
ute flight,
Copyright. 1922
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Thousand Miles an Hour Possible in Future

proof. Anything seems possible and
nothing seems impossible.
Should the wireless control of air
planes be made practical, and basing
my opinions on the success of the eX-
periments that have already been
conducted, there is no reason why a
plane should not he dispatched from,
say, Mitchell Field. here. and guided
unerringly to landing station in
Bombay.
Il believe that in the machines that
will be in everyday use the helicopter
principle will play an important part.
The development of machines along
helicopter lines will mean the ability
of the pilot to take off from a small
space, and by the same token he Will
be able to land in a circumscribed and
somewhat restricted area. The evoly-
ing of such a machine will mean that
landing stations will be erected on the
tops of city buildings. Already we
see the signs of the times In the new
Chicago post office, which will have
a landing stage upon its roof for
mail planes
Fast flying makes no appreciahl
difference to the experienced pilot over
ordinary speed. Were it not for the
rapid passing over landmarks and
the speed indica tor he would not he
at 200 or 900 miles an hour. Given
the engine power and the properly
designed machines, we shall be able
to f1y at 500-mile rate without notice
able strain. In fast flying the only
indication of speed to the pilot is
when he seeks to change direction. -
A resume Of the answers from fly
irg men in the Army and Navy and
in commercial lines to the question.
How fast can we fly? would make il
appear that there is no limit indicated
The once-accepted theory that man $
speed in the air would be limited by
his physical ability 10 withstand the
dizzy rush through the ether seems
TO be as much upset as the proverbial
applicant. our modern emulators of
the bold 1carus are flying close to the
sun. but science is keeping apace with
their winging, and problems that rack
ed the brains of our pioneer aviators
are being rapidly solved as we attain
to birdlike ability.
*4
a FTER talking with many practical
flying men, 1t can be stated that
a speed of 500 miles an hour is not
considered an impossibility, nor are
they of the mind that the day Is far
distant when such a rapid transition
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Adventure and hardship to the
full, in comparatively short
career as a flyer, have fallen to the
lot of Walter Hinton, formerly a
lieutenant in the United States
Navy Air Service.
Enlisting in 1918, he was selected
in May of the following year as one
of the pilots of the hydroplane
NC-4 in it's memorable and epoch
making hop from Newfoundland
via the Azores to England. The
trip was made as a test of the
feasibility of transatlantic flights.
On December IS, 1920, Lieut.. Hin
ton. with two brother officers, left
Rockaway Beach, Long Island, for
q days flight in A naval balloon.
To their amazement. they came
down the next day near Hudson
Ray trading post in the wilds Of
Canada, finally reaching human
ha abitations after trudgins weary
miles through trackless forest In
intense cold, attended by gnaw-
ing hunger. But to the outside
world they were lost until January
3. when meSsag ge announcing they
were safe was received.
Since resigning from the Naval
Air Service Lieut.. Hinton has made
flights for several private ventures,
Including that for the Alexander
Hamilton Rice expedition TO the
tributaries of the Amazon River,
here nara ted.
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BowLDER DELICATE HULL OF OUR sEApANE ss

But now we faced another perplex-
itt. We would have to wait until the
river rose again TO give fiotation to
our plane. 1t was too heavy to move.
We could have improvised rollers. but
special truck is needed TO move a
seaplane because of the necessarily
fragile wood In It's hull.
On that hearly tragic balloon flight
/ had been elected custodian of the
one box of matches during our wan.
derings back TO civilization, and | am
proud to say that never once was 1t
necessary to use A second match to
light a camp FIRE.
Down in the Brazilian n jungle I gain
husba nded the matches. We never
wasted one. II any one saw us going
about our fish dinner il must have
been most amusing sight, Our faces
were contorted with disgust as we
caught and prepared the fish When
II came time to light the fire. If we
had not kept 1t going because OF short
age of brush wood, | would ceremoni-
ously get down on my knees and un-
wrap the box of matches from wad
of covering to protect against damp
ness
A match would he cautiously ex-
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only one thing, a river full of water
from brim to brim in a short time.
The line of water kept rising. Soon
1t was under the tail of our seaplane
and kept rising.
We neglected our fishing. Our camp
fire was out and our brush-wood soak
ed. Still we were exhilarated by the
flooding water that soon would raise
our aircraft until it would float.
Tired, impatient. and on edge as
we were. neither Capt Stevens nor
myself could restrain broad smiles and
an occasional yelp Of delight. When
the sea plane first bobbed in the tide,
we both shouted with joy.
All this time water was coursing
over us. our long hair being matted
into our beard. 1t was just as If we
had been standing under a shower
bath
Throw out the anchor
We had to anchor, 1t would have
been difficult to have taken off in that
deluge We waited until noon. Still
the downpour kept up.
We had not eaten that day, and
both of us hated the prospect of an
other night on the beach. There was
the danger that the Rice party had
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We had on board the usual stock
of trinkets for the Indians and the
little parachutes to carry them safely
down.
We had one days emergency pro.
visions. two hammocks. and the fish
hooks and matches that every member
of the Rice expedition who went away
from camp or main party carried
with him for life insurance. The
rivers of Brazil are filed with ex-
cellent edible fish, and a fish hook
or two and a box of matches guar
antee against starvation for a short
time.
We flew up the Rio and because a
strong wind was blowing. carrying
us far over the primeval forests, we
climbed to an altitude of 5000 feet
to make sure we had a safe gliding
angle which would carry us back to
the river in case our motor failed us.
During the hours flying we saw
no Indians and therefore did not per-
form our office of sending down the
gifts in parachutes. On other trips
naked Indians beside thatched huts
would look languidly up at US. 1t
was an odd experience on this jungle
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sensation would be much different at
500 miles
with the continual improvements
that are being made in ships and en-.
gines ! believe it only to be a matter
OF days or weeks before greater speeds
than five miles minute will be rather
commonplace. and it will not be long
either. before we shall he able to do
500 miles an hour. That would seem
TO be about the limit in speed, but
who knows? 1t liz not so long ago that
100 miles an hour was thought mi
rsculous and now we have reached
800 and better. Is 900 miles an hour
possible? Quien sabe? I'm willing 10
make the try If some one will produce
the ship with the necessary strength
and engine power And, considering
the rapid progress that is being made
such a ship Is liable to be evolved
ship. there will be plenty of lads
almost any day. Given the proper
with the ability to fly it,
Soon we may expect the Tired Rusi-
ness Man to remark, casually, 20
the wife of his bosom:
II need a hit of exercise, my dear
and I've decided to stay away from the
Office for a couple of days. so Ill fly
over to Peking tomorrow and accept
the invitation of the Mandarin of Fly
swat to play a round of golf on the
Dragon links
That flight to China is not such a
wild flight Of the ina gination as might
be thought, either With planes cap
able OF 500 miles an hour, the 5000
mile jaunt to Far Cathav could be
made In 12 hours. 1t is all within the
realm of possibility and also prob
ability. There are skeptics. of course;
doubters who will scoff until the feat
has been accomplished. and even then
will remain unconvinced. Fulton had
his scoffers. and yet the steamboat be.
came an actuality. Stevenson met with
skeptics aplenty and yet we have the
locomotive, and the Wright brothers
had their fun share of gibes. After
all. skepticism Is a human trait that
Will ever be with us. Consider the
man from Rising Sun. Ind, who, when
first beholding a camel exclaimed
There amt no such animal.'
AS a practical flyer and student OF
avia tion matters there are few, II
any, to excel Lieut.. Cyrus Bettis OF
the Army, who not so long ago won
the Pulitzer race, attaining a record
speed for the distance. Pale Of face,
slight of build and with horn-rimmed
glasses, Lieut.. Bettis gives the i'm.
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will be possible. Greater speeds-those
approa ching / 900 miles an hour-Will
depend, they say, upon the develop
ment of engines or the application
Of wireless TO planes as a propelling
and guiding power. 1t would seem
after talking with these lads who fly
for love and a living. that they look
to a tie-up of wireless for the bring
ing about of speeds undreamed OF
today
Why should there be any limit TO
flying" asked Lieut.. Marion l.. Elliott.
the Army stunt ace, who is as much
at ease upside down in cloudland as
he is sitting in an easy chair in the
field operations office at Mitchell Field.
When we consider the speed with
which the world turns upon its axis
and then consider the speed with
which it revolves. through space.
about the sun. it would not appear
impossible for men TO fly at the rate
of 900 miles an hour, or even faster.
New York to San Francisco over
night will he possible in the near
future. Engines and ships are being
brought more and more to perfection
and greater speed will result With
plane. capable OF 400 miles an hour
the New York san Francisco fighr
could he made within ? hours with
time out for refueling. And 900 miles
an hour has been accomplished. Our
air mail men are making the New
York-to- San. francisco flight in 81
hours. and in doing that they are not
racing by any means.
The experiments conducted in wire
less would indicate that the day is not
far off when planes can he guided
TO their destination by radio. In fact,
science may devise an engine that can
be controlled by radio. and with such
an apparatus and a ship designed for
great speed there is no way of CalCu-
lating the speed that might be attain
ed. With the progress being made in
aviation | believe that the airplane
OF today will he to the airplane of
tomorrow as was the oX-cart of old to
the automobile OF now. How fast ca
we fly? NOW, | grow dizzy when |
think OF the speed that is coming 10
us"
The fueling problem Is one that
will have to he solved before our flyers
can hope to make long jumps. The
average ship of any Worthwhile speed
in operation today requires refueling
about every seven hours. The more
ina ginative followers of aviation be-
lieve that plane flights across the At
lantic and the Pacific will be Facilitated
by the establishment of floating sta
tions.
tCOuvrirht in"1 3
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tracted and a careful hold taken of 1t
with three fingers of my right hand.
My left hand, Capt. stevens hands
and screen of palm leaves then went
into action to prevent a puff of wind
from killing the match flame or ex-
tinguishing the brush. . 1t must
have been laughable.
Capt. Stevens had his camera with
him and made a few pictures of our
compulsory camp, but he hasn't one
Of our match lighting ritual. He did
get one interesting picture OF a rock
that we found near the river when we
were fishing.
1t had curious Indian hieroglyphs on
IL. circles with lines runffing down
from them in various directions. We
found a berry with blood red juice
which | smeared into the marking on
the stone so that Capt. Stevens might
photograph the hieroglyphs for our
scientific party.
EiGHT days-nine-ten days. Dawn
= of the tenth day, We had been
awakened before dawn by a heavy
downpour.
The rain kept up. That could mea n
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We're missing and given up as lost
was radioed to New York by the Rice.
expeditions very efficient short wave
transmitter. I shall now tell for the
first time what really happened to-
Stevens and me.
X
THE base camp on the day that we
started was at Boa EsperanZa
which is 800 miles up river from
Manaos. a big city on the Rio Negro
near its junction with the Amazon.
We had made q flight up the Rio
UraiCuera from Boa Esperanza. had
mapped the river. and DR.. Rice want
ed us TO fly back up about 90 miles
to a site he had picked on our map
as one suitable for an advance camp.
tn which the expedition would re
quire at least one month To progress.
Capt. Stevens and | in the little
Curtis Sea gull seaplane pushed off
Al about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
We had found air conditions to he best
over the jungle in the late afternoon.