Show Adventure Marks First Motor Trip Between North S South American Continents i rr C Gd I f a L 5 ba baA baU U A t k Rs r It isn't miles from Rio de to NewYork New York but by the time the seven year automobile of Jose Barone had made the trip by circuitous routes through mountains and jungles and spun its wheels in the mud swamps that's what the speedometer showed At the right is Barone and a map of jis hs adventuresome adventure adventure- some journey Upper loft left Barone and his car stuck in a Guatemalan sw swamp mp Lower left traveling I the Isthmus of Panama over railroad ties on a regular train schedule Italian Daredevil Bandits Cannibals Canni Canni- bals in Long Trek By DONN SUTTON N NEA EA Service Writer NEW YORK Maybe your idea ot of an automobile ride is to spend I a Sunday in the country picking lowers flowers I Jose Mario Barones Barone's is to take a whole year rear at it it dl drive dle e miles shooting bandits Indians Indiana and rear lear tires Ures en route leap kap gaping chasmS chasmS' get in the way vay of landslides travel over dry rIver passes and only rarely on a real road For this old year Italian art art- 1st war aviator and perennial motorist motorist mo- mo has lust just linked South Central Con Cen- and North America by automobile automobile auto auto- mobile for the first time The long unprecedented trip from Crom Rio de Janeiro Brazil whIch ended In ew 1 ew York the other day was adventure plus Three of the sixteen different mechanics who rode with him died en route Disease Disease Dis- Dis ease smote smote- him Starvation often oHen threatened him Bullets scarred his flesh lie encountered savage e tribes outlaw bands band wild animals and reptiles and all the lurking perils of mountains and jungles STARTED WITH A RUSH Barone shattered most automobile automo- automo bile speed records between Rio do de deJaneIro JaneIro and Buenos Aires itt t the start ot of the trip In Buenos Aires his first mechanic was hurled out out of the car on a sharp curve and killed Barone righted ed the m ma- ma and was himself unharmed Here as at other large towns along the way Barone amaze amazed gaping g crowds at street faIrs bY such feats as foot 20 leaps for death between elevated pla pla- forms The trip trip- from Bolivia to was most hazardous Barone said No 10 would go with me so o I pushed on alone Iwas I Iwas was the first person ever to have taken an automobile over the Andes There were no roads r ads of any kind and I had to way with the aid of a compass and rude maps I drove along dr river beds and hacked my way through forested valleys alleys This tool took three months I hadn't taken enough h food and I lived on fruits and berrIes I found along the he way and wild animals I shot I had with me as a a. mascot mascota a brown angora cat called Rio and Ill I'll admit that many times r I thought Rio nio would make a better stew than mascot Then in in Ecuador still In the Andes hunters Fever had spelled d death for Barones second mechanic and had laid up Barone himself In a village of the ferocious fero- fero cious cannibalIstic Cecho Indians who were In the midst of a a. riotous celebration that Broadway would know as a seven day bender Sugar Sugarcane I cane liquor was the motivating motivating moti- moti Influence For a a. while never before having seen such a a strange contraption as asan asan an automobiles s. s the natives were convInced that Barone was a god of sorts but the illusion did not persist when they saw Barone nearly dying from the fever The gods gods' were never sick So there I 1 was wai flat on my back jn in an Indian shack Barone descrIbed the event I had a brace of pistols wIthin reaCh I looked up on one morning to to see a group of natives with knives that that- each looked a mile long They were counting on me as the feature feature fea- fea ture or of their next days day's luncheon m menu nu Well I fought them ort off I dragged myself from the shack and made for my automobile It was stuck in the middle or of no a stream Hauling out my guns again t I set fourteen drunken Indians In- In diane t work pushing the car out of the the water and again was on my Iny wa way VICTIMS OF LANDSLIDE Dr Driving along along- the edge of a cliffin cliff elif in a blinding rainstorm in Colombia Colom- Colom bia the sandy soil gave way and the car plunged feet into a rocky gully newest mechanic mechanic me- me was h Barone himself he lost his left was wa injured injured- he thumb and th the car was wrecked Recovering larone Barone practically Ie Fe- built the car except for the engine the engine In a blacksmith Colombia and in a week set out again I 1 traveled up the coast of Colombia Co- Co lombia on improvised rafts and along rough beaches driving by nIght in low tide and low gear I the adventurer went on r I arrived arrived ar- ar rived In Colon Panama with m my car car aboard two little fish fishing In boats that I had riveted ri together with trees which I had had felled with with- an axe aae Colon and Panama City ate ale UnIted linked only ly by railroad ISO so my cars car's status became of a train For almost 40 miles we e bumped along railroad ties to Panama City with an official dispatcher sitting in the rear traveling seat on a regular tr train in schedule NOT A STUNT THIS TIME Darone dared a mo mountain chasm fifteen f feet et wide in in Costa Rica with a a. leap for death that no noone noone one paid to see And it wasn't long after this that a rotten lotten brIdge caved in beneath him and the car dived into a a. river rl smashing the wheels He walked twenty twenty one one miles to get new wheels In northern Nicaragua United I States marInes warned me that I bandits were along the route but I paid no attention I continued Barone Then I met meta a Sandino outpost lie He threatened to kill me I shot him Soon I encountered encountered en- en countered others or of Sandino's rebels wh who were going to kill me for or a aGringo aGringo Gringo until I proved I 1 was an Italian citizen and then contented themselves with looting me of a moving picture camera feet of film picturing the journey journe pistols pistols pis- pis rifles everything clothing exCept the cat Rio a pair of trousers trous- trous ers end and the car FIRE UNDER BANDITS BANDITS' five Twenty bandits rode out of the moonlit hills between Gute- Gute niala mala and Puebla Mexico and In pursuit of or Barones Barone's aut au- au t mobile Bullets ripped the seven seven- marks old year the Studebaker still show and whizzed d about the ears ot of Barone and his mechanic Barone w who o was an Italian Ha arm army avIator In the World war and bagged three German planes before before be- be fore his own plane was shot down was calm under fire lIe drove fast f. occasionally as he went td a-td outdistanced the bandits Barone finally reached New r where he was officially welcom wel- wel com d nt at City hall ball after ride up Un Broadway Only one once du during i th i this trip to replete with dime novel thrills ls was ho he separated ed from his car That he said was In Akron AIron 0 where where- a policeman policeman police police- man objected W t the roar oar or of his exhaust ex- ex haust on a downtown street and tool took hIm to headquarters |