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Show American Airman Savages' Guest in Weirdest War Tale Nr.. ;'( ' 1 - I , . ' V -- -1 - Coast Ashore From Plane on Indian Island, Where Whites Never Trod. SINGS WAY TO FAVOR Strains of "Little Gray Home in the West" Won j Release From Plight. HAN FRANCISCO, Deo. Jk Captain t L'uncan Smith 01 0kl.-:iid. flying s a i Hrltlsh airman, carried on the wings of monsoon man a most spectacular in-! in-! vention. Hie airplane. Inlo the ken of the I Indian ocean aborigines of Ihe Maidive lHlfnn. who bad never before sen a wnKe man's f.tc. Swimming s.liore from th:s sroini wreckfd AUMTiiHlurul hllil. Cs;it.in .Nmilii wss finally exalted by Ihe umlt as a while god. He so transportrd these Isolmeil hnr-tMrians hnr-tMrians by singing night .un-r ninnl, many times earn night, America's setui-V'"u setui-V'"u rtl"- "The Utile ilrsy Home In the lht i heir sultan riggl out and old scow with sails and took Caplu.n Smith and bis observer tlsi mihs lo Ceylon. " " hii'hii m:i r.,,,,ji 1 Smith, wearing the distinguished service c ross and Ihe croix de guerre, finally relumed re-lumed on a furlough to Ins Culitornla home, there to ugiee i:h his brother, llMll j V V:,' I--V-- I- . 7 lt'v mm Captain Duncan Smith, D. S. C. (left), ens' Captain Harold B. Smith, Oakland boys, with the British air servlc. i n iimn fi wnom lie nia , no newa during their three ywr' aervir l ami wllh the rarentc. lo whom twth I hrothet In the (.ur. of th-ir ailen- ! i urea tind beii rr-M,r-tf( iiinirir.' thai , lmift -tuuilly Afr-m- H-e- ftluugh f. I prove .-ar la the Brt-ai ariveniura. Kntlnh authontiea have rallerl Captain Duncan Hmlth'a exp,rienr the most atUMVina of the nur in the mom aiiven-tiiroua aiiven-tiiroua hranrh of Wi,r work the air wr-V wr-V ' . recital arildF thin grimly world ooufllct with a tolor of romaiue euch ax ho novelift or Jul-j Verne .Ireamer b ever uatf(ld In paintii. into him fiction. It required a world war and a bov from a Jittle jjrav hoina M the Went." a bun-tjalow bun-tjalow on the wentem edge In fact of! Ainerira, to bring up to date the old truth)., that muate hath charms to aoothe the! aav.i1re hreant. J Aiy ohsnrver and I were out on sea- Eo,i.,K'0l.L du,v from British warship patrollng the trade lane, off the toast of Africa, said Captain Smith. "In a fog WWtr eMr,'d from our war-ship while hunting raiders. A monsoon, coming com-ing up suddrniy, awept us far south W were chm into Ihe sea in the mldt of a group of corn! island off ihe eat ...V1'; lh -Ms'dlves, and swam ahore. We found a native village. v ned-t ned-t a rent and water snd food. The vil-age vil-age wan deserted But fired were burning burn-ing snd food was there i ookb.g We helped ourselves, threw ourselves on some straw in one of the huts, slept, snd aaoke find naked savages pfrinc al ux through doon. snd crevices -L?h?. fJrta"y n"ie up their minds we wouldn t bite. More Important, u,fV ne-clded ne-clded they wouldn't. And juitt h- lioveh Z u',.W W'nt ,nrorh the rspenences ?TH m IUeu -hre -on hii Wand inhabited by savagea to whom while men WtJ gOfla from another planr.. ii.. i .y bro"3hl our apUne Into the little bay. our standing aa birds gave u suprenie cate In the village. Foriuiuie. ly. The engine wan out of order, the luet gone, savsge don't us gasoline, and we couldn't fly mwhv. "The old chief ori.r.-H UP a dozen wives plefe. In their wooing, these prospective wives started to 'aing to uo ef. protection I started in sing to them." well the Maldive ixln-iders liked American Amer-ican songs belter than Indian ocean chants. B plain Smith couldn't sins enough to nuii them. Kverv night h gave a .-oncert The iuvnge gathered around the fires hs the shadows (trew black in the purpling African twilichl , And In the wihts, where the white man' and the white man's melodtea had never IT-'LVh4 ,r,'1', ,hr n" " h- who bad! started flying for the allies si 50. before i America entered the war. gave perhaps I the strangest concerts of a conflict which has taken Metropolitan oners, stars to Flandfrs trenche. Captain Smith obei ver couMnT sina; Tiie Island sultan threatened him with , death. Captain Smith made up a nrams-role nrams-role of sounds for him and the ohnerver ' could1 thni Ut " lui,tfull' he His willingness saved h:m. and Ihe "little "lit-tle gray home" song was so entrancing lo the natives that they cead to cttre whethtr the observer sung or not Whenever the twelve wives apiece he-came he-came too amorous and seemed bended toward a consummation of the marruige contract the "little gray home" would coot their fervor and mug them to sleep And whenever the sultan was to be ca-jolled ca-jolled the "little gray home" strains, mournful but sweet, turned the trick The superhuman status the airplane conferred on Captain Smith and his observer, ob-server, and Captain Smith a generous attempts at-tempts ar aoldrn throated melody so won the chief's favor that he fitted tip his old i-oat for the trip to Ceylon, a longer trip than any island canoe had attempted He cou'd se the U weren't going to many ar;d settle down envwav And so captain Smllli and' his oherver rot back to civilisation. Hut the cpuin didn't quit fighting. Kroin Cevlon he was sent up nit Palestine io fly under Allenby He already had a croix de guerre for bombing an enemy troop train 1 at close ranee. In F'slestln he made a direct hit with a bomb dropped on a cam- 1 ouflftged Turkish sun position, killing j twenty-one Turkish soldiers Home folks are lucky. H British su- . per lore decided Captain Smith hd done one man's duty for a while, gave him the distinguished service cross and sent him! nom on furlough. While he was singing te hi Maldive isl-snd isl-snd sweethearts his folks st home in Oakland were reading a cable to the effect ef-fect that he had been lost in a monsoon About the same time another cable snd I their other son. Captain Harold fimiih. had been lost in the North sea So when lth "lost bovs" walked in there was quite a b.i of light snd laugh- r snd a few banpv tears, of course under the rafters of the little gray home j in On a' and I-astly th Smith boys are on their way bark to the f shting front now. |