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Show 1 t THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH W Many Aviators Saved From Sea New York. When the three Span Ish aviators were rescued near the Azores a few days ago, one more chapter was written in the chronicle of airmen saved at sea after being given up for lost A decade has passed since the era of ocean dying began. The year 1919 saw the completion of the first successful trans atlantic flights made by the United States naval plane NC--4 in jumps, and by Alcock and Brown without b stop and the beginning of other attempts by airplanes to span the Atlantic, says the New York Times. - Barry Hawker and Kenneth English aviators competing for the London Daily Mails $50,000 prize for a nonstop Atlantic flight, were the first to find that there was glory in a flight gallantly attempted. Hoping to beat the NC planes that were then already at the Azores, they shot eastward into the Atlantic fog off Newfoundland one night in May, 1919. They had no landing gear, and when no word of them reached the outside world at the end of a week, King George sent messages of condolence to their relatives and obituaries were printed in the newspapers. Forced Down In Rough Water. Meantime, the NC planes had been undergoing vicissitudes at sea. Two of them had been forced down in rough water. The NO-- fortunately landed near an American destroyer. The NC-3- , under Commander Towers, had got into an Azores port after hours of navigating through heavy seas. Then the attention of the world was drawn back to Hawker and Mackenzie-Griev- e again. One week after their disappearance they turned up In England on board a small Danish boat, the Mary, out of that had miraculously Copenhagen, picked them up 1,200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland after they had been forced down by a clogged motor at the end of fourteen and hours of flying. Their welcome to England was an ovation of the sort that later flights have made the standard laurels of achievement in the air. The flight of the American naval planes in 1924 was not without forced landings and adventures of the lost But it remained for the Italian airman, Locatelll. who, in a plane of his own, elected to ac company the American fleet across the North Atlantic, to provide the aspect He was forced down near Iceland and given up for lost for three days. Then an American warship found him and brought him to port Two of the most spectacular of all air rescues took place in 1925. .One, that of Amundsen and Lincoln Ells worth, took place in the frozen 6eas at the top of the world, and victory over almost certain death in the wilwithout derness was accomplished aid from the outside until the end. so that it cannot perhaps, properly be called a rescue at all The other that of Commander John Rodgers and bis crew in their almost success ful flight across the Pacific to the Hawaiian islands, jvas. in sharp con trastset In tropic waters. There, for nine days, they fought against 1 fifty- -two one-hal- f round-the-worl- sea-rescu- d e First Oil-Electr- ic M WMi Weird Flight Gives Player Long Drive c Daring Flyers Rescued After Having Been Given Up for Lost. H famine and heat lack of water to drink and the threat of drowning. And in the end, like Amundsen and the Ellsworth, they accomplished main part of their rescue alone. Engines Failed. Amundsen and Ellsworth bad conceived the dramatic idea of flying to the North pole and back in a single day. With their crews, they left Kings Bay, Spltzbergen, on May 2t 1925, In two seaplanes equipped with skis, sleds and provisions that might be of some use In case of emergency, but that lessened the total hazard of the undertaking scarcely at all For what mattered primarily was whether engines and men r could stand the certain stresB ahead. The engines failed. After flying for nine hours Amundsen saw that there would not be enough fuel to complete the journey. The wind was against them. They could not go on. They were 140 miles from the pole and beyond hope of rescue. They landed, and Ellsworth's plane followed them to the surface of the ice field. Cracks of water opened up and separated the two parties. Ellsworths plane was so badly damaged that it was abandoned. Now the problem was to make the remain ing plane rise from the broken Ice field carrying a double load. For twenty-fou- r days those men worked at building an ice slide for a runway. Afterward they estimated that they bad shoveled 300 tons of ice. The foggy season was closing down on the Arctic. At last the day for the attempt to take off came. It was now or never. The six men got into the one plane, the machine roared down the track. One of two things was about to happen: they would rise, or they would go off the end of the runway they had built and be dashed to pieces on the rough field beyond. They rose. Once in the air the plane headed south and got into the open sea. There they landed near a harbor and taxied triumphantly up to a small sealing boat that carried them back to the land where wireless and cable flashed the news to the globes four quarters that they had come through When Ruth Elder, accompanied by George Haldeman, set out In October, 1927, to give the American girl her place In the fierce white calcium' light that beats about the thrones of transatlantic aviators, the attempt ended in those same waters near the Azores that have received so many flyers. Having made a record flight over water 2,623 miles, further than from San Francisco to Honolulu a broken oil line forced them to desist at the end of twenty-eigh- t hours, and they landed near the tanker which carried them to Horta. Seattle, Wash. Heres a golf story sworn to by Eg (Egbert) Brix, former Washington foot- ball and field star, and attested by the man .he was playing, two club professionals, and four other persons. Brix, the story goes, drove off the third tee for the longest hole on the course, 405 yards. The ball sliced out of bounds, concrete hit the highway, bounced onto the top of a Ford, teetered on the cars top, rolled off under the rear wheel, where it was pinched in such a manner as to cause it to leap Into the air, fly across a ditch, and j land on the No. 3 green, which had been Brix objective, and roll to within four feet of the cup. ily and more recently it was owned by the Smoots, one of whom is now mayor of Alexandria. Colross lately has been battered by wind storms and has deteriorated to such an extent that several patriotic societies have called attention to it 140-Year-O- ld t, Virginia House to Be Rebuilt Alexandria, Va. Colross, historically famous old residence here, built by Jonathan Swift in 1790, has just been purchased by John R. Munn of New York City, who plans to have it torn down and reconstructed in Princeton, N. J. Swift built the bouse, originally named Belle Aire, while he was consul to Morocco and it was there" that his daughter was married to Gen. Robideau of France. George Washington frequently referred to Swift in his memoirs. Aire became the Later Belle property of the prominent Mason fam- - The cyclist had lost his way and had Inadvertently got on a private road. Suddenly he was confronted by a very stout and irate bailiff. Look here, young man, shouted the bailiff, you go back Youll not proceed except over my dead body Very good, replied the cyclist If its like that Ill go back. Ive done quite enough hill climbing for one day I London I 1 Tit-Bit- s. WOULD DO FOR TWO WINS HIGH HONOR Health Giving CBBasSUBES All Winter Long Marvelous Climate Good Hotels Tourist Camp Splendid Roads "Gorgeous Mono tain Views Tkevoonderful desert resort of the West Write Cree A Chsffey aim prfing CALIFORNIA Friend My, .youll have clothes enough for two brides. Modern Bride Well, maybe I can make them last for two bridegrooms then. Gates Ajar Here lies til Gabriel's trumpet peals, The bones of Shelby Sbarp. He dozed while holding a steering wheel And woke up bolding a harp. Lot of Us in That Fix Blinks Im Just exactly where 1 would be if Id bad money enough to have gone into the stock market Jinks Meaning just wbat? Blinks Well Im broke now and thats what I would still be if I bad put a lot of money In the stocks Pd picked if Td had the money. . Baren-drech- BEYOND HIM Impetuosity Tamed I have been moved to admiration of your torrential flow of eloquence. Thanks, said Senator Sorghum. But Im a little apprehensive that the torrential flow is going to be harnessed the same as water power. Mosquito Bitos HANFORDS Balsam of Myrrh Uod7 bmck for first bottle If Dot saltsd. Alldelen. Gone Are the Days Binks used to be a great sportsB. Kenneth Johnson, a member ol Is he recman, remarked Brown. this years graduating class at Yale, onciled to married life? who captured the annual award of the I think so, replied his friend. I Prix in architecture. This on him recently and found him called Fearing a Foul is the William Rutherford Mead Felashes through an old tennis sifting where The Movie Doctor Heres lowship, and it carries an annual cash ! racket Income of $1,500 for three years, with you do a little rough boxing with a residence and studio at the academy bear. When you get tired you can in Rome and an allowance for trans- stop it by going down for the count portation to and from Rome. It is of ten. The Star Fine I Are you sure the estimated to be worth about $8,000 bear can count up to ten? to the winner. de-Ro- Turtle Carries Boys Initials for 45 Years 7 Big Business - wonder why Maude claimed she when that rich was only twenty-fiv- e old mgn was courting her? Whitman, Mass. Some forty-fiv- e Oh, she made a liberal allowance L. L. a small boy, years ago Phlnney, for cash, 1 suppose." while playing near a small brook near his home in Plympton found a big BURNT OUT turtle basking in the sunlight He carved his initials on the shelL The other day, L. L. Phlnney, now chief of police here, revisited the scenes of his childhood. A big turtle was sunning itself. Examination revealed the inscription, still clear, L. L. P. 1884. Train in the United States When your Children Ciy been on fire, 1 think. Mother Oh, I hope not Why do you think so? Bobbie 1 heard daddy say Mr. Smith was a bnrnt out sport. Market Formulas In speculation we begin Old formulae to use. if you are fortunate, you win. If vou are not, you lose. O Eyes on the Gold Coast Blinks What is your wifes ambition? Jinks 1 think it is to be able to move iDto a neighborhood where the children dont have the same father for more than a year at a stretch. 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