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CURRENT EVENTS :
Reund-the-World Aviators
Abandon Flight Over
Pacific Ocean.
Cy EDWARD W. PICKAR
AVING “ho
‘n and a
and Brock
» appeals of relatives ar
nd abandoned their projected
ross the Pacific via the Mid
lands They
ke an early boa
States
annonneed they
t fo the
have their
This
United
mono!
and would
ane shipped home
was reached after a conference
expert
hy
cision
with aviation Tokyo
was
from
influenced cablegrums
America urging
attempt the Pac
} “ent a
father to think of them hef
the perilous attempt. Another
wae the Ia soline and oil on
The av
ies to he sent
filvere not to
dren message hegyl
re me
ck of gn
Midway islands intors had
weted supp!
American Navy
ral Moffett in Was
ad promised this, ea)
there hy
hut
department
ithority to use navy vessels in
supplies
for speed
he, Schlee and Bro
€ Ines!
7, the
3 rym
flown
eis? TY
ear Tokyo on Septen
were del
by government
as od
ad no other serious trouble
the hop
ran
was sweeping
forced
hence they
undertook from Shang
Tokyo They right
phoon
were
a the naval flying
The Jap:
ice annoyed them
rane:
ganrn nese
po
but
and
exceedingly
lee there
evervone ¢ was helpful
considerate
hundred miles off the New
15 the Kyle
up part of the wreckage of the plane
Old Glory in which Bertaud, Hill and
Payne undertook to cross the Atlantic
ndition of the gave
hope that the still
but the search for the three men
continued
arts of other planes were reported
sighted off the Corwall and
about C0 miles west of Halifax, N. 8
It was thought these might be from
the St. Raphael and Nungz plane
Miss Ruth Elder and George Halde.
man, w planned to fly from New
York to Paris, despite the recent dis-
asters, arrived at Roosevelt field with
their plane and said they would start
fis soOn g& the her was
found
steamer
The cc wreckage
tittle crew was
ive,
wns
const
esker's
io
weal
pro-
SIFTEEN started from De.
IF tron in the annual for the
Gordon Bennett trophy, and the De
trait, polited hy R. G. Hil, was de-
clared the winner. It came down at
Baxley, Ga., having traveled 720 miles
This was little more than half the dis.
tance record for the event, set by
lienaime of France in 1020, W. T.
Van Orman with the Goodyenr VI took
second place. All the balloons landed
safely,
balloons
race
m USTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
\ iritish foreign secretary, told the
League of Nations assembly flatly that
Great Britain would sign no more
security guarantee protocols because
England could no longer speak for the
dominions except as they aothorize in
specific cases. He thus revealed the
extent to which the component parts
of the British empire have assumed
independence. He admitted that the
dominions are empowered if they like
to make separate accords In the in
terest of preserving pence with other
powers, aud can aceept the arbitration
of The Hague court if they choose.
Suid Rir Austen:
“There is no government of the
cut as dels
but do YOu
his mn}
pa
tl
when 1 ha
plies that the
v " fe vig
ready to begin
American gove
such discus
ach
thie present
{ schedule, giv
4
the Fre
for
governmer
Americ
y lower rat
ing
i glderab es. but not
Himit of those granted to em
ith which France
ties, notably Germany.
hag cont
| WHETHER or not to call special
ongressional sessions was a prob
lem on which President Coolid
considerable
his
fons
be
ge spent
titre Immedis
Washington
have been urgi that
sing
deal
itels
return to Some per
the senate
with the
Demo
bath
legislation
called together to
Smith cages, and the
| rats
hou
Senator
Tilson,
pe
want a
#08 to
special session of
take
Curtis
up general
and Reg
Republican leaders of the
resents
tive houses,
Mr. Coolidge and both
that nothing would be accomplished
by calling the senators and repre
sentatives back to Washington In ad.
vance of the regular session in Decem.
ber, It was believed the
would accept this advice,
WwW L. MELLON, ehairman of the
« R
Republican state committee of
Pennsylvania, is said to have carried
to party leaders in Pittsburgh the
word that his uncle, the secretary of
the treasury, had selected Charles E.
Hughes as his fuvorite eandidate for
the Republican Presidentisl nomina.
tion. It was at once whispered about
that the Pennsylvania delegation of
0 would be instructed for Hughes and
the nt Secretary Mellon would he able to
dictate the nomination by the conven:
tion. It was assumed that New York's
91 votes would be for Hughes, and
Mellon was said to count on New ng
land we a certainty for his candidate.
That, with what he might garner from
other states, woul give Hughes a run.
ning start in the balloting Washing.
ton wus immensely interested in the
Yittshurgh story Secretury Mellon,
however, seemed rather displeased by
it and told interviewers that it wus too
early to make a decision on the mat
were consulted
adviced
President
ose
FEENL NE)
house cleaning—and may no The In
d 4
3 expressed
ii
Ket
apolis Times
editorially the opin intors
and
of their alleged relations with
Viatson Huldnson
becnuse
honesty is
demn
Gurley
politicians whose
tor Nobineonn nded a ret
and Editor torted
new and more speci
denied
the senator
suit.
fies)
hut operated
The place of
filled hy ti}
mb!
into a semi
linment pariiame
ig to he
national pene
of whic
prom
convocation
h was decreed hy King Alfonso
ut the #t of
The assembly Is expected to
tober 14 for the primary purpose
of advising the government on the
raft of n new constitution and other
matters of state, including the hudget.
The people will have no direct volee
in the selection of the assembly mem:
bers, all of whom are to be appointed
by the government Primo de Ri
vers has promised, however, to give
ull shades of public opinion a con:
sulting voice, excluding only politicians
of the old school, whom he
from their posts,
members hy
A on the At
MERICAN LEGION
the thousands were
tantic last week on thelr way to Paris
for the annual meeting which opened
September 10. And the Paris author!
ties spent the week “cleaning up” the
naughty resorts so the Yanks should
come to no harm. The landing of the
Logionnaires at Cherbourg was maried
by elaborate ceremonies, and plans
were made for a magnificent parade In
Puris on the opening day, despite the
fact that one or two radienl organiza.
tions of French service men refuved to
participate,
requ Primo de Rivera
meet on
ousted
EXT to his grandfatl
Ianiel Boone, Kit ¢
is perhaps the most wide-
of American pioneers
There has probably
been written a
sketches of Ir
pioneers
neve
hook of
ontiors
or
not include
which does
Carson in the roll of these
early American
volumes
heroes,
have beer
As lias
other lig
more
and many
written about Carson alone,
been the case with so many
ures prominent in taming the
a great mass of J«
known
dime
Amert
Cian w
has been the
about his life and the
have contributed their
truth Kit C
Too often th modest little
has been included in the general co
gory of Indiankilling, bu«
swashbucklers and the sens
of his career
played up as to cause most
of his
Hderness, pend
added io
novelisis
share to ms
nhout obhscur
the arson
is quiet,
kskin-cly
§
sational
aspects have been
Americans
to lose
tance
Fortunately
son,
sight historic impor
for the
the latest add
memory of Car
to the biograph-
fecal material about him has been the
plain, unvarnished story of his life
as given by Carson himself to one of
his closest friends some seventy years
ago. This is “Kit Carson's Own
of His Life” as it was dictated to Col.
and Mrs. D. C. Peters about 1856.57
and never before published until it
was brought to light by Miss Blanche
C. Grant of Taos, N. M,, who recently
edited It and published It at her own
expense,
The story of the manuscript, as
given In the book which Miss Grant
has published, Is an interesting one in
itself. The story is ga follows:
Col. DeWitt C Peters, surgeon,
UI. 8 A, was a close friend and ad-
mirer of Kit Carson, the great Taos
scout. He finally induced him to dic
tate his life mtory This was written
down, according to a son, Clinton Pe.
ters, during Carson's frequent visits
to the Peelers family, who were sta.
tioned at “some fort near Taos” prob.
ably Fort Union, and in the town of
Taos as well. In all probability most
of It was written down In the old adobe
house in Taos, now owned by the Ms.
rons and called the “Kit Carson house ™
on the street leading eastward from
the Plaza toward the mountains
The original manuscript js 1.r the
most part in the handwriting of Mrs.
Petera, though at times the colonel
helped with the writing, probably in
the year 1857, Colonel Peters then
wrote his long "Life and Adventures
of Kit Careon” which was published
in 1858 Carson never read the book
as a whole, but read enough 80 he is
sald to have remarked that Peters
“Inid It on a leetle too thick™
This early manuscript wars evidently
prized by the poet's pon, Theodore Peo
ters, who took it te Paris, France,
Here, after his death, about 1%07, hia
brother Clinton found the papers
among his brother's effects, while rume-
maging around In a eellar on Avenue
8t. Ouen, Montmartre. Clinton Peters
brought the manuscript back to New
York and had two copies made. The
original he sold to Edward BE Aver
for his famous Newberry library in
Chicago, 111. The coples came Into the
hands of Charles E. Camp of Berkeley,
ition
Story
{ f that are now a Ar
| one e followed the bulls
the beaver sliream
beaver on lake and
the
bind degre
rom the
ihe
cads through the
of ¢
the
f snd
paths to
glen
the Western
Ben
Put we that! were mountain men
Young Premont came over the
With 8 hard and weathered
Kearney lingled scross
With his troopers
Paes
fow
the waste
two-and-tws
They wor
For
Put
and
Bis share
and the plaine
the California
each
the 1» TE re
men ks
That Caren brosght therm there
Weil
For
When
helped
the
we
and
Under
to hold these hille of ours
I'nics, cliff and crae
famaht our fAght both
White,
the starry Sag;
Fed
And that's why I'm General Csraon
In my grand adobe house
With Injuns, there st the open door,
In the little old town of Taos
now
The six-foot braves come striding in
With scalping knife and gun
To tell their troubles to Father
And 1 not five fool one!
They all
Kit-
me friend, and thelr friend 1
Though I fought them hard and lone
For the Injun’s right In the Injun's way
And the white is mostly wrong
But the Injun‘s got to learn our
Bo I'll help him while 1 can
For the Injun‘s way is near its end.
Like the way of the mountain man
way
Williams
Chief
Gant with the Eastern band,
Cut face Bublette, Pegleg Emith
And Fitz of the Broken Hand
Bechwourth, the tall Crow
Whether you'ra
On the last uncharted trail,
Whether you're waiting here like me
With the rifle on the nail,
up and awar once more
Light one flare to the mountain men
And the joy of our reckless years
When we probed the heart of the wilder.
ness
Ahead of the pilonecrs,
Reaching the helghts with the Cimarron
The wifes with the grizgsly bear
Trapping the beaver for means to Jive,
Living as free as alr,
Dolag the work we were meant to do,
Though little we dreamed it then
Finding the rifts in the mountain wall
For the march of a million men?
“ARTHUR QUITERMAN.
how fh.»
bread:
wer bes
exXoe]
Carson ¥ SH
Frenc
Shunan (or Si
duel
unar}
of writer
especis
much sensational
There was
Drips a large
overbeari
| made a
{ that he
| was nearly all
beaten two or
{| for the Frenchmen he had bo
| to flog and, as for the Americar
would take a switch and switch
I did not like such talk from
man #0 I told him I was the
American in camp He
nothing but started for hi
mounted his horse, and made his
pearance in front of the camp. As soon
as I saw him I mounted my horse and
took the first arms I could get hold
of. which was a pistol, galloped up to
him and demanded of him if I was the
one he intended to shoot Our horces
(were) touching He said no, but at
the same time, drawing his gun so he
could have a fair shot at me I was
prepared and allowed him to draw hie
gun We both fired at the same time
all present saving but one report was
heard. I shot him through the arm and
hier ball peessed my head, cutting my
hair and the powder burning my eve
the muzzle of his gun being near my
head when he fired, During our stay
in camp we had no more bother with
this bully (of a) Frenchman
was
trout
any
worst
Thus does Carson dismiss this inci
dent, which many writers expand Into
pages of thrilling detail, nor does he
gay anything about the fact recorded
by reliable historians that Shunar
begped for his life after his first shot
failed and that Carson stayed his
hand when he had his enemy at his
mercy,
Not the least of the interest of thie
Calif, ar well as the permission from
Clinton Peters himself to publish the
story Thiz in turn passed to the
writer.
And It is just for the reason that
the book “reflects the real Carson™
that it Ix both historically important
and humanly Interesting. No matter
book, as the one authoritative life of
Kit Carson, lies not only in the care.
ful editing by Miss Grant and the no.
merous footnotes which supplement
the text, but also the reproductions of
old photographs never before pub.
lished and the contemparary account
of his death on May 23, 1868 at Fort
Lyon, Colo,
Fifty Miles on a Gallon
When the “perfect automobile”
comes it can travel 4% miles on one
gallon of gasoline. But If such a ma-
chine were made at the present time,
it would be so unsightly and so un-
comfortable that no one would ride
in it. However, new developments in
engineemaking and In fuel make it
likely that a car capable of traveling
50 miles on a gallon is on the way.
Man Is never satistied, If he was, he
would make no brogress.—Capper's
Weekly,
“Grew” This Armchair
John Krubsack of Embarrass, Wis.
has J‘grown” an armchair, By graft.
h Ing ‘and bending the limbs of 32 box
elder saplings, Krubsack trained the
trees to grow in the form of an arm-
chair. It took 11 years of patient ef.
fort, but the chair was sold for £4,000,
~Indianapolis News,
Prosperity engenders sloth, Livy.
In Praise of Youth
Orville Wright, praising Charles A.
Lindbergh at a dinner In Dayton,
said:
“Only a young man Id have
achieved this feat. For od iz brav.
er than age. It is more generous, too,
more honorable, Yes, it's better ail
around.”
The great airman smiled rabbher
sadly.
"The good don't really die Young”
he said, “They outgrow it”