HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-07-21, Page 2D PINEDO'S. FEAT
Italian Four Continent Flyer
Home -His Tale of
Adventure Told
" 1•Igw bong this weird race and
m<ineuverilig with the condors trusted,
I do trot know. They came and neut
reappeared and vairlshed again, until
I reached my immediate destination,
"Swarming about the speeding plane after the moat tlirtlding experience of
aver the Brazilian jungle, where a my lid
forced landing wouldhave meant al-
most certain death from starvation or
worse; a fiook:or black condors, the
greatest and swiftest of soaring birds, „imagine a vast, i9Alniitable territory
charged and Whealed, and charged
covered with dance wild viegetatien o1'
dark green calor with the branches of
huge trees eo closely intel'twlned that
no human eye. &e able to penetrate this
widespreading, fantastic web. There
is ria change of seoen•ery a5 far, as eye
5 en see; no sign of huaman Life tea bun,,
dreds of miles; the jungle below ap-
pears as one immense dark green oar-
pet. It is worse than the dreaded jun-
glee of Africa, the Dark Continent.
In the African, jungles • there are paths,
natural ways of travel, clearings and
small lakes, and the light can break
through Om openings, between 'the
trees and the tangle of 'vegetation.
The Brazilian jungles are impenetra-
ble,`lnacoesaible, with triple strata of
has now to islets to his complimentary
limentary vegetation -the grass and 'underbrush
If1ng; and to Premier Musrolttil' who
b,elo • covered bymedium-sized brush
was the fleet to emibraoe-him when he w,
lauded et the 'mouth of the Tib6i "the
andshrubs, again are surmoent-
at the completion of his 25,- ed by gigantic trees towering above
other day aithem. It is a tideless • ocean of
000 -mile air journey, which parried him I>ranelnes and leaves with its surface
t\5tite acres the Atr:rintio. In a sign- above the round. The upper
id article he has contributed earlier 15O feet g? p
New York World,e tells us air is hot and stifling -one can feel the
to thehbreath. of the juugtle.
that it is net easy for him to elect d tat flying
mast dramatic moments'
be wentgerous
"Describing the jungles of Brazil es
they appear ear from overhead, the Italian
air -explorer writes: •
again, swooping: closer and c.cser in
unquenchable curiosity, and.,goodness.
knows what wild instinct of outraged
sovcrei:gnty. In momentary dread
Iest one of the huge creatures, with its
wing -spread of ten as' twelve •feet,
Should foul the propeller and 'bring
down' the plane, de Pinedo resorted to
all the maneuvers and trick stunts in
his gamut of airmanship• Diving, soar-
ing, speeding, looping, tumbling, he
sought desperately IO shahs off this
terrifying pursuit, only to and himself
still the quarry of an eveseaugmen'ting
flock of the great binds of prey.' Sieh
is the weirdest of the many adventures
that the great Italian long-distance ace
IMPOSING MILITARY PAGEANT
• The "Blues" carrying off the historic drums after His Majesty presented
to the Hcuseh•cd•d Vavale•y on the Horse Guards Parade.
new standards .,,.--
all around us. And yet, my State officials were gathered. De
one rhoing ' Piuedo;_.dais navigating officer, Capt.
one thought in•those moments was not � ,
esoape from the tempest, but from the i Carlo Delprete, and the mechanic,
Jungle whieh lay below ue, dark and i Vitalo Zaoohetti, were taken off in a
-rent as a graveyard. The most vital ( motordaussoh, which carried them over
silent
task was to avoid a forced lauding,"not to the pier,
'th�"'win into dire c1'teering reached Its apex whin
to' be thrown down by d
'this. fatal web or -=tresis and vines,', the three aviators, standing in "the
living man ever dared to go, . stein of the Louneh, raised their arms
where sc v g in the Roman salute to'vard.thircrowd...
and whence no living• man would be "As eoon_as de Pinedo jumped light-
-able
ight
-able to return, .
1
r reaches almost to the iy from the launch onto the pier he
Tit jungle r 1 surrounded by. the- wildly excited
vicinity of, the city of Para: When, a i 1
KING FAUD'S'VISIT
GRACEFUL GESTURE
G s ypt's' King Helps :His Coun-
try by. His Visit to Buck-
ingham Palace
London, -King Pawl, who has left
Egypt on a round of state visits,
which appropriately 'have begun at
Buckingham Palace as the guest of
T.Cing George, is the .first king of
Egypt, anti this is,the first occasion
en which he has. left his native coun-
try since he succeeded his .' elder
brother, Hussein ICamei, in 1917, as
Sultan. under the then existing British
Prgtectol•ate. five years later. the
British Government recognized the
sovereign independence of the.coun-
try and to celebrate the .altered Ra-
tional status, the Sultan proclaimed
Egypt a kingdom and himself itsi first
Ismail Deposed.
His Majesty lies had a 11fe so ads
v tuious:as almost to. savor of fic-
tion. The youngest eon of the reck-
less Khedive Ismail Pasha, his early
boyhood was passed in an atmosphere
of ever recurrent crises, arising_ from
Ismail's wild extravagance and,, the
-resulting .complications with his for-
eign Creditors. Prince Faud was a
child of one when, in Giza Palace, the
brilliant Oriental reception was pre?,
pared by his father for the beautiful
,Empress Eugene of the Trench, who
had come. to Egypt to open the: Suez
Canal Nine :years later, the financial:
above this, wtlderness is fan more don Wl t was ancien ruin which had' beat considered inev-
t after hours of life -and -death sting itable for years, finally overwhelmed
hra h' an hla hazardods journey There than flight over the renal ocean. anylas PI antrcally cheer ug .t rrc•ng,
t There is no_piosslbiiity of laudiaig any- +Mirs.ealini was the first to shake the his ambitious and spendthrift: father.
across two hat pit h -d r There was, gle, we pea thed Para, a meant for r- I aviators' hands and to em race them, An . international commission of
he recalls; 'that pitch-dark night below where in the jungle, Ina case of 'the end of the worst part of our jour
emergency We must have landed nip'on Perilous Four- uttering wards of congratulation: His financial control had in 1876 been, im-
the Equator when I flew over the At -r yheya mannes the meet t e I example was followed by Cardinal Van- posed on Egypt, much againstIsmai s
lantic amid- the faa•rential iaLns. and the tree tops, and with perhaps not a ; hey a has ever uu3ei fatten and. Zr
hunter being- certainly not one white ; consider m nutelli; Archbishop of Ostia, wishes. The latter obstructed its phis
furious, ever-changing winds of a g - coma through, Though I cons 3
man, around for hundreds of. miles self something of a-p!hilos�ophetf and 1 "When the excitement had died peseta by every means within/
ing hurled
storm,. taxing the peril of be undoubtedly have :awn somewhat, de Pinede, Helmets power, until the commissioners ulti-
ing ng waves 2,000 Into the'blackbelow.'
mass of mea a landing would y know e rear a i •;then in is of don
meant death. � ger when 2 am high up in the air, I and 2aocii�etti `took sews ic°n an auto-' mately demanded kis deposition. Ho
there
gwasvh frig feat across
au And
' "Of course, I was fully conscious of ha t to have ao..ont rbisl+ed this mobile and started; out far Rome be. ,had no .alternative but to acquiesce,.
tiers was the Right a oggy am own 1,� deli et during the flight across the
was Pl my , 1 tweets two thick -linea of cheering,peo- and in 1878 he left Egypt, never to
Rocky When
tns, 'in a hidden
nebulous this , , S , g part of journey. le return, fakir with him his youngest
air when the peaks were hidden iu a Brasii.au jungles, though d had no time I you see, cue can lie'a ewe,tainet Lo i•
to think of the perils of the situation death; one can develop`stoicism At'Museolini'd express wish, the son, Prince Ahmed Feud, ;to share his
eeavy veil. of that_t and wcraa lseemed facing deutl ,
Lo anything like their full extent. I azards of an adventurous aviators preceded him to Rome to re- exits in Italy tits received an
so suddenly a fatal crash seemed amid the h The young prince ll
t perils was too busy piloting the machine, and; life; one eau ,even be recon " d to ceive the full eEeota of the ovations g 1
inevitable:' But these andOdl ss pet a mymind was fully ocou pied by the use l _prepared for them there. Italian education, and on reaching.
that punctuated in:rhis serial Odyssey are L the idea of a violent f Bra , t, to i manhood, entered the Itaifaneavairy
of the technical instruments and by Perish in the jungles of Brazil, to be "The Bean Tiess,em�pltasizea the
'or
dominated in iignant•2ot by the vision se vigilance, which is the first p. great technical importance of de College at' Turin, from' Which he pass -
the
ten._ vlgt eapased to the attacks of myriad of
of those indignant oagi to -surely duty and instinct of the pilot of an air- , gee- 7 Pinedo's flight. He set out to do some- ed in due course into the Italian
fire strangest and most picturesque Ltises afi mals find wilder savages in IIx •err ased'to prove that aviation Army. His military career was, how-
encounteiyet logged in the annals cf I -an But I knee on.j too well that r P• over, interrupted in 1895 by the.pass-
gg those impenetrable forests --''••this form
t �• th' t t rl ' etT t 'rem \ hat Lind
sent Egyptian dynasty, Was an'Alban-
ian and had been born in Kavalla.
Prince Fuad thus had the advantage
sof being. both a co -religionist and a
compatriot of the .Albanian Nation;
but the weight of German diplomacy
was against "him and after prolonged
negotiations a: Rhineland prince, Wil-
liam of Wied, was offered the Throne
with the title of Mpret of Albania.
Three months later - Abbas Hilmi,
who went to Constantinople, to dally
with the Gentians and the Turks, de-
finitely threw in his lot'with the .cen-
tral powers and was deposed from the
IKhedivate, simultaneously with the.
declaration of the British protectorate
over Egypt. Ho was suceeeded cin
Prince Fuad's elder :brother, Huss
Kamal, who reigned with the new
title/of Sultan until October, 1917.
'Attitude Vindicated.
During his 10 years' reign,. King
Fuad has seen his country pass
through many viatseitudes, The tra-
gic Egyptian rebellion of 1919 was a
great -setback .to the hopes which lee
entertained for hie country and again
In •192, the situation was once more
jeojardieed by. the assassination in
the streets of Chive of the British.Siae.
dal' et the Egyptian Army. In these
successive crises, 1515 Majesty's atti•
rude' at the time earned for him 'con-
siderable
onsiderable •unpopularity among Ills sub-
jects. But he has lieen.amply vindi-•
rated by the -gradual tint steady im
provelne'ht in the 'relations between
his country and. Great Britain,: . '
Happily, the present • Prime Minis
ter of Egypt, Sarwat Pasha, who is,
accompanying' His Majesty in. Lon-
don, was the head of the Egyptian
Government which; in 1922, conducted
with .Lord Allenby the negotiations
which led to -the' British declaration of
Egypt's independence. .But the de-
claration was only a partial solution
esf the Anglo-Egyptian problem. Its
consummation would be a- treatylof
alliance between the two countries,
which is as much desired in London
as 11; is in Cairo.
King Fund's visit to England at
this present; moment is both oppor-
tune and welcome,' and may have ire
portant diplomatic', results in the
course of the coming winter.
aviatlen Thus:
"We were flying over the. iuugles I "I tried to follow the course -of'rivers
-first the Paraguay Rivet, ad later the
0.
of exist is too painful to conte:•nplate.- rug o a: y r ereu , • •-
I have seldom en eyed such bergh and Chamberlin accomp!le?ted• ing of his sailed father in Naples; and
"I think v j lzas cion read I cucit e pitch of per he decided to settle in Egypt and
•t
There eves no river in sight where we a sound sleep as on the night when we took an official position at the ebur
Amazon, Bat this proved impractic- arrived in Para and knew that the fecttan that it was ho_stble, without I of his nephew, the Khedive Abbas
could make an emergency landing, the able for oily length of time. Some- any a ectal ransration, to fiy ever
atmospheric condition; were bed -Brazilian jungles were not below but 1' p1 +I:Iiiml"II., devoting himself to the pro-
times the giant.eorpats obscured or - ace!:ars_ a ble degree
oauutries with
cloud, hanging below us as if they had quite concea:I•ed t. river, Sometimes behind us. a reasonable degree of safety: This he ,motion-oC better educational facilities
been caught In the trees and clouds the course of the stream was too The Home -Coming pfor his mately illiterate countrymen:
has triumphantly shown, Use nerve It \vee ,Iris rotative that led to the
above us, in fantastic •formations, se- croaked to, be followed by airplane, "0f the flyer's triumphant home -corn- papers declare, despite the two lucid-
eentualing in a peculiar way the and so the cour.ee wase determined by ing in his plane, the 'Santa Maria II, outs which twice threatened to cut his founding, in. 1908, of the Egyptian
University in Cairo, anti a few years
later be threw his, whole influence in.
to a movement toward the establish-
ment of a School of Fine Arts in the
-country.
Candidate for Albanian Throne.
141eantiine he had maintained a
close connection with Italy; ' and
when, after the conclusion of the
Balkan Wars of 1913 the future of
Albania, witiclt ad ben m
the Turkish yoklte, cameeunderfreod frocon-
sideration, the Italian Government
put. forward. Prince Fuad's name as a
candidate id? the new Albanian
strange and forbidding cttarattcr or the compass, just as if we had been we are told in a Rome wireless from a flight alert." -Literary Digest.
the country. It was a re;ion which .above the Agent!: Ocan. New York 'Times' corespondent: _,
up white man. ever before had sear andt
"wo made steps to .small villages "De Phredo received ail enthusiastic t keeping the Secret.
which, I auppcae,,was unexplored even where llt,e inhabitants had never seen welcome front avast crowd of several
by the native Indians. It was a desol- r ¢nd in re' tl:ausands oY people who lilted I Mother' (to small daughter who is
ate prospect! an airplane; alo in Cace ea eco _ going 10 visit a school friend) -"Now,
1 Gurajaramirin, and in the cities of the beach al Ostia anti shouted and
"Suddenly, as if shot out of the mistManaos and Para. But even between waved their greetings when his air- do try to keep yourself clean olid get
ani clouds, came a flock of black birds, to the house tidy, . or, they'll wonder
speeding toward usgrowing bigger the cities there \were long stretches of iylane hove tato eight. what kind of a mother you've got"
i g jungle which we hart to cross. "The 'Santa 11Iaria II' nrrlved off
and bigger as they came. In a few , „On the way from Manaos to Para, Ostia punctually at the appointed time,
seconds
Darighter-"That's all right, Mums;
srconds they were so near that the the last and moat severe test of my ma- escorted by an escadrille of navy sea- .1 won't tall them. -Punch.
wings of the machine almcst struck chine, another perilous adventure be- planes. Its appearance immediately
them. They were condors, the kings fell erhen we passed throudh a aro-' gave ries to truly remarkable demon -
of the air above the Brazilian Forest pica] hurricane right over the jungle strations of enthusiasm on the past of
wastedescribed. d
•,Tips condors, as every one knows,
Hereditary Job.
First Burglar's Wife-"Wot's 'r
little laid goln' to ba,4when he grows
stretches
Prince of Wales
Happy on Ranch
His Place tri - Alberta Being
Prepared for His
Visit
STANLEY BALDWIN I -IIS
-GUEST
A11 of "the Gang" Will Be on
, Hand to Greet Him: in
- A4igust
-High River -Out on the E. P. Ranolt
they ane getting ready for the home.
coming of Canada's most famous`
rancher -Edward, Prince of Wales.
They are putting in,bath tubs for
his Royal highness and his Wetin-
guishel vieitor, Stanley Baldwin, and
also building' an addi.t)ion an the ramclt
house so the Prinirne Minister and his
secretaries.. wont have to sit in bed-
room, dining room or kitchen when the
affairs Of the British Empire need
their attention, cc's
Tbey are gatng to get the Prince's
bead downout of the attic and set it
up 591', his princely and -personal .0 e,,
-1
and visitors won't have a- chanoelto
see ft and sit oait,-. The 'viditors;"
especially those from the States, look
upon the E. P.,.Rrait0h' house as 'a
sort of royal museum, and the Prince's
ranch manager, W. L. Carlyle, and his
,wife have: been eictrentely kindhu:the
thousands who. have wanted to see
"the Prince's things" and talk about
Wm.
Mash Notes from Everywhere
"They pet can't deem to believe
that he is human," says Mrs. Carlyle.
"Most of the tourists we show over the
ranch want to come. -into his bedroom
here, and nine out of tea` of these wh0.
have been here sit down on the edge
et the bed there and say, more to
themselves than to to think,
this Is where the Prince of Wales
hue slept!' Of course, I don't tell
then that the bed he usea,is packed.
away in the attic.
Also with the news of the Princes
visit to his ranch.. are arriving daily
all kinds of letters• froth the prgvimo°
and the States, some of them from
"buts," but most of then "mash
notes" from girls who seen to get
some sort of pleasure out of writing
to the Prince of Wales, even though
they don't stand a single chance of
getting an answer,
These notes came in plain
open, fancy envelopes, blue ones, pink
ones, scented and unscented, bearing
Pest -marks from eviy State in the
Dillon and every province in Canada,
making a var!etof requests ranging
from a dance to 1 dowry; suggesting
even -that the laws .of England bo
changed to allow him to marry a girl
fro mthis side of the Atlantic -one
who could melte him really bappy.
And of course the writer LSaves no
doubt as to the identity of the girl
who is the bne to lead him to the altar
and happiness.
Where He's "One of the Gang"
The Awakening!
In the winter
When 'twee fine;
He sure loolc'd
The manly itin'l
With coon Coat
5' big 'ad full ,
And lils Heavy
Wintry wool.
Summer's here
I'm gonna cry
Las"winter's shelk's
A delicate guy!
In bathing suit:
He's scltawny thin;
How did I ever
Fall forhim!
-Madge Beverly
Over 16,000 -Visitors to
Waterton Lakes
I ha\ethe crow Waterton Lakes natonal' park, in
Rain "After twice circling over Ostia. the up?" throne. There was much to recom, southern Alberta, has developed
belong to the fancily oE vulture. , and i Some "arta Maria II" smoothly alighted on Second Bureiai's Wife-"Gucsa he's mend lila selection. He was a Mos.
! S Mo• rapidly during recent years and each
season is assumng a more important
Place among Canada's great tourist
resorts. Over 10,000'persons visited
this pant last year,
•
reasee 4
are the largest of existing birds. They
measure four to five feet from beak
to t�g"Ll, It is a gruesome sight to tee
tlw,q. hugs birds sailing the air in
Rot`its, driven by hunger and hunting
Ict• food. They are bold, fierce, and KO
Strong that they attack and kill large
animas, such as sheep, goats, and
deer,
"Want 1' saw them corning nearer
to ti machine, I was not ttfruid of
being attacked, but of something
w'otse. I knew that if one of them
shmld fly Iwo the li prel:::, that
would not moray hili the bird but
might wreck or diabje the p::ane• 'i h s
would have meant simply a forced
landing upon the tree taps of the jun-
gle and a :estgood-by.
"I began to preform my most erratic
mar. enters in the air, making rupt•eme
efforts to dodge the Huge condors as
they circled anima the machine.
Svom tin ez, scare 1 by the sound of the
motel., they would disperse in oil direc-
tions. But then again they would
wbeel shout and cc -me within a few
yard; of the pre p i ,:•. I increased the
epee•d of the airplane, which shot a-
head with its greatest Go. Bible celerity.
I flew higbcr and higher, and then
again lover, always followed by a
flock of condors or meeting new
flacks behind the clouds, then disap-
peered i.n Che mist,
"Itis difficult to imagine a Brazilian r •t of a Haat an the end goin' to toiler in the -.fingerprints of 'tem and his groat•grandfathet;
hurricane, for one who never saw it. 1t the sea in front
of ,Milch Mussolini and the highest his old man,"-Jutl`ge., hammed All, the founder of the Pre -
started -with a torrential rain -storm,
such as I never experienced before, r
not even when I flew across the Atlan-
tic in the midst of an equinoctial
storm. When I say it rained, I fail to
expc'ens the deluge character or this
downpour, Iliad the impression as if
the water poured down in solid
lateen's. Del Petro and Zacconi, my
mechanics, luho rode in the fuselage of
the plane, thought that stones were
€a;'ina. and that an irate g011 was bom-
barding us with the al telerY of the
aicj The cataracts descended, and for
long sscun +s I couldn't eze anything at
all.
"Do Pinedo never last control of the
tnac'•iln, bus he leis tis that 'now it
was msec+:,• a ele.ybal1 thrown up and
down by the whims ea the hurricane,
high up in the air or down un low
that it seemed net mare than thirty oro
forty'- feet cparated ue front the
ground and the dreaded jungle, with
the toes of dead laces tiling above the
branches of ths living ones like masts
of wrecked Air..: And he adds:
1 It wasn't a rugubar Hight any longor-
Up and down we want, in a vertical
zig-zzg line, unable to evade the clouds
whist sant Clown naw cataracts of
water, unable to defend out.salves
a against the lightning and thunderbolts
Still in Lead
Flying snapshot
WORLD'S FASTEST
of the 'British Havilland-Napier "Hound," 1': a fastest two•seator machine, undergoing a
REG'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes,
HOW MUCH DO YOU
THINK IT WOULD COST
TO BUY TWO OF THOSE
BIG CHALKLIT ECy6'S AN.
THAT ex3 OF CANDY AN'
THREE POUNDS OF THOSE
AN'TWENTY ALMOND
BARG AN' A HAN'FULL
OF THESE AN', TWO
POUNDS OF THEM AN'
A BOX OF -CARAMELS'
ABOUT
FIFTEEN
DOLLARS
I EETCHAI
4 17
11' WOULD COST
I,ss I',i
THANFWT,FF
DOLLARS-
Aft
The Prince is coming back here be-
cause it is the only place in the world
that is entirely his own to do with as,
lie wishes, because it'•s got into his
royal blood -MA stretch er brown
prairie in the southwestern hart of
A.iberta, flanked by creek and coulee,
lying within the shadow of the foot-
hills over which- "the Chinook wind
wafts Ifs warming bres,th."
Here the heli' to the English throne
call be "oars of the gang," as he ,himn-
self has said, hobnobbing with ranch-
ers and oc\rboyee
He will see his champion shorthorn
bull, the King of .the Fairies, and the
other shorthorns that came from: the
King's famousherd at Sandringham;
Lis horse's from the royal stud, with
Wiil Somers, thoroughbred ° stallion,
sent out in 1923 after winning several
English races; hie Shropshire sheep
from the Duke cf Westminster's es-
tate, and their Alberta bred offspring,
anal the hardy ponies which he intro-
ducetl into Canada from the Devon
moors,
Under Mr, Carlyle, who had a wide
experience on experimental farms be -
�.- fore taking charge of the E. P. Ranch,
the Prince is making money as 'e
farmer and breeder of Live stock He _
has won prizes- with his cattle at vale-
c s fairs in western Canada and the
Untied States. lite has loaned 8-01n0
of his finest stack to the University of
Idaho for the improvement or live . 1,
stock in .tb¢i: State, ande,ltay been
"My. wife has persuaded.. me to go a highly impel+tart faeter.in raising
Lastly Made Up,
"I can make up my mind- in a mo-
ment t•iles Sharpe"
"No doubt, Mr. Sapp-lt; shouldn't
be much of a teak."
to church." "Well; -pleasant dreams, cattle, sheep and horse standards in
sea test. old chap."
a A Prospective,
IF 1 WAS `,
ONi=Y SURE 1D-\
eo RIGHT iN AN
Bu'-, GAUSS
GOT LESS THAN
DOLLARS;
western Canada,
®"
The El, P. Ranch leas belped to matte
Customer
Edward,
Prince of Wale `Popular in
Canada, and no\vlleee is, that fact mere
evident thanamong his neigbboys.
They are looking forward to his re-
turnearly in, August -the Prince's
comings, is gaits& an event here, ---and
when :the C.P.R. train pulls in Kith
the Prince most of them wail be oe
hand to give their neighbor a quiet..
but hearty greeting
One thing it oertalir-tit • ran'ct1ar
who didn't get around to the 11. P.
Ranch during the Prince's last visk.
until jua-t before his departure will
this time be on hand early, for the
words of the royal member of. data♦
High. River gang. upon ,that occnsiett
have become, a classic hereabouts:
"You're a hell of ' a neighbor!
Where have you been all this tint"
Poor Ma:
"Wh,at is leisure, mammal
"It's the apace time a" woman has
inwiliich slto can dib some other_k,Indt
or work," answered the mother: -:fie
Outlook; t