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n T I" Journal Expedition At BOMJfN'FON' UNITE THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. ORISON Thursday, deckmrer r, 1020 Gateway (Ti A 10 santa .Mild "4 1 v. ' -L,r - s Vtlv J K'C&'-liW ..fk twll 3 ' it t,l --r.V. .v- .- , , , . rZZ'T&i.kK . , i 1 Tup Arrival of the rxprditlon at tnr north pole palace of Santa CUua Just after the plane waa mahrd in a terrible windstorm. Nrst below. Irft to rirht, i apUin and Mrs. Kleinsrhmldt and mrm bera of the expedition ready to utart by reindeer team for Santa land, the photon Imi showing i'ap tain and Mr. KlelnsrhmMt with a polar bear they killed with how and arrow and upcar, a walrus hilled for food and a (roup of taaimoa la thrir native coMume, and an Eski mo mother and her children flvhing IhroiiRh a holr in the Ire. Next below, left to right, Mr. Kifin-M-hmidt and Palunuk. who drove the reindeer team for the exnrdi tion, nith a polar bear he had just killrtl. Next below, Captain and Mm. Kleiivsehmidt and, at riffht, an tskimo family having a meal of fmrn erab? in their snow hut while Mrs. KlrinMhraidt (with rap) trlh them of the expedition. Below, the route followed by the expedition from New York to the point where the plane had to be abandoned. WESTERN CALENDAR ORDERED IN CHINA Shanghai IP Documents dated by Chinas o'.d style lunar calendar will not be valid after January 1, 1030, according to a mandate Is sued by the national (tovernment. It is l.oprd that if the govern ment ran comppl business houses to follow the "foreign atyle cilen dar,'' the general public will do so like ww. Previous efforts at mod emtring tlw calendar have met with scant success, and Chinese New Year was duly celebrated throughout the country tl.is year in spite of official prohibitions. Nearly half of all the telephones In Germany are ciamected with automatic exchanges. Journal Expedition Finds Home Of Santa (Continued from pace 1) arctic explorer, should fail in his quest and thereby shatter the faith of thousands of little children in the patron saint of Christmas, the fact that such an expedition was on its way into the treacherous northland has been kept a closely guarded se cret. In fact, since Cnptain Klein schmidt and his party left New York by airplane on October 15 the only word heard from him until Wednesday were short telegraphic bulletins telling of the progress of the flight as far as the outlying Hudson Bay Trading posts in nor thenr Canada. From there on, all was silence and. until Wednesday evening, grave fears were felt that the captain and his aides had been forced to land and had likely per ished in the frozen wastes beyond the Arctic circle. Then, as a bolf out of a clear sky, came news of tlw success of tlw ex peditionof the discovery of Santa in person and of his castle, the elves who assist him, and of his great toy shqp and store rooms for the thous ands of presents he prepares for good boys and girls each year. News of the discovery was brcunht to Salem by "Sourdough Charlie" Niemeyer, veteran guide and packer in the Arctic, who accompanied Captain Kleinschmidt as assistant to the pilot of the exploring plane and ftuide to the party on Its Jong trip by reindeer and dog sled after it had been forced to abandon the plane in a remote Eskimo settle ment. "Sourdough Charlie" like ise brought news of the near-disaster to the expedition and of its gallant battle to carry on into Santa Ci.ius land. In attempting to tike off for the dangerous flight over the treach erous mountains which circle San ta's polar home thj expedition plane crashed and was seriously damaged at Polaseruk, most northern of the Eskimo villages, with reali7atlon of its quest almost at hand, 'Sour dough Charlie" reported to the edi tor of the Capital Journal Wednes day evening. "In taking o.'f, the carriage of the p!ane hit a pocket or soft snow and the big ship veered sharply out of the runway we had smoothed off on the hard ice, hurdled off into the rough ice field, plunged forward on its nose and smashed the one remaining propeller we had," he shidj "Our first spare propeller had been used to replace one broken in a forced landing in a blizzard sever al hundred miles further. "The accident was particularly discouraging just at that time. Upon our arrival at Polasemk a wrinkled but kindly-faced old Eskimo woman had given Captain Klcinschmidt the information we had been -seeking from the natives all along our route. ' She was told that v.i.en she was younger and with another tribe she had often observed at a certain time of year, corresponding with our December 24, the great spirit driv ing a manificnt team of reindeer htl. above the snow-capped moun tains on his way south. She also described these mountains and the pas through which we wculd have to travel on our way north. "There, she told us. such a fierce wind blows that no Eskimo had ever been beyond it. Tl.is old Annok said it was the cave of a fierce spirit, Layluk, the north wind, greatly feared b7 the Eskimos, for i he has often frozen people to death. ' Sure that we were on the nsht track and confident tl.at we could penetrate the pass guarding the home of Santa by flying high over it. we made ready to set forth on the last lap of our aerial expedition in hish hopes. It was tl.en that the plane crashed and splintered the prep?! lor. "But it was too late to turn back, and to wait until we could send back by dog team for a new pro pellor and get the plane repaired we feared might delay us until we would be unable to fulfill our con tract with the Capital Journal to find Santa Claus and his Lome and get the news back to Salem before Christmas. Captain Kleinschmidt decided that we would push on with reindeer sleds and leave the plane at Polaseruk until our return. He also employed an Eskimo and his dog team to hasten to Nome. Alas for a new pron-jllcr. m as U l.ave the pUne In readiness fcr the trip home after our return from the Santaland. "Wc push on against what odds and encountering what adventures I will tell you later and after sev eral davs and nights of hardship and battle against the cruel ele ments and ferocious wolves reacned Santas castle and were greeted warmly by the old fellow hmisolf. 'T am still too tired to tell vou o all of cur adventures and of tne wonderful things we saw cn the wav, of our warm reception bv Santa Claus, and the things we found in his great castle. "All of that you will read about in a series of dispatches to the Cap- nai Journal written uy Captain Klcinschmidt, which I brought back with me and which will be printed every day in the Capital Journal. Here is tne big secretl "Santa Claus not only gave us a hearty greeting, showed and ex plained to us everything about him self and hid work, but also prom ised to come back with us to Salem for a visit before Christmas. "Y'ou cannot imagine how elated we were when on the day before tha intended for our departure on the slow sled trip back to Polaseruk we heard the hum of motors outside the castle and rushed to the win dows to see our plane settle down gently on Santa's icy landing field. "Our pilot climbed out of the cab in and explained that on the af ternoon before .while they were awaiting the return of the Eskimo messenger sent to Nome for a new propellor a relief plane sent out in search of our expedition after we sent out a distress call upon the occasion of our first plane mishap that was before our radio broad casting set had gone dead swooped down upon Polarcruk in search of by the relief plane the broken pro pellor was replaced and the ship started out after us at once. j "Now, all was in readiness for our return, bringing Santa back to Salem with us. We had secured all i of the Information we had set out j to get and. also. Santa p:rmitlrd us to take a let of moving picture1? of: himself, his castle, his helpers.' reindeer and the like. We were to I start early the following day. al- j though it would still be dark and wc would have only the li?ht of the ' moon to guide us. I "But during the nUht a terrible! wind storm arose. Our plane was ' torn from its moorina-, hurled across the Ice and smashed aiainst a small mountain of ice and snow, j We were stftnded. 1 "Except that he d:d not went to tire th?m out before their strenu ous Chrstmas Eve drive over the eniire world. Santa raid :e could have used his reindeer to r.ake the I trip home but that was lmDasi'e. 'Captain Klelnschmidt de-inm-cd me ta start cn ahead with the pictures and stories he he.d pre pared, and bring to Salem the news' of the discovery ant that of the flight of the expedition filer the plane had been completely wreeked. He sr.id the rest of the party with Santa Claus would follow as fast as possible. "I tcok a dog team ar.U pushed on ark-ad to Nrme nnrt on down the Alaskan peninsula until I finally found a litt.c fithms schooner lay ing in a sheuercd bay awcitm? the passing of a .storm before setting sail for Seattle. The schooner brought mc and my do-js and equipment cn to Seattle, where I purencsed an automobile, loaded the doas end the rest of 'he stuff; into it and hurried on to Salem " ' Thuiiuay tne Capital Journal was makmj preparations to organize a relief party to return to the north by airplane and meet Santa Claus. Captain Kleimchmidt and his par ty and ru;-.i back to Salem with Santa, r.t lea:, .so that he may be here in picnty of time to nv:t the kiddies and pet back to the north pole in time for his regular Christ- mas Eve ride. Friday the Capital Journal will p-jblish more about the discovery of Santn Claus and its plans to bring hi rUo Salem. 0 SET $73,000 FOR NEXT YEAR Washington The importance of the na:ic:i's parks as recreation centers was pointed out by the house appropriating committee when it reported to the house Thuralay the. annual supply bill ot the interior department and pro vided an increase for nation.il park sen-ire ever the last fiscal year and the budget estimates. The $8,070, 933 allotted cxeced:d the appropri ations for the current vear bv S474, S95 and the budget by $318,420. A part of the increase is to be used to permit the pirk sTvire to study ere;.-, proposed for lutisnal park.-; mid monument-! and prrp-vsed ch:.naes in boundaries of estab lished parss. A reduction v.-a, mad- to allot SiO.000 fcr tar c:m;ruc:ion of the Sinnot- minirvial rest at Crater lake national park. Oregon, in hon or of the memory of the late Nicho las J. Sinnott of Orezcn. who waft re; manv years chairman of the hc.is? lanir, cr-mmittee. The crmmitteo also set aside 200.000 for the purchase ot pri vately c.vn--l lani in the miional park, artd p"i;ued cut that the fis cal year 1931 wculd see for th first time in eifceUve operation the pro gram c.' five million dollar- a year for ccnstrue.xn of reads Jid t:ails in the nai.cr.U pr.-k.s. Allotment irr national p-irks lo c!ij2 tl.? fjllcw.n: Cra'rr Lake. Oregon. $73 0C0 Heinitr, Washington. COO. t:vc:it;:-five ih:ucand doKe.rs was ?e. aside to care for national monu n-.en;s. E'.ipiir Three men were bunt ed srveie.y by th? backfire from A firebox tf a southbound Southern Pacific train at Cruzattr. They W. L. flutter, fireman; F. J. Jost, fneinw, and C. C. Brctin, nil of Eugene