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“You are right, Luckner. Go
ahead I And may the band ot the
Almighty be at your helm.”
1 knew now that there would be
no more otticlal Interference. The
true Maleta was now due to sail
COMMUNITY CHEST
In a day, so we mude ready to pul.
up anchor. Then a wireless came
would be
for a
from the admiralty:
by all
in
"Walt till the Deutschland makes
”
would take place
the early
the sum port.
Our giant merchant submarine,
mer.
the Deutschlund, was on her way
home from her famous transat
people
the lantic
cruise to America. In an
attempt Io cut her olT, the British
■Mount
welfare work carried
city
set a double watch. So the
the burden carried mostly by one hail
Seemlier would have to slip past
twice
as many cruisers and de
ci- iv, organizations
the
of the
ns otherwise. I still hoped
Uvron American
and its
stroyer,
that. If only detained a day or so,
we might yet be able to slip across
the Norlb sea ahead of the Maleta.
The work
caring for the
and those
But we lay there for three and a
n
incomplete
to the fact
funds half weeks, und the sml news came
that the real Muleta liad sidled and
re not
and the
finished. passed through the blockade. If
could
carried
in a
ef- we now attempted to use her mime
a search party hoarded us. the
manner
it
under and
|lg would he tip.
i ne
in
of one
composed
So we hurriedly examined Lloyd's
Register In the hope of finding an
members of different societies.
other Norwegian shl{> that might
take
carry on correspond to us. We picked out
culled the Carmoe. We had
all the
in
for 1929 one
no Idea where she was, but liofied
and the months of
and
1930.
she might he In some distant port
unbeknown to the wary British. It
Different
raising
$1,000
was a long chance, hut we could
later after the plans for the community think of nothing better. Now we
had to change our ship from the
are
Maleta to the Carmoe. I’alnt out
leads
cooperate, one name nnd substituting another
wur easy enough, but changing all
their assistance to the
chairman oar
ship’s papers was far more
who would
charge of the
community difficult. But with much use of
clu st
needed, and different business chemical eraser we finally accom
plished It, ami we had putters that
houses
that they
well
would pass If the visibility was not
too bright during the search. Then,
as m.Lch
$25 $50
right,
when we were all set again, we
them
the
run
amount.
picked up a copy of a Norwegian
commercial putter and found that
the real Curmoe had Just been
CLEAN UP DAY NEEDED
seized by the British and tuken to
for examination.
that spring is almost
it behooves public Kirkwall
Now, if you haven’t any luck,
spirited citizens
to make plans for a you must go and get some! All
have to do is know how to do
clean up
you
tlml, and you will be a great suc
cess
nt sea, or anywhere!
the rubbish of winter may
raked
So away with Lloyd's Register!
unsightly
or hauled
Let’s take life’s register and name
our sea eagle after the girl of my
Alleyways, vacant
even the sides
Surely she will bring us
wi ll
streets
cases are not pretty liearL
luck. So, out with Hie paint and
on
with
another new name—the
ights
the
organizations
mime of my sweetheart, Irma.
sponsored the
of the
In that name was concentrated
most of the heauly that 1 hud
a small
everyone.
In life. It symbolized strange
the
letting
go” or found
moments of beauty that had
crossed
my path during the most
lea I, expecting
house
clean
days 1 Imd so fur known.
was
the result
concerted It trying
seemed to he a lovely silken
thread that Imd run through the
was forthcoming.
years since that first voyage, when
Who will be the first
as a miserable cabin boy 1 sailed
Australia on that Russian tramp.
to step
and take the
of to Of
course, there was no such
recting the
this year?
name us Irma listed with Lloyd's,
and all any British officer would
to do would be to consult Ills
Like the birds who are building
nests, have
register and the Jig would be up.
I hud a premonition
are
for new
move But somehow
the name Irma would bring us
us hope that at
less this year that
through.
we applied eraser nnd Ink
will h ave the
residence in an
to When
our shipping papers und wrote
In the name of Irma—disaster.
Two erasures were too much. The
Ink blotted. If we should be stupid
DR. HARRY A. BROWN MARK EVERY GRAVE enough to take the British for
Memorials In granite and marble fools, then we ourselves would be
Eyesight Specialist
the real fools. Where was our luck
at reduced prices
Eyes tested,
fitted WRITE FOR PARTICULARS uow? Fate seemed to be against
us, but 1 hud no Intention of giv
Consultation free
Oregon Monument Works ing up. Calling the carpenter, 1
Watch date of
Fourth and Main St., Hillsboro said:
"Come on, Chips, I am going to
make you admiral of the day. Get
the ax und smash all the bull’s-
eyes, windows, portholes, and every
thing.”
Poor Chips! He thought I had
gone off my head, but he obeyed.
The smashing began.
“Bo's’n.” I culled, “half a d
It
well if plans
community chest
drive, sponsored
organizations
this city,
during
part of
Few
living in Vernonia realize
:
of
on in this
last
fall and winter,
o
and with
assistance
Lumber company
employ
ees.
of
sick,
in
ed, was
due
that
wi
available,
work was half
This work
have been
on
more
licieiit
had been better organized,
head,
charge
committee
of
It will
approximately $1,000 to
necessary charity work
Vernonia
January
February of
methods of
this
can
be decided
chest
drawn up.
i
of every lodge would gladly
lending
general
be in
drive. A
in this city is
realize
could
afford to donate
as
to
which if handled
would
ave
in
long
twice that
Now
here
of Vernonia
pring
day, when back yards that have ac
cumulated
be
and
.ill
material burned
away.
lots, and
of
traveled
in some
to behold. In
past local
have
cleaning up
town with
good results and at
expense to
Last year
experiment of “
it
at
each
occupant to
his
yard
adopted, with
that no
action
local organization this
'ear
forth
responsibility
di
clean up
many renters
into. Let
looking
former
dition.
vlderl you »an under a ru< ky star
with a guardian angel at the helm.
“Hard aport?
We’ll rbk It,
boys.” With a full spread of sail,
we turned straight west.
Now. a tacking ship heels over
The more sail you carry the more
she lays over, and the less water
she draws. That was our chance.
The mines were nearly always
planted several feet under water,
just out of sight. Perhaps we could
>h-i.• rl ¿hi ovi i- them. Lifeboats
by
11
were lowered, and every man ad
Thomu»
justed his lifebelt. Before the
must, the sailors; aft, the captain.
But we all kept to the foreship.
men wTtli buckets of sea wiiler! We were lower aft than fore, and
Throw It around, dren -h every- if a mine went off it probably
would l»e ail. But our luck held
thing.”
And now the water tlew In the and we got through in safety.
Our course lay around the north
cabins. in the drawers of chests,
In the officers’ bunks, all over my ern end of Scotland, along the
Norwegian library, wuter every usuul shipping route from Norway
where. 1 took my shipping pupers to the Atlantic. To be sure, we
and put each page between sheets could have hugged Hie Norwegian
of wet blotting paper so that not coast, but the blockude was even
only the name of Irma and the tighter there. That was the nat
other entries we had changed were ural course tor one of our raiding
blotted, but every line.
I even armored cruisers to take, so, if
soused the log book In a bucket of «he were headed off by Beatty, she
could turn quickly into u neutral
water.
I lien I culled the carpenter again. Norwegian port and accept Intern*
We
“Now repulr everything you have inent i al her than capture.
smash, d. Chips. Nall everything.’’ didn't even keep to the middle of
lie hiimmered plunks over tli.* Hie Nori h sea, but with tiie idea
smashed portholes mid bull’s eyes, that our one path of safety lay
uud put the smushed chairs to right in.dcr John Bull’s nose, we
fallow« I iI k * coast of England and
gether us well us be could.
Now, if the Britishers came Scotland.
There were three lines of the
nliourd, he would say:
“By Joe, captain, you must have blockade. The iirst lay across the
had a bard blow to gel knocked North sea from the Scottish to the
Danish coast. We must run this
about like tliis.”
And 1 would growl, "Yes by J >e, one first.
The wind grew stronger. The
everything is drenched, even my
barometer fell.
Anyone on the
pupers.”
North
sen on the twenty third of
Two days later u southwest wind
sprung up. Tiie moment wus al December, 1U1G, will remember the
hand To go raiding In a sailing hurricane that came. Il wus one
shlii and that stilling ship with the of the worst storms of years. The
name of Irina painted on her bows wind was cyclonic in force, and
—all. It seemed more like a dream lushed the shallow North sea Into
tlmp like setting out on u real ad u cauldron. Running before it we
venture. It seemed as though all curried every foot of sail we dured,
every stitch except the royals and
the events of my life had been de
signed to converge to this one glo gallantsuils and smaller staysails.
We could take chances.
rious [mint. Our one hundred und
We sped right through the first
seventy-foot musts creaked. Our
nine thousand square feet of sail line of the hlockade without sight
ing
a ship and us though the whole
bellowed before the wind.
We
North sea were ours. Instead of
sailed north under a full spread.
going up, the barometer continued
to full. Louder roared the storms
CHAPTER III
nnd more and more mountainous
became the waves. We passed the
Running the British Blockade.
second line of the blockade. Still
AILS bellied and motor hum not a ship In sight.
ming, we parted the waves und
Midnight grew near, and still
left a path ot foam tn our wake. that wild heaven-sent hurricane
On deck we devoted all our spare kept up. We ran before it like a
time to more dress rehearsals.
frightened bird, fearliii^wu^ min
My boys took a particular relish ute that our sails ami i^^Mkvould
In putting me through the > “third go overboard. We lay on vre yards
of und scanned the horizon with our
degree,’’ us you call It. One
I
them played the part of a Brilisb glasses.
Half-past eleven! We
search officer.
were In the midst of the blockade
"Now, Captain, whut Is the name Hue. Where were the cruisers and
of your ship?” lie bellowed.
destroyers? All we could hear was
“She Is tiie Irma, and as good a the whistling of the wind and the
full-rigged ship as ever crossed tiie rushing of tiie water beneath our
North sea.”
bows. All we could see, the black
“Have you any brothers and sis ness of the night. Twelve o’clock
ters, Captain?”
and still no sign of the enemy.
“Oh, yes, a lot ot them. There Even our binnacle and compass
are olgu, lngm>..,g. and Oscar who lights were out, for nay ray of light
live In Hatfjelddulen. Duguuir mid might betrify us. By one o’clock
Christiun are seuinen like myself. we knew we hud passed Hie last
I.urs runs u salmon cannery in line.
British Columbia. Gustaf and Tor
Tiie British, warned by the fall
are lumbermen somewhere In Amer ing barometer, Imd taken their
ica. And then we have another guard ships to shelter in the lee of
brother, Eric, whom we've lost
the Islands. There wus nothing
track of.”
else for them to do in such a storm.
While trying to make the narrow Even If they suw u ship, it would
channel of Nordernus we hit a sand be hopeless to try to board her.
bank. Tiie ship creaked and the And if lieatty’s lleet had kept to
masts trembled, but somehow we sea, there would have been grave
pushed across—further proof that danger of tlielr running one an
the Scots of Glasgow still know other down. We couldn’t help re
ho-. to turn out a sturdy clipper calling the old saying that it is
ship.
indeed an III wind that blows no
At ten o’clock we passed the one any good.
Horns reef mid continued along the
I thought now that, under cover
Danish coast, At eight bells we oN darkness and with the aid of
hoped to reach the Skiigerruk, iin-l the storm, we might shorten our
then turn her west to give the voyage to the Atlantic by cutting
enemy the Impression that we lull through the channel between the
come from a Scandinavian port
Orkney islands and the Shetlands.
Shortly before daybreak, the wind I wus about to order the helm
shifted abruptly from southwest t > changed, when the hurricane shifted
due north. Against such a stiff abruptly from southwest to south-
breeze, we could make little head
easi. Tiie change came so sudden
way. On our right were the low ly that the twisting winds nearly
rocky fjords nnd reefs along the ripped our masts out by the roots.
coast of Rangkjoblng nnd Thlsted
Somehow, that seemed to be a
To the left were British mine fields. warning not to go through that
We didn’t dare run Into a Danish channel.
harbor for lear of being Interned.
A sailor believes tn signs. And
So we must either turn hnck or Something told me to take a more
take a chance on slipping through northerly course, nearer the Arctic
the mine Helds. It Is always possi Circle and the Faroes. Later, we
ble to sail through n mine field pro
loari'i d th'H the German suhma-
<
coumnr
Urnumta Eaglr
their
quarters to
least one
unkempt con
'
glasses
next visit
THURSDAY,
EAGLE, VERNONIA. OREGON___________
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♦ lo we
rfiie firemen had tried- to pass
through that channel and was never
seen again. The channel had re
cently been mined. But for that
sudden shift of the storm, we too
would tiuve shared the fate of the
Bremen. With sails still full spread,
we continued north, nearer and
nearer the Polar zone.
It grew
bitterly cold. The waves dashed
over us, nnd the wuter froze where
It fell. Our timber cargo was so
coated with lee that t.ot a stick ot
lumber could he seen. The deck
was like a skating rink, and the
ship's bow one huge cake of lee
Everything froze. Including the
sails. The ropes became coated
and would no longer run through
the blocks. We tried to thaw them
with oxygen tlame, hut they froze
again the moment the flume was re
moved. Unable to change the sails,
we were helpless.
To turn on the motor would only
make matters worse, because that
would curry us toward the pole
all the faster. We knew that un
less the hand ot God intervened
wit bln n few dur« we would ho
fiopefessly caugld fn the Polar pack
and probably never heard of ugain.
So long as the wind blew from
the south, we were sure to con
tinue on north. We were In the
region of eternal night now, except
for a few minutes eiti h day. The
MARCH
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sun rose at C.< ven and set'it half
past eleven. If we con tin v id thia
crazy, frozen voyage to th« North
noli- we would be smashed In the
Ice. by Joe.
Continued Next Week
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