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Oil Forecast Continued mild Maximum, 38; Minimum, 23 L3si weea wet raia A Daily Average Circulation --vT'O 36TH YEAR, NO. 140. EDMONTON, ALBERTA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929 SINGLE COPY, 5 CENTS 32 PAGES Christian's Diary Tells Gripping Story of Awaited Caribou, None Came; Dying Leader Exhorted HORNBY, ADLARD, CHRISTIAN, IN THAT ORDER, FACE DEATH WITH Trio's Boys to 'Carry On' MAGNIFICENT COURAGE TT it Hornby, Dying, Evokes Admiration of Comrades i Aklavik, Northern Terminus Commercial Airways, Greets Red Armada; Mail Delivered Pounded Bones, Hides, Only Food; Document Shows Hope Never Lost; Hornby Wills Estate to Comrade I fMl Flieis Given. Enthusiastic Photographs Hornby Party On Page Two 11 India Not Ready For Revolution I AW fihio ESftS AW "Too Late" Found in Stoves-Handwriting Gets More Quavering Food Gone and Fruitless Search for More Makes Appetites Greater ANIMALS FINALLY COME NEAR LONE CABIN; MEN ARE TOO WEAKENED TO HUNT THEM Christian Said Hornby's Life Foundation on Which to Build His Own Lived Only Short While After That (World Copyright by Edmonton Journal, Toronto Star and London Daily Mail) The Journal is enabled to publish one of the most poignant stories of the Arctic in the diary of Edgar Christian, the 19-year-old explorer, who died with the other members of the ill-fated Hornby expedition in 1927. It is probably the starkest revelation of privation and death ever yielded by the treacherous wastes of the frozen North.

Young Christian, the son of Lieut. Col. W. F. Christian and Mrs.

Christian, accompanied his cousin, John Hornby, an experienced Arctic explorer, on an expedition across the barren lands in the North-West Territory to Chesterfield Inlet and Hudson Bay. Hornby was a member of a well-known Cheshire family, his father being the late Mr. A. N. Hornby, of Nantwich, famous as captain of the Lancashire County Cricket club.

They were joined by Harold Adlard, aged 28, the son of a Bloomsbury publisher. They reached the sanctuary in the late summer of 1926, and they were not heard of again until July 21 last year, when a patrol of the North-West Mounted Police, searching for the lost expedition, found the bodies of the three explorers who had settled in a log cabin which they had built at the junction of the Thelon and Hanbury rivers. It seems clear from the diary that Hornby died on April 16, 1927, Adlard on May 4, and Christian probably on June 1 or just afterwards. The diary, penned by a young man filled with the PIONEEBS LAST WORDS For two decades John Hornby, known as "The Hermit of the Barren Lands," had spent long intervals in the Arctic wastes, living off the country In the same manner as the natives and making valuable scientific observations. Three years ago.

during a trip to England, he was joined by Frfaar Christian nnrt a friend. E. C. Adlard, the party deciding upon another trip to the barrens, the country that Hornby loved daring for independence and a corn-so well. It was an expedition that was to be fraught with tragedy.

The plete breach with the British em-caribou failed to come, Hornby injured his leg, and was unable to forage pire. for food, and his two young companions, strangers to the north, although In fact, modern political parties are doing their utmost, were unable to secure sufficient provisions to keep life secretly pleased as they feel that together. Edgar Christian's diary, published today, pictures in dramatic Mahatma Gandhi's policy Is suicidal manner their losing fight against death. Photographs show John Hornby, bearded as he always was during his northern trips, and his cabin near the Junction of the Thelon and Hanbury rivers where the tragedy occurred. Other pictures of the ill-fated expedition will be found on page 2.

areains ana ambitions or conauerms youtn, is written wun the directness and simplicity of phrase such as imply a apu ueinunuuig uvuuit iuliici niun pvui io. artifice could add to the starkness of its pages. Life is reduced to its simplest terms, as in a rare glimpse through "the white radiance of and one feels that nature does not bandy words with those who dare to tread her forbidden domains. The diary opens on June 15, 1926, when Hornby and the two British Foo tha 11 LONDON, Dec. 28.

Results of football games played in the British Isles today: English league, first division: Birmingham Aston Villa 1. Bolton Wanderers Everton 0. Burnley Manchester City 2. Grimsby Town Sheffield United 1. Leeds United Arsenal 0.

Leicester City 1: Huddersfield Town 2. Liverpool Middlesbrough 2. Manchester United. Newcastle United 0. Sheffield Wednesday Portsmouth 1.

Sunderland Derby County 1. Westham United Blackburn Rovers 3. English League, Second Division Bradford City, Stoke City, 0. Bristol City, Notts County, 0. Cardiff Charlton 2.

MiHwall, Blackpool, 1. Nottingham Chelsea, 0. Oldham Bury, 0. Preston N.E., Reading, 1. Southampton, Barnsley, 0.

Swansea Town, Hull City, 0. Tottenham Hotspurs, 1 Bradford, 1. W. Bromwich Wolverhampton Wanderers, 3. Third Division, Northern Accringtou.

Stanley, Doncastcr Rovers, I. (abandoned). Crev Carlisle 2. Darlington, Hartlepoois 0. New Brighton, Barrow, 0.

Portvale. Halifax Town, 0. Rochdale, Lincoln 1. (Abandoned). Rotherham Tranmere 0.

Southpoit, Nelson, 0. South Shields. Chesterfield, 1. Stockport Wrexham, 1. York City, Wigan 0.

Third Division, Southern Bournemouth and Boscombe, Northampton 5. (abandoned) Brighton and Hove, Brktol 0. Fulham, Norwich City, 3. Luton Town, Exeter City, 4. MTthyr Town-Coventry (pootponed) Newport County Southend United (postponed).

Plymouth Argyle, Clapton 0. Queens Park Crystal 1. Swindon Town, Brentford, 2. Torquay United, Watford, 0. Walsall, Gillingham, 2.

Scottish League First Division Celtic, Morton, 1. Cowdenbeath, Queen's Park, 1. Dundee Hamilton 2. Falkirk, Dundee, 2. Hiberians, Rangers, 2.

Kilmarnock, Hearts, 1. Motherwell, Aberdeen, 1. Partlck Thistle, Ayr United, St. Johnstone, Alrdrieonians, 1. St.

Mirren, Clyde, 0. Second Division Albion Leigh Athletic, 1. Arbroath, Stenhousemuir, 1. Armadale, East Stirlingshire, 2. Brechin City, Raith Rovers, 3.

Dumbarton, Dunfermline 3. East Fife, Clydebank, 2. King's Park, Alloa, 0. Queen of South, Forfar 2. St.

Bernard's, Boness, 2. Third Lanark. Montrose, 2. Germany Names Hague Delegates Two Reichsbank Directors to Be Financial Experts on Reparations BERLIN, Dec. 28.

The delegation to the coming Hague conference on reparations will consist of four members of the cabinet, assisted by two members of the Reichsbank directorate as financial experts. The delegates selected by the cabinet today were Foreign Minister Curtis; Joseph Wirth, minister of the occupied areas; Minister Mol-denhauer, finance, and Robert Schmidt, minister of economics. Carl Melchoir and Dr. Vocke of the Reichsbank will be the experts. Dr.

H. Jslmar Schacht, head of the Reichsbank. will participate in the negotiations when so requested by the delegation. Issue Certificates Radio-Telegraphy OTTAWA, Dec. 28.

The radio branch of the department of marine and fisheries has awarded commercial certificates of proficiency in radio-telegraphy to the following candidates, examined during the month of November: S. C. Jackson, Victoria, B.C.; E. J. Mehlhoff.

Swift Current, Sask. Among those to receive amateur certificates were G. H. McKenzle, Biggar, S. M.

Dowson and F. G. Rice, both of North Battleford, Sask. LA(GH WITH OS Inquisitive Woman (eyeing catch): "Oh! Poor little fish." Annoyed Angler: "Well, madam, if he'd kept his mouth shut he wouldn't have got into trouble." Keception Upon A heir Arrival MEN TO TAKE REST After Two Weeks of Hard Flying, Objective Is Reached By Frederick B. Watt (Special to Edmonton Journal by wireless) AKLAVIK, N.W.T., Dec.

end for two red monoplanes of the Commercial Ann ml Ok achieved Friday at 1 12:35 p.m., when 4 the Lady Edmon ton and the Mills swept down on Aklavik, the northern terminus of tho Arctic air mail route and received B. Watt an enthusiastic reception from a large crowd of Whites, Indians and Eski- The landing marked the termination of a truly historical flight and saw the last sack of the five tons of mail that has cluttered up the post office at Fort McMurray, delivered to its destination. The aeroplanes will lay up here for the next two days to affect minor repairs and to give the pilots and mechanics a badly needed rest. At the end of the trail commenced a day's hop from Arctic Red River which came close to assuming the air of a joy ride. With the short distance to cover, and the end of the 1,800 mile aerial trail in sight, the hop-off was quiet, as the sky reflected the sun that refused to climb about the horizon.

Jumping across the' portage to Fort McPherson was a mere nothing, the hard day's do? trip being covered In twenty minutes. See Many Lakes Some thirty -five lakes in thirty miles, all allayed any fears of trouble in the event of forced landings. It was the first occasion on which ships had headed away from the Mackenzie river since leaving Fort Simpson. As though appreciating the monotony of the the weather cleared for the first time in four days. From 3,000 feet the sun itself wa almost in view, its reflection stretching along the skyline like a great red hot wire and tinting the few scatter ed clouds with soft shades of rose.

Ahead the upper vertebrae of the continent's backbone rose in rugged beauty with a continuous line of snow peaks and blue passes, Fort McPherson came in sight directly ahead. Tti was a tribute to May's navigation, In view of the fact that he was going over the ground for the first time. The flagship dipped immediately ta the Peel river which flows before thS fort. Greetings at Fort McPhersnn The Mills, keeping to the air, acknowledged the raising of the Union Jack below with a series of aerial curtesies. John Melven, assistanfi district manager of the Hudson's Bay company, who had been carried from Fort Good Hope was set ashore, as was the mail for the post.

Without loss of time the Lady Edmontorj again rose and the noses of the ships were pointed across the immense' stretch of the Mackenzie 'delta fof Aklavik and the achievement of more than two weeks' effort. Forty-five minutes later, with the) banks above the river black with parka-clad figures, the aeroplanes came to earth with a roar of combined excelleration and relief through the massed whites and natives who immediately surrounded the machines. Bishop Geddes who is post master at Aklavik. drove a dog trahj at great speed to transport the preo (Continued on Page 5, Col. fl.) Daily Reminder Current Event Older Boys' Parliament meets council chamber at Parliament) Buildings.

rinmestle Mail Calgary: 6:20 a.m., dally: 1J dRlly except Sunday; 11:25 p.m. dall except Saturday Saskatoon: 10:20 p.m. dally xcep Saturday: 8 a.m. dally Winnipeg: 9:40 p.m. dally: 8:20 am.

(via Calgary): 9:40 p.m. dally: 10:20 pm dally and Saturday. Vancouver: 6:20 am dally (via Cal-iarv); 10:30 pjn dally (via Jasper). Grande Prairie and Pc River: pm Mondays and Thursdays. A tt points: 8:30 a.m.

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MaU closes Deo. M. g1 1 The Journal has obtained exclusive Edmonton rights to Edgar Christian's diary, describing the Hornby expedition's trip Into the barren lands, which ended in all three men dying from starvation. On Page 2 will be found a continuation of the diary, also pictures showing Hornby and his associates. Christian and Adlard; the cabin at the junction of the Thelon and Hanbury rivers; graves of the three adventurers; the stove in which R.C.M.P.

officers found Christian's diary, and a map indicating the country which they hoped to traverse In securing scientific data. London Papers Predict Indian Congress to Fail Extreme Attitude Likely to Alienate Moderate Followers of Gandhi LONDON, Dec. 28. London newspapers today give the utmost prominence of the news from the Indian Nationalist congress working committee of the resolution favoring complete Indian independence, sponsored by Mahatma Gandhi and including declarations for boycott of the legislatures and campaigns of civil disobedience, The news is received In London with mixed feelings. Generally, however, there Is a feeling that the congress, If it adopts a too extreme atMtude at the plenary sessions onenUig tomorrow, will Hose a lot of its own supporters.

The Dally News today points out that the congress is not now fighting British but is fighting "the facts of history, geography and race things for which no human being is responsible, which may be unfortunate, but which cannot be ignored or changed by a resolution as though it were a magic spell." The Daily Mirror says: "The news from India implies our mastery is over. For the sake of ourselves and perhaps mote for the sake of millions of natives, we hope it is not true." The Conservative Morning Post says Gandhi's resolution is open and insolent treason, aad a breach of the Indian penal code. "If the Indian government has any sense of pride and prestige it will put the ringleaders on trial," the Post adds. Paris Newspapers Greet Government Victory in House PARIS, Dec. 28.

Paris newspapers greeted the victory of the government in the chamber of deputies yesterday with enthusiasm. On the eve of important International conferences the complete solidarity of parliament behind Premier Tardicu and M. Briand. minister of foreign affairs, is regarded as a hopeful sign. It is taken to indicate a new relaxation of the strained relations which have existed for some time between the government and opposition parties.

France Announces 1930 Naval Budget PARIS, Dec. 28. Prance's 1930 naval budget calls for the construction of one cruiser, six destroyers and six submarines. These projects were adopted by the chamber of deputies today. Weather Report Western provinces Fair and mild today and Sunday.

Barometer (1:30 p.m.) 27.28, steady. Sun rises Sunday set 4:30. Sun rises Monday seta :31. Pressure continues low to the northward over the greater part of the dominion. Mild In ell provinces and for the most part fair throughout the west.

For 24 hours to 10:45 a.m. Saturday: H. L. H. h.

Pt. Arthur. 28 20 Banff 27 Winnipeg 22 14 3ft The Pas ..18 4 Nelson 39 Mlnnedosa. 24 18 Gr. Forks 36 Quappelle 28 10 Pentlcton 48 Rrglna 28 8 Kamloops 34 Moose Jaw.

31 2 Vancouver. 43 Saskatoon 28 10 Victoria 47 Pr. Albert. 34 10 Toronto 38 Batt.leford. 32 14 Ottawa 38 8.

Current. 34 14 Montreal 38 Med. Hat 39 20 Quebec 34 Lethbrldge. 37 29 Halifax 42 Calgary 32 19 White River 16 Northern Temperatures For 24 hours to 9:10 a.m. Satur day: Hudson Hope 38 36 40 38 40 40 30 SB Grouard Slave Lake House Kiver Calling River Plamondon Lac La Blcbe Athabuka 38 42 20 25 24 25 30 Ft.

St. John Pouce Coupe Beaver Lodge Gd. Prairie. Spirit River. Falrvlcw.

Peace River. Plans of Gandhi Indian National Congress Represents Only Small Fraction of People (London Tlmes-Southam cable: copyright! LAHORE, Dec. 28. India is far from prepared for the revolutionary proposals of the Indian National congress, a body which represents only a small fraction of the population, especially those boycotting all parliaments, declining to pay taxes, refusing to attend the proposed round-table conference in London, and de- and must ultimately leade to disU lusionment and disaster. Then will come an opportunity for the moderates to forward British dominion status once more with better prospects of acceptance.

For the meantime nothing will happen in the way of non-payment of taxes and civil disobedience for the all-India congress committee has been authorized to use is discretion as to when Its decision is to be made effective. However, the declaration of independence as the ultimate politi cal goal has aroused a wave oi enthusiasm among Gandhi's followers, and although he has proclaimed the imperative necessity for the strictest preservation of law and order, observers fear that a revolutionary movement has been started which it will be difficult to suppress. Plan New Section Giving More Power To Great Airship R- 101 to Be Cut in Two; Will Be Biggest in World (London Tirr.es-Southum cable: coDyriihtl LONDON, Dec. 28. The greatest surgical feat in the history of aviation, that of cutting an airship in two and lengthening it will be performed by British airship constructors shortly.

R-101, the famous craft which has aroused so much controversy already in Britain, will have a new section inserted with gas bags giving half a million cubic feet of extra gas, thus increasing the airship's lifting capacity. The ship will be lengthened to such an extent that she will in her new form, exceed eight hundred feet, thus becoming easily the largest flying craft in the world. The cutting of the airship in two wU1 a slmPle operation, as she is DUui, in secuuns wun piu juuiia na easily opened and closed as couplers uu Ittiivvuy iaia R-101 will have thus 15 tons of extra lifting power and th's, it is hoped, will make her more likely to be a commercial success as a cargo and passenger carrier. Claims New Land For His Country Norwegian Airmen Make Discovery During Antarctic Exploring Trip OSLO. Norway, Dec.

28. Captain Rliser Larson, who is participating in an Antartie exploring expedition in the steamer Norwegia, reported to the newspaper Tldens Tegn, today that he and his fellow airman, Lieutenant L. Holm had discovered new land between Enderby land and Coatsland. The two airmen left the Norwegia in their aeroplane and alighted on the open ice near the land. From there they went ashore and raised the Norwegian flag, taking possession of it in the name of their country, according to international forms.

They then returned to the Norwegia which was waging one hundred miles away. Enderby land is located at the eastern extremity of the so-called Enderby Quadrant of Antarctica, In about 50 east. 65 south. Coatsland is located at the western edge of the Endrrby Quadrant at about 20 west, 75 south. WERE TO "CARRY ON" Man' to Missing Link Four Rum Runners Drown in Trying To Escape Arrest DETROIT, Dec.

28. Four members of the crews of three rum-running boats are believed to have been drowned last night in the Detroit river, into whose waters they plunged to escape arrest by customs border patrolmen. The other members of the crew were rescued from the river by the inspectors, who also seized the smugglers' boats with a cargo of liquor valued at more than $30,000. Zeppelin Voyage To Pole Postponed BERLIN, Dec. 28.

The Aeroarntic society has issued a statement that the projected North Pole expedition in the dirigible Graf Zeppelin has been called off for 1930 but that it is fully expected the flight will be made in 1931. Alberta Autoisls Numbering 100 To Tour Europe Montreal MONTREAL, Dec. 28 will be invaded next summer by motorists from Alberta, numbering more than 100 members and 30 automobiles. G. D.

"Drobey, White Star Line manager at Edmonton, will lead the procession and autombiles will be loaded aboard the S. S. Megantic. from Montreal, May 16. bound for France.

After disembarking at Harve, the Canadian automobilists will tour France in their machines and will return by the White Star liner to New York. They will be absent from Alberta four months in all and will have toured 17,000 miles by land and 6.000 miles by water. Fifteen other countries besides France will be visited by the touring Albertans. British Artists President Quits Richard Sickertt's Plan Help Young Members Voted Down to LONDON, Dec. 28 Richard Sickertt 69, who was the favorite pupil of James McNeil Whistler, has resigned the presidency of the Royal Society of British Artists.

The membership recently voted down his pet project of hanging pictures in the society's exhibitions by lot in order to give young artists a greater chance at recognition. Close friends of Sickertt said ne had been greatly hurt over the failure of his scheme and the critidsm to which it had ben subjected during the past year. I I kull of 'Peking Approach Scientists Claim Chinese Discovery Important in Human Evolution PEIPING, China, Dec. 28. The skull of the new "Peking man" recently discovered by a Chinese geologist working in quarries near Peiping, was shown publicly today for the first time at a special meeting of the Geological Survey of China.

The skull, scientists here say, is the most complete find of its kind in history, and they point to the fact that the entire brain case is intact which Is not the case In the Piltdown man and other discoveries. Professor Amadeus William Grabau, chief pale6ntologist of the Chinese geological survey, has expressed belief that the skull is the nearest approach to the so-called missing link that has yet been unearthed while Roy Chapman Andre rs, noted explorer, has expressed the opinion that the discovery is the most important in the whole of human evolution. Prince of Wales Joins Hunt Again British Heir Unable to Resist Call of Favorite Snort MELTON MOWBRAY, Dec. 28. The Prince of Wales came into the hunting field today for the first time in several months and rode with the Belvoir hounds.

He came over to Sandringham with his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, after a Christmas spent with King George and Queen Mary at a family reunion. "The call of hunt" apparently has been proved too strong for the prince after his quiet Christmas at Sandringham. It had been supposed that he had foresworn hunting to hounds as well as cross-country horse racing. Merit as Basis Of Appointments To Civil Service OTTAWA. Ont.

Dec. 28. Denial that the civil service federation of Canada stands for repudiation of the merit system In service appointments was made here today by V. C. Phelan, federation In taking Issue with statements he attributes to Fred Knowles, secretary of the amalgamated civil servants association.

Mr. Phelan declared that in direct contrast to the declaration of Mr. Knowles contained in a public letter of recent date "the political program of the amalagmated association is a thinly disguised effort to reintroduce politics into the civil service." The amalgamated association is an organization of governmetnal employes, mainly drawn from the western provinces. The federation is a like bodj'. but having its membership chiefly In young men set off with their canoe and provisions on the long paddle across Slave lake.

It was a beginning which excellently suited young Christian. "The sun was gently tanning me under the blue sky and I was thoroughly enjoying the life," he writes. He describes the hours of paddling, the pitching of camp on the islands, a feast of gulls' and ducks' eggs which they found such a welcome relief to the staple menu of bannock (oaten cake) and pemican (concentrated beef used in Arctic expeditions). There is no further entry until October 14, by which time the explorers have trekked from the lake down the Thelon river to the point where they decided to build a log cabin for the winter. It is clear that they hoped to shoot sufficient caribou (reindeer) and other animals to provide for their needs until the following spring, their intention being to store the meat by burying it in the earth.

Thus, Christian and his companions are concerned only with the collecting of food for their cache during the early part of the diary. But they do not have great luck in trapping and hunting. "Jack and Harold (runs the entry on Oct. 16) came back in the evening bringing another white fox alive, a good companion for our other little captive." Martens, weasels, ptarmigan, wolverine (carcajou, member of the wolf family), whiskey jack (Canadian jay), are caught in tho traps; but a herd of 30 caribou which the explorers sight gets' away without adding to the larder. Winter Cones The dreaded winter of the grim barren lands was heralded on the 25th when it began to snow hard.

'There was a terrific wind and Christian naively writes: "Being in all day was like Sunday in civilization." The time indoors is spent in sewing fur shoes and developing camera films. But, despite the rapidly falling temperature sometimes there were 20 degrees of frost during October it is not until Nov. 21 that Christian refers to the weather as "wintry." There is heavy snow and an icy Arctic wind is piling deep drifts upon the barrens. Travel has become difficult. There are tracks of caribou going south in front of the storm, and in the search for more meat the explorers sometimes plod 16 miles through the deep snow.

Adlard's luck in catching five trout is celebrated by a day's rest, and they discuss the absence of musk ox, which had been reported fairly numerous near this part of the river. Hornby, with his Arctic experience, must have felt some anxiety during those days of fruitless hunting, but there is no suggestion in the diary that he betrayed his fears to the youngsters. There are desultory entries of "no fish," "look for caribou but nothing," "bad and on November 27 Christian writes: "Jack dug up all the fish left 60 in all, which will last just two. weeks. And then, if we have no meat, we will be in a bad way." Cards Help Pass Time The explorers have now been away from civilization for five months.

They have discussed every topic, and one feels that the younger men, less tried in the philosophy of loneliness than their leader, are devising additional means for passing the long, quiet hours. On Nov 29 "Harold made a pack cards. It will helD to Dass the atmosphere by huddling together evening by, though I wish to goodness there was no time for cards." On Dec. 2 Hornsby and Adlard, determined to find caribou, set out with provisions for four days' hunting, but they return unsuccessful two days later. That night they must have discusted with some seriousness the diminishing food supply, for the leader, still concealing fears of the worst, has urged economy.

Dec. 5. "All took it easy to economize grub and rest. Now we must 'dn v' (i.e. getting up a 'fuggy' with every crevice of the cabin shut for warmth) and get hold of any grub we can without creating' a big appetite by hunting In short cold days." The thermometer shows 36 degrees of frost three days later They continue to set traps, and cut Into the frozen river for fish.

The cold Is dally becoming more Intense, and fierce winds sweep from the north, with 60 degrees of frost on Dec. 13. (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1).