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"There was gallantry in the courage of the Brava sailors in ven¬ 
turing matter-of-factly on a 3000-mile voyage in a small 
schooner , usually weakened in hull and masts by the batterings 
of nearly half a century at sea. 11 Above , such a vessel was ie 
"Ambrose Snow." Left , unloading her passengers at PrcvA.enre 
and was twenty-one days to Brava — record time. 
Cap’n Henry’s best days were spent as master of the 
old schooner Valkyrie in which he made fourteen cross¬ 
ings before she went down, November 5, 1926, some 900 
miles east of Bermuda. The Valkyrie was a two-masted 
schooner, a former whaler built at Boothbay, Maine, in 
1888^ of 104 net tons. In 1923, the Valkyrie, outward 
bound, ran into a northeast gale in the middle of the 
Gulf Stream. She was carrying thirty-two passengers 
and a general cargo, but 50 tons of it was thrown over¬ 
board at Captain Rose’s orders to lighten the vessel. The 
Valkyrie was hove to under a storm trysail for ten days, 
her cabins repeatedly flooded, and then the storm blew 
itself out, and the Valkyrie made Brava in 45 days. 
On April 9th, 1924, the Valkyrie and the Yukon, a 
former Gloucesterman, sailed from Brava together. They 
both made 36-day passages, arriving in Providence on 
May 13th, the Valkyrie landing her seven passengers a 
few hours ahead of those on board the Yukon. Five 
packets had arrived in Providence from Brava that 
spring, the Valkyrie, Yukon, William A. Graber, Claudia 
and Ambrose Snow. That was the high tide of the pack¬ 
ets, without question; five arrivals in two weeks, four 
arrivals in three days, three arrivals in a single day. 
The backers of the Yukon were far from satisfied that 
the Valkyrie, trim of hull despite her lack of paint and 
polish, was the faster vessel, in view of the narrow mar¬ 
gin of victory she held in that westward crossing. The 
two skippers, Rose and Costa, and Frank Silva, met at 
the Customs Office when they went to get their clearance 
papers and fell to arguing about the sailing merits of 
their respective schooners. Finally, Silva wagered 
Captain Costa $1000 the Valkyrie would beat the 
Yukon to Brava. The rival crews heard of this a id 
agreed to a bet of $500 to be settled when they 
were paid off at Brava, and even the passengers got 
the fever and took up a collection for a small 
wager. The two schooners and the William A. 
Graber, another ex-whaler, with Captain John 
Sousa in command, sailed from Providence, October 
19th, 1924. The Valkyri'e arrived in the islands Novem¬ 
ber 13th and Captain Rose cabled Frank Silva, “We 
win. Beat the Yukon here. Made trip in 25 days.” 
Captain Rose immediately set about lining up freight 
and passengers for his next voyage in 1925 and he sailed 
from Providence on October 23rd with a passenger list 
of four and a crew of eleven men. The old schooner was 
forced to anchor in lower Narragansett Bay until a 
storm had blown itself out and it was not until the 26th 
that she ventured out into the Atlantic to begin h<‘r 
familiar 3600-mile voyage. The bold headlands of 
Block Island had little more than dropped below the 
horizon when a new gale swept down on the deeply 
laden little packet and for five days the Valkyrie brave! / 
tried to keep on her course under a jib, forestaysail and a 
storm trysail, with giant waves sweeping her deck. 
Then the jibboom was carried away, and her foremast 
cracked. Rose climbed the spar and tried desperately to 
secure the rigging, but his efforts were in vain. A short 
time later, the mainmast broke off at the deck, carrying 
the foremast overside with it. While the crew tried to 
chop away the raffle, two seamen were swept overboard 
to death. The survivors succeeded in freeing the dizzily 
rolling hulk of the wreckage, and then began thirty-five 
hours of work at the pumps, battling to keep afloat until 
some vessel came along to take them off. At the end of 
that time the British tanker Oyleric sighted the wallow¬ 
ing vessel and lowered a boat, which took off the packet’s 
people. They left her in the nick of time, saving only the 
clothes they wore, and Captain Rose had only his sex¬ 
tant and chronometer when he landed in New York. 
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was bound from New Bedford to Brava in mid- 
June, 1922. A green hand was at the wheel and 
Rose felt the schooner jibe suddenly while he 
was below in his cabin. He rushed on deck just 
in time to have the helmsman jibe her again 
and sweep him overboard. The young captain 
hung to the log line for a few minutes and then 
had to let go. It was dark and nobody on board 
seemed to know what to do, not even the mate, 
but they got the schooner hove to somehow. 
After two hours of swimming, Rose managed to 
reach his ship and was hauled on board. The 
Volante made St. Vincent in nineteen days 
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JEDFORD, 
MASS., JUNE 3, 1945. 
'MacArthur and the War Against Japan' 
Bypassing 60,000 Japs, 
Mac Arthur Sped 500 Miles 
Speaker 
(How General MacArthur 
seized the Admiralty Islands 
and then advanced his front 
almost 500 miles by capturing 
Hollandia and bypassing 60,000 
Japanese troops i§ described in 
the following article, final 
installment of a series con¬ 
densed from the book, “Mac- 
to furnish ample naval vessels and 
carrier-based air support. The 
two men saw eye to eye, and their 
personal meeting was to be of in¬ 
estimable value. 
MacArthur had plans prepared 
to “lift” not only an Army of 
50,000 men but as well a great city 
with its stores, garages, hospitals, 
m 
i 
I 
Arthur and the War Against power plants, fire departments, 
Japan,” by Frazier Hunt, 
famous war correspondent and 
intimate friend of General Mac¬ 
Arthur.) 
* * * 
By FRAZIER HUNT 
(Copyright, by Charles Scribner’s Sons) 
.-'•.OwW 
post office, and a hundred and one 
items of daily need. The troops 
would be gathered at Goodenough 
Island and at another great base. 
The armada would ljnove in three 
groups to the Admiralties, and, 
there at dawn of April 20 join and 
. purchased the Elle7i S. 
ava, where she swung at 
rorms, too unseaworthy to 
The Little's pumps were 
- she sank for good on the 
> Senna was bringing the 
ne 19th. 
refitting and rerigging the 
m Providence for Brava on 
a crew of nineteen and a 
hiding three women and six 
who, watching her depart, 
vas tender both in her bow 
>wn the bay with her pas- 
1 a Guernsey heifer bawling 
. A week before Christmas, 
the Manta was now thirty- 
i and unreported but “sup- 
Brava.” On February 12th, 
received a letter from the 
lad been sighted on January 
trd of the islands, sixty days 
It had been MacArthur’s orig- j openly head northwest. Japanese 
inal plan to make his next strike! reconnaissance planes and their 
at the Jap base at Hansa Bay, own intelligence agencies would 
J. L. GOLDBERG 
some 120 miles up the coast from 
the last American-Australian out¬ 
post at Said’or in New Guinea. 
Part way up the shore line from 
our base at Saidor stood Madang, 
probably discover the armada 
moving northwest and would de¬ 
cide it was headed for Palau. But 
there would be a quick cutback to 
the New Guinea coast, blissfully 
Freedom Sought 
For Refugees 
OSWEGO, N. Y., June 2 (AP)- 
mo tort road' Ted ** to^Hansa ° Bay*- j F oVce ^struck Hollandia " with the I Asserting that the Fort Ontario 
AiJriVu;. nrnbnhiv a fnrv nf p Kansas cvclnne. Ninety refugee shelter had “taken on the 
guarded by 5,500 Japanese troops, unprepared and suspecting. 
To the northwest,from Madang a At dawn on March 30 our Air 
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psychological aspect of a prison,” 
the Oswego Citizens Advisory 
fury of a Kansas cyclone. Ninety 
heavies, each carrying 52 clusters 
of fragmentation bombs, cut to , , _ 
pieces more than 100 Japanese I Confirmtte today asked President 
planes. The following day they Truman and Congress to ‘ give our 
struck again. On April 3 they let!quests their freedom. . 
loose a low-level attack of deadly The committee, a liaison group 
B-25s with their eight .50-caliber j formed at the request of the W ar 
ua ((UU1U „„ _guns. Photographs showed that Relocation Authority after esta- 
vance his line a scant 120 miles—! in the three attacks the Japs had ; blishment of the shelter last 
and still have to face initially! a total of 351 planes either de- August to house 984 European 
some„15,000 determined Japs. This I stroyed or rendered useless— an ^ | ^ugees as 
was not his type of strategy. 
Along this road was probably a 
| full enemy division which could 
be rushed to meet any attack in 
this area. Besides this, at Hansa 
Bay itself were some 10,000 to 
15,000 Japanese troops. 
This meant that if MacArthur 
by-passed Madang and struck at 
Hansa Bay he would at best ad- 
Mt 
Farther on to the northwest 
from Hansa Bay, up the Guinea 
coast, stood the great enemy base Force of 450 planes 
1_r<«_ 
duration guests, 
later actual count proved that, in- jm a d e these specific lecommenda 
eluding those shot down in com- tions in a memorial, 
bat, they had destroyed a Jap Air 
nrrlino 
tori 
“THE REFUGEES who would, 
except for their present peculiar 
circumstances, be eligible under 
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l»pe for the Manta and her 
Hi ary 24th, 1935, when the 
07 days. No survivors or 
a to this day. 
;.o trade to the islands during 
y of the Providence-Brava 
•>n coal schooner Charles L. 
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