194 | John W. Warner IV Bea read one. San Francisco Chronicle. July the second. Says here one airship landed on Mount Tamalpais north of the city to acquire fresh water and drop off passengers and mail at around ten p.m. The witness was Mrs. Kathy Lamont, a local breeder of Huskies who sold one to the ships navigator. Then it sped off to the northeast and was sighted again in Lake Tahoe and Carson City. One of the letters in the mail sack was from Argentina addressed to a Robert Leroy Parker, dated only two days prior to the landing. Thats some quick post service. And it was from San Carlos de Bariloche, a town which is still the premier longtime German settlement, the one that transplanted their culture brick by brick and strudel by strudel. Wheat, cattle, and sheep farmers. Very little Spanish spoken there is what I remember when Dad and I visited in 1925. Lots of big bands, marches, flags, and beer halls. The one that looks like Munich? asked Alice. The report I read stated that theres a few lurid Nazis lurking about down there as we speak. Probably another decent fallback escape if old Adolph loses the war. Brava, said McMaster. Bernie pointed at her. Well done Alice! A while back I talked to an oldtimer general who was in the U.S. Army Observer Corps. On his death bed, he told me that the army wanted those newfangled airships for top secret military use only, but all the airship pilots, owners, and industrialists involved nixed the idea in 1901 or so. Sound familiar? They were all occultists like us, philosopher scientists and misfit mystics, bankers with a conscience, even. They wanted the technology for peaceful and public commercial use only, with little or no travel fees to boot. The word is they scattered to the wind. ..due south. Argentina anyone? He rustled papers. The Navy file here says none of the airships were commandeered by the U.S. Army or Navy, and no trace of any of them could ever be foundbut then airship sightings appeared in Argentina all of a sudden. Lots ofem. Documented in the papers, too. From my own research, I think that Etta Place was murdered in California years later under an assumed name, maybe she got too close to the Germans secret. I suspect Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis master Aleister Crowley was involved in all of this somehow, he was seen skulking around in the Ley Line-rich San Bernardino California area up to occultish activities. He was shadowed by the Secret Service and U.S. Army intelligence, and that means Butch and Sundance were in the mix. Ill bet he was whipping up some