Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1924, Page 8

—-{ Ee ?AGE EIGHT Che Caspet Daily Cridtine f . = <TH Thrilling Adv a OFTHE ‘ Round-the-World Flyers /|* AMERICA’S GREATEST TRIUMPH IN THE AIR IN BEING FIRST TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE LOBE | | . AYMdO BHM tABanton In all American history there has been no feat of dar- aviation enthusiast, has flown over many of the countries | } [ . ing, no single feat of adventurous achievement, no pio- of the globe, and has been a world traveler for many years. i ; neering undertaking to equal this. And despite the fact Most of his time’for the last seven years has been spent in it | ' that scores of writers in each of a score of countries, both the very countries over which the world aviators “made : 4 Bee i east and west of Suez, have stood with gaping mouths and their epoch making flight, including Siam, India, Indo- ; i | yg bulging eyes as they saw America’s Magellans of the air China, the Orient, the southern European nations, Burma, : kee go winging by and then endeavored to describe what they Arabia, Beloochistan, and Alaska and the Aleutians as i} 4 saw, and despite the fact that kings and statesmen and . well: : ip > vast throngs in many lands applauded them, the six World He is can “Ametican: Born Goleckdo and: a’ formed ‘ H $ Flyers proceeded quietly on their way, avoiding allt fan- newspaper man anda Care aG Ear artabeeesondent : : / fare of trumpets. Their one thought was to fly around the “Lowell Thomas has been living with the aviators, ee i al world first, and tell about it eile lleshane lone eae with them for thousands of miles, and taking down from oer) had agreed among bet NN be HE or ae panat go their lips the complete personal narrative of their hair- i Monica on the first lap of the flight that if they ever actual- — breadth escapes, their battles with arctic blizzards, flights ‘ i ly succeeded in girdling the world in their Douglas cruisers and lived to tell the tale they would tell the story jointly. through blinding rain and snow, encounters with tropic | as ; : monsoons, typhoons, and simoons, experiences with the | la lj So ape ywhere they went shay warded off all interviewers natives of the four continents over which they flew, the - 3 ATH CXOUSES OM AR Gime Mena Les: intimate Story of their personal sensations, reactions, and e But now that they have realized their dream and now opinions-—and last, but by no means leasts the romantic ‘ that the muse of history has written their names in the and fantastically humorous story of their triumphal tour [ clear blue above the names of all the other airmen of the. 3 of America, with its attendant conquests of hearts, a tour past, these six lieutenants—Lowell Smith and his col- thathas‘surely never been paralleled in the history.of this x i leagues, Leigh Wade, Eric Nelson, Leslie Arnold; Henry ; oranyotherland, * _ Wye e 4 Gages, ine h Smiling J a Harding—are engaged in Much ‘has been written, and in many languages, of how “| CORO RICO ele te be Se aaeie ays America’s airmen won through where the airmen of five ie They are doing this in collaboration with Lowell different countries failed. But the big human interest it ‘ Thomas, the author and explorer, who was the historian story which the public ig eager for and which hundreds of ‘ of the Palestine and Arabian campaigns and the discov- thousands of patriotic Americans have begged for in every [ erer of Col. Lawrence, the mystery man of the east, who city through which the boys have passed is the inside story built up an army of 200,000 Bedouins in the desert. As a from the lips of the World Flyers themselves, the intimate writer and lecturer Lowell Thomas has become world fa- tale of how they came to fly around the globe, how lines a mous, and more than 3,000,000 have listened to his tales of came in their faces and their hair turned gray under the % adventure. steal i whom they pet how oe oe what they thoupit, Lowell Thomas was selected especially by the war de- OW FREY CONUNGL CO Cail ya Cen) BOON WOUC ERECT a.) tf 4 partment to be the medium through which the flyers would of six attractive be are heroes, box they returned to 4 8 - tell their -stories, individually and collectively. He-was conquer the heart 0 ppocemeriean ain. ER ve Ee ‘ given this honor because of his superior qualifications for / tis an American Odyssey from real life more thrilling f § undertaking a task of this kind. His experiences have than anything Jules Verne ever wrote, more hair raising j j made himthe one man in the world best fitted to this work. than any dime novel, and more adventurous and romantic ; - Asanexplorer and world traveler his life has been devoted than the fabled:‘Odyssey of Ulysses, forthe reason that it f to adventurous undertakings, and he has supreme quali- is intimate and a true story of the most adventurous expe- fications of experience to qualify him in assisting Com- - dition since those earliest navigators, the Phoenicians, set a i mander Lowell Smith and his fellow navigators of the air forth across uncharted seas before the dawn of recorded | = in preparing a permanent human interest record of the history. It is‘a story:such as that set down in the chron- . ai % most adventurous episode since Columbus discovered —. . _ icles.of.the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, Frobisher, 4 ‘| America and Magellan sailed round the world. He isan ‘' Drake, Vasco.de Gama, and Affonso Albuquerque. 4 . eS TO APPEAR EXCLUSIVELY IN CASPER IN. Che Casper Daily Crihune | Don’t miss this vivid story, a graphic chronicle of the:one outstanding event since : * the war; an event that has aroused the enterest of -millions of the inhabitants of the : earth---the story of the first circumnavigation of the world by air.. This story will run daily in the Casper Daily Tribune starting soon. If you are among the very few who do not already read the Tribune, SUBSCRIBE NOW, so that you won’t miss a single chapter. ;