Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1925, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925. 2 e e e e——ee ACMILLAN READY ™ FOR ARCTI THP IS EXPERI o | dviators Use Ingenuity to | Make Schedule W hen Flies Tomorrow to Wiscas- Difficulties Arise. | [ set. From Where Expedi- : : T tion Leaves Saturday. BRAVE ALL W EATHI',RE | Cold Intense at High Al-| titudes and Wind Makes | Going Hard. R the Asa ROSTON Donald B off tomorrow June 16 MacMillan, who the fire ninth trip into the Arctie. was invited tod of honor farewell luncheon ziven by City Club, his hon Wedne ut. Comdr will log hon on of his ¥ 1o be the guest at the Boston where the explorer makes while in this city dav noon he will get away Charlestown navy vard in the “mphibian planes | used trip. His | whence | make its day. takes off there will be connection with the | Hill day celebration, includ- | speechies from the deck of the frizate Constitution. exploration steame the other two planes pedition, will sail for Wis- er the explorer himself 1 the Maine port Millan p th This is the second of a articles deseribing how Ui il pilots are rvisking their hours of dav. that “mails man o forad in all kinds of weather he on the polar Wi expedition the North on MacMillan tination will . enti will BY FREDERICK 1t NEFLY for etore at v cises i tomorrow Facilities for conveving persons as mail matter over the transcontinental air mail route are availabl even though they it is dou if @ human being clasied as air mail | and rushed the « \Cin | 34 hours’ continuons fligh be | aware of what it was vhen | he reached San Fra fore, with the permission of Maj Mason M. Patrick, chiet of the Air Service, an Army plane w otted for the flizht vere Millan pared to KNS poeared bearin in com truction world A Army ind pedition he While ten trip with the I The jonrney hegan , ton. D CLoon a clondy Sunday after in Moon ina De Haviland vacht. so desig ingq Dated because it had no provision for he | military mountings in the buck seat, Nedr. | to the delight and comfort of the pas | senzer. The plane took the air and to Neel |arrived at Mitchell Field. Mineola. At anets [Tong Island. = hours and 20 minutes ot later. Hazelhurst Field. the head quarters for the mail planes, is sep arated from Mitchell by a road The 110-zallon tank of the ship was filled to the top and we struck out on straight course 1o Bellefonte chief ¢ Afy e make | DHL from Washing Navy De Washington th naval planes xpedition 1o ould he made Navy after the carded it as folly ithout some whereibouts sald that If Amundsen found by the time th iched Etah, about Aug- | all his plans would be suh- 1 locati him 1| then been found, ! he would carry out exploring vast aveas described ufter discov- North Paole, BOWDOIN IN PORT. June ted auxiliary with her newiy 4 new coat of white paint in the sunlight, was an the h here today for ions for departure Nat with t acMillan-Navy Millan | Millan plin h Pe the N his wh ha said We supposed the right, but not havinz we were lackir [tion. A final | politan tower. Island in half. oclock, daylight ! Bellefonte was {looked back at the island {obscured by the mist and wondered if we'd ever see it in We bisected the city of Newark and then the first hills of the day’s trip put in appear | ance. They were wooded and here and there were sume pretty zood land ing field: uds began to et thick | the motor runs all right—whoop® tr | ship's flies upward and we into a half loop, dropping over on one wing and now we're in the position of the famous Barnum Horse. A v of the hand from the skipper we're going back. When the sudden reversement what we made The Kitt about 10 ed in fog and couldn’t be the re We'd been flving where we turned utes after reversir th ground at Mitehell skipper had a scowl on his face when asked what happened he plied: “Why, blankety blank, we | could make better ing. It ok us an hour miles and S Tit.e minutes 1o zet | We had| ur hours' fuel ahoard and ar that te of travel, if we zot to Bellefonte at all agzainst that terrific head wind, there would have been zhout a spoon The skipper never | JOHN M. VAN FLEET ~|fiitci b FALLS DEAD IN OFFICE |\ n e e ot was no important and we in the back seat thought I Custodian of Senate Building Succumbs While wise move had been idea of what the mail bovs Talking to Friends. attan 1 and awav. We until it was 24 miles T. Me 15 » schooner Ban eailn vo-ma in and eni chored in preg mer tic r ton schooner nose un the Sheep: port in o made the run from Sonth. minutes. The i Ralph .. chief Donald 3 hoard South Man radio operator spozrapher nd Geo- | ma Merrimac Liew MacMillan Reinartz made | for that was we were over Laton, tinny Mountains were miles ahead, half sub. but that ning. > point ot Rizz n for an_hour 1 Thirt the | equipment sever were down on The and | re talled vet hold Th rather t < now in th ded \ ago ire than vhere nd trip lead-in now reed y ve tine o fly wal a e three-w intenna v ver; The fir: ave up schedule Assistant | against when workin oni wvas born at thar instant Try New Route. The following morning we got into | the air at §:13 o' ck, kastern stand- | ird time, und decided to pick up the assistant custodian of the Senate OMice | now route out of New Brunswick. | L iding for the last six yeurs N. 1. Down Jamaica Bay and over vhile talking to friends in his| ofice | jgiver New York Buv we flew, and yesterday afternoon. Death wg saw the big city almost buried in f tributed to heart disease. 1AL 6 o'clock we were directly over e Nan Hieet guay conve the New Brunswick field. and then . (¢ custodian o and there officially began the trans ate Office b nd othe = ‘;"“ M | continental mail flight he fell over el The air is smooth and chilly e madic calls to mind that we have on oniy tane sror thin sleeveless sweater nnder Sum bt mer-weight alls. The fat coun law in rapidly disappear ind the ter T eine vain aseumes a rolling vpoded aspect received his he hroken red line on ‘he s | compass course with a iot of fizures meaninz absolutely nothinz) takes ’wlnml;:h aritan and Phillipshu N. IL. over which we see lyinz st | ahead the neat ranze of the K tinny Mountains., whose acquaintance | a ! we almost made the day before. The | eoul. Korea, amg 4 |captain gently pulls the ship up to| Margaret Ridenour. | 4,000 feet and we pass over. What a in this ecity and will | sight_these mountains shut out from hody tc Kenton, Ohio, [ the East! All idea of culture and re- | 1 services and inter- | finement establishing mountain \ the latter city ranges was en when this area John M. Van Fleet. 67 vears old 1 aid arrivec f Ohio. Mr. \ ent in that his clty, 10 Fleat Kenton ma the Senator \ dets the Build Willis t 1900 Senate Office Frank Fleet lived a enstodian o inz throush of Ohio. My R street He is survived Van Fleet Miss Edn mission: half sister The son ceompians tonight ment by a son Cleveland: a Van Fleet, who Dr. H. T ot daughter, A Mrs now the Fun I be for A More-Wear Mohair Get more wear besides char- acter and comfort, from one of these Sidney West special MOHAIR Suits 20.00 Patterns that please—a price us consistent as finest work- manship allows. Stripes and solid colors. Fitted with Capital Correctness at Sidney West's. idney West 14th and G Streets N. W. | sight, valley | zenc | that ran between two mountains les ING AGAINST GALE OVER MOUNTAIN RANGES AT NIGHT ENCE MAIL PILOTS TAKE AS Mitchell Field, Long Island, down in we just rugged, over the rof i gul- | eld in | pective of the was formed barren knobs leys and. we sccording from the just a mass of deep canyons of all. not to the rizh ight month ered ervice Dhetween New will open over tht the first of the month. and date a new field. S8 ac: ) replace the present one ns and blinker ied through them n wever Thi wdependent v continental mail it wonld be in the have 2 v per- <t , and Chica afforded <hip Turning little me invi wing mov p and has been dus nature inio 1 we be side on ize. W looks ellefor e conld mountain wnder the the head 90 desrees inviti ishing tion a . hts b nountaine Tanding will oper into rvice the r \ physical impossibil and fly the ! elapsed of pilot and plane do th of seven pilots and planes. Then we had no night flving equipment being unfamiliar with the ecided to fily as much as we could tanding interesied 1t's either a field space and hope it <omethir these tw choose th and so do the mail bo these jumbled and under Cirelinz around 3 bt train being pulled by W pushed by 1 Thes splendidly. while onr ne t has had just abon hefore zot it revolutions 4 minute nd the ai 30 miles ful it we are « there is a wind mountains. The rde instrnment meanin= and we begin to shiver entire Anding 34 ¥ jump out parachute happ of landing field »thing but hills lie | day a| At 940 we hoard the ship per with his torso stuffed in o the time ane into s will open 1 ronie with ne Lib hours ot 1,000 re. senger with coat v pair of heavy f under the jumper ) 10 4.000 feet and head into so the country the Kittatir successtully ds. F half hour we over h hills, void of green and the color mud. There isn't n of life we'd have wal dave helpy if we were fortunate in in terrible territors aeronautically speak to the south, however, th brizhtened with green splc it is of reach. T up another thousand more minntes of the ved and things b nd n sed, with a snak and out, and Pennsylvania-Oh try seems to transter imm rolling 1orrain T TEats into n country the plane slips into the outskirts of the 210 miles in @winutes we crinds dicator sk h it fast 1ZainsL U, followed needle inally speed next that v to 1 1 " PO ¥ country hes i this Cold Tntense feet. Tk just Our called conldn’t the ich the “ch Wanting to be prepared for any emer we start applauding violently rubbing our hands for tion and then take to =i loud voice, which nob A the st of the » in front. We pound the floor of the ship, <hakes the parachute. shaped like # cushion which we sit on becomes as hard ar AL 8:15 we + minute to look over the Sunbnry, nestled at for and on an island in this " emer geney field for the zo back to the calisthenics low-brow mountains §:40. Streams. highw roads all fo! v A snaky >thing running str. At S:45 the skipper shakes the con 1 ick t(the ship dual n trolled) and fr crouched o tion in the corkpit, seeking relief from the cold blast of the peller, we look up rce. He motions (the sign lang < the languaze of the air) that over the next range of moun tains Bellefonte. How does he Know He's never flown the course before. At 8:35 we pass over this range, the Nittanv ranee there all city in the A ircle is on the ground. The 1d A dive and a dash close to the zround to get the best landing position and also the wind direction and down go the wheels at 9 o'clock The plane crew assist the ship up to a little tower, like a railroad water tower. Four men get to work and we shiver out to the mnd. \We found that the pilot leavin, ew Brunswick sterday morning encountered the If we were numb, ump we hands upon mountains ver pass horder vinding the co tiately highw On and 100 he ith our the | - and hos stop fe ide of a river, fork is mail. We Lgain are Weather Unreliable. t the Cleveland field 1 part of the trip e Nndl Giatiby wmeanie View the subject from a met al position. The weather alws unreliable, they claim, and th forced to adm that the fiving New York over this will not be “soft They harder job than fivi at West because thev alw to maintain an altitu 2,000 feet, and if anything should h pen at might it means pulling chute. Flying this course during Winter has been difficult, but in < M vy Twe of Have e for two i Have Tored Mechanical failures are almost ligible Over the route we just ered they always fly low. right the tops of the hills and mountaine avold the west head wind assured them. however, that it very bumpy and he didn't want sink the new carburetor floats have the trip end up against an hospitable mountain = Out of Cleveland me headwind that we did and he | Ny i jions &8 10 feet altitu was 45 minutes late. The usual Ume |\ve're flying, things flash by and 1 for the New nswick to Bellefonte | ple stop and look at us. At high run is about 1 hour and 30 minutes. | jiydes we feel like we're and but we. with our heavy DeH. loaded | qiill and the Erowed oo nd down with a lot of junk. made it in|under our winga, This o The e} 2% inst the wind flving of the trip and it aer Iv known as “contour hedze hoppin We climb over Lorraine and Toledo : turn in a southwesteriyv diree ing sight f Lake Erie Fre 1.000 feet Bill. as our pilor ie kno thr 1out the Aijr ervice, sees fast Pullman train in the s direction as we us the ov but they Ic r is DeH. pi to K o is is flown never been p and route valley e n at 1:32 and alc Darinz Maneuver. We land there were the b 1<ked the superintendent fields were and he plenty of them: at knew where to find them foz. he said, they pick two of the numerons rive and fly right over fellow ‘came in a ing flown over a n | 1 ont that section water. 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Somethinz in distarrce looks like fog; na, it's w und Lake 2fichigan. ‘The pointed in that direction gin to climb. Smoke fron mills at Gary. cen Irl on. Over scene, the finest we've trip, with our vision nor feut off completel: |louds of smell G Eastern Ch skirts around the through 1he center {in the wes I through, mal the the seen on and e which we can r city of it 1t ithe sun ‘z visibility qifi Billy picks up the Chicago Canal flies divectly over it at 1,500 feet then the mail fleld a1 Marwood bre into view with is mammoth T." making four-wa gnap. We land ar 6:05 nun., ha flown 9 ho and 14 minutes covered a strip of territory th quires two mail pilots and tw planes to My Other Plane Arrives. We are not out with the mail that was loaded o New Brunswick at 9:3. morning. He is ri on and lands 40 Eastern | Central time. The pilot che | the office, hoards an drives into Chicago to hi fiwo days' flving for t | Between two large s hangars on a concreie base is another y with the propelier slowlv turning 14nd a mechanic a: th= throtile headlights projeci out from each er wing tip. A mazil truck drive: 1o the field. just in from mall is transferred ment hehind sche or ks i automobile we control stick and we dive an hour for the train from behin mpl week Rush Past Train will | « ding e o 1d wave and almost in line The in greet us. We o fast the train seems 10 be + siding. For mile before and 1 us the country is flai as a affording a continuous 1 fala. . At 322 ‘we tand Qhio. the first stop out d and 150 miles from e The field is an ex fore fuel and on the rvear cep the train with the not . peaple s e the mo on ns [N nding van level Lake cellent serves 1 by train At 3:32 of 0 the ! I port stoppir ind Tolodo b we take 1,000 feet and ther ride out the bumy the zround while has to stand cc controls ready f. 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The mail boy goes for him a half zen or £o whe diving and turning and scaring the to beinz bothered with|civilian to the exient that he lands hiurn, the arzument | Then, as the sun begins'io sink and that they wouldn't jump from | his little fun over, he climbs and the ship if they had a ‘chute He | heads into the West with Omaha throws the Liberty wide open and it | Nebr., at 11 o'clock, Central time. his purrs isfactorily The blocks are goal pulled awav from the wheels.| ¢ . ahead lies the verticle line of £ 2 " " 3 and from his position he | The third article in this series will appear tomorrow. henic geLs He being one of are opposed Tumsy furns in 1o shoots out. leavinz the zround after Little Chats About Your Health No. 1 No. 2 Next Tucsday ANNOUNCEMENT There are eertain id and which mean auently fznored or lost the h t aitainment of of medicines prescriptions important than that with the Nor is it within the province of ush the sale of proprietary pr ur elf-diaznosis and user. 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