Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 49

MAGAZINE SECTION —— he Sunday St [ Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. €., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1. 1928 Record Flight Above Clouds, Costing Life, Awaits World Stamp Balloon used by Capt. Gray on his flisht of March 9, 1927. \, : e 2 P 5 - . - CJ PT. HAWTHORNE C. GRAY (without hat) and others beside besket High in the clouds, yet miles below the 8-mile altitude mark i of balloon he used in high sltitude flight of March 9, 1927. reached by Capt. Gray. (.) CAPT. HAWTHORNE C. GRAY, who lost his life in s successful : B oo - Gray. sttempt 10 bresk the world's altitude record for any kind of sireraft. ¥ . i T ® millimeters, with an oxy at . . . . 1 o steadily on the ascent unti had the ground carefully on Capt. Gray. Daring Army Air Corps Balloonist, Is Tragic | | - 8 o s ek feet the harometric presus wou d be ¢ fichts and was fally 3 3 only 148 mete v D Figure in One of Most Mysterious Adventures in History s I 5 . | |\ in his rocord-breet- experts my; to sustatn Hie Without a3 ing flight auxiliary supply of ¢ % of Aviation—Query Which Comes From Scientists Is as | | : -~ e QO far. then. would it mot app to Exact Time of His Death—Could He Have Been Re. -t e e A e G died of oxygen want in his body & More snow at 3:13 o'clock 24.000 | sues: second. that his death occurred f tain and Re v1ved by prompt Actlon. if Found at Once on Return to | | . s feet up, and it might be remarked that | e (ine hetween the peak of his limit somewhere between | the snow at high altitudes rarely is of | giS TR (Tl v o the & and 30.0 tecause, he Earth’ ¢ N 3 the axact sort we know. It is a kind | .\ {nird. that some human ev | st . a wan wigh I ! of cloud crystallization. ordinarily 80, WG i’ could have been no one but the wre, ed oxvgen, which slikht as never to reach the xround. | o o e 42470 feet. | is pr 1 possidle, the pressure | 3 And zoon a hit of frony. It ls 3:17| po Pp0 S REECSSC lont with 3t low to = BY JAMES NEVIN MILLER. gitimate adjunct for the ascension wante recognition of a world record 9 pe o'clock. The altitude is 0 (eet informaiion, the Army i ? now he was—what? Dead? | for the valiant fiyer. But that is im- | pretty high up in the cloude—and & porriy afer str TRcased In & pow I'nconscious? At least that. | possible without the final decree of .3 rudN: station Lroadeasts something an-| ;' ,qt pumerous tests were o S <1 diver's capadle of w Iatter case, man's pulmotor | the K. A, 1 g s BETAMS oy T Ao on animals a " 3 g group of farmers sauntered | o (0 NUET Cote. FIANE W about| The difficully ia that there s no 5 “tly premonition. vou'll thie polat.at which wi e Breathed would de Jeisurely through a fieid some ypoo, poyrs had he been In the air, | precedent to cover the cireumstances . - ORS00y, AIR - DRGNS Wi due to pressure. For instance, a rat |} . 3 Iwewure avalh # milex from Fparta. Tenn. 4000 ung even had he been un | where a pilot lost his life during the wabibly, almost unintelligible. = Men | ooy piven & flight that followed . Sues. Another Mappening o glance upward, they | oo gy 4il that tme, a pulmotor | course of a world record flight. Thix 5 " s Are ravely in possession of their nor- | o AV'S pressure curve as closely |0 constantly @i sew a huge object loom a few hun- o Cau huled him through, just wideration aside, the Nations . faculties at extremely high alti | Fioeginle. Temperature was disre. essur ogen woul de @red feet above them in the darken- | 50 L0 LU nearly drowned or | nautical Aswociation ix distinetly | % . tudes, Small wonder, then, added 1o} deq and pure oxyaen was fed : as in calsson Sug besvens. A bailoon. perhaps, or oiep . 0n T within its rightx in itx bid, Every | & the fact that it was tervifically cold 8 his point the | & W furt X s the air or whi But what of that? Just But . those farmers passed | standard form of procedure hax heen 4 > . R that Capt. Gray's hands were shaky off and air was ot srother of these daredevil chaps, and p;. J i v be blamed wed, including the careful exami gt WS L Also, procisely at this time, the clock bell jar fr . or, w ng men could nione of their concern. REo they €on-| g, (hey knew not what was at stake of the instruments by the g : % in the balloon basket stops —due, no At abov T ! e heave heichts for many tinved homeward. no doubt thinking | Nor until the next morning did the u of Standards. The ascension " Aoubt, to the fact that & temperature | tha y me uncon . no more of an incident seemingly #0 50g know that Capt. Hawthorne . jiself was likewise aboveboard. Capt of 35 degrees helow Zero tends to con- | ihoreatter stopped hrvathing trivial in a day king toil ax dead. High up in a tree | Geay was duly lieensed by the contest i cal the ofl in most mechanisms. 1t of artificial respiration Yet today th thowe who ' h o basket come to rest, and | committes for the N. A AL an official X : Aid ot in the case of the ofictal haro of concern hunched np within it was the fiyer's | of thut body was on the field at the weaph wol use that instrument n the smalwart body, Nearby was the bl | takeoff, ind two members of the Army was cleaned entively of its ofl prior tng #nd indire of one loon itself with evidence that it had | A Corps followed the balloon vis to the fight, by an expert wateh ' wnse P Gray's e most myster F dies Aragged $tx traller ropes along the | airplane until it sonved completely out et maker ran out. The point is known 1o the world chen In ground for halt @ mile or wo of wiht. More than thut they weie Meantime, however. the radio chugs | aniy 3 minutes: more hat belioon wan Hawthorne ¢ At first the finders, farmers again, pot ruppoxed o do, : s ~ ) mercily on - But not for long. Comes | would ¢ht the Gray, dariog Ariny sy batloon- | eould not adentify the lifeless form-— | In the oMelal nnnals of the . A 1 Llhu";fl“”’i?” (." f"“‘u’:gfi‘ L 21, With a station telling something :‘.:f:" h":‘..r“|.<‘::\|.‘n:~.‘,.»n ist, already hold the American thnt is, until they found the aviator's | (he world-recognized yuling concernin " |'"" OF IFpianey, X A the led Piper, heard ut 30,000 foet. | tant to remark that ¢ high alitude ba revord of 24510 wame upon hix whirt Ve | wich fighis o o Gray's reads lower than that of the late Army a Pwo thousand more feet ship below geet, but ready and willing Uhat very | the police chief, snd he, though | thus While yet another station is heard W Tlernoon 1o st yer apother dizzy hidegored by the ek of telephone | “Crediting of Records.—A record Uit hax become warmer -2 de # dusk was fsiling on a hazy. |, y day, last November 4, a CXPEFL an upper air cond surely have known precisely how lon s supply presumably would | Yet ¥ wale. Our avk mark in the stupendous vastness of Doarny, sent word around of hin dis: | pade by aireraft of Claxs A - free bl r the o cording i 10 was inevitable that he would feel gy RMEY PRYUY nir OBt b LR STBMY BsAmANY W 3 e e wvk B Sty ae A% buibar e wer Avtation experts, appeated | loons, shall be broken when a ballaon | strument used by Capt. Griy [ uncomfortable sooner or later, hecause | catse of the hrighiness of the sun at | p : | . i Fabie [ ¢ h 8 o N Mis Mlght shows his 1ate of ase . whe Wee » Sieaun Bis fiahi from Meott Vel thaste—miny of Uhem frienas oo | belonging 1o the same 1o a lower “ % h . the oxygen pressure n the atmos: [ midaflernoon and more INPortant | pepween 12000 and. 40000 R gkt vl ghvan smiting and assured, with whit unintances of Capt. Geay, Tele- | cgtegory. shall have made u better ; [ phere decrennes at o faitly even tatio [ atll hecause Capt. Gray has pene: ot ¢ Trecwdd Which Pacii Seviol ito e an ewie supply (STEEh oks clicked She hews 1o ihe | gartarmtts MIFANTIME the Army® Al Coris | WI Ui iscont, rosalting. (o condi. | (rated that peeuliar rogfon (0 the s |l o had winoed o 1§ pepditobs e, e e of oxsgen, 8x well us every other - chrners.. d woon | Concerning categorten the typex nd the N A foeused their | on i the hody known as “anoxe: | terfoas upper atmosphore wheve tem o R engh ;g tiree Army Alr Corpe officers up:of batloons nre listed under elght claw- | yiention on the fye . The | M o oxvgen want, due (o the biek | peratuves usually either remain prac : bbbt gt Sl : ; pea . cueh to ik an oMclal re | sincations, according to cuble capnetty | gagination leaps and hounds at con | of pressaice - suffieient 1o dvive the leally stationary for a time with the | janiy tests of radio v Granite by the Acre. " .. and kind of gax used. Moreover, | ghnptation of that. 11 comprises a | oxygen from the atmosphieric #le te | Ncrease of Reght, or beeoms porhaps | —o . L - ] ’ “, '“” """'"w"'“ b m-::;"':‘ Hlv‘— wlt mmm”v..v.,.-.lu. xu’ .mllvt"m-'llw de- yaritable Jules Verna story of today. | ths body by way of the lungs nn.l‘;-\rl\ W fow degrees warmer .\|>~(;-\-1 \ s i e X quarries of v HRGT alloon, the instriuments with L ttermine the valus of o given In o clenr, Hrm hand it starts, in s g blosd stieam 1 lokical experts call it the steatosphore l l< \'l‘l.‘ 'Q 1 Snteresting , proc. | 204 ',v‘,'u"pfduh.'»"5"1..';\‘."'(',"" the o, | for classifying 1te category for earlier wlages stressing mainly sue .‘i I the case of Gray, he had ong of | Now the radio is dispensed with [ ER OR: ‘D (.()L\\\. o Sarad N bl . h from went of cn when hydrogen win s appirently’ prosale matters ws weather | couise, an oxvgen-foeding head mask | LRether—34.000 foet in the aiv is the | SRR e Ioate muscess 1 Ty o 1 e . inflation-—ne wisk the cage in th conditlons and radio, Yox, vadio, For [ Which delivers o proper supply of the [ dartng batlloonist —higher even than} POR I coins were never ncopper. nichel and composition weta nelons. o 5 Sk Might. Capt, Gray's record was the fact s that the avistor, well! lfe preserving element tn propottion | Lient Carvleton O Champion, jr,, of favar in the United States, though - 3 Varielies in all, without counting ng e weconmplished B!r when did Capt. Gray aie? The diahiinhed in the seventh category. | i aou rudio enthustast, tok o | 1o e altitide nceease, Hut even | te Navy Ale Coeps, was able to climb the a metals, dar none of the Ay officers did not know. They [Granted that he 1 recognized by O | e ahe set along with Kim - and | WIth that e would feel il efecin BAt July when he broko the warkds o0, ) 8 AeSIEnS WAS tiveral By the Goverm do not know today, The Bureau o Linternntionsl body o8 having cily heard ktations us far up i 30,000 feet, | though porlaps somewhat mild lnn hoaltitude vecont for wieplanes by |16 hem. he n:;| United States caim Y hovities, and squentty Mundurds docs Aot know, and 1t ax. 1o 42470 fest, the littor holght I P could have Deard broadeasting | Nexton the log comes the worntion | ascending 31445 eet Down gaes the (00 & Beriiied venter was 4 xoM Were Never Ul in general chrew i e completed s thorough ex- | America's clabm, e will get Ch farther up, bt ot this potng e DOV B Noao 11 (avameter Noo 1) vadio apiaratis - woes e atlonn - 0 A g g e ’ siitation of e ruments. The {not ooty for baving broken his o Tt hiye. Msred e shoull siye nt | T0ras ot 15,000 feer. e hsllsonint | OWD R goes the temperaiive--40 e oMY SOM Rt RaE wver wee i i s ot Kivw, Ohonils { previoun worl rocord, Wi the et | (o (G iia vecond breaking e (5 g o e el aneration | degvess helow sev naw. | Na v {EICEG BENGS (e Tneanier oF ducet st |n:_.\|hxu:u mint was b Sesiiedd B okl eport on | and (e forall tecords ax well vers i whwolute seciomxness, for helof o bavograph, which traves on i | WS ety usiness fram mow on ; G, RES SRIAE POUIEE Y the o wrrwek in U had A perfenation Vi tmsed. ‘on Laohnls v o nakdng Stx offiebul colibraton of ey hin yadtio appatatos ov s, | rhect of smoked paper e Batloonists | othe husiness of reeond breaking el i The colh was en | Ih the enter and Uy SREROR Sheve Pl explosion of e, A from yen who have et Wew | b Sumtpaments sed by Capt Gray | T achute, of coniee, for other | COurse. Thin aen teprosents b VeC 2S00 degrens T el 3P S G i B g T Byisdns gt ooty g sy o Ope or s, Noone knows or can know | s as 1o proedice an snthorized ight Y P I edentian I | VerRi potnt G the device wherein | WHIC an Bdokvee vive dn temperature | I LIS StALes GOl Wit (et WU the inaccintion “UNTd Sites of pow et sty i horisntisl ¢ " e | OB Ahiix el Hlowever, there e Uhistory”or vecord < the Bavenn of L0 el i conmequenees, No LIS pen ar traces swoopa down on the | vecorded. The stentoaphers again Phiadelphia mint i 1830 and was o ve WeR R o o xrestest dimmneier. This P shundiymt evidence of how the ele. | Rinndnrds placed bavograph No. 14 0} 0" iy ihe thonght 3 Fheat amd up again | o much heat,” aceihblea the Bver | TO0 G nation of Y ¢ «mh el Baehadin - ‘nm ““"y.“.L‘.."‘ pvase I extended (o 4 e o Dt buve S 8 |.",",‘ Joukn e the S Libject tuaveling at teriie speed | MOTe notations of vadie and weather [at 18 e ey T heiel [abuut e size of the Blonae cent now | Regartle N Bewerally Setveied O e e 1he fiyer and b oon, the 3550241 | offentinme placed over u choese eake, | O NG Heer coritiong, wind then at 810 o clock VIE T RS averheated axvgen heliwet, ~ wen, \he & S - e by 488 ional chargee of puw Within the busket were 1wo highty | ond permite of 1 reduction of i | *MshIng hine on the head |'theye is mention: of sew sod h,\.\_\j Comes 49,000 feat and warmer anee | aten, the guil Sdcent peces with roughlv speaking. as ¥ o ox VATlons vforts were made o popular Pive e of pOwaen - of the suare hale i (e mi th Panchet, 1t was the tweranner of i o IR Aha lexkay tare » hikhty el O dEet RO, Plaving. Yhow, WHN the radio, te i1 " i bttt At that time the lavge, ol fashioned which the public s Sanitiee wede wot b ,:r",j ).,M B ,w |‘ ,.,,’y 'v: N ”:.mm o :” .,..fh ]:.“ .nlunllll‘l B ! nvwl 1 |‘|":“s‘« Hiotuve tha 1is irakents. st ANs.d ‘:”‘.:“‘.y:,: “v.‘. nl.l,:“,.‘-:l.'.. f:;nn-; -my‘:lml.:“.: :\:“: m|:|l\w ‘.».‘-\v.‘.'\. : A“::‘ n; ,"\‘.I:.\f ‘-;m\l\n CONt Was 0 general cHvUlLIon an ssue of the United States, dut eged 0 wis binst 1o confine | Ure temperature, an wxygen mas, | el by making the pen of the bivo | captinin duringe - mestof e tensen. | R TR EEEEC TR | Hate (") pulling ont belly, VRCUUI { e af i cont o The . dealgner | el et oy o Lot a0 exent o tomstant force | ien cylinders of ox7ken and u g, kraph setvace e former convse. When | Playing with w vadio, en veute o a it LEEE Guis aliebiy as et s | SR roaminedt 1hat By eann of The hefmae | tempt 1 fntratuce 1he Mertorted cain O an senions heating dey ive Pty thousand feat! But the BVl {gn the cont could be distingiished | the United Ntates sinee 1858, 1n PWHICH Gn PV ous Al hies and dater on |8 optimistie e nakes & 00al O by roich om the dime, ARGEIEE Pei- | that year two pieces OF The deweming | % PO HiERE had made Bime even oo | Hon that the Uaky ardinarily deep Bue, fjarated cont ssie the same veat’ tians of 1 and 3 0 g5 Haske 3 comprevesd e gt actly that to the Notlonu) Aero- e A by the billoonist, The hell o veaching the relatively | warm, Laun vory Relght, s all gone” - mentt’ | ahowed tao. vings. i the fekt e g & ‘“m‘l;“; ‘.:I::‘; were issued at Do B poriands pressure bs gradually | nasticat Association. oficial braneh of | Jar s connected with mercuciad | height of 12000 feet There ippears | B AR e My oving conetusiveln he words CCent, one tenth sitver Adinit e Untl the comck o cleayige, | e s conrt for - determining | bavometer for e purpose. And now | e notabon thick he expertencad sy | that he contemplates oHbing evon [The vaverse showed A aive wreath . mo forced extends paplot TR Hlon an, the I vation Ao [eomes good bews for Amerien! The L tams iekets Nodouhit he w .~;l\||‘u~l|‘l‘|:\l B pccastonally WHE D Righer, thoush Be 1 almest 8 mies favound the perfaraiion and (he words Last year pudblic health purses fw bike 10 b i edge cut on the il | pautige Internitionals { Parks | Barean of Standards, after its careful | veferring 1o (e physiological effect ot the notations AU LK R fEom earth now “Unfted Ntates of America.t The mint e Red Cross alone inapectod wearty I Maving shieady gronted Capto Gray {oste, biss oMcially placed i approvil | the abnormal pressiure which, at o Vibhlings ke Okaw and B of Mas ARA oW What Baphens® Unenie Fanihorities windertook to destin @ catn LS00 schoal chikien and gave e wn suthoritative Asarican esoord .,.<|.,n the 42470fa00 helght tor the vea- | remely Bk altibides, his b Witah, They wiw toteliigibie only e acionsnesn o death? Vpper ale aus fohat Wonkl Rnswer 810 requirementa, | BTG ARE 1o Thouwsinds (o poar o W e biets of bis Bight of 28500 feor D sons given ahove The specialists | known to temporarily oy (I Moer sl being wiltten e o thacities u Ahat our hodies Are fund the pecos were stk With hoth oo far away (an & dwilor (9 wian wst Masch, the N A Afnatuially tested only barograph No.o 11, that aims, legs and u.‘ HEhUnd hening ciet code of Wiy own, used o A hunm Diesauie Al sea pietved and perfect conters n siver, h.».‘\‘ ¥ 4 the perforated com recsived (he were manuiictered By CRBfans . stone An approximistion of the exact G | e pen veaches the bighest point on | vecord breaking — sehievement — which pigw somnected with G air « of Caph. Gray's death sy not seein | the t the ave i A win 1o mark s dust fight Bt long O an Ui cemented it e dill | 1o bevitally inpertant, but 3 bs ex- | in tocms of air the pew e e veached e Wink