New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1927, Page 5

LINDBERGH'S FIRST HOP IN PARACHUTE Was Testing Out New Plane When It Fell By MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY |tober, 1923 when he arrived alone inight fiying (United Press Staff C¢ (Copyright, 1927, by United Press) CHAPTER NINE The fall of 1925 found Charles A. Lindbergh a free lance aviator at the Lambert flying fleld, St. Louis. One afternoon he was called upon to take up a new plane for a test fight. The |1,ouis until Guerney recovered, sell. | M8 record showed that he had de- plane flew satisfactorily for & time |jne pig plane in the meantime, and |!ivered the mail at its destination | and then Lindbergh began putting it |luving the old Standard bi-@lane in | Vith as great regularity as had fliers through a series of 100ps and turns. |\nien he arrived at Brooks field, [0 many of the well-lighted routes. | designed to prove the air-worthiness of the machine. At 3,500 feet Lindbergh sent the plane into a tail spin. It came spin- ning down but as it approached the earth it failed to respond to the controls and continued its giddy plunge, Lindbergh stayed with the ship, fighting to get it righted again, until crowning venture, the fiight to Paris. | only 250 feet from the ground. Leaps From Plane terrific force, in a garden adjoining the flying field and the plane only a few yards away. The drop had been so short the parachute had not had time to break the fall entirely and when flying field attendants came up, Lindbergh's nose was bleeding and they feared he was severely injured. “Defective design somewher spoke up Lindbergh. “I couldn't come out of that tail spin. Little close too.” He dusted himself off, rested an Jour and went up again to test a second plane for “defective design.” That was the second escape by parachute Lindbergh had had from a disabled plane. Later he had two others and his record in the war de- partment at Washington shows he is the only aviator in this country who | has had four such escapes. Lindbergh had come to Lambert | field from Kelly ficld, Texas, where | Te had completed his course at the army advanced fying school, March 15, 1825 and had been rated as a pilot and given a commission as a sacond lieutenant in the y air corps reserve. On receiving his commission he outfitted himself in the uniform of his rank, was photo- graphed, and until he joined the Missouri National Guard approxi- mately a vear later, thought . no more of military flying. Kelly Tield Record A glance through his record at Kelly field shows that his standing there was remarkable. In 17 of the 24 subjects in which he was exam- ined, his standing was tated as ex- cellent,” in five as “very good” and {in one, | “fair. property accounting, In military law, army r {ulations, ficld service regulations, !guard, aerodynamics, meteorology, handling of the Lewis machine gun, and synchronizing gears he had an |average of 99 out of a possible 100. |In subjects having to do with navi- gation and with radio his marks were jaround 90. In only six subjects was {he below | On leaving Kelly fleld he headed {for St. Louis, a place he had visited |once previously. That was in Oc- as jand unheralded — as always—in a |decrepit appearing old biplane and entered it in the international air He then had been flying less |than two years, A few days after the races Harlan Guerney, Lind- {bergh's flying mate, was Injured in a parachute jump from Lindbergh's {plane and Lindbergh remained in St. races. |Texas, the next year for his army training. | Jolns Air Mail | 1t was while free-lancing at Lam- bert field in 1925 that Lindbergh |made his connection with the Rob- ertson Alrcraft corporation, which [led him into the air-mail service land indirectly played a part in his | He joined a group of brother avia- tors in maintaining bachelor quar- | Then he quickly leaped from the | lers in a little frame house near the | plane and came swinging down in a ‘ flying field. There he sgttled down “parachute, landing on his back with (1o the exacting life of a commerclal | |aviator. He was up early, slept when |he could, and always subject to icall. But life was not all work. Aviators, when not flying, are a |light-hearted crew who worry little land Lindbergh, when not employed, | was usually busy at his favorite di- | version, playing practical jokes. He i delighted in loosening up a bed so it would collapse about the time a comrade tried to sleep in it. He never seemed too tired after & long trip to turn loose his pranks on whoever might appeal to him as a likely victim. It was at this time that Lind- bergh became the jaunty, well dressed aviator, when he was fly- ing, that he proved to be the eve- ning he arrived In New York from St. Louis and started the nation’s |blase metropolis with his faultless attire. But when he was not in his flying costume, he still seemed the gangling country hoy he was in 1921 |when he arrived at Lincoln, Ne- |braska and began learning to fly. He usually wore blue serge, and re- | gardless of how carefully his clothes | might have been selected, his suit {always seemed too small and his arms too long. Flying Was Varied His commercial flying was varied {that summer when he and Philip R. Love, who had been a class-mate at Kelly Ficld, flaw to Chicago in DH-4 planes, blazing the trail for the St. Louis to Chicago air mail route, which later he was destined to fly with the mails. He joined ivlm One Hundred Tenth Missouri NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1927 ! Aviation Squadron, National Guard, | at that time, became flight com- | Imander and that was when he ob- | |tained his rank of captain, the rank {which he still holds. | April 15, 1925 Lindbergh became | the “Flying Mail Man" when he/ |ade his first fiight over the Chi-| |cago-St. Louis air mail route with | {United States mail. During the| following winter he and Thomas P. |Nelson, also a graduate of the| |Kelly Field, army flying school, !made aviation history with their between those two cities. The route was not lighted in | any way. They flew just as Lind- |bergh flew into Paris, with unlighted ! {planes. No matter what the weather {Lindbergh always seemed ready to {go. He would take the air with the| mail when no one else cared to go| aloft and at the end of the winter Fog, snow and sieet all were met | |and’ overcome by him and it was in | | this treacherous fiying that he gained | {much of the skill which permitted | {him to outwit a sleet storm in the |North Atiantic while fiying to Parls. | FIFTH AVENUE BUS IS | OVERTURNED, 3 KILLED Nearly Thirty Other Persons Suffer | | More or Less, Serious Injuries | | In Accident. | | New Yerk, June 9.—(UP)—Two | | persons were in a critical condition today and necarly 30 others had less serious injuries received when a !loaded Fifth avenue bus overturned | |last night, killing two passengers outright. The driver of tlie bus apparently had set his brakes suddenly when the traffic light was turned against him. The bus got out of control, hit an' automobile, ran over the side- walk and overturned ' next'to the stone boundary wall of Central Park. Passengers on the upper deck of | the two-story bus were catapulted to the pavement. Those inside were crushed and cut by flying glass. The dead were Matthew Malum- phy, of New York, a sales manager, and_Clyde Bowen, of Billings, Mont. At the Mt. Sinai hospital, where | both died, it was said today that Lillian Akers and James A. Brew- ster of New York were in a scrious condition with fractured skulls. LANG LIKES AMERICA | Worcester, Mass, June 9 (P— | {After a “year's study at Holy Cross college, during which he says he has | Ibecome so attached to the institu- tion and America that he hopes to return next year, Anton Lang, Jr., son of the famous Christus of the passion play of Oberammergau leaves today on the first leg of his journey to his home across the sea. THINAS LIFE WAY | YET BE CREATED Sir Oliver Lodge Sees Power of Science London, June 9.—(UP)—Sir Oliv- cr Lodge, noted physicist, believes life may some day be created in laboratorics by biologists, he told the Oxford university psychological society last night. ‘iFrom some points of view, I re- gavd it as inevitable,” he said, Sir Oliver said life is dependent on matter and chemical and physi- cal cnergy for its manifestation and developmient. “Many organic compounds,” he continued, “those in living organs or secreted by them have already been made in the laboratory, beginning with urea and continuing up to sugar starch and compounds. “IFor that ason, - it has some- times been said by students of or- ganie chemistry and by biochemists studying protoplasm that if we could contrive in the laboratory to continue manufacturing these or- nic compounds until we made mass protoplasm, and were able to subject it to suitable treatment, they would expect that artiticial proto- plasm to exhibit vitality and mani- test one or another form of life. “This can be regarded as an in- evitable contentlon because, first, living things have appeared on this planct, and second, this planct w: at one time a molten mass of material or even & glowing gas | Mrs. H. numerous other | NEWINGTON NEWS A special mecting of the Woman's | club of Maple Hill was held yester- Jay afternoon at the home of Mrs. I%. B. Proudman en Frederick street. B. Olmstead, who was a delegate to the annual meeting of the State Federation of Woman's clubs at Greenwich, gave a report of the meeting. Plans were made for the annual basket picnic to be held Saturday, June 18, on the lawn at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Howard. Ice cream cones will be sold and coffee will be served by the committee, which includes all the members of the executive board. Mrs. R. T. Chapman of New Brit. | ain rendered several delightful solos | accompanied by Mrs. Andrus, also of New Britain. A large number of | surgical dressings was completed for the Visiting Nurse association of New Britain and an enjoyable soclal time ‘was spent. The Maple Hill Bridge club has made plans to have its annual outing at Mrs. Hale's tea room in Glaston- bury. The luncheon will be followed by a bridge party. | bors' night program. Tuesday evenin, the re hall will be open to the public after ls o'clock for those who wish to play cards. Friday evening, June 17, Burritt Grange of New Britain will present the End of the Lane.” Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, a rehearsal for children's day will be |held in the parish house of the New- ington Center Congregational church. |The committee in charge of the ex- lercises are Mrs. Anna Attwood, chairman, Mrs. Harry Webster, and Mrs. V. L. Eddy. SPAN OF LIFE I3 [8 YEARS LONGER {Medical Knowledge Increases During 40 Years Miss Marian Fieber will leave to- morrow for Haverhill, Mass., where she will attend the annual conven- tion of the Alpha Alpha sorority. Miss Fieber is a delegate from the ew Britain chapter and will be ac- companied by Miss Doris Merwin, also a delegate, and Miss Anna Traut, both of New Britain. Several members of the Grange will go to Durham tonight, | Philadelphia, span of life has been about 18 years in the last forty by medical knowledge, according to a play at Grange hall entitled, “At| |ed penologists,” number of medical graduates would ular have to be increeased about 20 per |meeting of the Grange will be held, cent to keep pace with the growth {after which cards will be played. The in population. Degrees were presented to 14 graduates, six of whom will enter foreign medical missionary service. POLICE CHIEFS MEET Windsor, Ont., June 9 (®—Self- serving crime commissions “which are vote collectors,” and “pin-head- who would sell their souls for newspaper head- lines,” were denounced yesterday at the convention of international chiefs of police by Detective Captain Duncan Matheson of San Francisco. 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