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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1924)
World Fliers Hit Blinding Fog on c r Trip to Alaska Officprl!, Wives Christen Ships at Seattle Just Before Hop off From American Shore. Told By LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright, 1924 I The moat Impressive ceremony prior to the final departure of the world filer* was the christening of the cruisers. Oeneral Patrick had le aned Instructions that the beverages used should be In accordance with the "spirit of the times." So Now Orleans had sent a special botllo taken from where the Missis sippl flows Into the Gulf of Mexico* The Boston was christened with water that the citlrens of the ltuli had dipped from the Atlantic ocean. A nOnrcfiUable stoup of aqua pura was drawn with due ceremony front 1 »uke Michigan and with it the ship was christened that was to bring still greater international renown to the city of Chicago. While the flag ship Seattle was, of course, chris tened with waters from Lake Wash ington, on whose shores the ceremony took place. Officers’ Wives Christen .Ships. To. Mrs David Whitcomb, Jr., wife of the president of the local chamber of commerce, went the honor of bap tizing Major Martin's cruiser Seattle. The wife of Capt. Car Connell of the United States atr service shattered the flask of water from Lake Michigan over the Chicago. And the Boston and New Orleans were ehrlstened by th» wives of two other air service of fleers,*MaJ. M. F. llarmon anti Lieut. T. ,f. Koenig. Huge bouquets of flowers were placed with ceremony on the world cruisers, ami lhe name of each was printed In four-inch block letters on each side of the cowling under the exhausts. The Hopoff for Alaska. Two hours before dawn, the morn ing of April fi, 1924, the world fliers were on their way from Seattle to Sand Toint field to climb abound their aerial cruisers and fly north toward the land of the midnight sun. Tens of thousands of fold crazed argonauts had taken that same route to Alaska, hut never before had any one at tempted to voyage up the famous "in rale passage" h.v airplanes. At ii:l7 a. m they taxied out over the waters of Lake Washington, cir cled around once to gain altitude, and then headed toward Puget sound on their way In the land of totem poles, Eskimos, volcanoes, and cari bou. "(.and v-h«r* th* mountains nr* namalaan. An.I t ll* river* run Ctnri only known where, wtr re ther** are liven that are erring ard aimlraa. Anil death* that Juat hana hy a hair." Lieut, l.es Arnold anti Jack Harding ( . SAUCE ° ) Typewriters for Xmas Any Make Large or Portable , Attractive Prices EASY TERMS All MakesTypewriterCo. 205 S. 18th St. Phone AT 2413 with a pleasant, near-to nature action. Relieves and prevents biliousness, constipation and sic A headaches. Tones and strengthens the digestion and assimilation. £/••</ for nvmr 30 ymarr Nt JUNIORS—Little M?a I Tha name W — In one-third do»«», candy-coated. For I children nnd adults. I SOLO BY YOUR DRUGGIST both kept diarie* of thla part of the flight and In them recorded the emo tions that swept over them as they got their last glimpse of the T'nlted States dropping away behind them. Sitting in the rear cockpits of iheir respective world cruisers, both Jotted down the thoughts that sped through thetr minds as they flew north toward the polar rim upon the first leg of the journev which all hoped would enable them to carry the Stars and Strides around the world. How \rnol<l Felt. "I find it difficult to express my •motions," wrote Res Arnold. "But as I look down on Rake Washington anil Seattle and see them gradually growing smaller and smaller behind us, 1 cannot help hut wonder what all those people far below us in the streets are thinking of, "One of Jack’s friends tried to cheer him up last night by tolling him that no one In Seattle thinks we have even a fighting chance of getting through, and that we aie gn tng to almost certain death. We don’t agree. But at that one cannot help but wonder In setting forth on a trip like this Just how many of us will get around, and which planer will finally turn up at Boston. "We have ronfldenee in ourselves, of course, or we wouldn’t go; but what is Just as important, we have great faith in our Douglas cruisers and implicit faith in the chief of our air service and his staff of assistants, as well as the men in1 the other branches of the government who have prepared the way for us all along the route. "Although we know what has hap pened to the other 111 fated expedi tlons that have hepn sent nut to fly around the world, the most of us feel that at least ont* of our planes will get through.” 1 nlil the cold made it Impossible for him to write, Rieutenant Arnold kept Jotting down notes ns they flew along, and then, when the weather would delay i hem at Brinee Rupert or Sitka or Dutch Harbor, lie would write them up more caroftily in his diary. Kscoi't Planes Say Cfoodby. • "A number of other planes have been following us for about 3ft milc^ But now, after coming lip one by "no, dipping their wings and giving us the salute of the air, they have nil turned hack and disappeared into the haze. Visibility is only fair this morning, but above the haze that half veils the earth tower snow capped Rainier, the peaks of the Olympic peninsula and the Canadian Rockies. The summit of Rainier stands out as clear as crystal. No wonder the people of the northwest almost worship that monarch which the Indians called 'the mountain that was God.’ “Instead of turning out through the straits of Juan de Fucn, through which the steamers pass on their way from Puget sound to Japan, Hawaii, the south seas and Australia, we are heading north along the coast of Washington. Major Martin is lead ing. A moment ago he left the for mation just long enough to swing out over Bellingham and give a fare, well salute to the friends in his home town who said they were going to he on the lookout to see him fly by. "Now we are swinging to the left and flying above the strait of Geor gia, which separates Vancouver is land from the mainland of British Columbia. The city of Victoria has just disappeared on our left and out there through the struts of our riflht wing 1 can see the skyscrapers of Vancou ver. Good by to Mount Rainier. "Our last American friend has jus1 bid us bon voyage. Old Mount Rai nier Is no longer visible. We are fixing through a fop bank now and the mountain that has been watching us for nearly iftft miles, long after we reached Canada, has passed out of view. But there was something almost spiritual about that mountain. I saw Rowell glance back over h; shoulder at it several limes and I am | sure the memory of the grandeur of it will serve to inspire us all the way 'around the world. Somehow it seemed to symbolize the spirit that men should have -when starting on an undertaking of this kind -an un dertaking that makes you foe| the presence of the Ruler of the universe. "I wonder just how long it will be until we set} old Mount Rainier again? Surely no more fitting spot for the 'hi r of a flight around the world could he found than at the base of such an awe in.*-pi ring nmuntaip. | » t HUMS | I'i,, "But these me not ^be things I" think about while filing through ,i fog. Now we are passing through a haze like the smoke from a forest fire." At this point Arnold found other things to think about than his diary, things that might hair made hla hair stand on end If he hadn't been wearing a tightly strapped flying helmet. But the next day he wrote up the rest of the day's ventures In his log. "We soon discovered that this has." was (lie forerunner of n fog which gradually got thicker and thicker, a fog that forced ns lower and lower until we were aoon flying only DO feet off the water. At times It hung over the waters of the strait of Geoi gla like a blanket and forced us tlmvi 1 ipsSlKfflH Round trip excursion ticket* r? c\ t to many point* South and rrom Uiuana Southeaitlnaddltionrothoae 7 in .11 . , . ahownhere, are aold over Wa Ticket. Good Until June 15 bath vu & Loula. where dl JACKSONVILLB, FLA.*.M1,44 rect connection* are made MIAMI. FLA --—107.7* under the lime roof, In Union .Station with thru aervice over AUOLT5TA. OA—.««.... 79.21 varioua line* CHARLESTON, N.C...81.45 ' ' NEW ORLEANS. 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Once in a great while on one side or the other we passed a cottage lit a clearing, probably a trapper's shack. Or sometimes we would shoot by the mouth of a creek where huge fishing nets were going up arid down Twice we saw people, Indians 1 sup pose,' paddling canoes. Occasionally the fog would break for a moment and we would c*tch a glimpse of H waterfall or rugged forest -covered mountains. \hnost Crash Into Steamer. "When wo passed over what the map calls 'Discovery' and 'Johnstone' straits, part of the time we were nearly skimming the water again be cause of the thick fog, and sexeral places where we passed between Is lam.* the sea below us rushed and boiled like a mill race. Right near the end of Johnstone strait we came diving out of the fog into the clear, and narrowly avoided crashing Into an excursion steadier. "We ourselves were surprised, hul just Imagine the emotions of people on that steamer and what they must have thought when all of a sudden out of the fog a fleet of giant planes came swooping toward them at ter rific speed. As we swerved and went bellowing by. Hie passenger! all wav ed, and we waved back. “It certainly does cheer you up to come In such dose contact with people and ha abla to wave to them, especially when you are flying over a strange region, and more especial ly *1111 If It happens to be over a era where you know the nearest land Is uninhabited. Hoad the next installment of the thrilling story of flip 'round-the-world flight In The Omaha llee tomorrow. York Doctor Appointed 1 . S. Hospital Unit Chief York. Per. 2.—Dr. E. G. Zirrmerer of York has been apopinted major in the medical reserve corps and chief of the medical section of United State* hosiptal No. 123 at St. Eliza beth's hosiptal reserve. Lincoln. 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