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Airplane Stowaway Points Out Historic Spots of Mystic Hindoo Land to American Globe Gridlers Told by LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright. 19:».) It wag in the heart of India that America'* globe girdling ships of the air for the first time came face to face with "ships of the desert.” As the tvorld fliers roared across the air drome at Allaha bad a long string of camels , came treking over the annhaked plain. The excitement ■mil curiosity of the drivers tv as only exceeded by the haughty dis , dain and utter With the exception of Erik Nelson, none of the fliers had ever met a camel outside a zoo. So before serv icing up their cruisets "Smiling Jack” and "Houdini” Ogden coaxed two dromedaries into kneeling, mounted their humps, and took their fihst "solo” flight a la sheik of Araby. When their camels started to "take iff ' and rose to their feet with a series of double-jointed, fore and aft jerks, the surprised looks on the faces of the two airmen brought shrieks of laughter from the natives. The other fliers prodded the cam els, and as "Jack" and "Hank” clung to the huntps for dear life their mounts taxied across the airdrome at JO miles an hour. So shaken were ADVERTISEMENT. Beauty — A Gleamy Mass of Hair 35c “Danderine” does Wonder for Any Girl’s Hair ■ Oil Is! Take this! When combing apd dressing your hair, just moisten your hairbrush with a little "Dander ine" and brush it through your hair. The effect is startling! Tou can do I your hair up immediately and it will appear twice as thick and heavy—a mass of gleamy hair, sparkling with life and possessing that lncoriiparable softness, freshness and luxuriance. While beautifying the hair "Dander - Ine’’ is also toning and stimulating each single hair to grow thick, long and strong. Hair stops falling out and dandruff disappears. Get a bottle of "Danderlne'’ at any drug or toilet counter and just see how healthy and youthful your hair appears after this delightful, refreshing dressing. ADVERTISEMENT. 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After spending the night in Allaha bad the fliers took off the next morn ing for Ambala, an Important British military post not far from the Hima layas, right in the heart of northern India, near the eastern border of tt)e Punjab, one of the largest and rich est provinces in all Hindustan. To avoid the intense heat they flew most of the way at an altitude of 5,000 feet. So for another 500 miles the six American airmen and Wells, their stowaway, had a marvelous birdseye view of a part of India where for thousands and thousands of years many of the most Important events of human history have taken place. To begin with, on this day’s flight, just as on the journey up from Cal cutta to Allahabad, they were flying above the Grand Trunk road, one of the oldest highways on earth, the road which has resounded to the tramp of migrating hordes and con quering armies ever since the early Aryans came down front the pla teaus of central Asia and overran India 5,0«0 years ago. Down this same road came the Scythians, the Parthians, the white Huns, the ruth less hordes under Timur the Tartar, and the armies of Babar the Great and of his descendants, the magnifi cent Moguls. Over this same road marched the soldiers of England dur ing the tragic days of the great In dian mutiny. It has also been im mortalized in fiction, for it was along this Grand Trunk road that Kipling's Kim made his pilgrimage with the holy man from Tibet. Wells Recites History. On this part of the trip the s'ow away no longer was obliged to con ceal himself in the tool compartment. Lieutenant Ogden invited him to squeeze into his cockpit. Wells sat on six inches of seat, wedged against the dual set of controls. He had to take off his shoes so that he could slither Into the cockpit. For six hours they sat jammed together so -neither could hardly move. "Our aerial stowaway, like most beach combers, hoboes, and stowa ways, made up in knowledge of his tory and geography what he lacked in physical wealth,” Lieutenant Ogden said. "He tried to make me forget that his being in the cockpit was responsible for my getting the rramps, by telling me stories about the country over which we were fly ing. For the first hour we flew di rectly above the Ganges. Wells said that the Hindoos all believe this river flows from the brain of Brahma, who is one of their trinity of leading gods. Brahma, be went on to explain, is the creator of life, Vishnu Is the preserver of life, and Siva Is the de stroyer. I had no difficulty in hear ing Wells above the roar of the engine, because his mouth was press ed against my ear. He also told me that the Hindoos worship more than 30,000,000 different gods—four times as many gods as there are people in Canada. Scenes of Massacre*. "About an hour and a half out from Ambala, Wells pointed down to a city on the banks of the Ganges, and shouted In my ear, 'There's Cawn pore.' According to our prearranged plan, this was one of the places where we were to shift position in order to get a bit more comfortable. After we had switched sides in the cockpit and Wells had graciously conceded an other eighth of an mch of seat to me, he pointed down again to n church spire in an open field. 'Sixty seven years ago this very month down there beneath us was enacted on* of the most frightful tragedies of history. A hundred thousand, Indian Sepoys, troops whom the British had trained, broke out in mutiny. Regi ment after regiment not only murder ed their officers, hut they bayoneted the wives and children as well. "We flew right over the field where that 21-day battle occurred. We looked down and saw the staircase at the •Massacre ghat' where the treacher ous Nana murdered all of the men. In a beautiful green park our stow away guide pointed over the fuselage to a white monument which he eald marked the well into which the brutal Nana had the women and children hurled. "The on* thought uppermost in our,minds as we looked down on the scene'of the Cawnpore masssore was how eeay It would be to fly a thous and miles acroe* India and drop enough bombs from the sky in five minutes to put an end to a mutiny of this sort. Evidently the British real ize this, because we discovered they have a larger air force here in this on* distant part of their empire than we have in the whole United States, Over Historic Lucknow. "As we were flying over Cawn pore, off to the right, we enw another city of mutiny fame, a city that 1" Sallowed ground lo every man, woman, and child of British origin^ It was here at Lucknow that S* Henry Lawrence and a handful of fighting men defended their families in the residency against a vast horde of well armed native* who surround ed and shell them for five months. The defense of the residency at Luck now ranks with the battle«ef Mara thon as on* of the finest feata of arms in history. "If ths airplane ha* done nothing else for civilization it ha* eliminated the possibility of any more occur rences like the tragedies at Cawn pore and Lucknow, Whole bodies of troops can be transported across In dia. by plane today within a few hours, where It tooka weeks and months but a few years ago. "The next signal for Wells and me to shift our positions In the cockpit was when he saw the world famous city of Agra on our left. Here again our stowaway broke the monotony of the flight by telling me about this ancient capital of the Great Moghuls. Agra, of course, is celebrated primar ily because on its outskirts is situated the most marvelous building on earth, the far famed Taj Mahal, the dream palace made of white marble and built by the Moghul Emperor Shah Jehan to the memory of his queen. For all the next hour until we reached Delhi, my stowaway com panion raved about the beauty and splendor of the Taj. In fact, he kept right on talking about it all that aft ernoon even when we put him to lift ing five-gallon oil cans and wiping off the planes to earn his passage. Delhi in Distance. “Wells drew such an alluring word picture of the Taj Mahal, of its flash ing fountains, its avenues of Cyprus trees, its flawless proportions, and symmetrical minarets, its exquisite mosaics, its laticework in marble and alabaster, and Its decorations of snow-white stone inlaid with precious stones, that we thought his two days of flying might have gone to his head. At any rate we all made up our minds that if tVe ever had occasion to go anywhere on a honeymoon we were surely going to include Agra in our Itinerary. “After passing just to the right of the city of the Taj Mahal and also not far from the deserted red city of Fatiphur Sikri built by Akbar the Great <wod once the capital of India In the golden age of the magnificent Moghuls, we flew on for an hour until straight ahead of us we saw a city of pure white. This proved to be the most fascinating sight in all our long flight across the vast Indian empire. It was modern Delhi, the capital of the British Raj, the home of the vice roy, and the headquarters of the new rndian parliament, where for the first time in Indian history representatives of the masses have an opportunity to play a part in their own government. "But all around Delhi we saw the ruins of other cities and Wells ex plained to me that this has been the capital of many empires and that there are at least eight separate Delhls. Right near the milky-white buildings of the Rritish we flew over a ridge with a tall spire, the ridge im mortalized during that same great Indian mutiny when a small body of British soldiers ami civilians defended themselves and families'against some 40,000 Indians who surrounded them on this rocky hit of ground. Far be low us we also saw the crumbling ruins of the Kahmai gate where John Nicholson met death while leading an assault, and the fort where a group of officers touched a fuse and blew up the arsenal and themselves along with it rather than surrender to the muti neers. Greeted by British Fliers. "Whirling on from Delhi we passed to the left of Meerut, the city where the great mutiny of is;IT first broke out, and directly over the most cele brated battlefield in the whole world, the field of Panipat, where many de cisive battles were fought, and where the founder of the Moghul dynasty overthrew the vast armies of the na tive Indian kings, and where Akbar the Great afterwards won his great est victory. "It was near here that we crossed over from the United Provinces to the Punjab, and a short while after war jl we arrived above the hangars and field of the principal royal air force station In India. Here we were welcomed by a great crowd of British fliers, and a royal welcome It was. They placed every facility they had at our disposal because from now on we were going to fly for thousands of miles across the deserts of Hindus tan, Baluchistan, Persia, and Arabia." Read the next instilllment of the story of the thrilling round-the-world flight in The Omaha lire tomorrow. PAINT AND GLASS SALES DOUBLED The total amount of paint and glass sold in Omaha during 1924 more than double the amount sold in 1923, according to figures com piled by the Chamber of Commerce. in 1924, the value of paints and glass made In Omaha factories amounted to $2,655,000. In 1923, It amounted to $1,176,000. This Is an Increase of 126 per cent. When You Feel a Cold Coming On Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets to work off the cause and to fortify the system against an attack of Grip or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears signa ture of E. W. Grove. 30c.—Advertise ment. ' SPECIAL MASS FOR MRS. 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