f Lowell Smith’s Boyhood Pranks and Early Lite Fitted Him tor Courageous Nerve-Racking Task of Piloting Flagship on Historic Air Voyage Commander of World Flight Shocked Rangers in Sierras W hen, as Fire Patrol Pilot, He Climbed Out on His Speeding Ship’s Wing to Adjust Radio and Re Establish Communication. (Continued From Face One.) Angeles and landed a job as a me chanio in an automobile repair shop, but soon gave It up to Join Villa's army In Mexico. He found the bandit general a fas cinating character, a genuine ideal ist fighting for the peons. Villa’s army, according to Lowell Smith, had the best morale, the best espiit de corps, that he has ever seen before or since. ■ Villa had an air service consisting ■ of three planes piloted by three Amer ican soldiers of fortune. Lowell Smith was the engineering officer at tached to the squadron. But when one plane collided with an adobe hut " and the second was riddled with bul lets and the third took a nose dive into the ground, Villa's air service vanished into thin air and Smith came north and went to work on the ‘'Betty O'Neal,” a silver mine at Bat tle mountain, Nevada. In 1917, when America entered the war, he went to San Francisco, angled his way into the air service, took a special course in aeronautics at the University of California, and then was assigned first to Rockwell field, near San Diego, and then to Kelly field in Texas. He showed such a ^natural aptitude for flying that for a long time they wouldn't let him go to France, but kept him as an instructor. When ho eventually did arrange to get over seas he arrived too late and merely stayed In England for a short course In handling Handley-Page bombing planes. I.ed Forest Fire Patrol. Returning to America he was put In charge of the airplane forest fire patrol work In California, Washing ton and Oregon. In the dry season In these states when fierce fires con stantly menace the timber lands Low ell Smith and the men of his squad ron day after day cruised Up and w down the backbone of the Sierras * and Cascades. It was only once In a blue moon that they ever saw a spot even half large enough to come down on In case of a forced landing. Below them were jagged peaks and cliffs. On either side uf the moun tains were the forests of giant trees that they were guarding. But only once in his four years of forest fire patroling did any member of his squadron have a forced landing. There were no fatalities. In the course of a single year he and his fel low pilots spotted 600 fires and flashed ^ - the news by radio to the forest rangers. It was while In command of this fire patrol that ‘‘Silent” Smith gave one of his most famous exhibitions of nonchalance and daring. Up to that time he had had a perfect record for radio communication between his plane and the ground. This day he happened to have a forest ranger along as passenger. Suddenly the r~ _ •— « Lieut Lowell Smith. Photo taken October 24. Hfil. pllot of another plane in the squad ron saw Smith’s ship go through a series of eratlc maneuvers. Something had gone wrong with the radio ap paratus and Smith, turtting the con trol of the plane over to the ranger, who had never flown before In his life, climbed far out on the wing, kicked the guard from the generator k propeller, and clambered back into the cockpit again .lust in time to keep the Photo shows Jasper Smith, father of Lieut. IvOwcl Smith (commander of the ’round-tlie-worhl flight) as lie gave » speech of welcome lo die airmen on their arrival at San Diego, Cal., Oc tober 23. ship from going into a tailspln in the trembling hands of the terrified ranger. Saved Government Million*. “Had to keep up communication,” was “Silent" Smith's laconic ex< Utilis ation when they got down. Under Smith's leadership this aerial fount fire patrol saved the govern ment many million* of dollars' worth of tin- most valuable limber in Ameri ca and gave Smith ills first import ant training in crosscountry flying and navigation, a training that later enabled him to accomplish the seem j ingly impossible when he led a squad ron of world cruiser* across strange continents, for thousands of miles over billowy cloud-sens where no plans had passed before, and all the way round the globe without once getting off the course. On another occasion a wing, prrfb . *bly due to some hidden fault in con 7 structlon, crumpled up on hlin while In the air over the city of Portland. He wa* not flying very high, so when one plane hit the ground, although it smashed up, it was not entirely de molished and did not burst into flames. Bystanders ran over, expecting to find Smith either dead, or seriously injured. But they were nonplussed to hear "Smitty's" vplee coming from under the debris assuring them that he wasn’t even scratched, but would be deeply Indebted to them if they would lift the plane oft his neck. In 1919 he took part in the trans continental reliability and endurance contest from San Francisco to New York and return. On this flight he broke one record when lie reached Chicago as the first person ever to arrive in the AVlndy City from San Francisco by air. But an unfortunate accident happened to him in Buffalo, where his much beloved Bluebird was destroyed by fire while he was absent from the flying field. Refueled Danes in Midair. However, his first real claim to fame came when he conceived the seemingly mad idea of refueling from one plane to another in midair with both planes in full flight. A.s everybody knows, it is an ex ceedingly dangerous thing for two air planes to fly close to each other. Both are usually hurtling through the air at a speed of anywhere from 10 to 150 miles an hour. And If so Father of lieutenant Smith Ad drosses Fliers at San Diego. rntich as the tip of the wing of one happens to touch the other a tragedy is almost certain to result. Secondly, it seemed absurd to most people to think of two planes flying Finer Texture and Larger Volume in your bakings Same Price over 33 years || 25°irs25c t Millions of Pounds Bought by the Government. fW BREATHE FREEl\ M Anoint nostrils with ^ IMENTHOLATUMI Cooling, antiseptic W ^^^Clears head APVKBTISKMKNT. ip PHILLIPS =| ^OFMAC^ I_■ ANTACID CORRECTIVE LAXATIVE THE CHAS H PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CQ NtW VOOS. Accept only "Phillips." the original Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physi cians for 5ft years. Protect your doc tor and yourself by avoiding Imita tions of the genuine "Phillip*." 25-cent bottle*, *l»o 50 cent bottle*, contain directions—any drug »tors. s' Smith Greets Parents on Return iMsMTWBk III Wyj » 1- ! ROCXD-THE-YVORLD FI, IERS REACH SAN DIEGO. The round-the-world fliers reach ed Rockwell field, San Diego, where their machines were put through me ehanlcal tests prior to the hopoff six mouths ago, on September 22, This picture shows Lieut. Lowell Smith, commander of the flight, greeted by his fattier and mother, Mr. and Mis. Jasper Smith, just after their aril val at Rockwell field,_ at high speed and attempting to keep together long enough for any appre ciable quantity of gas and oil to be transferred. Airmen had discovered that It was a mighty risky and dif ficult thing for two planes even to keep one above the other long enough to enable one harebrained birdman to catch a rope ladder and change planes. But, as usual, Smith had thought i.lie matter out before he said any ihirtfc about it, and know whereof fie *poke. He and his fellow pilot, Lieut. John Paul Richter, remained aloft In their Pe Havlland all through the Jay from dawn to dark, all through that night and even through the sec ond day. Never once during all this time did either of them have a moment's chance to sleep. They were fed, wat ered, oiled, and gaso'Iined by means of a little hose dangling from another plane. The first time they attempted to make contact with the hose sheer luck saved them from going up In blames. Richter caught the nozzle In his hand and accidentally turned It too quickly, with the result that he was drenched by a stream of gasoline. But Dame Fortune smUed upon them that day and not a drop landed on the engine. Sixteen different times con tact Was established between Smith and Ttlehter and a refueling plane. From 50 to 100 gallons of gas were transferred nearly every time. 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The first time the motor began to sputter Smith's trained car told him there was dirt in the feed pipe. Picking up his spotlight, he smashed It against the pipe In an attempt to jar the dirt loose, and then he kept tapping the pipe with a wrench until the sputter was elim inated. Early the next morning the drain on the feed pipe again clogged and the plane dropped 800 feet and came within a few yards of plunging into ffie Tiajuana river, when a hard blow from Smith's wrench again cleared the dirt and with the throttle wide open they ascended to safety and continued their gruelling flight. It. was one of the most sensational and dramatic flights in the history of aviation. They established eight world records for distance, speed, and duration. They remained In midair, traveling at an average speed of 88.50 miles an hour, for thirty-six hours. They actually covered twice the dis tance of the non-stop transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown. First “Dawn to Busk” Flight Shortly after this Smith and Richter gained more fame on their "dawn to dusk” flight, from Canada to the Mexican border. This also was a non stop refueling affair. For 12 hours they sat in their cockpits as they flew 1,280 nijjgs over Washington, Oregon, and California at an average speed of better than 100 miles an hour. Supply planes met them at Eugene and Sacramento. Through an Inch and a half refueling hose they re filled their gas tanks at the rate of fl! gallons a minute. The full moon was just going down behind the mountains of British Columbia when they started the fight, and as they approached the desert of northern Mexico that same old full moon was there to greet them and cast a bril ✓ , Electrical Appliances Are USEFUL GIFTS (lire useful gifts this Christmas. Ton will find a wide selection Electrical gifts are exception* of appropriate electrical gills in ally useful. An electrical clit our Electric Shop. 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