Flagship Plane of World Flight Crashes Into Sea Commander Martin Ha? Close Call in Fir?t Major Mis* hap of Historic Air ^ oyage. Told by L.OWKIJ, THOMAS. (Copyright, 19:'t ) Wade ami Ogden hail trouble In getting the Boston off the water at Seattle and had to make tills entire llicht from Puget sound to Prince Rupert alone. They c.itne through nil the fog. rnin and snow an hour and a half after the others nnd when they were on their way over JohnRtone strait, flying just off the water, they, too. narrowly avoided running Into i*»veral ships. Twlre they saw masts slicking up right In front of them and “kicked rudder" just in time to swerve and miss them by a few feet. At another point Wad# and Ogden narrowly escaped getting hopelessly lost. They were above an island In a fog so dense that they could make out nothing either ahead or to the left or to the right. All they could see was the blackness of the forest below; So Wade kept flying around and around the Island until at iRSt the fog thinned out just enough to enable him to get back on his course. "Biggest Thrill,” Arnold Writes. “Just before we passed over John stone strait Into Queen Charlotte sound," Arnold writes in his diary, “the ceiling lifted four or five hun dred feet and although we had run j into a rainstorm we could see the In dian settlement at Alert hay, on the east coast of Vancouver island. “Plunging on through drenfching rain, we rounded Cajte Caution and Asthma No cure for it, but welcome t relief is often brought by— Ovmr 17 Million Jars U$tJ Yearly YiTv frtisTm K NT. RUB PAIN OUT OF RHEUMATIC JOINTS Vor 05 years, millions have rubbed soothing, penetrating St. Jacobs Oil right on the tender spot, and by the tim» they say Jack Robinson — out cames the rheuma tic pain and distress. 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The same standard of purity, strength and excellence Is maintained in every liollle of Swamp-Rout p is scientifically compounded from vegetable herbs. It is not a stimulant and Is taken In teaspoonful doses. It is not recommended for every thing. It Is natures great helper in re lieving and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder troubles. A sworn statement of purity is with every bottle of Dr, Kilmer s Swamp Root. If you need a medicine, you should have the best. On sale at all drug stores In bottles of two sizes, medium nnd large. However, If you wish first to try tills great preparation send ten rents to Dr. Kilmer & f’o., Binghamton, N. Y., fur a sample bottle. When writing he sure and mention this paper. g,u thp biggest thrill of tbs trip. Above »s was a dense fog. We were now flying with a ceiling of less than on feet. Jt was raining to beat the band and a stiff gale was blowing In from the open seas Straight across thousand* of miles of the Pacific ocean great swells were rolling toward the coast. Fully 40 or 50 feet high, those cold gray waves looked to me as I leaned over the edge of the cockpit. Hurling themselves against the rocky cliffs of Cape Caution, those great rollers broke up Into spume and spin drift that shot hundreds of feet into the air. Through Rain, Sleet anil Ilall. "Rounding Calvert island, we swung to the right and again sought the shelter of the ‘Inside passage.' But from then on there wasn't a clear stretch of water all the way In to Prince Rupert. Sometimes we wore flying through a driving rain, some times through fleecy snow, sometimes through sheets of sleets and twice we had to fly through squalls of hall. The hail pelted the fuselage and wings with a rat-ta tat-tat like the rattle of machine guns. "After groping our way over Bella Rella, Milhank sound. Arlatazable Island, Kstovan and Napean sounds, Petrel and Ogden channels, and Ma lacca passage, at 4:55 In the after noon we reached Prince Rupert In n driving snowstorm. We came down Into a sheltered refuge from the •winds, a place entrely surrounded by high wooded hills called Seal Cove. Close Call for Martin. "Rltndcd by a snow storm and with his engine giving trouble, Major Martin and Sergeant Harvey nearly ended their flight right then and there. The Seattle side slipped and fell 30 feet. Imagine four tons of airplane crashing that distance into the water! The shock broke the outer struts on the left hand side and snap ped the vertical wires and it was indeed remarkable that no more damage than that was done. "With an exclamation of disgust, Harvey took the rabbit's foot which had been presented to him In Sacra mento and hurled It Into the sea. He said Instead of it turning out to be a good luck charm he was sure it was a jinx. Rut had he known what trouble lay just ahead, no doubt he and Major Martin, and in fact all of us. would have prayed before every totem pole in Alaska, and would have called in the local Indian medicine men to exert their Influence with the thunder birds and other spirits of the far north." .We coined by Canadians. “ ‘V*u have arrived on the worst day In 10 years!’ said the representa tives of the Canadian government who were standing in the snow await ing us when we came ashore from our planes at Sea Cove. However, we sincerely appreciated their not des cribing It a* the worst day In 40 year*! Perhaps their British conser vation accounts for this surprising restraint,” says Dleutenant Arnold In his diary In telling of the long jump from Seattle to Prince Rupert. This flight of 650 miles through 125 miles of fog and 275 miles of rain, sleet, mow and hail, against strong head winds and stiff cross gales, had taken us eight hours and 10 min utes. And here for the first time we saw what splendid preliminary ar rangements had been made for us by the chief of air service. "As soon as we had gotten ashore the Canadians regaled u* with hot tea and other beverages for which Canada is famous, and our first toast was to Captain Bissell, whose advance arrangements were perfect, not only with regard to faclltles for mooring the planes hut regarding everything else that might come up in Prince Rupert. Repair Martin's Cruiser. “Our chief problem now was to get the Seattle repaired after Its crash. All that night Major Martin rolled and tossed In his bed. And no wonder. Had the ship not been so wonderfully constructed h.v Donald Douglas, it never would have withstood that 30 foot plung into the water without more than a few struts and vertical brace wires snapping. "However, after a through Inveati gotion our confidence In our planes In< reused 50 per cent. We discovered to our joy that the major's ship had not been hopelessly Strained and could l>e repaired. There are big ship yards in Prince Rupert so with the aid of a 50-ton crane we hoisted the four-ton Seattle up onto s dry dock. "Ducky for us, British Columbia Is the land where the finest spruce In the world Is grown. But we were luck iest of all in finding a man whose job during the war had lioen the making of airplane struts, lie work ed all that day, all night and part of the next day, carving out new struts for the Seattle, and meanwhile we got out Rome extra wires that we had brought along, cut them to the right lengths and fixed the Seattle up good as new. Then we oiled the wires on the other planes and looked the ships over with great care before risking them to the perils of the next lap that was to take us on Into Aluskn. "The people of Prince Rupert gave Us an official banquet, slid although Ibis l« a new city. In a remote corner of Canada, those Who attended were dressed as though in a Fifth avenue or a Pall Mall club. Before we left Seattle we had shipped till our dress uniforms off to .lapan. We had noth ing with us except the heavy woolen shirts end trousers, sweaters, chamois flying jackets, furllned coats, and Arctic pack shoes that we wore, so we felt ss Inconspicuous as a crew of lumberjacks at a tea da naan t at the Waldorf. A splash of color was added to the function hv the pres ence of a number of officers of the famous Royal Northwest Mounted pollcp In their fancy scarlet tunics Forget Etiquette of Toasts. "Here we had a tragic reminder of how our educations had been sadly neglected as a result of the adoption of the ISth amendment in America. When our hosts rose lo di ink a toaat lo our success We Innocently made the mistake of standing with them and drinking to ourselves! Dm* 4 Inp the banquet we were presented with small Union Jacks ns souvenirs, and although we hail never contem plated carrying the flaps of any other countries along with us. we were treated with such charming hospitality in Prince Rupert that some of us kept these Union Jafks In our planes as a tribute to the country whose subjects had wel comed us so warmly. "The city of Prince Rupert is sur rounded by snow-capped mountains, and all the time we were there it was hitter cold and the air was either filled with snow or sleet. The winds that swept down off the mountains almost shriveled ns. "Prinee Rupert, and In fact all of the towns along this north Pacific coast, are famous for their misty, rainy climate. The rainfall here is a close second to the rainfall in some parts of Burma and India, where Erik, our flying geography, says that it seldom stops pouring. "An enthusiastic member of the local boosters' club told us a yarn about Prince Rupert's climate. He said that many years ago a Method ist preacher arrived and in his open ing sermon harkened his congregation hark to the days of Noah, the first great navigator. He told them it had rained for 40 days and 40 nights, at the end of which the whole wrold was inundated with water. Fisherman's Comeback. "At that point a tall lantern jawed fisherman stood up in the hack of the church and interrupted the preacher: 'Say, you ran t put anything like that over on us. Why, up here in Prinee Rupert It has rained for 40 years and 40 nights and it hasn't even affected the tide.' "We are all inclined to agree with the fisherman, for it has rained and snowed all the 7th. Kth and 9th, while we have been working on Major Mar lin’s plane. We have been wet through most of the time, and I can tell you we have had one heck of a time holding our tools in our hands. Everything has been so slushy and slippery that we have been constantly dropping wrenches and hammers over board. Leigh took off the front cowl ing (mental hood rovering the nose of the plane) and put it down for a moment on the wing whl|p lie turned to piek a piece of rope. When he reached for the cowling again it had slipped Into the sea. "Now the cowling of an airplane is one thing that you never exppct to lose. We had spare parts for almost every emergency, but no new airplane noses. The tide by that time had a 24 foot rise and fall, and at high tide it was up to 60 feet. • Ship Carries Makeshift “Nose.” “Although we fished for that blamed rowllng for hours, we couldn't locate It. So l.eigh got the coppersmith from the shipyard to hammer a make shift one out of copper. From then on for months the Boston flew with a copper-colored proboscis instead of an aluminum one like the Seattle. Chicago and New Orleans. “Because of the unending snow, rain and piercing winds at Prince Rupert we were mighty glad to get off for Sitka. 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We were only 50 feet or so from the water, In fart so close to the town that Hank and Smiling Jack could throw kisses for the belles of Ketchikan to catch. We could even se<> the grins on the hid eous faces carved on the totem poles. "Although the thunder of our motors made It impossible for us to hear a sound, we could tell from the steam spurting up from them that every cannery ami steamer whistle in Ketchikan was screeching a wel come. Over Gold Itusli Trull. "A moment later and the wooden streets, canneries, totem poles, fish 'ing fleet, and Indian village of Ketchikan were a mere memory, a sort of phantom cily somewhere be hind t's in the mist. Once more we were speeding along entirely alone above ihe tortuous channel of the Inside passage. "So long as our engines kept run ning we were perfectly safe, but we knew that In mlrrorltke waters below us were submerged rocks on which many a ship had lipped open her hull In '98. That was In the days before these waters had been well charted and when every old hulk on the Pacific coast w-as mustered into service to transport the gold mad hordes who came from the far cor ners of the earth to ship from San Francisco and Seattle to Skagway and then to ‘mush’ over the Ice of Chilkoot pass and float down on rafts through the boiling waters of Mile# canon ami White Horse rapids to the goldfields of the Klondike. * Another Narrow Kscape. "This flight from Prince Rupert to Sitka, a distance of approximately 300 miles, took us from 9:20 a. m. until 1:10. Next to the thrill of sud denly coming Upon the Alaskan city of Ketchikan, vvilh its picturesque location and crowd* waving to it", the flight was comparatively unevent ftil until a left) l 11 a. lit., vvhen Vve were flying over the water to tfie right of prim e of Wales island. 11> flying over a narrow neck of land only a mile wide on Kuiu island we knew we could jump direct from Sumner strait to Chatham strait and cut off about 75 miles of flight out of sight of land over Christiana sound, past Cape Decision, and thence up the open Pacific along Raronofld Island to our destination. Rut when we tried to cut across this neck of land the clouds dropped down so low that we were forced almost to the tree tops and had to turn hark and take the long way. , “It was while we were tun .fnR that iUmk and nearly floundered (>H the forks. We happened to get into the ‘wash' from the Chicago. If you have ever been In a plane vvhen it has dropped into the 'wash' of another plane, in your wildest Im agination you will never be able to Conjure up a picture of what it Is like and what a shiver it sends down your spine. The propeller wash from another machine in like a horizontal cyclone. It shakes and flips your ship about in a series of crazy maneuvers. We were only 25 feet off the ground at the time so we couldn't dive down out of it without smashing tip on the rocky coast of Kulu island. We managed to get out of It by swing ing to one side. Rut it was a close thing. ‘'For .10 miles we flew without see Ing land, and as that was the longest vve had been over the open sea since I the start of the world flight we got a hit of a kick out of it. "At 110 Prince Rupert time, or 12:10 Sitka time, with the air per fectly clear and calm, vve flew over the harbor of Sitka, with Us charm ing old world Russian church, the city that was made the first capital of Alaska In 1804 by Alexander Baranof, head or ihe Russian Amer ican company. "It was a gorgeous sight. Sitka is on" of the most ptrtjirrsquely sit OHtpd towns that we liiWf on out* flight IIround tit" glohe. A fringe of small islands covered with evergreen trees lies across the mouth of the harbor and on the other three aides It Is surrounded bj; precipitous snow capped peaks. "We were entranced by the sight. But on the following day we were to see It under different circumstances that were to make us wish Baranof puk'd a mote shelteied spot f"t hi* capital A storm citne up *h" nearly wrecked out expedition, Jtts H similar storm had ende the ex as u similar storm had ended the ox der Chirikov, the first navigators te explore this oast, nearly lino yeari before," Read the next Installment of thif I thrilling round the world flight It | Th« Omaha Be* tomorrow,_ j I IUM ' SODA CRACKERS > ASK your grocer for these delightfully crisp, slightly salted soda crackers. He has them in packages, family size contain ers or by the pound, as you prefer. 1 NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY “Uneeda Bekers" I lu^J__ _ _ I Do Your Shopping r Early i ' •-r : 141 , I I For Him. • Teverly defined Smoking Stand with Humidor as Il lustrated. Has removable tlass ash tray. A low prioe for this rich mahogany finish gift pise®. 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