Fliers Hire Natives to Paddle Crippled Flagship From Lagoon; f New Engine Installed With Speed ' ■ Told by LOWELL THOMAS. P t (Copyright. 1924.) Tn order to tow the Chicago from the lagoon where Smith and Arnold had made their forced landing, to the ancient Annamite city of Hue, three native sampans were hired They were • ape cial war sampans, built for speed. Jn each stood 10 pad Jlers who wore no clothing except loin cloths and wide Y,- . 7~“ "V cone shaped hats - ^ ,eut £-OU.e!i made of palm £nutrl\ leaves. Their wives ■ followed alongside In other sampans, [ passing drinking -—' water, food, and clgarets to the oarsmen during the Journey. For 10 hours they paddled without ever letting up except for a moment now and then when one would snatch a bit of food or a puff or two on his wife's clgaret. Tn tha how of each boat sat a ns tiv* with a tom-tom. and the pad dlerg ’dtppeil to the rhythm of these drums. "The heating of these tom toms served three pui posses," said Commander Lowell Smith, "to warn other boats tip the river to pull out tn one side, tn attract the attention of the villagers on both shores so they would he sure to see what an honor had come to the men who were pad dling us. snd to enable the paddlers to pull together." Chief Travels In Slate. “The chief of the tribe came along with us in his royal sampan, his wives paddling, while he reclined in luxury under a sunshade. His favor ites sat beside him, rolling his cigar ets, lighting them, and even feeding him. The foliage on both banks was so dense that we could only see through it a few' feet. At times we came to place* where the river was so narrow ther&i wag barely room for *he wdngf. of the plane to scrape by. Then again it would open out and w« would pass a village where men, worn'"', and children would come run ning out of their thatched huts to tump into their sampans and paddle along with us. So all the way during our 25 mile trip up the river to Hue we had an escort of sampans, some times 15 or 20, and again as many '•» 100 or mote. “I.es and I took the cushion* out j the cockpits and rigged up com fortable seats under the w-ing. where ** was shady and fairly cooj. Our greatest regret w’as that we hadn’t a camera. Every bend In the river re vealed s different view that would have been worth photographing. And to aee the Chicago come through that jungle propelled hv naked peddlera In (heir queer-shaped sampana was a sight In Itself. fircat Rrceiptlon Committee “Our Er“nch -friend had sent * courier In a dugout r noe on ahead to Hue to warn the inhabitants that we were coming. So when we fin ally arrived the entire population was nut to meet us Erik srid Chevalier * had also arrived ahead of tis by mo tor. They hart rounded up a company of Annamite soldiers to guard the plane, which we beached under a bridge that looked like It would be the best place for changing engines. It seemed to us that it would be a lot simpler to use the bridge and drop the new motor down from it than attempt to rig up a derrick so far away from civilization. “The engine and our tools were so hot In the blazing sun (here at Hue tint we couldn’t, touch them until we cot the plane in th“ shade beneath the bridge. But we were so Worn out that we dropped our work for 11 e afternoon.'’ The experiences of at least one of die other men in getting that motor f to Hue will haunt him as long as h* I live*. Heigh Wade remained in Tourane to *ce io it that no mishap occurred to the "Boston " ami “New Orleans." N'-Non Hording, and Chevalier rode In the automobile, while “Hank" Og den got in th* motor truck with the engine. “Tee driver of that truck.” Ogden saol to me, "turned out to be a reek tees, fiend who cared nothing for his own life and less for mine. We left T uitane af'er dark, and a* we sped along the road through the jungle the biarknees was so nearly npsqu" thst I couldn't tell what sort of coun try we were going through. But it felt »« though we were making fully "0 miles an hour. And traveling at (list rate in a truck is enough to Sfc shake your heart right up Into your larynx even if you are engaged In the somewhat hazardous occupation of flying around the world in an air plane. Wild Ride Through dungle “Cp and up and up we went. Tt s“em«-d as though we must he ascend lug Hike's peak or Mount Everest. Occasionally I saw two balls of fire gleaming through the trees and knew that it must be some wild animal Finally we came to the top of the mountain range and started to coast , down the other aid* Vnd didn't we • coast? I'll say we did' If we were ” making a mile an hour we were do ing <0 and 50. Sometimes we would buzz around a corner on two wheels. If I had a stick of dynamite I cer tainly would have put It und»r that Annamite, and then driven the rest of the way myself. "Suddenly the humping reaped. 1 felt as though I was riding In an airplane again. And sure enough, we had le't the ground and taken off tnto the air, because a moment later we crashed into some trees. Mr. An namite had whizzed right off the road Into the jungle, it look us 30 minute* to disentangle, the truck from the underbrush and get It back on the road But even that taught him noth lug. On we went as though allot from a catapult. Fifteen minutes later mid wo jumped off the highway and landed against a pile of rocks. Next day when we returned T took particii lar notice of this plaee and If It had n't Ipperi for these rocks we would have shot right over a precipice Into a cam on 1.090 feet below Surely the good Hnrrt was watching over me tin that, ewlld midnight rld» through •v* Jungle of Indo-Ohlna "TVhen we got to th» bottom ot th* mountain (hero was a pla. e w here i tha road went diagonally across a railroad track. Instead of continuing on the road that fool Annamlte swerved off.on to the railroad and we went bumping over the ties. The jolting threw me from one end of the truck to the other and bounced another Annamlte right on to the track. It took us snotlm- half hour to drag the truck back to the road. Off Road Frequently. “We crossed a second range of mountains, and on our way down hill this time the brakeband broke. I had climbed Into the seat with thla wildeved native, hoping my presence at his side might tend to restrain him. This time he at least had brains enough to reach down and throw the engine in low gear. But in doing so he let go the steering wheel and we left the road again. If It hadn't been for aorne trees I am sure we would be going yet. because there was a deep valley right under us. My heart stopped heating a dozen time* during that wild ride. But this was not all. “When we had reached the next vallev and I was just congratulating myself on being alive, we came to | a lagoon over which the truck had j to he transported on a barge. Seven j natives poled the barge back and' forth, and it took them more than an hour to make the trip. When we were right In the middle of the la- I goon T noticed that the barge was I sinking lower and lower. Examining | the center of the thing. I saw it was filling with water. When I called the attention of the Annamltes to this thev became popeved with fright and immediately started to pole It hack to where we started from. We got there just In time. Had it been 15 minutes longer the bargp, truck and the new motor for the “Chicago’’ would have gone to the hottom of the lagoon. “By this time the first streaks of dawn was showing through the roroa nut palms, and the crew on the barge hallooed across the lagoon to their fCends on the other side, who came over with another barge for 11s. Record Time for fliange “When we got to Hus we easily located Smith and Arnold at the little French hotel, and In a short time all were at work changing motors. On the under side of the bridge where thev had beached the plane, there was a little track and car on wheels. We got the old motor tip nut of the ‘Chicago,’ then rode 1t along on the track and dropped It on the heach, hoisted up the new ’Liberty’ and drop ped It Into place. The whole job of changing motora took ua less than four hours. T have never seen this sort of thing done with such «peed. and although we were away out there In a lonely comer of French Indochina, I believe we broke all re cords "Only 71 hours had elapsed be tween the time Smith and Arnold had their forced landing on T.ln Thuy lagoon, and when they were found by Erik and M. Chevalier, towed 55 miles down the river by sampans, a new motor brought 500 miles hv de stroyer from Oaigon In Cochin China, transported 50 miles hv night In a truck through the jungle and across mountains, and until that new engine was Installed and running." Nelson, Hording and Ogden return ed to Tourane by auto, and Smith and Arnold flew from Hue In about 40 mlnules. In making this flight they flew along the same river down which they had been towed hv native sampans. Where It had taken 10 hours, drawn by man power, It only j took 10 minutes to fly. Next morning ala. m. the hoys were out to the planes and shortly after five they got off for Saigon. On the way down the roast of Indo china they passed a lighthouse on a rocky promontory. There was a French flag flying, and as they dtew near the lighthouse keepers dipped the flag three times as a salute to the world filers, and the hoys roomed three times In response. After flying over miles and miles of jungle, la goons, paddy fields and native vil lages, at 1 :.10 they arrived at tl mouth of the Mekong river and marred In front of the < itv of Saigon, "the Baris of the orient." i Read the next Installment of the thrilling story of the round the world, flight In The Omaha Bee tomorrow. Large \ttendanre Expected at Good Road* Convention Kearney, Dec. —Between 600 and LO^ft highway boosters wer# ex peeled to attend the Nebraska Good Roads association meeting, which is to be held In Kearney Monday. Jan uiirv 12. According to word re ceived from President Blackman, both eastern and western parts of the state will be strongly represented. T^irge delegations from Omaha anti Lincoln are assured. j Invitations have been extended I every civic organisation. Interested fn promoting the Nebraska six year program, to he represented. Wedding of York Couple Kept Secret Three Months York, Dec. 2f> Miss Mae Rogers of Bloomfield, for the last four years bookkeeper for the York Daily News Times, and Bdwsrd Harman, e York county farmer, announced on Christ mas morning that they were married September 11 last at Council Bluffs. Th*v will resid* on a farm near York. Seven Hunter# Kill 96 Rabbit# in Three Hour# Tyrdgepole, Dec, —Seven hunter# killed 12 larkrahhlt# and four roller t»ll# In three hour# In thi# vMnlt Rabbit# are becoming e peet here and are ronaumlng lol. of corn A big hunt will be alaged heie aoon. c*--- .. , .. N York Telephone Men Aid Stalled Molorist% by Opening High way ----- York, I)n*. ?9.—Kloven York trie* phone mrn did a public nervier worthy of notice in o|»rning thr S. Y. V highway through thr snow drift*. 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