Evening star., 1918-04-04

George Creel, publicist, correspondent,
globe-trotter and head Of the committee
on public information, made his first
flight in an airplane late yesterday aft
ernoon. He has often been accused Of
flights Of fancy. and it has even been in
timated that on more than one occasion
he and the organization Of which he is
chairman were away up in the air. but
the experience he had yesterday, $500
feet above the polo grounds and the Po-
tomac river, according to his own un-
censored statement, eclipsed anything he
is ever alleged to have done in the way
of fgurative aeronautics
Leather-helmeted, wearing cute 1eath-
er coat, with big fur collar. together
with a pair of goggles strapped over his
piercing eyes, Creel took the front seat in
the plane, in which Overton Bounds re-
Gently made non stop flight from Day.
tons Ohio. to this city. Before he climbed
stunts should be performed while he was
a passenger.
straight flying" he urged; that will
be plenty, with maybe not more than one
loop"
Airman Bounds grinned and promised,
but he must have had his fingers crossed
Does Single and Double Loops.
Once off the ground the aviator be-
gan putting the machine through it's
PAGES. He did single and double loops.
He threw the machine over on the ends
of the planes in side banks. He did
the Immelmann turn. He nose dived
the machine dropping like a plummet
until it seemed about to crash into the
ground. He rose again and did the
falling leaf. He swooped up and then
wabbled down. nose first, like a duck
with broken wing. And at last he
made pretty landing. and Creel
dragged himself out of the observers
seat.
Did we do any loops?" he sasped.
feebly, fumbling with the straps Of his
goggles and swallowing hard.
Didn't you know you were doing all
sorts of stuntsr he was asked.
Hell. no." Creel groaned. "Al1 the
time when I wasn't trying to keep my
stomach down out of my larynx or
away from somewhere back of my left
ear had my head firmly gripped be-
tween my knees. How was 1 going to
see what was going on?
Look here. you fellows" he said to
the newspaper men, TIN not being in
couldn't be printed in any respectable
paper"
But what was it like, George? What
were your sensations? What were you
thinking ABOUT When you were upside
down up there?"
creel ran his fingers through his hair
and groaned some more.
Fighting Off seasickness.
"Oh, my Lord" he whispered How
could I think when I was making it a
point Of honor with myself not to get sea-
sick when there wasn't any water closer
than the river, and it mile or so straight
down? I looked over the edge once, and
give you my word I never Imagined the
earth and the river and the sky could
get SO mixed up After that-well, how
do know what happened? The most
welcome words it would have been pos
sible for me to have heard about that
time would have been Home, James
THE loops, il we did any, weren't 50
bad. and I've often had the same sensa-
ton when an express elevator dropped
from under me at the sixteenth story as
had when the machine nose-dived.
But oh, that side-wabble thing, when
she wagged her tail for a mile or so while
she was laying over on edge. Oh,
mammal" and at the recollection CreePs
hand flew to his mouth and his eyes took
on an anguished look.
Lieut. Col D. j. Arnold of the Signal