The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-24

BALLOONS ADD CHAPTER TO
 AERO HISTORY

NEW YORK, Jan. "A (by Associ- ated Press) Aviation thrilling his tory, filled with adventurous journeys in balloon and airplane, already con- tains story paralleling the one ere ated by the flight into the frozen fast nesses of northern Canada which fo- cused the news-hungry readers of the world on the three American lieuten- ants who recently completed it.
 In 1910 two New York airmen, Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, were lost among the untrodden wilder nesses of Canada for seven days after travelling nearly 1900 miles through the air from St. Louis in the balloon America II.
 They floated northeastward for two days and two nights, crossing over the Great Lakes and beyond the outposts i of which are few and far between in the northland. Despairing of finding 8 situable landing place, they brought their gas bag down into dense trees, ending a trip that won the Gordon Bennett trophy and set a new record for distance, and beginning a tramp over unknown land that dwarfed in public interest their thrilling expert ences in the air.
 Extricating themselves from the l JiY,,h he, rf ,,, ket, Post and Hawley tramped along 6 stream and later around the hem of a lake, as the woods were inpene- | trable and trackless. For four days and four nights they pushed south ward, through snowstorms, rain and stabbing cold winds, and with little to eat. Hawley wrenched his knee and the pair stopped to rest at the first restful place they found-tan old cave. | There they prayed, exchanged con- fidences to be carried back by which ever one lived if either failed to get back home, and then took a fresh start. The next day they came upon tb clOFCiJ I1C III DC olSII OL CIV llILClIiOii they had encountered and few yards further tent.
 i They spent the night in this tent and the next morning, going down to ' the side of a lake they pierced the air with yells of greeting. From across 1 the water came a reply, and then two ! fro in Tha took the airmen down a river in can oes for two days until they reached Chioutime, a settlement, from where they communicated with the world they had left, and began their trip back to New York. They had left St. Louis October IT and the first word came from them October 26.
 A balloon trip that ended above the |, North sea, was made by Captain Von 1 Schaeck during the 1909 Gordon Ben nett race, which started from Berlin. A passing steamer spied the guide rope splashing through the water and lowed the balloon back to the coast of Norway with the rope secured to the stern of the ship and the balloon floated overhead.
 Being lost to the world is not new experience to Liutenant Walten Hin ton, one of the three lieutenants who recently piloted the A-5598 from Rock away air station into Canada. He was pilot on the NC-4, the famous naval seaplane which made the first Trans atlantic air voyage, and was in the cockpit of that plane when it was lost out in the Gulf of Mexico in Decem- Der, 1919.
 On that occasion the NC-4 left Gal weston, Tex, early in the morning on an intended nonstop flight to Mobile, Ala. Throughout the day and the night and part of the following day the famous seaplane was unheard from. The government was making arrangements to send an armada of seanlanes and boats into the gulf to look for the missing craft, when radio message from 1t was picked up in New Orleans.
 The NC-4 reported 1t had been forced to come down by low-hanging clouds off the southeastern coast of Louisiana. When on the water the wireless on the plane was not power ful enough to carry many miles and communication was impossible until the craft took to the air again the