The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-06-12
HAD LOST HIS
Way NFLIGHT
over 'GLADES
Plane Crashes to Ground in Big
Cypress Swamp When Gas
Tank Runs Out Of Fuel.
WITHOUT FOOD FOR
NEARLY FORTY HOURS
Badly Bitten by Mosquitoes and
Clothes Torn by Cruel Teeth
OF Giant Saw Grass.
Fsv ras assoeIs,-d p-.--

I ARCADIA, Fla, June il-rretl
"a panther and compelled 90 s3ead the
Greater part Of the night S
branches Of a lurge esp ess tee 81 tae
wilds Of the Bls cypress eauat.
.badly bitten by mosouit1es h.s afo.h
torn to tatters ov the cruel teeth or
I the giant saw grass Jc the Soath Fior-
ida swamps. without food is n,atr-
/ forty hours-these were lmolss the s
! periences Of Cadet Raymond We.
1 Carlstrom Field aviator. whose -.
crashed in the Vilds Of s0araoasscls
Lee county last Thursday aa3ut II
land who returned TO The ngIne a
this afternoon in one OF tae b
that had searched for bis sine lass
Thursday.
Cadet White. whose home is I'll
Pritchett. Texas, was making ID .,,y
tice flight from Carlstrom Field. q .e
chobec City an drata n Thurs las 4
first part of the fiam wos omo
without incident and Cadet 9.
flying alone, started TO rcturu bat lot
his bealings and stase o. artc
completely almost as soon as he O.
ed
ingtend OF lying uprthweseeriy Nh Is
headed his plane almg due aoutE
When az point aaout forty ~
south OF lmmoisGtee. Lee -una
fuel tanE ran dry aAa h.a p.us
crashed. The plane WIS C ma r..
wrecked but White csc bed
lie stayed win The E,I.acs.st & l4.la
until Inc sun had sank fai. naues
give him his direction hes Na.
started % walk toward ,la nor5htecs
looking for s.gas of human ha1itatlol
but find.ng n0lc.
With his colshing torn 10 tatters aud
bitten almost lsyond endurance by gh
swarms Of mosquitoes in the SWAMP,
saw grass, night overlook the av ,t5I,
In the edge of the Big Cypress anl as
prepared 10 spend the ulgnt under "a
tree During the night one oE the
panthers that iufest the section chased
White into the branches Of tree. ann
there he remained untu daylight.
Continuing his tramp foodiess -
with only the swamp water 10 qucuca
his thirst young White was 7.exel ~
Friday evening about O'Clock by
Seminole Indian aad was taken 10 The
camp Of a small band Of the southern
Seminoles. there he spent the nfo1t
proceeding Saturday TO another camp
several miles distant on the way two
Of the searching planes from Carl
strom field were sighted but signals
from the young aviator and his Semi
mole guide were not seen and tho
planes passed on.
Saturday after the aviator and his
guide reached Kennedy Marson's
ranch where the night was passed and
White had the first meal he had eaten
since Thursday. Early this morning
Carson started with White in a buck
board. On the way another OF the
planes was signed and Car
son and White, signallying with
sheet, attracted the attention OF the
flier and the plane made a landing.
White was taken aboard and the
plane made the return flight to Carl
strom Field, reaching there shortly be-
fore dark tonight White suffered no
i'll effects Of his experience beyond the
bites, fright caused BY the
panther, and the exhaustion Of his
walk. in which he covered at least
fifty miles in the worst country Ia
South Florida.
-Four big DeHavilan planes, request
ed by Commandant Royse OF Carl
strom Field, from Montgomery. Ala,
arrived at the field about five O'Clock
this evening. The planes left Mont
gomery at daylight this morning and
made the trip sof approximately 500
miles without difficulty.