, 1923-02-11
EYE WITNESSES DESCRIBE The EXECUTIONS ---A9
N H HORRORS IN BOLSHEVLST PPLSONS%
American Is Cured
Of Channel Air IRIS
Rescued After Hours in
Rain, Tourist Says He'll
Now Stick to Boat.

"Crossing the English Channel
Is considered troublesome enough
by steamer" said Kilbourn Gordon.
American theatrical producer who
has just returned from a trip
abroad, "but IL isn't all beer and
skittles crossing by airplane, either.
At least, you can't tell me otherwise
after the experience / had.
we had decided we'd ny from London
TO Paris. We felt it was one OF those
things o ought to write abou. to tho
ok at home and treasure up in tho
family archives.
THE trip started auspiciously enough
lin fact, when Mrs. Gordon and I set
out w felt we had en5ugh style for a
Roman emperor about to make n triHhS-
phal entry. We got in a handsome biN
bus that called for us at our London
hotel at moor and we sped out to tho
flying field at Croydon, getting ac-
quainted with our fellow passengers in
order to distract our mind from the
pleasure we were about tC endure. Two
of them were English army officers: an
other was an Irishman. Others were an
American lawyer and his wife and a
South Carollnian.
Fog Comes First.
AT Croydon we got aboard the big
numbering passenger plane, about tho
size OF a small ferryboat but much more
prettily equipped.
Immediately we ran into n fog. II
was the champion for thickness. We
crossed most of the Channel at IA height
of fifty feet above the water. Whenever
I trntnl out af che ytr8,IA,u - ..-.
those angry waves swapping at me I
always thought somehow OF that hymn,
Bury Me Deep
mo wonder the lawyers wife became
oeathly airslck-and. believe me, air
sickness makes seasickness look mild.
Presently as We got ove- France l heard
a knocking In the port engine and I be-
gan to lay bets with myself that there
was something wrong with It. Sure
enough, we began to spiral downward
like a lame duck. 1t was a lovely SEN
sation. We landed without mishap.
Rescued by FIivver. ~
1--WE got out-and right away" of
course, It began to rain. On top of that
the lawyers wife tainted. We piled
overcoats around her and provided her
with the kind of restoratives you can
get over on the other side. Presently
she came around, but the rain was more
PCT NitAlAF AAt ~ IAAOb "a
planned that we had stripped one of the
timing gears on the engine-as II II were
our fault. He said he might have taken
n chance and tried to make Paris. but
he thought best to trust to terra firma.
He remarked We were only eighty
i've miles from Paris. He was quite
cheerful about it. He said no had sent
to the adjoining village of Polk for a
conveyance, and we should be taken
there and all would be merry as n mar
riage bell. But from $50, when we
landed, until 4 o'clock we continued to
huddle around the big plane and drip.
bird of passage that was TO have taken
"Then there drove up to this immense
us to Paris n sparrow hawk Of the roads
tho humble hivver.
iii carried us to Poix-without n
single breakdown, either. We dripped
into the Hotel de Ia Care. and after
looking the place over decided we would
take a me on n omelette. as the
chef couldn't hurt that much. The Veal
went along very nicely until we Dc
covered that the coffee contained goatN
milk. Then the lawyers wife tainted
again.
About . o'clock that night the pilot
got US an ungainly. old fashioned auto
mobile to take us on the rest OF our
aerial flight to Paris. The machine
had n pair of prehistoric acetyleno
headlights, and every time we hit a
bump the lights went out. That caused
several delays. Then we frequently had
to pass through gates, and the gate
keepers were consistently asleep before
their closed portals. Waking them UP
became an art. II was 2 $50 A. NJ. when
we reached Paris, even with the lack Of
speed limits on the French roads.
1.-THE night life Of Paris looked about
as lively as the night life in the army
camps during the war. 1t had taken US
fourteen and a half hours TO reach our
goal. The ordinary time by boat and
train Is eight hours.
I'VE took tho boat back. Gomehow
We forgot to write homo TO the folks
about our flying trip to Paris"