Evening star., 1924-07-31

terribly hard work" that their world
hight has meant, and-merciful re-
lease from the center of the lime
light.
"A couple of weeks for me in Los
Angeles, where my father and mother
are Smith said, when asked what he
is planning to do after the flight is
over, "and then I'm going to get up
In the mountains of Oregon-and
hide!'
I'll tell you what l want to do
most when we get back deposed
Staff Sergt. II. H. ogden, whose home
town is Natchez, Miss II want to
take a room at hotel and tell them
to call meat am. And then. when
somebody comes to do it. to fire a
shoe at his head and tell him to go
where it's hottest: Oh, boy, what a
grand and glorious feeling that will be-"
Nelson Thinks of Dog.
1t was in the course of such ques-
tionings that / discovered the dog.
The dog, born and partly bred in
Alaska, that, apparently, means as
much as any other one thing, human
or otherwise, in the young life of an
other of these boys, Erick Nelson.
Nelson, pilot of No. plane, was born
in Stockholm as it is possible TO de-
duce from his accent and side burns,
but win the eNctpllou u theSe
trifing details he is 100 per cent
United States.
Home for me is where hang my
hat up, or maybe I'd better say where
my dog is" he said. Say, I've got
the dandiest dog in the world, and
see him. He's what they call blue
eyed Siberian-that's a fine breed
that they have up in Alaska. L was
one of the pilots in the flight from
New York to Nome, and 1t was theh
that 1 got him. He was only seven
him back with me. I'd surely have
taken him with me on this flight. too,
if he hadn't weighed bit too mu6 n.
Where is he now? Why, he's right
a Dayton, Ohio, and as that one OF
the stops we make on our last night
across the States, I'll be seeing him
right soon after we strike North
America Yes sir, he's wife and KID
and everything to me. Name? why
l christened him Nome, after where l
got him"
Did Little Sightseeing.
What do these fellows think of the
world that they have so nearly flown
around?
The fact is that we've seen it and
we haven't seen it," was how Leigh
Wade the pilot of plane No. 3. put
it. What 1 mean" he explained, lis
that we've seen all these foreign
countries from the air. but that isn't
like seeing them from the ground.
And from the ground we've seen next
to nothing of them. What does the
actual sight seeing we've been aple
to do amount to? We had few
hours to look around at Rangoon and
about as long at Bangkok. We had
one day at Consta ntinople and day
and a half at TOXIC (where we were
busy all the time and didn't see much
of anything). and another day in
Paris, all taken up with entertain
the sum total up to date. How could
we see anything Of all these places?
Do you realize what our life has been
on this trip? Day after day, for these
four months, we've flown from about
in the morning until or at night.
AS soon as we've landed we've had
to work on our planes for or 3
hours, almost until it was time to
turn in. We haven't averaged more
than or hours sleep a day since
we started"
Would Enjoy World Cruise.
Much the same kind of observation
was made later by Lowell Smith, who
added, THE result is that We all feel
that we'd like to get hold of a yacht,
go on a world cruise and really see
all the countries we've flown over
and enjoy the hospitality that has
been offered us and that we have only
been able to sample on the flight.
We've got. a mass OF oddly as
sorted memories of this trip" Smith
went on. "One of the queerest things
of all happened at Bangkok. Siam.
There we were invited to witness
double beheading. In Siam they only
execute for first-degree murder.
which is comparatively rare, and a
L~h ;C rriaI in nYivQfp
only very distinguished people being
allowed to be present. The invitation
we received was intended as a. great
honor. This was a case of an eye
for an eye and tooth for tooth,
their heads had killed two other men,.
We were due to fly couple of hours
before the affair took place, and SO
had to decline the invitation. but
don't believe we'd have wanted to see
it, anyway.
Saw Bodies in Water. ''.
Among the things wen always re-
member" he added, "are the human
bodies that we saw floating In the
rivers of China and the East gen
orally. 1t looked to US as If a lot
of Chinese, Siamese and Burmese con-
sidered that the easiest way to get
rid of body was to chuck 1t into, the
nearest stream. In the river at
BANGKOK, winch TuHS ike d Hiili ! dSCs
we saw a dead baby floating. sur
rounded on all sides by the carcasses
of animals.
And while we were being enter
tanned at Rangoon," Smith continued
with chuckle, "a native servant
came up to our host, a wealthy Bur-
mese, and told him that the body of
man that had drifted down the
river had lodged against the land
ing stage. Our host seemed a bit
uncertain what to do at first. but
then he solved the little difficulty by
taking a pole and pushing the de-
ceased out in the stream and starting
him on his way again"
What part of the flight stands out
most vividly in your memory smith
was asked.
In Danger In Desert
Il guess it was a thing that hap
Sind Desert" he said. 1--WE were
about 20 miles from Karachi when
Erik Nelson's motor began to give
trouble. That region is an absolute
waste, and for a while things looked
mighty bad. 1t was only by an ex-
hibition of the purest nerve and by
nursing his motor that Nielsen kept
his plane in the air till we struck
Karachi. And then we found that q
piston was broken and that he had
four holes through his crank. case"
Leigh Wade, asked the same Ques-
ton, said he thought the part of the
flight that stood out most in his
memory was the crossing of the
Taurus Mountains (Asia Minor), lin
the course of which the machines had
to pass in single file through a mar
row gorge, the wtng-tips nearly touch
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