Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-11

.sued fOrbidding visitors to dis
turb them until they awakened.
The men told how Commander Rod
gers shared his rations with them and
refused to partake Of theirs when his
own was near exhaustion on the fifth
day. At the end Of the fifth day. all
were without rations, which originally
consisted of Is sandwiches to each man
three pints of soup, "a Jumps of sugar,
8 oranges, canteens Of water. This
was intended for the 26 hour trip to
Honolulu.
Commander Praised.
The emergency rations. thirty gallons
of water, canned beans, hardtack, dried
bread and prepared chocolate was suf-
ficient to last for several DAYS.
While Commander Rodgers deprecated
his own part in the exploit, his men
could not give him sufficient praise
and in turn regarded their own parts
negligible.
Rodgers pulled us through" they
said: He should receive all the cred
it,"
He kidded u.s." said one Of them,
though not once did he lose heart and
the doleful messages we kept picking
up failed to impress him. He joked
about them and told us about the sur
prise folks on shore would get when
we arrived safe and sound.''
The crippled eagle with its precious
burden of trail blazing adventurers was
found riding swan-like atop choppy seas
by monster of the deep, the United
States submarine R~4.
The first message was briefly laconic.
1t was devoid of details and merely
gave to waiting world the informa-
tlon that the five despaired Of lives
had been dragged back from the sea.
Gas Tanks Buoy Plane.
Buoyed up principally by it's empty
gasoline tanks the plane had drifted
approximately $50 miles in line al
most due westward from the point
where it had dropped to the water. Ex-
actiy where this point was and lust
how Tar the craft drifted can never be
known. The last messages from the
flyers picked up by the navy ships
which guarded the flight route were
requests for compass bearings, admis-
slons that they had lost their bearings
and repeated assertions that "if we
have to alight here we are goners.''
Progress of the plane, wind driven on
the face of the water, was slower than
calculations of the searching navy for
ces had indicated. II was sighted ut a
position over which the flotilla Of naval
craft had cruised last Saturday and
was picked up by submarine heading
out to meet the searching fleet. The
location was near that in which the
mine sweeper Whippoorwill had re-
ported, two days after the search start
ed, seeig a white flare and two red
rockets, which had occasioned a de-
cldede increase in the area over which
the cruising ships were coursing.
Under Commander Rodgers direction
were Lieut.. Byron J. Connell Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, assistant pilot; Skiles N.
Pope of Dayton, Tenn, aviation pilot;
William H. BowIin Of Richmond. Ind,
aviation chief machinists mate, and Otis
G Stantz, of Terre Haute, Ind, chief
radio man.
The navy's perseverance, after all
hopes had been virtually abandoned
that the plane and its crew might be
found conquered the elements which had
forced Rogers and his men down ITS
or 200 miles east of their objective.
.kahului and hidden their fate for more
than a week.
A simple and brief message brought
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