Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
! lND')EHGH TELLS
Of PRANK At CAMP
Il els Story in His Own
Book Proves Him Not Alto
cet,?er Serious Minded.

ca Charles :. I.indbersh Is not
:.,o.ethe. III. serious minded young
lran.
Probably he has rebei'ed at the
..ta -snt.laced picture of him that oc-
,a~.ouauy has been exhibited before
t!a American people. In his autobi-
c,raphv. We" just published by q.
T.. Putnam & Sons, he finds occasion
~ Drosant a somewhat different like
l.ass-a kid photograph, so to speak
There is. for instance. the story OF
the top sergeant at Kelly Field: whose
apularity among the flying cadets
was about that OF top Kicks the
world over.
Polecats Were of Use.
lone evening" he says. 1T was re,
ported that three polecats had craWled
mo a culvert in front of the barracks
Tor an hour we attempted 10 smoke
then, out. When that failed the fire
department was called and we washed
them out. The smoke had evidently
taken effect however. and soon three
dead polecats came floating out from
tne culvert. The next problem was
how to make use of such possibilities.
That question was worthy OF a most
careful consideration. After survey
of the barracks. we found tldt our
cadet first sergeant was III san Anto-
MO. There was scarcely one OF us
who lid not have some small score TO
settle with him. so we took one OF the
njllows from his bed and after remoV-
ing the pilIowcase placed it behind one
of the polecats. The desired results
were then obtained by stepping on
. the back end of the cat, and after
cautiously inserting the pillow back
in it's case we replaced it on the first
sergeant's bunk.
The results were far above expec-
tation. One by one the occupants of
that bay arose and carried their cots
outside. until by midnight. when our
sergeant returned, there were only
Ialf dozen hunks left, including his
own. BY that time the odor had per-
meated through the other bedding and
he was liable to locate the pillow as
being the primary cause of offense.
ANY night for the next two weeks
thereafter the first sergeant and his
cot might be located out behind the
barracks. and the inspection OF quar-
tiers which was to have been held the
following morning was postponed in
definitely"
Mother Flew with Him.
llOliiSI IL IiO StldI5Vl
10 the air, he reveals in this book dur
ing his accounts of his earlier barn
storming days before the course of
training at the Army flying field in
Texas. He says:
Il transformed southern Minnesota
for ten days with my mother. My
mother had never objected to my fly
ing, and after her first flight she be-
came an enthusiast herself. We had
both been together constantly up to
the start of my flying career and had
both looked forward to flying around
together. Consequently, when the OPP
portunity presented itself / wired her
TO meet me in GAINESVILLE. My mother
enjoyed flying from the first and has
made a number Of flights with me, in
Guiding round trip between Chicago
and ST., Louis in the mail compart
ment of my plane"
Col. Lindbergh carries the story of
his remarkable career up to the point
of his landing in Paris. The account
OF his receptions in France, England
and the United States are left to an
other author. The fight across the
cIoud-shrouded Atlantic is described
in a way which brings thrills to the
reader.
One of the great difficulties, Col.
Iindbergh says, was occasioned by the
cloud decisions. Every now and then
there would appear before him a for.
ested island which he would mistake
for some of the land specks off the
coast of Ireland, but which always
turned out to be clouds of peculiar
formation.