Evening star., 1927-10-16

heard her shouting for them to save
Haldeman first.
Shouting her explanations. Miss
Elder said that she could keep af1oat
in her suit. but that Haldeman would
surely sink because he did not have
his on.
The sailors threw out lines to both
the flyers with orders to make them
fast around their bodies and both were
pulled into the ships boat.
. Miss Elders first words after put-
ting foot on the deck of the Barren
drecht were. I'VE will do it over
again" She then thanker her res
cuers, they recounted.
Describing the events leading to
the rescue members of the crew said
that on Thursday morning the Ameri-
can girl was sighted flying toward
them. AS the plane passed over the
ship a packet was dropped from it,
falling into the sea. Another package
was dropped, and this hit the deck.
IT contained a message asking the
distance to land.
An answer was painted on the
tanker's deck. Reading: 1850 miles
off Terceira, azores The flyers
seemed to understand and the crew
thought they would proceed toward
land, but the plane came lower. The
engine stopped and the plane then
settled on the water. 1t was less than
three minutes before the boat con-
tanning the rescuers had been put
oversize.
Congratulated on Arrival.
Agents Of the steamship company
operating the Barendrecht were the
first aboard TO congratulate the
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morning. Local. authorities followed
them aboard and helped form the
escort that brought them ashore.
'AIiss Elder, showing no grief over the
loss Of the plane, struck spectators
by her fresh appearance. She looked
none the worse for her adventure
Haldeman also seemed to have with
stood the unfortunate journey without
Ill effects.
Members of the crew spoke words
of praise for Miss Elders conduct
Immediately after her rescue, saying
that she never lost her courage, her
coo.ness nor her lipstick. The latter
was in evidence on her arrival this
morning, for she rouged her lips with
1t before posing for photographs
taken with Capt. Coos nautical cap
sitting pertly on her curly brown hair.
The flyers, while they were unsuc.
cessful in their attempt to reach Paris,
which would have made Miss Elder
the first woman to fly across the At
lantic, established a longrdistance
over s1ter flight record.
They were taken, after the greet
1ng5 aboard the Barendrecht, to the
home of the civil governor of Fayal,
where they will be guests until, ac-
cording to their plans, they board the
Portuguese mail boat Lima, which
sails Monday for Lisbon, whence they
will proceed overland to Paris-still
their goal.
Miss Elder and Haldeman said their
plane developed a defective oil line re-
ducing the pressure to pounds.
This was not sufficien. pressure to
force into the motor enough oil to
keep it from running hot. Their fear
that they would not be able to fly
$50 miles with their motor in this CON
dition was given as their reason for
landing beside the Parendrecht.
The plane might have been saved
but for the rolling seas that dashed
IL against the side of the tanker as
an attempt was being made to hoist it
aboard. With it's wings broken off.
members Of the crew said. the plane
fell back in the water. where explo-
sions occurred. To prevent the flames
Inat resulted from the explosions set
ting fire 70 the steamer. the lines We're
loOsed and the body Of the pane was
, Swallowd bv the sea. while the wings
rose and fell on the tossing seas.
soiied remnants of the beautiful
orange and maroon aircraft in which
they few away from Roosevelt Field
! last Tuesday evening.
Passports Lost With Plane.
Miss Elder. dressed in her natty
male golf costume with plaid sweater
and socks, vivaciously told those who
greeted them Of how their passports
and parachuteS had been lost. Put
she still wore the Chinese ring taken
along as a talisman. Members of the
crew said neither Miss Elder nor
Haldeman had any belongings when
they came aboard the Barendrecht
and they surmsed that the smell Pihle
and the toy cat, Miss Elders other
good luck charm and spiritual com
forter. had been lost.
During their reception here. Halde'
man stood nutelv in the background
seemingly satisfied that Miss Elder
should have the spotlight. Both eX-
pressed profound gratitude for their
rescue to Can't. Coos and members or
the Parendrecht's crew before being
brought ashore in n launch. Traffi"
Director George Mackay Of the West
ern Union Cable Co. VII h"lp 10 en-
tertain the flyers until their depar'
NTppday