White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-23
GOEBEL SECOND TO
Indy AS AIR IDOL
Less Modest Than Colonel,
but Great Flyer.

shouldered young man with crinkly
lines of humor beneath his eyes swag.
gered into the New York office of
prominent moving-picture concern.
"Tm stunt aviator" he announced
brusquely. "Out Of a job. Almost
broke. Living in a Brooklyn Heights
furnished room at present What
would you think OF loop-the-loop
under the Brooklyn bridge?"
"Why, It's suicide, man." he was
told. "You must be crazy"
The young man. who was Aearly six
feet tall and who looked about thirty
years old, threw back his head and
laughed.
Suicide, nothing" he said. "How
much am offered?"
The officials consulted. A loop-the-
loop between the East river and the
struts of Brooklyn bridge seemed i'm
possible. However, 1t would be Il
wonderful picture. Finally it was de-
cided to offer the daring aviator $25.
Left In Disgust.
u uS OllcI WAS uuly uiauS oAu LIN
young man left in disgust His hopes
were in shreds. He had dreamed of
earning enough by perlous stunting
here to purchase plane of his own,
then to fly to Paris and do similar
stunts about the staid old Eiffel tower
there.
This seemed the end. He went back
to Brooklyn and then down to Curtiss
field. A month later he was back on
the Pacific coast, the home of his
boyhood. He had got there by bum
ming rides" with west-bound pilots
whom he could persuade to carry him
free for short distances.
OF, course this all happened six
months before Charles A. Lindbergh
shook the country from it's aviation
coma by his picturesque fight to
Paris.
Today Art Goebel is the aviator
most talked of next to Lindbergh.
Self-assertive us he was when he
wanted to loOp-the-loop under the
Brooklyn bridge, he is u different type
of hero from Lindbergh.
Even YET the public is slow to APP.
preciate the value of the cross country
records made recently by GoeBel
When 1t does 1t may enshrine him
along with Lindbergh, though OF
course ii will never allow him to dis.
place Lindbergh.
1t was Goebel who Spawned the con
tinent in the first west to east non.
stop flight recently. His plane made
the 2,71U miles in lS hours and 5S
minutes.
Had Adventurous Youth.
Goebel's career shows only superb
cial similarities to that Of Lindbergh.
He had an adventurous youth. rebel
ing against milking cows on his fa.
theirs farm In Rocky Ford. Colo, in
favor of tinkerng with gasoline mo
tors in the garages of Main street. Tie
enlisted in the army in 1918 and had
varied stunning experience before
fame came to his door.
When the pineapple magnate, }. d.
Dole, back In August, 1927. offered
$4,000 in prizes for u 2,4OO-miIe tlighI
from San Francisco to Honolulu, Geo
bel pawned or sold nearly everything
he possessed In order to get ready the
Travel Air mOnoplane, the WoOlaroc.
which interestingly enough was In
dian for good luck" Previously Goe
bel had been stunning before Holly
woods cameras
Goebels victory made him inter
nationally known. Almost overnight
he became colonel, though pre-
viously he had had no military title
Then came a good will trip to the
Orient for Goebel lmmediateIj!
there comes to mind the l.3GOnlilt
tour of South America and Central
America Which Lindbergh made in the
Spirit of st. Louis Guebel's flight
was less productive of International
good will He toured japan In the
interest OF an ailpane company.
There are many differences between
Goebel and Indbergh. For instance
the former was more Of an instru
neni flyer than the latter. When
Lindbergh made his Paris trip he did
NOT know much about the science OF
navigation 1t is recognized fact
that he was taught this science by
army flyers after his return. Goebel
on the other hand. was always an In
strument flyer and an excellent nnvi
gator.