Evening star., 1929-06-28
Ulbrick, i'm Jensen Plane,
Hysterical on Hearing
of GirPs Mishap.
CRAFT STRUCK TREE
Record Seeker Awaits
Word by Radio from Hos
pital as Ship Drones on.

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, June %
R.-Tragedy and romance rode side
by side today on the wings of disaster
that broke in upon the friendly rivalry
of a race for a new endurance flight
record
Throughout the night two planes
circled above the Long Island fields
and then In the dawn one crashed and
through the wreckage there was visible
the story of an unguessed romance.
In one of the planes, which went up
two nights ago, were Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Jensen and william Ulbrick, a
professional pilot In the other was
Viola Gentry and Jack Ashcraft.
Girl Calls for UIbrick.
At Sis o'clock this morning the
Ashcraft- Gentry plane crashed into a
tree Ashcraft was killed. Miss Gentry,
hysterical in the wreckage and critical
ly injured, called over and over again
for Bill Ulbrick. It had been known
she and Ulbrick were close friends,
just as she was close friend Of the
Jensens but that the feeling between
them was more than that was not
known until, believing herself at deaths
door, she prayed to have him with her.
And then Ulbrick, who had seen the
other plane disappear in a bank OF
clouds, effected communication with
the flying field Office by means OF the
radio telephone in his plane. He was
as historical as Miss Gentry had been
and he pleaded and stormed and wept
for a true report on what had hap
Dened tn Miss Gentry.
Pilots at the field talked with Ulbrick
and finally told him there had been
an accident and that Miss Gentry had
broken an arm. He was so distracted
they were afraid to tell of multiple
other breaks, of cruel lacerations and
of internal injuries that had made hos
pital physicians shake their heads and
murmur Of "a $3.50 chance"
Phone Placed by Bed.
Ulbrick was promised. to quiet him,
that a nnicrophone would be run
directly to Miss Gentry's bedside so that
he might speak with her. Preparations
were made to do this on the chance that
in a lucid interval the woman flyer
might be able 60 say word, perhaps
her last word, to the man she con-
tinued to call for in her semi-conscious
moments.
Ulbrick lives near the nylng neloS
with his mother and for several months
Miss Gentry had been staying with
them. She and Ulbrick we're often seen
together at the fields and elsewhere. and
they were always "Bilr' and Viola" to
each other, but that was easily ac-
counted for by the natural intimacy OF
persons in the same hazardous protes-
sion.
Until today, when the man and
woman called to each other across the
valley of the shadow of death, not even
their associates of the flying fields sus-
pected that a romance had been BIOS
soming in their midst unseen.
Wind Menaces RefueIing.
Shortly before noon flyers at the
field believed that a crucial point was
arriving in the endurance flight Of the
Three Musketeers The wind had risen
to 40 miles an hour on the ground, and
at the height the plane was flying it
was about SIS Jensen dropped note
that he needed more gasoline.
He was instructed to fly out over the
ocean, where it was hoped the air would
be smoother, and Burgin took OF in
the refueling ship with fuel and days
supply of food.
The refueling over the ocean was sue
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