Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-02-16

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makes you laugh in
the theatre after some of our long pic
lures have either made you cry or
cuss.
But making this last trip my thoughts
naturally went to Captain Jimmy Dick
inson, and its OF him that | want to
talk about. One of the finest pilots.
one of the finest men that it has ever
been my fortune to meet and know
Here he was flying all around back and
forth across the q. S. in a single day
carrying Mr. Roach or his business as
soeiates on the quickest business trips
yer made in the world.
He was In that same plane of MIR.
Reaches. plotting Mr. Edmund Loew.
son OF Marcus LoeW OF the great Loew
circuit OF movie theatres. He and a
friend were making a tour of the world
to see their various theatres. They
had shipped the plane to. Australia.
then flew all over Australia, then flew
it all the way from there to China. then
from China across India, Messopo-
tamia. Persia. to Carlo, then the whole
length Of Africa. and were on their
way back and into Europe. then home
So you see they were oh the very home
stretch. Bad field. and the engine
stalled on the take off. Up only a little
ways, no chance. crash, other two safe.
He went. Why, none OF us know.
Judged by every moral and manly
standard that anyone who knew him
could judge. fate dident give him a
square deal. But maby fate don't run
those things. Maby somebody sees
somebody they need and they just
reach out anu get EN-. Well ii our
Supreme Being needed a real man. He
used splendid judgement In His seIec-
ton. He will be a worthy addition to
that company. nc matter how select
1t may be. They will be proud of
Jimmy.
Mrs Roach and her friends who are
not aviation enthusiasts at all. but
would go to Siberia with Captain Dick
inson. He is the only pilot that | know
OF that ever fooled a nation. Roach
and Loew few to Santiago Chill with
him In four or five days, some marici-
lous time, to fly the Andes the next
morning to Bnenos Aires. They left
earlier than they had expected. Well
its a military field, and they dident
properly check out, or some techni-
cality, lmaby 1t was the starting OF
technocracy) but anyhow they just
took off. The Andes to Jimmy was just
a high hedge fence. and he took Ii in
stride. He made Buenos Aires for
breakfast. But Chill commenced get
ting hot, all kinds Of stories. two movie
magnates had taken a lot of gold out
OF the Country, and all kinds OF yarns.
Well they then went on up the coast
Of Brazil to Rio Janeiro. Now | made
that trip around and on up the east
coast of South America from Rio
Janerio, clear up to Cuba and Miami.
but 1t must be done In a sea plane or
amphibian. Theirs being a land plane
solely. they had to come back by the
west coast like they had gone down.
SO Chill figured they had EN-, because
they had to come back through there,
but they figured without Captain Dick
inson. He looked on the map and saw
that right straight west OF them was
Peru, but about three thousand miles
away. Well he finds one landing field
out there just north OF Paraguay.
q place called Carambauy, which
had only been approached from the
south and not from where he was. So
Roach said, Let her go JIMMY"
And he did. Roach says 1T was the
greatest fight he aver saw. and those
American pilots on the regular runs
there say 1t was a masterpiece
Of navigating. and judgement. So he
ait the Pacific Ocean north of Chill.
II you dropped down In those Jun
si~s there was no hitch hiking to town.
IAey after wards got 1t Strengthened
m with Chill n