Evening star., 1937-08-15

she picks up speed, but not enough
speed. Dangerously near the end of
the 7,000foot run, Pilot Irving hits
the brakes. The ship stops, turns and
takes back to the starting point In
rapid sequence the others take of.
Sleek Golden Eagle leaves the
ground in less than 5000 feet. Miss
Doran, Aloha, Woolaroc and finally
The Dallas Spirit speed away
The Pabco Pacific Flyer is Just
getting ready for second try when
Miss Doran comes back to the field,
her engine splitting. Pedlar has
dumped most of her heavy load of
gasoline into the sea, so she lands
easily and her crew, barely waiting for
her to stop rolling, jump out and start
checking the engine. A little later
The Dallas Spirit returns, fabric
streaming from her sides. EichWaldt
tells how, shortly after the take off,
the lslnglaSs window in the floor
broke, and how the wind rushing
through had ripped the covering from
the ships fuselage The Oklahoma
comes back. She too has experienced
engine trouble.
The Pabco Pacific FLYER makes an
other attempt to get off. UnSuccess-
ful, she WlthdraWs from the race. With
new spark plugs in her engine, a fresh
supply of fuel and a cheering word
from Pilot Ernest Smith, who last
month made the hazardous crossing
from San FranciSo to Hawaii himself,
MISS Doran is off again. The Dallas
SPIRIT has been repaired and is ready
TO go. Misfortune strikes again. for
she noses over on the take-off and is
damaged. The Oklahoma withdraws.
1t is night and four ships are some
where over the Pacific. Early morning
arrives, but no ships The morning
slips by. In Hawaii a huge crowd
gathers at the airport. Then, 26 hours
II minutes and 33 seconds after
leaving California. the Woolaroc
ends her journey. Goebel and Davis
grlnnlng from ear to ear, climb out
and ask if they are first. They are
They have reached their goal. In
answer to questions they say they have
not seen any of the other ships.
Mrs Martin Jensen. eagerly, anx-
lously, awaits her husband. And
scarcely two hours after the arrival of
Woolaroc he comes in-from the
West. Aloha had overShot the
small target. For two hours she had
flown almleSslV over the sea- waiting
Tor the overcast skies to clear enough
for Schluter to take reading on the
sun. The sun became visible again
Just IN time. Aloha has landed with
only Commute supply of fuel left in
her tanks
story is told about Mrs. Jensen
approaching her husband very much
upset with anxiety when he landed and
saying, Martin, where the devil have
you been?"
The crowd waits in vain for Miss
Doran and Golden Eagle. Steam
ships at sea are requested to watch
tor them. August II passes. The
eighteenth. Frclghters express liners.
destroyerS comb the seas. Jensen
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sign. The eighteenth passes but the
two ships and their crews are still
unreported.
Back at Bayfarm Field, Erwin and
ElchWaldt have repaired the Dallas
Spirit and are ready to leave. They
have decided to go after the S25,OOO
offered by William K Easterbrook for
the first aerial crossing from Dallas.
lex, where they originally started
their flight, to Hongkong, China.
They plan to fly zigzag course to
Hawaii, searching en- route for the
two missing ships. At 2:15 in the
afternoon of August l9 they take off.
At 9:15 that night, when approxi-
mately $50 miles at sea. their radio
crackles out message from Eichaldt
that they are spinning. Erwin man.
ages to set the ship under control.
EichWaldt explains that the light
Illuminating the instrument panel has
gone out. Suddenly they send the
message, We are in another spin"
1t is the final message and a cool one.
The radio is silent, The fog and sea
have won again. Only through the
fact that the Dallas Spirit was
equipped with radio was the world
able to know when and how she
perished
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