The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-25
and I did? We slept!"
 No Sleep For Crew

No Sleep For Crew
 But there was no sleep for Jones his Co-Pilot James Carrigan, New York City. and his steward, Ed ward LemieuX, Fall River, Mass.
 They worked through the night flashing down the low-wing, 14- passenger monoplane as it stood ir pitch blackness outside the tiny Waiting-room The wind was blow ing more than 50 miles an hour ano the captain feared delicate controls on the ship woul1 be battered.
 The plane left Newark shortly after 8 D. m. It was blowing and raining pretty hard then, Capt Jones said, but not hard enough, he thought, to prevent a flight.
 But it was only a short time after we took off," he added, that wind began to blow. It was like a hurricane. I don't think we made over 10 or Is miles an hour against it.
 Blown Past Newark
 q contacted our offices at Newark and told them I was coming back So I turned around. But that wind was so strong, it blew me right past Newark"
 And for hours Jones and Carrigan fought the storm. Many times they were lost. Then they would pick ur a beam. At different times they were on the Floyd Bennett, Newark Martins Creek and Harrisburg, Pa. beams.
 But they couldn't land, and before long they found themselves over New Britain, Conn. Jones could tel because a giant searchlight rotates through the sky near there for the aid of aviatorS.
 Landed at a. m.
 Newark thereupon gave him ir- structions to land at Rentschlel Field, about IA miles away. He did shortly after a. m.
 "There was nothing to it. Jones said simply.
 Passengers Swell Guys
 Lemieux, 25, has been a steward for eight months. He said his pas sengers were swell guys" and "St glad to be on the ground they didn't know what to do except holler."
 T tried to keep them from think ing about crashing" he said, but every ten minutes or so they would ask me where we were. They final ly dozed of.
 This fellow Bane kept wanting coffee. But you know what King kept asking for? Chewing gum! must have given him six or sever packages through the night"
 Gale Battered Structure
 Bane and King remained in tho fields waiting-room for an hour ol so, as the gale battered the struc- ture and adjacent hangars. The wind was so strong a man had tc hold the front door of the waiting room from being blown open. Water a foot high surrounded the place.
 The passengers then accepted a ride from an aircraft worker into Hartford where they boarded an early morning train for New York Both planned to fly today from Newark to Washington.
 This won't discourage me from flying" said Bane bravely. King agreed.
 Pilot Is Embraced
 "This Captain Jones'" said the little shoe dealer, embracing the pilot, "is the swellest guy I ever met. He's prince"
 The passengers and the crew look ed wan and pale. All of them need ed slaves. And they were starved
 The plane did not carry any fooo because it was only a short flight Beverages, however, were available
 Shortly before dawn, the crew left the place for something to eat"
 I'm starved" said Jones. e wonder how the wife and kids are?' He said he had two boys, aged 1( and 6, at his Newark home.
 Three sacks of mail were taken from the plane and deposited on the floor of the waiting-room.
 Those will be taken care of, Jones said.
 A trio of army cots were dug out from under a pile of debris in the hangar and were set up to await re- turn of the crew.
 Blowing Like Hell | "We expected headwind," Jones said as he turned to go for coffee and sandwiches, but not a hurri- cane. We could tell by the way the ship flew that it was blowing like hell"
 I'm glad we have the plane lash- ed down now. If the controls are not securely tied down, the wind vii blow them off.
 Boy, I'll never forget this night We flew as slow as possible, trying to save our gas. I began to worry about forced landing. I could see tke ground many times but couldn't come down."
 COnserves Gasoline We were trying to conserve ouI