Evening star., 1939-06-07
Saved Flyer, Sticking
To Mars Story, Faces
Two Prosecutions
EsheImon GrinninsIy
Insists He Wusn't
Bound for Europe
b the Associated Press.

BOSTON, June Still insisting
he was headed for Mars, Cheston L.
Eshelman, 22-year -old student flyer
from Carlisle, Pa, returned to dry
land today only to be arrested for
larceny of the airplane which sank
when he was fished from the At
lant1c, IT'S miles east southeast of
Boston yesterday.
MY only destination was Mars
the planet Mars" Mr.. Eshelman
grinningly told reporters aboard the
police boat which took him from
the trawler Villanova in the harbor.
Il had no intention of flying to
Europe"
What were you going to do
there?" he was asked.
you've got me there, I wouldn't
know what to do on Mars" Mr.,
Eshelman replied.
Inspector Paul Crowley and 1t.
1t. James Crowley handcuffed the
youth, who had made only one solo
flight previous to his unorthodoX hop
from Camden, N. j., Monday night,
and took him to headquarters to
await the arrival of New Jersey
police.
Faces Two Prosecutions.
Edward Walk of Camden, owner
OF the plane, which Mr.. Eshelman
said he rented for an hour, obtained
larceny warrant against Mr.. Eshel-
man last night and asked Boston
police to arrest him. Civil Aeronau-
tics Authority officials at Camden
Airport said his arrest also would be
sought for four possible violations
of Civil Aeronautics Authority reg
ulatlons. He could be fined $4,000
and lose his flying license for the
G. A. A. violations.
He said he did not know he was
over the water until dawn because
OF "fog-black and soupy." Then he
asked the trawler Storm for direc-
tions to land but failed to see the
painted directions on her pilot house.
He headed out to sea and about an
hour later landed near the Villa
nova.
The youths sole food was two
chocolate bars and few sandwiches
Police said Mr.. Eshelman had only
b5 cents in cash on his person.
. indicating he would not fight
extradition, police quoted Mr.. Eshel-
man as saying: II think Ill give in
and go back and face the music"
Had Gotten More Gasoline.
Mr.. Eshelman was not hurt, but
Capt. Astman Bjartmarz, Icelandic
skipper OF the traWler Villanoya.
which carried the flyer to port, said
he was suffering from shock and
exhaustion.
After taking off from Camden, the
dyer, who had about 10 hours in
struction, landed on farm 18 miles
north OF Philadelphia and picked up
80 gallons of gasoline. Nils Hedin,
the farmer, quoted Mr.. Eshelman as
saying he intended to fly "out West"
The youths mother, Mrs. Bertha
M. Eshelman, happy that her son
had been rescued, said he had been
excited about the flights of Cor
rlgan and other trans Atlantic
flyers" Douglas Corrigan also took
of for "out West" last year but
landed safely in Ireland.
4. The flyer explained he also took
aboard SIS gallons of gasoline at Pit
cairn Airport, a httle-used field
north OF Philadelphia, after leaving
Camden Airport with eight gallons
for his one-hour flight.
Asked about course through Bos-
ton and st. John, New Brunswick,
plotted on the scrap of chart on
which he wrote his request for di-
rections, Mr.. Eshelman declared the
paper was simply some old map"
To suggestions that he might have
been Influenced by recent attempts
to span the Atlantic in small ships,
Mr.. Eshelman had a short answer:
That's bunch of boloney.