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STRATOSPHERE

ADVENTURE

Aeronaut's Story Of Amazing Escape

PARACHUTE JUMPS

The United States attempt on' the stratosphers height record, which began from Rapid City, South Dakota, nearly ended in disaster for the balloon's eccup- anta..

When over North Platte, Nebras ka, at a height of over 50,000 feet, the underside of the envelopa ripped and the balloon began slow- ly to descend.

When the balloon Was low enough for the attempt to be made one of the three men Inside, Mr. Orvil Anderson, the second plot. Jumped from 5,000 feet.

Ha was followed by Captain Albert W. Stovens, the observer, at the last moment, with the balloon at 500 feet, Major Kempner, the pilot, leapt clear.

Immediately

afterwards the great gas-bag burst and was seep to drop like a stone on to a farm near Lexington.

The expedition had been dealgn-i ed to break all previous stratos- phere recorda.

The fantastic-looking craft had climbed to an altitude of 11 miles when its gas-bag was suddenly ripped open. The three`airmen. looking through the glass roof of the circular metal gondola in which they were sealed, saw to their dia may the gash widen,

As the cold air of the stratos phere rushed into the gap, the balloon shuddered and swayed like a foundering ship,

-BROADCAST DRAMA.

Within a few seconds the balloon

began to plunge to earth. Its Gccupants were being whirled downwards under three acres of flapping fabric.

Wireless listeners all over Amor- ien who had been following the broadcast of the ascent by Komp- her gasped with horror when they realised that disauter had taken this great eraft.

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Speaking in cool, 'level tones, Kempner said, "The bottom of the balloon is pretty well tom out. The thing is beginning to look like a huge sieve. I don't know how long she is going to halt together."

"How fast are you falling?" inquired the War Department of Washington.

"About as fast as a man would fall if he jumped off »- roof,” call- ed back Kempner.

At 30,000 feet the balloonials | opened the port-holes of the gon- dola. Then at 18,000 feet Histon- ers heard Stevens in a tense-voice saying: "We are getting ready to jump.

Turn in the figes of bodice and skirt opening, and face with. narrow crossway,strips of material. The bodice can qithor actually fasten with the white buttons, or it can have press fastenings underneath the buttons.

Turn up a two-inch hem on the right side of the skirt, slipping in a narrow fold of 10hite-maforial which will form a piping when stitched down.

Put in the sleeves, edge the neck with white, binding or piping, and finish with a bow at the neck and another at the waist.

At this point wireless contact with the balloon was severed, and listeners were loft guessing at the outcome of this drama of the sky.

Then camo the

from nows Lexington that the balloon had gondola, then jump out of it when been seen descending and that its we got where a human being could occupants had made parachute live.. jumps to safety,

1934.

ON THE FAR, FAR EAST!

PIKER ABOUT A WEDDING TRIP!

(By Joe E. Brown.) Hollywood, Calif-Smart people thoso Chinese. Don't let any- body tell you otherwise. People have been saying that to me, and I've been saying that to others for

a long time in a kidding way.

Now I know It's on the level. After a couple of montha in. the Orlent I know that all the brains in the world aron't concentrated In the white race.

I think I've always had a hunch that that was 50, I've always wanted to go to China and Japan and got acquainted in those coun- tries. It was to have been a honeymoon trip at first-but time sort

of slipped by for sixteen years and my wife and I just never got around to go. Sometimes it was money we lacked, and sometimes it was babies or lack of time or just plain having to work for a living that interfered.

But a few months age put my foot down hard and said I was go- ing to China or else, and I was go- ing to insist that Mrs. Brown go with mo-just to make good ori those early promises. A guy can't be a piker about his wedding trip forever.

And it was worth going across all that water just to see that peo ple on the other side of the world kre not as different from us as the old MacMillan geographies painted them. I couldn't find a single good

the Chinese reason why Japaneso can't be felends with us and with each other.

and

In a lot of ways they're way ahead of us. Of course they have had forty or fifty centuries more to figure things out. It's sort of a shock to an American to discover that a wise old Chinese regards the whole three hundred years of American history as an "experi- ment," interesting but not in existence long enough yet to prova anything.

Nothing is well established, ac- cording to a Chinese, until after the first thousand years. The only trouble with that theory is that no- body ever lives to prove it.

I think I met hundreds of Chinese and Japancae who speak English. I know a few Americans who speaks the Oriental languages but not many. I'm not recommend- Ing that every American child be taught to speak Chinese, but it might not be a bad idea for a few of them to learn the world's oldest language. I wish I could, but the wordh just won't fit in my mouth.

The younger generations in Asia have the same advanced views about most things that we have. They know a lot more about our country than we know about theirs, And they have the good taste to be amused rather than angry when an American parades his ignorance of their customs, history or religion,

"At 30,000 feet we opened thea, nice jump, Stevens followed, Major Kempner, describing their gondola, got out, and looked at having some difficulty in clearing adventures after he had reached things on top, and it lacked as if the gyrating gondola, and then the ground, suid:--

nasibly we would be able to land seeing them safe I leapt off my "Wo were up about 57,000 feet it with some good records. We self." when the fabric of the bag up felt that it was well worth taking All the instruments and equip parently gave way, due to inflation a long chance to bring home the ment in the balloon, worth thou- or some other cause-I do not records we had obtained. know what.

"With that iden in mind,

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sands of dollars, have been destroy- ed with the exception of the "We were able to look through tried to land the balloon, evon

apectograph, Captain Anderson the window at the top of the gon-though the bottom was virtually stated that the gondola was totally

wrecked. dol, and see a hole about 50 feet torn away. The parachuting effect long.

of the fall tended to cut the lower The height of 60,000 feet or "We were somewhat concerned, fabric away, and left a great gap just over 11. miles which the air- because you cannot get out of anv-Ing top with hydrogen holding it men are reported to have reached thing at 00,000 feat. A human up.

was less than the height obtained being dies at 52,000 feet;

"It was making a parachute com- by the Soviet balloon Stratostate bination, and with that at about U.S.S.R. last year, and about a DASH TOWARDS EARTH. 5,000 feet It Buddenly split wide mile under the height believed to "So we sat and waited, wonder-open, and everything dashed to have been obtained by the Soviet. balloon Osoaviakhim, which crash- ing whether or not we were going ward the earth.

to come hustling down through "We saw it was useless to waited to earth with the death of its space at a mile a minute in the any longer. Anderson went first

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