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7 in Navy Arch A jp A (K tfl 1 2 1 IMlANCE I JiDES Corinth i $10 MsoniiracU tr UHYAN TEXAS ped the right lower wing spar i DtNDfimLn were ensu thefr traneous equipment tor plMOB left ely to the commanders Ot air stations" The only signiticunce the whete incident contaued for Lieuteaant Curtin was the light it threw the importance of signal equl menu a mere professional interest He emphasized the point ta eeae eluding his colorless official rwgert to Commander Rodgers: 'efforts made to keep the Very shells and flashlight dry responsible tin the end tor oar eoiery and too much emghaala cannot be laid on the importaaga of keepingi'eny signal equipment dry as "The intensely personal reactieM which might be expected toremeiajvays man after such te''pcr'enew were entirely abaaat and the elements of danger and ad venture appeared to have been en tirely lost on Lieutenant Curtta stitched scallops a il lustrated but with ju nior Spanish heel? where it had feoad a modest rest ing place His story follows: When the 'Engine Dead" "When our engine went dead and wo tesceaded at 10:19 a the standard sea anchors were put overboard and our one remaining pigeon was released with a mes sage to Commander Rodgers at Pearl Harbor giving our location and slating that wo were drifting eight knots aa hour southwest with heavy seas runping The other plane had of course gone on The sea was running 20 feet and there was a 25 knot wind from the north northeast We rigged an extra sea anchor from the motor cover and other material and began to wait for resbue Meanwhile we tried to get the engine started "By 11 the wind had in creased to It miles an hour and the sea had begun to kick up By using the ailerons and rudder and ma nipulating the sea anchors we had been able so tar to keep the plans headed into' the wind Then a 25 toot wave broke over as iliDEN away 'iniBu 'secret archives of the Navy lie part nt ats Wash I ng toil completely labeled p'geun holed and consgud to 'eternal oblivion lies the yH olfi clal reeprd of countless: acts of heroism and jnuumeriiblc' exploits of daring Here repose tale on tale sin the colorless accentwt official re port of romance and adventure of'high courage nobly displayed "iti the performance of duty" and by that fact iudr lihly' stamped asun 1m porta nt aud not of public: inter crawl on to the bottom of the left stub wing and remain there until i it went under at' when we transferred to the pontoon We lashed our left wrists to a heavy i spar and this saved us several tunes when we were washed off lhe: pontoon which was by this time flush with the water Only our arms shoulders and heads were above surface fired a Very shell at dusk bu sawno answering light Ten min utes later I tried another shell and this brought two answering gleams from searchlights on the horizon I continued to fire Very lights every quarter of an hour ami soon was able to make out the lights of a vessel about ten miles away but she was turning taway from our direction I fired another shell and the light revealed anoth er ship which seamed to be follow ing a course toward us Very sheila remained and I tried each la turn but only one functioned its light revealing a ship about five miles off headed in our direction As this last flare died out complete darkness fol lowed Occasionally when we were carried aloft on a high wave I could see the lights of the ship in the distance but it was of course im tlie engine endeavoring fo bring it) to lif'iigain'Even at night they worked with the aid of flashlights 3 hicli had fortunately been sup plied to them for when theengine dead the plane lights went out Commander Rodgers inspect ed the engine from Time TTmeA constantly studied his nautical and aeronaiitiaLcharts and kept track of the drift of his frail craft by fre quent use of his navigating lustra dj merits He also was ablcta keep busy night its well as day having provided himself with a special faflijlght: attachment which' pro jected its rays directly upon his charts Saud 1 instruments and al lowed freedom to both hands Commander has been said about our trip" Commander Rodgers 'Slated win't tell you any mois about It Talk with Curtin Cur tin had the same experience" 'Cut tobe Lieutenant Lawrence VV Curtin Acting Aide to Commander Rodgers In his new ca pneity of Assistant Chief "of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy lie was formerly attached to 'the: Pearl Harbor Air Station Hawaiian Islands under Commander Rodgers Hj and was named alternate pilot for the Pacific Coast Hawuiian trip' though not called on to make the flight Some time previous to the Rodg rs flight Lieutenant Curtin was in? command of one of two planes or dered to make a routine duly flight' trjn me Peart Harbor station to Na ilt will on the Ulaud of Kauai a distance of ninety miles and re turn N'awiliwili is the port at which Commander Rodgers and his heroic band landed after their siec tacular reseueiAOn the return trip the two planes left N'awiliwili at i 9 20 in the morning When they had gone half the distance the en gine he torpedo plane? carrying United States Navy torpedo destroyer of the air the type of eraft flown by Lieutenant The plane carries a torpedo under the fusilafle which can be aiHomatlcelly released against an enemy vooeal Colonel Mitchell claims the largest battleship afloat ie no Matoh agalnet thia winged agent of aaodera warfare as well? Beyond issuing a order that iu? future every PtoM leaving Pearl Harbor must earry flisUbght' Commander Rodgers i cepieu me report os me museai io the unemotional manner tmitl Tional iir the Navy and forwarded it to headquarters at Waahlngto with a brief intention of the CXM plary manner In which his subordi nate officer bad conducted htoeMM in a trying "performance of duty' Perhaps this comment was tftevnIng praise from the man la himself the outstanding eanhedU meet of Navy coolness la the tMs of extreme danger ui who mmM regard without eMtiea the gtowtag here worehl et a aatlM tea had tkriUed to Me vorf tageHtR" ii The 'Inscrutable hand of tradi itlonal reticence bits drawn tho cur Xain of secrecy about many mod ern epic of Homeric romance which will tiv ver remain uolier 1elded and unrung The of a century coven them ttml each nrfinds them biiio deeper in that mausoleum ut sil iu into: which 'the immemorial 'I ultf ions of the Navy require that all evid co putstauding individual accompl'rdi 'ment shall be entomlicd i "In the Illes of the Navy' impart ment al Washington" is a phrasefrequently encountered In the news ipapers and periodicals: Ji means leas thau nothing to the average man on the street Actually It de edrlbes the repository of 150 years of naval history The triumphs and disasters of mighty fleets and valiant men are buried theie As the Sea of Sargossa gather's Into Its mystic depths the flotsam and jetsam of the waters of the earth the? files of the Navy accept Into their obscure recesses the ebb and flow of current naval affairs All channels of official communica tion lead there and are stlllcI Here official action rests its pon derous limbs and expires Here at last Is achieved the absolute anti thesis of that restless momentum that characterizes the sea and" all those who go down to the sea Official design Iles back of the strange reticence of the Navy which 1s manifested in the tradi tional reluctance to make its activi ties public and In the chill spirit of Spartanlstn: which permeates its official reports Any occurrence transpiring "in the performance of is reported with the utmost sparsity of language and without any tint of color An extract from the report' of Lieuteuaut Commander lloscuduhl ranking surviving officer of the? Ill fated Shenandoah which was read Into the rei onls of tho Navy luves ngunfiVCOBTOiittee serves to dem oastfate this Part of his report Map Hawaiian tilond riinety mile stretch of territorial Waters between Pearl Harbor and Nawiliwili where Lieulehgnt CurtMIi torpedo plane was wrecked" wfe water I The two sea anchors car ried away and the improvised sea anchor which had been secured with a two and inch manilla rope'earried away at the bridle the middle of the afternoon we sighted a craft about fifteen miles to the souths but it did not see us and passed on During the afternoon three fair sized sharks kept a qxisition about ten feet to windward of us and carefully look ed Tover that went adrift The shares kept us com pany till dark but they did not at tack us although frequently one of us would be washed overboard and have to be hauled up again to the unsubnierged part of the plane We were also bothered by seasick ness after 4 a heavy sea buckled the lower right wing and wrecked it completely We saw that the wing spar would soon be gin battering our right pontoon the onlyyemaining support? The left pontoon had been pierced earlier in the day We began at once to detach the right upper and lower wings using the fe tools we had a hammer screwdriver pliers and hacksaw with only one blade The mechanic was washed over board just before sunset and we possible for the crew to see us lashlight Brings Rescue "Then 1 fell back on my flash light Each timevA were th loots up by a wave I dashed the Imhl inj: the vessel's direction' but ustrly it seemed that when a wavj cn 'I us up d'Rtani iSe! wa a ing in the trough of the i searchlight was pLiying natjie vo ter all the time but on acetomtf the heavy sea running its rays passed completely over us I con tinued to signal with my flashiig it and finally the siren elvld us that our signals wera siti that she was coming to our rescue I continued to direct the approach Curtin his pilot and a mechanician went dead and they were forced to descend A Naval Air Calamity Thrilling and almost tragic their experiences during the ing 'twelve hours "But of drift of S5 miles out of the channel of traffic in the general direction of the Philippine Islands 350c) miles westward the gradual destruction of their plane by the heavy seas their terrific struggle to keep a doat on Its flimsy wreckage the menaco of sharks the attraction of a res cue ship to: the ip aid after night fall by intermittent flashlight sig: nal and their final rescue tlS'e min utes before the wreck of the plane sank belew the darkened surtacecot the troubled Paciflo nothing hither to haa been heard The details of these hours of dan ger and 4hrining battle with the elements were drawn from Lieu tenant Curtin only after he refresh ed his memory by reference to his original report which he resurrect ed from Ito tomte la tho Navy Uep NE hundred and fifty: years naval history i buried in 'the secret archives of the United States Navy Department at? Washington much of which has never been revealed to the public Innumerable instances of high epurane and romantic adventure occurring 'in the of 'are never heard of because of the Navy modesty and the traditional naval policy to sink individual accomplislmient in the glory of the Navy as a whole The spirit of jPall for the throws a curtain pf silence about the heroism of Navyt personnel Exception proved the rule in: the case of Commander' John Rodgers whose thrilling experience in the Pacific was given wide spread publicity although even in this instance much of the more intimate detail was left to public imagination' But the more1 nearlytragic experience of aideJieutenant Lawrence Curtin' and two companions who struggled twelve hours against high seas and the nt'Snafe of sharks whan ihrir seaplane was wrecked in tur bulent'Tcrritorial Waters is here reveaied for the first time After nightfall the derelicts attracted the attention of a passing supply ship by flashlight signal and were picked tip just five minutes before their collapsed craft sank below the stirface Their thrilling adveit ture is one of the most colorful chapters in naval air pnnals LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE CURTIN UL With two companions Lieutenant Curtin fought a twelvo hour struggle against a turbulent sea on a battered airoplano in Pacific waters They were rescued by a passing craft five minutes before tkslr piano sank The Shenandoah Crash "The elevator man reported the ship was rising very rapidly nml wag Atrocted to check her ilw ever he kept reporting that the ship continued rising very rapidly and that he could not check ber The engine speed was increased and the angle of Inclination ot the ahtp was increased to a very coh alderable Inclination down by the noeeln the effort to drive the ehip down against the vertical current which was lifting her very rapidly angle exceeded that which could be registered on the elevator inclinometer and several times I turned my flashlight on tho larger Inclinometer mounted ontbe chartboard and read the angle of IS degrees: The Captain ordered that this angle be not exceeded asi there was danger of stalling' the i It Is the calm colorless statement ef wbat happened the perform ance ef duty" though it describes tho circumstances 'loading up to one 'ted the most dramatic and tragic events in American naval history Occasionally one suspects that the Navy has evolved some mysterious process tor breeding modesty luto Its stalwart sons? Never was there a more unassuming hero than Oommaader John Rodgers of: be Pacific Coast Hawuiiau Ho was interviewed shortly follow ing the rescue othimseif and crew after the long vigil on the Paciflo in their disabled PN 9 plane The newspapers had reported ths rescue in tall with statements from each ot the rescued mon Yet there had boon a noticeable absence tn the narratives ot the mere Intimate de tails ot their experience What had been their feelings their preoccu pations their thoughts during the loag lonely hours? Wbat had they dene to mitigate tho terrible mo Hedge ra Is Modest Hare With typical Navy reticence Com aador Rodgdra could add little to mi VB1T BraVlOUBlV Drill LUAU AU Sportman that of the vessel by flashlight WSt Mbs' drew abreast of us she came alongside jhMVff lines were thrown us and we WMO hauled aboard the 3 3 Teal naval tug under command of Cbtel Boatswain Kelly at about lock 65 miles west ot BarbatflB I'oint We had drifted out ef thh channel 35 miles tg the soqthwMh ive minutes later the postooh to which we had been clinging diMp peared? f' Luck of the Novy was Cartta0 story which he told prompted by frequent questions aa if it had an ordinary incident of his evosy day life He seemed to find noth ing "unusual about it and did not even comment on the fact that tt was the barest chance that had brought the Teal wlthla tW range of his flashlight not five mlq utes too soon a nutttertef tact tt'appeauca t'v have been only the proverbial of the that he bd a dash light with him tor it was net part ot the regtriatton equipment The station had been pre paoflng for the Hawaiian manoeuvres gad al bands had been supplied with float 1 istn facilitate night work JEs had "hard work getting him back aboard' We jettisoned everything I that would not float except our flashlight' Very pistol and shells All our efforts were bent toward keeping these dry as they were our only hope of attracting a a passing ship after nightfall: The "three of us perched on the motor and endeavored to keep the plane I' balanced T' Lashed to a Bpsr 'v 5:45 a heavy sea capsized forcing the tail QfJhe plane jiader the plane andwg jganage4 to Movies Will Show A Raid ade On Bodtleegers (By Associated Press)' Anril Two 200 gallon stills and several thousand gallons of mash were capturea ana destroyed recently by ederal pro hibition agent when they raided a place near riendswood a village iln Galveston county A specially constructed frame house thirty feet by forty feet built to house the illicit distillery was burned by the prohibition agents Piuof of the potency of the brew was manifested in one of the barrels of mush where a dead snake several feet longwas found coiled in the bottom No ariests were made but tho prohibition agents are on the trail "i of several' men believed to have been owners of the distillery Agents also raided smaller factory and wrecked a fifty galldn still and several barrels of matji' one and one quarter miles from the other distil leiy One arrest was Moving pictures of the raid upoa the wooden which scenes of the demolishing of bootleggers' apparatus and oth er incidents of the life' 6f a pro Anon were made during the raid The pictures will be shown next xve at a theatie herc Bryan (Continued from page two) The meetings in the future will be held every Tuesday i morning at 8 o'clock 'a AIM HIGH How many of us aim high?" How many of us aim to aim high but 'hit low I am there are many of us in the second class There are two reasons why we aim high and hit low Oie is Idzi lives and the other is inability Just what is your aim 'or your goal in life? Haw you one? Is that aim higher than you can "ru 1 1 Jim aim high and miss your mat it is not crime but if y'U aim low and hit the mark LohavvMuuunuttedj cximtLTke it here in oisr own midft Have you ever hoard a boy or girl say 1 Culd only ninke a I would be You know person i)ly that' that person is capable of making a or nn Is qhtt: person then committing a crime? Yes for not failure but low nim is crime hat of the hoy or girl who Is not capable of making or and who aims to make one of them and fails to do so? Jins that boy or girl com mitted a crime? No What of the boy or girl who aims high and is capable of winning his or her goal and fails Has that or girl committed crime? Yes Onee there was painter' whowanted to paint a picture of Christ He had rr vision in his mind of how wo wanted this pic tore painted worked on this picture for months' "When it was completed he called his ftiends in to view it When they proclaimed Jc a masterpiece he fell upon the floor and began to weep When t'ley asked him why he wept he replied "I have nothing to live for: I bpvb readied lie had painted the picture exactly nr his vision in every detail He had not idmed high There wns another painter who had faileil to teach perfection or a while this worried him but his woiry cea cd when this thoughttamo to him reach should exceed our or what is a heaven for?" We have to bo painters to aim We can be anything mini' ordinary citizen to a pesident 'Rm gain yourV nl hv cheating Play fair and tor when the great scorer conies To rite against your he writes not than you won or lor lull how you plnyeil the game I belli Hunnicutt 5 BROTHERHOOD 'JTba loolti'i the Sportsman Bnflhi rhod is le ol r'is foster and sp' nd the spirit of epoi tsinanship a j's'c i i iifrli i ii 1 1 Into AViHTil of honor of a JL? 11 1 wi Ear a a i (1) He keep the (2) he he keep his pride undet the vic body If you we how difficulty has always' been to get understand them The success of ribt ity of doubt or miattflteMr! 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