| Show TEll or OF HORRORS HILE i HELP Describe 7 Days Spent in I Clinging to Wrecked Plane in Sea I ARRIVE IN NEW YORK Trio Show Effects of Gruelling Gruelling Gruel Gruel- ling Experience By r RA RAYMOND Y J. J CROWLEY Associated Press Staff Start Writer NEW YORK Sept 25 By 25 By a margin marIn margin mar mar- gin In of a couple of grams of chocolate and a half pint of water ater three avia- avia ors era arrived ed today todar to tell New York how the they clun clung for seven se days to the fragile wreckage of or a plane In InI 1 j I which they had bad attempted attempt cd to conquer conquer con eon quer the AtlanticO Atlantic O o. o K boys yelled Willy Rody Body old year 20 old ear baby of the intrepid trio as the liner Jiner ord reached its hits dock I Those were the only words of ot English English English En- En glish Rody Body knew and he used them to assure a waiting throng that the oceans ocean's Jury fury had not daunted him and tl that t ho was willing to try again The Theother other members of or the crew o of I Ithe the Junkers plane Esa which at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted a nonstop flight t f from om Portugal Portugal Portugal Por Por- to New York but landed in tie the sea iea its gasoline was exI exhausted ex ex- ex- ex hausted austed were Christian Christi n J Johansson Johanssen I o of pen Denmark mark who is now a German citizen and Fernando Costa Veiga Portuguese sportsman I They too tried to dismiss with a smile the horrors they had e during their weeks week's wait for II succor on the sea GRINS MANFULLY 1 I Stammering a few words in Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese Por Por- from his hospital bed aboard the liner Veiga tried to conceal his weakened battered condition from reporters by grinning manfully But the ships ship's doctor said he had been on the verge of death when picked picket up and the others were in little better better bet bet- ter condition Veiga is suffering from a badly infected knee sprained when a mighty wave vave hit the plane and tossed it almost over on its side Johanssen a veteran war pilot told how they set out from Juncal Do Sot Sol Solon on September 13 and flew after alter a day of ot comparatively good goodweather goodweather weather into a night of ot growling weather twisting winds and ice that disabled some of or their instruments It was awful he said simply Then a spark plug went vent and the motors began devouring fuel at a tremendous rate On September 14 they sighted the liner about miles east cast of f Halifax but I Continued d on In Pare Three e I FLIERS TELL OF or HORRORS WHIlE HILE AWAITING HELP Continued from front Pace S One not knowing how low their fuel tuel wa was was they kept on RISKED CONTINUING We went forward because we ar are Germans interjected Rody Body proudly speaking in German Because our motor was working improperly w we could not estimate the amount o of J gasoline left but we determined 1 to risk it it About 80 miles ot off Cape Race NF N N. F the gas cas ran out and the plane plan glided to the surface of a n rough sc sea Almost immediately most of the their food and other outer provisions were swept away as the waves slowly ba battered battered bat bat- the plane to pieces Shivering with their feet In water wate water the fliers waited seven days before being picked up by the We had only 10 ounces of ot chocolate chocolate choco choco- late and about two gallons of ot water wate used to cool the motor It was dirty oily and rusty but we rationed it out about a wine glass apiece a day I and it tasted like fine wine FREIGHTER PASSES BY BYThe BYThe BYThe The fliers told how on the sixth day a freighter passed by without seeing them leaving despair gnawIng gnawing gnaw gnaw- ing at their hearts On the seventh nth day when the sighted their hastily rigged signal and took them half hall fainting out of the floundering plane they had only a few bites o of chocolate and a few o of water left I We might have been able to hold holdout holdout holdout out a few daS days longer Johanssen said but we would have been too weak to signal ships When we came on board we felt fel near our end he added My legs leg were weak and from salt sal saltwater saltwater water and they still feel funny Viega had a fever but was no de de- Even now his legs are terI terribly terribly ter ter- I swollen |
