Show second mate views a topsy turvey world from his post wilmington CALIF every thing was normal aboard the lib erty freighter alien allen C balch en route to long beach calif from the canal zone until she reached a point 10 miles off lower california then everything went topsy the entire horizon rose up and became cliffs and rolling hills said second mate eugene 0 ward three small U S navy vessels ap pro preaching aching from the north ap feared in double image one of the images being upside dowland down dow nand and di erectly over the other the cliffs and hills seemed to be rolling along like ocean waves this continued tor for a good part of the afternoon but ward stood at his post on the bridge kept steady and recorded it all in his log loo it was a good example of ab all normal refraction known by land lubbers as a mirage |