Show I 0 U. S. S I IF AVIATORS F fORGED FORCED DOWN DOWtIN LIEUTENANT WADE AND OGDEN RESCUED IN NORTH SEA BY 1 TRAWLER Motor Trouble Causes Cluse Airmen to Take to Water While on Jump to Iceland Repairs Repair Are Made Orkney Islands Lieutenants Islands Lieutenants Leigh Wade and Hank Ogden were rescued from the Nth NoHh sea ea Sunday last by byI bythe bythe the British trawler trawler Rugby riding the waters in a crippled plant plan for many hours thus adding a ne new adventure to the world the flight of the the American army avia tors tore They were forced to alight aUght by motor motor mo mo- tor trouble about miles mile from Brought Head after hopping off last Sunday morning from Scapa Flow Flo for Iceland in company with the plane carrying Lieutenants Smith and Arnold Smith hovered neat Wades Wade's plane long enough to learn of his difficulties then flew onward and arid dropped a note on the destroyer Billingsley Smith then pr proceeded on his way way to arriving safely safe cafe Iy ly and joining Nelson and and- Harding In the i meantime the Billingsley radioed the Richmond of of Wades Wade's plight and presently two of the th fastest fast est war men in the American navy avy were ere burning huge quantities of at oi oiin oil oilin oilin in in a wild will rush rush through the North seI sea sed tow toward rd the tie point Indic indicated ted by Smith in the n note te Before either arrived the trawler had come across the big yellow-backed yellow plane drifting about the ocean like a discarded trout fly The trawler took the plane in tow and i with the aid of ot the two fliers filers still in the wandered around until it was sighted by the flying Billingsley which relieved the trawler Ier ler ier of ot his charge Smiths Smith's message to the Richmond telling of Wades Wade's trouble read in part Wade forced down motor gone Needs immediate help Sea grow grow- ing The trawler which hailed from Crilly don waited until the Billingsley Billings ley came cam up Then the Richmond arrived ar ar- riv rived z-ived d and the twp war of sent cent out lines to each eRch other The operation opera tion Lion took up much time during which I the plane bobbed up and down dizzily on the heavy sea Hank Ogden watched the operation standing on the wing while Wade reclined in hia hla seat They had now been eight hours in that unsteady watercraft A space was cleared on the afterdecks afterdeckS' of at the Richmond and the plane was hauled up As the plane was lifted tho the fliers sprang onto the Richmonds Richmond's deck No sooner sooner hod they landed safely than the boom gave away and th the plane dropped back into the sea Finally it was wag taken in tow |