Show I body i Triple Throat Threat I ny By FLOYD FLOTD GIBBONS EDWARD DWARD MASTON BLARE of New cw York I one Well its his city wants to tell teU turn all right and Im I'm glad him welcome to make around the A Adventurers Adventurers' club for campfire Ed has a that yarn yam us will scare you stiff II lie He the war without fin says lie he went all through finding ing one to equal it it And from what I have dined elined to think there Isn't a war seen in history ot one war and another Vm Im In 1 I thrill the history that ever produced such i as one Ed met up with on December 6 0 1935 a Ed Is a salesman salesman and and believe It nr or not more cockeyed things thing those guys eyS have hav ha happen to them than tamer Listen to th the average ee Uon a bunch of them in the some time Theres There's smoking compartment hardly a one who story to tell about the hasn't a hair raising hair experiences he has run into while traveling the country were Well in the smoker now and Ed Is s getting to ready tell his U H cant can't you take It ring for the porter and have him the smelling salts bring you Traveler Pilots Car Through Blinding Blizzard In 1935 Ed wasn't riding in smoking compartments lie was tray trav- traveling cling eling by automobile lie had spent the afternoon ot of December 8 6 I his line in Cincinnati Ohio Before Defore selling snowing he had It had started It looked as It lf It ll was going eolos to 0 be a regular blizzard and Ed early had In i to the f get to L Lexington Ky Iy y his hi next nen stop and be on the Job morning He lie figured It would be best to start driving right get away-get a good start before the snow got rot too loo heavy beavy i It was six o'clock by the time Ed had checked out of his hotel and started on his way The snow he says BaYS was falling hard and the temperature was down around ten above zero I wasn't very veil veU ac with Cincinnati but I was doing my best to find end the approach approach aC 1 to the suspension bridge which would take me across the Ohio river rl to the Kentucky side Auto Plunges Into Icy Waters of Ohio River I got on to a street that I felt sure would take me to the bridge head and started down it By that time it was snowing so hard that I could rould I I 1 0 lie He Shot Upward Toward the Surface I only see a foot in 10 front of ot me My windshield wiper was useless I was I practically driving blind down that street toward the river And nd then the thrills began II Thrills Is right The next thing Ed knew the street haC had cometo come cometo cometo to a dead end at the river bank Ills His car was shooting out into space from Crom the end of a dock dock railing falling toward the Ice-covered Ice river riv riv- er The car landed on all aU four Cour wheels but before Ed could make a move to get out the Ice gave way and down the car went In La Laten ten feet Ceet of at water I Ed says that people have often otten wondered what they would do In the face of ot death and hed he'd wondered himself a couple of times Now that he was looking the old Grim Reaper straight in the eyes he seemed to have stopped thinking lIe He was acting mechanically Some Inner recess of his brain seemed to be telling him just what to do Ed Fights Three-Cornered Three Battle BattIe With Auto River and Ice I J had always been a pretty fair aIr swimmer he says and I knew that while there was still life there was hope My first move was to try the door of or the car but the force of the water was so great that I J couldn't budge it I could still breathe In comfort but now nw the water was coming in through the floor boards of ot the car creating a pressure and making it seem as if there was a ton of weight on my head Eds Ed's head began to swim and he knew Instinctively that be he had to work fast Cast before be he lost consciousness lie He tried the opposite door The river current was running from the other direction and this door was easier to handle Even so he had to use all his strength on the job for the water outside exerted a terrific pressure of its own Rut nut after a struggle he got thedoor the thedoor thedoor door open and squirmed out as the wa water er came rushing In The icy flood numbed his whole body lie He shot upward toward oward the enough to reach the be lucky Id I'd surface Says he I kept hoping same hole In 10 the ice that I went down through but the ci current had same sam instead of the hole and reached the top I when carried me on and w en freedom I touched-ice touched I Swimming Skill Plus Solid Courage Save His Life That was the one moment in tn nil all his battle with Death that came lIfe hope were just a few heart breaking Eds Ed's 8 nearest to but he was held from them by a solid icy wall wait ButEd But Dut Butto inches away numbed his chill water swimmer and though the he good Ed was a lie He went Into a dive It was a slim chance he wasn't giving up body he was In the air once more but It worked When he came up again trouble hehe he wasn't out of the water 1 had more Still be the he Ice Ire Eacil time I would tried to climb out onto down when I op a d says my It would break ol and down td ld go 0 on the edge edre body up the Ice where It was to Co raID again FI dlly I was lucky enough grasp and 1 climbed out thickest It held beld at sentences li I. I Eds Ed's letter leUer I judge that And from the next couple sort of a bird who can candid Cake take it w at be w S a pretty tough the guy Call an ambulance like out Yell for r help dId he be do when he got such an experience Not on your anyone else would have done alter after tile lite block toa to Co ambled hat half a shore shor Ice to the Che Ed walked over the till CIlI he warmed up and restaurant and hung hun around a waterfront hotel and waited until his to dried out a bit Then Theu he went back his car But Dut morning to put the wreckers to work when he watched r. r m mEd till next nest day Ed admits that It wasn't bole hote In the Ice that be fully through a back his car to death be had really been realized bow close C had |