Show WHEN MAN DEFIES ELEMENTS Overhead O the air all dragons are and and all the demons of darkness and the gods gaits of the rip rip- ripping rip pine pin ping winds cannot vanquish them The men ot of the air all nail nall mutt must have hare hearts that are right The stories ot of their recent exploits read like lik amazing chronicles that Jules Verne Vernc might have hae written had ad he been Just a 11 little more It was black night sight in Iowa After flying 00 miles through blank space Paul Johnson pilot on the Kansas City Chicago route pauses to hunt for Fairfield Iowa For halt an hour he circles and dips and rockets around th the town peering Into the void old for forthe forthe forthe the lights ot of o land trying to locate tile the new emergency landIng field Finally he ho flies mes file so low lov that the s hear bear him They cant can't help but hear him since he be near near- nearly nearly 1 ly knocks the top ort oft their nice courthouse It remains for a farmer to save his life by building bonfires around the field so John John- Johnson son John son doesn't have hare to land laud on the courthouse after all A night or so later hater It is near zero ze-ro in Chicago Boreas Is whip whip- whip pine whipping ping the tho sk sky with tl e the te very ery worst he has There are any number of plain people who look out at that wind torn night shake their heads and duck into the feathers feather Not ot so the mail mall pilots It merely Is another flight for them But Pilot John F sees In the sk sky an opportunity He Hei Herides Herides i rides the blasts for a new record horn from Chicago to Cleveland one hour and 59 minutes It Is cold In Cleveland too and Boreas has haa ha reached there as well lint But Pilot Harry A Chandler hops oft off into the Icy night for another new record from Cleveland to New Kew NewYork NewYork York two hours and 21 1 minutes The demons of oC darkness and the gods tod ot of the wInds what winds what are they compared to man |