Show NO FATALITY ON OIL AIR liNE Several Birdmen Ho How Hoar However ever Have Hairbreadth Escapes RANTOUL Ill April By 23 23 By the thc Associated v Press Not ot a 1 fatality has baa boo bee the tho air 1111 leo during the three months that t have bave elapsed since Major General Mason M Patrick Patric chief of ot the tho United States Slates Air A Service Issued orders orden to the tho com com- commanding manding officers ot of o Chanute Rolling Roll Roll- Rollin Ro Ine ing in Langley Mitchell McCo McCook and Selfridge Fields to inaugurates regular scheduled d flights lights 0 over er a 0 amodel model alray aim ay over the eastern and middle western states according to 10 records here The model air t course takes tah In New ew York Hampton V Va Cle Cleve- Cleve Cleveand e- e eland land and Toledo Detroit Ind and Rantoul Each J-ach field ld dis- dis dispatches patches a piano weekly hi-weekly The records show that tho the first lights flights were cro not net all completed on schedule time but each trip has shown sho an Improvement A trip recently completed was from rom Chan Chan- Chanute ute ate Field to Dalton Daton 0 to Colum Ju Lus jus 0 back to Dayton to W N Va to Washing Washing- Washington ton on to Cumberland Mr to Nc New NewYork w York rock back to Washington to o Ille to Cleveland Cle to Do- Do Doroll DetroIt troIt roll to Toledo back to Detroit to o Kokomo Ind and return to o Chanute Field The distance coy coy- cred red was as more than 2200 miles miland and the total actual flying time was vas 22 hours and 10 minutes LUCK HOLDS OUT 01 While Ile no aviator was vas killed Lined i let lethe et the he flights h ts were tar far from Crom devoid devo of ot if excitement and hairbreadth e es- es co apes pes In L trip left Chanute on a route which covered 1800 1300 miles He was tu fu- with strip maps covering the entire route routt but only tor for ter- ter territory a few Cew miles on each side of the route The only landing place b tween Zanesville Ohio and ai Is the thc I r remaining g landscape being almost continuously Being I behind schedule Major M tried a more direct route th than tn that outlined and almost Immedi Immediately ran into n a a stron strong head win 1 and dense denso clouds lIe He was blow blown off oce his course while while flying 0 ore e- e ethe the tho mountains After some Bomo time or of orI I aimless living trying to obtain his bearings he suddenly realized h hi gas as was as getting low his oil as almost gone and that th he had no I place to land lIe He was rather high I at the tho time lime and dropped 10 down n TO try for a landing Just before his I gas gave ave out he saw a town and recognized It tt as andI hiss his I original objective On I I safely he be found Cound he had only three I gallons of ot gasoline ga left and no oil oU i I ii s cn minD LIFE Lieutenant t lIo d A started the tho only oDly flight In the three months month that was not carried to a successful conclusion but cell fellow ow aviators look upon him ham as havinga leaving a charmed life liCe Ills His first mishap on his route from Crom Chanute to NewYork New NewYork NewYork York was when a spark plug went wrong ronI and ind he was forced down near Wheeling h elong W Va He repaired the damage and took oft off again only to find tenso clouds con con- confronting con confronting fronting him When he be had climbed above them he learned learnel he was out of or oil oU Ho He again landed safely replenished his oil tan tank I and was oft off again tor for Washington He arrived there a day lato late but bent ent on immediately to New York intending to make up time by re- re returning re returning turning to Washington the sam re-j re afternoon Lieutenant LUndell started from New York just before t and a 0 a strong wind almost Immediately blew him oft off hi his course Ho lIe finally found Cound himself I on the edge ede ot of Chesapeake Bay fighting fl an outgoing wind Ho He was forced to land but It was as too dark to see sec the ground He Ho finallY I decided to go it blind and landed In a 1 field but Lady Jady Luck had her head turned the other wa way and anI he hithe hit the Iho only tree In the field His plane crashed and was demol demol- demolIshed demolished but the aviator alator av lator escaped with witha a slight cut over tho ey eye on |