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Show PARACHUTE JUMPER FISHTS FOR LIFE MILES IN SKY GASPS FOR AIR AS HE LOSES OXYGEN TANK I Baring Photographer Leaps From Plane 4 1-2 Miles Above Earth WHIPPED BY GALES World Record Parachute Descejit Requires Just 80 Minutes DAYTON. Ohio, June 13. i By The Associated Press) Lashed and whlp- ped about by a 120-mlle gale more than four and a half miles above the earth, on the verge of suffocation, caused by loss of his oxygen tank, and compelled to cling to ropea and straps I attached to a parachute for fear that i whirling cross current might weak-. weak-. n and cause them to break, ar sy-Icral sy-Icral of the "mere" details related to- day by Captain A W. Stevens, aerial photographer, McCook field, who Monday Mon-day broke the world's parachute jump liecord, when he descended 84,206 feet. The fact that It was Captain Btev-; Btev-; ens first "drop" tends to make his feat one" of the most remarkable In .the history of aviation. H suffered j no III effects from his hazardous trip. Itl.U ill.s t I ILING, I The plane in which Captain Stevens ascended, a 'twin motored Martin bomber piloted by Lieutenant Wade. '. broke the world's altitude record for i this particular type of ship, carrying three passengers when It attained the cellln" .-,1 24 "(lit fi er Kni-r-eant Hov Langham was the third member of the party. i Captain Stcvons was reluctant today to discuss incidents of ills experience. "For a long time I have wanted to make Q parachute drop " he said, "primarily to obtain flr&t-hand. Information Infor-mation as to the sensation one feels. 1 am highly gratified to think I was able to bring another record to McCook Mc-Cook field. BID Pl.s GOOD-BYE "When the plane reached the celling I made ready to Jump. As near as I could Judge we were over Springfield. ihlo. Bidding my pals good-bye, I Jumped. The opening of the parachute erms-ed erms-ed the oxygen tank to become loose from its fastenings on the front of my clothing. Grasping it with both .hands I endeavored to reluin it The wind which was traveling at I a speed of l'JO miles an hour whipped the parachute around like a Jackstraw. I I wan forced to use both hands on the ropes and straps which held me to the chute. In an effort to chock oscillation which threatened to weuken the supports sup-ports It was then I lost the tank I think It fell near Springfield NEVER WILL FORGET "It was an experience I shall never forget. Before settling down to lower altitude I thought my time, had come as I was nearly suffocated due to th rareness of the atmosphere. Dropping out of the gale into calmer atmosphere atmos-phere below 1 quickly recovered, however how-ever 1 I landed at Jamestown, approximately approxi-mately 25 miles from where I left the plane." Tho descent took Just 30 minutes. min-utes. "Just before taking off nt McCook field, an orderlv appeared carrying B lunch kit containing sandwiches and coffee in vacuum bottles. We ate the lunch 24 000 feel In the air and we all enjoyed it thoroughly. The tem-perature tem-perature at the celling was zero." Two hours and five minutes was required re-quired by Lieutenant Wade to pilot thi bomber to her record breaking altitude. |