La Grande evening observer., June 14, 1945, Image 6

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THE
LA GRANDE EVENING OBaEBVEtt, LA GKANUE, OKKGON
Thursday, June 11, 1945
Our Boarding House
With Major Hoople Out Our Way
J. H. William
This la fi Irue ninry at the
mm who fly the "hump" oiirrj'
tnjr pnxMriiicorii nrnl vnrK nwr
the high llininliiraM helwi-i-n
Indln mid riilim. I'Hol. mil II
the toughen! airline ruule In the
world
INHERE ore two kinds of Ice
found over Iho Himalayas in
northern China and lower Tibet:
the wet, sloppy kind that sloshes
over your aircraft and molds it
self to the shape of the wings
and fuselage before freezing hard;
and the "clear" ice that comes at
your plane in hard little nuggets,
caking together in blocky lumps
on the leading edges of the wings
and oven on the blades of the
props. Since it breaks their
smooth contour, that caklng-up
of ice on the wings cuts heavily
into their lifting power.
For the first half-hour after we
got into the storm we had wet
ice, and our only real difficulty
was holding our altitude against
the Increasing weight as the ire
accumulated. But our oxvgcn was
getting dangerously low and I
had to tell Tsui to toko off his
mask. We could get along if he
passed out, but there had to be
someone at the controls. That
meant simply that cither Fox or
I had to keep going; we could
feel sorry for Tsui, nut that was
all.
With Tsui off the oxygen I felt
a little easier, but our supply
was still short if we were go
ing to havo to stay at that alti
tude for any length of time. And
with every passing minute it
seemed more evident that 'lie
storm was a wldo one, accom
panied not only with changing
stages in the sleet formations
one minute wot ice and the next
minute clear and chunky but the
wind was changing, too,
rpSUI was pretty light on his
i feet when he got up out of his
seat, mumbling something about
taking a look at the passengers.
Concentrating as I was on what
was ahead of me, I was still
aware of his opening the door
into the cabin, and then, after a
moment, tottering forward nnd
leaning over my shoulder. Ho
dropped a note Into my hand.
"Three passengers conscious," it
read.
I shot a quick glance at the
Chinese boy and I knew that the
passengers weren't the only ones
taking a beating from the alti
tude and the lack of oxygen. As
Tsui stumbled back to his own
nook behind Fox and mo I be
gan to feel some real alarm my
self. The oxygon gauge showed that
we could hold out about 20 min
utes more if Fox and I botli con
tinued to draw on the supply. If
I cut off Fox, I could hang on
twico as long, perhaps even for
three-quarters of on hour. On the
..-" , .-A.,...K..n...,-ilmn'. "Tl iiierfBiM
From a palntino by Charles H. HubbclU
It seemed like a lifetime, but it was only a matter of
seconds before we knew we had cleared the peak.
other hand, if we were on our
course the breakthrough was duo
in less than half an hour,
I leaned over toward Bill and
said, "We'll take the stuff in
shifts. Two minutes at a time,
then switch." I had my own
mask olf when I spoke; in fact,
I had pulled it off before I turned
to speak to him. As I turned
back to the controls, when I
looked at the windshield only
then did I realize what wo were
really up against.
THE glass was turning gray on
Ihn 4nolr? 1,,-nnih enn-
dcnslng inside the mask until
then, was now condensing on tho
windshield itself. My hands and
feet had been getting colder and
colder for the last hour; the heat
er wasn't worth a damn under
those conditions; and when I took
oif that mask It was like blowing
warm air into a refrigerator. Even
the section of the windshield in
front of Fox was coated with my
breath before I had fully real
ized whut was happening.
Then we were closed in com
pletely. The ice on the outside
of the glass had allowed us at
leust a dim view of the outside
world. Through that Ice we had
been able to tell the direction in
which the sleet was blowing, and
thus the direction of tho wind.
Using that ns an index, I had
felt a certain amount ot conll
donee Hint no mountain peak
would suddenly loom up in our
path; it would hove been be
trayed by the shifting currents
in the sleet.
Now, with that gray film mak
ing an impenetrable coating on
tho inside of the windshields,
even daylight failed to show
through tho glass. I had a nail
file in an inside pocket; with
numb fingers I opened my jacket
and took it out. Signaling Fox
to take the controls, I leaned for
ward and started digging at the
frost on the glass.
Wo were at 20,500 feet when
I started clearing tho windshield,
and when two thin scratches had
been dug in the frost I' told Fox
to let us down to about 18,000
while I kept on digging with the
nail flic. The clearing was about
one Inch deep ond three inches
wide a couple of minutes later
when I suddenly lot out a yell
that for its sheer terror ought to
be legend in those Tibetan hills
by now.
We were at 18,500 feet and the
overcast had abruptly begun to
thin. The next instant we were
in the clear and heading directly
at a snow-capped mountain peak
that lose to a good 19,000 feet.
"I've got It!" I shouted, and
grabbing the controls I threw that
olf C-53 into the screaminges
chandelle she had ever made. Full
throttle and hard left rudder,
with her nose pulled almost
straight up, tho old crate groaned
an'', her wings strained . i vio
lently we could h"-r the Ice
crocking ot every joint. And then
all we could do wns wait.
It seemed like a lifetime, but
of course it was only a matter of
seconds before we knew we had
cleared the peak.
(To lie Continued)
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By Edgar Martin
Freckles and His Friends
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Merrill Blosser
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THE MOUNTAINS ?
IF YOll ASK US,
HILDA GRUBBLE
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THE NEGATIVE
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Red Ryder
Fred Harmon
WE'LL HIT TH 1KAIL
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By Leslie Turner
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THANK 60CWESS, IT'S
ALMOST NI6HT, LIAN6!
NOW WE'LL HAVE A BETTERI
CHANCE TO SAVE OUR
FB1ENPS, BEFORE WAPIW6
IN ON THOSE CUTTHROATS!
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CAUTION THE I JV
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?y F. T. Hamlin
pSSay PERHAPS he pLVctvho 1 IjotWi never"4
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AND BRONSON?r UZZLR
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