Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1928 — Page 13

FEB. 18, 1928

MARINE'S TALE OF NICARAGUAN LIFE THRILLS Uerschsll Carter. Writing Relatives Here, Tells of Battle. Graphic description of Marine fighting in Nicaragua and of conditions surrounding the Marine attack of Sandino, formed part of a letter forwarded to Miss Mary B. Carter, 1717 Bellfontaine St., great aunt oi Herschell Carter, 19, Latonia. Ky., by Carter who is seeing service. The young Marine, who is the only grandson of W. E. Carter, of the same address, enlisted in the U. S Marines Corps about nine months ago, trained at Paris Island and Newport Ncw.Omd was shipped to Nicaragua on the U. S. S. Rochester. The letter, headed “Managua, Nicaragua, January 13, 1928,’’ follows: “We sure have been busy lately as you must have noticed in the papers, for I am now in the heart of the revolution. lam getting the thrill of my life and ‘I don’t mean perhaps.’ Troops in Hills. “I am writing this about 180 miles out in the hills where we have the perpetrator and his whole army surrounded—Sandino himself. He has about 25.000 men with him and is situated on top of one of the largest mountains in this part of the country. He has hand grenades, machine guns and all other amall arms, which have been smuggled in through Mexico to him, so you see we have quite a job in front of us to get him out of his stronghold. “There are only 900 of us here at the present time but we expect 1 000 more sometime next week. Many Marines Slain “There have been plenty of marines killed so far and about 80 wounded, but not seriously. They are shot through the arm or leg and will pull through all right. The reason for so many being killed or injured is that they are getting us from ambush and they are so far above us that we can hardly locate them. All we are sure of. is that they are up there, but we have gotten our share of them, also. As far as we can ascertain they have about 300 killed and half as many injured. I am sure that I have accounted for at least four of them. I know it is nothing to brag about but they shot a “Buddie” of mine in the shoulder, and I am sure going to get revenge.

Troops Sleep on Ground “We are sleeping on the ground with nothing but the stars over us, and eating nothing but hard-tack and “corn bill.” There is no water around so we each get one canteen full every second day. I have not shaved for two weeks, because of the scarcity of water and it has been three days since I washed my hands and face. You would disown me if you could see me now for I sure do look like a tramp. “I alway liked to camp out—as you know —but sure didn’t think I’d camp out like this and enjoy it. I am getting a ‘kick’ out of it, especially the mosquitos. (Here follows a drawing of an enormous insert.) Not much of an artist, but this is what they look like at a hundred yards. You can imagine what they feel like. All you hear at night is slap, crack and a few rifle shots. Hope Be Home Soon. “Major-General LeJeune, com-mander-in-general of the Marine Corps is to arrive tomorrow and I think things will start ‘popping.’ They expect him to give orders for the two Fokker bombers to run Sandino’s men out of the hills. It will be all over with them, and back to the ship we will go. “If the rumor that has been going around is true, I will get home after all. They say we are going to be in New York the tenth of February if things are cleared up here in time. I am most certain they will be.” LECTURER IS BARRED U. of Wisconsin Shuts Halls to Talk by Mrs. Bertrand Russell. Bjl United Press MADISON, Wis., Feb. 18—Mrs. Bertrand Russell, scheduled to lecture here tonight on companionate marriage and birth control, seemed likely today to have to speak from a soap box or not at all. Mrs. Russell was denied use of University of Wisconsin buildings, the State capitol and the Madison Labor Temple. Canvass of other halls gave little hope that any place for the meeting could be found. DRY ATTORNEY COMING t Will Bold Class Here for Prohibition -Agents. Answers to questions that proved stumbling blocks to 1,500 Federal dry agents in the recent civil service mental tests may be revealed Feb. 25 when Webster Spates, prohibition department attorney at Washington, will hold a class here for Indiana dry agents. George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator for Indiana, explained agents in the past have been called to Washington for instructions but that in the interest of economy instructors are now being sent out into the field.

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COL.CHAS. A.LINDBERGH’S OWN LIFE STORY

THE STORY SO FAR Lindbergh completed hi* education at the University of Wisconsin, where he became interested in aviation. He entered a flying school and later joined a barnstorming outfit nad learned parachute jumping and wing walking. He bought a Government airplane for SSOO and made his first solo flight at Americus, Ga. Lindv decided to fly to Texas by direct air line against the advice of more experienced pilots. He made a safe landing the first night at a Government field, but the next night made a hazardous landing in a soft , Held near Meridian. Miss. A crowd gathered, and Lindbergh offered air rides for $5 each. Avery heavy man accepted, and the weighted plane missed a fence by three feet in taking off under the load. Lindbergh left Meridian for Texas, but got lost and descended in a field 125 miles from Meridian. A hidden ditch in the field spelled disaster, and the propeller was broken. Lindbergh was unhurt. After repairing the plane, he had a rushing business in passenger carrying. After carrying a few passengers at $5 each, he left Meridian for Texas, but got lost and crashed in a hidden ditch after landing in a field. Lindbergh repaired the plane and had a brisk business in passenger carrying. Lindy took up an old southern Negro as a passenger and "stunted’' for the admiration of the crowd and to the terror of the Negro. Rain and mud forced him from this field and he took off for Texas. CHAPTER VI. THE next morning was overcast with local showers which were visible in every direction. I took off soon after daybreak and after flying through several storms landed in a hayfleld at Forest City, lowa, where I serviced the ship between showers and took off on the final flight to Shakopee, Minn., where I expected to meet my father and carry him around on his campaign. I found Shakopee covered by a cloudburst and in flying around waiting for the storm to pass so that I could land I got into a heavy shower near Savage. One of the cylinders cut out, and I was circling preparatory to landing in a clover field when two more stopped firing. I was flying at less than a 200foot altitude and losing that rapidly. It was necessary to land immediately, but the only choice of landing places lay between a swamp and high trees. I took the swamp and cut the throttle. When the wheels touched earth they rolled about twenty feet, sank in to the spreader bar and we nosed over. The rudder did not quite touch the swamp grass and the plane stopped after passing through three-quarters of a semi-circle, with the radiator cap and top wing resting on the ground. I was hanging on the safety belt, but when I tried to open the clasp with one hand, holding on with the other to keep from falling out on my head, I found it to be jammed. After several futile attempts to open it, I reverted to the two strap buckles at the end of the belt to release myself from the cockpit. All this required not more than two or three minutes. After getting out of the cockpit I inspected the plane carefully. Again there was little actual damage. The propeller was badly cracked and would have to be replaced; there was a crack in the spreader board, which required winding with strong cord. Otherwise, the plane was in perfect condition, although splashed with mud. For once there wag no one _in sight, and I made my way through the swamp to the nearest farm house. On the way I found that there was solid ground along the edge of the swamp less than one hundred yards from the plane, from which I could take off. The farmer had seen the plane pass over in the rain and was on his way down toward the swamp when I met him. He informed me that it was not possible to get horses through the mire out to the ship and that he

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had no idea of how I was to get it back to hard sod again. I borrowed a rope from him to use in pulling the tail back to a normal position and we started back to the swamp. Meantime it seems that two boys had seen me land, and, when I did not emerge from the cockpit immediately, had run to Savage with the news that “an aviator had landed upside down in the swamp” and that they had. “gone up and felt of his neck and that it was stiff and he was stone dead.” I had flown over the town in the rain only a few minutes before, and as in those days it was not difficult for any one to believe anything about an airplane the town promptly locked its doors and came crawling and wading through the swamp. The older inhabitants followed the railroad track around its edge and by the time I returned with the farmer and a rope there were enough townspeople to solve my problem by carrying the ship back on to solid ground. They were undoubtedly much disappointed at having come so far on a false alarm, but turned to willingly to help me get the ship out of the swamp. The next edition of one of the Minneapolis papers carried the following item, which typically exemplifies what has been the average man’s knowledge of aeronautics: AIRPLANE CRASHES NEAR SAVAGE Charles A. Lindbergh, son of ex-Congressman Lindbergh, crashed near Savage, Minn., this morning. He was flying in his plane 300 feet above the ground when it suddenly went into a nose dive and landed on its propeller in a swamp. Lindbergh says he will be flying again in three days. After reading this and similar accounts of equally minor accidents of flight, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly, and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the post-war days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots, who were then allowed to fly or to attempt to fly—without license or restriction about anything they could coax into the air—and to carry any one who might be beguiled into riding with them. My next move was to wire to Little Falls for a propeller which Wyche had expressed from Americus, and two days later joined my father in his campaign at Marshall. My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me at the first opportunity, ard one afternoon he climbed into the cockpit and we flew over Redwood Falls together. From that day on I never heard a word against my flying and he never missed a chance to ride in the plane. After the campaign was over I spent the remainder of the summer barnstorming through Minnesota, northern lowa ancj western Wisconsin. Most of the time I was alone, but I took one student around with me for a'few weeks \4hile I was teaching him to fly, and then I barnstormed southern Minnesota with my mother for ten days. My mother had never objected to my flying and after her first flight at Janesville, Minnesota, she became an enthusiast herself. We had been together constantly up to the start of my flying career

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and had both looked forward to flying around together. Consequently when the opportunity presented itself I wired her to meet met at Janesville. My mother enjoyed flying from the first and has made a number of flights with me, including a round trip between Chicago and St. Louis in the mail compartment of my plane. (To Be Continued) PICK EDITORS' HEAD John De Prez, Shelbyville, Is Democrats’ Choice. John D. Dc Prez of the Shelbyville Daily Democrat was elected president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, at its annual business session at the Claypool Friday. Other officers named were: Miller Ellingham, Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, first vice president; Dick Heller, Decatur Daily Democrat, second vice president; C. H. Brodhecker, Brownstown Banner, third vice president; Ralph Hay, Rockville Tribune, secretary, and Clarence Wolfe, New Harmony Times, treasurer. Executive committee members are: First district, J. C. Gorman, Princeton Daily Democrat; Second, George Purcell. Bloomington World; Third, Lew M. O’Bannon, Corydon Democrat; Fourth, Bernard McCann, Lawrenceburg Register; Fifth, William Cronin. Terre Haute Tribune; Sixth, Walter S. Chambers, Newcastle Times; Seventh, Marshall Williams, secretary central committee, Indianapolis; Eighth. Dale J. Crittenbergcr, Anderson Bulletin; Ninth, Parke Beadle, Delphi Citizen; Tenth, E. C. Correll, Winamac Democrat; Eleventh, E. E. Cox, Hartford City News; Twelfth, L. G. Ellingham, Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette: Thirteenth, Clay W. Metsker, Plymouth Democrat. Four Sentence Will Filed COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 18.—Four short sentences comprise the will of Dr. G. E. Reynolds filed for probate in Bartholomew Circuit Court here. All property was bequeathed to the widow, who died recently.

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STATE FLORISTS MEETING TO BE AT PORDOE 0. Diversified Program Will Open Tuesday Afternoon. Bp Times special LAFAYETTE. Ind., Feb. 18.—The State Florists Association of Indiana will open a three-day convention at Purdue university here Tuesday with a program arranged to meet the needs of the grower, retailer and greenhouse employe. Following registration Tuesday afternoon, G. I. Christie, Purdue agricultural experiment station director, will deliver an address of welcom e. Disease control and greenhouse insects will be discussed by Dr. H. S. Jackson and Prof. J. J. Davis of the Purdue staff. Prof. Alfred C. Hottes, Ohio State university, will offer an illustrated lecture Tuesday evening. Speakers Wednesday will include Profs. H. B. Dorner and S. W. Hall. University of Illinois, and H. D. Brown, Purdue. A banquet will be held in the evening. The program for the closing session Thursday morning includes addresses by A. F. J. Bauer, Indianapolis; E. R. Honeywell, Purdue university, and A. H. Nehrling, Richmond. $40,000 Home at Lebanon Bp Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Feb. 18.—A $40,000 home of fifteen rooms will be built at the Country Club park hero for Thomas S. Shepperd, New Rochelle, N. Y., president of Ulen <fc Cos.