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...luck that when Louis T. Reichers set his crippled monoplane down in a sea whipped up by a nasty blow, Captain George Fried of the S. S. Roosevelt, famed for his North Atlantic rescues, was there with his equally famed Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated face. After they clambered back on board, Captain Fried abandoned the lifeboat, pointed his ship toward Manhattan, wrote a signed dispatch for the Associated Press...
Copilot, radioman, steward and passengers plastered their noses against windows while Pilot Ormsbee banked lower & lower around an animated speck on the surface -a lifeboat. Someone in it was waving an oar with a shirt tied to the blade. . . . There seemed to be ten persons in the boat. . . . One of them looked something like a woman. . . . And over there, taking a terrific beating from the waves, was another man hanging to a broken hatch door...
...take it off again. He scribbled a note on a message blank, passed it through the little window to ''Sparks's" compartment just abaft the control cabin, saw Sparks (radio operator) begin to pound brass . . . "NHC [the Naval base at Cristobal]-NHC-sighted ten men in lifeboat at 10:22 North 76:52 West-ORMSBEE." With that message and another to Miami on their way, Pilot Ormsbee turned northeast and kited for Barranquilla, hating to think of the eleven pairs of dejected eyes that focussed upon his vanishing ship...
...German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...Colonel was immersed, but his wife remained high & dry, stepping from airplane to lifeboat. (Hallett Abend of the New York Times...