The New Gaian Front

[Pel]

ACCIDENT TO AIRSHIP

Anchor of Gaian Machine Caught in Doctor's Cape--
Aeronaut in Peril

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION-- The airship of the Gaian engineer, Holtzapple Badger, was cast loose in the wilds surrounding his secret planetary base and it immediately ascended 50 feet.

Just as the flying machine was about to clear the fence of the isolation enclosure the anchor caught and held it fast. After being released by the efforts of our daring Chief of Medicine, Dr.Cure, the hooks caught in his cape, and the machine, after being up for nearly fifteen minutes, was brought to the ground again.

When the airship's drag rope caught in the Doctor's voluminous garment the position of the navigator was extremely perilous. The flying machine was pitching and tossing on the end of the rope, more than eighty feet from the ground, and it was only by the utmost exertion that he prevented himself from being thrown from the basket.

Meanwhile, Dr.Cure was putting caution to bed with his fizzling personality and energetic speechifying, chopping enthusiastically at the air as he attempted to convince the device to free itself from his very large person and his even larger robe.

Badger finally release his hold with one hand, and, in imminent danger of being tossed from the car into the parasite-infested wasteland below, lowered a second rope to the ground and was pulled safely down.

After an examination of the airship, Badger said that the damage was very slight, only two spars being broken.

Dr.Cure waved away efforts to help, saying he would like a few moments more to speak with the anchor.

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