Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1927, Page 5

T TUENING STIR. WASHYNGTON, B, . THURSDAY. SEPTRMErR = 105 e BROCK AND SCHLEE TELL OF MONSOON {Flyers, in Own Story of Hop, i Describe Battle With In- dian Storm. BY EDWARD F. SCHLEE, Co-Pilot of the Pride of Detrolt. By Wireless to The Star and New York Times. RANGOON, Burma, September 7.— ‘An hour after leaving Calcutta on the \Calcutta-Rangoon lap of our world iflight this morning. we encountered a ‘fierce monsoon storm. The visibility was very bad and it +was almost as black as night. For a time we battled against the storm, but eventuaily had to go with.it. Ulti- mately we found ourselves hugging the seacoast to the right, off our course, Covered by Clouds. The Arakan Mountains were thickly ered by low, dense clouds, so we had to coast along them until we found their lowest part before at- tempting to cross the range. After ienced rain squalls near- T consider cutta and | tapgoon quite Pos ided first- class machines are used and landing grounds are laid out. » Our engine worked beautifully, but we shall fit in a new one at Tokio for the Pacific flight. Worst Weather Seen. Brock says: “The monsoon is aw- ful. The weather today was the worst T have ever seen. There is no dodging the storms in flying in this part of the world. You have either to g0 through them or with them. The visibility is perfectly wretched, and etimes it does not exist. m!};fllu 1 consider a Calcutta-Rangoon flying service practicable, though dur- ing the monsoon the machines could not keep to scheduled time.” Rl 7, 4 TnitedStates, ' pe and the British Empire by ¢ "York Times Co. All rights re- < n werved.) - CHECK ON OVERSEAS FLIGHTS DEMANDED IN U. S. AND EUROPE (Continued from First Page) e flyers, since similar long flights r@ady bave been made over land, sshowing their possibilities.” “ % Called Gambler's Hazard. Be in newspapers said, “So many mising lives are jeopardized by ardy sporting ventures” that “the has.come to abandon the kind of n fi attempted in the last six “@ndthe construction of new mperative for future tansoeeanicdlf: travel.” The German &s ‘previously characterized the ghts as a “gambler’s hazard,” and @rged that the men, money and ma- ines be used for other development. i~ London newspapers said that while 4§ would be wrong to discourage gen- filne enterprise, everything should be dorie to discourage mere stunt flying jand hazardous flights. The English ipgovernment weather bureau has as- tprted that odds lie heavily against imuecessful ocean flights at preseat. {" Naval hydrographers at Washing- #n recently noted the strikingly ad- yerse conditions faced by the ill-fated $t. Raphael and declared these condi tions might be expected to prevail szainst other “immediate” eastward fiights reported in prospect. At thr .same time the committee on air laws iof ‘the American Bar Association at {Buftalo, N. Y. expressed hope that {lemisiation ‘might be enacted to 'halt e mounting loss of life, &nd the Stin- igon Aircraft Corporation of Detroit dared no orders will be accepted reafter for planes intended for solo ic journeys. Efirm friends and relatives of rock and Schlee appealed to the vy to prohibit the proposed trans- ntic flight of the monoplane Pride troit, but Acting. Secretary Rob- n replied that, while he was “in heartiest synipathy with the re- t,” he was without authority to ;fi'%}ng except the admirable courage rlends of the flyérs said “such a t as Tokio to Midway Islands and ce to Honolulu—two small spots Attempts to Halt Flights Over Sea Are Called “Idle” By the Associated Press. LIVERPOOL, England, Septem- ber 8.—Defense of the risks taken on*transatlantic flights was voiced today by Air Vice Marshal Sir Sef- ton Branckner, who is visiting Liv- erpool to inspect the landing areas for the proposed airport here. “A flight from East to West has to be done,” he said. “And it is idle to talk of prohibiting the at- tempt. You can no more prevent man from attempting to fly the Atlantic than you can prevent him from attacking Mourit Everest. I <hould have put money on Minchin getting across safely.” (Lieut. Col. F. F. Minchin, one of the pilots of the ill-fated St. Raphael.) radio beacons or other scientific aids is nothing less than suicide.” Sought to Stop Flight. Telegrams made public by Willlam Randolph Hearst in Los Angeles dis- closed he had appealed to Bertaud, Hill and Payne, the Old Glory flyers, to abandon their attempt. Mr. Hearst in a statement said: “I was very ap: prehensive of the trip on dccount of the recent disasters and I did my best to prevent the plane from going.” He said he had no idea Mr. Payne was going on the flight In reply to a telegram from Mr. Hearst that he would not assume re- sponsibility unless the Government took over the authority and responsi- ¢ of the Old Glory flight, Payne, representative in the undertak- ing, id: “Secretary of Aviation Tru- bee Davidson and Department of Com- merce pronounced Old Glory the finest ship to attempt the transatlantic flight. ‘Would her give up all money in the world than forego their flight.”” A few hours before the Old_Glory hopped off Mr. Hearst wired Payne: “Please think of my situation. Have had one airplane lost and two fine men drowned. If another such disaster occurred effect. would be terrible not only on my peace of mind, but in public opinion.” He offered the air- men a prize with the suggestion that the adventure be abandoned. “The pilots appreciate your mag- nanimous offer,” Payne replied, “but insist they be allowed to fill their con- tract to fly.” Tom Payne, St. Petersburg, Fla., lumberman and father of the Old Glory's passenger, said he had a premonition all would not be well in the attempted flight to Rome, and added he had previously attempted to persuade his son to abandon the adventure. “Am going on Old Glory when it hops,” the son replied. “I cannot send the men where I would not go myself. You will understand.” The probable death toll of trans- oceanic flights since the Fall of 1926 TZ. 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Knope and Miss Mildred Doran in the Miss Doran, and Jack Frost and Gordon Scott in the Golden Eagle, who left Oakland, Calif, August 16, in the Dole air derby to Honolulu. Wililam P. Erwin and Alvin H. Eichwaldt, who left Oakland in the Dallas Spirit August 19 for Hawali in search of the Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle. Paul Redfern, who in the Brunswick | Spirit left Brunswick, Ga., August 25 | for Rio de Janeiro. Capt. Leslie Hamilton, Col. Freder- ick F. Minchin and the Princess Anne Lowenstein-Wertheim, who left Upa- von, England, August 31 in the St. Raphael for Ottawa, Ontario. Lloyd W. Bertraud, James De Witt Hill and Philip Payne, who left Old Orchard, Me., September 6 in Old Glory for Rome. Killed Preparing to Go. Those killed in overseas flight prep- arations: Charles W. Clavier and Jacob Is- lamoff, burned to death September 21, 1926, when Capt. Rene Fonck’s plane attempted to take off at Roosevelt Field, N. Y., for Paris. Lieut. Comdr, Noel Davis, U. S. N and Lieut. 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Foulois, who is commandant of the Army Air Field, said today, “is just an indication of the way enthu- slasm waxes and wanes in any great development movement. There are periodic bursts of enthusiasm, and each one is costly, though there is al- ways a gain to balance against the loss, “If you start making hard and fast laws in an effort to curb overzealous fiyers for their own good, it is sure to work out that some who could have done great things would be pre- vented from trying. “There are so many intangible qualities to take into account in con- sidering whether any one flight should be permitted or not that no law can be used as‘a true measuring stick. “The thing to do is to give full o ulatory power to some responsible of- fice like the Department of Com- merce and let that office decide in each case after careful study of all the circumstances whether or not the flight should be permitted.” Would Supervise Preparations. Col. 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