Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 3

Government, German Em- bassy and Irish Legation to Share in Homage. When the members of the gallant German-Irish crew of the transatlan- tic plane Bremen arrive in Washington after five days of festivities in New York, they will be given an claborace Tecepiion. with officials of the American Government, the German embassy the Irish legation dividing the honors in entertaining them. At the State and War Departments tentative pians for the receplion W forward today. but detailed arrange- meats await definite word as to when the aviators will arrive President Coolidge will greet the Bremen s crew at the White House and probably will entertain them at unch- eon. A squadron of Army airp < preparing to meet the flyers and escart them to Bal Pield, it b ass that they here New York Bolling Field Greeting a will fly by Secretary of S of War Davis, of ent’s cabinet Pr greeted Secretan I depehd ne it takes to re- e and make th They may not ar- s later. Their stay derstood, com- rts of two other They will prob- Thursday, April 26. b upon the length of t pair their camaged pla flight to New York here will prising one full d days and two nights. after their arrival here. After being received by the special Yeception commitiee at ol Field. they will be takes to & local hotel, which has not yet bee: They are ex- g s of the their arrival ! they will be ” y after dinns guests of the rman Ambassador and the next night they will dine w the Ir: Minister. Prominent officials of the Government and diplomats of other nations will be invited to both dinners. Plan Arlington Visit. Plans for the entertainment include @ visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soidier at Arlington National Cemetery and a trip to the Capitol, where the! aviatars will visit the House and Senate. Maj. James Fitzmaurice, the Irish member of the crew, will be the spectal | the Irish res- | crazy own. dents of Washington. Plans for his wel- | object of attenti come include a formal public banquet, sponsored by the Anclent Order of Hi- bernians. The two Genman members of the crew, Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Koehl, will also be invited to the banguet and will share in the welcome sccorded by the Irish residents. Detafls of the banquet will be ar- ranged by a committee, which will Minister Smiddy. who has man A detachment of Army aviators from | Bolling Fieid and Mitchel Pield New York, probably will be sent northward to meet the German plane soon after $t crosses the American border from Canada. The escort will join the trans- near Albany and ac- cu-np-m' them to New York City. Maj. John N. Reynoilds of Mitchel Field will be in command of the Army Getach- ment. The same Army planes will accom- p-ny l.he visiting fiyers from New York to Washington. 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OCEAN CALM LULLED FLYERS' FEARS BEFORE FOG BLANKETED COURSE (Continued from First Page.) | wind direction. and to correct their| course. There was little wind. They began to | | think that they must be over land by now. They began to figure the t over and the glory won. They doped it out that a very few hours' fiying | would get them to Newfoundland and that then it was merely a matter of oing into New York. | That was when the wind began to | freshen. Gradually it became a gale. It held them tight. They could not | progress. They just Kept plugging | | along all day, and still land never came |in sizht. That must have been heart- | breaking work. with them thinking it | was fust n matter of waltzing along up | the home stretch. Now night was on them. The sun | began to set. Their spirits started to | But their calculations showed | them they must be over land. Then | they had thewr second spasm of fog, | {thick as a feather mattres They tried to climb over it. They | couldn’t. It went up too far. They | tried to climb under it. They couldn't It went down too low. dly along in_ the g the night. Th T just had fog and hey flew a black ht they five hours throv [ Dote i Hell, until past flew on. not seeing anything. Stars Break Through. And then they suddenly saw the stars. sight. They were out of the They decided to slide to a lower de and find out where they were, A possible. Away down below they | patches of black and white. over land and weren't aware of it ni could see | They were Be- | ing angers, they didn't know the | kind of patchwork pancrama of black | | {and white that the Northern bush, | broken by frozen lakes, presents in Win- {ter. They figured that the white patches were fog or clouds. They were not seeing very well by this time, an: way. The strain was telling on their | eyes They flew on for 3 more hours. More and more they were puzzled by that black and white combination below Koehl began to argue that the stuff did not look like fog to him. Baron Huenefeld maintained that it must be Fitzmaurice, to settle their argument. fired three Very lights. It was well he did. The last one showed the plane almost bank up against the side of a mountain. Thev could not get over it The only thing to do was to turn.!| Koehl made & marvelous turn “Where can we be?” he asked in German. in a cool voice. The three men were as lost as they could be. The\ didn't know, but they thought the Labrador. Thr\' knew that was not a healthy place to be. There was nc way to dope out their bearings either, for their compass had long since gone | dead. For hours it had been on its PXA - PHOTOS L Upper: depicts Maj. James Fitzmaurice arriving | arrival al \flen Islands. shamrocks it would have happened to him and his German friends. Now for the story as I can give 1t hot | off the griddle. s tough being a reporter—far tougher than fying to the tail-end of Labrador. 1 got only two hours’ sleep any night {all the time I was away trying to reach places from which to send my | stories out to Th> Star and the North American Newspaper Alllance, and so my stuff may read kind of ragged Down in this neck of the woods you Sun Shines Again. The card of the compass started turn- | ing. Then morning and the sun once again. They took their bearings and flew southeast, which meant making a half | don't get much news. I had heard of turn back to Ireland. They dropped the Bremen being ready to hop off on from 6.000 to 15 feet. For a while |a transatlantic flight, but I knew little they flew along above the surface of fabout it. So when I got a long distance frozen river. It might have been a | call from Montreal saying the Bremen | Siberian stream. for all they knew. It 'had landed at Blanc Sablon, I said was only & matter of fiying as long as | “and where the devil is that” I got they could. Below there was nothmng (a map and soon found out. It was but wilderness. In every man's mind | certainly some distance away. and not there must have been thoughts of Nun- | very pretty country to fly over. But I! gesser and Coli and the other fiyers |said “let’s go." who have disappeared over the At-| The Canadian transcontinental air- lantic. | ways for which I've been flying mail The crew were under a terrible strain. | planes to some of the isolated spots of All they could do was sit tight and | the St Lawrence had had offictal word keep fiying blindly The baron | from Ottawa that the Canadian gov- | wrote on a plece of paper: “We cannot | ernment would be tickled if they could iand here. There would be no food.” | do anything to assist the Bremen. So Pitz tried to remember the things h, they went after Dr. Louis Cuisinler had read about ways of existing th the | technical director of the company, Aime wilderness and living oft the land. | Thibault, mechanic and myself, and we The gas gauges were all o The | started. men didn't_ know whether they had| At Was just a case of bucking weather enough gas for an hour or two hours | ANd doing our bsst to work throughout fiying. A bimard came on and having luck enough to make it. couldut see & thing Of course, now we have a few spare | chimb o they wouldn't run tnto any- | DOUTS in letween hops on the way back thing to mggx oyer the trip up there, it g does. ike a pretty reckless stunt, ! Koehl and Fitzmaurice had been|gyp more than the ordinary share of | handling the controls on three-hour | yn e and worries | wu 'nx_slv_h :ere‘:gidly n‘nrmx €X°| The last 600 miles was a plunge into -t y sl unknown territory, and we hadn't the their eyes were so tired from the ""‘“"wnlch of & e on paper in the | of looking that they were seeing; mirages, airdromes, hangars and ma- chines. way of & map or .. chart, and oar plane | wasn't equipped with a compass. We | flew by dead reckoning and the sort of See Dog Teams. | instinct that comes to all those who are | lucky enough to beat out the fying They even saw cities up there over | game as lohg as “Doc” Culsinier and | the Canadian wilds. There seems little | myself have doubt that they must have been well | up over northern Canada when they | turned and bore to the southeast. | Followed Coast. Of course, & 600-mile jaunt in nice with good visibility, thought was a ship frozen In the ice. |yt anything to write home about, Capt. Koehl said, “I do not think it | especially if it's over well marked coun- is a ship” ‘A moment later, like & gift | try with smooth landing places and from God. they saw dogs running out | os of fuel stations distributed around on the ice and a couple of people. They | But, as already remarked, the north | cut the gun and made an attempt 10| snore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and | the Straits were showing their worst| stuff, and the sun hasn’t had much of # look-in even yet at time of wiring. Once we left Seven Islands, where the doctor had been flying with mall, we decided we would have to keep pretty close to the coast line, or else. without a compass, we would get off into the northern wilds of Quebee, or even Labrador, and be in a worse fix | than the Germans and the Irishman on | Greenly Another reason we could not fly far inland was that the bays and strips of | | coast water gave us the best chance u! coming down without striking a tree 4\r rock. As already narrated, we had s | must hav by ! :l.llll“ll trip to Seven lslands Saturday, ' lave been tremendous The men | 1 we brought our piane down severa | didn’t talk much sbout this. They B PEY | miles away from the village. We an- wouldn't. They asked the people who | o oreq har down and went in for nn-( They knew, they mignt have been n | MEBt. It was Jik. Aluska or the Pus. Fire Under Engine. Greenland. %t morning we had to mush | They were told they were st Blanc | . " Bablon, That didi't mean anything | o, (s (he plane with & dog team, tak- ing gas 10 fill our tanks, and then when until they had seen a map. o Sy Kev Ghy W . Lhe Brat | we got there we found the engine stiff | ’ . | trom the cold We had t light & fire under the east o west That made up some, 1 guess, for the | f o engine 1o warm it up before we could | hardships of the fiight Iget going. Al the time the wind Getting There, blew, carrying - now and fog Wi t worked up Into pretty high t « { 10 st Vidter laking off iy hat!velocity at times, and that did not add scross the Atiantic, let me go back | Much o our temper or the Sein 10" my Tent " trom ‘Murkay ‘Bey | 374y, of things. Because of t 1o Greenly Island in the North Ameri- i'""*‘ B Slanide, oo &% s pisce ";‘h",:‘;"“j,‘;‘,“’u“::l;’;”m"“‘l‘;;: Alliance | DThaps 75 miles this side of Nata L upers T 11 us maehy aa' 1 couid, tired | 9UaD and at Natashquan iself, “We ws 1 was, sbout the trip my companions | 3 "L" ,'“l“'“m”" n":;‘ . “'\:f,fi"f':l ”l‘" and 1 made o the Bremen, We were | K0 of ianding fleld we wero going fo e e e e | We did not know how thick the stranded fyers trom the outside world. | 1 want 1 nay that 1 got the biggest | kick of my life when, as we landed, 1 saw Ma) Fltzmaurice coming across Ui joe woward my plane in his uniform. | 1 had expected to see German uniforms 1 didn’t know the Germans had brought anyhody with them. 1 guess 1 hudn't been reading the papers care- fully As 1 came down 1o the fce In dark- | | ness &t Greenly Islana, § wes thinking | | 0f Nungesser and Coli, the Frenchmen | | who were lost sttempting the westward tight. And 1| was thinking of the erew of the Btrephael and of my old pals of the Ontarks forestry service, Terry Tully and Metcalfe, and of the men of the Ol8 Glory,” who hopped off and dis- | & sppeared while 1 was welling for | INSPECT THE HOUSER AT ) break 1o take off myself 1 was think- | il g L DR, L) Not_having had experience on ice they didn't think the ice inshore would hold them. They saw a small pond, and { honestly it isn't much bigger than the | parior of & six-roomed house. It was here they cut the machine down. | puThey stalled, Janded, sank, the tires | burst The Bremen cocked up on her rose | and bent the propeller, Koehl got a bit of skin peeled off his forehead. That was the oniy harm any of the ihree sif- fered. The injury to Koehl was no worse than if he had bumped bis head against & low beam. They climbed wearily out of the ma- chine. Their rellef al seeing humans ‘The 1 Y IHNI ‘AN PAY MONTI NT OF NEW, DESIRABL and have bulliin gara Nungessey snd Coll maey le somewhere nov be- neuth the shows of Labrador It could Liwve happened. Only that ¥itumaorice from Greenly Island in a plane piloted by Lower, left to right: Maj. Fitzmaurice and “Duke” Shiller shortly after their PAYERNS WHO WOULD LIKE e L AND WHO ARE NOW I'AVII MO WE To WIHTV UN, HIVING LOCATION, II'I““N“Y’""‘"M’ NUMBER OF ROOMS, AND ABO This photograph, rushed to New York from the far North by airplane, at Seven Islands, Canada, after a flight Duke” Shiller. ice was nor how deep the snow with that high northeast gale blowing We, were able to hover down pretty gently with her nose stuck right into the teeth of the gale, and didn't even out, and I'll never forget the gratitude and happiness of the flyers. It just oozed from every pore of their bodies | and broke their faces up into great in- articulate smiles and snatches of greet- ing. The two Germans said a lot of things that did not convey any par- ticular meaning to me, because I don't understand their language. But it WAsn't very ' necessary, use even a | Hindu would have known what they were driving at, You see, they had brooded more about the isolation of the spot where they had accidentally alighted than ‘they had about all the perils of the Atlantic| flight They didn't even know whether the news of their arrival had reached the outside world. They feared that the world had probably given them up for lost, and would perhaps not know for eeks where or how to come to their aid Maf. Fitzmaurice, of course, speaks the same language as I do, and one of the first things he told me was how unexpected our dropping out of the air was. He said they thought it possible a ship might break through or dog teams make thefr way in with relief, but a| sure-enough airplane coming out of that desolate and Winter-bound coast was too much for his imagination to picture. It was the total unexpected- ness and the wonderful promise of our coming in that wreathed the smiles all over those brave aviators' faces. “Fitz” Wins Toss. We fcfind out just exactly what had happened to the plane. There had been | a thaw on the lake some time earlier and ‘then another freeze-up, so that there were two layers of ice. The wheels of the Bremen had broken through this top layer and had worked down to the second, so that her nose had gone down, and the propeller, still whirling, had struck the top layer of ice. That bent the propeller a little, and the strain on the shaft had wrenched it a little out of place. The fiyers themselves, of course, Jar the spring as we came down. That| Weren't hurt, and got out of the plane blizzard” was a great lifter when we O. K. came to take off again, too, especially| After looking her over, we figured with a boat with as much power as ours. Wind and Open Water. ‘The worst take-off was at quan, which is out on open water, with no deep bay or inlet nearby, and the gulf is pretty free from ice there. We had to hover around quite a while be- fore we saw a place that looked safe. With that wind blowing, we would prob- bly have done some damage. That early Sunday afternoon, and we had to come down quite a plece from the little settlement. The huskies had to trot out their stuff for us again. We made the village and arranged for a load of gasoline to be brought out right away. Then we went back to the plane and had a bite to eat. The dog team made good time. and a few minutes later we were able to refill. While we ate Junch we talked .about pushing off again from the island, and, having come through so well that far, we decided to take a chance on it, We knew there was only & couple of hours good flying time between us cnd the Bremen, and all three of us were used to roughing it. 8o we decided we would take off again, travel till dark, and then, 1f we could not locate the island. which ve had been told wasn't very big, we would pick out a nice landing place and | come down for the night. Sight the Bremen. Well, old Lady Luck was right with us, as she had been except for the dirty weather all the way from Murray Bay. | We found the island, and knew it was the one we were heading for, because as soon as we were anywhere near it we saw the Bremen down there on the ice. Maybe you don't think that transate lantic boat did not look good to us, too. I looked all around for a good land- ing place while hovering around and spotted some people over on the land | | side of the island. They were waving | | pretty vigorously and shouting, but we could not hear what they said. ‘The people were waving over in the | direction of the mainland, over to Long Point. What they meant, apparently was that there was a better landin place over ther that the Bremen fly {to the mainland help there. 8o we turned her nose northwar we made a landing on the bay. We were hardly stopped when a dog | team was seen coming across at a good clip, and a couple of Prench Canadians came up and told us excitedly that the | s were all over at the island. Bo we took right off again and came down not far from the Bremen. There was a pretty big crowd for that coun- try, and they made a dash for us as they saw us landing Wave to Crowd. It's lucky we didn't crash or some thing, because none of us was thinking much about landing and waved to the crowd and three men | in front, and we Jet out a bunch of was whoops. They raced over and we llulnbrrrd GULDENS EhMustard Ji} ror A Hot T AND WE WILL NEND YOU ON UN- A (] USUALLY EASY TERMK. YOU CAN HAVE THIS LIN ANI) YOUR OWN CONVEN ANY OBLIGATION TO Pl’l- | NOW. PORTAL WILL DO, ADDRESS g of 8l the other British and Amerls | ¢ , L1 can fiyers who were lost in the Atisntie 'W’i l-"»”. STAR OFFICE, | fights - wake Was e Dioged Jound with fou-leaved m Natash- | We leancd out || P=9 that if we could once get the necessary parts we could repair her so as to con- { tinue her flight to Ne ; York. There was a long argument about who should leave the plane. We settled on the fact that one of the three must come out with me and arrange for re- pairs, and so forth. But they all want- ed to stay with the ship. We weren't getting anywhere by argument. “Let's flip for it?" I said finally, they a The cotn indicated the Irishman, and that is how it was Pitzmaurice and not one of the Germans who came out with me on our plane. FLYERS SAW CITIES AND AIRDROMES IN MIRAGE OF FLIGHT (Continued_from First Page) and Soon we are over the ocean, speeding along the edge of the mountainous coast toward Slyne Head lighthouse, at which, as we pass, we gaze longingly and with fond farewell From Slyne Head to midatlantic very | good progress is made. Very favorable ;mnmuum prevall—nothing to worry us, beyond some isolated snow, sleet and rainstorms of a local nature here and there. We manage to go around most of them. 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We are now approaching the coast of New Foundland, and estimate we are now only about 400 miles from land, when directly in front of us and spread- | ing as far as the eye can see to the | north and south, is the great, dreadcu | fog vank. A strong southeasterly gale is also encountered and darkness is approach- | ing as old sol, our faithtul guide throughout the day, is slowly dlsap-‘ pearing behind the fog. | Can't Escape Fog. | An endeavor is made to climb over it, to keep the great guiding beacon of the heavens In view as long as possible. | As we know, the compass is not very | helpful. owing to the great difference | in magnetic variation over short dis- tances on this difficult stretch of the | journey It is no good. The fog merges into | the low-hanging, heavily charged clouds. We decide to go down through the fog and sleet, and at last. when about | 50 feet from the surface, the raging billows of the ocean, lashed to fury, | loom up beneath us. We are now af | the mercy of our compass and instru- | ments. A leak in the ofl system is discovered. | which does not add to our peace of | mind. We are up against serious trou- | ble—fog. sleet, a howling gale and a| ‘eak in the ofl system just at the point | where we desire favorable conditions. | There is nothing to do but grind nurl teeth, grin and forge on ahead into| the west, hoping that terra firma will | soon loom up in front Peril From Ocean. Flying so close to the great surging waves, many great downward bumps | are encountered which all but un‘(lpl-‘ tate our sturdy little craft into the| merciless sea. It is now black night. It is too dan- | gerous to remain too near the surface, s0 we climb to 2,000, 3,000, 4.000, 5000, 6.000 feet, where the cold is in:ense. | We are still in the fog and sleet Nou | even the twinkling of a helping star can be seen in the firmament We strain our eyes in the hope of dis- | cerning the rays of a friendly iight- | house which will give us the longed-for information that we are at last over the land. Nothing appears We continue, watchful at the con- trols, ever forging ahead into the west. We are becoming fatigued and at times drop off to sleep from sheer exhaustion | for a fraction of a second only, to| awaken with a jerk to appreciation of | our position. It is all so deadly monotonous. very instruments are grinning and mak- | ing faces at us as if to say how fruit- | At last our determination is re The thick fog disappe: w;m.::: }\S\\\\\\\\\\\\‘\\\\\\“ 1440 Kennedy St. N.W. A REAL HOME DETACHED Just OFf 16th St. Price Reduced Open for Inspection 4 to 8 P.M. Daily J. 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Our eyes are so tired that it is im- | possible to make eu@p SWiects beneath | from the height at which are fly- ing. We descend as low as possible, consistent with a reasonable margin of | safety. After firing the third white flare, we | observe a large wooded hill directly | below us, practically covered with snow, and at last know we are over land. The dawn is due at any moment. We | anxfously await its arrival. With the | first streaks of dawn we can observe the country below much better lnd’ discern a huge expanse of uninhabited | snow-covered forest, mountain country. | Not a sign of life is evident. ] We decide we are many miles inland | over Labrador so alter our course to the | southeast, using the sun again as our guide. At last we find a broad river | %ith mountains on esch side. The | river is frozen and covered with snow. We fly down the river about 10 feet from the surface for about two hours, but fail to pick out any recognizable | landmarks. | Fuel Gets Low. We are gravely concerned about our petrol supply and, having tested all our | tanks, estimate we have sufficient lurll for three hours’ flying. We continue on | in a southeasterly direction, forever searching the country below for some sign of life. Now we are troubled with mirages | | and imagine we can observe in front | of us large towns complete with church spires, homes. etc., and at other times aerodromes fully laid out with hangars and living accommodations and air- planes outside the hangars. The binoculars are produced, and in | each case our illusion is apparent. We are now worried as to our fate should | we be compelled through shortage of | fuel to land in this vast. uninhabited | forest countrv. I try to imagine l'hll Koehl and the baron are thinking of | the situation. In my mind I rake up every scrap of information I ever gathered from | oks T had read as a small bov con- rerning the early pioneers in Canada and the Hudson Bav traj I _had ppers. i | ompleted a scheme in my mind. which. | if we had been compelled to land. wonld | nrobably nave brought us back to civ- | ilization again some time in the future | —how long T do not know. Two more weary hours elapse. We | are searching for a suitable landing ground when we arrive at the edge of what appeared to be a huge lake. Charts are produced and discussions ' take place as to our actual position. Joy at Seeing “Ship.” We decide to search for some habita- | tion or some sign of human life. The | ameeatbinn R & S S izzard a| it us. Suddenly it lifts, and we observe Valley Vista i ’ 2 So. End Million All the comforts of the m advantages of Washington” artistic and utility features never such moderate rates. RESIDENT 1501 K Street, N.W. (2032 Belmont Rd. N.W. 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We come into land after firing & smoke signal to obtain %2 correct direc- tion of the wind perfect landing is effected on a pau:h of frozen water when, bang! the ice breaks, and the machine forward onto its nose Koehl receives a rather severe cut on the forehead. The baron and myself are uninjured. Little damage is done to the machine. Given Comforts. Upon climbing out of the r»ckvl! we |are surrcunded by the inhabitants of the island, taken to the comfortable quarters of the lighthouse by the keep- er, M. Le Tamplcer, where we are re- ceived with the greatest kindness and I spitality, a debt which we will find it difficult to repay. As a result of our experiences upon approaching Newfoundland and over Labrador, coupled with discussions which we have held with seamen and | traders of great experience in this par- | ticular district, we feel that we can ac- count for or at least put forward, rea- sonable theories regarding the failures of previous flights of Nungesser and Coli, Minchen and Hamilton and Hincliffe, the glorious unsuccessful attempts of those who were the real trajl-blazers over this most important commercial | aerial route of the future. (Copyrisht, 1928, in the United States. Can- gda, South Ampriea and Caba by York Times. i s and Ireland by Note.—This dispatch was written + Maj. Fitzmaurice on the backs of en- velopes and other scraps of paper he could obtain in the lighthouse on { Greenly Island, after the Bremen made her forced landing. It was filed at Clarke City, Quebec. on Tuesdsv, but was delayed in transmission. 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