Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1928, Page 4

FIRST OF BREMEN ~ FILMS OBTAINED Pictures Rushed to Press by Plane, Auto and Spe- cial Train. @pecial Dispatch to The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. NEW YORK, April 20.—Airplanes | special trains and motor cars were used to rush to New York the pictures which " Schiller took of the Bremen i its crew at Greenly Island for the Vorth American Newspaper Alliance. of h The Star is the only member in ‘Washington. Storms were met and battled and overcome, and a new record for the train run from Montreal to New York was set in bringing the pictures here for distribution. These pictures were the first by many hours to arrive from Greenly Island “Dr Schiller, who piloted the North American Newspaper _Alliance lane to Greenly Island. and who with his companions as the first person from the outside world to reach the stranded Greenly day moming eady has told of the furious | fight against storms he encountered in | is journey back Murray Twice he was compelled to land and for a storm_to abate. Once he wn at Natashquan. Quebec nded at Seven Islands. But way safely He al Arrival at Quebec. ay Bay Schiller gave his roll | films to Capt. Saunders, chief pilot of the Fairchild Corporation of Canada. Capt. Saunders took off for Quebsc at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon and arrived an hour and a half later. In Quebec the pictures were trans: train, which left night at midnight. At Mont: Pictures were put aboard & plan started for New York at daybreal ran into a snowstorm and was broug jce forming on the wings after going 20 miles. The pictures were put into an automobile and hustled back to Montreal. 4 Then another special train was chartered for the trip from Montreal to New York. The special left Montreal at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. It was cue in New York at 7:40 last night, but arrived at 6:35, thus setting a new mark for the run. Pictures Reach Goal. At Grand Central Station a messen- ger with the films sped for a taxicab and 15 minutes later was in the offices of the North American Newspaper Alliance at 63 Park Row. The pictures ‘ then were flashed to member g‘pul of the alliance by telephoto and fast mail and were radioed to members abroad. The pictures show views of the Bremen down in ice, its crew of three. Scl r and Dr. Louls Cuisinier, one of “Duke’s” two companions in the North American Newspaper Alliance elief plane, and in the background the lighthouse where the masooned fiyers sought shelter and rest. (Cog 28, in all h A BREMEN WILL FLY TO GERMANY FROM | U. S., SAYS AVIATOR: (Continued from Pirst Page.) the way out. Maj. Pltamaurice said there was no | @ifficaity on the flight because of the r language of himself and | enough English to act as when he the Baron wished to com- | mughkxu, he said. A desu'e. The Irish major e to take @ ride on one of the dog sleds | which the new correspondents e making trips from Murray myt mtwu\eumrtuemmfludln‘ stick to his airplanes as they told hlm] s trip on lmb‘;ia was m\lzg.":::‘ than riding a broken the roughest part of the “Rocky Rosd | to Dublin.” | NEW YORK PLANS RECEPTION. | | Elaborate Arrangements Being Made | to Welcome Flyers. | NEW YORK, April 20 (®—Baron| unther von Huenefeld, marooned on | Greenly Island with Ospt. Koehl and | he monoplane Bremen, expects that| he big ship will take the air again in| time 1o reach New York by Monday or Tuesday | In a telegram o the New York offices | of the North German Lloyd Lines, he| said “fhanks for telegram number four. | Intend by all means coming by Bremen thanks o devoted assistance | r and his com| Boon clear | Rew York | ‘Tuesdsy Intermediate | ding probable, Will telegraph time of start. Heartiest greetings i Plans for Reception. " Junkers, daughter of buillder, telegraphed chairman of Mayor | ttee, that she en would reach were being com s reception W the they arrive nd st Mitchel rogram calls for Ritz-Carlton Wednesday morning | bor abosrd the ity formal reception by Mayor Walker st City Hall is sched- wied for noon on Wednesday. The city's planned for Thursdsy night ! wons, dinners and ra- | nned by German #a8 | steamer Macon oieries Whalen, anticipating unusus) in the air over the eity IIICK Jding field ehen the ransatiantic piane I8 sighted, has asked Becretary of Commerce Hoover for special air trafiic peguistions for the Ga Bertin o Tune In Jin 16 preparing W tune in on the redio o of Wew York s recep ton 10 the of the Bremer epresentative of the Netlons) Acasting Co wes asked by officisls Beriin Brosdcasting system 1o ormed of the progress of the reaching New York and the it likely W begin. The rebroadoust W Cer- ranspitters of the | ) and the Westing tenutacturing Co. nasigned o New e cription meny v Genersl El house Elecur Arm York next week ' Nine planes from Milchel Pield snd £ First transatlantic fiyers to complete westward hop shown with plane Left to right, Cuisinier, Scifiler, Huenefeld, Newspaper Alliance relief party. . THE EVENING RTAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, APRIT 20, 1928 — TAKEN AT GREENLY 1sL.AND | |ENGINE OF BREMEN at Greenly with North American Fitzmaurice and Koehl Another view of transatlantic plane Bremen, showing poles and pulleys used in effort o ralse it clear of ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHTED BY THE gamr i BREMEN'S DESCENT LAID jce through which it Pield as flight commander, will m the Bremen far outside the city, ably at Albany, ‘The - f planes- will take same group o es part in the welcaming ceremony, Teception to the Bregen crew over & in the harbor and over the welcoming o PRIMA DONNA WINS HOME TOWN ACCLAIM “Sings Like Gol-Durned Angel,” Father Tells Kathryn Witwer, After Audience Cheers. By tbe Associated Press. GARY, Ind., April 20.—Kathryn Wit- | | wer “sang like a gol-durn angel” as hes father proudly told her, before a ed auditorium last night. It was high t of “Kathryn Witwer by mayoral proclama- tion to honor s daughter of Gary who | has won a place in grand opera. The mother of the stenographe father, who used to be a steel worker | here, sat in the balcony “with the boys.” ‘Tears streamed down the lines of his face as he hugged his 24-year-| old dlu{”hler after the audience had cheered her performance. Miss Witwer, winner of a national contest for young voices, made three appearances last season with Mary| Garden in the Chicago Civic Opera | presentation of “Carmen’” She has| been paying her way to a musical edu- cation by acting as typist. With the $3800 taken in last night she will udy abroad. WORK CAR WRECKED; | 1 DEAD, 5 INJURED William Williamson of Fredericks- burg Crushed Fatally in De- railment Accident. 1 By the Assiriated Prese FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 20 william Williamsan, 42 years old, of Stafford County, was killed this morning | when a gasoline work car on the Vir- { ginta Central Rallroad jumped the track and turned turtle A gang of 10 men were on the car oing towerd Orange. Willamson was erushed. Pive other workmen were in- jured. Williamson leaves & wife and lwo chlidren BREMEN RELIEF PLANE RECENTLY IN CAPITAL Bennett and Bnlt’h»n’rl'lylnx Bhip Like Lindy Used City in The relief plane that Floyd Bennett ana Bernt Balchen are fiylng from Detroit 1 aid the stranded transat lantie plane Bremen at Greenly Island was in Washingbon early this month wil., four yourthiul national Utleholders of ‘mintafure sircraft flying honors who came from Detroft o exhibit thelr skill hefore President Coolidge The relief piane Is practically s stster ship of the Ford trimotored mon oplane st the Naval Alr Btation at Anucostin—the “ship” Col. Charles A l.llul'nlfh used recently in bis “fiylng school” for members of Congress, diplo mute and thelr families The puval “ship” from Anscostia which left Washington Monday, ar rived st Ban Diego, Culif, last night naval officers were advised Lod ] . An Industrious person seldom has & | sy Lon prob- | and eseort it to its ’10 Side view of damaged Bremen shored up by timbers and resting on barrels in ice at Greenly. ground lighthouse where transatlantic fiyers found shelter. | | In back- The triumphant transatlantic fiyers standing beside their gallant plane, the Bremen. Left to right, Huene- feld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice. RTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE. CK OF WIRELESS SET Fitzmaurice, Describing Trip, Says Plane Progressed Inland Over Canada, but Flyers Lost Bearings. BY COMMANDANT JAMES C. FITZMAURICE, Officer Commanding the Air Foree of the Irish Free State, Co-Pilot of the Transatlantic A plane Bremen MURRAY BAY, Quebec., April 20.—In this second article I plan to go into Iflflal) concerning the successful flight of Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Koehl part of our trip. | across the Atlantic and tell of the hazaras we encountered throughout the latter For the first four hours we had fair weather. Then we worked our way around local snowstorms, reached a point about 300 or 400 miles One beautiful spectacle was that some of the isolated snow and sleet storms | Cabin Lights with the exception of light snow showers, until we off Newfoundland. r. | appeared like huge sprays of steam lssuing up from'the ocean,with sheer edges | prima donna sat in & box, but her gy around. Fail to Work. . We skirted the fringe of several of these for the purpose of ascertaining | precipitation n a cold area | what they were, and in each case we found it to be snow and sleet caused by At times we saw what we thought to be icebergs in the distance, but by the use of binoculars found them to be merely shadows of clouds on the water, Soon as it was dark Koehl switched on the interior cabin lights, but for some reason they did not work and we found ourselves in darkness. Fortunately we had some small torches, but we could use these only in | flashes, as the continuous beam made too much glare inside We cockpit. Falls Asleep and Loses Torch. Once, while resting, with Koehl flying, I dropped off to sleep with a torch {in my left hand, and the torch siipped out of my hend and dropped to the | | floor in the cockpit, under my seat. It was missed immediately I awoke, as I wanted to glance at the instruments,, particularly the compass, but owing to the confined s pace in the pllot's cabin it was extremely hard to retrieve this toreh, Eventually it was fished up out of the bottom of the machine. Throughout the day Koeh! and I flew in turn, each taking three hours on and three hours off, but at night we worked | one hour on and one hour off. We sat side by side, with the baron in the cabin behind. We navigated entirely by the sun during the day and by the stars at night, when they were Visible Plying up from Galway 0 8 our driit was carefully che throughout the whole day we were for- tunate to have the sun for our guide except for short intervals when ob- seured by clouds Every few hours speclal smoke bombs were dropped into the water. ‘The ma- chine was circled, the drift gauge brought into operation,the direction and wpproximate veloeity of the tained and the course altered when necessary. From Ireland to midatiantic light east and southeast winds were encoun- tered, for we were pussing over an area that had been & lowspressure area & few duys earlier, but had started filling up the evening before we left, These | light, variable winds did not have much 'effect on the navigation of the Bremen In midatlantic u fairly gusty n westerly wind was experienced horses” had indicated ws much to us Of course, & smoke bomb was immedi- ately dropped to ascertain the direc- | tlon and veloeity of this wind, and -we | estimated the velocity to be between 15 and 20 miles per hour at this place. Encounter Gale and Vog. ‘There was nothing very alarming in this and we realized that these condi- tons existed over merely n small srea Our estimation was correct gnd during the latter part of the evening up to the time we yeached the fog bank the sea looked like & sheet of glass, scarcely & tipple on it and hardly any wind, at least nothing to bother about ‘The gale that I wrole about in my | frst arlicle was encountered off News wind ob- | , foundland. ‘The fog was pretty bad, In fact, from my experience of ordinary European fogs, this particular one was | rather frightening | ""Both Koehl and myself had had lots | of experience flying by night snd in fog and we were not apprehensive. We knew that the machine was yood, that instruments were good and that we capable of dolng it e were concerned more than fright- ened, simply because we knew we were approaching land, and as darkness was | falling, also we rewzed that the fog would obscure and prevent our seelng any landmarks such as lighthouses or lighted towns which otherwise would give us every iadication that we had reached the coast Our fears were perfectly correct, and we did fall to sight land until we were many miles inland over it. And I have no hesitation In saying that had it not been for that frightful fog off News foundland we could easily have reached New York on the following day without any bother Sorry te Disappoint Crowd. The trip from Newfoundland to New York is quite the simplest part of the whole journey, We all deeply regret that we did not make that last leg of the journey, for I understand there was n large crowd waiting to welcome us, We are frightfully sorry to have ;Hn;upunlrd them, But it was not our wult The food carried on the 'jnlllury cons sluted of about gen beefl sandwiches, some pecled orunges and bananas, hard- botled eggs and vacuum fasks of cofles and tea and beofl tea, u rather ugly mix- ture and one that made me sick & lttle Inter on I had never been sick In the alr bafore, We ate beef tea, sandwiches, bananas nnd coffee, 1 thoroughly enjoyed that meal until after delnking the ecoffee, which didn't taste very nice, This, coupled with the fact that § was sitting | \ on the exhaust side of the engine, with | which to locate one’s position upon |been for our careful consideration of the exhaust fumes of benzol coming into the cabin, made me dreadfully sick. arrival, It is quite possible for the pilot of a | all the problems involved and the meas- ures we took to overcome all the for- However, I felt fine after it was over. | machine in poor visibility to strike the | midable obstacles we encountered. | My only regret was that my effort in | eating this meal was for nothing. | As a precaution against the form tion of fce on the wings the whol machine was swabbed down with para- fine oil. We had heard quite a lot | about the formation of ice on wings and experiments were carried out in Germany to ascertain the effect of this. It was as a result of these that the | parafine oil cure was found to be .the | only effective preventive, and, although | we flew through thick sleet and snow | for a considerable time, no ice formed | on the wings of the Bremen. | Flew Near Surface. | All day, from the time of leaving the | Trish coast until the arrival off the fog | bank, the Bremen was never more than | 80 feet above the surface of the water | except in the stretches where we en- countered the east winds and we pulled | up to about 1,000 feet in order to ob-| tain the greatest advantage by reason | of the increased velocity at the greater height: but where adverse winds were | met we stayed as low as possible, { | During the night, in case we should | | reach the coast without knowing it and | possibly run into a mountain, the | machine was taken up to 6,000 feet, at | hich height we remained throughout the night. ‘The flight of the Bremen was no mere stunt. It was a carefully prepared | scientific endeavor in which every pos- sible danger or cause for fallure was | written down and considered from every | possible angle and the best possible precautions adopted to eliminate or| reduce them to the lowest point of | danger. | | The question of wireless received ser- | | fous consideration, but it was decided | | that an efficient apd useful wireless set | | would wetgh approximately 180 pounds It was decided that theis weight of | benzol would be better, Missed Wireless Set. organization of the flight, as we now jon board upon our estimated arrival in the neighborhood of Newfoundland, we could exact position by the direction-finding | stations along the coast and informed of the precise direction and velocity of the wind over the area dnd we would ' have made New York easily and accom- | plished our objective. | |~ We consider wireless absolutely neces- | ‘This was the one weak point in the i | realize that had we Rad a wireless set | I ave been given almost our | [ North American continent between Cape Race (Newfoundland) and Caj North (Nova Scotia), flying in over tK: large Gulf of St. Lawrence, where he would still think he was over the At- lantic Ocean. He would easily run out of petrol over this huge expanse of wates, the size of which can be appreciated by compering it with the map of Ireland, and be forced to land in water which is equally as rough and dangerous as the Atlantic Ocean itself. A further point, arrival at Newfound- land on all east-west flights should be scheduled to take place at or about dawn and not at night, when the dif- ficulties of localizing one's position are I 100 per cent harder. Compass of No Use. Our experience over Labrador and a comparison of the actual layout of the terrain with ihe charts available lead us to believe that there are large hills con- talning heavy deposits of magnetic oie in the neighborhood on account of which the magnetic compass is of no practical use. If a small gyro compass could be per« fected this difficulty would be elimi- nated. In our case, the compass was used only during the fog. Later, in clearing the fog. direction was main. tained with the aid of the stars. For all these reasons and all these difficulties we realize that we, too, might | have shared the tragic fate of those | glorious ploneers who falled, had it not ' Washington. vright, 192 South "Am Times: copsright in Great Britamn reland by (he Irish Times. JAILED FOR ATTACK. | i Prisoner Gets Year for Striking His| Wife. | in the United States, Can- 1ca_and Cuba by the New = ™ | {u James Taylor, colored, today was sentenced to a year in jail and fined another year, by Judge Robert E. Mat- | | tingly in Police Court, when Taylor was aigned on charges of assaulting his | | | wife. Annie Taylor. ! The wife testified that April 2 her| husband struck her in the face, injur- | ing her left eye so that it had to be! removed. | Chicago Plans Reception. | CHICAGO. April 20 (#).—Definite i)lms for the reception of the German- rish transatlantic flyers are being | made for April 28, under the leader- | ship fo George F. Getz. { | acceptances by Mal. James Fitzmaurice, Capt. Herman Koehl lnfl‘ Baron Gunther von Huenefeld have not | been received, but each has said he| hoped to accept the city's invitation, | {after receptions in New York and| Our Entire Stock CHILDREN'’S COATS Saturday | sary for all future undertakings of th\‘ I | nature. | A glance at the map does not give | | much {dea of the formation of the| | Labrador - Newfoundland - Nova Scotia coast. It i3 one of the most difficult | he world to_arvive and in | | places in It is not necessary to have had an Ac- | count at this Bank to Borrow. | | $54 $1,200 $100, $6, $ THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U, 8. 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Prom this place it could take off and fly over to the bay at which we landed with the relief plane. The wheels will then be re- placed, if necessary, by skis and the Bremen will be ready for the takeoff. Greenly Island is a rocky isiand, in- habited only by the family of the light house keeper. The workmen we nave engaged live on the mainland, and, in ite of the storm, which has hardly ated since our arrival, they have been at_work constantly. Eugene Thibault of Quebec, the me- chanic who came up with me 2nd stayed to do repairs on the Bremen, has ex- traordinary powers of endurance. He deserves exceptional mention. Indeed, shortly after the plane arrives with benzol and spare parts. Capt. Koehl will be able to try his engine. It seems that the engine has not suffered from the forced landing. which proves that | the great ship will be able to continue | on its glorious wa; i (Copyright countries hw the oer Alliance.) E OFF 70 AID OF BREMEN; CARRIES EQUIPMENT (Continued from First Page) 1028 North American > Ford's take-off. Among them was Wil- liam B. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford piant, who for the past two days has supervised the squad of crack mechanics in making ready the Ford. ‘Within the past 48 hours Ford No. 10, which since the late Harry Brooks Eggg EERRRRY is Copsright. 1928. in all countries by the N American Newspapar Alliance postmrln st LISTS AVIATION DEGREE. Stockton, Calif., College Course Approved by U. S. Universities. versities in the United States to grant an avia- tion degree, C. L. White, head of the engineering department. announced to- | day. A degree of aeronautical engineer three lete course will be granted on completion of | years graduate work at Pacific. Groundwork and a incorporated with the assistance of a flying fleld and complete fiying equipment. Canadians Invite Flyers. QUEBEC. April 20 (®.—The three members of the crew of the transatian- tic monoplane Bremen have been in- vited to become official guests of the Province of Quebec. Premier Taschereau extended the in- vitation In a telegram last night t Maj. James Fitzmsurice at Lake Ste. mes. The young lady with the rose-leaf com- plexion was buying & present. “It's for a young man,” shecon- fided. “Quite a par ticular young man.” “Why not a carton of Yorktown Ciga- rettes?” suggested the man behind the counter. “I'm sure he will like them."” Agift of Yorktown Cigarettes shows an understanding na- ture. A deed as genial in itself as any of the seven friendly tobac- cos of which they are composed. A sooth- ing, mellow smoke. Haveyou tried them? Twenty for 15e. larm Richmoad, Viegma