Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1930, Page 4

- STORM DVER SEA - CAVECOSTETHRIL Frenchmen Confident of Suc-| cess After Passing Third Weather Disturbance. fnued From First Page) (C thought, would be failure of our motor. It had carried us already from France to North America and we knew that it would not fail us now. We had perfect confidence in its stanch heart and that confidence was justified. The motor was wonderful. It.did all that we had hoped it would. Weather conditions, on the whole, were very favorable—at least the winds were. on our side. On the other hand, almost, the entire route was clouded over and we went hour after hour over that watery waste through a thick white mist. e could not see what lay ahead, below or above. It was like floating in a dream. There was something unreal about it—unreal and awcsome. We were two, but we seemed s> all alone. Up and Down to Find Clear Way. Most of the time T was at the con- trols, and there was plenty to keep my mind busy. There was no time for dreaming. Constantly I had to shift my course to find a way out of the haze. Sometimes we dropped the plane down to less than 300 feet from the waves. At other times we were up to 2,500 feet We seldom went above that mark, and never very much above it But we had our reward. Although my mind was taken up with the details of navigation and the business of con- trol, with my eyes constantly on the instrument panel, I could not help but feel some satisfaction as we passed over the first signs of human habitation. It was a great relief after riding the mists. First Thrill the Greatest. Later, as we came down your coast and saw below us great centers of pop- uiation—widespread blocks of homes— some of the thrill was gone. Of course, it ‘was a great satisfaction. but, after all, the battle had been the flight across the sea, the war with the elements over the ocean.. We had arrived in America and now our only thoughts were for Curtiss Field, our final objective. When at last we arrived over Long Island we were tremendously happy. Of course, when we left we had gone with the greatest confidence that we would make it. And when we did we were greatly moved, not only by accom- plishing the flight, but even more so by the great reception which was given me here yesterday everfing. Adequacy, of Preparation Stressed. After all, it was not the flight itself as much as the preparations that courted. - Any one can get in a plane and attempt to fly across the Atlantie, but it is the preparation which de- termines success or failure. We did not hesitate, to make our ‘decision to try to leave not later than September 1. be- cause we knew that we had done all thet any could do for the trip. We had overlooked nothing. Meteorological conditions were not as perfect for the flight as we had been Jed to expect. There were extensive sreas of low pressure carrying favor- able winds, but not along the entire route. The conditions in France were far from good. There was consider- able fog in the northern part of my country and we ran into dense banks of it again in the south of England. However, we had made up our minds to leave on September 5, come what might. We reached this decision on Sunday. ‘We met some trouble getting ready for the: flight because there was the Sunday . holiday and mot many men ‘were available. Pinally, we did the best we could with an emergency crew, hastily mobil- ized, and on Sunday might the plane was taken from the airdrome of Villa- coublay to the girdrome at Le Bourget. where it was mechanics. ‘The food we were to carry was con- tained in two small <aluminum boxes. Waited Impatiently for Dawn. We waited for the dawn with great| tmpatience. put in the care of expert, nnmnfu. We simply had t6 wall for that fog to Mft. - With the ald of our friend Viau, the meteorologist, we made a weather map, based on telegl;lone regorca from every point on the glish Channel, to learn if there was some little loophole in that blanket of fog through which we might steal our way. From American sources as well as from the French weather bureaus we knew that except for the fog near us conditions were uniquely in favor of a westward flight. No Opening in the Mists. We had to find that loophole if. we were to get the advantage of those con- ditions. ~ We telephoned’ to Nantes, to Brest, to-Cherbourg, to Havre, to Dieppe, and even to Calais, but all the doors were closed and we had to wait. About | 10:30, however, there was a slight im- | provement. - Twenty-four minutes later | we took the chance. We took off in the face of the mists. | Our struggle with the elemerts had | begun. We felt certaln that if we |.could get out of Prance we would reach | New Yerk ‘before the following: night. | Sixty square meters of cloth fabtric had to Jift 6,300 kilos, our total weight, and had to -carry -that tremendous load through valleys, oVer hills, past all kinds of = projections and towering | heights. | But we forged ahead, most carefully. | our weight was too_great to ascend to a really safe altitude. ' Finally, we reached ‘the English Channel, just | north of Rouen. At the same time we left the dangerous stretch of territory behind #:d got out of the fog, over | the water, the air began to clear. Now | we could fly above the clouds. ‘We werit up to 700 meters, then ‘to 800 meters, but this did not last for |long. We encountered a threatening | storm area, black and menacing. fhat barred. our.way and we were forced to drop again. 1t was a game of hite and seek—the storms reached for us and we dodged out of their way—until we reached the coast. of Ireland. Sky Clearer at Sea. | Here the sky was a bit clearer, and to the north of us, beyond Cape Valen- cia, our. speed, in spite of temporary | adverse winds, was more than 200 kilo~ | meters an hour. We then saw the At- lantic rolling under us.. We were leav- |ing the Old World behind. We went on, hour after hour. A few hundred miles east of the Irish Coast we ran into a bank of cirrus ! clouds, - indicative of more storms to | Wi e ready for a fight with e I i ‘“uuu b e IR T e e L T T it ‘ ;‘W»u ‘,m“u‘ il il Under~ Supervision U. S..Treasury §This Bank ] has “made over 38 thousand loans aggregating nearly § 9 millions of dollars to as- sist persons of character to accomplish some ‘worthy purpose. §1n connection with the loan the borrower agrees to make monthly & or semi-monthly deposits ’in a savings -account {with' which he may _'pay ‘the loan; thus the | * borrower forms the | habit of 7saving . regu- W 1”f5{f'33m)~{i“‘i””‘”’M"'"“" H wg!'lflflfi \JHEH’\N‘W it W‘» L STAR, WASHINGTORX, D. C., WEDNESDAY, "PHE EVENING Jocéan wirids. The visibility lowered and.| above. Never have T known darkness | dodge of 100 miles to get into clear we had to swing further northward | so complete. It beeame ous. | weather, and when at Jast we had found than we had d. For a time it | Only the song of the motor and the it the merry motor seemed to rejoice. seemed as though we ht have to | tedfous watch of the instruments. We|We tore along the coast at top speed, g0 to Iceland and go inland there, That | yearned for daylight and relief came | certain then that we had conquered wianic'e Messent proweck L o | fous when we saw ft 55 ge.| e Atiantic. : gain we started playing hide and | _We computed our position at e- | (Copyrisht, ; e et e S e ot | e N OoF the cotnme of the | A A Nt oul then I shifted it southward. Every- |dawn. This indicated to us how ca- | Tights reserved.) ; where the clouds marshaled their forces | pricious the weather had ceused us : ally, after in- | to make our path. Our next ocoject:.e §! 2 2 2 of direction, we | was Nova Scotia. Philadelphia Capitalist Dies. found .t;l“rhp-lh. fNot Onliudid b!l!: lAnd again we had to search for a| PHILADELPHIA, September 3 (#).— escape the storms for a while, but | clear path around new storms. We|a 3 found favorable winds, too, to carry us | dodged through areas of cloud. seek- | h’;i‘:" 5' u““l‘“y' ey beyond. ‘This good fortune lasted most | ing ou: favorable winds. We did no st and one df'thé best known Cath- Icré}tm":hy ll‘n):i‘ ‘?&nmex nllgm o | know whether the last of the journey |olic laymen in America, died at his e 'ni e 18 e e | would be smooth. We knew that we | Summer he t ., N. J., said, he Jog blanketed, the scetn | must Aind the besk route 1o Nava SCotia | serierday. - Ho' Was & former tieatitel with startling swiftness. We could not | That was one of the danger points. |of the Catholic Laymen's Retreat see the water beneath, nor the stars It was then that we began the long | League. \ - It Keeps Summer Clothes Looking like New SEPTEMBER 3, |SECRETARY INFORMS | FRANCE OF LANDING 1930. i Raymond HBousquet Keéps Long ‘ + Vigil and Cables Arrival of Flyers. men of the safe arrival of the French fiyers. The young man had kept a vigil be- side the telephone in the embassy since 4 o'clock orning. Walting the Navy ge- pa 3 cabled ofcial notification to the French Air Ministry of the'landing in New “York. Hundreds of (eleg};“one calls from Americans and Frenchmen, bringing in- quiries direct from as far sway as Chi- cago, had added to the strain of ‘waiting for news. M. Bobsquet was left in charge when |PROMOTIONS FOR FLYERS | ! |France Will Raise Coste to Major . | and Bellonte to Lieutenant, | PARIS, September \3 ' (#).—Capt, | Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, among other rewards, will be promoted by the French government in the air force reserves list for their Paris-New | York flight, | Like all Frenchmen who have done Raymond Bousquet, second secretary | M. Jules Henry, charge d'affaires, and their military service, they continue on to the French embassy and the only |Maj. Georges Thenault, assistant mili- | the reserve list. oficial representative of his govern- | lAfY attache for aeronautics, went to New York to welcome Dieudonne Coste | ment in the-Capltal, grinned happlly |and Maurice Bellonte. Ambassador and !Jast night when informed by newspaper | Mme. Claudel are in France. | Coste, who now ranks as captain, will soon be promoted to major. Bellonte, a non-commissioned , officer, will be | made second lieutenant. 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