Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1931, Page 4

; 3 A4 LINDBERGHS LEAVE' *% ONLONG AIR CRUISE, Take Off for Maine on First Lap of Flight to Orient. (Continued From First Page) | to warm up his motor. south and after a run of mo: 2n & half mile, lifted the heavily loaded plane into the air on the first leg of | the long flight. ! In the vicinity of Alexandria he' turned slowly to the left and headed back up the giver. Passing over the| station at an hititude of 1,200 feet he| rocked the ship siowly in & gesture of farewell to those who assisted him Gur-| ing the past 24 hours in compieting arrangements for the adventure. As ne passed over the stalion & scrap | of whits paper fluttered from the plane, ! but those al the station could not teli ! where it landed, and no impo:iance was attached to the incident. although a number of bystanders seemed to think it was a note. Headed for North Haven. Lindbergh headed for North Haven, Me. the Summer home of his father_in-law, Senator Dwight W. Mor- Tow, of New Jersey, where they plan to spend the night and bid Charles, ir., good-by. Mrs. Lindbergh was operating the ship's radio and acting as navigator | when the first leg of the long cruise began. After completing last-minute passport arrangements, Coi and Mrs, Lindbergh | arrived at Anacostia snortly after 10| oclock to check with Government ex- perts their radio and several navigation | instruments upon which they must de- pend for safety in crossing some of the | world's most barren expanses. The plane was towed in from its moor- ng place in the Anacostia River and was beached in front of the seaplane hangar at the local air station. Lind- | bergn pulled off his coat and went to | ork in the forward cockpit while two | rs unreeled the plane’s antenna and ched it out so Mrs. Lindbergh could operate the radio, After a Falf hour of hard work, the eolonel climbed out, dipping with per- | tion, to put in e call to New York weather information M Llnd<" r&h continu>d her work on the radio. ble to the ciowd behind the high | ng of the rear cockpit. Mrs. Lindberghh worked with the radio fo- nearly two hours before she was! satisfied with its performance. During | this time Capt. Emory S. Land of the Na-v Bureau of Aeronautics, who for-| merly was associated with Lindbergh in | the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the | Promotion of Aeronau‘ics, assisted Mrs. | Lindbergh in working out interference which prevented clear reception of mes- sages from North Beach, Long Island. May Stop at North Beach. Among the friends of Col. and Mrs. | Lindoergh at the station was Lieut Carl B. Harper, U. 8. N.. who resigned | from the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics two months ago to take a large part in | the designing of the Lindbergh plane Licut. Harper conducted all the test flights with the new ship prior to its | acceptance by Lindbergh Lindbergh said he expected to make North Haven today, but that if the | Tadio was not working satisfactorily be- tween here and New York, the pected to stop at North Beach, for the night. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh came to Washington vesterday prepared, except for a few last official details, for the beginning of their 7.000-mile trip, much of which will be over uninhabited and unchartered wilderness. Their plane was heavy with Juggage, which was taken asFore last evening and stored under guard in the office of Comdr. | Warren G. Child. in_command of the ! Anacostia_Station. They are cArrying | full camping equipment—fur and leath= | er garments, heavy blznkets. camp ook stove, full mess, kits, compressed emer- | gency rations. centeens, a machete an 38 caliber pistol. A tightly bound | bundle of maps and charts. radio code | book and log books also were put ashore | The Lindberghs have prepared care- fully for their trip and are equipped to live for days or even weeks In the wilderness in case of necessity. I Their business here this morning in- cluded visits to the State Department and Japanese embessy to obtain the final ‘diplomatic papers necescary for their flight, which is to take them through Canada. Alaska, Siberia, Japan and China. They also wanted to check | som= of their navigational instruments and radio before actually getting started on the long trip. The Lindberghs gave their sleek low- wing monoplane its first cross-count run with the load it must carry a thi of the way around the glob> vesterday afternoon when they flew from New | York to Washington. 1 Mrs. Lindbergh Tests Radio. They took off from North Beach, Tong Island. at 2:05 o'clock, the colonel flying the ship and Mrs. Lindbergh test- | ing out the plane’s new and powerful | radio equipment, maintaining commu- | _ nication during the flight with the Pan- | American Airvays Station in New York. | Though the plane has been equipped as | a seaplane, with big twin pontoons, the colonel headed boldly across country on the direct line to the Capital ' Flying rather high, he appeared from the northeast at 457, roared down the Anacostia River past the station in a, long dive and then circled back in a long | curve_before dropping in for his landing. JThere was lit'le breeze blow- ing as he dropped in above the Wash-, ington Navy vard, scene of his tumultuous reception to American soil following the Paris flight of 4 vears ago and he was forced to “fishtail” the big plane to kil its spead before setting it down gracefully on the smooth river eurface. Taxiing slowly back to the station. Lindbergh brought ihe plane close | enough to the shelving concrete beac in front of the station seaplane hanzar for three sailors in deep “wad to | pull it in until ths pontoons grounded | gently. A narrow poriable “dock” was | run out to the plane and. as Lind- bergh and Mrs. Lindbergh climbed out onto the broad wing. Cqmdr. Child walzed out on the dock to welcome them He then turned Col. Few Spectators on Hand. . There were a few spectators on hand, aside from a group of photographers and | pwspaper men. and there Was no demo “‘ration. The famous couple s~eme ! fo be in a happy mood and the colone: frequently smiled as he talked | to Cl the sailors and Mrs. Lind- borgh. ~ Even Mrs. Lindbergh, who usually seems gerious in the presence of strang-rs, flashed a cheerful smile as the photographers crowded each other on the water's edge. “shooting” across the natrow strip of water. The plane was unloaded by the Lind- berghs personally. | Thers was no equipment available to | haul the plane into the hangar and ! Lindbergh was egreeable to Comdr. | Child's plan to tie it up to a buoy in | the river upstream from the hangars. He didn't want to trust the operation to anyors, however, and he and Mrs. Lindbergh went plong to superintend the operation. 1 During the night a searchlight was played on the plane and a careful watch was kep: to prevent souvenir hunters or others tamp-rng with it. The Lindberghs finally came ashore at about 5:30 o'clock and, afier their luggage had been stowed, left in the car of Willlam R. Castle, jr.. Acting Secretary of State, for the Stefe partment, where Mr. Castle was await- ing them. They grant>d a brief press interview at the State Depertment and ' then went to the Castle home for an informal dinner and to spend the night. | Castle’s dinner. guest, in addition to €ol. and Mrs. Lindbergh, were F. Tru- bee Davison, Assistant Secrdfary of Ad, ! the Cape Cod, hez | Tan; | back 1o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1931 Lindberghs and Ocean Flyers Start Hops Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh being welcomed by Comdr. Warren G. Child, U. §. N., on arfival at the Ana~ | 8. costia Naval Air Station yesterday evenir Two powerful monoplanes took off wit '3 | Bennett. Airport, New York, this morning. ing for Istanbul, Turke intended round-the-world flight. with Moscov Boardman, John Polando, Gu War for Aviation; Dr. Stanley Horn- beck. chief of the Far Eastern Division the State Department; Ransford ler, Stuart Fuller and Max Hamil- ton, &1l of the Far Eastern Division, and Fuller and Mrs. Hamilton. | All of the guesis have lived in the # and were able to tell the Lind- bergis of the points of interest along the route they have mapped and to arquaint_them with the customes of the people. Fiom the time they lave North Haven until they land on the harbor oklo the Lindberghs’ course will lie n over thinly settled and forbid- ding country. Col. Lindbergh said iast evening he does not plan at any time to carry a fuel load of more than 350 gailons, though the plane hes tank ca- pacity for a total of 536 gallons. I expects to cruise with the motor throt- tied well down to conserve fuel a; prevent straining the engine. He ¢ mated that the cruising speed of the plane with full Joad and the big pon- toons, which replace its normal wheel landing gear, will be nbout 105 mi per hout at the throttle setting he pians to use for cruising. This is the same plane. however, in which he and Mrs Lindbergh flashed across the Uniied Stat-s last year at an averag: speed of more than 160 miles per hour. [¢} Radio Unusually. Powerful, The longest water hop h: expects to make on the trip to Japan, Lindbergh saud, is ebout 200 miles. “That's right, isn't it?” turning to Mrs. Lindbergh. firmed his estimate. On the trip Col. Lindbergh indicated he prebably will do most of ti> dying. while Mrs. Lindbergh acts as navigator, chocking maps, laying comp2ss courses and operating the 1adio. The radio equipment is unusually poweriul for a plene of the size, having a day-time > of about 3,000 miles and a night- time maximum of nearly 6,000 miles. Informed last night that it was re- ported there might be some delay in getting a gasoline supply to Point Bar- | row, Aleska, one of the proposed stops, Lindbergh said if this proved the cas he cou'd go to Fairbanks. Lindbergh indicated he expects to fly the United States from the Orient, but had not decided exactly the route to be followed. | he asked, She con- LINDBERGH, JR., IN MAINE. i ROCKLAND, Me, July 28 (P).—| Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., 13-month-old | son of Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, ar- { rived here today in charge of a nurse. They went aboard he Lindbergh | vacht Movette for the 12-mile trip to | North Haven, where they will spend the season at the Summer home of Senator and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey, parents of Mrs. Lindbergh. ‘The Lindberghs are expected here to day to bid the child and the Morrows g00d-by before they leave on their flight to_the Orient. i -“‘ " Sl fiENN'DAW; I Where 1t E. % Cool Pleasure of a Hot Necessity Why PENN-DAV. o/ C pwrsel sneh 65¢ up—Dinners $1.35 up. 113 miles delow Alez.on U. 8.1 THREE PLANES TAKE OFF TODAY FOR LONG FLIGHTS. —-Styg Staff Photo. | and the other is manned by as first objec tive, To End 3-Month Visitin U. S. Today King Prajadhipok and Queen to Leave for Quebec. By the Associated Press WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., July 28.—The | 4 precinct and charged with operating | three months' visit of the King and Queen of Siam to the United States was near its end today as preparations were made at Ophir Hall for their de- parture this afternoon. Much rested, and happy at the suc- cessful operation for the removal of & cataract from his eye, King Prajadhipok 2nd Queen Rambaibarni were to motor 18 minutes of eadf other on non-stop transatlantic flights from Floyd | They are Russeli Boardman of Boston, Mass., and John Polando in one plane. Hugh Herndon. j Left to right, just before double hop-off, are Russe ppe Bellanca, maker of both planes; Dr. James S Kimball. G described flying conditions as ideal; Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr. in front of the Cape Cod |Siamese Royal Pair | AUTO INJURES CHILD 4 \ with their entourage to the Scarborough | station of the New York Central. There, under the protection of local and State police and secret service operatives they will board a special train for | Quebec, Canada, on the first leg of their journey homeward. The ruler, who sald he enjoyed every s stay in the United States, vent for & seven-hour trip on the dirigible Los Angeles yesterday, accom- the Queen. He termed the trip “the best time” he “ever had." . Queen Rambaibarni was the first woinan ever to fly in a Navy agcraft, breaking an old tradition of the serv- ice. Special permission for the flight had been obtained from Washington. AUTHOR WEDS DIVORCEE PASADENA, Calif, July*28 (#).— Samuel Endicott Peabody, author and son of the late John E. Peabody of Brookline, Mass., and Mrs, August Con- verse McElwain, 34-year-old divorcee, of Medfield, Mass., were married here yes- terday. ‘The couple left on a honeymoon trip that will take them to Mexico. [PERNSYLVANIA] N OIL PERMIT 52 ” FeBest Gil nthe World Of Course You Like Quality Resists HEAT—lasts Jong. With the high speeds of modern fast driving Autocrat does not “use up” quickly. With Autocrat you use less oil. Try Autocrat the mext time you need cil, and judge its advcitages for yourself. UART BAYERSON OIL WORKS COLUMBIA 5228 and Clyde Pangborn, on an 1 vernment meteorologist, who | P. Photo Driver of Machine Held for Bad | Brakes in Accident. Mary Cooper, 6, of 1318 Potomac ave- nue southeast, was treat'd at Casyalty | Hespital today for an injured ankle, sus- | tained when knocked down by an auto- | mobile operated by Raymond Addison, 22, colored. 1244 One-half street soutlj- east, in the 1300 block of Potomac ave- | nue southeast. The fire rescue squad | was summoned to the scene of the accl- | dent Addison was arrested by police of No. his automobile with bad brakes. LIFE-S_AVING. EXHIBITION An exhibition of the modern life sav- ing methods practiced by the Red Cross will be given by the Special Life Savers Exhibition Corps. District of Columbia Chapter, Am-rican Red Cross, Thursday night at 9:15 o'cleck at the Crystal Pool of Glen Echo Park. Ira Lee Law will direct the exhibitior. Felt Death Approach. ALLIANCE. Nebr, July 28 (@ .— Hiram Empfield. 26, Tushed into a phy- sician’s office yesterday, yelled “I'm | going to die” and then dropped dead. Physicians believed a heart ail- ment. aggravated by the intense heat,! caused the death. Character Investment Loans THE DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1726 Pennsylvani Avenue N.W JUITHH T Gives you and all other persons in Gov- ernment service, pro- fessional life and pr vate employ, BANK CREDIT, through its QUUTTIROTT T Character Investment Loans —to meet your finan- cial needs., We shall be glad to mail, on request, a__coy | we | plower! FLYERS TRY GLOBE CIRCLING RECORD Herndon and Pangborn At- tempt to Make Moscow in Non-Stop Hop. BY HUGH HERNDON, JR. ROOSEVELT FIELD, Long Island, June 6 (NANA.).—If the weather stays with us we should be back [ Roosevelt Fleld in appreciably less time than the great mark set by Post and Gatty, which was 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. If we have marvelous luck we may make it in eight days flat. 1 suppose people will say we have a hard job ahead of us in our attempt to beat the present record, and 5o we have. But even at that, I can't imugine any- thing harder than the weeks and months of preparation Clyde Pangborn and I havé put in. & Studied Ship Type. Pirst there was the long indecision about what ship we would use. We had to get a strong plane—one that would | withstand possible storms over land and sea and days of hard constant use, and at the same time, one not so heavy that we would be unable to get the nec- essary speed, and in this flight, speed is of prime importance. It was finally decided to have a special long-distance Bellanca monoplane, which combines speed and strength without undue | weight. ‘While the ship was being built to our specifications we were not idle. There | were air maps of the world to be studied. There were lessons@to be| learned of topography ad flying con- | ditions over Bering Strait and other sections of the globe. There wete diplomatic details to be attended to Especially ’delicate were negotiations with the Soviet government for permis- sion to fly over its territory. Changed Motor. Finally the ship was delivered to us. We flew it up and down the country and sacrificed many of our preconcelved | notions to gain speed and distance. First we changed some of the instru- ments. Then we increased the gasoline tank capacity from 700 gallons to 840 gallons. Finally we ripped out the original motor and put in a new Wasp C. Another serles of tests folloved with what was to all intents and pu voses & new ship. We flew to Porto Rico and back. We made cross-country flights flew out over the ocean. We through clouds and fog and dark nights. We made load tests, con- sumption tests, altitude tests and what not. During all this time I had been | studving navigation with Capt. Lewis A Yancey. The first real opportunitv I had to put the lessons I had learned to a practical test was on the Porto Rico flight. [ Plans Indefinite. | Our plans are indefinite as to just where we will land and when we will get there. 1f we encounter bad storms head winds and fog, we may have to come down at Croydon in England to refuel. If conditions are fair we may be able to get to Tempelhof in Berlin However, if we get a good tall wifd with no unusual storms we can fly as far as Moscow without & stop. Hugh Herndon, jr.. was born in Titus ville, Pa.. October 3. 1904. His mother. Mrs. Dixon Boardman. lives at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. Mr. Herndon was educated in the public schools of ¢ New Rochelle, N. Y.. and at Lawrence- ville. N. J. He left Pri n_in his | second vear to work in the oil fields of | Texas 1d Oklahoma. He learned to fly at Vilygoublay. near Paris. in the Sum- mer of 1 and, returning to the United Stat obtained his transport license in 1928. After having met Pang- born at Syracuse. Herndon barnstormed around the country with him in 1929 and 1930. His total time in the air exceeds 1,200 hours. Pangborn in U. §. Service. Clyde E. Pangborn was born on a farm in Douglas County, Wash., Octo- ber 28, 1896. His mother, Mrs. Opal Lamb Pangborn, lives with another son P. C. Pangborn, in Wenatshee, Idaho. Pangborn’s mother moved to Idaho when he was a child, and he was edu- cated in the public schools of St. Marie. After two years at the University of Idaho Pangborn enlisted in the United States Alr Service in 1917. He at- ended the ground school at the Univer- sity of California, in Berkeley, and re- ceived his primary training at Eberts | Field, Lone Oak, Ark.. and his advanced training at Love Field, Dallas, Tex. He “Take time by | our “BOOKL 4 explaining our plan, "Phone District 2709 *QOpen Evenings Saturday, Aug. then became an instructor at Ellington Fleld, Houston, Tex., until disc] from the service in May, 1919. Pangborn has been in commercial aviation ever since, devoting most of his time to barnstorming. This con- sists of going around the country to airports and carnivals to take up pas- sengers and to perform stunts. While he was chief pilot for the Gates Flying Circus Pangborn established a record by taking up more than 175,000 passengers. The route and distances for the round-the-world flight follow: New York to Moscow (non-stop, if possible), 4,658 miles; Moscow to Nova Sibirsk, 1,566; Nova Sibirsk to Tchita, 1,292 Tchita to Okhotsk, 840; Okhotsk to Nome, 1,880; Nome to Pairbanks, 700 Fairbanks to Edmonton, 1,240; Edmon- ton to Chicsgo, 1,270, and Chicago to New York, 651. Total distance, 16,211 statute miles. (Copyright, 1931, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) TWO PLANES LEAVE 18 MINUTES APART ON HOPS TO EUROPE (Continued From, Pirst Page.) bay. It was believed after gaining suf- ficient altitude the flyers would turn and pass again over the fleld, heading up the coast for Newfoundland. But the plane continued lumbering west- ward until it faded from sight. It was generally supposed it had swung in a wide circle and so was invisible from the field as it struck its course for the east, but nevertheless word was awaited with some anxiety. Prank Dordbandt, Alaskan pilot and friend of Hugh Herndon, who flew an accompanying plane for '35 miles, said on his return that Herndon and Pang- born were riding at 100 miles an hour at an altitude of 400 fect. He said Hern- Gon took out his charts to map his route at that point. Changed Their Route. Pangborn and Herndon knew where they wanted to fly and thought they knew what course they were going to follow, but they found they were wrong. Their plan was to follow the Summer steamer route due East for 1400 miles to what shipping men call “The Cor- ner” and then turn Northeast toward Britain. They thought this was all settled. & Then Dr. Kimball arrived. He was lined up with Pangborn and Herndon | on one side and Boardman and Po- landb on the other, to make a little talk for the newsreels. “This is the first time” he said in effect, “that two planes have left to-| gether for Atlantic flights. And they| are both going to follow the Northern route along the great circle by way of | Newfoundland.” Followed Kimball's Advice. Pangborn looked at Herndon and Herndon looked at Pangborn. Their mouths =l open and their eyes popped with astonishment. They managed to | hold their p-ace until the sound cam-, eras were through, but then they con- | fronted Dr. Kimball “You sald great circle?” they asked “You said Newfoundland?"” | Then Dr. Kimball told them weather conditions wire so much more favorable over the great circle than over the more | southerly route that he strongly advised | the_former, | You're the doctor.” Herndon agreed without a moment's hesitation “great circle it is” And a few minutes later they were headed up | along the coast. NEW HEAT WAVE ARRIVES; 97 DEGREES DUE TODAY Let-Up Unlikely Before Thursday Night or Friday—Mercury at 108 i1i Kansas Town. Pangborn and i Washington today was in the throes of another heat wave, which was ex- pected by Weather Bureau officials to cause the mercury to soar to over 97 degrees this afternoon. No prospect of a let-up in the torrid temperature could be expected before Thursday night or Friday, it was stated. There may, how- ever, be thundershowers tomorrow night At'10 o'clock today the thermometer read 88 degrees and was steadily climb- ing. The higl temperature yesterday was 92 degrees, with an_accompanying iow humidity. ‘The unofficial tempera- ture at the Pennsylvania avenue kiosk was 99 degrees maximum. While the highest temperature in the country was reported from a town in Kansas, which registered 108 degrees. Minneapolis, Minn.. broke all records in the history of its Weather Bureau with & temperature of 104 degrees. All interstate taxes in Brazil are to be abolished next January. FIORSHEIM sn"._:- s, all Styles neow 5795 and 9885 1st, Last Day the forelock!” Men’s Shop 14th at G ® WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE @ Raleigh Haberdasher Closes Out All - Men’s Summer uits Entire stock . . . Dublin twists and Dixie Weaves by Hart Schaffner & Marx included . . . Were $25 & $23.50 $1685 Were $35 & $29.50 $2 385 @ $40 Summer Suits . . . $29:85 [ ] (12) $25 Sports Coats . $10 Striped Serge or White Flannel Trousers $18 Imported English Cricket Cloth Trousers @ $3.50 Linen Knickers © . _s' 1025 56.85 59.85 $2.35 7th & K *3212 14th Extra-Fine Broadcloth Shirts, the Trumpeter . ® $1.25 Reis Union Suits . ® $7.50 & $10 Summer RObS#S. <o vaiwe wo:xe ve "Manhattan" Athletic Shirts and Shorts . . . $3 Straw Hats . . . . @ $5 Raleigh Panamas . . . L Ly ] 55.45 $10 Knox Panamas . Use Your Charge ‘Account Or Open One During These Sales $|.65 79 . 43 - $|.85 'RALEIGH HABERDASHER i 1310 F Street