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A4 w» GRAF AT BERLIN, BACK FROM ARCTIC Ends Six-Day Cruise to Polar| Regions, Landing at | Templehof. BERLIN, July 30 (#)—Home from & six-day Aretic cruise, the Graf Zep- | pelin landed at Templehof Airdrome | at 6:38 pm. today (12:38 pm. E.8.T). 8he had circled over the fleld 18 minutes earlier, swung about for a turn over Berlin, then flew to the airdrome. The crowd of thousands cheered wild- 1y as she nosed downward. The landing erew tugged at the lines and slowly the great ship was hauled to the ground as & band burst into the national anthem. The 46 men abroad, among them a | number of scientists, including two | Americans, prepared to disembark im- | mediately. ey had not set foot on land since the Grof stopped at Lenin- grad on the way to the North. NEW DISCOVERIES MADE. ' Hitherto Unknown Lands Mapped on Grat’s Arctic Tour. ! BY ARTHUR KOESTLER. | | Spectal Dispateh to The Star ABOARD GRAF ZEPPELIN, July 30 (N.AAN.A).—This great ship of the air and those it is carrying over the Arctic| wilderness of ice weve virtually isolated | from the world for nearly 40 hours by the failure of our radio to function. It went out of commission, due to tite | extraordinary atmospheric conditicns which ars prevailing in these high alti- continuous daylight appears to have a disastrous efiect on radio transmission. We are not going to the North Pole. We are now shaping our course back to | Leningrad and we should arrive there! ‘Thursday, some time. Last night we flew over Dickinson Radio Station, and there we dropped food and newspapers. And we can well ess how welcome these must have Been to the remote and isolated lttie ( oul ted there. nh’t:el?uwe passed over Franz Josef Land and Cape Northland and skirted Cape Chelyuskin and Tayimir Penin- | sula. Then today we picked up the | coast of Nova Zembla. The ordinary map cannot give a clear idea of our course. We determired the northland boundasies, and were in- | terested to find this territory is much! larger than originally thought. It is considerably greater than Nova Zembla. We made another discovery, too. On| Tayjmih Peninsula we picked up al mountain range which heretofore has| be:n unknown. The height of these mountains range from 3,000 to 4.500; feet. Many Accomplishments. | After the conclusion of his scientific tasks, Prof. Rodolfe Samoilowitsch said: | “We've accomplished immeasurably more than we expact:d. The weather conditions compelled us—contrary to our original plan—to visit Franz Joseph Land first. The results there showed the value of intensive exploration work ! in ths Arctic through an airship. I may say without exaggeration that we accomplished more in a few hours than could have been accomplished other- wise with a whole year's work. “Despite the difficult Arctic condi- tions, w2 made a landing in drifting ice, which constitutes the acid test in an airship's Arctic utility. “The following important geograph- ical discoveries have been made: Hans Ort Land and Albert Edward Laud ave non-existant. Ermitage is a peninsula. Alexind r Land is entirely diffsrent from all of its cartographical presenta- tions. In the northeast of Franz Joseph Land the White Islands and Nansen Island have been photographed topo- graphically. Makes Perilous Flight. “Despite repeated warnings against | direct flight frcm Franz Joseph Land to Northern Land, because these places in July are the most dangerous in the entire Arctic, owing to fog and iée formations, | we covered this stretch in four hours. Unf:rtunately, owirg to the fog and bad vision, landing on Kamen Jew Island | was omitted. We didn't return there, use we wanted to save time and fuel. 'On the way valuable ice observations were made over Taymir Peninsula and ' Nova Zembla. We established that ice ! conditions were favorable for Summer shipping. . Four stratcspnere balloons | were sent up whereby many temperature measurements were carried out. “At 7:20 a.m., on the 29th. we passed Archangel. We expect to land at Lenin- grad at dawn Thursday. Dr. Eckener hopes to land at Temp'ehof the same day at 8 pm.” This morning, after a restless sleep, | we saw througn the cabin window an | unearthly moonscape. Gigantic glaciers towered threateningly t-w:ra the clouds, | miles high, alternating with glacier basins furrowed in red dasait. This was the unknown archipelago of ! Northeérn land, until now unseen by | human eyes. Quotes From Diary. | No better account of our adventures in the Arctic can be written than that a8t down in our ship's diary, from which I quote again: “Monday, July 27—Today we began & tediously slow journey through a slight but persistent fog. For hours we have been swimming through a murky milk, whun& nothing, then flying higher, th the fog beneath resembling a | frozen earth crust whereon the shadow of the Zeppelin is visible. The front part of the shadow is crowned by a! rainbow-colored circle. “Throughout this part of the flight ‘we experienced the strangest mirages, with the foiemlkinz it impossible to | distinguish between water and sky. : ‘There were bewildering, many-colored globules in the air. The temperature ' fiuctuated abruptly, according to_the height, from 2 to 8 degree Celsius. Then we encountered a powerful hesd wind, blowing 13 meters per second, which de- our progress. “At 3:30 rm 78 degrees latitude, the misty vell lifted and we got our first glimpse of the ice below. At first we saw only fragments of pack ice, which | is contemptuously termed artificial ice, | but soon thereafter we eaw genuine . pack ice, getting ever denser and leave ing ever sparstr water channels. Enchanting Beauty. “At 8 pm. we sighted Frans Joseph Land. t 6 pm. we flaw over c&pp! Flora. Here, in the glacier and basalt world of Franz Joseph Land, we be- held such an overwhelmingly enchant- panorama of colors that gven Dr. ener, usually phlegmatic,” became enthusiagtic and wished we had a water-color artist on board. Below, on a drifting ice, floe, we saw a travelin ice bear family and the father an mother bear and their progeny shook their heads disapprovingly at the Zep- lin’s intrusion. It was upon a floe ike this that the lost Amundsen must have ted, according to the report of the Fiala, 3,000 kilometers from the of the disaster on Bear Island to Franz Joseph Land—waich Prof. Samotlowitsch holds to be an absurdity. “Dr. Eckener, before his departure for the Arctic, received a letter from & clairvoyant, wherein a certain bay in Franz Joseph Land was indicated as spot, Amundsen was to be This bay and all other likely 8 eiens win sl y. e Sumably vanished into tricts abcard the greeting to Lin- , friena of Amundsen, an flashed back his thanks. ““We are also maintaining lively radio communication with the lygin -nd: exehan greetings. “We the in fet bay imi 1y lm“:mn he meteor. clogical station Al on Hooker Island, which By Radio to The Atar. | tanks and en extra 78 in cans. We !a long time, but we eeu'dn't throw | but we soon had to go up, | the time. |found the way barred every time we |in the fog, but luck and Pangs skill | 'over Cardigan. | attention. Herndon’s Own Story Trip Over Atlantic Held Not Exciting, With Principal Difficulties Developing in Finding Place to Land in Wales. is an exclus've The following byline story of Hugh Herndom, jr., and Clyde Pangdorn, who are flying around the world. BY HUGH HERNDON, JR. CROYDEN AIRPORT, London, July (N.AN.A).—We had a really won- idering everything, and, although we strick & lot cf 101' and were flying abrolutely blind for hours, nothing re:lly exéiting happened: nothing that you could call specially exciting, anyway. Qetting a1l the gas we wanted on board left us pretir heavy and we dumped & good deal of clothing and other c¢dds end ends to lighten our machine as much as possible. As & matter of fact, I've only got things I cen stand up in and guess I'm going to feel a bit uncomfortable when we g2t into polite cociety anywhere. w 30 derful trip, cf started off with 725 gallons in got rid of those just as soon as ever we could. Once on th: way, we cpened one can at a time and emptied the contents into the main tan's. Once they were empty, we cut the cans up into seraps and shot them over the side of the mashine. This tock rather the cans over whole and we had to get rid of the weight somehow. Hit Fog Early. 1t was a little after 6 Tuesday eve- | |ning_when we passed Harbor Grace end I can tell you that ti w2s about | the most emotions]l mement cf the whole trip. You know, it gives vou a queer kind of feeling to know that you are looking at the last land you are going t see for a long time. At all events, I felt like that, anyway. We were flying at about 4,000 feet when we passed over Harbor Grace, | for we ran into fog almost at once and we started to climb out over the top of it It took us from 6:50 till 8:30 to clear it and by that time we were about | 11,000 feet up. As we broke clear we | saw the moon for the first time and | it was good to see, believe me. | From that mcment we flew over the top of the clouds all the way. We had to or we should never have found the | way across at all. We varied the alti- {tude a bit, but were generally flying between 13,000 and 15,000 feet. | You cannot give Pangborn too much | praise for that night's work. Clyde's flying was simply wonderful. He was | fiying completely blind for nearly two | hours and by instruments the rest of | down below, except once. when we <aught just one friendly little glimpse | of sea through a hole in the clouds Up above it it was not so bad. sun came out about 2 o'clock in the morning and that made things a lot more cheerful. Clyde flew sll through that night. I did not touch the con- trols at all, although we took turn and | turn about the rest of the journey. Sighted Dry Land. We managed to get some sort of rest during the flight. Sleeping was not too easy, but we managed to get | snatches of from 15 to 30 minutes at intervals—just enough, anyway, to save us from getting too tired. ~All the | same, neither of us took much rocking when we got into bed at Cardigan. It was some time before we got there, | though, At about 9:30 I saw great | banks heavy with clouds just ahead of us. They were much higher than the clouds we had been flying over and I thought they might indicate land, although, of course, I could not be gure. Anyway, the possibility seemed worth investigating and we began "°I climb down through the cloud banks | and the fog 0 make sure one way o | the other. Suddenly I saw something | down below through A little break in | the clouds ahd drew Pangborn’s atten- | tion to it. We both stared hard, but still felt very uncertain; in fact, we almost decided it was a boat and that we must still be over the sea. Get- ting lower &till, we were able to make | out roads and then we knew that at | all eyents we were over dry land again. | Actually we were over Dublin, and as | we still had enough gas left for about | eight hours more of flying. we set a| straight course for London and thought | we should make it before we came down | for our first halt, but the wzather was | against us. We simply could not get| going. The fog was terrible and we | got in a direct line for Creydon. Mountains Were Hazard. We tried flying high and flying low. | but it made no difference. Most of the | time we were zigzagging about almost on top of the sea, and I began to won- der whether we should ever see Eng- land, but we 'did. After about four hours more flying time I was absolutely in the dark as to our exact course. We got_over what proved to be a part cf Wales. * We were still having to keep very low and the hills there threatened danger. More than once I thought we were going to run into & mountain side | pulled us through safely until we were | By that time we realized that the only safe thing was to land at the first fa- vorable spot, and we n to eircle around trying to find & field big enough for our purpote. This was not eagy to find and w2 were casting about for nearly an hour before we struck any- | place. B; quite a that thing like a safe landin g cted ot of time we had attra brought most of the villagers out and wh'n they saw us eircling all that time their curiosity grew. ‘When we came down for a perfedy landing the entire village was there to greet us. They told us the name of the lace was Moylegrove. It isn't a town, t's just & tiny village with a half dozen houses, but every one was wonderfully kind and hospitable and some one found 4 car to tak: us to Cardigan, where we | ———e e s resembles & tiny toy. We began a slow, serpentine descent. The air was very cold down there. The dirigible got thereby an increase buoyancy sud- denly, and we had ‘to sacrifice 1,200 cubic meters of gas. When still a hun- dred meters high we let down two wa- | ter anchors and scooped ;up buckets of water ballast. “We made a masterly water-landing. ‘We launched a rubber boat, but a boat from the Malygin reached us first. In it were the chief of the weather station at Hooker Island, Ivanov, Gen. Nobile and five others. The Malygin's boat | lay to the Zeppelin's starboard. We | shook hands through the windows of | the passenger gondola. “It was an indescribably emotional moment when Gen. Nobile in the boat #nd_Lincoln Ellsworth at the window of the giant airship greeted each other. These two once flown over the North Pole together, and now both, in icebreaker and airship, were seeking the body of Amundse) “Meanwhile, stacks of mail were ex- changed, but the planned mutual visits were impoesible because of the strong cutrent under the surface of the water. which_threatened to drive the airship into the fce. After 13 minutes there followed, therefore, a rapid retreat from the ungertain water.” Sincé the above entry in the diary was written we have been cruising over the islands of Pranz Joseph Land, cor- recting our map. We ol;.v. charted the entire western hal! Franz Joseph Land enew and have furthermore dis- covered four new islands. From this point to the North Pole would have been a mere stone's throw. Six_hours in clear weather would have sufficed. But the expedition's leaders ignored the Pcle because nothing scien- tific is obtainable there. Our task was solely the conquest of scientific new land, and not reeord | over Bristol where the fog was thickest | . | John Polando in Istanbul, Turkey. They | Civil Service Commission, released to< ‘The noise of our engines had | found a hotel for the night and turned in. Left Plane in Field. We struck our landing ground:at 2:30 our time (7:30 p.m. glish Summer time). There was no accommodation for the plane, of course. We had come down in a big open fi'ld. We just left the machine there all night with & couple of cops watching to see that no one ran away with it. Out tihe was pretty good considering conditione, Actually we made the At- Iantic crossing from Harbor Grace to Dublin in 14 hours dead which beat th> time put up by Post and Gatty fairly easily. Our average flying speed on that ‘time was 137 miles an hour, while Post and his companion averaged 116 for the same trip. We turned out soon after 4 this morning, got away from Cardigin at 8:30 and were on the way to C-oydon, which w: made in a little under 2 hours. We hadl mechanics there run over the and as soon #s it s ready we y to hop off. We origivally intended to c*ll at Colcgne on the way to Berlin, but d-cided not to becaus: the take-off at the airdromesat Berlin i8 such a fine one, and this is important it we are to carry enm{h gas for the long hops we hope to make. We should never g t off from Croydon if our tanks were anything like full. Almost on River Avon. BY CLYDE PANGBORN. 1 have not much to add to Hugh's story, but say I was not really as won- derful as hs calls me. I must say though he is a bully navizator. Our total fiying | time from the start to Croycon was jus: | 32 hours. The worst part of the jour- | ney after w» passed Ireland was coming | and we were von time after tim (Copyrignt, 1931, in All ‘Countries, by North Amerizan Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) POST-GATTY PLEASED Globe Circlers Thrilled by Two Suc- cessful Atlantic Crossings. PITTSBURGH, July 30 (A).—Wiley | Post and Harold Gatty, around-the- | world fiyers, got a thrill out of aviation news this morning. The around-the-world flyers, prepar- | ing to hop off from here for Newark, N. | J.. expressed their delight when in- We could not see anvthing | formed by the Associated Press of the | the country. happy landing of Russell Boardman and | ! a better their around-the-world record. | Po Nt tty left here at 9:15, E. D. for Newark, fying by way | of York, Pa. where they planned to stop to obtain weather reports. NEWARK, N. J.. July 30 (# —Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, world fiyers | making en air tour of the Nation, ar- | rived this morning in their plane Win- nie Mae from Pittsburgh. | FOUR ATTORNEYS SOUGHT Civil Service to Hald Tests for Vet- eran Bureau Posts. Four differ:nt positions for attorneys will be filled by civil serviee examina- tions soon. an announcement by the day, said. All four are in the Veterans Administration. They are, senior attor- | ney. $4,600 a year; attorney. $2.800 & year; assoclate attorney, $3,200 a year, and assistant attorney, $2,600 a year. | Full information may be obtained th~ office of the Civil Service Commis sion, 1724 F street. Auto Sales Gain Scored. By the Associated Press. Greater sales efforts by distributors of American motor cars, particularly in | the lower-priced class, were reflected in | larger registrations of American pas-| senger cars in Portugal in June. Reports to the Commerce Department indicate that during the month 84 American and 350 European cars were registered, as compared with 57 Ameris | can and 71 European the previous | month, The decrease in European sales is largely attributed to a letdown in sales activities after a big effort made by Citroen and Piat in May. However, | European firms claim they ere develop- | ing new business through the granting of liberal terms of payment. | Sales of medium and high priced cars | continue very slow, both for American | and European, although these classes are generally believed less affected by present conditions. | In Canada one person out of every 19 now owns a radio. Imost on top of the River | | plans to improve h¢r tennis game so OFF FOR MOSCOW World Girdlers Leave Croy- den—Will Refuel at Berlin Field. (Continued From First Page.) where we came from." said Pangborn. "we“mld hardly make him believe us at all. “We apologized for having landed in his fleld, but he said that was all right and did everything he could to help us. “We wege taken to the Black Lion Inn at Cardigan to nd the night and gave orders to called at 8§ o'clock so we could get an early start. Both of us believe we can beat the :on-onuy record and we are out to o it Oniy about 300 taken aboar which they said, too small for a take-off with a heavy load of fuel. “The forced lant near Cardigan” Pangborn_declared, a day. There wa. our completing the ‘round the flight in just six days until that hap- pened but now we will be somewhat longer. However, we'll beat the Post- Qatty record.” PANGBORN VETERAN FLYER. —— Saw First Plane in 1013, but Didn't Take Up Aviation Until After War. WENATCHEE, Wash., July 30 (#).— Clyde Pangborn, bound on & round-the- world flight with Nugh Merndon, jr., saw his first airplane in 1913, at St. Maries, Idaho. . He was immediately interested, his mother, Mrs, Opal Pangborn, related lons of ere. ted to fly it right then,” ind hung around the plane almost constantly.” He was 18 years old at that time and lived with his family at St. Maries. Born 37 vears ago on a big cattle ranch hear Bridgeport, 40 miles from here, his family moved when he was of schoo) age to Spokane and a short time later to St. Maries. After graduation from high school, he became a logger in Idaho during vacations, and later attended the Uni- versity of Idaho. He served in the Army during the World War. On his return to 8t. Maries a group of business men bought him an airplane, with which he em- berked on a barntorming career over 8ince that time he has own in nearly eévery State in the Nation, He is not married. His mother i visitng here with another son, P. C. Pangborn, a jeweler. FORECASTS HUSBAND'S SUCCESS. Herndon's Bride Believes He Will Beat Record of Post and Gaity. ALBANY, N. Y, July 30 (#).—Mrs. Hugh Herndon, jr., Attractive blond wife of the transatlantic fiyer, said to- day she believes only “the worst sort” of weather can prevent her husband and Clyde Pangborn from completing their round-the-world flight in less time than it took Post and Oatty. Her husband, she sald, had inspired her with such confidence in discussing tance, the elements and the flying has- | ard involved. nent Albany soclety girl, and Herndon | were married gecretly on the eve of ' Herndon's first n(kmgt’d take-off. 8he will have no objection to Hern- don's making other transoceanic flights, she says, provided he takes her with | im. ‘While Herndon is away, she said, she she can best him when he returns. Then they will settle somewhere near New York City, “raise dogs, and devote plenty of time to outdoor sports.” Mrs. Herndon has had some flying experience and plans to get a license as soon as she can qualify. 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