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ISTANBUL SAFELY ' . Plane Slips. Across Europe Without Being Seen by Land Observers. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) and representatives of the Turkish gov- ernment fer half an hour before going | by automobile to a hotel at Istanbul, 15 miles from the airport. A sizable crowd, which had waited | more than eight hours at the airdrome | for the Cape Cod’s arrival, pushed into a small reception room of the Turkish air commandant, where Turkish | aviators and civilian officigls of the Turkish Aviation League offered punch | and cakes to the Americadl airmen. ! Asked whether he preferred punch or lemonade, Polando laughed and said, “What I really want more than any- thing in the world is a bath.” But he and Boafdman drank the, punch and, despite their fatigue, beamed | as the Governor of Istanbul gnd Am- bassador Grew toasted them. | Polando handed over to the governor | a letter from President Hoover to President Mustapha Kemal of Turkey. Excellent Spirits. The aviators were in such good | spirits they even consented to stgn a | dozen autographs. i Talking _while' a Turkish soldler | brought a bucket of water to wash his hands before going into the official Teception, Polando said he and Board- man got plenty of sleep, but ate little during the trip. 3 “We took turhs piloting” he .said, “each taking half an hour's sleep off and on. The fuel just pulled us through. 1 don't believe there were more than 10 gallons left. We would have made a faster record if fogs had not slowed our pace over France.” Greeted by Coste. As their automobile rolled up to the hotel at Istanbul the Americans were greeted by Dieudonne Coste, who set a non-stop distance record from France to French Indo-China, and seven other fiyers now here on a_tour of Europe. Coste enthusiastically acclaimed their achievement. “I am happy to grasp the hand of the American aviators who accom- plished so fine an exploit with such great success,” he said. “On the basis of their figures they beat the distance record I held by 160 kilometers, but naturally the calcula- tion must be carefully examined.” Boardman and Polando intend to re- main here for three days. They are the guests of the Turkish Republic and probably will be received by President Mustapha Kemal Pasha. Sighted Only Once. From the time Boardman and Polando left Floyd Bennet Field, New York, un- til they came down at Istanbul the oniy | report that they had been sighted came from Newfoundland. Persons on the ground there saw two planes fiying high and fast, heading for the open sea. They were too far away to distinguish the markings, but there | was no doubt that the two ships wer> those which had started almost simul- taneousiy from New York, Boardman’s for Istanbul and the other for MOSCOW. Hugh Herndon, jr., and Clyde Pang- born brought their red monoplane down in Wales yestrday evening and today went on to Croyden, England, whence they left for Moscow on their fiight around the world. They hope to beat the round-the-world record made by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. These two said they had flown above fog all the way across the Atlantic and that they had not sighted the Istanbul ship once. Herndon's first question | when he landed in Wales was about the Istanbul fight. ‘Was First to Leave. ‘When they told him nothing had been heard, he shared the general fear that Boardman and Polando wers down somewhere. With 728 gallons of gasoline in their tanks, Boardman and Polando rolled | their black and yellow Bellanca mono- plane Cape Cod. to th> runway at Floyd Bennett Fi<ld a few minutes ahead of Herndon and Pangborn. It was a nice takeoff with that stag- gering load, and with Boardman at the controls the ship roared into the 5,000 odd miles the two flyers hoped to cover without a _stop. The flight was conceived with the ob- Ject of establishing a new long-distance non-stop record for heavi-r-than-air machines, and in flying to Istanbul, Turkey, this object has been accom- plished. The previous record was 4,901 miles, made in a flight from Paris to China by Dieudonn> Coste and Maurice Bellonte. The distance from New York City, which the Boardman-Polando plane left Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. (Eastern standard time), to Istanbul, is approxi- mately 5,000 miles. 49 Hours and 20 Minutes. The time of the flight was 49 hours| and 20 minutes, an average speed of approximately 102 miles an hour—which was what the two airmen expected to make. Boardman is from Boston. years old and has been flying for 10 years, Polando is 27, married. and em- | ployed by the East Coast Aircraft Co. of Boston. There had been no definit> news of Boardman and_Polando since they left Floyd Bennet Field, in Brooklyn, until| they came down at their destination. They had taken along many little para- chuies which they expected to throw over with notes attached as they passed over populous centers, Only one of thes was found. It was picked up at Le Bourget Field, Paris, about the same| time the Caps Cod.landed at Istanbul. The Boardman-Polando plane was the | fourteenth to cross the North Atlantic| from West to East since the aerial pil- grimage was begun 12 years ago by Jobhn Alcock and Arthur W. Brown of Eng- land, who flew from N:wfoundland to| Ireland. The ‘thirteenth crossing was made yesterday when Pangborn and Herndon landed in Wales. Five Crossings This Year. ‘The Cape Cod's success brings the| nnmber of successful crossings of the North Atlantic from America to Europe to five for this year, the greatest num-{ ber for a single year since the Atlantic was first flown. First to cross this year were Post and Gatty, shortly followed | by Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriis. Then | came Alexander Magyar and Georg?; Endres and now Pangborn and Herndon | and Boardman and Polando. | Every attempt this year in which a| plane actually started across th> North | Atlantic was successful, although Ruth Nichols crashed on her way to the hop-| off point at Newfoundland and had to| abandon her attempt temporarily. The, only fatality in ocean flights this year | has been on the South Atlantic, which in earlier days was considered far safer than the North .Atlantic. In January ‘William MacLaren and Mrs. Beyrl Hart started across and reached Bermuda,| but after starting from there for the| Azores they cisappeared and were never | heard from again. Dr. James H. Kimball, Weather Bu- reau meteorologist who has given the signal for all Atlantic nes from this side and who personally witnessed the take-off of Herndon and Pangborn and Boardman and Polando, was delighted Wwith the news of the latest triumphs. “It was a wonderful flight” he ex- | claimed when told that the Cape Cod had arrived in Turkey. “All four of those boys certainly did a wonderful job.” Faced Previous Failures. Although both planes were success- ful, that success was built by the de- termination of the aviators on e(imv'lmu t S T s He is 33| #Leo, brother of John, said and his sis- WIVES OF MEN MAKING AVIATION HISTORY. Left: Mrs. Hugh Herndon, jr. whose husband, with Clyde Pangborn, left Croydon, England, this morning on the second leg of their round-the-world flight. Right: Mrs. John Polando, whose anxiety was relieved when her husband and Russell Beardman safely crossed Turkey, setting a new world record for the Atlantic and landed a: Istanbul, | non-stop flight distance.—A. P. Photos. the flvers narrowly averting a crash and ‘irecnrd non-stop flight to Turkey calmly | ay. probable death. | tod: Pangborn and Herndon tried first and | overran the dirt runway at Roosevelt:“Why, I was so confident I didn't even set since she recently obtained her Field, careening through th~ perilous | gully where two of Rene Fonck's men | were killed in 1926, and were kept up- | ters, all of whom awaited news of their | right only by the skill and cool-headed- | brother at the Boardman Summer home pyt rather slow and hesitating. Today, Dess of the veteran stunt fiyer Pang- | A few days later Boardman attempted ! to lift the Cape Cod, staggering under | its fuel load, from th2 concrete of Floyd | Bennett Field, but overran its length | of almost a mile, shot crazily across a | dirt parking space, cleared a street by 2 feet and thundered out across the bay Unable to gain altitude, Boardman had | to_dump his gas and return. | Some popular doubt as to the prob- able success of the two teams had also been caused by the long time they| spent in preparation for the flights Pangborn and Herndon had bzen at the | Long Island flying fields all Summer | and calmly centinued their preparations when Post and Gatty got away ahead of | | them and smashed the Graf Zeppelin's world-girdling record of more than 21 days to 8 days, 15 hours and 51 min- utes. Planned More Than Year. ‘ Boardman and- Prl-ndo had been even longer in preper-tion. The flight | was first planned to be made in con- | nection with an Am-rican Legion show in Boston last year. The plane was then called the American Legion. But conditions were unfavorable last year and Boardman, after one plane burned, | gave up the venture for the time being. But this year his old desire returned, and with Polando he began getting ready the present plane. Th~ ocean flights complet~d yesterday | and today were the first made non-stop | to Euorpe from New York since 192, when Lindbergh led the way and was followed by Chamberlin and Byrd. All | other North Atlantic_flights to Europe | have been from Newfoundland or| Maine. | Boardman and Polando started from New York because their object was a non-stop distance record, and in this way they got the first 1,100 miles, and the most dangerous part of the journey in their heavily loaded condition, be- hind them before they started across | the water. Pangborn and Herndon flew | non-stop because they were depending | on long hops to better the time of Post and Gatty, who had a far faster plane. | MESSAGE FOUND AT PARIS. | Copy of Newspaper Dropped by Board- man First Indication of Crossing. PARIS, July 30 (#).—The Havas Agency today reported a message drop- ped by the transatlantic airpiane Cape Cod had been p®ked up at Le Bourgst Field. It was an envelope wrapped about a copy of & New York newspaper. An airport mechanic picked it up near one of the hangars, but no one heard the plane as it passed. The envelope was addressed to “The Mayor of Paris,” and the port com- mander sent it immediately to the pres- ident of the Municipal Council. It appeared not to have been on the ground long, for it was: still dry when the mechanic picked it out of the dew- soaked grass. The envelope was inscribed, “This package has been dropped by Russell Boardman, pilot of the airplane Cape | Cod, in course of a non-stop flight be- tween New York and Istanbul.” 1t was the first indication here that the airmen had crossed the Atlantic. | POLANDOS DECLARE HOLIDAY. Family Takes Day Off To Celebrate . Success Of Fiight To Turkey. LYNN, Mass, July 30 (#).—The Polandos declared a 24-hour morato- rium on work today and sat themselves down to talk of a son and brother who flew from New York to Turkey. The mother, brother and sisters of John Polando, mechanic of the plane, Cape Cod, who flew with Russell Board- man to Istanbul, Turkey, slept peace- fully last night while the rest of the world wondered and worried over the whereabouts of the flyers. Mrs. Mary P. Polando, mother of the fiyer, said, “we heard of the arrival in | Turkey on the radio, but we hadn't been worried at all. We had confidence in John, as he is a good fiyer. I flew with him for 45 minutes in Boston once and I know he is careful and efficient. We all went to bed last night and slept soundly because John had told us it wouldn’t be time to worry until noon today.” “This is a holiday {n this house” ters, Miss Alberta and Mrs. Violet Tal- amini, nodded assent. Meanwhile the neighbors flocked to the house to con- gratulate the family on John's feat. Over in Peabody, John Polando, jr., 4-year-old son of the aviator, was reaping 2 harvest of happiness and pride from his playmates. John, jr., has been staying with an aunt of his mother’s since Mrs. Polando went to New York to be with her husband dur- ing the preparations for the flight. BOARDMAN'S WIFE CONFIDENT. Declares She Lost’ No Sleep During Husband’s Flight to Turkey. MATTAPOISETT, Mass., July 30 (). —Mrs. Ruth Boardman, wife of Russell Boardman, received ews that her husband had successft completed & “I knew he would do it.” she said lose a night's sleep.” Alice, ogc of Boardman's three sis- here, was more excited. “We are so thrilled,” she. told callers, “that we haven't even had oyr coffee yet.” Boardman declined to discuss the flight at any great length ™ concluded an interview with “leav to Russell every time. It is too o talk about it—I am going in swim- ming." With Mrs. Boardman here is their 2-year-old daughter Jane. Boardman’s other two sisters are Claire and Blanche. the latter the wife of a Washington newspaper man. Science New Form of Meningitis Breaks Out in Europe. Small epidemies of a new form of the dreaded spinal meningitis in Ger- many and Scandinavia are reported in_the British medicl journal, Lancet. e symptoms duplicate in pratically every respect those of tubercular menin- gitls, the worst form of the disease, which attacks children and which al- most invariably is fatal. But in these cases there have been no fatilities. The | children are very sick for a few day after a rapid cnset of the disease, but | then recover rapidly. There are none | of the complications and after-effects common to other forms of meningitis. Examination of the cerebro-spinal fluid shows no_tubercular organisms. The new disease is called acute as- ceptic meningitis. A curious feature of it is that the victime often have a tubercular = history, which _ordinarily would tend to strengthen the diagnosis of tubercular, meningitis. —T. R. H. (Coprright, 1931.) \ Because of lack of room, Oxford's fa- mous library, the Bedleian, founded in 1598. has abandoned its original plan of filing one copy of every publication and will bar time tables, ghect music, almanacs, diaries, fiction magazines, children's books and temperance tracts. SHOP TOMORROW—WE CLOSE ALL DAY SATURDAY Finall Recluictions! {standard time) for a 370-mile flight to LINDY AND WIFE HOP FOR OTTAWA Resume Flight to Orient After Testing Equipment on Plane. [ By the Assoctated Press. NORTH HAVEN, Me,, July 30.—After a night's visit with their 13-month-old son, Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took off today at 1:06 p.m. (Eastern Ottawa, next scheduled stop In their | vacation trip to the Orient. | 'The plane taxied toward the west down the thoroughfare dividing the islands of Vinal Haven and 'North {Haven, lifted easily and then circled west, passing over the Morrow estat® on the other side of the island and headed northwest. Lindbergh said the plane probably would average about 105 miles an hour on the hop. Arrived Yesterday. The Lindberghs arrived here ‘from North Beach, N. Y., yesterday afternoon and spent the night at the Summer home of United States Senator and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, parenty of Mrs. Lindbergh. The baby was brought here by train and boat on Monday by his nurse. Lindbergh was at the controls and his wife, to whom he referred all questions this morning regarding the distance to be covered and the operation of the ra- dio, was in the rear cockpit at the wire- less equipment, They spent a part of their last hours with their baby and Mrs. Lindbergh's parents and in practicing on their plane’s radio. Going out to their plane, anchored off the Morrow estate at North Haven, Me. they communicated for about an hour with the Pan American radio station at North Beach. Lind- bergh was at the set for a little while, but most of the work was done by Mrs. | Lindbergh, who is to be radio operator on the vacation journey. ‘Works Perfectly. The set, reconditioned yesterday aft- | er it had been tampered with by some unidentified person, worked riectly and officials said Mrs. Lindbergh showed rapid improvement both in re- | cetving and sending. | “Her first practical operation of the license was done yesterday on the way from New York to Maine, Her work was good then, It was said, however, given added confidence by h first real sending and receiving, was said to have operated the set with real professional skill. The Lindberghs landed in midafter- noon yesterday after a flight of 2 hours 30 minutes from North Beach. | where they had been nalted by radio | trouble. | ‘They were met by the parents of Mrs. Lindbergh, who cruised out to | the plane in the Mouette, honeymoon vacht of the flying colonel. Arlter an hour spent in working on the radio the party came ashore and motored to the Morrow Summer hom~ on the other side of the island. Employes of the estate kept watch over the plane throughout the night. Lindbergh set the plane down on the Vinal Hav<n side of the water thorough- fare, rather than in a cove bordering the Morrow estate, to permit a longer sprint on the take-off with a heavy load of gasoline. Ride Beach Wagon. Alighting from the Mou-tte at the vacht club here, Senator Morrow walked | bitween his daughter and son-in-law with an arm about each. They entered the beach wagon which Lindbergh and | his wife used to tour the island in the | days before their marriag: and were RUNNING HOT WATER Instantly— 7 Continuously ©nly 33 5 POSTPAID If Remitsance Accompanies Order The “KWIK Running es from a lamp soc A. C of any merely attach the h n he wai red, the amount of water flowing | through heater. Avents and’ Salesmen Wanted in All Torritorias | KWIK ELECTRIC CO. D. C.—47 E Street N.W. Tel. Lincoln 5200 flow as requ trolled by Well Folks: Here's the answer— it's good news—Noth- carried to the yer and his-wife said they had an uneventful trip from North Beach, during which Y which they will depend for communica- tion in their projected tour of the Ori- ent. mey ;:ld :‘bfl luncuonpwg well, Bo:’h appeal and eager begin the hazardous flight to Tokio. ey SO T MAYOR WALKER GOING T0 EUROPE FOR REST Birthday Gift Check for $22,500 Presented to Committee for Relief of Jews. h, By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, July 30.—Mayor James J. Walker, who says his teeth and heart bother him as much as city problems, expects to sail for Berlin and the Ger- man health spas within a week. 5 Dr. Willlam Schroeder, jr., the mayor's personal physician, who is salling at the same time to lecture on hospital methods in German cities, advised the mayor to take the treatments at Carls- bad and Bad Nauheim. 1t was understood that Mayor Walker consulted the Legislative Committee in- vestigating New York City and was told he personally would not be requiréd to stay in the city. ¥ Mayor Walker, on his arrival at City Hall yesterday after a week's absence, was presented with a belated birthday gift check for $22,500, but he kept it less than two minutes. . “Is it mine to do with as I please?” he asked. Assured that it was, Mayor Walker turned it over to the Committee for Re- liet of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. The check represented pro- ceeds of a dinner given in his honor on {fls 50th birthday anniversary re- cently. AGREEMENT REACHED ON FUND ADVANCEMENT Terms of Compact or Money to Buy Land for Several Projects Kept Secret. A tentative agreement over advance- ment of funds under the Cramton act for purchase of land for extensions of Rock Creek, Sligo, Cabin John, Ana- costia and Northwest Branch Parks was reached today at a conference between representatives of the National Capital and Maryland National Park and Plan- ning Commissions. Pending submission of the agreement to the full commission, probably to- morrow, its terms were not made pub- lic. It s understood, however. that the agreement involved the putting up of oney for park purpose . WHY during hot Amateurs Link Radios OMMUNICATIONS nistory be- tween organization headquar- ters and expeditions in_the field is being written this Sum- mer in Washington, where the National Geographic Society is in almost daily touch with its staff rep- resentative, Maynard Owen Williams, who is with the Citroen-Haardt Trans- Asia Expedition among the Himalaya Mountains of Northern India, 7,500 miles away. The reception of the frequent mes- | sages that fly from this remote region | to Washington is dependent on the co- operation of the most elaborate network |of amateur radio operators that has | ever been organized as an aid to scien- | tific exploration. | Each evening at 6 o'clock, Eastern MESSAGES FROM GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EXPERTS FACILITATED. Roy C. Corderman with short-wavé radio apparatus. —Star Staff Photo. | | | miles' from Washington. | n most cases the messages are copied | |direct in Washington fand are tele- | |phoned a few moments later to the | | headquarters of . the National Geo- | grophic Society. On_ some occasions, | however, atmospheric’ conditions have been &0 bad in the Washington area {that it has been impossible to receive |the messages. At these times some of | the many other listencrs with more | favorable conditions in their regions | |have copied the messages, and they have been quickly relayed to their | | destination. During the more than |three_months since the expedition be- |gan its trek across Asia no messages | have failed to reach Washington within |a few hours after they were sent. | | ‘Tne value of keeping in almost datly { the India-Chiness CAPE COD MILEAGE 1S FIAED AT 50395, Distance Beats Frenchmen’s, + Mark by 126.71 Miles, Experts Declare. Naval hydrographic experts figured.. today that Russell Boardman and John Polando covered at least 5,039.5 miles | in their fiight from New York to Istan- bul, Turkey. s This is 126.71 miles farther than the previous non-stop record for heavier- than-air machines, made by Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte in_their flight from Paris to Coulart, China, September 27, 28 and 29, 1929. The distance flown by the Frenchmen i listed as 4,912.79 miles. Naval hydrographers calculated Boardman and Polando flew 1,118 stat- ute miles from Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, to Cape Race on the tip of Newfoundland; 2,523 miles from there to Paris, and 1,398.5 miles from Paris- to_Istanbul. The direct airline distance {rom New York to Istanbul was estimated at 5,014.5 mile: Burzil Pass in the Himalayas with its motor cars and that they had been abandoned. Fears at the society's head- quarters were set at rest a few hours later when a radio’ message from the mountain-climbing party itself, 100 miles north of Srinagar, announced that the cars had climbed over Burzil Pass without serious difficultly and were proceeding steadily on their way toward Turkestan border. This is not the first experience of the National Geographic Society in communicating between headquarters and fleld parties by means of radio. With the co-operation of the American Radio Relay League, the society pio- neered in such activitles in 1925 when numerous reports were received through amateurs from the MacMillan-National Geographic-Navy expedition to North- western Greenland, the expedition with which Rear Admiral Byrd obtained his Arst Arctic flying experience. The tech- nique of radio communication has been greatly improved since 1925, however, and the present communications net- work is believed to be more efficient than any similar organization which has been in operation Among the expert amateur radio op- | standard time moYe than 150 of Amer- | contact with a field party which is| erators who are receiving the expedition jca’s most expert amateur radio oper- often far from ordinary €hanneis of messages in the Washington area are: | ators, under_supervision of the Ameri- | communication has been demonstrated | E. W. Darne, can Radio Relay League, listen in for | messages from the expedition, which of these was when a telegraphic report land street, are relayed from a station in Beyrouth, Syria, at the eastern end cf Mediterranean Sea, more than 5,00 SUFFER days and nights ELECTRIC FANS will keep you eool You will find a size and type of electric fan for every need. 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