Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1933, Page 2

'POST LANDS IN NEW YORK _21 HOURS AHEAD OF MARK % ON WORLD-GIRDLING HOP ___(Continued From First Page) Khabarovsk, his last stopping place before returning to North Ameri- @4, ere the outside world knew he had reached there. Had 30-Hour Lead. When the airman left Khabarosvk to shoot across the Pacific at §3 p.m. Wednesday (Eastern standard time) he had a lead of more than 30 hours on the pld record, and time, being sighted over Nome at He encountered a heavy fog there, he soomed into Alaska in quick 1:30 pn. the next day. however, which balked his in- tentlon of flying on to Fairbanks, 400 miles iniand, and after losing precious time flying around in what he calls “soup,” he was forced down at Flat, west of Fairbanks, 7 hours after Nome had spotted him. His plane nosed over and his controllable-pitch propellor was “smashed. Arran son, famed troub. .blade and guide him into Fairbanks at 3:42 p.m. -standard time). ements were made quickly, however, for Joe Cros- -shooter of the Arctic Airways, to rush him a new Friday (Bastern Back in His Stride. He jumped the 1450 miles from there to Edmonton in less than 10 hours, back in his stride once more, and little more than an hour later he was off on the last lap—to glory, and bed. 1 Directional signals and apparatus to receive them, details of which were closely guarded, were furnished by the United Btates Army— the first time they had been used on such a venture. Post gave them credit for_guiding him straight to Berlin across the Atlantic and amn into ATaska on his Pacific hop. So carefully has the apparatus n guarded that a rumor got out the flyer had been ordered to destroy the instruments if he should find it necessary 10 make a forced landing, in which he might be disabled. This later yu\d!nled. A restless crowd awaited Post at the field as the stocky Oklaho- ‘man sped homewar Mrs, Post, who has been in New York since her husband took off inst Saturday morning for Berlin, left for the field at 9 p.m. (Eastern standard time) with Trenholm. She had been waiting impatiently 4n her midtown hotel suite throughout the afternoon. As darkness increased, huge searchlights played above the field, picking out one or two commercial planes and a few fleecy clouds. The weatherman, who had frowned on Post a good bit of his 15,400-mile route, gave him a clear night sky in which to complete his Journey. Harold Gatty, who accompanied Post on the record-setting world flight in 1931, stuck close reports on the progress of his old the United States. Every available space for automobiles was occupled. Airpo! crowd larger than that which welcomed the ‘attendarits predicted to the Administration Building, eager for partner’s trip across Canada and rt Italian air armada earlier in the week would greet P About 9:35 p.m. a shrill whistle blew to air clear until Post’s arrival. ~and to keep the t. clear the air of all planes The planes taking up passengers had done a land-office business all day and into the night. One of the hangars verted into a stable for t! off duty temporarily. gresen(ed a strange sight. It had been con- e horses of 37 mounted policemen who Were The police arrangements _lncluded two emergency squads and two _ ambulances. Anxious to See Post. Gatty said he was extremely anxious to see Post. “T confese I'm on edge,” he said. probably as much as any one. I almost a full day.” “I want Wiley to make good think he will beat the record by As the evening wore on, the crowd began to battle for vantage points around the Administration Building, before which Post was to pull up. Concrete balustrades along the steps were packed, and gne woman narrowly escaped injury when she was shoved off. * Mrs. Post & police escort amid The motorcade and Trenholm arrived at the fleld at 9:45 p.m. behind a din of sirens. bearing Mrs. Pgst was driven onto the apron fronting the Administration Bujlding. Mrs. Post, obviously \mdgr a strain, remained in the rear seat of her limousine to await the ar- rival of her husband. Oklahomans at Field. Walter M. Harrison, managing editor of the Daily Oklahoman *rimes and a delegation of Oklahomans accompanied her to the fleld. “Excited? Yes, I am, car with her was a vacuum bottle » sald Mrs. Post in reply to a question. In the of hot coffee and lunch prepared under her direction at the hotel where she has been staying. ‘Asked how she planned to greet her husband, and smiled nervously. “I don’t know what I'll do,” she said. She was equally uncertain about their future plans. “I may try to persuade him not to make another flight like this,” ut if he wants to go he will go.” At 10:30 p.m. (Eastern standard time) a squad of some 50 police- men lined up on Nghts to rece! After hearing a ] eeeded to posts aroun the concrete runway beneath the dazeling flood ve final instructions from their commander. ech of about 7 minutes duration they the runway and the Administration Building. o~ The crowd, on edge with Post winging closer, cheered vocifer- ously. IN NURRY AT EDMONTON. But loss Aching Head snd Takes| 30-Minute Nap. EDMONTON, Alberta, July 22 lfl’)-—: Wiley Post set the Winnie Mae down here long enough todsy to ice an #ching head, catch & 30-minute nap and refuel, and then he soared up- ward into the home stretch of what |pra he hopes will be a u«foubleldrecom- - breakin; ht around the world. He el‘l)::‘.l.d to arrive in New York— from which he !!uv! eastward & week rround midnight. "Rr—fl.vmgnhet from Fairbanks at 8:07 am, Esstern standard time, he was 10 hours and 45 minutes ahead of the recotd which set by himself and me By leaving 8t id QGatt, 5 zl:rlo an hou{ and 34 minutes later, he reased the lead utes. = g- determined, “1f 1 can make F 0% cover The ‘final 2,100 miles to iti one hop. Three hours I}U;ikmutn after take-off here né belleved to be the Winnie Mae. very high and at great speed, was | ted over Humboldt, Saskatchewan, miles eastward. to 20 hours and 12 | Left Greatly l‘l“'ms;l.i i His overnight hop from Fairbanks. | where he took off at 10:45 p.m.. Eastern | standard time, left him greatly fa- | Jigued, but failed to dampen his ardor | for hurry. broug] He t his plane down ou Blatchford Field in s dtiving rlln.: Three thousand,persons, most of them | e night, were on hand | . His head ached and he | had been deafened by the continuol roar of his motor. He wanted neither food nor sleep. “T just want to get going,” he said. Airport officials told him he could | expect s tail wind all the wack back | jew York. “"’I‘ can stand it.” he sald. He refused some warm food, refused & shower, but took a glass of ice water and finally allowed them to lead him to an upstairs room of the airport building for a 30-minute nap. Phy- siclans examined him snd pronounced him fit. To relieve his headache they put an ice pack on his hesd while he rested. Refreshed by the short sleep. he ised the orderliness of the crowd and discused his hop from Fairbanks. Bad weather, he said, provided him with a “big worry.” He said the robot pilot, with which he had had difficulty early in the flight, “worked okay.” The rain st and the sun broke thi roug! into the cockpit of his plane. was cheer in his manner. “Maybe the weather change pepped me up,” he said, and then: “I've got to get going; I'm in & hurry!” Wanted to Be Mountie. ‘The Winnie Mae roared, slid down the Portage avenue pavement and rose into the clear Eastern sky. Before Post climbed into his plane he was intreduced to one of the Crim- scn-coated mounted policemen there to guard him. “You know,” he said, “I always did want to be a mountie.” Somebody told him that people were saying he would retire as soon s&s he brcke the record set by himself nd Gatty. “Tell them to jump 1p & lake” he flung out. ‘There He said he was glad that the bad| lands of Siberia were behind him and that he felt better than he did when was in Edmonton with Gatty. Post's big gain over the old record hen he took off here was due to.the 'act that he and Gatty spent the night here on the previous flight. Their elapsed time when they left in 1931 was 193 hours and 43 minutes. Post's time was 173 hours and 31 minutes. ;&,Cou]d Beat His Own Time ° Post Says ogtinued ¥ - ot the Way that all the scemery I { gaw wes an occasional mountain i jumping st me out of the fog. After two fiights around the world lnmwtnnlnuntknowjm about what the flight ecould be done It can be done in & lot better 1 am con- vinced that with the equipment I used on this AIgHt, with the Winnie Mae's cruising speed pepped up and mé robot pilot to take off a lot of e Tnain, 1 could fly the same in four and s mt with ordinarily good weather. !’dll!”wnnllll.but,of eourse, 1 can’t say at this time “whether I ever Will. There are too sany things to be considered. Laeky at Critieal Points. T have said s lot about the dirty 1 had on this flight, but dut- I had such good luck also at eritiea) points that I can almost for- get about the westher. It was just plain good luck that for wn_in Alaska in Flight Story find the Yuken River, I came down in }hplnce ‘where there was & good machine shop and good mechanics who could repair my damaged ship. ‘When I landed at Flat, Alaska, and my ship nosed ovet, bending my propellor, I was rea to give up right ther. I thought I was through. That was the low point of the flight. I had got into that predicament by not stopping at Nome when I ducked down t! igh the clouds after cross- ing from Siberia. I should have got ‘weather reparts there, but I was too anxious to push on Fairbanks. As a result I got hopelessly lost in storm clouds hanging on the meun- tains and wandered all over the in- terior of Alaska for seven hours and then figured I'd better come down. 1 set the Winnie Mae down on the only fleld 1 could find at a place that turned out to be flat. I had no ides where I was except that I was a thousand miles from nowhere with a ship that wouldn't fiy. s looked pretty blue, and right there g: luck began which saved t. At Flat is the Flat Mining Co. Thlf: mm‘{:r umue’ g;(u to me and said that they could fix up my plane in a few hours. I said “No use, it couldn't be fixed in a week,” but they h?l everything I could want in the way of tools and they set to work and repaired the ship while 1 slept. Ahd TFairbanks, three hours fiying , Was my Old friend Joo while trying to she shook her head | h the clouds before he climbed Could Beat Record Again, Says Post, With Fair Weather By the Assoeiated Press. NEW YORK, July 22—Wlley Post told friends tonight that, “given a break in the weather,” he could take off again in his ship, the Winhie Mae, and its present equipment and surpass the world ht record he had just established, He said he belleved he could girdle the globe in four-and-a- half days with good weather. Crosson of the Pan-American Air- ways, one of the finest pilots and grandest fellows who ever drew breath. Joe and his company got right on the job to help me out. Joe was a welcome sight when he arrived at Flat that night with a new propeller. It certainly would have been tough for me to get washed up there, almost within sight of my goal, after what I had been through. Another hard part of the flight was the section over the Ural Moun- tains from Moscow to Novosibirsk last Monday. Just as I got into the mountains it fogged up heavily and for seven hours I had to fly over them, which is no picnic. have never seen thicker clouds than I found that day. I flew at the height of 21,000 feet and was almost all in from the rarefled atmosphere and I mushed down through 20,000 feet of clouds before I saw the land. and then it was only 200 feet below me. There again good luck came at just the right time. The clouds thinned u about 100 miles west of Novosibirs and 1 got in there with no further difficulty. At Novosibirsk, Miss Fay Gillis, American woman aviatrix and daughter of an American engineer, was waiting to help me, and she certainly did. She had everything at the fleld lined up and waiting for me. She acted as interpreter, sent telegrams, got proper food for me and did a thousand things to help me. I cannot express toe much appreciation of her aid. I was sorry I could not take her along to Khabarovsk. as I had planned. but I was advised that taking her might endanger the record as a solo flight. Loses Slim Lead. The weather through Siberia was 8 nightmare. When I arrived at Irkutsk I had a lead of 16 hours over my flight with Gatty, slthough 1 was way behind my schedule. But the fog closed down tight on me once more at Irkutsk and what I had expected to be 4 short wait dragged on for hours. There was no helping it. though, for the weather dope was that there was a storm over the Balkal Mountains, which I had to cross. When 1 finally did get off, at 7 o'clock the next morning (midnight Tuesday, New York daylight time), 1 was only & little over Gatty's and “my record of 1931. Pretty soon I lost even that slim lead- I ran into & heavy rainstorm, with high winds which ~ shoved the Winnie Mae arovhd, and the visibility was ter- rible. I was following the Trans-Sibetian Railroad with a good tallwind, but the clouds came lower and lower. I finally took to hedge-hopping. It was_getting worse instead of better, so 1 saw nothing to it but to set the ship down in the first place I could find. I dropped down at the village of Rukhlovo, 600 mniles or more on the wrong side of HKhabarovsk, which had been one of my scheduled stops. Qood luck returned at Khabaro- vsk. Gatty and I had lost half a day on our flight when we bogged down in the mud at Klagoveschenk, and more than a day at Khabarovsk waiting for favorable weather before making the long hop to Alaska. Flew on Top of Clouds, ‘This time. though, I had no delay at Khabarovsk. The Russians, who did wonders for me everywhere, had everything walting for me at the field. 1 got away for Alaska only two hours and fifteen minutes after ar- riving there. This hop from Khabarovsk to Alasks was, I suppose, the hardest part of the entire flight. On the whole h‘lfl from Khabarovsk to the Bea of Okhotak I saw the ground only two hours. For seven hours I flew down on top of the clouds. The only land I saw was mountain peaks showing up through the clouds. I cotild make out no landmarks and flew & compass course on top of the clouds, figuring my drift from the way the clouds shifted around the - mountain peaks. That hop to Flat, Alaska, where I came down is about 2,800 miles di-. rect line and took me over the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kanachatka Penin- sula, and the mountainous coast of Serbia before I crossed the Bering Sea. I had a stiff wind behind me and when I thought I must be over Alaska I slid down through a hole in the clouds and there was Nome I had made it in fifteen hours. Robet Funqtioned Petfectly. T understand this was the first solo Upper left shows Wiley Post, intrepid Oklahoma solo fiyer, who last night completed the last leg breaking round-the-world flight, landing in New York as a muititude cheered. Post in his plane, the round-the-world veteran Winnie Mae, in which Post and round-the-world record. Below are shown, at left, the daring qirman and his wife, while at right are Post's mother and father, who fol- lowed clc?_s_elyvmfietk-lon' dn.sh ol}hnrsfim around the world. Bottom picture shows the aviator with his pl'lne. o MEMBER O'F’BUATINB PARTY DISAPPEARS Man Believed Drowned in Potomac, as Score of Companions Looked On. Disappearing during a boating party |on the Potomac River last night, W. | B. Stone, 25, of the 3800 block of | Thirteenth street, was believed drowned while more than a score of companions looked on, unable to help him. Stone and 23 others set out last night for a cruise on the 48-foot powerboat owned by C. R. Slade, 303 Greenwood avehue northeast, Takoma Park, D. C. ‘The party proceeded to a point opposite Marshall Hall, whege the craft was anchofed and a few of the young people aboard dove into the water for a swim. According to the story told Harber police on the boat’s return last night. Stone swam out too far from the boat and was caught in the current. When he called for help, life preservers were thrown ovetboard to him and in the dim lights from the craft some of those aboard thought they saw him clutching at the buoys. They were unable to determine, Nowever, whether he ohe of the alds tossed to him as he disappeared in the darkness aimost immedistely after they were thrown out. Harbor precinet dispatched Officer Theodore Crow to return on the Slade | boat with & searching party. The searchers had not reported back at an early hour this morning. FLEE HURRICANE HOUSTON, Tex., Ji squalls broke upon the night as foretunners of & ricane of slight intenisity h the Gl of Mexico, toward & gorda Bay region. Boarding ‘:&.-mam of homes and business establishrents, many residents of the threatened to towns to await boats were made sectire. inland | major blow. Small! ¢ 50,000 Persons See Flyer Drop Like Plummet From i i | | of his record- | r right is the route followed by arold Gatty established the m!vlaua‘ U LOGS OF TWO.GLOBE FLIGHTS Solo Flyer’s Elapsed Time on Record Hop Was 186 Hours 49V, Minutes. BY the Assoctated Press. Here is & comparison, in Bastern standard time, of Wiley Pést's world | solo flight with the journey he and Harold Gstty made in 1931: POST. First Day, July 18 4:10 a.m—Left Floyd Beninett Fleld, | New York. - Left Berlin. .m—Landed Koenigsberg. Third Day. Fourth Day. 1:02 a.m.—Left Novosibirsk. 7:38 am—landed Irkutak 11 p.m.—Left Irkutsk. P 12:28 p.m.—Left Flat. 5 .m.—Landéd Fairbanks. 10:45 p.m.—Left Pairbanks. Bighth Day. 8:07 a.m—] Edmenton. 9:41 am—] ldmon?n 10:59% p.m.—] lew York. Elapsed time, 18¢ hours 49% minutes.) ~ Post and Gatty Made World Circuit in 207 Hours and 51 Minutes. POST-GATTY. First Day, Juse 23. \10: .—Landed Mascow. 10:00 p.m.—Left Moscow. Fourth Day. 8:31 am—Landed Novasibirsk. 5:45 p.m—Left Novosibirsk. 11:55 p.m.—Landed Irkutsk. PFifth Duy. 2:10 a.m.—Left Irkutsk. 7 a.m—Landed Blagoveshchensk. 10:20 p.m.—Left Blagoveshehensk. Sixth Day. 1:30 am.—Landed Khabarovsk. Seventh Day. 4 a.m—Left Khabarovsk. Highwaymen Sentemoed. disappeared. Then the Winnie May | Dark Sky. Special Dispateh to The Star. FLOYD clase to the drome stretches away into the dark to- Ward Jamsica Bay and the yellow lights aloft but a few minutes before. with ! & roar of its motofs, and its light had | came down, lightless. It was about 50 yards from the ribbon of alt on which the favofed few of thousands were To | air after 8 run of ;fle “tkhe%e of P:.u.l::mflnu waiting | e Wiley Post his party into | Manhattan. P The ship which had carried Post| stoutly on his globe-encireling tour | turned its propeller straigl toward the stands and came rolling into the midst of his grest ovation # show | up clean white. with a little dash of blue the cowl. The words “Winnje Mae” on the fufle and the little | printed lettering of all the unpronounc- | able Siberian towns at which Post and | his erstwhile comrade, Harold Qatty had stopped on the previous tour be. came legible. Nerves Obvicusly Frayed. ‘There was & smart new coupe drawn | up some 50 yards to the left of the administration building prior to the | fiyer's arrival and its eccupants were quite ready to tell every one Post had ordered-it by wire from Alaska to be ready when he eame home. This was the eAr which was swung around through the nfilling mob to receive the hefo when he emerged from his plane. Standing He laughed at what his manager was telling him and he seemed to require an effort to stop laughing. His nerves were obviously frayed. Around his plane the cordon of pe- lice managed at last to form & circle, joining their hands. Post stood high ! above the crowd and savored the taste of triumphs while down in the uniden- uge:mlho\mng lzod pilots whose tri- u were ys gone by, gasin up at the hero of the hour. . (Copyright, 1 et MUSEUM LACKS FUND T0 BUY POST PLANE| It Possible. ‘The Smithsonlan Institution would like to exhibit Wiley Post’s fammious air- | , - the Winhie Mse, which has established two world-girdling reeords and & number of incidental records, but there are two obstacles to the fulfilling of such & desire—in the first place, the institution has ne money with which to purchase the plane, and if it is given there is no space in exhiBit it. N Carl W. Mitman, curator of tech- up, Post looked tired. | Spain, Sep! Conditions at Outset of Piight Unfavorable—Due This Afternoon. By the Associated Press. took to the air today to mmke their long delayed flight Por Amy, “The to New York. greatest adventure ran their plane, the Seafarer, ofl the beach of Pendine sands into the sir at 11 am., Greenwich time. (6 am., Esstern standard time.) At 1:20 p.m., Greenwich time (8:20 a.m., Eastern standard time) the Mol- to rest only a short time befc tinuing the 12,000-mile adventure. Weather Porfoct st Start. ‘The weather as they took off was there was brilliant sun and blue, pas- sive water. Mollison, who already has one North Atlantic fiight in his exp-rience—the first solo trip east-to-wast—himself superintended the final arrangements. Amy, the former Amy Johnson and holder of the -to-Cap2 Town record, climbed into one of the dual control cockpits wearing white overalls. 8he appeared slightly strained. The plane climbed fully into the yards on the beach. The crowd, assembled hastily as word of The flylng couplq was not altogether pleased by the weather despite the ealm st the scene of the take-off. Fog Expected at Sea. Mollison said. ood,” Capt. 0od enough for us to take “But it is g the chance. “For the first 800 miles the weather will be foggy in patches, and there will be a eertain amount of drizzle. But it is good to get the worst part over first. After that we shall run into nice flying.” Amy carried what she called her lucky compass. Her husband carried 8 “St. Christopher charm.” To eat they had a few sticks of bariey, sugar, raisins, and coffee in a vacuum flask. FIRST GLOBE TRIP TOOK 1,083 DAYS Tabloid Story Tells How Time Was Cut to Little Over a Week. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 22—A tabloid story of how man shortened the dis- tanee arotind the earth from 1,083 days to_little over a week: , tember 20, 1519. One ship, the Vittoria, with §5 ment, but not Magellan, came back i 12 days short of three years. - Sir Prancis Drake’s armada—=Sailed from ‘Plymouth, England, in 1577 and returned in 1,052 days. Thomas Cavendish — Sailed , from Plymouth in 1586 and circumnavigated tb:l 'ulf':' BE 81 days. el '—A WOman newspaper re- porter and first of the modern globe- trotters, went atound the world from New York by boat and train in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes in 1889. George Francis Train—New York to New York by rail and bost in 67 days | 12 hours and 2 minutes in 1899. Charles Fitzmorris—Chicago lice chief, Chicago to Chicago by nlromd pu-t"l)n 60 days 12 hours and 3 minutes e in 1901. N . . 13, Wil Smithsonian Ofcial Would P fl:u Sayre—Seattle to Seattle in to Exhibit Craft,fput Doubts | hours and 42 minutes in 1903. Frederick—Made a similar geymmzhmmuflw Col. Burnlay-Campbell — First to’ gbandon the water route through the Suez Canal and ?se the trans-Siberian | Railway, citcled the globe in 40 days, 19 Rours and 30 minutes in 1907. Andre Jseger-Schmidt — Paris to Patis by the Siberifm Railway in 39 days, 19 hours and 43 minutes in 1911. John Henry Mears—From New York 3‘8’5 days, 21 hours and 36 minutes in United States Army planes—FPirst to fly around the world, took 175 days in 1924, but sctually flew only 14 days 15 hours. They went westward from Seattle by way of Alaska, Aleutian and Kurlie Islands, China, India, Constanti- H’my tripthe minutes MOTHER IS HAPPY nople, Budapest, Paris, Glasgow, Reyk- javik, Greenland, Labrador and Boston. Edward 8. Evans and Linton Wells went around in 28 days 14 hours and 36 minutes in 1925, going by boat from New York to France, Ee]:m and train to Yokohama, boat to ttle and plane to New York. Mears and C. B. Collyer—From New York in 8 daxs 14 hours and 36 min- utes in 1925, using only bogts and planes. Graf Zeppelin—Flew from Lakehurst, N. J., around the world in 21 days 7 hours and 34 minutes In 1929. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty—By plane in 8 days 18 houfs and 51 sin- utes in 1931. Safe Driving Hint OVER POST’S FEAT Globe Fiyer's 93-Year-0ld Grand- mother Listens Eagerly h b $1 i L E L1