Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1937, Page 8

A-S8 RUSSIANS' FLIGHT WARMEST AT POLE Airmen Claim Feasibility of Route Proved by Suc- cessful Trip. The. jollowing ezclusive inter= vlew with the Soviet aviators who flew from Moscow to San Jacinto, Calif., was obtuined by the only newspaper correspondent present who spoke vthe Russian language. The writer flew to March Field, near where the aviators landed, Jrom Los Angeles. Dr. Gruber, a well-known American newspaper writer was the first foreign corre- spondent to fly through the Soviet Arctic, BY RUTH GRUBER. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 16 (N. AN.A)—While America is now ac- claiming the thiee Soviet airmen who have made the longest non-stop flight in history, their own country is con- gratulating them for forging another link in the Soviet's vast program to conquer the Arctic. “We have proved the feasibility of trans-polar flying,” Chief Pilot Mikhail Gromoff told me. “We have proved ‘what our polar scientists have long be- lieved, that the Arctic is the shortest and most practical air route between the two worlds.” Talking enthusiastically about their polar flight, the three smiling Soviet aviators agreed that the “warmest” part of the trip lay directly over the North Pole. “We couldn't see Papanin’s little black tent drifting on the ice floes be- cause of fog. But we knew our com- Tades were right below us and we sent them a radio greeting. . Back came their greeting, wishing us success in building the air route across the top of the world.” (Ivan Papanin is the leader of the Soviet party of four scientists who are remaining on an ice floe near the pole for a year.) Looked Forward to America. Sitting on a swing in the tropical, palm-fringed patio of the Officers’ Club at March Field, tall, blond Maj. Andrei Yumasheff, 35-year-old co- pilot. chatted easily. “We had been looking forward ex- citedly to seeing your America,” he told me. “We had heard so much about the beautiful California moun- tains. But all we could see for most of the way was just an ocean of clouds.” In a believe-it-or-not manner he held up his finger and said: “You know, we flew for three days and only one night. The midnight sun shone for us all the way across the Polar Sea. We left Moscow at dawn, and, by the time we had reached the White Sea, the polar sun was lighting our path. The sun beat down on the Arctic wastes, hidden now and then by clouds. At times we rose from 12,00C to 16,000 feet above the clouds which opened like little windows to show us the ice. It was a beautiful sight. “Near Rudolph Island, on the Soviet side, the ice lay in rugged high, bro- ken cakes, but as we neared the North American side the floes leveled and became a great flat ice field. When ‘we flew down Washington and Oregon toward California it was still light, but as we neared San Francisco, dark- ness set in for the first time. Gained Day Coming. “Another thing,” he went on, “we gained a day coming here. We left Moscow on Monday, July 12, and now it's only Wednesday, July 14, here. Of course it's half a day later over there.” After the pilots had slept for about four hours, they sat on a bed in the Officers’ Club and told me laughingly how they had taken shifts sleeping during the trip and what they had eaten and worn. “We didn't have any regular sched- ule,” said Gromoff. “I would sleep for about an hour and Yumasheff would take the controls. Then he would nap for about an hour. But I don't think Danilin, our navigator, ever closed his eyes. “I ate enormously,” he went on. *Just whenever I felt like. We had everything—chicken, tongue, caviar, chocolate, hot tea, sugared slightly, and plenty of water.” He wrinkled his nose at the mention of liquor and said he doesn’t drink it. He con- firmed this statement at lunch when the army officers asked him if he would have some whisky before his ham and eggs. “No, thank you,” he shook his head, “Just milk, please.” Their flying togs were the refular Grigori Gokhman looks on. The three Soviet flyers, who set a new distance mark in their flight from Moscow to San Jacinto, yesterday bought new suits on a visit to San Diego. Co-pilot Andrei Yumashef, left, is shown gazing in the mirror, trying on a coat, as Soviet Consul General —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. flying outfits used in the Soviet Arctic—fleeced-lined leather caps, heavy boots, jackets and long trou- sers, lined with Siberian fox, which weighs little and gives most warmth. They discarded their flying clothes for lightweight gray trousers and soft blouses to face the 93 degrees with which sunny California turned out to greet them. Reserved and Modest. ‘The newspaper men who spoke to them noticed especially their reserve and modesty. But this manner was typical of all the pilots I had flown with last year and the year before in the Soviet Arctic. Gromoff, the dig- nified 38-year-old leader of the group, with light, wavy hair, straight fea- tures and a sun-bronzed skin, has long been recognized as a ecautious | fiver and a brilliant technician. A common phrase one hears in Moscow is that “Gromoff knows planes better | than himself.” He was recently dec- | orated in the Kremlin as “hero of the Soviet Union,” the highest honor a fiyer can receive. Maj. Yumasheff, just 35, and the most Russian-looking of the pilots, with blue eyes, fair skin and a spon- taneous smile, holds several world records for altitude flying. Shy and serious-looking, Sergei Danilin, the navigator who looks like a Dutch sea- man, is 35, a professor of navigation and a graduate of the Military | Academy of Navigation in Moscow. Only when they were pressed for personal details, the men talked of their own flight. But it was obvious | that they preferred talking about the all-important background of the flight and the spectacular success their country has had in conquering the Far North. “Our flight,” Danilin told me, “is the culmination of more than five years of exploration and rigid scientific planning in the Soviet Arctic.” Be- hind the success of this flight is a dramatic story of latticing the Soviet Arctic with a giant network of air- ways, patrolling it with ships and ice- breakers and dotting its coastline, the longest Arctic coastline in the world, with 56 polar stations which preceded the one established recently at the pole. Yumasheff told me appreciatively of the tireless vigil kept by American and Soviet Arctic weather bureau sta- tions. From both countries reports kept pouring into the meteorological laboratory in Moscow. Here scientists charted the storm areas; cyclones and cold fronts or a meterological map, a dupicate of the one the flyers were carrying. Every three hours they flashed weather routes to the young fiyers. “We guided ourseves by these reports all the time,” Yumasheff said, while Navigator Danilin nodded se- riously. “When we got word of the dangerous cyclone over the Rocky Mountains, we shifted our course to the sea.” The plane carried & sample of the cargo that will soon be flying on Crea™: hice v:;: gweet i juiey Souther® how- Deliciovs BREYERS ICE CREAM o b MADE BETTER o schedule across the pole: Twelve let- ters, stamped Moscow and dated July 12. They have already been delivered by American mail planes to various cities in America. (Copyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) LOS ANGELES HONORS TRIO. Welcome Today in Office of Mayor. LOS ANGELES, July 16 (#)—Los Angeles, now just around the skyway corner from Moscow, showered civic honors today upon Russia's long-fly- ing birdmen. The office of Mayor Frank Shaw was tidied up as the scene of an offi- cial welcome this afternoon for the trio of aviators whose non-stop flight across the North Pole from Moscow to San Jacinto, Calif, is a world rec- ord—=6,262 miles. New events were added hourly to the list of . ceremonious tributes to Pilot Mikhail Gromoff, Co-pilot Andrei Yumasheff and Navigator Sergei Danilin. Stanley Shumovsky, Soviet aviation representative, said he understood the next transpolar hop would be in & passenger-type plane and with an Alaskan refueling. En route here, A. Vartanian, flight co-ordinator for the Russian govern- ment, told news men at Portland, Oreg., that still another aerial project might be “around the world by the North and South Poles.” IT RAINS MINNOWS Streets and Yards of South Bend Littered. SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 16 ().— Aftermath of a heavy rainstorm, hundreds of silvery minnows littered streets and yards in the northwest part of the city yesterday. The phenomenon is believed to have been caused by waterspouts which lift small fish high into the air where wind currents carry them long dis- tances. Official . = Free Lunches Opposed. LOS ANGELES (#).—Ham-on-rye, pretzels and popcorn will be on the patron, not on the house, if the California Restaurant Association has its way. Directors of the association have voted to demand the State Equaliza- tion Board, which controls California bars, banish free edibles. PSYCHOMETRY DELINEATIONS Grace Grey Delong Life Reader Adviser 11 AM. to 9 P.M. PSYCHIC MESSAGE COUNCIL 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th end “L* Telaphone MEt. 5234 TASTES BETTER JORNSTONN GROUP ASSALS OFFCALS Citizens’ Committees Pledge Fight to Restore “Rights.” By the Associated Press. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 16.—A na- tional conference of citizens’ commit- tees charged today that “certain pub- lic officials in high places” had refused to protect American citizens in their right to work. ‘Two hundred ministers, college pro- fessors and business men from 70 com- munities at the convention pledged themselves to “restore and protect those constitutional rights that have been taken from citizens by unworthy officials.” The delegates met yesterday at the call of the Johnstown Citizens' Com- mittee, which directed a back-to-work movement at the strike-beset Cambria works of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. In a resolution adopted after stormy debate, .the conference deplored vio- lence in strikes and advocated equal legal responsibilities for labor unions and employers. 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