Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 1 | Read Unable to Resume Flight

A DMIRAL KOLCHAK, for the recognition of whose anti-Bolshevist government Senator King will propose a resolution. j 1 I) , V XS si V w " t -til ; j II,' i HI TO HIFLPT Held Back by High Winds; j He Hopes to Get Away Today. WASHINGTON", May 22. High winds today again prevented the naval seaplane NC-4 from leaving Ponta Deb gada for Lisbon on the second leg of her transatlantic flight. The naval department de-partment this morning received the following fol-lowing message from Admiral Jackson at P.onta Delgada: "NC-4 will not leave today. Seas too rough for start.'' The weather forecast for the Azores district cabled to the navy department today held out promise that conditions might be favorable tomorrow for the continuation of the flight, as the blow from the southwest was moving northeastward. north-eastward. Can't Stop Daring Ones. LONDON, May 22, Via Montreal In the house of commons last night the government was asked if it was considering consid-ering the limiting of iurther attempts to fly across the Atlantic, in view of the desperately hazardous conditions. Major General Seeley, Undersecretary of state for air, stated that the matter had been given the most careful thought by 'tho government, which considered con-sidered that it was not its function to say to its countrymen that they should j not undertake this daring flight and i the attendant risks. SAYS SUBSIDY IS NEEDED TO FULLY DEVELOP INDUSTRY NEW YORK. May 22. Before starting tor Europe today as head of a commission commis-sion which will study means tf developing develop-ing In this country 1 be torn merclal airplane air-plane industry. Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell declared that, in 1 1 is opinion, the object could be attained only with the aid of a government, sub-sid sub-sid y. Mr. Croweil said he hoped to he able to aid the fed em 1 nut hot-it ies in bringing about a restoration to the United States of the air mipremaey which had been won by Kuropean nations taking ad- I (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) I M R ES U E FLIGHT (Continued from Page One.) anf;-L'M cf the f ;i n(J;i men tala of aviation d; S 'uvtrtvi by A me r lean pioneers. The fovernment' aim, tne secretary a .sorted, was io ftn'Ourye the building: ii ti (,l the airpb m- bn sir if- as to a basis Similar in substantiality to that, enjoyed by t:ie automobile industry. Ot.ierw he said, in ':;ist of future war, the nation na-tion would fnd its-: f in the predicament whi-'h prf vailud when America became a belligerent in the recent struiIe and wuh forced to Impend upon associated puwera for aircraft.