Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-17 | Page 1 | Planes 750 Miles out; Going Strong

in j- , LAfi&u 1 3ff MILLS tJy if IbUM MRS. JOHN II. TOWEES, wife j of the commander in the historic his-toric attempt to cross tlic ocean by airplane. O I SCENE Aircraft Leave Newfoundland New-foundland Waters for Journey " to Azores Without an Accident. Are Expected in Ponta del Gada Early Today; Navy Officials Confident Confi-dent of Flyers' Success. 1 t WASHINGTON, May 17. The j following cablegram from the U. S. j --f c ' ' ' - ' v- !-'', , ' - V' A . 1 ' f i S. Melville, transatlantic iugnt. bia.- : tion ship at Ponta del Gada, Azores, was received at tho navy ! department at 4: SO o'clock thi3 . j morning: "The NC-4 passed station ship No. li at 07:06 G. M. T'.-fSrOU Wasliington time)." The fourteenth station ship is tho U. S. S. Cowell, located more than 730 miles distant from Trepassoy bay. Messages sent by the "C'olum-buses "C'olum-buses of tho air" from plane to plane and to the destroyers that lined the ICOO-mile route to the Azores, the end of the first lap, were intercepted by the Capo Eace. N. F., radio station, relayed to the American naval radio station at Ear Harbor, Me., and thence sent to the navy department. Thoso messages showed tho three pianos to be malting' excellent time and S indicated that all was going well, j During the first 700 miles of ! flight tho planes averaged approxi-,.,iTr approxi-,.,iTr nlrrliVv.rivn luilnq an hour. Navy officials estimated that should this average be maintained, and it was bolieved it could bo with daylight spreading over the Atlantic, the planes would reach their immediate objective, Ponta del Gada, Azores, about fl a. m., W asliington time, more than three hours earlier than thc time set by the most optimistic. (By the Associated Press.) I WASHINGTON, May 17. Orypti 'radiograms from the seaplane rti isioi on iis way to Liirope. picked out of (In 1 air bv !he naval radio station at Ha , . ai :.. a: c.l !,.. 11.., oh, no Itaroor, .0 c., iiMii'.nui in.., ..it. r were in I lie vicinity of the destroyc Thatcher, sialion Xo. 9, nearly 500 mile from Trepassey bay, soon after mid nipjil. The three machines lefL Trepassey t f.-w- minutes after ti o'clock last nigh and were officially report oil as passim station ship No. '-. :lli miles out. little more than four hours later. Th I next indication of their progress wa the int crreplcd tnessaefs reported b, i Par Harbor. SET NEW RECORD -!IN CATCHING SIGNALS. Tito Par Harbor slalion set a tic ; record in ca'.cdiin' the signals of th i planes at a distance of more than hhoii'.nnd miles. The NX' -I was callin 'the ThaW-lpT in I he message the Main '.-A:, '.ion o vorh";i rd. 1 Maw officials assumed I he Thalcht j w:,., ahcid of the group of ai : plane-, which bad yiascd other dest.ro; 1 ,-i-s in Ihe long line closely buue'ie ond all milking sped in excess of tl t -i-:l v-:ui!e rate thrv had expected I ! maintain. I A HE EXPECTED IN A.OUES EARLY TODAY. 1 If no accident interferes, if was sa I carl'- IhU moi-'iing. there i-l every re : to expect the planes will ha' i foachcl 1'outa licl Gada early toda : TI,o iii'.-t difl'i'-u!: leg of I he w ho I in;., from Itochnw.-iy lica. h. Long 1: ' (Continued ou Pairc u. Column 1 fffi H M II AZORES ' avy Aviators Making N Record Flight in Trans- !1 Ocean Attempt. tlnoed from Page One.) j t0 Plymouth, England, wns more C one-iiiirJ covered when tlio sig-j'ls sig-j'ls from tho XC-1 were intercepted. The planes were making the only "ftion of the trip that will require 0 bem to fly in darkness. Apparently jfP'hov were keeping (lead on their courso own the long l"c of destroyers which I rerc dropping astern of them swiftly J, B they sped eastward on their epochal ourney.