| Show I U. U S. S A irmen Make ake 4 First First- I. I Nonstop Pacific r Flight Plane Upsets as Daring Pair Land 1 Neither N Nei ei er Injured J Aviators Dump Excess Gas Before Coming Down to Avert Fire RECEIVE PRIZE Abandon Plan to Continue to Salt Lake Br 81 Frets Prell WENATCHEE First 5 to o fly an airplane across the Pacific from Japan to the United States without a stop Clyde and Hugh h Herndon Jr American filers lUers landed L' here today Leaving Japan Japan- after a long fight t to obtain permission to make the dangerous hop and arid Herndon Herndon Hern Hem don spanned the northern stretches of the ocean in 41 l hours hours' and 13 minutes minutes min mm- utes covering about miles mUes Minus landing gear which they dropped shortly after alter leaving Sa- Sa Beach Japan A Dearly Sunday morning the fliers a appeared over Wenatchee at 7 a a. a m. m do no a. a m. m mE E. E S. S T. T circled a few minutes while dumping gasoline to prevent a IS possible possible possible pos pos- sible outbreak of fire and landed the plane on its stripped strip Cd belly TIPS O ON NOSE The plane touched the landing field at a. a m m. tipped over on her nos nose 5 and then settled back and slid along in 11 a cloud of dust It came to rest reston on its left wing The propeller had b been en smashed in the landing That was the only casualty aviators described the landing as wonderful A A representative of the Tokio newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper Asahi Asahl rushed up with up-with with a a. check in his hand offered by the periodical for the first nonstop airplane airplane airplane air air- plane flight bet between een Japan and the United States Very glad to see ee you boys he be said rn and Herndon climbed out They were in their stocking feet They had crossed the Pacific unshod ASKS ASKS ASKS' FOR ASKS FOR s SMOKE t KE Give me inc a R. said Herndon We have been in Japan so long were we're still going barefooted d said Mrs Opal of Wenatchee mother of Clyde wiped the tears from her eyes and greeted her son with My you dont don't even look tired said they had flown nearly to Spokane then turned back to Wenatchee On leaving Japan they had planned to fly as far east as Salt Lake City if it possible to establish establish es es- es a a. record exceeding that of ot John and Russell Boardman Board Board- Boardman man who who- flew miles from New NewYork York to Istanbul last July FLIGHT UNIQUE Besides the then Asahi Asahl prize and Herndon may make a a. flight from here to Dallas In quest of a R. prize reputedly offered by a wealthy Texan for lor a flight between between between be be- tween Japan and Dallas permitting one stop Their flight was unique in that they arc are the only men ever to cross the broad Pacific in an airplane without an intermediate landing The dirigible Graf Zeppelin crossed from Tokio to Los Angeles In 1929 without a stop and several planes have crossed it in two or more hops Leaving Japan as violators of ot the law and after having been fined heavily for flying over o and taking Continued on on P pat se Two 1 PlANE PL ME UPSETS S AS FliERS lAND 4 AT WENATCHEE Continued d from Irom rom Pare Page One photographs o oC fortified areas Pang Pang- 4 born bom and Herndon made heroes out ou of or themselves faa laa La few hours A move reeve Is under way to erect a a. monument In Japan commemorating their feat Zeat 1 LONG NG DELAY Only after a 8 l long delay and the intervention of th the American y sy did Id end Herndon receive re- re permission to take to stake their plane from near Dear to the only suitable place in in Japan for Zor forn n a nm m transoceanic takeoff I i f And nd Herndon got Into trouble while Awhile flying from Kh Khana te u-rovst u Siberia Therla to From Froin k they abandoned an attempt at- at tempt temp to to attack the Post-Gatty Post speed t-speed speed flight record round around the world Having from New York across the Atlantic and across acoss Europe and CAsla Pan and Herndon found they they could not break the record and decided In favor layer of ot a a. nonstop transpacific trans trails pacific nIGht instead Within a g f cw minutes the two men related ho how stormy weather over wes western nl Washington during the last several hours hour o of or their flight had bad endangered en- en their plane and they had circled the B Count l Rainier western Cascades thru three tIm times before finally getting their l s. s S. S The TIle aviators said the fine steel skid on the bottom of their l planes plane's lanes lane's fuselage installed for a landing saved the the craft front from being wrecked w when en it It came down GLAD TO ARRIVE I We uWe were on on the rIght light course all 2111 the way but we were awfully sleepy aId Bo Boy lar are we glad to get here Mr Mrs Herndon who married the aviator In New Yorki Just before t Herndon and left on the ground the world made madean an effort to t telephone her husband from the eastern city shortly after atter news of S the landing was broadcast t. t Mrs Herndon Is Is the daugh t of W. W W. W Parley Farley F former chairman of the Democratic party The biggest thrill of the flight the filers said occurred when their engine en- en gine stopped alter after they had hewn flown about miles mUes They realized after arter arters S s a moment that the cause was wa's was the draining of one gas tank and andl they quickly switched to another in tn time timeto to Mo get the motor going again They said they averaged about 17 feet teet altitude all the way GETS GETS THRILL My heart Wei went into my mouth when the engine stopped at atthe the east eastend end of or the Alaskan gulf said Hern- Hern don We didn't expect the tank t to togo go dry at nt the time The engine topped stopped started again a 8 couple of times before finally coming to a full r T He said he had to descend several thousand feet to make the change 2 W was S at the controls when they landed and did most of the on the trip We became deafer and deafer and had to write notes to each other in order to communicate communicate com corn although we sat side by side Ide he said S said he ate two chicken legs and a piece apIece of cheese and drank hot wt tea with caffeine tablets in it to keep him awake Herndon's diet was I light too he said They had a consIderable considerable con- con quantity of or food left in tn tn plane lane when they landed lande ande |
