Show PACIFIC CROSS HOP PLANNED FOR TODAY TUDA Y Australian Flier Awaits Data on Weather i OAKLAND Cal Cat Dec 1 UP UP- UP Captain Charles T. T P. P Ulm Australian Aus Aus- tr llan flier awaited reports on Pacific weather conditions before deciding whether to hop off today directly from Oakland for Australia Australia Australia Aus Aus- via the Hawaiian islands Should there be storms between the California coast and Honolulu Ulm Vim indicated he ho will vill fly first to Vancouver B. B C. C and there await favorable conditions for the transoceanic transoceanic trans trans- oceanic trail blazing flight The need for haste was imperative impera impera- tive It soon will be high tide time on Falling Palling island one o of the l top atop points on the projected route Ulm wishes to reach the tiny Cable island while he can still land and leave eave from its sandy beach It It was the urgency of immediate I departure which led the Australian to change his original plans of l leaving from Canada and to consider consider consider con con- sider taking off from the Oakland airport where six years ago he be and Commander Sir Charles Kingsford- Kingsford Smith began begun their successful cast- cast t to west crossing of the ocean from California to Australia t Accompanying Ulm Turn this time will be e Leon Lson on navigator and radio operator and George LittleJohn Little- Little LittleJohn John copilot |