Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-06-24 | Page 1 | Ocean Fliers Nearing Goal

OCEAN FLIERS WEARING GOAL ..A. A . PHI IP Southern Cross Pastes Half Way Mark on Journey to U. S. CREW CHEERFUL Keep in Touch With Land by Wireless NCW YORK, June 24 (AR) The New Yark Time radio etetien at Halifax. N. S, everheard the weet-ward weet-ward bound monoplane louthem Cress reporting It pesitien at 1 1 19 p. m K. . f as 50 degree. SO minutee north latitude, 34 degrees west longitude. Th 1il6 position is n th eeurs Csptein Kingsferd Smith eet for himlf. Th plen had traveled apprexl mtoly-334 mile from it peitin at 10 a. m. at an average epeed f 102 mile an hour. Thi would Indieat a ubeidnc f th draded head winds which hamper plane bound weetward ever the Rert Atlaejtia aad raiaed hope fee' an eeelier arrival here then had been forecast. If th pitin given was rrct th plan wee only about 400 miles from Csp Rao. Newfoundland. (By th Associated Press.) Th Southern Cr.ee, America bound from Pert Marneck. Irieh Pre State, with her crow of four Intrepid . fliers, this afternoon emerged from a fog through which ah had flown for mer than . an hour, Tha aaVenturera had earn-plated earn-plated half af thair ever water jump ta tha Nerth American mainland. Har naaa waa painted straight far Newfoundland, whara Captain KfngaferdeSmith and hla mates hoped first ta sight land. Tha a irpl ana had aaan making 100 miles an hour, aeeardinaj ta har radia meaaagea ta ateamahipa and tha shara. Sha evidently paaaed eut af wirefeea touch with Saldennel, Ireland, at - abaut midday. Sha picked up tha S. S. Velendem at S:40 a. m eaetern standard time, and tha S S. Ingoma at 10 a. m eastern standard time. Weather condition wara reported food. Tha flier wara in eMcellent spirits spir-its and eptimistie af their success. ALDONNEL AIRDROME, Irish Free State, June 24 (Aeeeciated Rreee) The crew af tha famous airplane Southern Crass taday were racing acreee tha nerth Atlantis with their radia keeping up a spirited spir-ited at ream af meaaagea and their propeller eating up tha mileage between be-tween Ireland and New Yark. Tha four men aboard her, Captain Cap-tain Charlea Kingaferd Smith. J. W. Htennage. radio operator; M. K. Van ryk. anal at ant pilot, and Captain J. T. Saul, navigator, wera In gay (Continued on page 11). . PLANE MAKING GOOD SPEED ON ATLANTIC HOP fContlnued from page 1.) spirits, as was Indicated by their many messaeee picked up' In Bal-rlonuel Bal-rlonuel and London as well as by chips at sea.- The sky was slightly overcaat. r.ut the ocean was calm and conditions condi-tions seemed favorable for a fast hop across the north Atlantic, which already has taken o heavy a toll of brave airmen and several women who sought to make the westward rroKalng. Undeterred by these trsgedies of recent years. Captain Klngsford fcmlth nooded the ah- with cheerful messages. "Slight!:' overcast." said a mes-V mes-V aagre picked up in London at 1:15 p. in. "Ocean like mill pond. Traveling Trav-eling 100 miles an hour. If condl-tiona condl-tiona were like this always ocean living would be easy.'' It waa cold, high up there over be Atlantic, but the fliers were dressed for it and their messaeea showed no loss of rest for their great sdventure. -LIKE POLE EXPLORERS". "fihootlng euns snd things." ssid one message received shortly after 10 o clock, "tiee. Icy cold outside. T het Van and Smith are feeling It. We are all wrapped up like polar explorers, but It still la pretty ' "'The Southern Cross left the Irish roat at :IS a. m.. O. M. T. U:15 A M E T.) and then sped westward west-ward over tha great circle courae on a line toward Cape Race the southeasterly tip of Newfoundland. It is approilmateiy 1110 mllea between be-tween the coast of Ireland and ;ewfoundfand. rmlv once before has thia stretch ir "turbulent water been crossed Successfully in a weaterly That wss by the monoplane Brr-, Brr-, . manned by Colonel James i Flu-r.auri.c Flu-r.auri.c an Irishman, and two Germans. Ger-mans. Cspfln Hermann Koehl I and th. late Baron Von Huenefeld. Lven I they fell abort of their goal, lsnd-ng lsnd-ng st Greenley Islsnd. a lonely apot in the coast of Labrador, where ?h,v Amalned for day. befor. they could be brought eiuthward. "taptam King.ford Smith', moat famous previous flight wa. hto trip from Oakland. Cal, to VI heeler field Honolulu, and thence by way ?f ,h. Kljl l'l-nd. le t'' ailve land. That wa. In June. 19-S.