Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 1 | World Fliers Determined to Cross Pacific

W WORLD rums FLIERS J 1 DETERMINED TO 10 CROSS PACIfiC Brock and Ignore Pl Pleas as to Abandon Suicidal Hop I FIND FIRST DELAY Bad Weather Holds De Dc- from T Tokio okio Japan Japa Sept 12 12 AP- AP Edward F. F and William S. S Brock copilots of If the world monoplane to tod d t the e Associated Associated Press here today that they firmly expected to fly from Japan to Midway island then to Honolulu and on to San Francisco soon T The e announcement that Brock and Contemplated going ahead with their world the flight by crosIng the Pacific according according ac- ac cording to their original schedule means that they intend to Ignore the rising opposition to overseas flights and to an undertakIng A Ing cidaI ld which v- v has been 5 en i p sul- sul sulA E advices from froin Indicated indicated In- In that they were somewhat downhearted ove over the prospects In addition to ti the official and cial disapproval or of further stunt flights flights' across great bodies of water by ordinarily eq land planes Mrs cabled her husband from Detroit advising him hlin to use Continued on page 8 WORLD FLIERS DET DETERMINED TO TOI I CROSS PACIFIC Continued from page 1 his own Judgment In deciding whether to continue J. J V. V Walker Valker the Tokio representative or of the two fliers rs has announced his opposition to a flight from Japan to Midway island FLIERS OPPOSED Jap Japanese nese fliers belIeve a hop from Tokio to Midway island more than 2400 miles would be suicidal Midway island is but a dot in th Pacific and would be difficult to rind find even with the best of I tion At Midway the fliers would face a mlle mile gap or of water to Honolulu and then another 2400 mile stretch or of sea to San Fran Fran- cisco isco TOKIO Sept 12 T AP-T AP Ah publishing an Interview today with William S. S Brock and Edward dward 1 F. F copilots ot of the the round monoplane Pride or of Detroit Detroit at where e they are being held by bad weather ther found the American fliers mers downhearted as asto to their prospects for the rest est of f the flight t. t Their trouble at they des de- de s Jb d as the first really bad luck luckin in hi their long We Ve have not yet seen apan said sard Brock When V we approached approached ap- ap Japanese territory from we encountered a heavy raInstorm probably at 1 ki o oin oJ in that nel od Being unable unable un- un able to see land around a province some miles n northeast or of we were forced to t fly back from Bungo Strait in our effort et- et fort to reach aerodrome Still heavy cloud obscured our oun vision vision vi- vi sion forcing us to wander around some time searching f fOr r a landing place Finally we re ched and descended We Ve could not combat corn com bat the storm this morning s so were comp lo fo turn back This Indicated the fliers were within mileS mileS' or of Tokio when they first turned back Moura is about miles from the capital BOTH EXHAUSTED Both and Brock were exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted when they returned returned to and slept throughout the night Customs offIcers examined them according to reg regulations Owing Owing Ow- Ow ing to the fact that the landings at Were forced navy officials were not expected to protest is a fortified zone barred to all except government planes The distance from ShanghaI to is abolt 1200 miles and is approximately half haIr way It If and when the Pride of Detroit arrIves at Tokio it be approximately miles out ot of D Detroit its starting starting start start- ing point The Americans are seventeen seV sev- enteen entee days out today leaving heaving them only eleven and lie half days in which to beat the he previous record for tor circling the globe