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Show TIIE .SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER THRILLING ADVENTURES OF FLIERS ROUND-THE-WORL- D K'nww J wspayM' NO-4- IV & bi a is no plat for of Bering to gel tangled up with snow -- rrs. We had held a council with our bureau of fisheries and coast guard menus several nights before and had decided that we would attempt to fi all the way through to Paramushiru, u distance of auout 870 miles, if the weather was clear But awa up here in the North Pat if lc and in Bering it mav be perfectlj calm an i th n art hour later may (Jnd ourself in ihe midst of a terrific storm. The marest land after leaving the Aleu-- t an Islands happened to he the K.n andorskis But thev belonged to Kussla and. owing to the fact that ur govtmment had not recognized the soviet it had not been possible for anv arrangements t be made with the Russians for us to land anv-wheIn their territory To do so. theoretically, Aught therefore lead to ju A J serious Nevertheless, in view of the fact that the weather up htre H so notononsv fickle, it was decided that the Kider would lie ff about three miles from Bering I'.anl in the Komandorskie, Just so ?ht in ca.e of emergence w'e could nt bast come down at sea in the shel- r of land refuel from the Kider and Mien wait for the weather to dear up rf Kamchatka for the remainder of coinplk-aHon- Syndic, Synoiot.) Historically, ths nsxt jump that the world filers ere to maks was to be the most Important stogie episode of the world flight For the first Ume in history, airplanes were to Ly serosa the Fwcifio oeean la flying around the wofld. the Amsncan aviators. In addition to be ing the first to eireumnav ig&ts the globe, established a host of other record. Bui oa this one jump, from Attu Island! arrows Bering era to the perunsuia of Kamchatka, the world there were sroompliahtng a feat which In Itself would have assured them of a permanent place in history eten if In histhey bad gotten no farther torical importance, this flight from America to Asia ranked ae an achievement similar to the first aenal trussing of the Atlantic by the, Unitthe ed States naval seaplane Atlantic flight of Alrorfc and Brown, to front the Portugutee flight Hras.l, Sir Hose smith a marvelous Ausfeat in flying from England to tralia, and the British flight through the heart of Africa from Cairo to the c spa. GIVE RWS$ WIDE BERTH. When ee contemplate the above ctjt.jflLrlson and stup to consider the importance of tins first aerial crossing of the Pacific which Commander ixjvvell Smith is to describe to us, we realize the really gigautic proportions f this flight around the whole world in which the crossing of the Pacific was merely one of many episodes. We rolled out of our bunk in the trader's house at Chicagoff about o'clock on the morning of May 16." says .Lowell Mnith. Major Blair, our rmtoorol gUt fr.end. was with C b tain Bet. k out at Bering sea off the Komandorski islands and the coast guard cutter Hutda was fifty inilts ut at sea. Thev had gone ahead in order to give us full weather reports I dont know what we would have done without them, becahse the nild-d- l t. u4 KEITH OBRIEN CO ths JdcClurs tha hop to Paramushlru )n the Kuriles, which belongs to Japan. SMITH HOLOS 1NUE COURSE. "As things Aimed out, it wag tnoat fortunate that we uectoeu upon this, lor soon after we Uu Aim a graal wrm cut oil the uirect loute to ue auras. at juuu ii n ou ui moru-ittol Ma l lonu across Ule to fl tii Iiu.iil. n was upen vdnwuay uiomu.g until w leil Attu, but. wiien w rrut a the we ai- live iuuu 45 g riVwU oa Uiefw Lo liul Uto.1 a w tu 4liUt- - we aiieritcoii. auvui n..uu uie one huuaied a.tu uarUe.U pasei tune auvoaiica a meriuuui, wiieie &o we nutue uas whole us). ooiu on ua lo ami lu. At me mlnuu pact midda we were du telly aoove ihe .01 bit of American soil liial we were lo see until crusting tlie AUanUo. A. again 14 20 we flew ovei We Uie Baiua circled around het once because we thought, that it was g tug lu be our iat opportunitywhoot hau sceiug our coaat guard irienus, g.veit eo of their laue and hhve worked so enlhutaticatt for us feting sea is one ut the luugneat bout ol water on the lace ot uie giot and here where it joins the Nuria Pa cifiu is the roughest part 'ihe I iaiUt was rolling from aiue to slue lu as we circled around, almost ti man on board seemed to be on 6ck, Dresses nhi SAY toward tne Kom,tinturhiS lor three hours we flew out or sigm of land, and all that time we kept wondering w hut kind of a r tvt ion the bolshV h.M W(ud give UK Krik Nelson, Keigh Wade and the (Other airmen all praise Smith lor hl ability as a navigator, for when thev reached the Russian Ulauds tile plane' were not even & hundred vaids cdf their Course who Bver.vone has flown with Mlent tJnnth declares he has the instinct of a homing pigeon FORCED DOWN BY STRM. At 3 05 we reached Popper island the most easterly of the Romandor sk's While it vvasn t much to inspire one, it sure looked good to us T hen from Poiata ixiint on Popper island we headed northwest toward Bering, the largest island of the group, and at 5 o dofc we came to a dent in the coast on the shore of which are the wlreie towers of the Russians and the village of Nikolski. At the same moment we saw the Kider, about three miles out at sea It was too rough for us to land out where she was Her officers evidently realized this and, while we circled around, they sieajiied in to the sheltered dent In the coastline and dropped buns The moment we had taxied down to them w'e saw a boat putting out from shore so we sat there in our cockpits, readv to take off again if necewsarv When the boat arne alongside, we saw that she contained five n en, soie of them in uniform and some in civilian clothes Several of them ware long beards and looked juM like the Russians of one's imag- - BAYER and INSIST ASPIRIN I Unless you see the Bayer Cross" on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for waving to u. By now the weather to the southof Faiainuaini a west, in tne dues-tmihad suddeidy become thick ana while to the north and suaighi ahead it was perfectly clear. 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A spirts such-brock- a. mutton Not one of them could speak word of Kngimh, and. of course, we knew an little about their language an we knew about Phinese So we all went on board the Eider together, and fortunately there waa one man in her crew who could talk to them incidentally some of tha presn re- port that came through naving that the Russians had told un to get were all hunk They veg exceedingly courteous, but, of course thev wanted to know who we were where we had come from, why we were there, and whether we had perYou can Imagine their asmission tonishment awav out there at this uttermost extremity of Jtunnla a when they suddenly saw three giant airplanes come swooping their bav into ORDERED OFF BY RUSS. "Of course, we told them that we had no permission to land, but that we had been forced to descend at their islands because of the storms to the south When we told them that we merely wished to remain overnight thev asked us to remain on board the out-nk- l' In the wanted winter col- In the and not go ashore meantime, thev said, they would get in touch with their government In Eider, ors Brown, Tan, Novelty Stripes, Black a A sizes. Buy two or, three at this Sweeping Reduction! Moscow. heard nothfhg more from them that day, but thev were awfully nhe and eat around smoking ugareta and chatting before returning to the village Until 10 o'Uoik that night we s ayed with the planes, fueling up and getting everything in readiness so we ouid push off at dawn If necaeiar here really Un t a harbor there st ivoiski, and If a touthweeter had .vvn up we might have been in a ught fix Fortunately there was only a light north wipd The hours of daylight were long, and when we re- turned to the Eider at IQ ochxk that night it was still 'light enough to read a book out on d k When we got up again at 4 3u it was broad daylight again. Just as we were getting ready to take off, out came the Russians in their little boat They said that they had Just received word from Moscow j to the effect that we should not be allowed to stop there We thanked them for their courtesy, smiled to ourselves, because of course, we were just at that moment getting readv to sav good-bvto their little leland. and asked them to pull their boat off to one side a few yards Ten minutes after they had requested us to leave we were ten miles away ' The previous night Captain Beck of the Elder had Informed the Hatda of where we were and what had happened, and the latter had started full steam ahead toward the Komandorski That morning, as we started from Bering Island for Faramushlru, far off on the horizon ws saw our faithful friend, the Haida, speeding toward us. 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