Show IS successful IN HIS FLIGHT AMERICAN NAVAL PILOT M MAKES K ES CIRCUIT TRIP FROM KINGS KING S DAY IN 16 HOURS coolidge and secretary of army and navy send congratulations to explorer byrd accompanied by floyd bennett new york Liou lieutenant tenant commander I 1 richard 10 byrd united states navy aviator flow flew over tho the north pole sunday tile the now new york times and the st louis post dispatch announced mcander mm andor ander byrd ayrd first to accomplish lie com L r feat made tho the flight in fifteen hours and thirty minutes leaving his base at kings hay bay Spitzberg spitzbergen SpItz bergen cn at 1260 1250 sunday morning greenwich gree time and returning safely at monday afternoon the entire population of kings icings day turned out to welcome tile the americans return captain amundsen lincoln ellsworth and tile the crew of their airship norge on which they plan to make a similar flight greeted commander byrd upon ills hla descent byrd was waa accompanied on ills hla flight by floyd bennett chief petty officer in the naval air service washington congratulations Congratulation 3 on his air dash over the north polo went forth to lieutenant commander richard B E byrd from president coolidge secretary davin of tile the war department and secretary ecret ary wllbur wilbur mr coolidge on a cruise down tile the potomac on tho the mayflower caused this statement to be issued at the white house the president sends ills his happiest congratulations to commander byrd on oil the report that lie he has flown to the north polo it Is a matter of oc great satisfaction that this record lias has been made by an all american the fact that the flight seems to have been accomplished Plis lied without mishap demonstrates the high development of the art of flying in this country now new york commander richard evelyn byrd in flying to the he t north pole from kings bay and back in fifteen hous and thirty minutes demonstrated that wings could do in less than a day what admiral peary di discoverer s of the north pole consumed eight months in negotiating by dog sled ills giant three motored airplane carried him safely over byer wastes which amundsen last year pronounced unsafe tor for airplane flight and the distance traveled roughly 1600 miles was equal to more than a montilla months in the arctic under the most ideal conditions for dog doe teams |