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Show Winds Turn Against Flier Hortfc, Island of Fayal, Azores Com-n.mder Com-n.mder Francesco de Pinedo, Italian transatlantic aviator, told the Associated Associ-ated Press. of his adventures and those of his two companions after leaving Trepassey, Newfoundland, May 23, for the Azores en route to Rome only to be forced down by a shortage in gasoline gaso-line several hundred miles short of this port. The commander, who was towed here by the steamship Superga and now is planning to resume his flight, told how one of the officers of the steamship leaped into the heavy seas to fasten a rope to the hydroplane. hydro-plane. "After leaving Trepassey," the Italian aviator said, "the wind was favorable, fa-vorable, but then changed and we were obliged to fly over a fog bank extending extend-ing about 400 miles. Our speed was from thirty to fifty miles an hour, and we flew at a low altitude." |