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WEATHER.
(V. e. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Mostly cloudy with showers and thun
dershowers tonight and tomorrow; cooler
tomorrow.
Temperatures—Highest, 98, at 2:30 p.m.
yesterday; lowest, 75. at 7 un. today.
Full Report on page B-4.
Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 &15
No. 31,535.
COSTE NEARS NEW YORK ON RECORD HOP
HORN SHIP ARRIVES !
AT TROMSOE WITH
ANDREE REMAINS
Norwegian and Swedish Ex
perts Board Bratvaag for
Investigation.
AUTHENTIC EVIDENCES
OFFICIALLY REPORTED
Ho Formal Reception Is Held, but
Large Crowds Greet Vessel
Bearing 111-Fated Party.
j By the Associated Press.
TROMSOE, Norway, September I.
The sealer Bratvaag, Dr. Gunnar Horn’s
expeditionary ship, bearing the remains
of the Andree exploration party found
on White Island, arrived here this fore
noon. There was no official reception,
but large crowds gathered at the harbor.
Norwegian and Swedish experts went
•board the Bratvaag somewhat before
she made this port to carry out pre
liminary investigation of the evidences
of the Andree tragedy. Various ob
jects were found in the canvas boat,
which was marked with Andree’s name.
The investigators reported that they
found many evidences that the discov
ery was authentic. “Among the objects
we found.” said their statement, “was
photographic apparatus marked ‘An
dree’s Polar Expedition No. 1’: two ice
sledges, a pair of high boots, instru
ments, an anemometer, a star map and
a piece of canvas which possibly was
part of a tent. Some bones also were
discovered, but we have not yet ascer
tained if they were human.”
ANDREE MEN SLEPT INTO DEATH.
Dr. Horn Pictures Last Hours of 11l-
Fated Arctic Balloonists.
By Wireless to the Associated Press.
ABOARD THE MOTOR SHIP BRAT
VAAG, Skjaer Island, Norway, Septem
ber 2. —Salomon August Andree, Swed
ish balloon explorer, and his two com
panions in the 1897 attempt to fly
across the North Pole died of exhaus
tion and slept themselves into death, It
is believed by Dr. Gunnard Horn, head
of the expedition which found their
remains on White Island, east of Spits
bergen.
After a tortuous march and ride in
frail boats across 180 miles of ice and
icy water from the spot where their ,
balloon came down, the explorers sus
tained life on White Island only a few
months, Horn believes, killing birds and
a bear for food. With the approach
of Winter 33 years ago they died one
by one, and at least two of their bodies
froze into a sort of semi-permanency.
Bodies in Natural Graves.
Those bodies remained in their natu
ral graves of ice and snow until Au
gust 6, when two harpooners of the
Horn expedition, seeking drinking water
on the bleak island, discovered a boat
and boat-hook, which once belonged to
the Andree expedition. They began an
Investigation, which ended in discovery
of the headless, clothed skeleton of
Andree. the clothed skeleton of oae of
his companions and a group of bones,
which may be those of the third mem
ber of the party.
Andree's body, sitting, with a foot
encased In ice and a rifle and oil stove
by its side, was found near the base of
a mountain. A skull nearby evidently
• was Andree’s. The body had greatly
deteriorated and was not much more
than a skeleton clothed In Arctic ap
parel, in the pocket of which was found
a monogram by which it was identified.
The teeth of the other skeleton, found
nearby, partly covered with stones, may
determine whether it is Nils Strindberg
or Knut Frankel, the other members of
the party.
Dramatically the little sealer Brat
vaag sailed into Hasvlk Sunday, after
a search by Swedish official vessels and
news expeditions which covered a wide
area of the North Seas. Dr. Horn there
notified the authorities officially of his
discovery, news of which, had already
reached the world through the captain
of the sealer Terningen. Then, without
awaiting an answer, he took the sealer
to Skjaer Island to await the michael
Sars, Swedish battleship sent to escort
the Bratvaag to Tromsoe.
Deduces Last Days of Andree.
He sat with Odd Arnessen, corre
spondent for the Associated Press and
the Oslo Aftenpostcn. in the ship’s
cabin, with some of the relics of the
Andree expedition on the table in front
of him, and told the story of his dls
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
TOMMANEY RESIGNS
AS PROBE GOES ON
Chief Clerk for Sheriff Farley Third
Officeholder to Quit During
Inquiry.
B? the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 2.—Thomas
T. Toromaney, chief clerk In the office
of Sheriff Farley and one of the prin
cipals in the Ewald-Heaiy “political
loan” investigation, resigned today.
Tommaney had handled the SIO,OOO
loan made by Mrs. Bertha Ewald, wife
of former Magistrate George F. Ewald.
to Martin J. Healy, Tammany district
leader, a few days before Ewald was
appointed a city magistrate in 1927.
Ewald has resigned as a magistrate
•nd Healy as aeputy city commissioner
of plant and structures. Tommaney
•was the last office holder in the case
to relinquish his official post.
Ewald and Healy are under Federal
Indictment. Healy for failure to file an
income tax report and Ewald for mail
fraud In mine promotion. The matter
of the SIO,OOO loan is under investiga
tion by Attorney General Hamilton
, Ward.
Tommaney’* letter of resignation told
Sheriff Farley, "I am doing this so as
to relieve you of any further embarrass
| unit,” .
r '
Entered aa second class matter
post office, Washinjrton D. C.
[U. S. Vice Consul
j At Naples Expires
As Result of Fall
John R. Robinson Plunges
From Hotel Window.
Was Well Know n Here.
By the Associated Press.
CAPRI. Italy, September 3. —John
Randolph Robinson, 26. of New York,
United States vice consul at Naples,
died this morning from the effects of
a fall from a window of the Hotel
Quisisana. on the Island of Capri. Ho
fell several stories onto a cement pave
ment. He was taken to a hospital suf
fering from many bone fractures and
internal injuries.
Robinson was the son of a prominent
attorney living in Paris. He was born
in Paris and educated in French. Swiss
and English schools, later graduating
from Harvard in 1927.
He joined the United States foreign
(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)
HEARST ORDERED
TO LEAVE FRANCE
Government Calls Him Fran
co-Phobe and Prefers He
Criticize Outside Country.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 2.—The Havas
News Agency said today that an order ;
of expulsion had been served on Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, American news- |
paper publisher, and that Mr. Hearst j
would leave France this evening in com
pliance with it.
Mr. Hearst left for London last night.
At the Surete Generale the Asso
ciated Press was told today: “The
French government has always expelled
foreigners who are consistently hostile
to France.
“Mr. Hearst is a Franco-phobe and
we prefer that he should do his criti
cizing outside of France. The Horan
affair of 1928 formed only a part of the
reasons why Mr. HeaPst w>as asked to
leave.”
The publisher arrived In Paris at 9:30
a.m. Monday fchJT left at 4 p.m. for
London without waiting for the ex
piration of the 36 hours’ grace accorded
him under the expulsion order.
The afternoon press prints briefly an
announcement of Mr. Hearst’s expulsion.
Intransigeant indicates the govern
ment action was due to his “Inimical
attitude” toward France.
Hearst Man Expelled.
Harold J. T. Horan, a Paris corre
spondent for the Universal Service, one j
of the Hearst news organizations, in I
October, 1928, was expelled from France j
for his part in securing for publication ;
in America, In the Hearst papers and
other members of the Universal Service
Association documents connected with
the secret Anglo-French naval pact.
Horan was charged with having ob
tained the documents from the French
foreign office in a manner considered
unethical. The Anglo-American Press
Association expelled him from its mem
bership In connection with the affair.
At the time the French press assailed
Mr. Hearst as responsible for the naval
accord leak. The so-called secret ac
cord provided for a cruiser arrange
ment between France and England.
Publication of Its terms aroused a storm
of protest in Europe and America,
where accusations were made of a new
Anglo-French military alliance. The
pact subsequently was disavowed..
BLAMES NAVAL PACT.
Publisher Says Publication of Anglo-
French Treaty Brought Expulsion.
LONDON, September 2 (/P).—William
Randolph Hearst, American publisher,
arrived in London today. Mr. Hearst.
asked about his expulsion from France,
said: “I have no complaint to make.
They said I was an enemy of France
and a danger in their midst.
“The reason for our strained relations
was the publication of an Anglo-
French treaty, two years ago, by the
Hearst newspapers.
“Officials were extremely polite,” con
tinued Hearst. “They made me feel
quite important. They said I could stay
a little while longer if I desired, that
they would take a chance on nothing
disastrous happening to the republic.
But I told then* I didn’t want to take
the responsibility of endangering the
(Continued on Page 5, Column 4.)
■— ■■ • ■ ■■■■»■ ■
Two Killed in Blast.
KITCHENER, Ontario. September 2.
(A*). —Two men were killed and a third
was seriously injured in a gas explosion
today at the new Kitchener Sewer
Plant at Doon, Ontario.
COLORED HOLD-UP MEN ARRESTED
WHEN THEY RETURN TO SCENE
War Department Clerk Recognizes Trio Who Robbed
Him and Police Recover Ring and Money.
If the three colored men who held
up Bernice Brown, War Department
clerk, and robbed him of sll and a
ring last night had been content to
stay away from the scene of the rob
bery they probably would not be in jail
today.
Brown was robbed by a colored youth
who approached him on Ivy street near i
New Jersey avenue southeast, last mid
night, and asked for a cigarette. As
Brown reached for the cigarette the
colored man grabbed him by the chin
J and took the ring from his finger and
his porketbook. He then got into a
I car with three other men and drove
I away.
Detectives Charles E. MeAsfleld and
Van D. Hughes and Pvt. W/m Als went
fretting
WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. «**
LOWER GAS RATES
PROPOSED IN NEW
LOCAL SCHEDULES
$400,000 Annual Decrease
of Revenue Would Result
From Costs Filed.
THREE SEPARATE LISTS
FILED WITH COMMISSION
Prices Provide Expense of 56 to
74 Cents Per 1.000 for Aver
age Consumer.
Substantial d&reases in gas rates
with a strong bid for the use of gas for
house heating are provided in the new
schedules filed by the Washington Gas
; Light Co. with the Public Utilities
j Commission today.
i The schedules are so arranged, ae
■ cording to the accompanying state
j ment of the company, that assuming
( that the same amount of gas is sold
by the company under the new rates as
j under the present rates, it will mean
!an annual decrease of revenue of
$400,000.
The rates would allow the average
consumer, heating a six-room brick
house, to get his gas for this and all
other purposes at a rate somewhere be
tween 56 and 74 cents per 1,000 cubic
j feet, as compared w’ith the present
! charge of $1 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Three Separate Schedules.
I There are three separate schedules
! filed. The average consumer Is repre
sented in the first, called “general gas
service” rate. He will get his gas, under
the new rate, at the rate of 85 cents
per 1,000 cubic feet, assuming that he •
pays his bills promptly. If the bill Is
not paid in 10 days, then the rate
jumps to 95 cents. Either would be a
saving, since the present rate is sl.
There is, however, for this service a
minimum bill of 75 cents (or 85 cents
if it is not paid promptly). For this
minimum bill the consumer is allowed
500 cubic feet of gas. This differs from
the rate schedule formerly filed, In that i
under that schedule there was a "serv
ice charge” of 60 cents added to every
bill, whether any gas was used or not. 1
A person now using 500 cubic feet of 1
gas per month gets It for 50 cents. Un- \
der the new rate his bill will be in- ,
creased by 25 cents. The company de
fends this, however, by an analysis of >
their sales, in the following words: ]
“At present approximately 12 per cent
of the total meters use less than 500
cubic feet a month. The gas com- '
pany meter books prove incontestlbly
j that these ‘small consumers’ are not
the poorer families, or the so-called
‘little fellow.’ The poorer sections of the
city, almost without exception, show
bilis of 3,400 cubic feet a month or over. 1
(As a matter of fact most of them are
I over this figure, because the poorer 1
! families depend on gas not only for
: cooking, but for heating their houses 1
j with when they sometimes have not
J the ready cash to purchase coal.
Represents Reallocation.
‘‘The small consumers are those who
live in apartments and use gas only
occasionally as a convenience. Hereto
fore the average user who depends on
gas has been ‘paying the bill’ of the very
small ‘convenience consumer. The new
rate, then, represents a reallocation as
well as a reduction.
“Four per cent (estimated) of the
meters are now idle. (This figure was
included in the 12 per cent who use less
than 500 cubic feet a month.) These
idle meters are an expense to the gas
(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.)
ONE DEAdTSkThURT
IN BUDAPEST RIOT
Communists Blamed for Agitation
as Unemployed Gather on
Promise to Be Orderly.
By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, September 2.
—Three hundred persons were Injured.
30 seriously, and one man was killed
In a riot for food and work among
the unemployed In Budapest streets
yesterday. Communist agitation was
blamed. Four of the seriously Injured
are policemen.
Police permitted the meeting of the
unemployed, which had been widely
advertised for weeks, on the promise
that it would be orderly. The demon
strators stoned windows, halted street
cars and automobiles, and attacked the
police with revolvers, stones and iron
rods.
Mounted police and armored cars
l finally dispersed the throngs,
i Approximately 300 persons who par
ticipated In the demonstration will stand
trial, charged with acts of violence.
to the scene and were hearing Brown's
version of the affair when the latter
happened to glance at an automobile
passing in the street and recognized
the men who had robbed him a few
minutes before.
The three men were arrested and the
ring and part of the money recovered.
According to police, the men admitted
1 taking part in the robbery. They Iden
tified themselves as James H. Smith.
18, of the 400 block of Delaware ave
nue southwest, the man who actually
committed the robbery: Leroy C. O.
Ashton. 25, 300 block of South Capitol
street, and John Washington Courtney,
19, first block of D street southeast. A
fourth member of the party leaped
from the car and escaped during the
chaa* .
SPOOKS! ,
MRS. McCORMICK REVEALS SHE
HAD SENATOR NYE “SHADOWED”
Says She Is Still Doing It
and That Results Jus
tify Course.
Senatorial Candidate Asks:
“What Is Senator Nye Go
ing to Do About It?”
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 2 —Ruth Han
na McCormick, whose Republican sena
torial primary campaign expenses were
recently Investigated by Senator Gerald
P. Nye’s Funds Committee, was self
revealed today as the one who retained
private detectives to inquire into what
she termed Nye’s “methods and affilia
tions."
The "shadowing” of Senator Nye, the
Republican senatorial candidate said in
a statement issued last night at her j
Byron, 111., estate. was an aftermath of
the campaign funds inquiry.
Mrs. McCormick pointedly answered
press dispatches quoting Senator Nye’s
"indignation” at being investigated
with the terse remark:
"I did it. I am still doing it, and the
THREE OUT FRONT
IN BALLOON RACE
French Are First to Land
Craft, Coming Down at
• Smithville, N. Y.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, September 2.—Like rac
ing horses, three of the six balloonists i
in the nineteenth International Gordon ■
Bennett Balloon Race were speeding to
indefinite goals somewhere in the East
ern part of the United States
The Goodyear VIII, the Belglca and
the City of Detroit were reported over
Eastern New York this morning. They
sailed swiftly onward at times, then
slower, first one and then another re
ported in the lead, while the pilots, like
Jockeys, tried to coax the maximum
speed from the steeds.
French Balloon Down.
The French balloon, carrying Albert i
Boitard and Jean Herbe, was the first I
of the six reported to have descended.
It came down at Smithville, N. Y., 1
shortly after noon <E. S. T.). The bal
loonists leit for Cleveland this after
noon by train, a dispatch from Smith
ville said. •
The City of Cleveland was sighted
over Little Falls, N. Y., at 10:50 a.m.,
E. S. T. The German bag Barman has
not been sighted or reported to race
headquarters here.
Capt. Ernest Demuyter of Belgium,
w r ho has won the Bennett Classic four
times, at latest reports, seemed to be at
or near the head of the procession. His j
balloon, the Belgica, was sighted 30
miles west of Albany, N. Y., at 10:30 a.m.
Struck Reverse Wind.
The City of Detroit, with E. J. Hill j
and Arthur G. Sehlosser aboard, was
over Syracuse at 7 a.m., and Ward T.
Van Orman's Goodyear VIII was at
Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y„ at
0:50 a.m. Less than two hours earlier
Van Orman’s craft was struck by some
wind current that sent him backward,
but he caught a new wind and moved
on with the procession shortly.
Dr. Hugo Kaulen, Jr., and Carl
Goetze, Jr., were in the Barman, seek
ing honors for Germany. Roland J.
Blair and F. A. Trotter were in the
Cleveland entry.
BANDIT GETS SSJOO
SIOUX CITY, lowa.. September 2 UP).
—A masked, armed man held up three
theatrical employes early today and es
caped with $5,700, the week end receipts
of the Orpheum Theater.
Radio Progranji on Pago C-3
F
MRS. McCOBMICK.
' results have already justified my course.
What is Senator Nye going to do about
it?”
The nominee said she had co
operated in every way with the Nye
committee by submitting a detailed re
port—the_most_complete statement ever
(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.)
ARMSTRONG TALKS
IN BONDSMEN QUIZ
Asks to Testify Before Grand
Jury Regarding Alleged
Collusion.
Dr. James Armstrong, Montana
Apartments, at his own request was a
1 witness today before the grand Jury in
; connection with repeated rumors of col
lusion between professional bondsmen
and members of the Police Department
or between bondsmen and lawyers. He
was in the grand jury room about 15
minutes and declined to be interviewed
as he left the court house.
United States Attorney Rover was re
ticent in reference to the testimony
given by the witness, but it was rumored
that the grievance which the witness
had arose out of a case several years
ago and beyond the limitations of the
statute and shed no light on the al
leged present conditions in the bond
i ing situation. The testimony, it was
| indicated, did not involve the Police
j Department.
Milton S. Kronheim, president of the
Professional Bondsmen’s Association,
some days ago asked Rover to investi
gate the rumors of the supposed collu
sion between police and bondsmen, but
was told that nothing could be done
until facts were laid before the prose
cutor, which he might submit to the
grand jury.
Last Friday Rover received a letter
from Dr. Armstrong asking permission
to go before the grand jury in event of
such investigation. Rover summoned
him to appear this morning.
MAN GETS 100 DAYS
FOR STEALING PAPERS
Taking 17 Copies From Honor Rack
Proves Costly to Mason
Turner.
Charged with stealing 17 newspapers
from an honor system rack and being
drunk. Mason Turner, 21 years old, 1322
Twelfth street, was sent to jail for 100
days by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in
Police Court.
Mason was arrested by Policeman G.
Sorber of the second precinct, Saturday.
Judge Mattingly Issued warning that
persons who indulge in the practice of
taking papers from racks without pay
ing will be penalized heavily when
brought before him.
Mason was charged with three cases
of larceny, including nine, five and
three papers each, and drew 30-day
sentences on them. Police declared that
he was intoxicated at the time of ar
rest and Judge Mattingly assessed a 10-
day sentence,
.... .i . . i • i,
WOODCOCK OPENS
SCHOOL FOR DRYS
Director Outlines Policies of
Enforcement to 30
Picked Agents.
Declaring that the old days of the
“disorderly, rough and tough prohibi
tion agent” were gone forever, Amos
W. W. Woodcock, director of prohibition,
today laid down a policy of “honesty”
as the basis for enforcement, and warn
ed that'the Department of Justice in
tends to make no “borderline cases.”
These pronouncements, Col. Woodcock
delivered before the new school of in
struction for prohibition officers, which
opened at prohibition headquarters this
morning, with about 30 men from all
parts of the country in attendance.
“Don’t urge agents to make border
line cases,” he said. “We are not in
terested now in .est cases. The law is
sufficiently clear cut, to go forward and
make straight cases for a year at least.”
The law and court decisions now make
It clear, he said, how far agents can go
“and how far they cannot go.”
Honesty Stressed.
The men. who were picked from the
12 prohibition enforcement districts,
were urged to insist upon both “intel
lectual and moral honesty” on the part
of all agents. They were told that this
was one ot the most Important prin
ciples for them to instill Into the great
body of agents throughout the country
I when they go out during the next nine
! months as ambassadors of education
i among the rank and file of prohibition
i agents, to improve enforcement condi
tions.
| "I don’t w ant agents to get into habits
of slipshod mental processes,” declared
Col. Woodcock, "so they will answer in
court the way they think a lawyer
wants questions answered. That isn’t
honest, It isn’t decent.”
Instructions to clean up and dress up
the prohibition agents were given by Col.
Woodcock.
An “earnest and at the same time
sane and sensible” appeal for improve
ment of the "morale” of the prohibi
tion service was made by Col. Woodcock
to his picked men. It would not be
sufficient, he explained, to get the
agents trained in the great body of
knowledge of the law and procedure
for putting the law' into effect. They
must be infused with “faith and belief’
in their work, pride in the service.
“We don't want agents to interfere
with the rights of innocent, persons,”
declared Col. Woodcock. “We don’t
want jheni to go beyond the law. We
(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
: SHOWERS WILL BREAK
CAPITAL’S HEAT WAVE
! Weather Bureau Predicts Warmer
Weather Following Temporary-
Effect of Cooling Rain.
Local thunder showers will break the
Capital’s heat wave tonight or tomor
row. the United States Weather Bureau
stated this morning.
The Weather Bureau predicts that
there will be high temperatures this
afternoon, followed by overcast skies to
night and tomorrow and heavy local
showers.
The showers will bring only tempo
rary relief from the heat, it was an
nounced, as there Ls no disturbance In
sight that will effectively break the heat
wave, and warmer weather is expected
to follow the temporary cooling effect
of the expected showers.
SMART CUSTODIAN OUTSMARTED;
BY HIS "THIRSTY” PRISONER ON CAR
i Officer, Telling Man to Sit Still, Goes for Drink to Prevent
Escape —Which Occurs.
t By the Associated Press, f person. "There is a water cooler in
EVANSTON. 111., September 2.—Capt the rear of a d T
Samuel Caspcrson of the Zion City . <oh no .. sald Capt Caspers on, who
s Police was taking a prisoner, Robert knows his crooks. “I'll take no chances
I Thompson, back to Zion City from with you, young fellow. If I let you go
r and the Drlsoner *»<* .there alone, you might escape,
t Evanston last night, ana tne prisoner Yqu git rlf{ht herc and ni go back and
. suddenly developed a thirst. get the drink for you."
"I wish I could have a drink of The Zion City police must now cap
water," Mid the prisoner to Capt. Cm- tur* Robert Thompson all over again.
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour**
The Star's carrier system cover!
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,255
UP) Means Associsted Press.
FRENCH FLYER IS DUE
10 LAND AT GOAL IN
U. S. AT 5 P.M. TODAY
Speeding Over America at 100«
Mile Clip, He Is First to ReacK
Continent Without Stop.
BANKS OF FOG CXOUD FINAL LAP,
BUT FAIR WEATHER HOLDS INLAND
Landfall Over French Islands Is Tribute
to Countrymen From Daring Pilot
of Plane Question Mark.
Br th# Associated Preaa.
Along the cloudpath of Canada’s maritime provinces and toward
the coast line of New England, a famous French flyer and his com
rade of the air winged today over the last thousand miles of a flight
from Paris to New York.
At 9:30 (Eastern Standard time) this morning, Dieudonne Coste
and Maurice Bellonte made history when their Question Mark soared
over Canso, Nova Scotia, on the Canadian mainland, achieving the
first flight from the continent of Europe to the continent of North
America.
An hour later they were passing the entrance to Halifax Harbor,
more than a hundred miles nearer New York, and were headed true
and swiftly for their goal.
Turned for French Islands.
In reversing the trail which Charles A. Lindbergh followed from
New York to Le Bourget Field outside of Paris, Coste and his comrade
made one patriotic digression. They edged around the southern tip
of Newfoundland and came first over North American territory above
an insular possession of their native France—the Isle of St. Pierre.
That was at 6 o’clock (Eastern Standard time) this morning.
Their subsequent progress along the coast indicated that they would
come to earth at Curtiss-Wright Field, on Long Island in New York s
eastern purlieus, before sunset this evening.
New York Gets Ready.
With a spontaneity of enthusiasm for the feat of the successors
to the lamented Nungesser and Coli, New York prepared to give
’ coste and Bellonte a welcome such as it would have heaped on the
first French flyers to try the North Atlantic if they had come through.
The good word on the city streets was “Where are the flyers
now?” and before midday a throng was gathering at the airport to
■ wait for them, with a city welcoming committee in the van.
If the flyers reach New York by 6 o’clock tonight (Eastern Stand
: ard time) they will have made the Parls-to-New York Journey in
. about 37 hours.
i Dense Fog Along Coast.
1 Dense fog still hung to the Nova Scotia coast, but it the flyers
i struck inland along the course followed by Lindbergh, they should
easily pick up their bearings.
To reach St. Pierre the “?” traveled
; an airline distance of
! 2,325 miles from Le Bourget in 25 hours
i and 6 minutes from the time °yts de
parture, 10:54 a.m. (4.54, Eastern
; standard time) yesterday.
Gesture to Countrymen.
As a matter of fact, the distance
. traveled probably was several hundred
I miles greater, due to a considerable
southward detour from the course in
Mldatlantic, made. It was presumed, to
t escape fog and adverse weather condi-
U °Caiculating Coste's speed as in excess
of 100 miles an hour, he might be ex
pected over New York at about 5 p.m.
(Eastern standard time) today.
Coste’s landfall and passage over St.
Pierre was a gracious gesture to his
countrymen. The St. Pierre group be
longs to France. Just 15 miles farther
north ls Newfoundland, a British pos
session.
First to Reach Continent.
When his “?” flew over Cape Canso.
in Nova Scotia, today, Capt. Coste
achieved something new in aviation an
nals—a nor.-stop flight from continent
al Europe to continental North America.
Ther» have been two other successful
westward flights straight across the
North Atlantic, but both started in Ire
land and landed on islands off tne
American roast. ....
The first was the German expedition
In the Bremen. It took off In Ireland
and made a forced landing on Greenly
Island. The other was the Southern
Cross, which also started Its ocean hop
In Ireland and stopped for fuel in
Newfoundland. . . .
The German. Von Gronau, and his
mates, who arrived last week i: a fly
ing boat, also crossed the Norm At
lantic, but they kept far to the north
and made stops in Iceland, Greenland.
Labrador and elsewhere along their
route.
Get Record Even if Fall.
Even if Coste and Bellonte, his com
panion. should be forced down short
of their goal in New York, they still
would be credited with the best west
ward flight ever made across the Norm
Atlantic, for they started in Fiance
and in passing Canso they reached the
continent of North America.
By landing late this afternoon at New (
York in their flight from France. Caste ,
and Bellonte will bring about the re- I
alization of a dream which in 1927 |
brought about the death of Charles
Nungesser and Francois Coli, the first
to attempt the flight.
Plane Veers to Southwest.
The latter stages of the long air trip,
however, were being made in the face
of adverse winds, which Coste himselt
a year ago described as a “wall of
wind.” Those winds undoubtedly In
the past have been the ruin of other
TWO CENTS.
airmen who sought to make the crow
ing. M
For six hours, from 5 p.m. to 11 p m.,
Eastern standard time, the “?” took a
sharp southwestward course, which -M
placed it far to the south of the usual J
ship and air routing off the coast of m
Newfoundland and set it almost due ■
east of New York City. It was pre- fS
sumed that this diversion was to es- *
cape adverse veather and the fog off jP
Newfoundland, which Wing Comdr. W 6
Charles Kingsford Smith found baffling.
Paris dispatches said progress of the
plane exceeded even the most sanguine
hopes of its backers and the friends of “'li
the pilot and Bellonte, who had ex
pected to meet adverse winds before
they reached midatlanti
Tail Wind Helps Pair.
For much of the flight the two avia
tors had a tail wind upward of 15 miles
per hour. Adverse winds, although not
strong, blew off the American coast. j
Countering the disadvantage in speed
at which the winds would place Coste
was the advantage gained with lighten
ing of his tremendous fuel load, a factor
which ordinarily would accelerate prog
ress greatly.
Capt. Coste and Bellonte left Le
Bourget Field after a five-hour delay j
occasioned by haze and a cross-wind
which made a take-off dangerous.
(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)
Log of the 44 ?”
By the Associated Press.
(Eastern standard time.)
Monday.
4:54 a.m.—Departed from Le Bourget. _. :
6 a.m.—Passed over Les Andelya,
France, on English Channel.
8:45 a.m.—Sighted over Rosslare Pier,
East Irish coast.
9:40 a.m.—Passed over Limerick, Ire
land.
10:45 a.m.—Steamship Berengaria re
ported that Coste plane said everything
was*“o. K.”
11 a.m.—Passed over French steam
ship Maria Therese in 52.40 N. 12.20
W.
12:20 p.m—Liner Columbus heard
position given as 51.20 N. 16 W.
2:45 p.m.—Marconi Montreal station
heard position given as 51 N. 24 W.
5 p.m.—Liner St. Louis gave plane’s |
position 50.10 N. 30.40 W.
6 p.m.—Liners Bremen and Europa
gave plane's position as 48.39 N. 32 W,
11 p.m.—Liner Jacques Cartier heard
position 43 N. 41.15 W.
Tuesday.
6 a.m.—Passed over St. Pierre, south
of Newfoundland, completing trans- S_
atlantic crossing.
9:35 a.m. passed over Canso, Nava
Scotia.
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