' ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW. ' SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928,
" niH M""ir -7.v i, ., AT DUBLIN. " rt 'T ir "rT- T -jf - Jtr7T 1 ' - ' - - 1 T inw iu omou tivroo .. - unu 1.
1KoHL
1
At Dublin.
Wbi I ,
BREMEN IEAVES T3ERUN IISiSH FLYER. ASrfS
FOR IRE LAN 0 TO tlOPCFF , TO ACCOMPANY
FROM DUBLIN ON FLIGHT GERMANS AMD IS
ACROSS ATLANTIC, ' ACCEPTED-
CAPJN VON HUENCFEID, A? WlD-ATLANTlC
APT, ITOEHL, AND CCL-.
FrfAnAuCICE, BREMEN
TOSSES OOTTO 5FA
Col.
S NEAPED, DARKNESS TftTZ.MAORlC&
AND KXfr DESCEND, : ,
AND SHIP ISfOlcCEDTO FLY LOW
Second day finds- Bremen,
t IN-FETED BY DLUZAWD
AND 1-OST IN FOG, BLOWN'
FAR. OFF HES COURSE.
Ga running- low,
LOST IN STORM, FLYEW
DESCEND ON TINY .
qreenelY ISLAND
ANO ARE TAKEN IN GY
jqTHOVSE KEEPER.
OS; TEAMS CARRY
NEWS OF LANDING TO NEAREST '
RAOIO STATION AT POINT AMOUR
2.0 M1LE-S AWAY, ANO Alp IS RUSHED
Cheering
CROWDS AWAIT I
HEROES WHEN
THEY FINALLY i
REACH CANADA
mo THE U.S.
ILWon Von
. JrflUENEFlU)
Where Bremen and Its Crew Landed
Ice Fills Belle Isle Straits
Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?
WMMmwmMm ft ' "' ' --- : '::y-i:
ij 0 'jj j ' 3 I C O M koto statu) 'lyS-'w yJWJf , ,
; '..-r Vf , .SSEff-.r.- . : ,. f IJ
."AW , rr... .' .L'ilV'r... t t ' , ,W v . , - . 9iw- w . . . Who uM lt.eouldnt be dona that westward flight aeroH th At-. K9
-iW itf'ZftJ -,vv ' V k ' X. tcHUtimet M OEWAB w - w,e tEHjiHH.N5L8 DUCH - antlc ocean? Six attempts had been made and seven llvevs lost before ' fci-l f I
. ' ' r ' MF otUYISW"B .' M,teMiMtUIIKT WTIC ', the trio pictured here topic -off from Ireland In the alngleotoradjg-a mu- g$&5M. ,"" '1
l; ' I ' ctiiu uhtj NE&CL VERURSACHT CLUECMUts ... ,enuHM Bremen and achieved sutcess after 38 hours of tortuous flying. Left to J.iW'iswi( I
.' ' -" N KtW ff- 6,u ourecr privaI VHD 8EHDET HI1 OSO BOLtARS Teifewiwrn right are CapUIn Hermann Koehl, chief pilot; Baron von Huenefeld r&fa.tgfc? 9
fjL I tJM . When the crew of the trans- uemachriCHTICT FREbst r , financa backer of the project; Major James Fitzmaurlce of the Irish f'$hM&Jk 1
OUEBEc' : ' I 8IUMSW! igta S ' ' - Atlantio monoplane Bremen dee. .ISEL HERZLICK ; . Free State Air Force. 'ftZSePlStg ?WS
" I I ' ' u iHM' ; cended In a snowstorm on Isolat. - , . HUENEFELD . ... tKJ$tiZ$&M&5
I Jt '", . ed Greenly Island off the coast ' . Uwf? JjdsiSEWSffl
- ,B VP.cP of Quebec, they found shelter In II in I 0kOmitM&Slt&mUth.m
When the crew of the trana
Atlantio monoplane Bremen des.
cended In a snowstorm on Isolat
ed Greenly Island off the coast
of Quebec, they found shelter In
the lighthouse pictured" at the Here is the Canadian government lighthouse on Greenly Island
top. This photo, taken during photographed from the ice that now fills the strait between it and
the summer when the light was the mainland. It is through such ice as this that the steamer Mont-
r . - . :., in operation, best shows the calm had to force its way. The turret of the lighthouse Is covered,
rocky contour of the Island. The map at the left shows the route of rescue attempts by water and air. since the light is not in operation during the winter months. It was In
From Quebeo to Greenly Island by air Is approximately 7B0 miles; the water route Is .only about 400 this building that Baron Huenefeld, financial backer of the flight,
but the steamer Montcalm, ordered to attempt the passage, found that ice was to be encountered most of wrote the cablegram reproduced below. Addressed to Heinz Schuengel,
tne way. r-irst 10 reacn ine stranaea iiyers was tne famous Canadian pilot, Duke Schiller (lower right)1 of the North German Lloy4 steamship line, it reads: Made a safe inter-
AS NEW YORK AWAITED ARRIVAL OF FLYERS
who, with two companions, flew nearly 700 miles from Murray Bay to Greenly Island
Above. Paul Kroeten
mediate landing Greenly Island, Straits of Belle Isle, caused by lack of
benzine due to storm and fog. Please inform the press. Private. And
dollars by wire, cordially, HUENEFELD.
PILOT BENNETT
OF AID PLANE
FEVER VICTIM
fTnntlniiPil from nnon 1 i
"i)uko" Srhiller wns beinp conaid
prcd. .Schiller has already made
one round trip lo Greenly Island
anil li rou Kill out Major James Kit.-
inaiirlce of lh Uieinen crow.
The. Ford pluno waa to iiavo
taken purls to replnco those lirok
un in the landing of the Jiretnen
and a supply ot special fuel to en
ahlo tlte .trans-Atlantic plane to .
procoed here, enrouto for New
York. Germany Honors Koehl
BERLIN, April 21. Tho Bruna
wick liiHttlute of Technology ' to
day conferred an honorary doctor
ate of engineering upon Captain
Hermann Koehl.
About tho same time tho air
plane "llermanu Koehl," named In
honor ot tho trans-Atlantic pilot,
was placed In tho regular Frank
fort to Paris air aervlce. Its flrat
flight being scheduled for April
23. It is a three motored piano of
1.310 horsepower and will make
the trip between tho two cities in
three hours and twenty minutes.
Irishman Well Tutored
MONTREAL, April 21. (By tho
Canadian l'ross.) Although Major
James C. Fitzmaurtre caught his
(list glimpse o( Canada, and of tho
American continent, through a rift
In tho log. shortly attcrwnrds coin
ing to earlh on tho most eaterly
strip of territory in tho dominion,
his trans-Atlantic (light was mado
possible by n Canadian, who
taught him to fly in 1918 at East
bourne. England.
Alex Knight, automobile sales
agent in Toronto, was Commander
of the group to which Fitzmaurlce
was attached at the British camp.
One or hl9 duties was to Instruct
prospective pilots for the royal
Review, has pictured the scene on the lonely Island when a fast waning ,' '
luel supply and a severe storm forced the plane down approximately . ' ; , , :' , ".
1000 mllis from New York. ' !Jprl l""k'7' Australian air
In the foreground are the laughing Irishman. Col. James Fitzmau. ",n" w,ho,""': fr0 England to
rice (left) and Baron Gunther von Hueneteld, while Captain Herman Australia in fifteen days In a light
Koehl is .een emerging from the ship. airplane, arriving at Port Dar
in the background are the Jagoed snow covered hills of the Island 0,1 February 22 to create six
and the Greenly Island lighthouse. At first, due to poor visibility, world records, was another of
they thought the lighthouse was a sealing steamer. The picture also Knights pupils.
hni hAvw th tnll nf th ntnn. hpok. the ice nf a .mail lj.lt. am th. Trovat Back Home
History was made when the German plane Bremen, alter the first Island during the forced landing. The bent propeller also is shown. It FAR IP, April 21. Lieutenant
westward non-stop airplane flight aeross the Atlantic, touched North was near this spot that the hardy Norse explorer, Leif Erlcson. came Michael De Trovat, who Is train
American soil on bleak and blizzard .wept Greenly Island, ofl the Labra- ashore when he achieved the first westward cros.lng of the Atlantic Ing (or a trans-Atlantic flight from
dor coast. by boat nearly 1000 years ago. Vsrls to New York, landed at Le
f f
- - -.....sr.-,,,. : r
V. kifiMs- .... aar,i--'. V
'They'
monoplane
lines that
general vi
conflicting
was Harry
re eemlngl" Each new speck In the sky near Mltojiel Field, Long Island, where the Junkers
Bremen was expected to land, sent thousands of eager spectators surging against the police
held them from the field. Upper picture shows the restrainina cordon of officers? h,l l, a
ew of part of the crowd that waited from early morning until nightfall while a maze of
reports alternately orougnt nope ana oespair for the safety of the flyers. Among the watchers
K. Thaw, shown at the left In the Inset, with his personal bodyguard.
from Al-
staff artist for NEA Service and the New..
Bourget at 6:50 p.
glers,
De Troynt had honed to make a
non-stop flight from Paris to Al
giers and return to tost his plane,
hut he was f orced to land by a
gale at Algiers and then was
w-eatherbounrt there until today.
Jimmy Angel Enroute
VEXICAL1. Lower California.
Mexico, April 21. Jimmy Angel
got into the air at 8:35 o'clock
this morning, bound for Guaymas,
BOO mllee away, on tho second le?
of his proposed 25.000 mile Pan
Aroerlcan flight from Fresno-to-
Fresno, California, via Cape Horn,
South America.
New Aviation Venture
DI'ltnAN, South Africa, April
21. The Natal Mercury says
South Africa Is to have an airship
mooring mast anil station at
(iroutevllle on the const of Natnl,
40 miles nnrlh of Durban. Equip
ment necessary for othe mast has
been ordered by the anion govern
ment through the air ministry.
The building of the mast is
thought to be connected with tho
Kmplre Airship lino to India an!
Australia for which the R-100 and
a sister ship are now being builL
W. H. Fisher, and daughter-ln-lnw.
Mrs. Walter Fisher, leava
Sunday by motor for Portland.
They will he In the metropolis a
few days, Mrs. Fisher visiting wllh
friends, and Mr. Fisher looking art
ef business interests,
"MrsT'WalloT S. Hamilton of 'this
fit Is visiting with friends In Portland.
Miss Carmen Atterhury, Ttose
burg maid. Is now residing in Port
land. She was formerly employed
as bookkeeper and cashier at the
Kurdy department store here.