TRANS-ATLANTIC

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1932, Page 5

TRANS-ATLANTIC

MORE FLIGHTS

THREE ADDITIONAL PROJECTS.

(United Press Association—By Electric ,i, Telegraph—Copyright.)

NEW YdiRK, Aug. 23. f : Georgfei H'ultohinson’s flying family v — a total party of eight, including self, wife, two daughters, aged six and eight —navigator, mechanic, nlbtion picture operator and a radioman, ! tbok off in the Sikorsky amphibian, City of Richmond, from the Floyd Bennett field at 10.7 a.m. to-day on the first leg of an easy stage flight to London. A message from Saint John (New Brunswick) states that the Uutchinsons arrived at 4.5 p.m.

ANOTHER FLIGHT STARTS.

(NEW YORK, Aug. 23.

A message from Barre (Vermont! 'states thaVClyde A.';''Lee, of Oshkosh (Wisconsin) and Jolyi Bochton, pf Brooklyn (New York) fco-pilot, took off for. Harbour Graeb- Wt 9,15 a,to. today on the first leg ofa, projected flight to Osloi. ■>

The Hutchitisoils hopped off from fit. Johtt for Ailticosti Island to-day.

PLANS ARRIVES ’ LONG OVER DUE.

(Received this day at 9,30 a.m.)

HARBOUR GRACE, August 24,

' Long .overdue, Lee and Bochton, arrived here at 7,20 a.m, to-day. They had fair weather until they flew into rain and fog oyer Newfoundland last night. They jßjurgeo : on. the southern" tip without 'mishap, and decided to bring the plane down on the beach at dusk. " ■

The beach was soft and the machine titled slightly, damaging one wing. The men stayed by the plane all night, and, aided by inhabitants, jmade a successful ' take-off this 'morning.

THIRD PLANE TAKES off,

: NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Thor Solberg, 35, radio expert, and Carl Petersen, 38, who was radioman with' Bvrd in the Antarctic, both natives of'Nonvay, took off from the Floyd Bennett airport at 4.11 a.m. today, on a non-stop flight to Oslo (Norway) via "Harbour Grace. They are backed by Norwegian-Americans. r .Soiherg'and Pettosen wirelessed at f 3.25 p.rh.‘ that they were half way between Cape Race and St, Pauil Island.

PLANE CRASHES, MEN UNHURT.

(Received thin day at 9.25 a.m) (N§wfaimdlKnd), Aug. 24. Solbdi’g afld Pfetfersen- crashed at Darby’s Harbour, in Placentia Bay, at D. 30 p.m, yesterday, -according to a < message A recfived ; . here to-day, The fliere were unhurt but the plane was wrecked.* They encountered rain and fog, and it.is believed that they were forced down after failing to find Harbour Grace, 50 miles distant. •,

TWOi'HLANES OVERDUE.

NEWFOUNDLAND, Aug. 24

At Harbour Grace, flares were burning as darkness felt. There was no trace of the plane cf Stolberg and Poterseii, or the plane of Lee and Bochton. Heavy' rain , has continued, and the fliers are overdue. ■ \ A fog prevailed at midnight over Harbour Grace. It ivould make a plane landing practically impossible. There was still, no trace then of the fliers, who w.ere By that time six hours’ overdue.