Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-23
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!. END 825-M|LE HOP; !
LOCATELL| IN REAR
Smith Is First to Touch, and.
Nelson Close on Heels; Il.
Landing Is at 6:10

FREDERISKSDAL, Greenland,
Aug. 21.-The two American world
filters, Lieutenants Smith and Nelson.
arrived here, Thursday night at the
end of their S25mile voyage from
Iceland.
Lieutenant Smith landed at 6:10,
Greenwich mean time. and was fol-
lowed a few minutes later by Lieu
tenant Nelson. Lieutenant Loca-
telli, the Italian airman who hoped
off from Reykjavik with the Ameris.
cans, had not been sighted when
Nelson landed.
NELSON DESCENDS FOR
BRIEF TIME EN- ROUTE
LONDON, Aug. 21.-An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
stated that Lieutenant Nelson, one
of the American army world avia-
tors, descended for few minutes to-
day at Skerja Fjord for some I'M
known reason after taking off from
Reykjavik this morning, but reas-
cended almost Immediately.
1t was said that Lieutenant Loca-
telli, the Italian aviator, who is fly
ing a plane with the Americans, was
close behind when the trio passed
Reykjavik.
Skerja Fjord is southwest of Reyk-
| javik, and Reykjanes is 60 miles
southwest of where the filters took
off this morning for Fredericksdal,
! Greenland.
PERFECT WEATHER HOLDS
FOR HOP OF $50 MILES
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 21.--
(By the Associated Press. 1.-The
American round-the-world fliers and
Lieutenant Locatelli, Italian airman,
hoped off from here at 815 o'clock
this morning..
The filters passed the United States
cruiser Richmond, on patrol about
seventy miles off the coast from Ice
land, at 9:35 O'Clock.
Lieutenant Locatelli was leading
his American companions, Lieuten-
ant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant
Erik H. Nelson, by five miles.
The weather was beautiful and
flying conditions were excellent when
the aviators set out for Greenland.
Lieutenant Smiths plane lifted from
the water few minutes after
o'clock, and Lieutenant Nelson's
plane was off two minutes later.
/ Lieut.. LOcatelli who caught up
with the Americans in order to ac-
company them across the Atlantic
after a lone flight from Pisa, Italy,
got away eleven minutes after Lieut..
Nelson. All of the take-offs were
made easily, none Of the filters hav-
ing the slightest difficulty in jockey.
ing from the water.
Lieut.. Smith, the flight command
or, had been up all night recording
weather reports and working out
plans for coping with weather and
mechanical conditions which he and
Lieut.. Nelson might encounter DUR
ing the long and hazardous jump.
Lieut.. John Harding, Jr., mechanic
on Lieut.. Nelson's plane, also had
been up all night but he left hi,
room only to go on board the plane,
declaring it was his duty to take
care of the machine during the LAST
| hours here. Because of the early
departure there were very few per-
| sons present when the machines ser
J out
| The fiers are heading for Fred.
! erick sdal, near Cape Farewell, at
! the southern tip of Greenland, a hop
! of approximately 825 miles, accord.
| ing to the plans which were adopt
ed after bad ice and weather condi-
| tons in the north Atlantic had
forced them to abandon their orsigi.
nal intention to make the shorter
flight to Angmag salik, or to another
harbor twenty miles north of there,
which later also was found to be
icebound.