Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-09
i. s. filters PAUSE
BEFORE DIFFICULT
HOP To GREENLAND

REYKJAVIK, Iceland. Aug. c.
| CBv the Associated ess.)-Lieuten-
! ants Lowell H. Smith and Erie Mel
| son. the United States army world
aviators, expect to remain here sew
| eral DAYS after their stormy trip
| Tuesday from Hoefn Hornafjord, on
| the eastern Iceland coast. The filters
said they could start today on their
/ Greenland flight except for the UNI
| certainty of the situation at Ang-
magsalik, where the worst ice con
ditions in years are reported.
! The airmen do not like the pros
! pect of a 4S0-mile flight over open
water with no certainty of a proper
| landing pl,ce. The reports from
Angina gsalik are conflicting, there
! being no assurance as yet that the
| supply steamer Gertrud Rask, re-
| ported yesterday caught in the ice
| fifteen miles off shore, had been able
to deliver her supplies for the air
mems next stop.
Major Clarence e. Crumrine, of
the United States army air service,
who was awaiting the filters here
when they arrived yesterday, is can
Vassing the situation but is uncer-
tain as yet when it will be feasible
to continue the flight.
Preparations were made early to-
day to pull the planes ashore for
minor repairs. This work will re-
quire less than a days time. The
| machines came through their battle
with the high wind on the flight
here from Hornafjord yesterday in
good shape despite the fact that the
gale at times was so furious that
1t carried away part of the radio
antenna of the cruiser Richmond,
flagship of the patrol fleet. At one
point the planes were forced to pro-
ceed sideways, the engines working
at an eighty mile hour rate but
making scarcely any progress.
When the Chicago and New Or
leans arrived over Reykjavik they
found the harbor crowded with ship
ping. 1t had been planned on this
account for them to land outside the
sea wall but this was impracticable
because of the rough water. The
pilots were equal to the emergency.
however, and made a beautiful land
ing in the limited space in which
they had to work inside the harbor,
ARMY WILL SEND WADE
PLANE TO REPLACE WRECK
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6-Arrangc.
n1ents were completed today by the
army air service to send an airplane
from Langley Field, Va, to Pictou
Harbor, Nova Scotia, to be used bv
Lieutenant Leigh Wade from that
place over the remaining route of
the world flight in company with
the two other f1iers
DIFFICULT 500-MILE HOP
TO GREENLAND COMES NEXT
LONDON, Aug. 6.-By the Asso-
ciated Press. )-Safely at Reykj avik,
the capital Of Iceland after strenu-
ocs battle against a gale during their
flve-hour trip from the east coast
yesterday, the American army avia-
tors are turning their eyes to far off
Greenland
Between them and their next goal
and along a route which parallels
the Arctic circles, stretch 500 miles
OF water. part of which is blocked
by ice fields, conditions being the
worst in years for this season.
The Danish government. steamer
Gertrud Rask, entrusted with the
task of delivering supplies for the
airmen at Angmagsalik, their next
scheduled stop, reported yesterday
by wireless that she was frozen in
and drifting with the ice. being I'M
able to fulfill her mission.
Conditions were so bad, the mes
sa54 declared, that it might be sew
eral weeks before the vessel could
fl herself. A Reykjavik dispatch
last night said it was reported the
Gertrud Rask had reached Angmag-
salik, but this was not confirmed
Latest advices from the aviators
said Lieutenant Lowell II. Smith,
commander of the expedition. was IN
conference with Lieutenant Eric Mel
son, the other remaining pilot, and
the conveying naval officers as to
the next step.
The fiers may be faced with the
alternative of refueling near the
edge of the ice field. landing in the
open water near the Gertrud Rask OF
flying directly to Ivigtut, on the
southwest coast of Greenland, in
stead of attempting to stop at
Angmag salik.
ARGENTINIAN FINISHES HOP
AFTER DELAY By STORM
ALLAHABAD, British India, Aug
6.-Major Zanni, the Argentine
aviator, arrived here at O'Clock
this morning on his attempted world
flight. During his hop from Nasira
bad, he was forced to descend at
Cawnpore, because of a storm.
AMERICAN SUPPLY DEPOTS
OFFERED TO ITALIAN Filler
KIRKWALL. Scotland Orkney
Islands, Aug. 6.-By the Assoc
ciated Press. 1.-The elaborate ma
chinery set up by the American gov
eminent to aid the American round
the-world fliers, now is, by courtesy