Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-04
FLYERS SEEK WAY
OF GETTING HOME
HasSeu and Cramer May
Have to Stay in Green
land Until Fall.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September AT the
base of an ice cap in Greenland two
daring a6venturers of the air today
were resting and thinking of how to re-
turn to Rockford. H.. as soon as pos
sihIe. The plane in which Bert Has
sell and Parker Cramer had made
perilous nonstop fight of some 1900
miles from Cochrane, Ontario, after
starting from Rockford, III, was 100
miles away. abandoned on ice and per
haps smashed in weather typical Of
Greenland, "the cradle of storms"
The marvel Of radio enabled news of
their safety. after two weeks of arduous
progress afoot, to reach the United
States in two minutes. But static,
bane which science has yet to conquer,
withheld details of their struggle OF
100 miles by the most primitive method
Of movement in the Arctic when the
most modern had failed them.
rev DctAftS A00e0.
The radio station of the New York
Times. which received news Sunday of
the flyers safety from the University
of Michigan Greenland expedition at
Mount Evans, could obtain but frag-
mentarv messages Monday HaSsell
managed to get word through that his
plane was about 100 miles from the
camp of the expedition, which rescued
the flyers. The plane was undamaged
when the flyers started their trek to
the camp, but heavy winds soon after
ward indicated to Hasseil the possibility
that the Greater Rockford might be
smashed
He made inquiries about boat con-
nections and sent message to Mrs
Hassell expressing the hope that he
would see her soon.
Indications were, however, that for
some days yet the flyers must remain
at Mount Evans with the scientists. who
virtually live the life Of ESkimos in
order To study storms. Anthony Fiala,
once an Arctic explorer and now a
merchant in New York, expects Prof
William H Hobbs, head Of the Mount
Evans expedition, TO return TO this
country in the Fall Fiala has fur
nished the expedition much Of its equip
ment. He suggests that the aviators
probably will return with Hobbs.
One possibility Of the flyers coming
home sooner is a line OF freight steam
ers which runs from Philadelphia TO
Iyigut, Iceland, some 400 miles from
Mount Evans. to obtain mining cryo-
lites used In the manufacture of soda
and glass The flyers would have TO
90 10 Ivigut 10 catch the steamer.
Region Is Desolate.
If the flyers should leave by the first
boat available, the task of salvaging the
plane would be left TO members Of the
Mount Evans expedition.
The flyers came down on the icy
wastes Of Point Sukkertoppen on August
10. and made their way through wild
and uneZplored country, seeking safety.
They were picked up by members OF
the University Of Michigan Greenland
expedition and brought in motor boat
10 miles across a ford TO the expedi-
tion's base unharmed.
The fight, despite the forced landing
Of the airnaen about 100 miles from
Mount Evans, which had been prepared
as their second base, was regarded to-
day as a notable feat. In their L. 300
mile leg from Cochrane they few over
the f0rbidding wilderness Of Labrador,
then across 300 miles Of the Atlantic
below the Arctic Circle before reaching
Greenland
They we're sighted flying over Fiske-
naessef about 200 miles south Of Point
Sukkerton, Or the morning OF August
Is. and to the south Of their projected
course The forced landing was due to
lack Of gasoline
A smoke signal sent up by the flyers
attracted the attention Of the eXpedi-
tion.
The base camp Of the Mount Evans
expedition is at sea level on Kangerd-
/ luaQstuak Ford. The country is a desc
+ tate waste Of ice, broken up by mac
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