Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-04
OVER
PATH OF
AVIAT0RS
No Report Heard From
Two Gallant Polish
Army Fliers. J
CONDITIONS BAD
Unknown Plane Sighted
By British Ship in Mid
Atlantic.
by United Press Leased Wire

By nueu ffesS Leaseu
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Thirty six
hours out of Lebourget Airdrome,
Paris, on flight to New York, the
Polish army aviators Majors Louis
Idzikowski and Casimir Kubala, at
noon F.. S. T. today had not been
reported since midnight.
At the latter hour British ship
saw them in mid Atlantic and watch
ed them disappear northward over
the horizon, flying fast and low.
Strangely, the position given at
that time put the aviators-assum-
ing that it was their plane, for no
other plane was at sea-240 miles
nearer Great Britain than they had
been two hours 40 minutes earlier,
when another ship sighted an air.
plane.
1t was believed that unless the
fliers had deviated from their course
unwittingly, and tried to correct it
by flying over the steamer that
last sighted them, that mistake
mad been made i'll relaying one of
the positions. The latter was regard
ed as the more probable solution Of
the mystery.
LONDON, Aug. 4.-The British
steamer Amakura radioed today
! that at midnight eastern standard
time, an airplane circled her in mid.
Atlantic.
The Amakura s message said:
At a. ~, G.MT., in latitude
1870 north, longitude 20:4O west,
an aIrplane approached us from the
westward ,encircling the ship at
distance of half a mile and a height
of 800 feet and disappeared north.
ward, flying very fast. The plane
gave no signal
'lt was assumed that the plane
was that of the Polish aviators
Majors Louis Idzikowski and Kasi.
mir kubala, enroute from Lemour.
| get Airdrome, Paris, to New York.
That the plane was sighted APP
preaching from the westward was
! thought to be because the plane
probably had deviated its course to
circle the ship.
There was puzzling difference
between the position given by the
Amakura when she sighted the plane
and that of tn steamer Artec which
had sighted an airplane at 9:40 p.
M, E.S. 1.-TWO hours and 90 min.
utes earlier.
The airplane seen by the Anna.
kura was 240 miles northeast of that
seen by the Artec, if the positions
| given were correct, and would have
meant that-if the plane was the
| Polish One-it was moving back
| toward Great Britain on course
| from the Azores.
NEW YORK, Aug fog lay
over the Atlantic today in the path
of the flight of two gallant Polish
army filters, Majors Louis Idzidow-
ski and Casimir kubala, who are at
J tempting to beat back along the
Lindbergh trail from Paris to New
York.
Should their flight be successful
the two would land in New York
Mitchell, Roosevelt, or Curtiss
fields-some time after noon today.
! They hoped to maintain a speed of
slightly better than 100 miles an
hour in their Amiot plane.
These two former war enemies =
! Kubala having flown with the Aus
! trians when Idzikowski was a Pol
ish pilot-pieked bad flying wealth
| er for their attempt
Forecasters from over the Allan
tie told of fog and haze. But on
! the first part of their flight they
were aided by a strong tail-wind.
They expected to run into heSdwins
! on the last part of their flight.
They circled Paris and passed out
of view in the morning haze. Sixty
miles off Lorient, their craft was
sighted by the fishing boat Pingou-
/ in.
! Criticism has been sounded of the
| flight, in Germany particularly.
| ldzikowski and Kubala are trusting
/ their luck to single motored 650l
| horsepower craft.
They discarded everything TO
| tighten their load. This included the
r9dio set. Their only preparation
! for disaster at sea, was "a rubber
| boat that could be launched should
the plane alight on the water.
HALIFAX, n. S., Aug. A
heavy fog that hung over the coast
line appeared to be lifting some
what this morning, but there was
no report of the progress OF tho
/ Polish trans Atlantic flight.
Throughout the night there was
fog and rain. A light easterly wind
was blowing. Flying conditions
were unfavorable.