The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-03
DENMARK JOINS
U. S. TO PREP ARE
FOR GLOBE HOP
PainStaking Surveys, Study
of Climates, Territory to
PreCede Trip.
FOLLOW ARMY AIR TRAIL
Expedition Eastward to
Take Lindbergh Over
Path of Filters in 1924.
FOLLOW ARMY AIR TRAIL
BY MAURITZ A. HALLGREN
United Press Stan Correspondent


WASHINGTON, May 3.-Pains-
taking preparations are being made
for Col. Charles A. Lindberghs pro-
jected flight to Europe this sum-
mer in at least a half dozen in
dependent quarters, it was learned
here today.
The Danish Government, the
United States Weather Bureau.
other Government agencies, indi-
vidual Army airmen. and many
private organizations that possess
reliable information as to meteor
illogical and other flying conditions
in Greenland and Iceland, are CO.
operating to make the Lindbergh
venture a success.
The results of meteorological
studies made by the University of
Michigan expedition in Greenland
in 1927 and 1923. are also being
used in preparing plans for the
flight. This expedition is headed
by Prof. william H. Hobbs, who
plans to return to Greenland this
summer
Follow Army Trail
Lindbergh's flight will take him
over much the same territory
covered by the Army round-the-
world fliers in 1924, although his
course would be in the opposite di-
rection.
Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, lead
er of the Army veture, and his com
panions touched Iceland. Greenland.
Labrador and Newfoundland on
their trip. Lindbergh is expected to
take of from st. Johns in New
foundland, possibly stopping in
Labrador, and with definite stops
slated for Greenland and Iceland.
After leaving Brough, England,
and stopping at Kirkwall in the
Orkney Islands, Smith and his men
reached Hornshord, Iceland, on
Aug. 2, 1924. Three days later they
made the 290-mile jump to Reyk-
javik, Iceland, and then flew $50
miles to Frederiksdai in Greenland.
Were Guarded by Ships
The remainder of the far north
stretch took them 165 miles to
Ivigtut, Greenland; $50 miles to
Icy Tickle, Labrador, and 315 miles
to Hawkes. Bay, Newfoundland.
1t IS not known whether the
Ford ship which Lindbergh PROPOSES
to use will be similarly equipped
with pontoonS. Furthermore. the
cruisers Raleigh, Richmond and
Milwaukee patrolled the route from
Iceland to Newfoundland, meeting
the Army airmen at several places
with fuel and supplies.
The Italian aviator Locatelli
joined the Army fight at Reyk-
javik, but was lost on the hop to
FrederikSdal, being picked up at
sea, 125 miles east of Greenland
by the Richmond after a three-day
search.
Careful Plans Under Way
Unusual preparations were made
for the Army flight, trusted and ex-
perienced officers being sent in adj
vance to map and photograph the
route and arrange for accommoda-
lions for the fliers. Although no
advance agents are being sent out.
! even more careful preparations are
being made for the Lindbergh
flight.
There remains a bare possibility,
it was indicated here today, that
the colonel and his companion, who
may be Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier,
OF the Army air service, will attempt
to return to the United States by
the way of Asia, the Aleutian Is
lands and Alaska.
On their trip the Army aviators
flew from Seattle, WASH, touching
at Prince Rupert, B. c., Sitka,
Seward, Chignik and Dutch Harbor
in Alaska, and at Nazan and Chica-
goff in the Aleutians, finally reach
ing the Japanese Archipelago of
Paramushira.