Evening star., 1928-04-18
IOCEAN FLYERS OVER JOYED
AS RESCUE PLANE ARRIVES
Schiller Gives Dramatic Picture of TRIP
Through Snow and Fog to Marooned
Men at Creenly.

back again with skis and everything
else We needed TO Ak the Bremen up.
I'VE are glad that we landed in Can
ada" the flyers told us on Sunday eve
ming when we we're discussing the flight
I'VE have received, too. the utmost
assistance and hospitality from all the
Canadians we have come across. The
government too, has done everything
possible to help us"
They weren't saying much about the
actual flight across the Atlantic The
first part OF 1t went along Splendidly
They bumped into the usual storm when
they were approaching the coast OF
Newfoundland and we're bumped and
butfeted about some. but they wore
through that Then they ran into
something worse. which was fog. And
they got little confused and turned
of their course somewhat
"On the whole, though, It was a very
good trip" Fitzmaurice said.
He had apparently pretty we'll for
gotten the anxious hours they spent
Friday wondering where on earth they
had got TO and how soon their fuel
supply was going to run out.
The idea Is now that we will fly In
as soon as possible with skis and land
ing gear and repairs for the shaft, and
get the Bremen some way to Murray
Bay. where we can change her back to
| wheels and give them a start of for
New York. where those plucky flyers
are determined to end up with their
boat. no matter how long or how much
energy 1t takes
Praises Aides.
II has been like another transatlantic
flight getting in 10 Greenly Island and
back again, and right here / want TO
thank the doctor and Anne ThiL iult
t for their assistance in making this re-
lief trip. for If there hadn't been a
couple of stout hearted men with me
our Fairchild would never have got
through TO Greenly-not when 1t did,
anyway
We finally did reach that narrow
ribbon OF barren rock in Belle Isle. with
the pond stuck down in the middle of
II and the big lighthouse sticking up as
a landmark But it was the most deS-
perate effort | can look back on In 10
years with the Jazz stick and that
doesn't exclude the time Eddie Stinson
and | were blinded with snow and
forced down at Billings. Mont. after n
/ kind OF eerie wandering over the
Rockies peaks last Fall BY the time
We had got there we had faced enough
dirty weather to sink liner.
i All Friday night we had worked on
the plane. and all Saturday We had
fought this mean combination OF ele-
, ments that the north shore Of the gulf
knows all about When We weren't NY
ing we we're cursing the weather.
BY Saturday night We were stuck at
Seven Islands. but We got up at
o'clock Sunday morning. determined TO
make the last hundred in one hop.
Installed Fuel Tank.
The night before We had installed
another fuel tank that we figured would
take care OF our supply there and back.
Rain. snow. ice. fog and q high gale
were some of the varieties dished up
70 us. The first hop from Murray Bay
hadn't been 40 bad because DR.. CuiSi~
nier was at one OF the controls. and the
doctor already had 30 trips between
Murray Bay and Seven Islands TO his
credit. flying mail He could do 1t with
his eyes shut and trned upside down,
I believe
We had plenty of incentive. at that.
The thought nf those lads having con-
qucred an ocean and then having the
tough luck 10 land in an Eskinos yard
was something 10 drive us onward
through all kinds OF weather, Instead
! ri Welcoming crowds that iIndbcrgh
and Chamherlin lit into these boys
found hardly any one but seagulls and
heard that they were in place so re-
mote that 1t took the lighthouse keeper
months to get up there.
Another thing was the knowledge
! that another plane OF our company had
been snapped up by newspaper and
camera men and would give us a race
to the island We knew We had the
only airplane In that country with a
ghost of a chance OF getting ZIP TO
Greenly The news ard the photos
weren't bothering me mueh--not at that
time did not learn that had been
appointed reporter extraordinary until
came down at Seven Islands.
Then I learned that the president OF