The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13

Favorable flying weather pre-
vailed along the New England
coast today. 1t was clear, calm
and rather warm. A light west
wind. Visibility is excellent.
Captain Moorehouse said the
plane was flying so high that he.
could not distinguish its markings
but that he could hear its motor
distinctly and he believed he saw
several persons on board.
The Commercial Gable Company
at 1890 p. m. today received a re-
port from its station at Canso, N. S.,
saying that a report had been
received there to the effect that the
Bremen had passed over Mines
Basin at 11:55 a. m.
If the report were true-and
there was little belief in it--then
Capt. Herman Koehl, Baron Ehren-
fried Won Huenefeld and Col. James
E. Fitzmaurice, Commandant CT the
Irish Free State air force, had done
what never before had been accom-
plished-a flight in a heavier than
air machine from the eastern to
the western hemisphere across the
Atlantic ocean and its terrific head
winds.
On the basis of the Kingsport
report the Junkers plane should
arrive at Mitchell Field, L. l., about
4:3G p. m. eastern Standard Tlme).
An entirely unconfirmed radio re-
port, intercepted by the coast guard
radio station at Nahant, Mass, this
morning, said that plane believed
to be the Bremen, was sighted "off
Newfoundland" at $50 a. m. East
ern Standard Time today.
According to the Nahant station,
the message was sent from a ship
at sea.
Word from the Boston Navy
Yard was that the same message
had been intercepted there but
naval officials also appeared to place
little faith in it.
Gales Sweep Newfoundland
There was a report at $3.50 p. m.
Thursday that an airplane had been
heard in the vicinity Of Shoal Har-
bor, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.
The watchers said they did not
see the plane because of overcast
skies. It was considered most i'm
probable this could have been the
Bremen for it would have put the
plane across the Atlantic at least
four hours ahead of a schedule it
could not have maintained because
of head winds in mid-Atlantic.
If the two Germans and the
laughing Irishman held to their
pre-arranged schedule Of following
the Great Circle course, they should
have touched Newfoundland about
midnight.
But at a. m. they had not been
sighted.
There was a possibility that the
fliers we're thrown off their course
by adverse winds.
Southeasterly gales accompanied
by rain have swept the Newfound-
land coast since early morning. A
fog made visibility poor.
Failure to sight the plane over
Newfoundland or over the Atlantic.
where more than a score Of ships
were travelling the Great Circle
route, did not mean that the trans
Atlantic venture has ended in the
tragedy which marked three other
flights and sent five men and two
women to their graves.
One course Captain Koehl con-
sidered, if head winds buffeted the
Bremen over the Atlantic, would
have taken the plane $50 miles off
the Newfoundland coast.
If this course was followed, it was
unlikely the plane would be seen or
heard from until it was well down
the United States coast sometime
this morning or early afternoon.
The plane carried go gallons Of
gasoline, enough to keep it aloft
for forty-five hours.
Should the Bremen be forced