New Britain herald., 1928-04-19


 through q rising fog on a pond near the Greenly Island lighthouse. F'itz- maurice said, her propeller was broken and her landing gear crack cd up. While the ship was mired down in the ice, the frost ruined a tire. Beyond these comparatively minor misfortune, he said, there was no damage to the ship. and when repairs arc completed she will be as airworthy as ever.
 Not Talkativc
 The friendly Irishman wouldn't talk much about what happened to him and his two shipmates on their long flight. The weather was pretty bad, he said. and there were some stretches of risky flying through fog
 Most of all, he intimated, he and Captain koehl and Baron von Huenefeld are interested in the things their flight did to increase the store of knowledge about ocean fly ing.
 We feel that we've learned some interesting stuff," he said. but can't tell you about it until we have discussed it further"
 It may be, he indicated, that the flight of the Bremen will help to solve the tragedies that bcfell the pioneers who perished on the way westward over the North Atlantic. Anxious To Reach N. Y.
 We're all anxious to get to New York;" he said, from now on all our efforts will be concentrated or that objective. wouldn't even guess when we'll get there. but it will be as soon as possible"
 On Greenly Island the ice is ter feet thick, he said. and it is not likely that the Bremen will have any trouble taking off on wheels If it should prove necessary to use skids, a landing will be made here after the take-off and wheels will be hitched on to replace the slids.
 Major Titzmaurice will visit onl, this village and Murray Bay unti after the Bremen is repaired, he said. Later he hopes to sec Mon, treal, Quebec and Ottawa. His re ception here. he said. made hin want to see more of 'the most hos pitable country I ever visited"
 But if the flier was reticent abou the ocean flight when he was in |terviewed here. he was more com municative earlier in the day wher he stopped at Seven Islands, another little icebound settlement betweer here and Greenly Island.
 We certainly were not forced down without knowing where W, were," he said. We knew just ex actly where we were and we decid cd to land on that lake at Grcenl! Island. If we hadn't gone througs the ice We could have taken Of again and at least reached som' place where We could get enougl benzol to take us on to Mitchc Field"
 The first part of the flight ovcl water. he said, was just plain flying but when the Bremen headed int the heavy weather off Newfound land they were forced to rcconnot" for a long time before they coult fix their position That was wher' they used up lot of fuel.
 Ship Rocks About
 Head winds rocked the ship an' itajl winds spun her craZlly, he said and in the "tumpy' air over th' Grand Banks the niers felt that the. were close to the answer to the lat of those others who preceded then hut never were heard from agaln For hours the ship fought it. way through a storm Of gro"ln' rcrocitv and the mon aboard h" thought each minute would be th' last But the Bremen came through Al inc southern end of Ne" fouudland the Br"m"n'S llghtS wen ont and the crew tinllcrcd in van to locate the trouble. Capt. Koch had to fly "blind". Trusting 10 luci they zig-zaggcl for 4"o miles un'i dawn broke and they could fix thei position.
 But now tho gas was running low X dense fog swept ur toward then and d blizzard hoNlcd through tn mist. kochl and Fltzuaurlc' thought they must b" some" her above the strait of Belle lsl", an' when a hole finally broke througl the fog. Greenly Island was belov and ahead.
 Smid.ly Chats With "Iitz
 T. A. Smiddy Irish Free Stat minister 10 the United States, talk ed by telephone with the Irish com mandant at Murray Bay when C. A CDuke) Schiller and Ftzmauric' had landed there after flight iron Clarke Ci.y. their second stop on fh way out from th" ic"-lock"d llt'i island off Labrador where the ocea' Hi.ht ended last Friday.
 Major F'itzmaurICe told the 1rlsl minister his object in lca,ln. Captain Herman korhl and Baron vol HJoretpld WAS 10 he able to eiN' first hand information aS fo Wba repairs th" Bremen needed and eA pcdrto their return.
 Fred Melcholr. Junllora' eAper