New Britain herald., 1928-04-20

-"AcohN 1iAi0 tAe p0Tt6 ueSueQ JO re- pair the Bremen are expected to ar rive ahead of the plane. A Junkers mechanic already is at Quebec with two landing wheels, an undercar- riage part, drum of oil, case of engine parts and special tools. The propeller, taken off the Bremen's sister ship. the Junkers' Els, was also on the way and indications were everything would be in readiness to load them aboard the relief plane when 1t arrives. The benzol, high pressure fuel used by the German transportation to the Bremen.
 The smiling Irishman has been taking things easy here on the edge of civilization, his main occupation being answering questions of re- porters and receiving telephone con- gratulations, which poured into the airport office from Canada and the United States
 Need Money
 The need of money was the main consideration which caused him to leave his German comrades and come out with Duke" Schiller in the first relief plane to reach them, he said.
 "They thought I, being an Irish man, might be able to jolly more out of the people. We did not flip a coin. My companions agreed that it hn %o cause l alone could speak English"
 He said money was needed for the repair of the plane and for clothing. remarking there was not a clean shirt among the three of them.
 Fitzmaurice, who left Baldonnel Ireland, a captain. learned for the first time from an Associated Press correspondent that he had been raised to the rank of major as mark of respect for his daring flight.
 Don't call me major" he admon- ished the reporter. II am only commandant." Gle had referred to his title as head of the Irish Free State air force).
 Thanks Canadians
 "Oh, no. you are not.' he was told. You are a major. Didn't you know you had been promoted?'
 He was unwilling to say how long he expected to remain in the United States before returning to Ireland, but said he would surely visit Cam ada before his return to thank the Canadian people for the hospitality they showed and arc still showing us"
 As for commercialiZing his ren- ture by entering the movies, T am not interested,' he said. This flight was not stunt
 The Bremen, Major Eitzmaurice describes as "wizard' plane. It IS easily the best he has ever flown, he said, and added that he had never known machine so responsive to the pilots control.
 "The motor .functioned perfectly at all times. You could work the plane with a couple of fingers. It rode every storm like giant bird"
 Fraulein Junkers denied that she was to fly to Greenly Island in the relief plane. She said that as soon as the repair parts were safely on their way to the Bremen she would return to New York, either by train or airplane, to await her German co-patriots there.
 ErauleIn Exhausted
 Exhausted by her efforts but with success at last in sight, she retired to her room when word that the re- lief plane was coming was received and gave orders that she was to be allowed to sleep until she woke up.
 Whether the Bremen will attempt a nonstop flight to New York from Greenly Island when the repairs are made is uncertain. It is expected. however, that the plane will stop here on the way out.
 Major Fitzmaurice said there was no difficulty on the flight because of the difference in language of him. self and his two companions. Captain Koehl knew enough English to act as interpreter when he and the baron wished to communicate, ne said.
 The Irish major expressed a de- sire to take a ride on one of the dog sleds which the newspaper corres- pondents use in making trips from Murray Bay out to the airport. He was advised 10 stick to his airplanes as trip on the sleds was much worse than riding a broken springed car over the toughest part of the "Rocky Road to Dublin"
 Montreal, Que, April 20 (UP)-- If present plans carry many Ameri- can cities will have an opportunity to see the doughty Bremen which spanned the North Atlantic from east to west.
 Air Cruise
 Major James Fitzmaurice at Lake St. Agnes near Murray Bay. told the United Press today that present plans call for a transcontinental air