Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
REMI LAKE FLIGHT DESCRIBED.
Plane Functions Smoothly in COmplet-
ing First Days Hop OF Berlin Voyage.
BY ROBERT WOOD.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAKE REM, Ontario (via Moon.
beam, Ontario), July 3.-The 'Untin'
Bowler giant Sikorsky plane bound for
Berlin, landed here at 6:44 pm, Chi
cago daylight-saving time. after 600
mile journey from Chicago.
Delays in refueling at the Canadian
500 and at Milwaukee made it mad
visable to continue farther today. Day
break tomorrow will see the Tribune
plane in the air on its way to Great
Whale, a Hudson Bay post, 500 miles
away.
Tonight the members of the Provin-
cial Air Service here filled the "Untin'
Bowler's tanks. A little army of for
esterS stood on the shore and admired
the visitor from the sky.
Cramer Notifies Chicago.
When the ship was shunted up to
the shore and made fast for the night
Shorty Cramer went back into the
cabin and flashed news of the planes
arrival to Chicago. as Pilot Bob Cast
ran one motor to generate power foI
the transmission of the message.
Rain clouds hung about the northern
horizon, making it unwise to fly over
the timber country to Rupert House
which the Bowler had planned to reach
tonight. Instead, the Bowler will go to
Great Whale Lake on a full load OF
fuel and attempt to reach Greenland
late tomorrow night. That will mean
II hours of flying, but the sun shines
"a hours a day in the Arctic.
Good Weather at Start.
The plane found fair weather on the
first leg of its transocean flight today
with Cast at the controls. The plane
took off from Chicago and stayed under
overcast skies until we reached Mil
waukee. On the trip up from the
500, the ship passed through intermit-
tent showers.
Just out of Chicago, three pursuit
planes came out of the harbor at Great
Lakes, H., and few alongside toward
Milwaukee The Bowler got hearty
sendoffs and more letters added to the
air mail bag to be carried to Berlin.
Sailing out of Milwaukee harbor
mere than one hour after its arrival
at the Ontario Provincial Air Service
base on the ST. Mary's River.
Clears Customs Quickly.
Although customs officials cleared the
ship a moment after its arrival. fuel
ing delayed departure until 4 O'Clock
this afternoon. Assured by telephone
message that the Chicago Tribune base
station at Elgin, ILL.,, was receiving the
continuous signal OF our radio during
the flight, Cast and Cramer started for
Remi Lake. Cramer tested the radio
en- route.
Cruised Over Marshy Land.
We cruised over fiat marshy timber
lands for 200 miles. No sign of habita
ton could be seen from the Bowler for
two hours until the plane came over
Cochrane. Showers were moving
southeast on a quartering wind.
While the course from the border to
Remi Lake is largely over thick timber
the route is not dangerous for fiylng. Al
no time was the Bowler out of gliding
distance of lake or stream. At Coch-
rane we sighted the Canadian National
Railroad and followed it toword Moon
beam and turned off to fly the IS miles
TO Remi Lake. We have reached the
end of the telegraph line. The Noon
beam station is the last wire service we
will use until we arrive at Bergen, Nor
way. Tomorrow we plunge into the will
derness and from then on we shall de-
pend upon the ships radio or upon the
wireless stations OF trading posts to tell
the world of our progress.
Elaborate arrangements have been
made to furnish the flyers data on the
weather. Radio receiving stations at
various points along the route, particu-
larly at Rupert House and at Cape
Chidley and Mount Evans, in Green
land, had promised cooperation in
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