Evening star., 1930-06-25
SOUTHERN CROSS
SECOND TO SUCCEED
19 Have Given Lives in Effort
to Fly Over Atlantic Since
Days of Capt. AIcock.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 25.-The landing
of the noncplane Southern Cross at
Harbor Grace. Newfoundland. on her
fight from ireland, marks the second
successful westward crossing OF the
North Atlantic by airplane, although q
nur1ner of planes have successfully
made the eastward flight.
However, neither the Southern Cross
nor the. Bremen. the only other plane
to make the westward crossing, was
successful in reaching her destina-
forced landings.
The Bremen. which, like the Southern
Cross, had New York as her goal, was
forced to land at Greenley Island, near
Labrador, in her flight from Ireland
in 1928. Her crew. Baron Won Huene-
field, Capt. Herman Koehl and Col.
James Zitzmaurtce, were forced to
abandon their plane, which had been
wrecked in landing, and come on to
New York in relief planes.
Ten Have Lost Lives.
In other attempts to span the At
lantic from Europe to America in nom
stop flights. 10 persons lost their lives.
The first to attempt the crossing
and fogs off the Newfoundland banks
were Capts Charles Nungesser and
Francois Coli. The two Frenchmen
took off from Paris in May, 1927, and
never were heard from again once their
plane headed out over the Atlantic.
few months later, in August, three
others gave their lives in a vain at
tempt to fly from Upavon, England, to
Ottawa, Ontario. The three, the
Princess Lowenstein- -Wirtheim, Capt.
Leslie Hamilton and Col z. F. Minchin,
also disappeared on the voyage over
the Atlantic.
The following March Capt. H. G.
Hincliffe and Hon. Elsie Mackay at
tempted a fight from Crsnwell, Eng
land, to New York, and also lost their
lives somewhere on their. flight over
the ocean.
1t was not until July. 1929, that an
other attempt was made, and in that
fight Maj. Leon Idzikowski, a Pole,
was killed when his plane made a
forced landing in the Azores. He had
taken off from Paris for New York.
His companion on the flight, Mai. Kasi-
mir Kubala, was seriously injured.
The last attempt, prior to the South
Oscar Kalsar and Kurt Luescher of
Switzerland vanished after taking of
from Paris.
Many Successful.
The list of successful west to east
nonstop transatlantic flights reads like
a who's who in aviation.
The first successful crossing was
made in June. 1919. by Capt. John
Alcock and Lieut.. Arthur W. Brown
who flew from st. Johns Newfound-
land, to Clifden, Ireland
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made his
famous fight from Roosevelt Field,
New York, to Paris. in May 1927.
Clarence D. Chamberlin with Charles
A. Levine as a passenger flew from
Roosevelt Field New York, to Kottbus,
Germany, in June, 1927.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and
three companions also In June, 1927,
few from Roosevelt Field to Ver-Sur-
Mer, France.
In August, 1927, Edward r. schlee
and William Brock made a flight from
Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ply
mouth, England.
In October, 1927, Ruth Elder and
Capt. George Haldeman were forced
down at sea OF the Azores and picked
up by q Dutch tanker. They were
flying from New York to Paris.
In June. 1928, Miss Amelia Earhart
achieved the distinction Of being the
first woman to fly across the Atlantic
when a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz
few from Trepassey, Newfoundland, to
Wales.
One year later three Frenchnen.
Armeno Lotti, jr., Rene Lefeyre and
Jean Assolant together with Arthur
Schreiber, Stowaway, made a flight
from Old Orchard. Me, to Spain.
A month later, in July, 1929, Roger
@. Williams and Lewis Yancey landed
at Santander, Spain from Old Orchard,
Me.
Nine Killed Going East.
A number of the West-to-E flights
over the North Atlantic also ended
in disaster, causing q death toll of
nine.
In September. 1927, Lloyd Bertaud,
James D. Hill and Phillip A. Payne
lost their lives in an attempted Night
from Old Orchard, Me-, to Rome.
In September, 1927, Capt. Terry
Tully and Lieut.. James Metcalf were
lost in an attempted flight from Har-
Dor Grace to Croydon, England.
Brice Goldsborough, Lieut.. Oskar
Omdal and Mrs. Frances Grayson lost
their lives flying from Roosevelt Field,
New York, to Harbor Grace. Newfound-
land, in December, 1927, for a flight
to Denmark.
H. c. Macdonald was lost in Octo-
Der, 1928, while attempting a lone fight
from st. Johns, Newfoundland, to
London.