Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
1900 Miles From Starting
Field, He Returns When
Adverse Weather and
Broken Pipe Threaten Life.
FUEL SPRAYS OVER FACE,
BURNING EYES OF TWO
Plane Plows Into Beach Upon
Landing, but Escapes Serious
Damage-Pilot Will Resume At
tempt to Gross Pacific to Tacoma
Immediately.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
TANARE, Aomori, Japan, Sep
TENDER 15.-Still defying the Sc
ries of miSfortunes preventing
him from flying across the Pa
cific, Harold L. Bromley tonight
told a Rengo News Agency re-
porter he would continue his eff
forts to span the ocean to Tacoma
by airplane.
Bromley said a broken gaSo-
line feed pipe was the decisive
factor in causing him to turn
back and land here today, after
having flown several hundred
miles eastward in his attempted
nonstop dash to Tacoma, but
that adverse elements" includ-
ing fog, contributed to the de-
ciSion.
The break, Bromley said, was
noticed late Sunday off KAN
chatka Peninsula, when gasoline
began spraying him, chatting his
face and inf1aming his eyes.
Bromley said he and his naviga-
tor, Harold Gatty, alternated at
the controls throughout the
night, suffering great discom-
fort.
Soon after the landing near here at
O'Clock this morning Il pm, Sunday,
Pacific standard time) a physician
treated the flyers eyes, but found no
permanent injury.
Series of Nfisfortunes.
Bromley's first plane nosed into the
ground year ago as he was taking off
from Tacoma, Wash, Field for Toxic
Bromley was not injured, but the plane
was wrecked.
The tail assembly fell of his second
plane while Lieut.. Harold Fahy was
testing it. Fahy was injured seriously.
He was killed in plane crash several
months later.
Bromley's third plane burst into
flames in the air, fatally injuring H. w.
Calling when it crashed.
Bromley's plane City of Tacoma
plowed deeply into the soft beach at
Shitsukari, II miles from here, but es-
capped serious damage
Tanabe is the nearest railway and
telegraph station and the roads Ia
Shitsukari are impossible by automo-
bile. japanese experts said it would
take several days to dig the plane out
and refit 1t for the short fight to Sami-
shiro Beach. It was from the latter
place Bromley started early Sunday and
the site which he will probably choose
II he takes of again.
Could Have Reached Alaska.
The flyers estimated they had COW
cred ! 200 miles. before turning back
and had travelled a total of 2,4O0 miles
when they landed near here. They
said their gasoline supply would have
been sufficient to reach Dutch Harbor
Alaska.
The monoplane was in the air a
hours and 50 minutes. The plane had
reached 300 miles beyond Capt Lopatka
nearly haf way to the westernmost
A!eutlans, before turning back when the
flyers encountered thick fog and head
winds.
Fear for the flyers safety had in
creased when no reports were received
after they began its hazardous fight
Although the plane carried a wireless
set, operators on ships at sea and land
stations were unable to pick up signals
from the flyers. 1t was believed rain
had disabled the radio set.
Before their take-off from Samishirc
Beach the aViators had been promised
ideal weather along almost the entire
distance Of the great Circle route tc
Tacoma.
Shortly after the plane left the sandy
runway of Samishiro Beach it en-
cpuntered. fog, rain and headwinds over
the Kurile Island.
First intimation he was returning
came when the radio operator of thu
Dollar liner President Taft, docked II
Yokohama Harbor, intercepted a mes.
sage saying the plane had passed Cape
Lopatka, Southernmost point of th'
Komchatka Peninsula, late Sunday aft
ernoon.
After Bromley and Gatty landed OF
the cape the American embassy dis
patched an interpreter to Shitsukari u
aid the flyers.
Violate Japanese Regulations.
Their return involved official com
plications because Shitsukari is nea
the Orninato naval base and within tn
45-mile zone over which flying is for
hidden.
Bromley had permit to fly from
Japan. but lacked permission TO Ian
in the islands, and flyers and plan
must be examined to satisfy authorize
the regulations were not violated.
Although a disagreeable development
was unlikely, Japanese ot1cialdom
strict adherence to the letter of regu
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