Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-20
LINDY'S PLANE
REMAINS LASHED
TO SMALL BOAT
japanese Officials Say
No Disagreement Over
Forced Landing.

TOXIC, Aug. 20. (U.P) - Their
disabled plane lashed to japanese
rescue ship, Colonel and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh remained fog
bound today off Ketoi Isle, in the
kurile Islands, a radio dispatch to
the Otchiishi station reported
The dispatch said that the planes
anchor had been broken in their
forced landing and fight with rough
seas during the night
Motor trouble also developed, it
was revealed. Repairs were to be
made after the waves, slapping dam
gerously at their trans-Pacific plane,
had subsidized.
The Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergn
were taken aboard the Shinshiru
Maru, where they are spending to.
night. The ship anchored just off
Ketoi Isle, to the west of the island,
awaiting clear weather.
The Lindberghs, flying one of the
most dangerous legs of their 700O-
mile trip from Washington, D. c.,
to Toxic, were forced down among
the islands as dusk fell yesterday.
1t was the second time they had
been forced to land since leaving
Petropavlovsk, Siberia, for Nemuro.
The first forced landing was made
Is miles from Petropavlovsk and
! was because of motor trouble. While
Mrs Lindbergh tapped out messages
| on the portable radio assuring the
world they were safe, her husband
repaired the motor and they were
in the air again after two hours.
They had completed more than
half the 900-mile flight to Japan
when they ran into fog banks so
heavy that Lindbergh decided to
turn back. After circling about for
many minutes looking for hole
in the fog, they dropped down safe
ly off the Kurile Islands where the
hairy Anus" roam.
These islands, stretching from
Kamchatka peninsula toward ia
pan, are sparsely inhabited and 600
of the people living on them are of
!, the Ainu tribe, a half civilized peo-
pie.
A radio from the Lindberghs
through the radio of thu Shinshiru
Maru said they expected to COM
plete repair of the airplane by dawr
and hoped to start for Nemuro al
5 a. m, provided weather condition:
were favorable.
During the evening the weather
cleared and grew calmer. T h {
Lindberghs went to their plane in
a lifeboat and worked on the pro-
pellor, which had suffered some
damage Later they dined with the
captain of the ShinShiru Maru, af-
ter which Lindbergh planned to re-
turn to the plane and possibly
work throughout the night.
The Shinshiru Maru sent radio
message at ITO p. m. indicating the
plane was anchored off North Ketoi
with an additional rope run to the
steamship which was anchored some
distance offshore.
The Shinshiru Maru is a 1000 ton
vessel of the japanese Bureau of
Fisheries Patrol.
| MulloViy VI COiiiiilliIlCdtlOli JILL
Gals today reiterated denials that
the captain of the Shinshiru Maru
had questioned Colonel Lindbergh
as to why he landed off Ketoi with
out government permission.
The reports are manifestly ab-
surd, the ministry pointed out, in
asmuch as the Shinshiru Maru was
ordered to proceed to Lindbergh's
aid when he alighted. 1t was added
that the ministry had been in con-
slant touch with Lindy and that all
possible aid was being extended.
The American embassy also de-
precated the rumor, asserting Japa-
neSe officialdom was extending the
Lindberghs every possible courtesy.