Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-04

b. the Associated Press.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will leave
within month for a flying tour of the
Far East, making the trip by air across
the North Pacific.
Mrs. Lin6bergh will accompany him.
The exact date of his departure has
not been determined, but at his request
the State Department is asking the
japanese and Chinese governments for
permission for him to land in those
countries.
Although the trip across the North
Pacific will not involve any long Water
hops. Col. Lindberh is taking every
safety precaution.
Plans Tour of Orient
His Lockheed monoplane will be
equipped with pontoonS and he will
make fueling arrangements at necessary
points. State Department officials said
that if it was necessary for LindbeIgh
to land on Soviet territory in Siberia
he would secure permission privately as
other flyers do when planning flights
over Soviet territory.
The purpose of the trip, Lindbergh
Orient. His present plans call for an
air tour of two or three weeks around
China and Japan.
The Lindberghs will not take with
them their young son. Plans for the
return trip from the Orient have not
been arranged, Lindbergh stating that
ne had not determined whether he
would return by boat or by the north
ern air route.
Announced by Castle.
The announcement of the proposed
flight was made by Undersccretary OF
State Castle in compliance with a re-
quest by telephone from Col. Lindbergh
today.
The exact route or itinerary of the
trip was not clear in the minds OF
State Department officials: They said
they presumed he would fly across the
country to some point on the Pacific
Coast and thence across the Northern
Pacific
They were uncertain whether he
would begin his tranSpaciflc flight
from the extreme northern part OF this
country or from Alaska.
Should Lindbergh desire to fly direct
1y from American to japanese territory
the closest hop over the ocean would be
a span Of approximately 600 miles be-
tween Attu. most westerly of the Aleu-
tan Islands, and Shumstu, most north
erly and easterly of the islands of the
japanese Empire.
May Make Longer Hop.
A shorter fight of some $50 miles
could be made between Attu and Cop
per Island. Soviet territory, and the
Peninsula of Kamchatka.
1t was considered possible, however
that even hop as long as 600 miles
across the sea would fit in with the
coloncl's plan to make the trip in easy
stages without undue risk.
Oficials of the Soviet Information
Bureau, which communicates with the
Moscow government in obtaining flying
permission for Americans over Soviet
territory. said today Col. Lindbergh had
not sought such permission.
They expressed the opinion that such
request would be readily agreed to by
the Moscow government, pointing out
that Lindbcrgh in November, 1929,
greeted a group of Soviet flyers at New
York after fight from Russia. 1t was
said that Moscow officials and flying
men held Col. Lindbergh in high re-
gard
Faces Blind" Area.
If Col. Lindbergh should succeed in
flying across the Northern Pacific with
out encountering at least two general
and dangerous disturbances the United
States Weather Bureau believes he
would be lucky
Charles L. Mitchell, bureau forecaSter.
said today that during June. july and
Augustine best months for a trans
pacific flight-there generally are three
disturbances over the ocean at once
Like in the Atlantic, these move from
west to east and somewhat toWord the
north.
The fight would. however, Mitchell
said, be made through region the bu-
reau considers blind" Weather reports
are received daily from Ncmuro, japan,
but between that point and Dutch Har-
Dor. Alaska, roughly 1900 miles, no in
formation is available
Would Be Lucky.
Navy photographic studies mark one
portion of a possible route as especially
dangerous because of fog. Just south CT
Kamchatka and northeast of Hokushu
fog prevails for so to- go per cent of the
time.
Mitchell said conditions would be
more unfavorable the longer the flight
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