Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-12
|L|NDBERGHS FLY
| BACK TO new YORK
Flyer Spent Yesterday Dis
cussing Flight to Orient
With Officials.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
After discussing with Government
officials the feasibility of flying to the
Orient in a seaplane over thousands Of
miles of timbered lands, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh took of from
Boiling Field this morning to return
| to New York
| They left in borrowed biplane after
deferring their start until this morning
| because 1t was not equipped with lights
for night flying. Lindbergh spent all
OF yesterday talking over his proposed
aerial vacation with officials here.
Favors Alaskan Route.
With Mrs. Lindbergh he expects to
cross over either the Atlantic, the Pa
cific or the frozen wastes of the Arctic
| Ocean in his Stream-lined and pontoon-
fitted Lockheed monoplane before the
Summer ends.
Altogether four routes are being con-
sidered. A final decision will depend
upon the establishment of satisfactory
! fuel bases. One route would take them
over the Atlantic to Greenland, and
thence to Spitzbergen and across Siberia
/ to Japan.
The second would be along the water
ways of Northern Canada to the nor
thernmost fringe of the Alaskan Coast
and over a portion of the Arctic Ocean
to Siberia
| The third would send the flyers up
the Canadian Coast to the Aleutian
Islands that stretch from Alaska in a
| long string toward the eastern coast OF
the Asatic Continent Should they
land near Kamchatka the route would
| then be southwark to Japan. The
| fourth possibility, in which Lindbergh
said he was particularly interested. was
the route across Alaska, over the
Boring Sea to Siberia, and then to
the Nipponsse Islands.
Lindbergh said his decision to make
the flight in a pontoon-equipped plane
had been reached after a study OF the
rivers and lakes along the projected
! routes. Should the path carry them
| entirely across Canada or eastward by
| the Atlantic route, which would neces-
state flight over several thousand miles
of Siberian land, he said he doubted
| whether any change would be made in
| the planes undercarriage.
Evades Russian Discussion.
Lindbergh did not desire to discuss
the possibility of obtaining permission
from the Soviet government to ny over
Russian territory, explaining that rep
resentatives of that country undoubtedly
would make known whether he would
be permitted to fly over it, Japan was
the first of the governments to welcome
F, the Lindberghs. Other countries have
| indicated that they would grant permis-
sion for the flight over their territories.
Col and Mrs. Lindbergh flew from
New York yesterday. in borrowed BIZ
plane to confer with Undsrsecretary of
State Castle and other Government
officials on their plans. Further dis
cussions were held at a luncheon at the
Japanese embassy given in Lindbergh'S
honor. with Assistant Secretary of War
Dawson, Assistant Secretary of Com
merce Young, Stanley Hornbeck. chief
of the Far Eastern division of the State
DEPARTING Mt and DR.. Gilbert H. Grosve-
nor president Of the National Geo.
graphic Society.
Arrive at Newark.
NEWARK, N. j., June IL (P).-Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lind
bergh arrived at Newark Airport short
i ly after noon today from Washington.
| The colonel started for New York by
automobile while Mrs. Lindbergh took
off in their plane in the direction of
| the Hicksville. Long Island, Country
Club.