Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16
0ChiiShi Wireless Station In
terCeptS Message Announc-
ing Arrival at ! Am.
LEFT KARAGIN ISLAND
WITH WEATHER IDEAL
Arrival in Siberian City Leaves
Only 1900 Miles Remaining
to TOXIC.

TOXIC, August is Sunday -
The Ochiishi Wireless Station inter-
cepted a message from the plane OF
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
saying they landed at Petropavlovsk,
Kamchatka Peninsula, at 3 pm. to-
day, Toxic time.
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, August l5.-A ra-
dio message telling of the take-oh Of
Col. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh from
Karagain Island OF the Kamchatka
Peninsula at $50 pm. CE.S.T) was re-
layed from the st. Paul Naval Station.
in the Boring Sea, and intercepted here
by Harry Carney, an amateur operator.
The message said:
Plane in air at 1850 $3.50 pm.
E.S.T). Contacted at 1857. Reports
very weak. President Cleveland caus-
ing interference on planes frequency.
"At 1880 $3.50 pm. E.S.T) plane in
latitude 57:28 longitude 1870, making
95 knots. Weather clear Visibility I'M
limited, Flying 5000 feet"
A further message was picked up
short time later by the Bremerton Naval
Radio Station, at Bremerton, Wash,
from the ST. Paul station.
1t said:
At 1920 ql:20 pm. E.S.T) planes
radio signals no longer readable"
The plane flown by the flying vaca-
TONERS landed at Karagin Island at 40
am. eastern standard time) today
after thousand-mile flight from Safety
Bay. near Nome. Alaska.
Ahead Of them, a hop of 554 miles
was to take them down the bleak coast
to Petropaylovsk, capital OF Kamchatka,
In Seattle. Harry Carney, radio operator,
was listening IN" on the st. Paul sta
ton, which talked frequently with the
L.ndbergh plane on its fight from
Safety Bay.
First Contacts Fail.
At six different times, between 7.I0
pm. and 8:15 pm, he said the St. Paul
station attempted to establish a radio
contact with the Lindbsrgh plane, but
was unsuccessful. Finally a message
said, heavy QRM (static) prevent
ing contact"
The message that the Lindberghs
were to take of late today was picked
up by the Bremerton naval station after
it was relayed from the Cordova station,
where it had been obtained from the st.
Paul station
At two later scheduled conversations
with Cordova, at $50 pm. and 100
pm, the Cordova station reported it
had nothing about the Ltndbergh plane,
the Bremerton station said.
1900 Miles TO Toxic.
Only 900 miles remained of the
originally scheduled vacation fight TO
Toxic from New York, but after that
lay a fight around the rest Of the world
The continuation of the trip was an
nounced in Alaska. Slightly more than
5000 miles have been covered since the
colonel and his wife left New York.
The main village on Karagin Island
is Karaginsk The island is peopled
by Russian and japanese fishermen. and
is so miles long, running parallel to the
coast about 25 miles out.
The long jump from Nome was made
in 10 hours and 40 minutes at an aver
age speed of 100 miles an hour Flying
conditions were good most of the way.
Even while the pontoons of their plane
were sinking into the water, their ar
rival was made known TO the ST. Paul
sta ton through radio.
Harry Carney, Canadian press repre-
sentative in the Associated Press Of
flces here, and an amateur radio enthu-
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