The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
CONQUER FOG
TO COMPLETE
PER|LOUS HOP
Flight of 1,067 Miles From
Nome to Asia Made
During Night.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.-Com-
plotting a perilouS fight through
dense fog above the Boring sea,
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh landed at Karaginski island,
off Kamchatka peninsula of Siberia,
at 1919 a. m. Central standard
time) today, according to a radio
message received at navy radio sta
ton here.
The first man to fly alone across
the Atlantic ocean from the United
States to Europe thus was joined by
his wife in blazing a new air line
from their native country to Asia
across the Pacific ocean.
Their flight of approximately ,067
miles from Nome to Karaginski
island was completed, according to
the report, at an average speed of
100 miles an hour.
I'VE are landing now" was the
message Mrs. Lindbergh tapped out
slowly, but expertly on the tiny
portable radio sending apparatus
aboard the ship.
Depends on Refueling
Keeling in antenna," she stated.
See you at 9 Greenwich time"
A short time earlier Mrs. Lind
bergh had messaged that depar-
ture from Karaginski for Petropav-
lovSk, $50 miles to the south, would
depend upon refueling facilities.
Sinpn fhpW Nr-OccaI
tional dateline on their journey the
Lindherghs landed on the island at
S:49 p. m. Saturday, Karakinski
time.
After being delayed at Nome,
Alaska, by unfsvorable weather
since Tuesday night, the Lindberghs
took off at 2 p. m. central standard
time Friday on one of the most
dangerous legs of the trip, which
originally was planned to take them
from Washington to Toxic, but
which the colonel said later might
be extended to become flight
around the world.
Given ROusing Farewell
AT $50 p. m. message relayed
from the plane via the powerful
station on st. Paul island said the
LindberghS believed then they were
over Witgenstein point, on the coast
OF Siberia, and that they expected to
ARRIVE" in three hours. In that
message 1t was not stated where the
word ARRIVE" referred to.
A large crowd of Eskimos and
pioneers gathered on the shores of
Safety Bay twenty-one miles eaS6
of Nome, before the fliers took off.
Among the cheering spectators were
many with whom the Lindbergs had
formed close friendships during the
enforced Stopover in the Alaskan
city which gold made famous.
In the crowd was Grant jackson,
president Of the Nome Chamber Of
Commerce. and Mrs. Jackson. They
were hosts of the fiiers during the
wait at Nome for the
weather to clear.
The ESkimoS who had entertained
Americas most famous aviators with
native sports events, including kyak
races, also mingled in the oddly
assorted crowd which waved goodby
from the Shore.
Think About World Tour"
L1ndbergh's decision to leave on
the dangerous flight across the sea
was made suddenly, after radio re-
ports indicated the weather was
comparatively clear. The twenty
one-mile trip from Nome to Safety
bay was made by auto.
Prior to their departure, Lind
bergh stated that he and his wife
were thinking over" plans to ex-
tend the trip around the world. He
did not say whether the route be-
yond Toxic would be across the
Orient or northward across Siberia
and Europe.
Reports from the speeding, pom
toon-equipped monoplane began
arriving shortly after the take-off
from Nome. Mrs. Lindbergh, who
had acted as operator all during the
fight across Canada and Alaska.
tapped out the messages while her
husband remained at the ship con-
trolls.
Try 4nEOugn fOE
Her first messages, picked UP by
island stations and flashed across
the ocean to the fiers' homeland.
said they were south of Cape Nava-
rim and were flying through broken
fog at an altitude of 5000 feet.
Later reports from the plane said
t had climbed above the fog and
was making good progress. Another
report told Of passing st. Law
renee island, the last American land
which the Lindberghs expected to
zee until they return, perhaps from
he east and perhaps from the west,
rom their vacation trip.
The region over which thev few
vas treacherous area Of dense
.ogs, uncertain winds and, desola-
ion, where within few weeks the
&c will be creeping down, to remain
Until far into next summer.
1t IS a land where planes have
appeared infrequently and the
charted a new air line
n their fight.
The first flight in that direction
vas made in 1924, when three army
round-the-world planes few 10
TOXIC. They, however, followed a
route over thu Aleutian
stands.