The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-02
NEW UNIFORMS FOR CITY COPS

1 graphs and films. however, for de- livery to newspapers.
 And later, when Gatty, remember ing these packages, tried to get them from the Winnie Mae, en- sconced in her hangar--and he pat ted the sides of the ship as he went up to it-Mitchell interposed an off, ficial hand, explaining that the duty | must be paid.
 | Upon assurances that whatever duty was placed on the material would be forthcoming and guaran- teed, Mitchell waived the matter and Gatty departed with his bun- dies.
 The long procession, headed by | shrieking motorcycles and bearing | the heroes-and Mrs Post-in the | first car, moved out of the glare and onto the paved highway lead | ing to New York. Press cars and radio cars, movie cars and cars full of plain curiosity-seekers, followed | them at breakneck speed. The mo- | tor procession reached New York I9:15 (E.ST.) and the official group disappeared within the lobby of the | Ritz Carlton hotel, while milling | thousands jammed the sidewalks | and street outside.
 Arriving at the hotel, food was l the first requisite for the tired men. They were taken-before they had a chance to bathe-to a private dining room and invited to do their worst
 "There is only one thing that suits the occasion," they said, "and l that is the thickest steak in the | house." It was forthcoming, togeth- CT with consomme and cold cuts. They drank no coffee, and water was | the only beverage on the table. | Meanwhile, Post was explaining l his fondness for steaks.
 "We had nothing in Russia but | black bread and water," he said. And while we never went hungry, since We always had plenty of both | in the plane, we are certainly ready for something different"
 Even after this formality had been attended to, the two men were not through with their duties" A half hour of posing for news reels had been arranged for. Without so much as a groan, they rose from the table and went upstairs to undergo this ceremony, the last of the night. | And at 1:10 a. m., daylight saV- ing time, they were escorted, more asleep than awake, to their suites. It was said they were almost un- conscious before they arrived at their bedsides.
 The flyers raced around the world with almost express train pre- cision. Throughout the entire time l they were either on or ahead of schedule Their first stop after talk ing off from Roosevelt field was Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. After hardly more than a pause, they raced on across the Atlantic to Berlin, halting briefly at Chester, England, and again at Hanover, Germany, enroute.
 A short sleep at Berlin and they were again in the air, winging on to Moscow, where they spent the night. They then sped across Siberia's s Wastelands, stopping at NoVo- Sibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagovest-Schensk and Khabarovsk.
 The only time they experienced any trouble on this phase of the journey was when they became mired in a muddy field at Blago- vest-Schensk. It took them the en- tire night to remove the plane from the mire.
 After a 2S-hour halt at Kha- barovsk, where they had a long rest, Post and Gatty were again in the air, this time on the hazardous 2,2OO-mile stretch over the North Pacific to Nome, Alaska.
 Three more stops were made Fairbanks, Edmonton, Alberta, and Cleveland, Ohio,-before the daring flyers sat their white and blue craft down again at New York, their starting and finishing point.