Evening star., 1933-06-03
Plane Seen at LewiSport, $50
Miles Northwest of Harbor
Grace-Won't Stop Ship at
/ Famous Taking-Off Point.
ANS TO MAKE PARIS
IN 27 HOURS OF FLYING
Will Continue Past French Capital
if Fuel Permits, He Says-Has
Apparatus in Ship to Awaken
Him, if He Falls Asleep, With
Squirt of Water.
L.A.sncintpd Press.

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Ry the Associated Press.
LEWISPORT, N. F., June s.
James ]. Mattern passed over
Lewisport on Notre Dame Bay
at 1900 pm. (E. S. To, in his
first hop of round-the-world
flight.
LewiSport is approximately
$50 miles northwest of Harbor
Grace, the take-off point OF
many previous attempts to ny
the Atlantic.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 3.-Jimmle
Mattern of Texas set forth on his
solo fight around the world today
and seven hours after his depart
ure nothing had been heard from
him to permit a speed comparison
with the time of the men he hopes
to beat.
Mattern, the youthful Gan An
gelo former trap drummer and
lack of all trades who proved his
mettle by flying to Siberia last
year, took off from Floyd Bennett
Field at 4:20 am, Eastern stand
ard time. At 11:20 he had not
yet been sighted along the course
to Newfoundland.
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty,
whose record Mattern hopes to
lower single handed, made the
first leg of their journey to Har-
Dor Grace, N. f., in 8 hours and
50 minutes, and it had been hoped
that Mattern would be sighted as
he passed there so that it would
be known how he was faring
against his rivals up to that point.
In High Spirits.
Mattern was in high spirits as he
TAXED his plane to the far end OF the
long concrete runway this morning.
"I1l be seeing you," he called to
friends. And then he added: I'm
week." and grinned.
The Post-Gatty record is days Is
hours and 81 minutes.
Mattern said he would make no stop
at Harbor Grace, where Post and Gatty
lay over for 3 hours and 40 minutes,
but would pass over there and head out
across the open sea.
I'm aiming for Paris" he said, "and
ST have enough juice left when get
there l won't stop but will keep right
on to Moscow"
He expected to make Paris in 27
hours and had no fear Of falling asleep
on the way. There Is contrlvance
connected with his eltimeter to prevent
that. Should he drop of to sleep the
plane would dive or glide downward ana
when the altitude reaches certain low
the altirneter turns on an appliance
so arranged as to squirt cold water IN
the pilots face, thus rouslng MIN.
Streaks Away Fast.
After the red, white and blue mono
plane had scared to height OF 3,o0O
feet, it streaked away, in tremendous
burst of speed. toward Harbor Grace,
where Mattern planned to head out
over the Atlantic.
Six oranges were Mattern's only 1000
supply.
s'Ail I need is them and good tail
wind to get over there in snort oroer,
he said with a smile as crowd which
had stayed up all night cheered.
After Moscow, he planned halts tor
"winks" at Yakutsk, Sibera; Nome
and Fairbanks. Alaska, and Edmonton,
British Columbia whence he hopes TO
Nv nonstop back to New York.
This route follows closely the one
which he and Bennett Griffin mapped
last year for a world-circling attempt
which came to grief in Russian peat
bog.
Perfect Weather Predicted.
Mattern received weather reports that
his associates called perfect" A map
prepared by DR.. James H. KimbAn,
weather man who has become known as
unofficial starter of ocean flights, lnol-
Gated strong tail winds to Harpor Grace
and across the ocean.
BAD weather Ildu I1ClO AAAiiI oS VS.
field for several days. Meantime ne
whipped himself into shape for the
ordeal, one of the most severe ever
faced by flyer, by daily sessions with
punching bag and rowing machine.
He tumbled from bed in a Coney
Island hotel about am, and went to
the field, where he rubbed sleep from
his eyes and watched mechanics pour
ing 7o2 gallons Of gasoline into the
plane.
He is a native of Freeport, H., and
for his flying exploits has been made a
colonel on the staffs of Cows. Murray
of Oklahoma and Ferguson Of Texas
A husky and skilled youth, he has a
background of Army flying in Honolulu
Of transforming and movie stunts.
Combination Of Two Planes.
His ship IS a combination of two
planes. The engine, propeller. tanks
and some other parts are those OF the
original Century OF Progress, which de-
Scended in the Russian bog, but the
fuselage, wings, vertical fin and ruddel
are from "the Flying Trade Mark" In
which Lieut.. win w. White and Glenn
ent McMullen set New York-to-
Euenos Aires record in 1890.
Attendants at Floyd Bennett ex-
messed the opinion Mattern would bt
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