Evening star., 1933-06-04
MATTERN SOARING
ACROSS ATLANTIC
ON WORLD FLIGHT
Paris Expects U. S. Flyer to
Land at Noon Today for
Brief Rest.
UNFAVORABLE WEATHER
is REPORTED IN RUSSIA
Plane Gains 4 Hours on Post -Gatty
Record by Not Stopping at
Harbor Grace.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June Sunday
Following the Lindbergh trail across
the perilous Atlantic, Jimmy Mattern,
Texas birdman, presumably was near
ing the coast of Ireland early today
on his solo globe girdling adventure.
At the rate he few through the
daylight hours after lifting his plane
from the earth here at 4:20 am.
CE. S. To yesterday, darkness should
have met him almost half way across
the open sea with the greensward OF
lie Bourget Field, Paris, under his
wheels for lunch there today.
He last was sighted over the Wadham
Islands, extreme northeastern outpost
of Newfoundland. Favorable winds
aided him through the daylight hours
as he averaged l80 miles an hour on
the first 7 of 81 hours he allotted him
self for the Paris leg Of the air voyage.
BY not landing at Harbor Grace-the
customary stopping point for flyers be-
fore they attempt the Atlantic-Mat-
tern gained almost four hours advan-
tage on the round -the-world record OF
8 days, Is hours and 81 minutes
set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
in 1881.
Expected in Paris at Noon.
Mattern's first scheduled stop is Paris,
which he expects to reach within q
hours. Then, after five hours sleep,
straight on to Moscow dipping over
the Tempelhof Airdrome in Berlin en-
route. Word from Paris indicated he
was expected there by noon tomorrow.
But first there was fog and rain
along the Irish coast to battle.
The bullet-shaped plane, resembling
q mighty eagle, with its wings dappled
in red, white and blue, carries no radio,
and further word of Mattern's progress
east from Newfoundland must come
from ships at sea until ne noses over
Ireland.
Only at Clare, regarded as a likely
spot for Mattern to strike the coast
were weather conditions fair for flying
along the East Atlantic coastline. Else
where, there was rain and bad visibility
Irish officials early in the day or
dered civic guards along the seaboard
to maintain close watch.
"Ill be back in a week." the San
Angelo trap drummer-turned-aviator
cried out to small crowd Of well wish
ers as he climbed into his plane at
Floyd Bennett Field and inaugurateo
the 1888 transoceanic flying season.
The ship carried 700 gallons of gaso-
line-sufhcient to remain aloft for %
hours. Its cruising speed is $50 miles
an hour, pushed up to around ITO with
fair winds.
Ship Lifts Easily.
The 500 horsepower engine lifted the
ship easily on the take-off. Mattern
circled the field and headed to the
northeast as the dawn broke.
With his speedy arrival over New
foundland, Mattern not only gained an
advantage on the Post-Gatty record
but was well ahead of the attempt he
and Bennett Griffin made in July last
year in the same airplane. On this
flight, making stop at Harbor Grace,
Mattern and Griffin landed in Berlin
in 81 hours and 80 minutes elapsed
time-three hours ahead of the Post
Gatty log.
Their hopes then were dashed to
ground. The plane crashed in a bog
along the Russian frontier.
The Century of Progress, rebuilt after
the smash was first owned by Carl
Cromwell, San Angelo oil operator, for
whom Mattern served as pilot for sew
eral years.
For two weeks Mattern has awaited
favorable weather conditions for his
flight. Shortly after midnight DR..
James Kimball, the Government me-
teorologist who has advised many trans
atlantic flyers, gave the word.
Mattern ordered his plane made ready
and went back to sleep for three hours
at his Coney Island hotel.
Shortly before o'clock Mattern
came to the field, put half a dozen
oranges in his pockets, slowed aboard
several bottles of hot water and some
tea crystals, pulled on his helmet and
was of.
Not until the plane was sighted over
Lewisporte was he heard from.
Across the North American continent
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