Evening star., 1936-09-06

forced me to fly blind part of the way.
This bore out the expression of New
York weather experts who had com.
mented earlier in the day that "i
Mrs. Markham gets through tha
weather it will be almost incredible.
But she did get through, crossing
the Atlantic from land to land on 6
flight which her husband, back IL
England, said he wouldn't have at
tempted for a million pounds"
Mrs. Markham, who is no stranger
to adventure, confessed that there
were many minutes of worry on tht
flight. II had visions of falling into
the Atlantic" she said, wryly.
Asks for Motor Car.
AS soon as she could reach a tele.
phone she asked that motor car be
sent to pick her up. She was brought
to Louisburg where she was the dinner
guest tonight of Capt. George Lewis
Ray Goodwin, Cape Breton Flying
Club pilot, looked over the monoplane
and said that it was not damaged
beyond repair.
The field in which Mrs. Markham
came down was about 20 miles from
this Cape Breton town which once
was known as "the Dunkirk of Amer.
lea" the proudest fortress and the
only walled city in North America
It was named in honor of Louis Nv oil
France.
Mrs. Markham. blond, athletic
mother of 7-year-old son, was the
second flyer Of either sex to succeed
in making the dangerous East-West
crossing.
The spot where the plane came
down was within 10 miles from where
Col. Charles Lindbergh left the Cape
Breton coast on his epoch solo flight
In the opposite direction.
Walked Three Miles.
After landing right side up" Mrs.
Markham walked three miles to the
nearest farmhouse. that of Alex Burke,
where she sought aid. She was later
driven into Louisburg by Capt Lewis.
Goodwin, the Cape Breton airman
who surveyed the wreck, expressed be-
lief 1t would be extremely difficult to
carry out the machine through the
bog and underbrush.
Mrs, Markham, after having her
, head wounds dressed by DR.. Freeman
! O'Neill of Louisberg, talked with her
! husband and Jim Mollison, famous
5 British aviator, in London. On her
ssarm, still ticking merrily, was the
I wrist watch Mollison gave her just
! before she hoped.
: Advised by DR.. O'Neill to rest before
continuing her journey, she had de-
scided to remain here for the night.
! Her New York manager, Harry Bruno,
Z phoned her stating that a plane was
7 being sent to Cape Breton to take her
ION to the metropolis tonight, but Mrs.
!. s.Markham has decided to obey the
: Louisberg dsctor's advice.
: Mollison Short of Goal.
: Her predecessor, Mollison, also fell
{ abort of his goal when he was forced
down at Pennf1eld Ridge, New Bruins
I wick, on August 10, 1882, his gaso-
: line tanks almost empty.
! Molhson was one of the last persons
to wish her godspeed when the British
society matron gunned her feet
! little monoplane at Abingdon air
I field yesterday afternoon and started
( on her great adventure.
81 Throughout the night she bored
Z through westerly winds which cut her
{ average speed down to about 100 miles
! an hour over the 1,800-mile stretch
: Of ocean.
$ Her stock model plane, designed fol
% cruising speed of $50 miles an hour
: was lost to the world from the time IL
was unofi1cially reported over Castle.
town Berehaven, Irish Free State, foul
hours after the take-off, until it wa.
: sighted by the steamship 800 miles Of
! Newfoundland early this morning.
Carried No Radio.
- Like most Of the earlier trans-At-
lantic flyers, Mrs. Markham carried
no radio.
Holding o true course along the
Great Circle route, far to the north
Of regular steamship travel, the avia-
trix drove straight to the south shore
of Newfoundland Villagers reported
seeing her turquoise-blue plane cir
cling wide over Renews at 1886 am.
Eastern standard time), 10 hours and
Is minutes after her takeof.
After apparently checking her maps
and re-charting her course over her
first landfall, she Strengthened out and
flew In direct line toward Cape
Race. Ten minutes later she was re-
ported over that place, with 1900
airline miles still between her and New
York and . dwindling gasoline supply.
Then fnllnu-ed sevayal ho,trx Of