SEATTLE TO TOKIO

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 9, 10 July 1931, Page 7

SEATTLE TO TOKIO

END ON EDGE OF BERING SEA

FLYERS FORCED DOWN

.United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 10th July, 10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 9th July. A message from Solomon (Alaska) states that the attempt of the aeroplane Fort Worth to fly from Seattle to Tokio non-stop ended there at 3.50 a.m. on Thursday, when unfavourable weather and inability to make a final refuelling contact for the long dash forced the flyers down. The bumpy conditions made it impossible for the aeroplanes to establish contact long enough to obtain sufficient fuel. The flyers were convinced that the weather prospects over the hazardous Bering Sea crossing were bad. An earlier message from Nome states that two refuelling contacts were made between Fairbanks and Solomon as the 'planes were slowed down by poor visibility and low ceiling. Another contact was made at Nome before the Fort Worth headed . into a cloiidbank over the Bering Sea. Though the clouds were hanging low, the weather was then improving. The refuelling 'plane landed to load for a contact over the Bering Sea or Siberia. A message from Fairbanks (Alaska) states that the flyers Reginald Robbins and H. L. Jones arrived at 7.33 p.m. on Wednesday after a journey of 17 hours 36 minutes from Seattle. They made contact with the refuelling 'plane at an altitude of 1000 feet, and took aboard 200 gallons of gasoline. Both 'planes then flew westward down the Tanana Valley. The Fort Worth passed over Nome at 2.10 a.m. on Thursday, completing a distar^e of 2100 miles from Seattle,