AVIATION PHASES

Northern Advocate, 21 July 1933, Page 5

AVIATION PHASES

GALLANT EXPLOIT RUSSIAN REACHES ANADIR. RESCUE OP MR MATTERN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 20. A Russian airman, Levanesky, has reached Anadir, from which place he will coqvey Mr James Mattern to Nome, Alaska. ( The former had a perilous flight I from Khabarovsk, over the sea to Okhotsk, where onee he flew so low owing to storm and fog that spray touched his machine. The chief of the Soviet’s northern aviation service says that if Levanesky is not ordered to rescue Mr Mattern at all costs, he will be ordered to arrest him for risking his own and his crew’s lives. As it were, the Soviet air chief could only admire them.

WORLD CIRCUIT EMPRISE. POST HAS CLOSE CALL. PLANE TOUCHES TREES. (Received 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 20. The fuselage of Mr Wiley Post’s aeroplane scraped the tops of some trees when the weather compelled him to land at Rukhlo. He started on the 700-mile flight to Khabarovsk immediately he arrived there, refuelled, overhauled his machine, and left again for Alaska.

A later message says the United States Array Signal Corps at Nome adi’ised that Mr Post passed there at 7.30 a.m. (Nome time), and subsequently. it w T as reported that the airman had passed Ruby, 200 miles west of Fairbanks at 1.30 p.m.

ILL-FATED LITHUANIANS. HUNDRED THOUSAND MOURNERS. (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, July 20. A message from Kovno, Lithuania, states that the Premier and members of the Cabinet were among 100,000 mourners who assembled at the aerodrome when the bodies of the two, airmen, Darius and Girenas, who were killed when flying home from America, were brought from Stettin. BREAKING SPEED RECORDS, EXPENSIVE AND RISKY, DEPRECATED BY MINISTER. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. The Secretary, of State for Air, the Marquis of Londonderry, stated today that an attempt by the Royal Air Force to regain the speed record from Italy would involve a sum of £200,000' spread over three years. Britain deprecated running undue risks merely for propaganda or record hunting. The Air Force should not be diverted from its normal duties to attempt to break world records if .no genuine purpose would be served thereby.

NEW SERVICES. RETICENCE OBSERVED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, July 19. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, stated in the House of Commons today that representatives of the Governments of Britain, Canada and Newfoundland had been conferring upon certain general questions affecting the possible future organisation of air services to and from Newfoundland. He was not in a position to give any more detailed information at this stage, but, in order to prevent any misunderstanding, he had better, perhaps, emphasise that no concrete scheme for a. transAtlantie service was under discussion

at present. Sir Philip mentioned that the Home defence air squadron was flying solely on oil extracted from British coal.

ITALIAN ARMADA. INVITATION TO SYDNEY. LABOURITES TAKE EXCEPTION, (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. It is doubtful if the aldermen of the City Council "will endorse the invitation sent by the Lord Mayor, Aiderman Hogan, to General Balbo, Italian Minister of Air and commander of the seaplane flight which visited the Chicago World Fair and is now at New York, homeward bound. Labour aldermen opposed the proposed visit, and Alderman Walder, chairman of the Finance Committee, has pointed out that to make provision for the entertainment of the fleet, which consists of 24 machines, carrying about 100 men, in the event of the invitation being accepted, the council would have to pass a special grant of about £15,000 or £20,000. There is no provision for such expenditure on the estimates for the current year. The “Daily Telegraph ’s’’ Chicago correspondent says that the Italian

fleet may visit Australia later by the Eastern route. WOOD’S PROGRESS HALTED. REPAIRS ESSENTIAL. (Received 10 a.m.) ALLAHABAD, July 20. Mr. .1. Wood, the West Australian airman, decided to fly to Lucknow to carry out repairs to his plane, and arrived there in the evening. He was forced down at. Gaya last night, but managed to proceed to Allahabad, arriving with a leaking petrol tank.