Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 75, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1928 — Page 5

AUG. 17, 1928

Aviation WAR AVIATOR TO TRY WORLD FLIBHTALQNE Florida Man to Start Long Hop From London Sept. 1. BY ALFRED F. RECK, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug.' 17.—George H. Store!;, World War aviator, will start a lone-handed flight around the world from London, on Sept. 1, he advised Coast Guard headquarters by cable today. Storck, whose home is in Jacksonville. Fla., left here a month ago after arranging for the Navy and Coast Guard to establish gasoline and oil bases for him in the Aleutian Islands. His cable Jo the Coast Guard said: “Kindly ' advise if gasoline and oil arrived safely at Attu and Dutch Harbor. Am starting flight Sept. I. Planned Hop for Year The Coast Guard advised Storck that the necessary gasoline had been taken to Unalaska, Alaska, on the Navy destroyer Vega and had been distributed according to his directions by the Coast Guard cutter Unulga at Attu Island and Dutch harbor. One hundred gallons of gasoline and five gallons of oil have been cached at both bases. Storck has been planning his around-the-world flight for more than a year. He came here this summer without publicity or fanfare, secured a commerce department pilot’s license and convinced inspectors that he knew how to handle an airplane after one test flight. In his license application, Storck gave his age as 57. He said he was born in Paris, but had spent the past few years in Shanghai, China. According to information, Herr Storck is reputed to be wealthy. Seeking No Records He told Captain Chiswell, acting commandant of the Coast Guard, he would not attempt to shatter anyrecords, as the flight was being made purely as a sporting proposition and to gratify an ambition to be the first to circumnavigate the globe lonehanded by air. His route will take him from Croyden airfield, London, in a series of short flights to India. From India he said he would proceed across Asia to Japan. From Tokio, Storck plans to fly to the Kamchatka peninsula of Siberia, to Attu island, on the tip of the Aleutians, to Unalaska, Juno and down the Pacific coast to Seattle. After reaching Seattle, his route will carry him across the continent to New York and back to England by the way of Greenland and Iceland. City Lindy Up Again Charles J. Lindbergh, 3040 McPherson St., who took his first airplane ride at Hoosier airport Sunday, is becoming almost as enthusiastic over aviation as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The local Lindy tyednesday took Mrs. Lindbergh and their son, Max, to the Hoosier airport for a plane ride. It was Mrs. Lindbergh’s first flight also, but the father learned Max previously had ridden twice, keeping it a secret from his parents. “I don’t suppose I am related to Colonel Lindbergh,” the local enthusiast said. “There is a possibility, however, as both my ancestors and the Colonel’s forebears came from Sweden.” Lindbergh said he was going back to the Hoosier for another airplane ride Sunday. Neither Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh nor their son ever have met Colonel Lindbergh, although they saw him when he visited Indianapolis last year on his tour after spanning the Atlantic. Proposes Airport Body By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 17.—This city will probably be the first in Indiana to have a special committee detailed to handle administration of a municipal airport. It has been suggested on behalf of the park board that a joint committee be chosen whose members will be from the board and city council. Byrd Plane to Go East Bn United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 17—Commander Richard E. Byrd’s Ford plane, k one of the four to be used in the Antarctic expedition, probably will be flown to New York Monday from Detroit. Bernt Balchen, the pilot, is in Detroit and had intended to fly here today, but said necessary readjustment had not been completed. The plane will be landed at Miller field, L. 1., dismantled and placed aboard the supply ship, City of New York. The other three planes to be used

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Eager to be the first young man to accomplish a transcontinental nonstop airplane hop, Richard James, 17-year-old boy from Flushing, N. Y., will attempt to fly from San Francisco to New York. Here is young James with his Travelair biplane, the Spirit of American Youth, which his father, Forest E. James, a chemist, bought for him. O. H. Young, an experienced pilot, is to accompany the youth.

on the expedition are a Fokker, a Fairchild and a smaller General Corporation plane. The latter, a single motored craft, was presented Byrd yesterday by the General Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo and will be used on short flights for laying bases. Honor Dead Italian By United Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 17.—The body of Maj. Carlos Del Prete, Italian trans-Atlantic flier who died Thursday will be placed on public view today so that the mourning Italian colony in Diode Janeiro may pay last respects to the noted aviator. Del Prete died from injuries he

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Aviation WAGE AIR WAR ON CROP PESTS \ Try Spraying Forests by Plane in Canada. liy Times Special WHYCOGOMAH, Nova Scotia, Aug. 17.—1n an effort to check the severe damage inflicted upon timber, grain and feed raised in the dominion, the Canadian government, through its department of national defense, is conducting a series of experiments here to determine the feasibility of dusting forests and crops with insectides by means of airplanes. In the first actual tests, 13,400 pounds of poison were spread over the spruce forests to kill the bud worms, a pest that has been particularly hard to control. Wright “Whirlwind” powered Keystone seaplane dusters, built by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation, Bristol, Pa., were used in the work. In the first tests, nearly seven tons of the poison was spread over the trees in seventeen hours and twenty minutes, a task which would have taken the ground personnel about seventeen weeks. Another experiment of a similar nature was carried out in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where wheat rust had injured the crops. An area of 345 acres was covered in eight hours and twenty minutes with 3.900 pounds of dust. In view of the satisfactory results of the work carried on thus far, the department expects to extend, their operations to include other areas. Predicts North Route By United Press COCHRANE. Ontario, Aug. 17. The great Canadian northland is destined to be the main route for aviation to Europe, if the flight of the Greater Rockford from America to Europe is a success. This town

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