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ROCKFORD FLYERS SAFE IN GREENLAND

Grateful Tidings Of Missing Men Stirs The World

AIRMEN OF ROCKFORD CARRYING HOPES OF CITY ON ATTEMPTED TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT FORCED DOWN IN WILDS OF GREENLAND UNHURT AND PLANE UNDAMAGED--HOME CITY GOES WILD ON RECEIPT OF NEWS AFTER TWO WEEKS ANXIOUS SUSPENSE--TREKED BACK TO CIVILIZATION LIVING ON REDUCED RATIONS--PICKED UP BY UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN EXPEDITION.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3., (AP)--Bert Hassel and Parker Cramer, Rockford flyers are safe at Mt. Evans, Southern Greenland, after the world has waited anxiously for two weeks wondering as to their fate According to a copyrighted article in the New York Times they made a forced landing at Sukertoppen fifty miles from Mt. Evans and have slowly finding their way back to civilization, living off of reduced rations of pemmican Their plane was undamaged and they suffered no injury but they could not get their ship off the ground again.

Word of the flyers' safety came to the Times, via radio station in a dispatch from Professor Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Greenland expedition which has its base at Mt. Evans. The flyers were stated to be in excellent health although hungry. They had been living on a ration of eight ounces per day. They said that shortage of gasoline forced them down but their plane was unhurt. Smoke signals they sent up attracted a member of the Hobbs party to their position on the coast with a motorboat. They had apparently been forced off their course by adverse weather.

ROCKFORD GOES WILD

ROCKFORD, Ill., Sept. 3, (P)--The single word that the Rockford flyers were unharmed unlocked all the pent-up emotion in the breasts of Rockfordians stored for two weeks as they waited word of their heroes and of whom they had begun to despair. When they heard that Hassell and Cramer were safe and sound they broke into a bedlam of noise in spontaneous celebration, the like of which has not been witnessed since the Armistice 10 years ago.