The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
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Fog ark H Hnders Search For Iaie enant
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ON BOARD THE U. $. S. RICH MQNIa Aug. 5S. Starch for Lieut.. A1lto Locatelii and three cempan. ions. lio disappeared wien the ItaI. ian airmenF attempted to accompany < the AmeFican world fIiers from Reyk- Pjavik to FredsfikalIal, .GfeenlRnd, will not interrupt the flight of the Ameri- can aiFmen. Lieuts. Smith and Nelson tut, about 150 miles up the coast, Is soon as the weather permits, accord ing to a wifeless delayed by way of which is in touch with the Americans.
 According to message from Hali. fax, Smith and Nelson are expected to reach Indian Harbor, Labrador, Sunday ,3 ft < 1.s < The fog which was enveloping the east coast of Greenland Thursday and into which Locatelh flew some 40 miles in advance of the Americans has not lifted. 1t is. spreading eastward and the RichmondS standing by 130 miles off the east coast of Greenland, is wrapped in. billowing gray vapor whicL makes the use of Yseaplanes in the search impossible. Rear Admiral Thomas F. Magruder plans to senG the planes at his disposal into the air to search the 130 miles of bleak norths ern sea for trace of Locatelh. The destroyers, Barry and Raleigh, are searching nearer the coast.
 Since officers aboard the destroyer Barry, watched the Italian plane bore into n rolling bank of fog 2I0 miles east of Greenland, nothing has been heard from .Locatelli or his com panions. Equipped with an unusual ly fast machine, the Italian had gained 40 miles on his American companions when he disappeared from view behind the moist curtain. Reports from a Danish ship that the sound of an air plane motor was heard about an hour after Smith and Nelson landed at Frederiksdal and similar report from Eskimos in the region has caused search parties to be formed on the west coast of Greenland. .51
 From the. racket of the plane's motor, the natives and Danish sailors agreed that it seemed to be moving north 1 from ,Frederiksdal Ivigut is north Of l Frederiksdal and it may have been in an attempt to land at that point that Locatell lost his course.
 Three theories have been advanced for Locatelli's disappearance,
 1. He may have run short of gaSo. line man attempt to reach Iyigtut and been forced to descend somewhere Hu the west coast of Greenland. 1 2. Engine trouble, fuel AshortSgs oV loss of direction may have forced the plane to the water east of Greenland and outside the 30-mile bank of pack ice which surrounds the coast.
 [ 8. 4 forced landing nay have DC cured on the pack ice itself n EhIch case the plight of the ItGliDIs would l be grave as their plane probsbly womb 1 have been wreck sa leaeing them ia the midst of an pniphabited, barren ex' panse of ice
 I 4 shortage of f9eI q afnong the Ameri. can vess0iss lisdactipy tle search Ia becoming aeaSe, kut Admiral Alagrudel has oraeted "a tanker with fresh sup. plses 10 make tnsy rounds of the air. ugen'S consOss
 1 Liautsnans Marescaliehi, who flew l with A1easali from Pisa, Italy, to | T,syb5sFik and then transferred to thl ! i2icanlond ite agder to Tighten the Itat f iag pianA for the long water jnmp 1 sSg'S thai I.ocatelli's cruising radius wss ab6& 500 miles, or just enough I ~ safrs iaa tD FrederikedaI if the < SasaE sa sgcs with good luck