Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-11

After FOny Days
Sans Food CrelU
Found by U-BOdt
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Sept. H. Commander
John Rodgers and his intrepid crew Of four of
the lost trans-Pacific airplane PN-9 number
are alive and well.
The crippled eagle with its precious bur-
den of trail blazing adventurers was found
riding swan-like atop choppy seas by mon
ster of the deep, the United States submarine
R-4.
Lost 218 IL hours after plunge from the
air after Is hours hurtling from San Francisco
toward Honolulu in the first such flight ever
attempted. the brave little force in every sense
except officially had been given up as lost
martyrs to man efforts to overcome the ele
Their food supply exhausted for four
days, burned by the tropical sun, bearded and
worn, they were ashore today at Nawwiliwili,
ga miles northwest of Honolulu after their
seaplane was picked UP at sundown yesterday
by the R-4 and towed to port. The plane was
found IS miles north Of Nawiliwili after being
buffeted about for nine days when it was
forced down off Honolulu when it had ex-
hausted fuel supplies.
Commander Rodgers and his crew were
in good physical condition attested by the
brief messages reporting the rescue
The first message was briefly laconic. 1t
was devoid of details and merely gave to a
waiting world the information that the five
despaired of lives had been dragged back from
the sea.
Buoyed up principally by it's empty gaso-
line tanks the plane had drifted approximate
ly $50 miles in line almost due westward
from the point where it had dropped to the
water. Exactly where this point was and just
how far the craft drifted can never be known.
The last messages from the flyers picked up
by the navy ships which guarded the flight
route were requests for compass bearings,
admissions that they had lost their bearings
and repeated assertions that 'if we have to
alight here we are goners. Progress of the
plane driven the face Of the water slower than
calculations the searching forces had Indicated 1t
was sighted position which the flola of naval
craft had cused last Saturday and picked by sub
marine heading meet the searching fleet The lOca
ton that which the mine sweeper Whppoorw
had reported days after the search started seeing
white flare and two red rockets which had occasoned de-
cded increase in the area over which the cruising ships
cOursing.
Under Commander Rodgers direction Lieut.. Byron
J. Conne of Pittsburgh Pa assistant pilot Skles N. Pope
of Dayton, Tenn, aviation pilot; William III. Bowin Of
Richmond Ind, aviation chief machinsts mate and Otis
G.. Stantz of Terre Haute, Ind- chief radio
The navy perseverance after all hopes had been vr
tualy abandoned that the plane and its might be
found conquered the which forced Rodgers
and his down IT'S 200 miles east of their objective
Kahuui and hidden their fate for more than week.
simple and brief message brought to Honolulu the
word that the had been found alive and well with their
plane still afloat Addressed to Rear Admiral John ID.
Mcdonald from Lieut.. D. R. Osborn Jr commander Of the
submarine R-4 it said:
plane PN-s number located by R-4 fifteen miles
northwest of NawiWli personnel safe. Am towing plane
to Nawilwi."