Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-09-08
HOPE WANING
FOR AVIATORS
IN OLD GLORY
Hearst, Daily Mirror
Offer Rewards For
Findi n & Mis- sins g
Fliers

NEW YORK, n. Y. Sept. 5.-I+l-
William Randolph Hearst, the pub
Usher, backer OF the Old Glory flight,
today offered a reward of S25. 900 TO
the captain aad- crew Of the ship that
finds the missing occupants.
His announcement follows.
i know that nc reward is neces-
sary 70 stimulate the search ro-
Olo Glory and it. occupants, but
will gladly give S25,000 to the cap
tain ard crew OF the ship which
finds them merely as an expression
Of my gratitude
WASHING TON, D. al, Sept. s.-lE,
Rear Admiral Phillip Andrews.
commandant Of the Boston navy
yard. has sent radio stations in his
district for dissemination to all
shipping an offer Of the Daily Mirror
Of New York OF $4,000 for the res
cue of the crew Of the Old Glory and
$4,000 for finding the plane.
NEW YORK. n. y. Sept. s.-l4-
Through wind-whipped. high running
seas, and cold ram squalls, three
shlps today continued 10 plough over
the north Atlantic in search Of the
monplane Old Glory.
Despite reports from two other
ste- mers which gave up their search
last night, that there was little hope
for survival OF the three Occupants
cf the plane. the liners Nova Scotia.
American Merchant and california
swept a stretch of hundreds Of miles
of Newfoundland for a clue to the
tate of the plane and its occupants.
The steamers Pennsylvania and
Carmanla among the first 10 hear
the distress calls, after vainly search
ing the ocean at the position where
the plane was estimated 10 have come
down. resumed their courses.
The time set for Old Glory 10 span
the ocean on her way from Ol! Or
chard, Maine. to Eoz,e passed with 70
news OF her whereabouts or the fate
Of Pilots Llovd Bertrand and James ID.
Hill and their passenger, Philip "A.
Payne. managing editor Of the New
York Daily Mirror.
Should Have Landed.
Old Glory should have arrived owe.
Rer5eeux. France, pefoye Wedaes-
dsv Midnight Eastern standard ti..e.
Nearly so hours had elapsed this
r-onring since the liners plogghinz
their regular transatlantic lanes in
the darkness OF the early hours Of
Wednesday picked up the despairing
distress call:
"WHRP-Sos FIVE hours out of
Newtourdlard, east"
WEEP was the planes radio call.
It's owner is W. Z. Hearst.
Szsprh - tha tyr--hfer- Sc
the Atlantic 500 r.lies off the New
fsuadland coast has brought no sign
either Of the plane or ot the little
rubber beat with which the tliers
were equipped against Just such an
emergency as seems TO have befollen.
Captain David w. Bone ot the Gun
a-d-Anchor lire Transylv2nia, the yes
sci nearest the spot, who raced his
ship more than 80 miles to the esti-
mated last position of the plane. re-
ported regret fully Last night:
Have searched area without re-
suit. Feel little hope Of survival in
view of the rough sea at time Of
casualty"
Storms Reported.
Captain ?. c. Brown Of the Carma-
MIA reported strong rain squalls aa5
rough breaking sess and, like cartain
Eo1e, considered there was r"little
chance of survival Of collap$ible beat
under present conditions
During tie search for Old Glory
out over the Atlantic, where the
Rome-bcund plane was last heard
from. where NunEesser ard Coli. the
brave Frenchmen are believed 10 have
gone down and into whose spaces the
British st. Raphael with Princess
Lowenstein- Wertheim aboard. van
ished a week ago, another plane was
winging its way to the east. unequip-
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