Evening star., 1927-09-08

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September o.
Through wind-whipped, high-run-
ming seas and cold rain squalls, three
ships-teday continued to plough over
the North Atlantic in search OF the
nneneplane Old Glory.
Despite reports from two other
steamers. which gave up their search
last night, that there was little hope
for survival of the three occupants
Of the plane, the liners Nova Scotia
American Merchant and California
swept stretch of hundreds of miles
off Newfoundland for clue to the
fate of the plane and its occupants
Pilots Lloyd Bertaud and James D.
Hill and their passenger, Philip
Payne.
The steamers Transylvania ana
carmania, among the first to near tue
distress calls, after vainly searching
the ocean at the position where the
plane was estimated to have come
down, resumed their courses.
Fuel for 56 Hours Carried.
The gasoline supply of the Old
r-lorv az estimated was sufficient to
nermit her to remain in the air until
a.23 Eastern standard time) tonight.
The plane carried 1870 gallons OIL
wasoline. which Bertaud and Hill ,esti-
mated would keep them aloft Tor 90
hours and give them a cruising range
of 5000 miles, 700 miles more than
their planned course from New York
to Rome. The plane left Old Orchard,
Me-. at 1928 pm, Eastern standard
time.
william Randolph Hearst, the pub
fisher, hacker of the Old Glory fight,
today offered a reward of $4,000 to
the captain and crew Of the ship that
finds the missing occupants. His an
nouncement follows:
.I know that no reward is neces-
eary TO stimulate the search for Old
Glory and its occupants, but will
gladly give $4,000 to the captain
and crew of the ship which finds
them merely as an expression Of my
gratitude"
Due Bordeaux at Midnight.
Old Glory should have arrived over
Bordeaux, France, before Wednesday
midnight, Eastern standard time. fig
sighted $50 miles east of st. Johns,
Newfoundland, at 1857 o'clock East.
ern standard time, Tuesday night and
that she had been making about 100
miles an hour. From st. Johns to
Bordeaux is approximately $500 miles.
Twenty-four hours had elapsed at
$50 o'clock this morning since the lin
ers ploughing their regular transat-
lantic lanes in the darkness of the
early hours of Wednesday picked up
the despairing distress call:
''WRHP-SOS. Five hours out of
Newfoundland, east"
"WRHP" was the planes radio call
Its owner is w. r. Hearst.
Search of the tumbling wastes of
the Atlantic 500 miles off the New
fcundland coast had brought no sign
either of the plane or of the little rub
Der boat with which the flyers We're
equipped against just such an emer-
gency as seems to have befallen.
Searchers See Little Hope.
Capt. David w. Bone of the Cunard
Anchor Liner Transylvania, the vessel
nearest the spot, who raced his ship
more than 80 miles to the estimated
last position Of the plane. reported
regretfully last night:
suit. Feel little hope Of survival in
view of rough sea at time of casualty. ="
He was proceeding on his voyage, he
added.
Capt. r. c. Brown of the Carmania
reported strong rain squalls and rough
breaking seas, and, like Capt. Bone,
considered there was little chance
of survival of collapsible boat under
present conditions"
During the search for Old Glory,
out over the Atlantic, where the Rome
bound plane was last heard from,
where Nungesser and Coli, the brave
F'renchmen, are believed to have gone
down. and into whose spaces the Brit
ish ST. Raphael, with Princess Lowen.
stein Wertheim aboard, vanished a
week ago, another plane was winging
its way to the east, unequipped with
O. radio with which to summon aid in
case Of emergency.
Carllng Plane Now Overdue.
The Sir John CARING. manned by
Capt. Terry Tully, pilot, and Lieut..
James Medcalf. navigator, which left
Harbor Grace Wednesday morning,
was last seen heading across the At
Iantic from Cape st. Francis, 80 miles
away.
When they started Tully and Med
calf were ignorant of the plight Of
Old Glory. but the local authorities
at Harbor Grace placed in their map
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