Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-02
TRAGEDY
EN(;ULfS
A|RPLANE
English Attempt to Cross
Ocean Believed to Have
Ended DisastrOusly.
is LONG OVERDUE
Canadian Planes Also
Meet With Setbacks in
Effort to Reach Goal.
by United Press Leased Wire


Death apparently had claimed
three more would be trans Atlantic
flyers today while four Others plan
red 10 overcome unforeseen diff
cuities in order to resume their at
tempts TO span the Atlantic by air.
Princess Anne Lowenstein Wcr.
theim, +. F. Minchin and Leslie
Hamilton in the monoplane St.
Raphael last were sighted more
than 80 hours ago heading out to
eea from Ireland. They were about
80 hours overdue at st. Johns, y. F.,
al mid day today.
II they fell into the sea and died
the number Of persons dead or
missing in trans oceanic flights
since May was increased to II.
Meanwhile the American Pride of
Detroit with Edward F. Schlee and
William s. Brock aboard, was fly
ing over the near east today enroute
To Bagdad from Constantinople,
via Aleppo. The plane left Constan-
tlEople after IL hours delay there
IN an effort to lower the 2s | . davs
record for travel around the world
The London to London monuplane
Sir John Carling, which left London,
Ont, for London. England. yester-
day, encountered fog aud was fore
ed down at Caribou, Maine 1t was
PINOT likely the plane would be able
to resume its flight today.
Fire Causes Halt ...
The mon0planc ROYAL Windsor.
cnroute from Windsor, Ont. ON an
attempted nonstop flight to Wind
sor, England, according to message
To Windsor, was forced down at
Mount Johnson, near st. Johns,
Quebec. A slight fire on the left
wing caused the landing. The fliers
hoped to resume their flight today.
Search for Paul Redfern, missing
In an attempt TO fly from Bruins
wick, Ga, TO Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
was ordered today III the Amazon
valley and along the coast north of
the rivers mouth.
Givon and Cornr, in Farman
plane left lie Bourget field, near
Paris, early TODAY but turned back
and aighttd safely after encounter.
ing fog.
Charles 4. Levine, amateur avi.
ator of the monoplane Columbia,
announced in London that he would
not attempt any flight until some
definite word had been heard of
the ST. Raphael.
Old Glory, the New York to Rome
Fokker monoplane was expected to
fly to New Foundland today to
search for the st. Raphael.
ST. JOHNS, y. F., Sept. "a
wireless message was received here
at noon from the steamship
Blzdenyk saying:
"Sighted Thursday 6 a. m, Green
wich mean time, latitude 80. de-
grees eight minutes north, longitude
"a degrees 43 minutes west, white
light probably from plane moving
easterly direction. .
The position given in the above
dispatch would bel approximately
500 miles east Of Cape Sable, \. :.
II would have been possible for the
airplane st. Raphael, flying from
London to Ottawa and unheard from
since il left the coast of Ireland
Wednesday to have been in that Vi.
cinity. The position however,
would have been considerably south
Of the course the plane was expect
ed to follow.
The fact that the light was NOV
ing eastward, in case it was the
st. Raphael, could only be explained
as indicating the machine was lost
or was flying around trying to re-
locate its bearings.
II it had been following proper
course, it would have been headed
west.
Lloyds Register does not contain
any ship named the Blzdenyk
and it was believed the name had
been garbled in transmission.