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investigated; -wo cities withdrew $685.
900 prizes for transatlantic victors,
and friends and relatives of three men
planning long overwater hops, ap'
pealed to the flyers to abandon their
intentions.
Fruitless Search Continues.
Meanwhile a fruitless search went
on for the American monoplane OLD
Glory and the Canadian monoplane Sir
John CARING, long overdue in at
tempted flights Eastward over the AT
lantic.
Abandonment of the projected Wind
sor to- Windsor flight of the Canadian
plane Royal Windsor and the Paris
flight of Capt. Rene Fonck appeared
almost a certainty today.
Capt. Fonck in New York said ms
projected flight to Paris probably
would be abandoned for this year,
after the Navy Department revoked
the leaves of absence granted Lieut..
Lawrence Curtin and Ensign Stephen
v. Edwards, navigator and radio OPP
orator, respectively, on the proposed
jump.
Although the Navy Department can
not officially prevent the Fonck flight,
the French ace said he would cancer
his plans for the present IF there IS
any request or intimation from the
United States Government that 1t
would rather not have me make the
flight"
Fear Charges of Quitting"
C. A. Duke" Schiller and Phil
Wood, pilots of the Royal Windsor,
told their hackers, who had urged
abandonment of the flight, that they
would carry on at all costs" unless
I'VE will not be accused Of quitting"
The plane, meanwhile, was at Har'
Dor Grace, Newfoundland, awaiting
favorable weather to join the costal
steamer Kyle in the North Atlantic
search for Old Glory and the 81 John
CARING. The Kyle was chartered by
the New York Daily Mirror, owned by
William Randolph Hearst, sponsor OF
the Old Glory flight. The American
Government has asked the Canadian
government to assist in the search
for Old Glory and the Canadian gov
eminent radio stations have broad
cast the position in which the plane
was last seen.
A request for ships to patrol the
route mapped out by William 5.
Brock and Edward F. Schlee for their
journey from the Orient across the
Pacific on their round-the-world flight
in the Pride of Detroit was refused
by Acting Navy Secretary Robinson,
who said no ships were available.
President Plans Probe.
If ships were available, he notified
Harold e. Hartney, president OF the
~
York, who had asked for the protec-
ton, II personally would oppose their
disposal in the Pacific, as l do not
think the proposed flight should be
attempted in land plane, even II
ships were placed at various stations"
The Detroit Board of Commerce cabled
Brock and Schlee urging them to aban-
don their transpacific plans.
President Coolidge, at Rapid City,
let it be known that while he intends
to investigate transatlantic flying cir
cumstances with the hope of estab-
fishing greater certainty for them, he
can hardly see Government board
being willing to take the responsibility
for any transatlantic flights.
Meanwhile, in this country, Canada
and in Europe sentiment against
transoceanic flights gained supporters.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
and the aviation committee of the Phil
adelphia Chamber of Commerce and
the Boston airport withdrew offers of
$25, 900 prizes for the first planes reach
ing those cities on flights from Europe.
The Cleveland Chamber of Com.
merce, however, announced that Its
SIS 900 prize for the first Atlantic flyer
to reach Cleveland still stood.
The Westminster Gazette. hacker
of the proposed transatlantic flight of
Cant. Frank r. Courtney, British avia-
tor, released him from any obligation
to make the trip. Courtney. at CO.
runna, Spain, where he was forced