Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-25
HUNT FOR FLYERS
RENEWED BY NAVY
EberIe Tells Officers to Aid
as Long as Chance of
Rescue Remains.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. August o5. .-
With authority to continue search for
the missing Dole flyers, six men and
a girl lost while trying a flight from
the Golden Gate to Honolulu. as long
as officers in charge think there is a
chance of finding them, the u. s. s.
Omaha, flagship of the destroyer divi.
sion, and six destroyers today were
plowlng the Pacific with renewed en-.
ergy.
The Navy had announced that the
search would be given up tonight if
clews to the missing aviators failed
to nlaterialize. Then Admiral Eberle
chief OF naval operations, in Washing
ton, authorized Admiral r. Fl. Jack
son, in charge Of the hunt. to use his
own judgment as to how long the
search should be continued.
The result was radio order to the
Omaha and her fleet to continue on TO
Honolulu. sweeping probable drift
areas between their present positions
and the Hawaiian Islands, Naval
communications officers were scruti
nizing charts closely in the hope OF
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the planes or life RATS launched by
the stranded flyers might have
drifted.
Put Hope in Life Raft
Tests of rubber life raft, the same
in every respect as those carried by
the Dole flyers, renewed hope that
the lost aviators might still be afloat
The tests, conducted IL miles out, in
San Pedro channel, with an 1S-mile
westerly wind, a choppy sea and a
heavy ground swell, convinced J. n
Listman chief boatswain in the United
States Coast Guard and comma nder
Of the cutter 25-R, that it would be
impossible to swamp the raft.
Two 1S0-pound men went aboard
the raft, the cutter withdrew eight
miles and the men stayed on the raft
for an hour and so minutes without
shipping a drop of water Officials OF
the cutter said the raft was plainly
visible at the eightmle range, and es
timated that it could be sighted easily
by ships lookout with a glass 20
miles away.
The test was ordered by Coast Guard
officials when life raft manufacturers
protested that recent tests of a life
raft at San Diego We're not made with
the type of raft carried by the Dole
flyers.
Hawaiian Search Goes On.
Results of the tests indicated to
Coast Guard officials that, if the flyers
successfully got aboard their fits with
supplies sufficient to sustain life. they
could float indefinitely, even under ad
verse weather conditions.
Search in Hawaiian waters and on
the islands yesterday continued inten
slVely, but without developing a trace
of the lost flyers. The Navy sent
vessels to every point at which it was
considered possible that the flyers
might be found.
Martin Jensen, who finished second
in the Dole flight, flew to the Island
of Hawaii and returned, having seen
nothing to indicate any of the flyers
were on the lofty mountain Mauna
kea, where a green flare was reported
seen Monday night, arousing hope that
| the lost aviators might be signaling
| Jensen circled the mountain withoa,
seeing a trace of them.
The missing flyers are Miss Mildred
| Doran, flying school teacher" from
| Michigan; John Auggy Pedlar anj
Lieut.. Villas r. knope, all of the plane
Miss Doran; Jack Frost and Gordon
Scott of the monoplane Golden Eagle
and Capt. William Erwin and A. Fl
Eichwaldt of the Dallas Spirit.