The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-28
RADIO MESSAGE
MAY HAVE BEEN
SENT BY DAWN
Operator at Hearts Content
Reports Intercepting Call
For Help ..'
SHIPS TAKE UP HUNT
Dirigible Los Angeles Returns
Without Having Found
Trace Of Plane ~

AS~W ~VANe AOSs "WF@x8VVU0
for the safety Of Mrs. Frances VIII
son Grayson and her three male
companions in the Dawn centered
today in the possibility that the
plane might be down in some isolat-
ed spot not far from Harbor Grace,
N. F.
This possibility rested upon .
radio message which . telegraph
operator at Hearts Content, 26
miles from Harbor Grace. SAYS he
intercepted Monday afternoon and
upon the claims Of various persons
in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
that they heard the motor Of !
plane at different times between
Saturday morning and late Sunday
night.
When the Dawn left Roosevelt
Field Friday afternoon, with Mrs.
Grayson, Oskar Omdal, pilot, Brice
Goldsborough, navigator and radio
operator, and Fred Koehler. engine
expert, on board, it was planned to
fly direct to Harbor Grace, arriving
at about z o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
Then, Is soon as the weather was
favorable, the first three were 20
hop-off on = Transatlantic flight to
Croydon, England.
Dirigible Returns
The giant navy dirigiblc Los An
geies today rested in her hangar at
Lakehurst, N. j., after . cruise up
and down the course the Dawn was
believed to have followed after It
was sighted over Cape Cod. three
hours after the start.
The Los Angeles went as far A
Emerald Banks, about 12 miles
from Sable Island, whence had come
the news that . message. signed
with the call letters Of the Dawn
but rendered nearly unintelligible
BY interference and static, was re-
ceived Sunday night, - Reporting
something wrong" The news
came from the government wireless
station. operated by the Marconi
company.
The dirigiblc covered a strip 40
miles in width, and found the visi-
bility excellent, but saw no sign Of
the missing plane.
Destroyers Continue Search
Five destroyers today took up
the search in q semi-circle with its
center at Sable Island and a radius
Of Is miles. The destroyer yester-
day followed the coast between
Cape Cod and Sable Island, with no
better success than the Los An.
geles.
The radio message reported heard
at Hearts Content was publiahed by
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany. A message from Electrician
Stentaford, at Hearts Content. said
that Teleorapher Hillyard, while
listening on his radio set Monday
afternoon, picked up . code mes.
sage signed either "WHU" or
"WPA," the second letter being vir.
tually unreadable.
The signals, Hillyard said. were
the strongest he ever heard. He
believed they came from nearby.
"Where are we? Can you locate
u.s." was the message which Hill
yard reported receiving, repeated At
intervals Of three or four minutes
for nearly half IN hour. Hillyard
was described by the company 8 IN
excellent operator.
Hearts Content is On the oppo-
site shore Of the Avalon Peninsula
from Harbor Grace, on the shore Of
Trinity bay, and about rs miles dis
tant.
Report. Hearing Plane
Stentaford reported also that I
couple walking on the barrens near
Hearts Content claim to have heard
distinctly the passage Of an air
plane at $50 Saturday night, about
IS hours after Mrs. Grayson had
expected to arrive at Harbor Grace.
Sheriff Mclean of Shelburne,
near Cape Sable island, said he
heard q plane pass over that place
about 2 o'clock Saturday morning,
which could have been the Dawn Il
it proceeded that far ct the speed il
made in its early stages.
A resident Of Halifax said he
heard . plane, going in . northeast
erly direction, about 1880 Sunday
night.