Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-22
NO THING
HEARD Of
AvIAIORS
Nearly Week Since Start
of Fatal Race Without
Any Sign of Seven.
SEARCH KEEPS UP
Navy Continues Hopeless
! TASK of Finding Trace
of Missing Planes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.-Tha
navv's divided sea force engaged
in the greatest ocean hunt in history
the search for the three missing
planes or the Dole disaster -
were TO meet in miJ-pacif,e at l.
"a. M, today Pacific time.
Last hope OF discovering tn"
81 Miss Doran and Golden
Eagle. - which left at the start of
the Dole race to Hawaii, and Of
the "DHilas Spirit which lett
later in search Of the first two viii
disappear if the great net now draw
APg together yields no clue when
Ne ships meet.
The destroyers Hull, Kidder, Far
cnholt and Cory reported at point
$50 miles southwest of San Fran
DISCO at o'clock last night, They
Eere steaming west, scanning the
Ereat circle sailing route under the
Ean Francisco Hawai- airwav.
The aifpiane carrier Langley, with
- planes aboard, accompanied by
the tender Aroost0ok with its two
arge seaPlanes, halted at 5 P NJ.
pr the night AT point 565 miles
d Mthwest Of San Francisco. Send
Il L out planes in search Of flares
k = signals, and PLAYING the surface
or the Pacific with their own great
So arehhghts for the remaining hours
ct darkness.
At 6: 80 this morning the Langlev
x-yl = Astr L. a stsa, nj
again, fill sending their wasplike
planes out fan shaped $50 miles to
Tie north and south.
No Encouragement
Early morning dawned on mid
ocean with no encouraging report
" hatevor, from the naval and pas
seneer ships taking part in the anna
t1rly painstaking hunt.
The brief and discouraging teNt
of radio reports received by the
Aayy station here and by the Radio
Corporation was simply: " NJ
trace.
The Miss Doran, - carrying Miss
Mildred Doran, pretty Young school
teacher, pilot 'Aggy Pcdlar, and
navigator Villas X. Knopc, and the
Golden Eagle, with pilot Jack
Frost and navigator Gordon Scott,
lave now been missing six days.
Hope is ali bat abandoned for
the "Afiss Doran,
A better chance Of survival is
conceded the Golden Eagle, -!
which was equipped with wing
tp flotation device,
Air'.e "Dallas SPIRIT, " is thought
~ oe lost for all time Tha last fran
tic radio message received from this
plane, which left in search of the
Miss Doran and "Golden
Eagle, came three nights ago and
indicated that the ship was IN a !
tail spin plunging arrow-like toward
the surface of the ocean,
The final call said
"SOSl Wer re IA tail spin, !
clay that. We re in another---'
Weather Not Good
The weather east Of the l36th
mer,dian, which is approximately |
half way from the Golden Gate to
awaii, is cloudy and with poor
IN hbility, the weather bureau here
today
The sky is completely overcast |
with clouds and high fogs, and local
showers are developing.
tFrom the l36th meridian to Honn.
1lu is somewhat less cloudy and bet
ter suited to the search.
The mid-Pacific winds are mod
orately northeasterly," and those
b'earer Hawaii moderately easter
ly"
There are no storms or strong
MINDS along the Pacific coast.
The weather bureau announced
that conditions would remain prs,
etically unchanged during the next
asj hours, which viii see the crisis
|eN the hunt,