Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13
WRECKAGE REEVES
HOPES FOR FLYERS.
Parts of Old Glory and Two
Other Craft Found at Wide
Iy Separated Points.
BY the Associated Press.

| By the Associated frese.
NEW YORK, September 13.--Water.
| logged airplane wreckage reported
found at three widely separated points
at sea today provided clues regarding
| ten brave adventurers who vanished
into Atlantic skies in their great gam
| BILE against the deep.
The wild north Atlantic began yes.
| terady to yield it's secrets concerning
the lost monoplane Old Glory, and
possibly the lost expedition Of Nun
gesser and Coli, the monoplane St.
Raphael, which carried Princess Low
stein-Wertheim, and the monoplane
Sir John CARING.
Wreckage of the Old Glory was re-
ported found by the steamship Kyle,
a rudder and part of the wing OF an
unidentified plane were found on the
beach at Newquay, Cornwall. Eng.
and a French fishing schooner re-
ported having sighted airplane wreck
age three weeks ago 800 miles east of
Halifax, N. S. No trace of the flyers
was reported.
Wreckage OF Sable Island.
The schooner sighted the wreckage,
partially submerged, about ESQ miles
off Sable Island, a graveyard OF the
Atlantic. In a report to the French
hospital ship Jeanne D'Arc, now at
Halifax, the schooner advised that the
plane was a "yellowish color with
black lettering"
Douglas Muir, q newspaper man OF
| st. Johns, N. F., on board the steam
er Kyle, sent the following message
from the ship, which had been char.
| tered by the New York Daily Mirror
to search for Old Glory.
Located wreck of Old Glory, lati-
ture SLIT north, longitude 1928 west,
at 4:20 pm. No signs of crew. Par
| ticulars follow"
had been washed by the waves to
position 100 miles northeast of the one
it occupied when it broadcast its ap.
peal for help and its position as five
hours out Of Newfoundland, east"
The wreckage was found about 600
miles east Of Newfoundland in an area
| that had not been traversed by the
| four ocean liners that joined in the
search.
Ten Lost in Atlantic.
Old Glory took off from Old Orchard.
Me-, last Tuesday with Lloyd Bertaud
and James D. Hill, veterans of the air
mail, as pilots and Philip A. Payne,
managing editor Of the New York
Daily Mirror, as passenger. 1t was
last sighted by the steamship Cali
fornia about $50 miles off the New
| foundland coast. Four hours later
the S o S was picked up by the steam.
ers Carmania, Lapland, Pennsylvania
and American Merchant.
Charles Nungesser and Francois
Coli hoped from LIE Bourget for New
York on May and disappeared.
On August 81 Princess LOwenstein-
Wertheim, with Col. Frederick c..
Minchin and Capt. Leslie Hamilton,
left Upavon, England, in the st. Ra-
phael for Ottawa.
Capt. Terrence B. Tully and Lieut..
James V. Medcalf and their plane, Sir
John CARING, bound from London, On
tario, to London, England, left Har-
Dor Grace, Newfoundland, Septem-
ber Z.
The advices regarding the wreckage
| of Old Glory caused Mrs. Lloyd Ber-
taud and Mrs. Philip A. Payne to be
| optimistic regarding their husbands.
"It is possible that some boat with
out wireless picked them up" said
Mrs. Bertaud. 1--WE might not hear
for two or three weeks, and they
could still be safe"