Evening star., 1927-05-09
Advices Announcing Sighting
of CroSS-Sea AviatorS Off
Newfoundland Also Lack
Substantiation.
SUCCESS OR FAILURE
STILL HANGS IN BALANCE
Weather Conditions Between Cape
Race and New York Declared
Menace to Completion of Voyage
Should Pilots Have Crossed
Ocean Safely.

b. the Associated Press.
HANRE, Franch May 9.-1he
/ French Steamship Line announced
this afternoon that it had received
advices that Capt Nungessers trans
atlantic plane passed Halifax, Nova
Scotia. between pm. and 3 pm,
French time g and 9 am, Eastern
standard time).
GLACE BAY. Nova Scotia, May 9
Up canadian Press).-The Marconl
wireless station here, up to o'clock
this afternoon. had not been in COM
munication with any ship that had
sighted the French flyers.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 9.-Two-
eighteen o'clock this afternoon came
and with it there was no definite
word of the whereabouts OF Capts.
Nungesser and Coli, flying over the
sea from Paris to this city. Thirty
eight hours had passed since the
plane had hoped off from the flying
field at lie Bourget. Two earlier
reports that the white Bird" was
sighted over Newfoundland had not
as yet been confirmed. One of these
reports was not credited. A heavy
rainstorn and fog nlantled the sea
between New York and Boston, and
visibility was low.
The radio and steamship companies
were still without information up to
O'Clock. Grave apprehensions were
expressed, though hopes were gen.
orally maintained that the aviators
would be able to conclude success
full flight. even though their gasoline
supply was thought to be near ex-
haustion.
Can Float "a Hours.
II forced down at sea, the plane
without its landing gear could keep
afloat for "a hours.
The Nungesser plane was sighted
off Cape Race. Newfoundland, at 10
o'clock this morning, according to
word received by the New York Times
from it's correspondent at Sydney
Nova Scotia. Should the report prove
accurate and the daring aviators sue
cessfully pursue the remaining 1000
miles of their course over the misty
Atlantic, they should reach their goal
of the Paris-to-New York flight about
o'clock tonight eastern daylight
time).
Earlier in the day report received
by the French Cable Co., stated that
the radio operator at st. Pierre
Miquelon. had received word that
Nungesser had been sighted over
Newfoundland This report lacked
confirmation from any source.
France Celebrates Report.
The Havas agency in New York
advised its home in Paris that they
had a definite report from st. Pierre
AIiquelon that the white Bird" had
heen sighted over the island at S:15
o'clock this morning. The French
capital promptly staged a celebration.
Later a st. Pierre dispatch, received
in New York shortly after IL o'clock,
stated that the Nungesser plane had
not been sighted over the island up
TO 9 o'clock, Atlantic daylight time,
today.
b.. The broad reaches of the Eastern
Atlantic still hold within their grasp
the success or failure of the Nun.
gesser fight. Reported off Cape
Race, Newfoundland, the aviators
have yet about a thousand miles of
sea to traverse in adverse weather
conditions.
The weather off Newfoundland
was clear this morning, but off to the
southeast the daring pioneers of the
air were now winging their way with
lowering gasoline supply and facing
lou icih Iok
VIII try every bit of courage they can
summon.
Aviators at Mitchell Field said that
under the weather conditions, now
obtaining, If Capt. Nungesser could
make a landing in New York, he
would have performed a miracle even
greater than that of crossing the
Atlantic. The searchlights were turned
on during the day at Mitchell Field
to aid the flyers.
Evidence of the distressing flying
weather in and about New York was
had when Comdr. Francesca de Pinedo,
The Italian flyer. was forced down in
The heavy fog in Long Island Sound
on his flight TO Philadelphia from
Boston
Liners Without Word.
II the white bird was off Cane
Face, Newfoundland, her course would
naturally lie across TO Cape Canso.
Nova Scotia, and then skirting the
shore line of Nova Scotia past Cape
Sable, the aViators would head the
white bird for Boston and New
York.
Inquiries at noon at the Radio Cor
poration and independent wireless
companies and the steamship com
panies with vessels at sea brought the
response that no word had come from
the white bird"
While a $4,000 prize offered by
Raymond Orteig, New York and Paris
hotelman, for the first nonstop flight
from New York TO Paris has been the
means of attracting attention TO a
flight between the United States and
France, several of the expeditions
have not registered for the prize
money. The Nungesser Plane, max.
Ing its flight from Paris to New York,
is rot eligible for the Orteig prize.
The first definite sighting of the
Iplane since its hop off was at $40