Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-22
Ocean Combed for Sixth Day
Without Revealing Trace
of 3 Missing Planes.
DALLAS SPIRIT CRASHED,
BELIEF OF AIR EXPERTS
Golden Eagle Greatest Puzzle to
acknowledges Plight Cited
as Hope for Miss Doran.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 22.-The
aviation world. it's eyes held westward,
with heavy heart today watched
aircraft, naval vessels and merchant
ships continue their intensive search
In the trackless wastes of the Pacific
for seven flyers, who flew down the
airways from Oakland toward Homo
lulu last week and have not been
heard of since.
Efforts of IS naval vessels, aided by
the merchant craft steering a course
along the 2,400-mile great circle be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu,
after six-day search failed to reveal
any trace of the three missing planes
The Miss Doran, the Golden Eagle
and the Dallas Spirit.
Worshipers in all Honolulu church.
es yesterday offered prayers for the
rescue of the six men and one woman
comprising the crews of the lost air.
ships.
Carrier Pigeon Raises Hopes.
A faint flicker of hope regarding
the plane carrying Miss Mildred Doran
went up from Long Beach, Calf, last
night when a carrier pigeon landed
there. At one time Miss Doran spoke
of taking carrier pigeons on the Hight
and releasing them $50 and 800 miles
out in the Pacific. Check of the mark
ings on the bird, however, revealed
it was a participant in a carrier
pigeon race being conducted on the
Pacific Coast, and had no connection
with the San Francisco-to-Honolul
flyers
Residents Of Honolulu. mindful of
the rescue Of the late Comdr. John
Rodgers, continued to express hope
that the missing flyers would be
found. Rodgers was found nine days
after his seaplane was forced down.
Unfrequented beaches on both the
east and west shores of the Hawaiian
Islands have failed to- give any indi-
cation of airplanes or of their crews.
Every Sampan Japanese fishing boat
has been checked, but their occupants
have brought no word or indication Of
hope.
Flight Backer Still Hopes.
William Malloska, Michingan mill
lionaire and hacker of the flight of
the Miss Doran, said he would not
give up hope Of finding the plane and
its occupants until seven days had
passed. He believes the plane and its
occupants may still be found floating.
with the crew and Miss Doran half
starved. but uninjured.
If the crew of the Miss Doran
should be found, they would have
been tossed about the Pacific on a
plane raft or a rubber life boat for
more than 100 hours, half starved and
baked under the blazing sun, judging
by the Rodgers experience.
In such a situation, Miss Doran
would have an even chance with the
man occupants of her plane for es-
Gaping alive, DIR. Aurelia Reinhardt,
president of Mills College, say. Miss
Doran's youth would keep her alive
occupants of the plane, DIR. Reinhardt
pointed out.
Failure Of naval vessels to find any
trace of the Dallas Spirit. carrying
Capt. William Erwin, which went
down about 600 nautical miles from
San Francisco on Friday night, has
led aviation experts to believe that
Capt. Erwin's plane crashed and gave
the occupants little chance to get to
liferaft. An SOS message OF tail
spin was the last word received from
the Dallas SPIRIT.
Intensive Search Futile.
Day and night naval vessels have
swept over the position and in the VI
cinity Of the last position given by
Cant Erwin and his navigator, A. H.
Eichwaldt, but no trace OF the occu-
pants or wreckage of the plane has
been sighted.
The destroyers Hull, Kidder and
Cory were $50 miles southwest OF
San Francisco last night. The air.
craft carrier Langley and the U. S. S.
Aroostool1 were 563 miles southwest
of San Francisco. Today they plan
ned to continue moving westward to
make another intensive search of the
area where the Dallas Spirit went
down.
The fate of the Golden Eagle. pilot
ed by Jack Frost and navigated by
Gordon Scott, is the greatest puzzle
with flotation bags and the fuselage
carried a thick lining Of cork. Gordon
Scott, its navigator, had sailed yacht
between San Francisco and Honolulu
and knew the Pacific we'll. At Homo
lulu 1t was believed that the Golden
Eagle had overshot it's mark and had
passed the Hawaiian Islands during
the night. It was the fastest plane
in the race.
With this theory in mind, subma.
rines and other naval craft have been
searching the area west of the Ha-
waiian Islands
Believes He Saw Crash.
Capt. f. III. Connors, commander of
the destroyer Hardwood, which was
the Honolulu route, 525
miles off the Golden Gate Friday
night, expressed here today the belief
hat he saw the Dallas Spirit flashing
downward in the tail spin which is
thought to have ended.the lives of its
pilot, William P. Erwin, and its navi.
gator. A. L. Eichwaldt.
A light dropping through the thin
clouds is believed by Capt. Connors
70 have been on a wing Of Erwin's
plane, although its probable signif.
,ance he did not realize until the
Nays shore radio station notified
him Of the aircraft's despairing call
or help.
The Hazelwood, which was stationed
100 miles off shore at he beginning
II the Dole fight. was searching the
waters west Of that position for the
wo missing contesting planes, the
Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle,
when the Dallas Spirit passed over
him.
Informed from he shore that Capt.
crwin's craft was believed to have
allen into the ocean and the approx.
nate position, he headed directly for
{ and reached the place within four
lourAs Over an area 40 miles square