The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-23
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Five More Aviators and Two
Planes Thought Lost
in Atlantic.
BY EDWARD w. PlcKARD


1--WE more lives apparently have
4 been sacrificed to the overween-
ing ambition Of aviators to make trans
oceanic flights. And there may be
further additions to the list before this
reaches the reader. Tuesday the great
monoplane Old Glory, owned by Will
liam Randolph Hearst, took off from
Old Orchard, Maine, on a projected
nonstop flight to Rome. Lloyd Ber-
taud and James D. Hill, both expert
enced flyers, were the pilots, and with
them as passenger was Philip A.
Payne, managing editor of the New
York Mirror. Near midnight the plane
was sighted about $50 miles east of
st. Johns, N. f., flying we'll, though
the night was foggy and the sea rough.
About four o'clock Wednesday morn
Ing steamers and shore stations re-
ceived the dread S o S call from the
plane. The radio men and the ships
sent out frantic calls for position and
six minutes later came the reply:
'sFive hours out from Newfoundland
bound west"
The steamships Carmania, Trapsyl-
vania, California and American Mer-
chant, all somewhere near the esti-
mated position of Old Glory, carefully
searched the sea for hours, but no
trace of the plane had been discov-
cred up to the time of writing. Seem
ingly it was lost without there being
an inkling of what had happened to
It, even as was lost the st. Raphael
and other land planes in which trans
oceanic flights have been undertaken.
Anthony III. G. Fokker designer of the
plane, said he thought only engine
trouble would bring the plane down.
Doctor Kimball of the weather bu-
reau eliminated the weather as a
cause, saying there were no severe
storms in the planes path, although
there was fog and cloudiness.
There was some hope that the plane
might still be afloat even though res
cue ships were unable to find it. The
huge gasoline tank had dump valve
by which it could be speedily emptied
and it would then provide buoyancy
for some time. A collapsible rubber
raft was carried, but probably the sea
was too rough for it's use.
On board the Old Glory was a
wreath which the pilots had prepared
in tribute to the French flyers who
had made the first attempt. On it
was written, 'sNungesser and Coli:
You showed the way. We followed.
Bertaud and Payne and HILL"
Undeterred by bad weather and ig-
norant of the supposed loss of the Old
Glory, Capt. Terry Tully and Lieut..
James Medcalf in the plane Sir John
CARING hoped off from Harbor Grace,
N. F., for the last lap of their trip
from London, Ont, to London, Eng
land, on Wednesday. At this writing
nothing has been heard of them, and
the ocean.
Schlee and Brock in the Pride of De-
troit were making good progress in
their globe circling flight for a new
time record, despite the fact that they
were delayed at Constantinople by red
tape. The most perilous part of the
trip was the jump from Calcutta to
Rangoon. At this writing they are in
Hongkong. In Tokyo they planned
to install a new motor for the
flight to Hawaii via Midway is
land and thence to San Francisco.
Their Detroit friends were trying to
persuade them not to undertake the
flight across the Pacific, and Schlees
brothers chartered a boat to meet
them at Tokyo and bring them to San
Francisco. believing that in that way
they could still lower the round-the-
world record
Frank Courtney and four compan-
ions. who started from Plymouth, Eng
land, for New York, via the Azores.
in the flying boat Whale, ran into head
winds and were forced to land at Co
runna, Spain.
Numerous persons around the Ma
careo river in Venezuela saw a plane,
supposed to have been that of Paul
Redfern, on August q. 1t was headed