Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Destroyer Returns Without
Having Found Trace of Err
win-PaII Deepens Over
Fate of Missing Flyers.
FRAGMENTARY CLUES
INSPIRE FALSE HOPES
Renewed Determination Marks
Continued Hunt Despite Lack
of Single Word-San Francisco
Mayor Calls on Residents Of City
to Pray for Safety.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 90
The Navy destroyer lakewood,
after a futile search of the sea at
the supposed position where the last
message was sent from the Dallas
Spirit, manned by Capt. William Err
win and Alvin Eichwaldt, saying the
plane was in a tail spin, turned late
today toward San Francisco to re-
fuel. Headquarters of the twelfth
naval district announced no news
whatsoever had been received by the
Navy about the Dallas Spirit.
With renewed determination in
spired by fragmentary clues and
prayer, official and private agencies of
rescue along the West Coast, in
Hawaii and on the sea bent them
selves tonight to the common pur-
pose of retrieving from the ever
gripping NAV of the Pacific seven
lives waged against fame in ro-
mantle adventure of aviation.
The fate of the missing flyers was
as much in doubt as it has been at
any time since they left the mainland
in high spirits TO mark new paths
through the air to Honolulu.
Not One Word Heard.
Not one word, so far as could be
ascertained here, has been heard from
either the Miss Doran or the Golden
Eagle with five persons aboard since
last Tuesday, when they hoped off
from the Oakland Airport in the Dole
race for prizes totaling $4,000.
The last word from the monoplane
Dallas Spirit, which took off yesterday
for Honolulu to search for the Miss
Doran and the Golden Eagle, came
shortly after o'clock last night when
1t broadcast an SOS message. sharp
ly terminated.
Previous to this sudden lapse into
silence the Dallas Spirit had broad
cast numerous messages, most Of
them in jesting vein, concluding
with sos messages which told Of
going into a tail spin twice.
Since then the only report Offering
any possible clue or encouragement
regarding any of the three planes was
the report of the shipping board vessel
West Sequana that flare had been
seen in it's vicinity last night some ESQ
miles west of San Francisco.
Message Fragments Picked Up.
1t was estimated the Dallas Spirit
was about 612 miles from San Fran
cisco when the tail spin message was
broadcast.
A tiny little fragment of a clue was
offered today to the possible where
abouts of the Golden Eagle when an
OF al
Hawaii. reported intercepting a radio
message from an unidentified source.
The fragments obtained were pick.
ing up and Golden Eagle" The
army radio and the naval radio sta
tions in the islands were inclined 10
discredit the messages.
Not in years have the people Of
the Pacific Coast and especially in
this vicinity felt a tragedy so keenly
as they have the disappearances OF
these flyers to whom they wished such
a hearty bon voyage a few days
since.
Mayor Asks Prayers.
As evidence of this sentiment
Mayor James Rolph, jr., of San Fran.
cisco, today issued proclamation
calling on the residents of the city
to pray for the safety Of the ad
venturers who number among them
Miss Mildred Doran, attractive young
school teacher of Flint. Mich, aftef
whom the plane in which she rode
was named.
All commercial and naval vessels
in the Pacific between the Pacific
Coast and the Hawaiian Islands con-
tinued to search the ocean for a pos.
sible trace of the missing flyers. The
Army Air Service here reported the
airplanes it has had searching the
waters along the coast and 200 miles
from shore have reported negatively.