Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-13
CIRLAVIATRLX,
PILOT PICKED
UP BY TANKER
Broken Oil Line Caus-
es FIJI ght Failure;
Vessel Bound For
Galveston, Houston

PARIS, Oct. 13.--tPl-A message
to the Paris office Of The Associated
Press received this afternoon from
Miss Ruth Elder. the aviatrix. told OF
her landing at sea beside the Dutch
tanker Barendrccht.
The message. which said that she
and Captain George Haldeman were
"okey," said that the landing OF the
American Girl while enroute to Paris
from New York had been caused by
broken oil line.
The message, which did not give
| the position Of the tanker, was re-
ceived at the Paris office Of The
Associated Press nc 4:35 ID. I'M. The
message had been radioed from the
Barendrecht TO the steamship Bayano
which relayed il to the wireless sta
tion mt Debizzes.
All 'Okey'
IL follows:
LANDED by steamship Barendrecht
with broken oil line. Both Halde-
man and myself Okey-Ruth Elder"
| The time at which this message
had been filed was given az SIGN"
but IL was probable that these fig
ures, S:56 a. M, had been Rarbed In
transmission. There was also the
possibility, however, that the mes
sage might have been delayed in the
relay from the steamship Bayano,
The Bayano, n British vessel left
Barbadoes in the West Indies ON
September 2l, for Avonmouth, Eng
land.)
News OF the safety OF Miss Ruth
Elder, daring woman air pilot and
her companion, aviator, Captain
George Haldeman, came to turn
gloom into JOY when growing anxiety
was causing a conviction that the
American girl had gone 70 join other
missing trans-oceanic planes which
carried their brave occupants to un-
marked graves In the Atlantic.
Plane Overdue
When the word came that their
craft had made a successful landing
at sea, its maximum time limit N
the air was almost Up and the plane
was several hours overdue nc Paris.
according to Captain Haldeman's es-
No word had been received from
the American Girl since Tuesday
night when a steamship saw her
winging her way overhead barely
started on the long trail, leading
from New York to Paris.
NEW YORK. N. Y, Oct. 13.-CR-
The Radio Corporation or America
announced today that il was inform
ed by wireless from the steamer
Olympic that the Dutch steamer Bar
endrecht had picked up the crew of
the monoplane American Girl OF the
Azores.
Time Not Mentioned
Officials or the radio corporation
. said the brief message, rcIayed via
the Leyiathan TO the Chatham station
Of the company, did not mention the
time when Ruth Elder and her CO.
pilot were rescued by the Dutch
steamer.
The message received from the OF
ympic, radio officials read. "Air-
! plane American Girl picked ND off
J Azores by Dutch steamer Baren-
drecht. Both we'll"
| LONDON. Oct. l3.-P-The agents
! OF the tanker Barendrecht in London
. state that their steamer left Rot
terdam on October for Raytown.
} proximately 1000 miles out at th@
present time.
NEW YORK, n. r., Oct. 13.-(P--
! The steamship Barendrecht ~ a
. Dutch tanker owned by the n. vi. Van
Ommeren company n Rotterdam, ac-
cording 10 local steamship company.
The Radio Corporation on America
said the vessel was bound from VAL
, eneia, Spain, 70 Rotterdam and ap-
parently had since left the latter
port Tor Houston, Texas.
HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 1s-tF,--
Agents Of the Dutch tanker Raren-
drecht said today the vessel was due
at this port the middle OF November.
The tanker left Houston for Spain
two months ago and has had time ~
discharge It's cargo, the agents said.
They added IL was likely the Bar
/, endrecht would put into some other
port en- route 10 Houston, but were
: unable TO say what port.