Evening star., 1927-09-09
LINER TRAvERSES
OLDCLORy'S ROUTE
|NFUT|LE SEARCH
Weather Clears. With Gentle
Breeze BIov'ing-BalChen
Still Holds Out Hope.
CROYDON KEPT ALIGHT
TO WELCOME CARLING
Spanish Military Attache Here
Urges Southerly Route for
Transatlantic Hops,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 9.-The
liner Carmania has reported to the
Cunard steamship offices here that
she has proceeded 260 miles over the
estimat ted course of the Old Glory
but that a vigilant lookout failed 10
discover any trace of the lost mono
nlane or it's crew, consisting OF Lloyd
Rertaud. James d. Hill and their pas
senger. Philip A. Payne.
The message. signed by Comdf. r
q. Brown, was as follows
"1110 m. Greenwich mean tlmel,
latitude. 4S.S4 north; longitude, 4o.42
west. Have now proceeded 260 miles
e-er the estimated opposite course OF
the nIane Old Glory from her farthest
estimated eastern position, with Vlgl'
lsnt lookout throughout the night. NO
rrace seen. Weather moderated grad
,uaIv after dark. Now gentle south
erlv breeze. Visibility first part OF
night was very good, with intervals OF
bright moonlight"
No Other Word Received.
THE message was received here at
a.39 o'clock last night, having been re-
laved from the radio station at Louis
burg, Nova Scotia.
Meanwhile no word came to tighten
the apprehension over the tate OF the
Sir John CARING, bearing the cana.
dian flyers, Capt. Terry Tully ana
Lieut.. James Medcalf.
Should none of these adVentuters
he found, the death toll taken by long
"a c-IFa
will have mounted to 20, in addition TO
Z persons killed since last september
in preparation for such flights.
Old Glory left Old Orchard Beach,
Me for Rome. Italy, Tuesday, at l2:z5
nm. Eastern standard time, ana was
last sighted by the steamship CafIor'
mia 350 miles off Newfoundland, 1877
nm. Eastern standard time, Tuesday.
4 wireless distress CALL picked up by
several liners at $3.50 am. Eastern
standard time. Wednesday. was the
last heard from her.
Liners Comb Sea.
The Sir John CARING left Harbor
Grace. Newfoundland, 2:25 am, East
ern standard time, Wednesday Tor
Crovdon Field, near London, and has
not been seen since it passed out 10
aea.
Liners traversing the North Atlantic
route were still combing the sea at
last reports for some trace or Oid
Glory or of the rubber lifeboat with
which the three men aboard her were
.ouiuned The keen anxiety over their
fate lert extra interest to the test of
coflapsible boat at Toms River,
Nj. by Boatswain's MAte Alva r.
s arr. who failed in an attempt TO in
fate and launch the rubber contrlV-
auce after a parachute drop OF LOU
feet from the alrship J-3. The failure
was attributed to a faulty valve.
William Randolph Hearst, hacker OF
Old Glory's flight, has offered $4,000
to the captain and crew of any Vessei
finding Bertaud. Hill and Payne. A
note Of optimism is sounded by
Rernd, Balchen, flying aide to Comdr.
Byrd Balchen, now in Oslo. Norway.
was quoted in cable dispatches as de-
claring that in test flights at the
Tokker plant in New Jersey he had
found the Old Glory 'marvelously
easy 10 handle" at speed of 100
miles an hour. He thought that mo-
for trouble must have caused the dis
tress signal and that if the plane was
able to take TO the water without dam
age it might. float for long time.
Lights Kept Burning.
While hope faded for the safety oi
Tully and Medcalf in the Sir John
CARING as the hours passed without
q report of their being sighted, the
flying field at Croydon was kept bril-
liantIy illuminated all night, with
colored searchlights playing. Estimates
as to length of time their gasoline
supply would last if they were still
in the air varied considerably, but the
most optimistic did not extend beyond
4 O'Clock this morning, London time
or 10 pm. Eastern standard.
FLYING conditions over the British
isles were described as wretched, anC
even the pilots of the Imperial Air
ways and Dutch Royal Air Service
accustomed to landing in England IL
all sorts of weather, were compelled
bv wind clouds and rain to descend
before reaching Croydon.
Fate seems to have pursued th'
male members of the TClly family, o
Cant. Terry Tully's three brothers
one was killed in the World war
another died suddenly from hetr
affection and the third lost his lif
in q motor accident.
SoutherIy Route Urged.
more southerly route for trans
atlantic fierS IS urged Dy MdJ, ~
toriano Casajus. military attache |
the Spanish embassy at Washington
who has made study Of meteorolc
cical conditions over the ocean. IN
logical transatlantic airway, he bt
lieves, is by way of Bermuda, IN
Azores and Madeira. He terms TN
enatures own route"
The possibility that Old Glory ma
have swung TO the south of the grea
circle route has been presented wit
che disclosure by Miles Stedman. mrs
officer of the liner Leviathan. tina
Pertaud planned to fly directly 70
Bordeaux. France. from St Johns, II
stead of following the great circle
Stedman thinks the search for tn
fIyers should be shifted about $50 mile
to the south OF the area already COY
cred.
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