Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
NAVY AND ARMY RUSH
AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS
IN SEARCH OF FLYERS

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, August
AZ Cp).-The Navy and the Army or
ganized all their resources in air ana
on water today to search for the Dole
flyers, the biplane Miss Doran and
the monoplane, Golden Eagle. which
took off from Oakland Tuesday in the
race of 2 2,400 miles to Honolulu.
In the hope that the planes, carry.
ing four men and one woman, might
still be afioat on the broad PACING,
nearly 4S hours after they began the
flight, the Navy's fast destroyers raced
out over the course the planes fol-
lowed, and began TO Zigzag along the
route in an intensive search.
The airplane carrier Langley and
the airplare tender Aroostook rushed
north from San Diego toward the
great circle with decks loaded with
airplanes prepared to soar over the
Pacific to pick up sight or foating
planes or wreckage. The Langley
carried thirty or more planes and the
.Aroostook two. From Crissy Field,
San Francisco, 10 planes of the Army
were ready to roar out to sea as soon
as the heavy fog lifted. -Four will
20 beyond the Farallones, 20 miles
of the Golden Gate, and the others
will ply up and down the coast.
Vessels warned by Radl0.
The Navy sprang into action with
orders TO 80 vessels of various classi-
fcations to hunt for the planes along
the 2400-miie course, and among the
Islands OF the Hawaiian group.
The Coast Guard hurried two boa is
to sea.
Merchant ships were alert, warned
by broadcasting radio.
The search was on almost before the
two successful flyers had won the
James D. Dole prizes of $4,000 and
$4,000 by landing yesterday near
Honolulu.
Interest centered largely in the fate
of Miss Mildred Doran, pretty Flint
Mich, school teacher, who, the only
woman in the Dole race, was passen'
ger in the biplane named in her honor
the Miss Doran, piloted by j. A,
Pedlar of Flint and navigated by V.
r. Knope, San Diego Navy lieutenant
The other missing aircraft was the
cigar shaped monoplane Golden Eagle
Fowned by George Hearst. publisher OF
the San Francisco Examiner, OF
which Jack Frost of New York was
pilot and Gordon Scott Of Santa
Monica, Cal, navigator.
Fleet OF Vessels In Search.
Two score vessels, more than half OF
them belonging to the United States
Navy, were cruising over or speeding
toward the path believed to have been
followed by the missing planes.
To vessels on the steamship lanes
80 Hawaii the wireless agencies were
broadcasting directions for g. search
over the surface of the waters, while
aircraft hoped off from both main
land and Hawaii TO scan the high
seas for signs Of the missing planes
Capt. w. p. Erwin and Navigator
A. II. Eichwaldt of the monoplane
Dallas Spirit. whose wind torn fuse.
laze defeated their effort 10 get away
as entrants in the Dole flight Tues
kdav. worked past midnight at the
oakland Airport to be ready to take
off at noon on a searching flight
It the end of which they expected
yro land in Hawaii. Two Army
DIanes stood ready at Crissy Field
the San Francisco Army airport
awaiting orders to soar to the extent
of their cruising radius over the
mainland end Of the Dole race course
At the Hawaiian end of the course
Army and Navy planes were zoom
ing out TO scan the broad eXpanses
where it is believed the flyers may
DE 6UCnt-
For bouyancy the Miss Doran was
nrepared, unless a too sudden descent
1nto the Pacific prevented the drain
ing of gasoline from its tanks, The
Golden Eagle was equipped to I'll
tanks on wing ends and the rear oi
4he fuseIage with air by the turning
of a valve from an air tank in the
navigators cabin.
Doran Plane Can Float.
The biplane carrying Miss Doran
Auggy Pedlar and Lieut.. Villas
Enope, II 1t has been forced down ir
tho ocean, can remain afioat full
dav or more If the sea is not toe
,ough, Lieut.. Ben il. Wyatt, nsvi
cation inspector of the Dole Night
committee. announced after a scien-
tifc calculate
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