The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-15
NO DEFINITE
WORD IS HEARD
FROM AVIATOR
Officials About Ready to Add
Two More Names to Allan.
tic Flight Toll
ELSIE MACKAY WITH HIM
Slight Hope HELD Out That
Plane May Have Landed at
Some Remote Spot
ELSIE MACKAY WITH HIM

New York, March Is. (AP)-
Fear that two more names had been
added to the list of flyers lost in
Atlantic flights grew today as the
hours passed with no trace Of the
golden-winged Endeavor en- route to
America from Cranwell airdrome,
England.
No definite word has been heard
from Captain Walter G. r. Hinch.
life and the Honorable Elsie Mac.
kay since they took off from Gram
we'll at $40 a. nj. eastern standard
time Tuesday, hoping to reach
Philadelphia.
The most optimistic estimate was
that they carried fuel enough for 50
hours Of flight, enough to keep then,
IN the air until $40 this morning
under normal conditions. But ad.
vices from ships along the great
circle course and weather develop
ments along the Irish coast indicated
that they encountered severe storms
which probably reduced their speed.
AS was the case with other flyers
lost on the dangerous north Atlantic
crossing, various rumors came Of :
plane being heard.
These reports caused more excite.
ment in the case Of the Hinchliffe
plane than in previous flights due
to persons in New England and New
Jersey. along the route the plane
might follow in its flight from New
foundland to Philadelphia, thinking
they heard the motor Of a plane.
These finally eliminated in a report
that the plane had landed at Menlo
Park. N. j., but this proved un-
founded.
May Have Reached Land
The same possibilities that buoyed
up hopes for Nungesser and Coli pre-
vailed today for the English war ace
and his daring woman companion.
Those were that they may have man.
aged to reach land far off tha:r
course somewhere in the wilderns Is
OF Newfoundland or the bleak intelior
Of Labrador.
There was also the hope that they.
might have landed on the ice pack,
II their fuel gave out before they
reached the mainland. This here
was based on the experience Of two
Canadian pilots and their Eskimo
guide, who only fortnight ago won
their way across go miles Of ice after
9 forced landing. It was eight days
from the time they disappeared be-
fore they won their way back to
civilization.
II the Endeavour had been on its
course and had passed the coast Of
Newfoundland undetected, the flyers
would have been heard from long
before this as the whole Atlantic
seaboard was on the watch for them
and they could hardly have escaped
notice.
Favorable weather conitions but
added to the fears that the plane
had fallen somewhere at sea, perhaps
weighted down by ice on the wings
from one of the sleet storms com-
mon 1t this time Of the year in mid.
ocean.
Officials Have Little Hone
While officials had almost given
up hope that the plane was still in
the air, the lights at Mitchell and
Curtiss. fields, Long Island, and at
the Philadelphia airport were kept
burning last night.
The planes previously lost in at
tempting the flight across the At
lantic were the White Bird (the
Nungesser-Col plane), the Sir John
Carling in which Captain Tully and
Lieut.. Metcalf perished attempting a
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