Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
FATE Of AV|ATR|X
is STILL IN DOUBT
Search for Mrs. Miller Goes
on Despite Belief That She
Plunged in Waves.
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, November 29.-Hope
waned and strengthened today for the
safety of Mrs. j. M. Keith-M Miller, the
woman who dared q stormy flight from
Havana to Miami.
Mrs. Keith-Mi Australian aviatrix,
has been missing since she left Havana
yesterday to fly across the wind-chop-
ped gray waves of the Gulf Stream
toward Miami and Pittsburgh. She
faced q 30-nile wind from the east,
without facilities for blind flying. She
carried no radio set, or bank and turn
dials.
FLYERS familiar with the semi-tropic
aerial conditions here continued their
search for her and her reconditioned
plane, 1.-THE Bullet"
Opinions Are Divided.
AS her absence extended past 40
hours, they admitted apprehension that
she and her tiny low winged monoplane
Of the gulf when a nine-hour supply OF
gasoline gave out as she battled the
wind.
In Havana, she was believed lost.
Laura ingalls,, another well known
woman flyer, and Capt. w. N. Lancaster,
member of the British Royal Flying
Corps and a former flying partner Of
Mrs. Keitt-Miller, continued to ex-
press confidence in her safety today.
Capt. Lancaster left Pittsburgh by
airplane to assist in the search. He was
accompanied by John Liggett, Sd, Pitts
burgh, one of the hackers OF the flyers
recent Pittsburgh Havana fight.
Friends of Capt. Lancaster said he
attempted to communicate with Capt.
Hawks, famed speed flyer, to gain his
aid in the hunt.
Miss ingalls, asserted her belief that
the Australian woman climbed above
the east winds to ride a tail wind Tar
into the Florida mainland.
Urges Search Continuance.
at would be a grievous mistake to
give up the hunt for her." Miss ingalls,
said. 1T is possible she was forced
to land on some isolated key or spot on
the mainland with mo communication
facilities"
No reports of the red monoplane
were received from ships to which an
hourly broadcast was sent by radio
from Key West Naval Station and from
Tropical Radio Station here.
A Curtiss Air Station seaplane re-
turned here late today after exploring
the keys below Key West with the
exception of the outer dry Tortugas.
Tex Bohannon, pilot, said he believed
no hope remained for Mrs. Keith-Mil-
ler's safety unless she was on the last
remaining key.
American Always gained no infor-
nation of Mrs. Keith-Miller as their
pilots scanned land and sea from reg
ular transport planes and aoanooneo
the search.
Employees of the Florida East Coast
Railway between Miami and Key West
watched without avail.
An east wind that dashed the Florida
keys and the gulf yesterday failed TO
lessen its 30-mile velocity. Havana dis
patches said Mrs. Keith-Miller told OF
q premonition of death before she de-
parted for Miami yesterday.
Had PremonltiOn Of Trouble.
ct don't know what 1t is, but some
thing tells me I'm going down. she
said. i've had the feeling ever since ]
crossed on the way over from Florida,
and somehow or other can't shake II
Of"
Her plane, to which she referred in
Havana as an "un-airworthy crate, was
known to aviation enthusiasts in Colo
RADIO Springs as link" craft. Two
test pilots lost their lives in 1t there .
year ago. An aviation company rebuilt
il and presented 1t to Mrs. Keith Miller,
who knew its past history but believed
she could escape the jinx.
She was seeking to gain renown as
commercial pilot and hoped her Pitts.
burgh- Havana-Pittsb flight with
bare flying necessities, would lead to-
ward her goal.