Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-09
Have Gas Enough to Garry
Them Until 2::3O O'clock
This Afternoon-Weather
Conditions Are Favorable.
LAST SIGHTED HOUR
AFTER LEAVING JAPAN
Flyers Had Expected to Make
4.465-Mile Journey Across Pa
cifc in A to AZ Hours-Little
! Apprehension Felt by Friends
Waiting in Seattle.

b me Associated Press.
SEATTLE. Wash, September 9,
Under clouded skies Seattle
watched today for Don Moyle and
c. A. Allen, California flyers. who
lett Japan almost two days ago
on a nonstop fight from Samu-
shire Beach to this city.
The aviatorS had not been re-
ported since they we're sighted 70
minutes after leaving the beach,
but in view of the isolated terri
tory over which they would fly
and the SloWneSS Of communica-
tion from those parts, this was not
considered alarming.
Scores of cars and hundreds Of
people crowded Boeing Field,
where the flyers are expected to
land. They had hoped to reach
Seattle by noon today. At 1890
pm. $3.50 pm. Eastern standard
timel they will have been in the
air 48 hours.
Because of tail wind. aviators here
were hopeful their gasoline supply would
last longer than the allotted Al hours.
Weather is Favorable.
A plane reported seen over Port
Townsend, near the head of Puget
Sound late this morning. was ship
carrying news photos. it was learned on
its arrival here. 1t was first believed to
BE- the Moyle-Allen plane.
Weather reports Mad indicated favor
able flying conditions over the latter
part of their route.
knowing Moyle and Allen had enough
gasoline to remain in the air AZ hours
or until $50 pm, Eastern standard
time. the watchers at the airport mere
Old not voice any anxiety Tor tnelr
safety
Fiel lights and beacons were turned
skyward from Boeing field here, ana
from the county airport at Tacoma in
the early hours. Ships and radio sta
tions from the Aleutian Islands to Seat
tie were on the alert eager to witness
the latter phase of what started out to
be the first nonstop airplane flight
across the Pacific'S breadth
Crowd out at Dawn.
Interested citizens began to stir here
a; dawn. A few had arrived at the air
field soon after midnight determined to
miss nothing in the event Moyle and
Allen sailed in ahead of schedule
Friends of the f1ierS refused to interpret
the long absence of news as omlnouS.
They declined to imagine that Ill luck
had OVertaken the former WaSnllS- lila
chine salesman and the erStWhile mo-
torcvcle sa1es agent who left Japan in
:. plane that had been all but declared
Cnairworthy.
Movie and Allen carried no radio and
fhev eSSayed a course north OF the great
circle steamship lane. They had eX-
pccted to fly northward OF the Aleutlan
I.lands for considerable distance, then
Cross the island group and head
straight for Seattle while stil some dis
lance from the American mainland.
The islands are sparSely inhabited
and the fliers might have passed over
2pe tiny spots Of land without being
seen.
Had Good Weather.
Weather conditions were favorable
along the latter portion of their route.
There was cloudinesS and some rain
south of the Aleutians and prevailing
winds were westerly and southWesterly
of from u to % miles an hour We
locity. Such breeZes would serve as
tail winds and step up the speed OF
the plane.
Light headwinds faced the flyers
uDon their turning down the Alaskan
Coast
Aviators here said that if MoHe
and Allen got into a tail wind they
would be able to conserve their gaso-
line supply by nursing the motor
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