The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-10
THREE-NATION
HUNT STARTED
FOR Av|ATORS
Japan, United States and
Canada Search Pacific
for MoyIe, Allen.
'DRONE' HEARD ON SHIP
Passengers Believed Plane
of Ocean Airmen Passed
Them at Sea.
By United Press

SEATTLE, Sept. 10.-Sea forces
of three nations combined today
in far-fung search for Don Moyle
and Cecil Allen, who flew out of
Japan seventy hours ago bound for
Seattle, and disappeared.
Japana, Canada and the United
States prepare dto send ships into
the lonely stretches of the North
Pacific, to search out tiny isolated
spots of land in the Kuriles, the
Aleutian islands and an island or
the British Columbia coast, on the
chance the hiers might have landed
safely.
Nothing but rumorS rewarded the
efforts OF officials and others who
sought news of the daring aviatorS'
whereabouts.
One of the latest rumors, that
large monoplane had landed on a
small island along the British Co.
lumbia coast, was to be investigated
thoroughly. Canadian authorities
were to be asked to dispatch ships
along the shoreline.
Plane Drone Heard on Ship
Drone of an airplane motor was
reported to have been heard by four
passengers on the steamship Archie
K. Baldwin Wednesday morning,
according to a wireless message in
tercepted by the Dutch Harbor
(AlaSka) naval radio station today.
The Baldwin's position was not
reported. 1t was understood to
have been proceeding along the
Alaska peninsula, east of Dutch
Harbor.
The passengers who heard its
motor, according to the radio report,
said the droning sound appeared
to be from the southwest and to
disappear into the northeast" The
Baldwin reported thick weather
at the time.
The incident occurred between
$3.50 and 10 a. m. Wednesday, the
message said.
Far Behind Schedule
This was the first hint received
of the f1iers' whereabouts since they
were one hour and ten minutes out
of Sabishiro beach, Japan. 1t indi-
Gated that they might have been
off their course and were far behind
schedule.
If the Baldwin's passengers really
heard the City of Tacoma IFS
motor, the plane apparently was
headed in a northeasterly direction,
over open water, and was hundreds
of miles from it's objective, with
only few hours supply of gasoline
in its tanks.
Four American coast guard YES
sells already were steaming toward
the Aleutian islands to contact vii
lagos and inspect secluded islands
for some indication of the aviatorS'
fate. Japan was expected to send
ships along the KurileS to inveSti-
gate the possibility that Moyle and
Allen landed shortly after they left
ShabiShiro beach.
American coast guard vessels in
the vicinity of the Aleutians were
the Northland, Chelan, McLane
and Itaska. Another, the Alert,
was at Ketchikan, prepared to
cruise along the islands of south
eastern Alaska. Three more boats
were held at Seattle for possible
patrol duty nearby.
Asks Canadian Permit
Valentine Geihart, former secre-
tary Of the National Aeronautical
Association, wired Senator Hiram
Bingham, president Of the organiza-
ton, asking him to seek the aid of
Canada in hunting for the missing
f1iers. United States vessels may
not enter Canadian waters without
special agreement.
Wireless stations here and at
Alaska points have kept in almost
constant communication with ships
in the north Pacific during the last
day and night, without receiving a
word of the f1iers.
Most aviators and seamen here
who know the north Pacific feared
that Moyle and Allen had persisted,
although it was admitted the two
could have landed on an island, or
reached the American continent
and might not be heard from for
several days.