Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17
|MOYLE AND ALLEN
READY TO CONTINUE
Pair, Found Alive on Siberian
Island, Await Passing
of Storm.
az the AssociaLed press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, September i7-Turning
up safely aboard little Russian ship
in the Boring Sea after having been
missing nine days subsequent 10 their
take-ofr on projected flight from
Japan to Seattle, Don Moyle and C. A.
Allen, California flyers, today radioed
a call for the services of a publicity
man and announced they were ready to
fly some more.
The United States naval radio sta
ton on st. Paul Island, in the Bering
Sea, late last night received a wireless
from the Russian steamer Buriat, saying
Moyle and Allen had landed on Ma
varin Island, Siberia, when their fuel
and oil gave out.
The message said neither the flyers
nor their plane was hurt when thew
landed and that they were ready to fiy
OUT OF the Siberian area as soon as q
current storm subsidized Their big
monoplane, the message said, had been
refueled and was ready for flight. It
said Moyle and Allen might start for
Seattle. but added they might 60 back
toward Toxic.
Reach TiIgino Island.
Neither did the message say whether
the plane was brought on the steamer
to Miano, on Tflgino Island, where the
little ship set the flyers ashore yester-
day after having picked them up at
Navarin
Navarin Island is of Cape Navarin.
Siberia, about 1900 miles north OF
Samushiro Beach, Japan, from which
the flyers took of September z on q
projected 4,465-mile nonstop flight to
Seattle. 1t is several hundred miles
north of the circular route which they
had mapped as their course to Seattle.
Navarin is west and slightly south of
Nome, Alaska.
The message telling of their safety.
sent from the Buriat yesterday and
addressed to Miss Frances Bresson.
fiancee of Moyle, at Riverside, Calf,
said:
Landed on uninhabited island. Ev-
erything all right. Have Frank put
publicity man on job. VIII be in
Seattle September d."
The reference to hiring a publicity
man was not clear here but by
Frank" the flyers presumably meant
Frank Bresson, brother of Miss Bres-
son and one Of the sponsors Of the
flight.
At the take-off the ship carried
1.020 gallons of gasoline, which was
considered enough to keep the plane
IN the air about ~ hours. Just when
they reached Navarin Islands, which
by direct flying would have required
only about % hours out of Samushiro.
was not stated.
Buriat Furnishes Gas.
The Buriat reported she had sup
piled the gasoline to refuel the Moyle-
Allen plane, and that the flyers were
planning take-on today, weather per-
hitting. The ship said both men and
plane were in good condition. How
ever, it reported high winds and heavy
seas at Navarin.
In Riverside Miss Bresson, fiancee Of
Moyle, was oyerjoyed when the first
news was brought to her by the AS
ISOLATED Press.
81 am so happy at their rescue that
can hardly talk" she exclaimed.
81 gave up hope last night. 1t was
hard to believe Don and Cecil had lest
in their effort to span the Pacific and
up to last night had some hope they
would be rescued"
Mrs Allen, estranged wife Of the other
flyer, said in Los Angeles their differ
ences had been patched up by letters
exchanged before Allen left Japan.
Waiting for Cecil.
st am waiting for Cecil to come home
to me again. she said.
Mrs. Delpha Redfern of Exeter, Calf,
mother of Allen, said she had prayed
constantly that her boy would return
safely and that Tuesday night she had
dreamed of his safe landing. Yesterday
she received the following message:
Landed safely on island. Be home
Soon. (Signed) Cecil"
Mrs Redeem described herself as the
"happiest mother in all California"
Japan f,EIERR ATES RESCIIE