The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-10
LITTLE HOPE
OF LOCATING TWO
DARING MEN ALIVE
Sound of Plane Heard Near
Dutch Harbor and Untraced
Report Offer Hope
COAST GUARD JOINS HUNT
Officers, However, Assert Ef.
fort Is Practically a Hope
less One i

With Don Moyle and G. A. Allen.
American filters, lost somewhere in
the vast reaches Of the Pacific ocean.
little hope was held late Thursday for
finding them alive, according to As
ISOLATED Press dispatches.
Two lone rays Of hope pierced the
gloom surrounding the fate Of the
TWO airmen. One was a report from,
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, that q drone
Which sounded like an airplane engine
was heard there Wednesday night
and the other was an untraced radio
report that the pair had landed on a
lonely island off the coast Of British
Columbia.
Fog shrouded the Dutch Harbor
area when the sound was heard.
North Pacific coast aviation circles
believed 1t possible the sound might
have been the missing plane.
If 1t was, 1t indicated Moyle and
Allen made a forced landing and sue
ceeded in getting the ship into the air
again. as their fuel supply vas SUI
ficient to keep them In the air not
later than 3 p. m. E.S.T.) Wednesday
with continuous flying.
Locate on Island
Dutch Harbor, on Unaslaska island,
Is about $500 miles from samushiro
Beach over the route plotted by Moyle
and Allen, and about 1000 miles from
Seattle.
Had the fliers progressed according
to schedule, they should have passed
Dutch Harbor about 4:30 "A m.
(E.S.T.) Tuesday. The fact that the
sound heard last night at Dutch Har-
Dor died away to the northeast would
indicate that whatever IL was, Il was
not heading in the direction Of Sc
attic but toward the Alaska mainland.
Meanwhile ships Of tho coast guard
cruised south of .hte Aleutiau Islands
Thursday hunting the missing men.
but officers Of the guard termed the
search q hopeless one before they
started.
Three coast guard cutters, tho
Northland, Chelan and Taska, start
ed searching along the rocky and
storm Scourged islands late Wednes-
day on orders Of Capt. H. D. Hinck-
ley, division commander.
The cutters were ordered to cruise
to the western extremity Of the island
chain and make q thorough search of
the water and the coastline for the
filters Or possible wreckage Of the
plane.
Task Nearly Hopeless
1T Is almost a hopeless task" said
Captain Hinckley. well do the best
we can-but I'm afraid that will not
be enough"
A check Of radio and telegraph sta
tons along the British Columbia
coast last night failed to reveal a
trace Of Moyle or Allen or the source
OF the report that a plane similar to
the one flown by the airnaen had
been zen along the coast.
AS hours passed with no reports
OF the airnen, even the most optim-
istic began to lose hope they would
be found alive, although some be-
lieved there might be a duplication
OF the experience of Major Frederick
L. Martin, one of the army round
the-world filters Of 1924.
Major Martin was lost for II days
after his plane crashed into q noun
tain peak on the Alaska peninsula,
despite organized efforts to find him.
He finally reached a cannery equipped
with q radio station and sent out
word Of his safety.
Thomas Ash, Jr., world war avia-
tor, who gave up an attempt to fly
the Moyle-Allen monoplane over the
rnYf60 fhfC C1IYnYHAAHs AvANACRAA thu
opinion the airmen were lost some
where off the Aleutians. Ash arrived
here Wednesday from the orient as q
member Of the e of the liner
President Madison.
Thinks Motor Failed
II believe the motor blew up before
they reached Dutch Harbor, Alaska"
said Ash. They had equipped the
plane with q super charger which
stepped up the motor from AS to
SIS horsepower and I believe the
strain was too much"
Ash, who plans another attmpt to
span the Pacific in q new plane next
May, said the left wing Of the Moyle-
Allen ship was warped and you had
to fight it all the time" He said the
ship used about Is gallons Of fuel an
hour, instead Of % as estimated by
Moyle.
Ash said changes the two fliers
made IN the ship before they started
the flight cut down their cruising
radius several hundred miles, al
though it made the plane easier to
handle and somewhat faster.
One person refused to admit the
men were lost. Miss Frances BresSon,
Riverside, Calf, Moyle's fiancee. who
came here to greet him when he
completed the flight, insisted they
would be found.