Evening star., 1934-12-06
II Navy SeapIanes Scour
100000 Square Miles
of Pacific.
FLOATING PERIOD
APPROACHING END
Possibility Exists Flyers May
Have Been Picked Up by Japa.
nese Fishing Craft.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, December 6.-Weary
but willing naval searchers went on
relentlesSly today in the hunt fol-
Flight Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm and
two companions, missing since Tues
day when lack Of fuel forced their
transpacific monoplane into the ocean
Pilots of a dozen Navy seaplanes
plotted courses over 100000 square
miles of the adjacent Pacific which
has been combed the last two days for
the ill-fated flyers. Not until all hope
has vanished will the search end.
Lacks Rescue Equipment.
Chances dwindled. however. as the
hours piled up past the time 1t was
believed the Star Of Australia could
remain af1oat with Ulm, Co-pilot
George Littlejohn and Navigator j. L.
Shilling. Their land plane carried no
life-saving equipment.
The airmen were bound here from
Oakland. Calf, on the first leg of a
flight to Australia which they hoped
would chart the course Of a CONNER
cial air venture.
Basing calculations on winds and
tides and recalling the experience of
Comdr. John Rodgers in 1925, search
ing forces planned today to survey the
ocean to the north Of Oahu Island, on
which Honolulu is situated.
Drifted Nine Days.
In 1925. Comdr Rodgers and his
crew drifted for nine days in a sea-
plane when forced down en- route here
from the mainland. They finally were
found northeast of Kaui, northern
most Hawaiian island, where the
search for Ulm was concentrated to-
day.
Ulm flashed an S o S early Tues
day morning saying he would land in
the ocean, but he was of his course
and did not know his position.
Average flying conditions with good
visibility and calm seas were forecast
today by Lieut., E. w. Stephens. Navy
meteorologist Returning pilots last
night reported frequent showers to the
north and poor visibility as they head
ed homeward.
II Planes Out Today.
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Au-
stralian trans-Pacific flyer who twice
has flown between here and the main
land, expressed belief his countrymen
probably were in the area north Of
here.
I'VE probably will send IL planes
out today" Comdr. E. w. Tod, direct
ing the naval searchers, said. We
are wearing out our men pretty rapid
ly. Some Of them spent II hours in
the air yesterday and almost as much
Tuesday"
Surface craft played searchlights
across the surging waters throughout
the night.
Even if Ulm is unheard from for
several days there is faint possibil-
ity he and his companions might have
been rescued by a Japanese fishing
boat which remain at sea as long as
three weeks.
Ulm predicted his plane would
float for 10 days if forced into the sea.
SYDNEY. New South Wales. De-
cember LP-The wives of three
flyers down in the Pacific waited for
news today in the home of Lieut.
Charles T. P. Ulm They have been
without sleep since Tuesday.
Mrs. Ulm expressed through news
papers her deep gratitude for the
vigorous search American planes and
ships are conducting for the lost
pilots.
While keenly anxious concerning the
fate of her second greatest airman,
Australia remained determinedly op-
timiStic today.
News of the rescue Of Ulm and his
companions was expected with each
passing minute.