Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-24
40 NAVAL PLANES
SPEED TO HAWAII
Return Flight Is Ordered
as Search for Plane
Victims Fails.
BY the Associated Press.

by Luc hSoOCldtcu HIcso.
ABOARD BATTLESHIP PENNSYL-
WANNA EN- ROUTE TO HAWAII,
May 24.-Forty naval patrol planes Of
an epochal Pacific fight sped toward
Hawaii today on a return trip from
Midway Island, where tragedy over
took the huge armada in crash that
killed six flyers.
The huge squadron was expected to
land in Pearl Harbor tonight after the
two-day 1,200-mile flight, broken by
an overnight stop at French Frigate
Shoal, 500 miles west of Honolulu.
The return will complete unprece-
denied mid-Pacific operations of naval
aircraft, marking the first transit to
Midway and return of any planes, and
aggregate thousands of miles Of flying
by the huge patrol craft in their is
days away from Pearl Harbor.
Plane Search Fruitless.
The flight back to Hawaii was
ordered after fruitless search for VIC
Tins of the 6P7, which crashed into
the sea during battle maneuvers Tues
day night while circling over 4 sister
ship which had been forced down. A
destroyer later took the disabled plane
in tow.
Victims of the disaster, 50 miles
south Of Midway, were Lieut.. Harry A.
Brandenburger, Bellville, ILL.,; Lieut..
Charles j. Shelley, San Francisco;
Chief Aviation Machinist Mate P. C..
Lifts, Ocean View, Va; Chief Radio
man F. r. Derry, Gloucester, Mass !:
Aviation Machinist Mate First Glass;
P. j. Proteau, Wrentham. Mass. and
Aviation Machinist Mate (Third Glass;
@. A. Sharpe. Heavener. Okla.
Their deaths brought to eight the
fatalities that have occurred during
the fleets extensive 1885 maneuvers.
One of the other victims also died in
an airplane crash-Lieut. Matthias B.
Wyatt, rs, Easley. s. c., whose plane
crashed as. he took of from the air.
craft carrier Saratoga. Richard Chad
wick, gunners mate, Blissfield, Mich,
was killed in a collision between the
destroyers Lea and Sicard.
Marines to Leave Midway.
Midway Island, halfway between
the Orient and America, was lapsing
back into its isolated loneliness today
as TOO Marines gathered their gear for
departure after 13-day encampment.
They had acted as a landing force on
this Pacific outpost during the vast
fleet maneuvers.
With the flagship Pennsylvania in
the vanguard, 165 warships of the
United States Fleet, with Hawaii biased
craft, were moving eastward as indie
pendent units
Fifty thousand officers and men of
the warships were looking forward to
several days relaxation in Hawaii on
arrival tomorrow after a month of the
fleets most strenuous peacetime work.
keenest anticipation of this tropical
holiday was felt among those aboard
the go ships Admiral Arthur j. Hep
burn brought down from frigid Arctic
regions.
Buffeted by Icy Gales.
Cruisers, destroyers and other units
Of this fleet have been buffeted by lev
gales since May 3 in their voyage to
Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Their first taste of better weather
came when they steamed southwark
for crucial battle maneuvers of Mid
way, in which Tuesday nights air
crash occurred.
This three-day cruise from Midway
to Hawaii marks the first time the
warships have been in relaxed peace
time condition since they left Pacific
Coast stations April 20. Open ports,
with lights at night and deck movies,
have returned.
The most g1atified of the feet per-
sonnet is Admiral Joseph Reeves,
commander in chief.
Sitting in a comfortable chair on
his quarterback for the first time
since the maneuvers began, he stroked
his trim white beard and said the
feet has done some fine work"