Evening star., 1938-04-19
INTENSITY
WHITFIELD SEARCH
Man Resembling Missing
Carnegie Namesake Seen
at Lunch Room,
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. April ia police
airplane searched today along $50
miles of Long Island shoreline for
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield, hand
some young nephew of Andrew Car
negie, and the silver and red mono
plane in which he vanished last Fri
day.
The aerial search started from
Roosevelt Field, where the missing
flyer was last seen and where he sup
posedly took off for Brentwood, N. Y.
70 miles away-an airport he never
reached.
On the chance Mr.. Whitfield's plane
or its Wreckage might be found in the
Long Island surf, the Nassau County
plane with three officers aboard
equipped with maps set out to comb
the south shore line to Montauk Point,
returning along the north shore.
Bride Near Prostration.
Mr. Whitflelds bride, in seclusion
at the home of her socially prominent
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Hal
sey, was reported near prostration.
Massachusetts State police said an
Aver policeman had reported seeing
IN lunchroom a man who closely
resembled newspaper pictures of the
nepheW-namesake of the Car
aegie steel fortunes founder.
al
Hospital at NeWtown. Conn, said
small plane circled over their grounds
n mid-afternoon Friday, but descrip-
ions Of the craft were vague.
A scout patrol prepared to search
he area south Of the hospital grounds.
Oren P. Harwood. in charge of the
Bureau of Air Commerce, ordered an
Inspection of hangers at all airports
n the metropolitan area.
Failure to discover any trace of the
'lane despite painstaking search of
long Island and adjacent ocean
waters led puzzled police to conclude
hat Mr.. Whitfield was still alive.
A brother active in the search, John
'. Whitfield, said there had been no
iissension between the 28-year-old
princeton graduate and his bride of
ess than a year.
MY brother and his wife We're very
lappy," he said. "She is almost crazy
With grief now"
A possibility faded that Mr.. Whit
1eld might have sailed with Frank
'teinman, another aviator. for Europe
N the Red Star liner Westernland
asst Saturday as an unlisted PASSENGER.
The captain OF the liner wirelessed
hat search had failed to disclose
VT. Whitfield aboard.
Whitfield Not Aboard.
Late yesterday in response to urgent
inquiries from shore, Capt. Henry
claussen wirelessed from the Western
and:
"Steinman last saw Whitfield three
weeks ago. No knowledge aboard"
His family had no reason to sup
pose he had gone to Europe. Mr..
Whitfield had only recently" been
to the Bethlehem, Pa.
of1lce Of the International Business
Machine Co.
He was to have left Friday night for
Pennsylvania, said his distraught
wife, adding their luggage had been
packed for the trip.
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry D. Whit
1eld of Burnleigh, near Middleburg,
Va. where he lived a large portion
II the time until after his graduation
rom Princeton. He was well known
n hunt circles about Virginia and
Maryland, as are other members Of
MS family. TWO Of his sisters, Mrs.
Holger Bidstrup and Miss Louise
Whitefield, are now In Middlebure. It
vas reported just before noon today
hat none of the family had heard
my word from the missing youth.