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$40,000 Rewards Offered for Recovery of Miss Doran and Golden Eagle
WEATHER CONDITIONS IDEAL FOR FIVE FLYERS IF AFLOAT
Fruitless Quest Continued Throughout Day and Night by Radio, Fleet and Aircraft
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.—The Pacific Ocean today was the scene of a renewed search for a brown-eyed girl of 22 and four men, missing flyers in the aerial derby to Honolulu, who may still be afloat upon its limitless leagues.
Mildred Doran, pretty school teacher of Flint. Mich., and her pilot and navigator, John A. Pedlar and Vilas R. Knope, had been down approximately 48 hours, according to the most hopeful estimates of the cruising radius of the biplane in which they set out Tuesday noon in the Dole $35,000 flight from Oakland to Honolulu. The time limit set by the builder of the plane on its ability to withstand the buffeting of the seas was only 24 hours.
LONDON, August 5. —Great Britain’s new air liner, which is said to be the largest and most perfect airship in the world, is now almost completed and will take the air early in 1927.
The new airship, designed for exclusively commercial purposes, is 765 feet long and is propelled by six 400-horsepower motors. It is capable of carrying 100 passengers, a crew of 36 men, 20 tons of luggage and 5 tons of mail.
WASHINGTON, July s.—(United Press.)— Encountering head winds over Nova Scotia and with the petrol supply rapidly becoming exhausted, the huge British dirigible R-34 today wirelessed the navy department for help. The navy immediately responded by ordering the Fatilla, a fast steam yacht in government service, and two destroyers to rush to the assistance of the airship.
The R-34 appears to have been so severely buffeted by unexpected gales that she has been unable to make the progress expected, and with the gasoline dangerously low, was believed in peril of becoming practically a derelict of the air, at the mercy of the wind.
French Flyer Leaves China for Japan Tomorrow.
SHANGHAI, May 24.—Capt. Pelletier Doisy, the French aviator, has fixed the time for his departure for Nanking, on his way to Japan, via Peking and Korea, for daylight Monday.
PARIS, May 3.—France’s effort to win long distance supremacy in the air advanced another lap today when Lieut. Pelletier d’Oisy arrived at Agra, British India, from Karachi at 1:30 p. m, according to advices to the air ministry.
D’Oisy is attempting a flight from France to Japan in record time.