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Show t:; RLADDELA YEP IN FLIGHT; EXPECTS "GETAWAY" TODAY Expects to Make Hop-off Hop-off for Lisbon at Daybreak; Day-break; Motor Trouble Has Been Remedied. Hope for Hawker and Grieve Abandoned; No Word From the Missing Miss-ing Anzac Skyfarers. ST. JOHNS, If. F., May 21 Hope for the safety of Harry G. Hawker and Commander MacKen-zle MacKen-zle Grieve, missing since they set out eastward through the air on Sunday iu their Sopwith biplane for Ireland, was virtually abandoned aban-doned today by the British fliers preparing here to take wlug in their wake. PONTA DEIGADA. May 21. (By the Associated Fress.) Lieutenant . Commander Com-mander A. C. Read announced tonight that the engine trouble "which caused a postponement of the flight of NC-4 for Lisbon this morning bad been remedied. The plane will start at daybreak tomorrow, tomor-row, weather permitting, he said. The wrecked plane NC-3 has been brought In to the beach here and is being be-ing dismantled preparatory to shipment to the United States on the tender Melville. Mel-ville. , Commander John II. Towers estimated today that it would take 100 mechanics three months to put the machine into proper living condition. ENGINE TROUBLE RESPONSIBLE FOR DELAY IN START WASHINGTON, May 21. Resumption of tho transatlantic (light by the naval seaplane NC-4 again has been delayed. A message to the navy department early this morning from Admiral Jackson, at Ponta Delgada, said one of the plane's engines had developed trouble and that the start for Lisbon would not be made today. No mention was made of weather conditions. The text of the message read: "NC-4 will not start today. One engine en-gine not functioning properly." Dispatches to the navy department later indicated that the motor trouble was not serious, and officials expected Commander Read to get away at daybreak day-break tomorrow to complete tlte first transatlantic journey by air. Commander Towers, transatlantic flight commander, has recommended that the NC-1, which sank at sea. be stricken from the navy list as "lost at sea" and that the NC-3 be placed out of commission for rebuilding w'hen she arrives in New York. The NC-3 Is now being taken apart at Ponta Delgada. preparatory to being shipped home. The destroyer Stockton has ben placed at the d;spo--al of Commander Towers, and the remaining remain-ing members of the two crews will proceed pro-ceed to Plymouth, Lngland, the objective port of the NC-4. HAPLESS AIRMEN REALIZED CHANCES THEY WERE TAKING By JOSEPH MULVANEY, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. ' ST JOHN'S. N. F. . Ma y 'M.-Fpw of the who vcrc associated villi 1 Tarry G. Hawker and Lieutenant Con;mar.aer Mackenzie Mac-kenzie Grieve during the.r long ;-,tay In St John's believed whrx Vcy t.rv ti.em on t':'r;r traniitl.'mtic fli-ht lM t-unday a ft moon ti.at tliey vuuid e er sec them asraln. Neitl'er Hawker r.or Grieve admitted at any time that the undertaking a dnerato one. but it is rard to believe that deep dovn ;t, t'-ir hearts they did not know that it was J rue that their chnnct-s of success dependej entire, y u;n the T'OJ-s:hihly f m.'iiir j;ninc a comiruou? fii.cht cf at'lcnst wr-v.iy hours a!or: a con r? a from w h i o h the y n-, : t n ot c ev i -p. te or to hich they :r.-;.;t he fire of re-tun.ine-. No :-echanic3l t; l'T exc1:: i: o.e t V, ft f. b f ! o : : to f :h i i S r. iz f::?i.''1 v. r-r e a r -ri'ed yo i::rJe-iE ; rh.ft rrs. sj-'h ;j 1 po-- prerTsrf d to aid the AnicriiMn sf ; i-'n r -y i;i the:r 1 h.or. v'e-1 a.r :ed '.o i:,e'r t--:ji:::j.y eut . T; -Afls O'hv Irc'-iiU '.h.e'r irs-t' atieirot to ret awa; o:i A.;-': II fa'lr-d en account cf U-'xy in rrevr: ra tio;..-t'r.;t. tio;..-t'r.;t. tey enrr.-'-d 5fr'i.iv v.-ir.c?. At i1";;! ihe t;.f-r cr.-'-r.-.tor ).:id burred (Continued oa Pare 10, Column 1.) EK6IHE OF PUKE BULKS PL1 OF FLIEB (Continued from Page One.) everv branch of the naval service, the section dealing witn development of a peace -time aerial policy is considered of greatest importance. The new naval, air policy, some officers of-ficers believe, will include recommenda-Liona recommenda-Liona that the United States adopt a type of aircraft heretofore not used in connection with the naval establishment, ha. seel on the principles of the German Zeppelin plrfs ' improvements worked out by Great Britain and American aircraft experts during the v-ar, and from the recent re-cent flight of the lost dirigible C-5 from Mont auk, N. Y., lo Newfoundland. Secretary Daniels, in discussing the program today, said that, in hia opinion, the navy should make no effort toward any la-ge aerial expansion during the next year or two, but should develop the bulk' of its efforts in experimentation and improvements on existing types. The secretary sec-retary expressed the opinion that funds appropriated for the aircraft program should be used for this purpose, rather than for any great increase in flying fields, ground schools or in building large quantities of new machines. Mr. Daniels oaid that, while he believed that an efficient flying force proportionate to the size of the fleet should always be in readiness, ho did not think that large sums should be expended on the present partially developed types of aircraft. He pointed out that the transatlantic flight had already shown defects in the KC type seaplanes, which are now far in advance of the development along this line reached by any other country. He anticipated further flights of this character char-acter as new airplanes and lighter-than-air craft are developed, the idea of the experimental flights being to test the machines ma-chines under the hardest conditions possible. out and bad been discarded as useless extra weight and it was due to the un-pxpeclt'd un-pxpeclt'd delay caused by the weather that they had time to get another. Their equipment was adequate for a ship traveling trav-eling very slowly on the water, while their air liner was one of the fastest travelers built. In t ho weeks that elapsed while the Sopw ith was delayed by bad weather after being ready to start without wireless until un-til last Sunday, when the flyers sped away over the Atlantic, there must have been many times when Hawker and Grieve reflected re-flected uuoti those things, but so far as any of the correspondents intimately as-fiodatud as-fiodatud with them can say, they gave no outward sign of faltering. This undersense of danger on their part and the calmness with which they concealed con-cealed it and went on about their desperate des-perate business, show the undaunted courage cour-age of both men. In this they were exactly alike. H was almost the only point of similarity between the in, TRYING TO EXPLAIN FATE WHICH BEFELL HAWKER AND AIDE By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE. Universal Staff Correspondent, 1 LONDON, May il.-Now that all hope for t ha rescue of Harry G. Hawker and Dieulenant Commander Mackenzie Grieve has been a bandoned, the impression is growing among experts that the little Sop with plane probably never reached the neighborhood of the Irish coast. It is believed that either the petrol supply sup-ply was exhausted In midnight as a re-suit re-suit of encountering unexpected adverse gales, nr that the piano dropped because ot' engine trouble and was unable to take the air again. As it is, Hawker and Grieve have been swallowed by the void like Ilamel and Andre. It is considered extremely unlikely un-likely that any trace of men or piano will ever be discovered. The weight of the online would be certain to force the frail hotly of the plane beneath tho waves, especially if the sea were rough, as it is known to have been in mid-Atlantic during dur-ing the estimated time of Hawker's flight. Editorials In today's papers mingle laudation lau-dation of the daring of the aviators for the sake of Britain's honor and bitter comment on the failure of the government to aid the enterprise until it was too late. The misleading wireless reports circu-b'ted circu-b'ted Monday which raised false hopes of Hawker's safety iilso have come In for condemnation. Universal Service con sistently adhered to the report that the aviators had not been rescued, wnei eas all the first editions of Tuesday's Loondon papers announced that the two men had been rescued. . A curious reaction against the Daily Mail is manifested by the public, as if instead in-stead of encouraging aviation the Mail had sent the two fliers to their death. All this, however, Is merely the British way of exhibiting the most sincere regret at the' noble sacrifice, as well as disappointment disappoint-ment that the honor should inevitably fall to the Americans. INJURIES SEVERE ; MORGAN UNABLE TO FLY FURTHER ST. JOHNS, N. F-. May 21. Captain Frederick' P. Faynham, the British aviator, avi-ator, whose Martinsyde plane was wrecked when he tried to take off Sunday in tho wake of Harry Hawker, today cabled builders of his machino in England Eng-land asking that another trans -Atlantic navigator be appointed to replace Captain Cap-tain W. F. Morgan, declared by physicians physi-cians to be "out of the trans-Athvnlic race,"' because of injuries suffered - in tho accident with Raynham. Fliers here tonight advanced but one theory to account for the complete disappearance dis-appearance of Hawker ant I his Sop with plane. This is that the unfortunate little craft was forced into tho ocean within an hour or two of Its start from this coast, and Kink almost i in media tely. Complaint continued today against the 1 service of the British air force's muleor- ; ologinal division, which was charged with a live hour delay in relaying to this point storm w ornings which mgiit have caused Hawker to postpone his flight until conditions wore more propitious. NAVY MAY HAVE "SCOUT" FLEET FOR AIR SERVICE WASHINGTON', May 21. Construction of a fleet of scouting aircraft of the dirigible diri-gible or ligrliter-than-air type as an adjunct ad-junct to the American naval forces is expected by well-informed naval officers to be recommended by the general board of the navy In its report to be submitted sub-mitted within a few days to Secretary Daniels. While the report, which has been In preparation for the past month, probably prob-ably will include recommendations for |
