Show PACIFIC PlANE IS GENTE O fiGHT TOKIO April 14 UP MaJor UP-MaJor Major F F. N N. aviation nd i advisor or to China and Lieutenant Robert Short Shor continued their efforts today to obtain obtain obtain ob ob- tain possession of ot the airplane City of Tacoma II for a nonstop transpacific transpacific trans trans- pacific flight and were understood to have consulted an attorney They sought legal advice ad with a aview aview view to restraining Thomas Ash of Seattle from securing the plane Ash arrived here last week saying he had the backing of a a. Seattle millionaire to make the ocean journey in the City of Tacoma II The plane was used by Lieutenant Harold Bromley of Tacoma in an attempted transpacific transpacific transpacific trans trans- pacific flight but engine trouble forced him to turn back after going miles mUes Meanwhile the newspaper Osaka Asahi Asahl which has the airplane In Ir storage at an airport retained possession possession possession pos pos- session and continued conversations with both claimants Short who claims t to have hn a power of attorney from Bromley to dispose of the plane and hoped that the Asahi may agree to support their flight If It they obtain legal possession possession possession pos pos- session of ot the plane They said they would attempt to reach the United States before SeiJI Yoshihara Japanese aviator backed by the newspaper HochI who plans to take off ort April 26 |