Show J. J i S1 II S Seeking e 1 n L LOS Lo OS to I F r j I i rS 0 S. 0 if f r. r 3 r u R y r iT iTrI I. I rI r s. s J r Brothers o of American merican A Airmen a rm n Who Disappeared Disappeared eared f Wit With Golden n E Eagle le En Route Rout k From Fn Ft F- F California i to V t Honolulu in August 1927 S i c t Continue T n Heart Heart- ear eart- eart i I 1 L y r C Cn v r r i n Rending N.- N. Search Y I f r V- V of y yr c t r After fter Two Years f j i I I y t n. n fI 1 1 By Gwenfread wen rea E. E Allen en enILL ILL the vast wastes ras and countless WILL Islands of at the Pacific ever tell ten the story tory of at the three lost last airplanes which disappeared somehow ome ow somewhere e. e In the gre great t silent space between Oakland and Honolulu Will wm the Jungle forests In the of Hawaii some d day y o offer er a. a clue to the mystery r Relatives Relative and and friends of ot the seven aviators avia- avia avia aviators tors l lost t In fn att attempts pis to span the 2100 2190 wIles tulles 4 of at the Pacific refuse to give up hope that some acme time they will know what happened to their loved ones And lAnd now with new clu clues added to st stories rles which h have ve b been en told and nd retold retold aviators t familiar with Island conditions believe that the secret of at the disappearance pi of at least one 0 of of the planes nes is wrapped in the the- thick growth on the heights of at Mauna LOa La Nearly t two o years fears after the the three planes fi disappeared a n new w sear search h Is beI being g c conducted conducted con con- n ducted over o the lava Java w wastes stes of of- the most t r Isolated part of at the Island land of Hawaii by r Ezra Frost st st. brother of Jack Frost who ry y i piloted the tat Ul-tat Ill fated d Golden n E Eagle gle Search k of the same came Vast area on th the mountain was as made last summer by Denham Scott l k brother brether of Gordon S Scott ott navigator of of the s. s plane plan Denham Scott was assisted ted in fn his search by an ah airplane reconnaissance made de' de by Martin Jensen who piloted hJ his plane in n safety from Oakland to Honolulu Al Although Although Al- Al though no definite dennite trace of at the Golden Eagle was found Sc Scott tt and Jensen abandoned aban S doted done the search h convinced that the mountain I held the the wreckage for tor which they sought Army airplanes are making a photographic photo photo- graphic survey ot of where it Is believed be be- be the plane in may y possibly have hav be been n wrecked Major General Genei J James JamesE E E. Fechet Chief of oi the Air Corps has authorized assistance of the army in the search O ON K N AU AUGUST 16 1927 eight airplanes Including Including- the Golden Eagle e were lined up at Oakland Airport rt to take off oft offin offin in an e effort ort to to win the the- prizes offered by James D D. D Dole Two Tao planes cracked up before th they y left land lanet two met trouble but back safely safety two tn-o reached their goal near Honolulu Hono Hono- lulu and two t were two w were re never heard of ot again These vo t two last last mentioned were were Ute the Golden Eagle and the Miss Doran which carried tarrIed pretty Mildred Doran i as passenger g ger r. r John JohnA A. A Pedlar iP as as- pilot and R R Knope as navigator tiOne ti t tOne One of at the planes which turn turned l back the Dallas Spirit started the next day dayon on a u search for lor forthe the two missing ng ships It too disappeared carrying its pilot Captain Cap Cap- tain taro William Erwin and its navigator Alvin 0 op waldi f The W ted piloted by Arthur Goebel and nav navigated ga by by Lieutenant ant W. W V V. V Davis was the thet of f the Doe night flight ht fliers filers to f arrive arrhe tin In Honolulu winning th the prize The on only Yio contestant tant to arrive to-arrive arrive at the goal was the Aloha which had Martin Jensen as 88 pilot and Paul as navigator b For Fort days the world waited d for news of the lost los planes and their crews There N were rumors thata plane had had- drifted to f land J on one of at the Hawa Hawaiian an Islands r I that a a plane had been picked up b by one of the many ill any ships that the fliers had ad been bee found cast away ay on an uninhabited b 1 island But the rumors were alwa always s 's false faise The efforts efforts' of at fifty eight naval 1 I vesse vessels Ls r aided by merchant craft steering a 3 course 1 along the the- 1 great circle course I between San Francisco and Honolulu failed tailed to disclose any trace of of the the three missing mIMing planes Fishing out to schooners went wenc out outto to the Windward Wind Wind- ward wad Islands mere mere rocks doting tie the sur cur face of at the ocean where d dauntless fisher fishe men in inn sturdy samp sampans ns are occasional visitors The fishing g parties came back one by bYone one with nothing to report Rumors of no tes purported to have been written ritten by bythe the nl filers and of the finding of pieces 1 of wave wave battered t red planes h have ve been started from time Ume to but positive identification has has' never been made But out of at all ali the rumors arid and r reports ports the brothers of the occupants or of off off- the Golden Eagle have sifted and sorted they h have ve found en enough ugh to ca cause se th them to believe belleve beve be- be lieve ve that at the wreckage of the plane lane Is b on the mountain mountain- heights or lor Hawaii Only one of the Ule three lost p planes lanes ever gave rive any ny Indication atlon of of Its fate That was the D Dallas Dalian Spirit whose radio chattered merrily during the first few tew hours of at its night flight Then came a report of at ofa a tailspin then word that the plane was proceeding safely Then a another ominous message I 1 We Weare are going Into another l T I r 4 y i L I I r I t f J 5 rl 1 4 A Jack lck Frost pilot of th the 4 Golden Eagle jaw thought to 0 t f y have tee beet been wrecked a ran 2 on the mist mist t slope of Mauna Iau ll Loa j A mm- mm y S it Mildred d Doran whoso I plane the Miss 1 Doran was lost two years ago during the Dole flight to Honolulu from Cram Oakland Calif and of whom been discovered no no trace has ever e pointed directly to Honolulu only the hidden cloud-hidden Mauna Loa Lea was was' In the way next supporting group of ot clues The nex I 5 CY R Rt Rf 0 4 w C f t t tSa Sa ey f x f J JJohn John A. A P Pedlar pilot of the unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate plane pl ne Miss iss Doran Dora 1 which was lost during the same flight that at claimed the Golden Eagle 1 were rumors of or flares from the heights of MaunaLOa In all alt Scott l located cat d t thirteen different persons at four different w points ts over an angle of degrees degrees- who were were certain that within a few days das of the c end d of the flight they had bad seen flares at approximately th the same place on oit the mountain Before undertaking his search earch Scott sent off flares of the type carried by the Golden Eagle These were said to have the same appearance as those seen the four nights following allowing the flight night and never seen bel before re or since Scott arid and Frost be believe eve this fact to be pretty conclusive evidence that the lie plane was forced down on the mountain and that Its occupants tried to signal f foY r at least bast four nights STORIES Q TORIES of at a a. burned airplane were wera discarded dis- dis carded after the Scott search in 1928 and Frost Fros is not riot t following this theory In his present search Flying Fling o over er the tho region with Jensen last summer Scott thought that h he saw a burned spot on the Tuna Jungles The spot seemed to give support to a story coming from a a. group of ot Hawaiians of Kalapana who claimed to have seen seem on the the planes were expected an airplane which suddenly fell feU into into the jungle from tram which a column of smoke soon emerged The story tory seemed fantas tantas tic ana and Improbable at the time it was was- first told but Scott determined to probe probo i t r f the northern side of oI the 1852 lava flow flow-at ol 4 Y the foot elevation Instructions w were given from the signal station Proceed Proceed southwest to of f flow flaw search source r e area to u uloa at atthe the th foot level r Scott flashed back his hs O to K wt promise to communicate at 10 tho J following 1 q Jf 1 The following night night night-It it was too cloudy A V for tor signal l lights to penetrate the hAz f 1 Vr k kI I For nearly two weeks nothing more mor f was wa heard of the party Then they they i ap 2 f. f at the Volcano House settlement tired wet their their clothing in in tatters tatter theirL their t last pairs pairs' of shoes cut to shreds by the the L MIf y sharp lava s t I RAIN RAun AINI T That at was the story Hof f De Denham Scotts Scott's disappearance Ram Rain and fori fog t That may prove to be the he story of the r disaster l which befell Gordon Scott and h his s fellow S flier filer ter Jack Frost v-r v H Never have such rain Scott t re- re r f. f ij J vJ A 5 c d i i 6 S m. m 4 h rv Jrr Ii f. f i 1 L 1 4 e YN J e The Th Golden Eagle sup superimposed up upon n the background of Mauna Loa in eruption Kin of ill fated crew believe they thel will find find race of the Q JT fliers fliers' s disa-s disastrous trous r i l a f. f b I end on this lonely R mo mountainside A Aviators are almost certain that only a split spilt second after the Dallas Spirit fI flashed hed Its last Jast message to the world It hit the water at a tremendous rate of speed which carried It to the oceans ocean's bottom bot bottom bottom bot bot- tom without leaving even n an an puddle at the surface to mark its watery grave These same aviators h have ve also speculated speculated laced on what happened to the two oth other r planes Many feel certain that the Miss Doran forced to turn back on once e probably probably probably ably encountered trouble so soon n after d dis disappearing disappearing dis- dis appearing over the western horizon But the Golden Eagle admittedly the best best- equipped plane In the race and manned by skillful men may have continued on and on until lost last In the clouds which that day encircled the high mountains of f the Island of Haw Hawaii it lost Its bearings bearings' and crashed on the slopes of ot Mauna Loa This Is' Is the theory which led Scott and Fros Pros to undertake t the e rending heart-rending search on the Isolated mountain slopes Rumors at the time of the race were so rampant throughout the islands and so frequently proved pro utterly false that little credit was was' given to any of ot them Yet out of the mass mass' that rose and d. d died ed down one has pers two years years that ea that a plane was 6 seen n und nd nd heard high over oyer the Island of at Hawaii the She day the planes were ere expected Frost on his present search on the strength of at the rumors which Scott traced last summer The first of these in which the brothers of the fliers place credence was a newspaper newspaper news news- paper report that an airplane had passed over HUo miles from Honolulu at the very ery time that the planes should have b been n approaching the Islands This report was based on a telephone call from a ao o volunteer observer who could never be identified afterward Inquiry however revealed that thata a a number number number num num- ber of persons were sure of at having heard hearda an as a airplane flying at a high altitude altitude- perhaps oVer feet Hilo and vicinity that morning Did they really leally hear a p plane lane ane or was the no noise nobe merely the creation of at their imagination if It they did hear a plane wasn't it lt a welcoming plane even though none of at f the fhe local Hawaiian planes reported re r re reported ported going so far ar south I If it was a a racing plane did it continue at at l feet f l through the dense fo fog g and crash clash on either Mauna Manna auna a Loa or Mauna Kea foot mountains rising beyond Hilo Charting the path of at these reports on oh a large map Scott found that they r j L i t j i 1 W L 11 J. 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A A I 1 r j J Gordon Scott navigator of the Golden Eagle and Us sister Sheila Sheila- f. f i It further With Jensen he flew over the Hie burned spot several times and finally decided t to visit the n on foot Then it iv was that Scott gave his followers follow follow- ers their first scare With Jensens Jensen's plane the Aloha flying overhead to to o guide the way the searchers started their hike through the dense foliage cutting their path with hatchets and cane can knives The plan plane was i-as' i forced to return to its base before the party afoot started out of the Jungle and nd through a a. miStake 1 in signals the men stayed four hours inthe inthe Inthe in the swampland s waiting for the e Aloha to r return return turn and guide them out Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Mean- while e. e fear was wis felt that the p party Ly had lost its w way y in the Jungle and could n not t reach civilization atlon or or that one of its members members mem- mem mem- mem bers had faU fallen into an overgrown crater or l lava teva va hole Finally the p party appeared with the tidings that tha t the burned burn d spot was notS not'S not nota a S burned ed spot pot at all only 8 a circular swamp To appreciate fully tully the risks which the two men have assumed In searching for traces of their brothers one must visualize visual visual- lie ire the Mauna Loa heights unmapped and uncharted the steep mountainsides upon whose upper reaches neither human beings nor al animals venture crossed by deep ravines ravines' and lava gulches dotted with tiny volcanic craters and n cut by y lava flows of or bygone e ages It was this territory w which ch Scott penetrated penetrated penetrated pene pene- last summer ummer with pack mules s asfar as asfar asfar far as possible le and t then carried equIpment equipment equipment equip equIp- ment on foot loot to his camp a d days day's ys hike lilke beyond Its in this country that Frost is now trying to locate the G Golden Eagles Eagle's s wreckage Scotts Scott's search was accompanied by adventures adventures adventures' ad ad- ventures ventures' as thrilling in their way as those of ot the aviators who made the transPacific trans Pa transPacific flight IFor f I For a few Scott and hl his small party kept in touch with civilization by signals One night their signal flashed dimly through the haze from a no point on t s x i iq L q i I ported Water flowed owed about us tw two t three inches d deep ep There was as no P to sleep We We had no dry clothing D and i a I our fire was out It was cold Youve seen movies movIe of of rain when they Just dumped buckets of f water wate in front fron of ofa a a. wind machine That was mild cOmpared compared corn corn- com com- pared t to what we went through Thunder Thunder Thunder Thun- Thun der lightning and veritable rivers rivera fell feU a 01 about us us For iFor ten da days s 's we we weren't able ablo to see sea e cx anything We couldn't even move from fromn camp n p most St of the time I The day before the ra rain started Scott saw something something peering ering through hia hie m L field ld glasses he spotted a shining spot y which ch he thought might be plane wings crumpled against the face ce of a lava flow The Themen he men spent the night h huddled in the R shelter of at a arock ro rock k planning ig to ro hike to iO tl the th I object ct the first thing in the m morning g. g B But I t IraIn back bade I rain forced them 1 P A FTER FIER the deluge they tried again b but APTER x r 23 a scarcity of ot food forc forced them to re return re- re turn to to civilization A week later Scott headed a p party of nine e who ventured forthe for forthe the third tl time e into in the desolate areas arens ol |