| Show I I. I DOWN AT 1 1 ij Navy Craft Rush S STo To Give Help as as' as I Fuel Is Exhausted PLANE PLANE DOWN 1 A I Lent Charles T. T 1 P. P Ulm VIm Position of Plane Un Uit Uncertain certain as Rescuers 2 ers Start 1 ow HONOLULU Dee Dec 4 JP- JP 1 ff Gasoline exhausted and the course to 10 Honolulu Hono lulu lying toward the north t the e. e Hawaii Australia ia plane carrying C C. T. T P. P Ulm and two c companions alighted on the Pacific ocean near here today Messages from rom the plane to Globe Wireless station here indicated ed the plane reached the surface without mishap Its exact location however was not known Army Anny and navy planes and the coast guard cutter Itasca a already were making a search Both before and after aUer going down Ulm sent a continuous stream tre m. m o oSOS of ot SOS messages They were most clearly heard by the Dollar liner President Coolidge whose radio dio lop op ha hazarded the opinion the plane plan might be bc north of the islands instead o of south as as Ulm's own messages messages mes mes mes- sages had indicated Tells of Coin Going Down Dawn The mutual wireless station here picked up a message ge at am a.m. Hawaii time p. p m. m E. E 5 S. T. T ayin G Going ing down into sea now Plane will float couple of days Navy planes reported th they Y had reached a point as far ar as 60 mi miles south of 01 th the island without sighting the Ulm uin plane L Lieutenant Ulm's surrender tofate to to tofate fate followed a two-hour two light fight to ascertain his position before his dwindling gasoline supply forced him down K KNever I Never Sighted Land LandAs w wAs As far lar as messages from Irom rom the plane showed none of or the planes plane's crew Screw si sighted land at any time tim and they had not been able to pick up the 1 Point radio beacon which had been in continuous operation since midnight At a a. a m. m Hawaii time the President Coolidge picked up another er message We are turning into wind winds Come Corne pick u. u us up up The Itasca was already well out into the Molokai channel when the plane sent out word she was going down The cutter cutler was heading toward toward to to- ward the southeast on the theory that tha the Ulm plane would be found somewhere in that direction This apparently was based on Ulm's own radio signals At 8 a. a m m. Hawaii time the Globe Wireless station here which had been maintaining continuous contact with the plane since 4 a. a m. m said aid Ulm had stated 35 minutes earlier that he had left leU only enough gasoline asoline ICor for 45 minutes of or flying The Globe station then was trying tring to guide the plane to its station oU Kaena point about 20 miles from rom Wheeler field where Ulm mm had intended intended intended in in- tended to land Before leaving Oakland yesterday esterday Ulm said should they be forced to Continued on Pose Pate Two I HAWAII PLANE I V IS DOWN AT SEA Navy Rushes Surface and Aircraft to Aid of Ulm Plane J I Continued from Pare rase One ant alight aUght on the o ocean ean en route their their plane w would uld float several everal days if Jt necessary Not being equipped with pontoons it would not be able to take lake off oll again Can Distill Water The aviators carried no life Ute raft raiL They had an emergency condenser to distill ocean water for drinking in addition to their re regular ular supplies of sandwiches The coast t guard cutter cutler r Itasca ca left lefther lefther her moorings as U soon oon as possible after the he planes plane plight became known heading out to sea at full Cull speed At a. a m. m A R message from the plane said only 20 minutes' minutes supply of gasoline was left and the crew had hadnot hadnot hadnot not sighted lighted land Th The plane had been calling consistently con con- for the beacon beacon apparent apparent- ly y the radio beacon at point easternmost tip of ot the Island of ot Oahu Beacon Deacon in Operation Itasca asked the Globe Wireless Wire Wire- less ess station here to inform Ulm that the he beacon had been in continuous operation since midnight Three nav navy planes plane and the coast coastguard coastguard guard cutter cutler Itasca already had started start start- ed cd d to the aid of the plane but when the he distress message was received three luce more planes were sta started from irom the he naval air station at Pearl Harbor Harborn in n th the hope that the they could locate the ship hip ship more quickly than the original squadron The President Coolidge reported at 30 a. a an fn m. it had picked up a message reading on water now The SOS sIgnals the ship said continued to toome come ome unceasingly showing the planes plane's radio was still working although al al- though hough its signals were weak Determined Hunt Begins A determined search by all avail avail- able naval air and surface craft bean began beran be be- ran gan an under the direction of ot Command Command- er r E. E W. W Todd commander of 01 the fleet air ir base b-ase at Pearl Harbor Commander Todd declared I have already sent nine planes southward and have nine more which will be in the air in a few minutes to togo togo too go o northeastward The commandant of f Pearl Harbor is arranging to dispatch dispatch dis- dis patch atch surface vessels destroyers and mine layers In the search earch earchAll All naval planes are seaplanes which can sit down on the water waler and andIck pick Ick up Ulm and his companions unU un U til 11 help comes We are handl handicapped because we dont don't know exactly which direction he is in His Ills Position in Doubt Captain U Ulm m seemed to think he be had passed the islands blands and was southward of here but he passed over the he President Coolidge about miles out at 4 4 a. a m in w which ch would seem to indicate that perhaps he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet reached the islands The planes will travel out In a radius adlus of miles mile in all directions We Ve hope to loc locate te Ulm soon We will wUl go out put In a great circle off olt the course besides other directions An SOS message picked up by the Globe wireless a few minutes before 9 a. a m. m was very strong and the operator operator operator op op- op- op said at the time he believed Jim was following his beacon toward Kaena Point the theno corner of ot Oahu Army and navy authorities Intimated Inti mated mateda a belief belie Ulm was down miles northeast of Honolulu The President Coolidge approaching approach- approach ing ng Honolulu from San Francisco It was abandoning its course ourse to join the search The ship estimated that from the time Ulm passed assed it th that t It must be fairly near the he place where the plane descended to the ocean V By United Press Lieutenant Charles T. T P. P Ulm and his ils mates Leon Skillings and George Littlejohn had left Oakland Calif CalU at p. p p.m. m. m. m Pacific time yesterday and had been in itt the air 19 hours 55 minutes when they came down V With their plane the Stella Austra its lis is Star of ot Australia they sought to map air lines lIn-es for commercial flights Although they had not sought a a. speed record their time had exceeded the he record of 24 houn hours 48 animates to Hawaii m made de last January up to the time ime Ulm was forced to descend near his lis goal SAN FRANCISCO Dec 4 The Thc P The Mackay radio here reports the coast coastguard coastguard guard juard cutter Tiger has started from tram Silo HUo Hawaii miles southeast of ot Honolulu to aid the cutter Itasca in her search carch for lor the Ulm plane Mackay also Intercepted a messa message e efrom from the Itasca saying Ulm reported reporter he ic had been f forced down but would float some time |
