Show OCEAN fU FLIGHT HI MAY MAr RE Of ON N TONI Hl Harry Hawker Ready to toGo toGo toGo Go as Weather Im Im- f proves By Associated Press ST ST. JOHNS JOHN'S N. N F F. April 13 15 Weather con conditions had improved sufficiently sufficient toda today to lead associates s of oC Harry Hawker Australian pilot of or the biplane team to the opinion that Hawker and Commander r Grieves his navigator ml might ht start their attempted transatlantic flight late Jato at this afternoon High winds had hart carried awa away the thc fogs of or the last night forty and nd clouds were forced t to higher levels A slight drizzle was wa falling aping this morning after the tho heavy hell downpour of oC last night but Lieutenant Lieuten nant n- n ant Lawrence Clements of ot the Royal noal air forces predicted clear weather for tor this afternoon Hawker plans to tale take oft off from the soft ground at Jit Mt Pearl Plateau if thero Is no other obstacle to the tart elart On the other sid side of ot tho the city at l J th of ot Frederick Raynham pilot of tho the machine machine machine ma ma- chine another contestant for the overseas flight were preparing for a Q atrial atrial trial flight Raynham Ranham was reported doubtful whether his machine could get set up In the air oh today 1 I ONLY 25 YEARS OLD Captain ln Raynham na consented today to 1 discuss his hie plans for the flight night ty iy years yearn old seven years an aviator aviator avia avia- tor and like Uke Hawker originally a n. mechanic he declared the proposed passage o of the Atlantic was to him like any workaday flight His he said could tl fly I for tor twenty five hours Averaging miles an hour he expects to make the I flight on a bee line for tor the W west st coast of or Ireland and then to Brooklands airdrome in twenty hours Vo Ye will carr carry only t food od for tor twenty- twenty four tout hours and life lito belts he said paid 1 i We Vo ml might ht as well ell leave the life lICe belts behind because tho they aro are no blooming i 1 good anyway anyway- Id I'd as soon have it over with as to lIn linger er an hour hout or two if IC we C have to come como down He added that lack of at personal safeguards sate safe 1 I guards was due to the fact that he hei i proposed to cross the Atlantic not notto notto notto to to fall Into it AIRMEN MISSING IrA HAVANA V ANA April Although 15 15 Although officials oW- oW officials have ha been on the alert no word has been received of ot the fate tate of the twp two American naval aviators Lieutenants Lieutenants Lieuten Lieuten- ants Otto and Parker who with Me Me- ch Hornby started from Bluefields Bluefields Blue Blue- fields Nicaragua Sunday on tho the second sec sec- second ond lap of ot a a. flight from the tho Colon Naval 10 station to Ke Key West Vest expecting Havana to make a a. landing landing- at NO WORD RECEIVED KEY WEST VEST FlA Fla April 15 No No 0 reports re reports reports re- re ports had been received last nl night ht re regarding regarding re- re garding Lieutenants Otto and Parker RECORD IS MADE FT WORTH Tex April 15 li- li Major Major Theodore MacAuley commander at field near here established what t is believed to be a world worlds record In jn aviation b by flying from Rockwell field San Diego Cal to Taliaferro field in ten hours and ten minutes minute Major i MacAuley was accompanied by byn bya n a mechanic Ser Sergeant Allman NO FEAR FELT WASHINGTON ASHIr P April 15 H Confidence Confidence dence was expressed at arm army air ah- ahser service ser service ser ser- vice headquarters today that no harm had befallen Lieutenants Otto and antI Parker Parker Par Par- kt ker r and Hornby from Crom whom no report has haR be been n received d since rince they left lert Bluefields Nicaragua rc ra ua Sunday Sunda on the tho second lap of 01 a flight from the Panama canal zone zone- to Ke Key KeyWest I West The officers are ire flying In the I HS 2 a big plane of 01 the latest type driven by two motors From Bluefield Bluefields Bluefields Blue- Blue fields field they were headed for COI Havana but they had not landed there last night |