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Show MISSING FLIEH FOUND ADRIFT ITALIAN AIRMAN AND COMPANIONS COMPAN-IONS PICKED UP OFF CAPE FAREWELL Motor Trouble Forced Intrepid Avia. tor to Come Down om Water During Dur-ing Flight from Keyhjavik, Iceland. On Board U. S. Cruiser Richmond, East of Cape Farewell, Greenland. The Richmond rescued Lieutenant Locatelli, missing Italian airman, at 11:85 o'clock Sunday night. He was picked up 125 miles east of Cape Farewell. The Italian flyer and his companions compan-ions were uninjured, although worn out by fatigue. Motor trouble had forced Locatelli Locatel-li to come down on the water during the flight on Thursday from Reykjavik, Reykja-vik, Iceland. He was unable to bring his plane into the air again and drifted for 100 miles. Locatelli requested that his . airplane air-plane be destroyed and his wish was complied with. Lieutenant Locatelli had been missing miss-ing since he hopped off from Reykjavik Reyk-javik Thursday morning, in company with Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant Erik H. Nelson. He last was seen, several hours later, flying along the course from the Icelandic port to Frederiksdal, Greenland, but he failed to reach the latter place with the Americans. During the earlier stages of the long hop across the Atlantic from Iceland to Greenland, the Italian aviator, avi-ator, using a faster machine than the type which the Americans are making mak-ing the globe encircling trip outdistanced outdis-tanced his companions, passing the United States crusier Richmond some seventy miles southeast of Reykjavik five miles ahead of Smith and Nel-on. |