Show L SEAPlANE HUNT LI I I W IB i HELD HOPELESS COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF ILL LL FATED FLIGHT THINKS THE FLIERS PERISHED Search Will Continue Though All AI Have Practically Given Up Hope Of Ever Finding Any Of t. t The Men Alive San Francisco Francisco Captain Captain Stanford E E. Moses Moses- commander of the San I Hawaii Francisco flight project p C. C S. S sent a ra radio io message to Captain Jackson of the airplane carrier carrierI I Langley asking his opinion as to ho how the long search should be maintained I for the missing seaplane 9 PM No 1 and md her crew Captain Jackson replied Not ready to express s opinion until Until until un un- til informed of areas searched by destroyer detroyer de de- troyer squadron and other units of oi battle fleet returning from Somoa We Ve have given up hope hop of rescuing the crew Captain Moses Mose have eleven destroyers destroy destroy- said We now at Honolulu for the ers fueling pr pose of engaging in a final survey of ol the waters were the 9 No 1 came down We have done lone all that could coul I be done Captain Moses Moses- said there would b bno beno be beno no let down however in the navys navy's search for the bodies of the seaplanes seaplane's seaplanes seaplane's sea sea- planes plane's crew and the wreckage of th the 3 craft A radio message was sent 1 to Captain E. E B. B Jackson comman command commanding ing the carrier Langley Langl-ey to today today to- to day by Cap Captain lin Moses directing him hin I to continue the search in a final effort I to locate some evidence of the seaplanes seaplane's seaplanes seaplane's sea sea- planes plane's tragic ending Cap Captain lin Moses expressed the opinion opinion opinion ion that Commander John Rodgers who piloted the ill-fated ill seaplane traveled too fast on the projected I nonstop flight to Honolulu and consumed consumed con con- his gasoline reserve supplies supplies- Prior to the time the seaplane dropped dropped drop drop- ped from sight on the afternoon 0 of f Tuesday September 1 Commander L' L Rodgers was believed to have been 1 hunting for the Aroostook on station 1800 miles from San Fran Fran- cisco A storm had come up and th the a seaplane was circling around in ai an ri attempt to locate the Aroostook in expectation ex cx of affecting a landing alongside along along- side ide that vessel The last message C from Rodgers indicated that his po pa position po position was twenty five five miles north 1 and west of the Aroostook The seaplane was last seen at 1600 0 mark when it passed to the north o othe of f the U. U S. S S. S Farragut on the 1600 0 station If the seaplane hit the ocean in its iL S forced descent without the motors running Captain Moses said the shock 01 ox- of landing undoubtedly carried carried car car- ried ned the craft under the surface in which event the crew probably met death within a few minutes Despite the increasingly apparent hopeless nature of the search officers officers officers cers and men of the United States r zavy y in Hawaiian water continued continued continued con con- to seek some trace of Commander Com Corn mander Iander Rodgers and his s seaplane plane They expressed thorns themselves as determined deter deter- mired mined to save the missing aviators or fird fi-d some trace confirming their loss By day airplanes and surface ships pursue the hunt in the waters where the seaplane last was reported while submarines and mother ships comb I the waters to the north and west here v the airship might have drifted I i had it made a safe landing By night the searchlights of the navy play over the empty waves tracing strange patterns in the clouds |