Show ii s AVIATORS v AT RS SEPARATED SEPARATE SEPAR T I YANKEE PLANES DASH J BACK TO PORT Nelson and Harding In L Third Plane Not Accounted For 11 TRAPPED BY FOG FOl to Be Be Making r I Lone Flight Plight Toward Iceland W KIR KIRKWALL ALl Au AuBy Aug By 2 2 By The Associated Pr s I Erik Nelson Nelon and his I nt John Hardin Harding Jr In InI Inthe inthe lithe the army airplane New Nw Orleans I ere believed this afternoon to be a lone Ion attempt to reach Iceland In the tint first leg lee of o the e D world fliers filers trans trans-Atlan- transAtlantic trans tic flight The Th attempt or of o Lieutenant 10 Louril H Smith the th flight corn om mander to lead the th world fliers filer to Iceland the first firstI scheduled halt on the trip across I the Atlantic was RS frustrated by a 0 I hl hervy fog lay ay iii the pall of ot the fliers flers north ot or the th nt Smith In the tho th Chicago I and Lieutenant Leigh Wade In the noton were trapped trapped by the tog fog s when only 60 miles from here hr t sf- 1 ter a late lat start f this morning and an ere HT forced to turn lurn about and re- re return return return turn to their base In Houton Day DayI Ba Smith expressed presed his I belief that Lieutenant Nelson as a as continuing on to Iceland lIlT JIlT DF DENSE DF SE FOG 1 The nIght flight commander said that t juet after clearing the th the three planes plane plunged Into a R dense dens i to fog extending up feet The Thi I fliers filer avoided it by dodging dO east east- were ere another and thicker fog tor The flie Immediately lost sight eIght lEht of t each cach other but Smith and Wade Wad turning east rd came cam together er In a a clear CleM space 25 miles oft off Dir Dir- say in the Orlene OrkneY They searched half halt an hour for tor Lieutenant Nel Nei Nelson Nelson son and then abandoned the tho th hunt hunto to search earch for tor tho the Richmond R In or- or order or order dor der to drop a message bag bat The Richmond was as bl hladen In another r fo fog oft off the west aest est and they the and returned gave up thia effort over Kirkwall dropping their thelme r 1 message as and ond then anchoring In Bay InI I Bayr I r OVER OVER- ON BOARD CRUISER RICH RICH- RICHi RICHMOND RICHMOND RICHMOND i MOND Auk Mi By 2 By Wireless to I IThe The Associated Press The Tho American destroyer Reid sta- sta stationed 1 between the th Faroe Islands and Iceland reported this Erik afternoon thit th Lieutenant Nelson In the New Orleane Orlean was n passing 0 oser o Ir c he headed head ded d for jord Iceland 00 00 |