Show WIDE V PACIFIC HOLDS SECRET i LOCATION OF LOST PLANES Unconfirmed Radio Mes Mes- Messages Messages Ics Ics- sages Arouse Hopes llopes Then Disappoint NAVY KAVY GIVES AID iUD Plying Flying Machines and mul Boats Scan Vaters I Ifor for Missing I I HONOLULU Aug By The TM Associated Press Pres with three air aIr- airplanes aIrplanes airplanes planes and md their occupants lost some some- somewhere somewhere somewhere where between the California main main- mainland mainland land and and the Hawaiian islands ag vagrant agrant ag agrant rant and radio mes mes- messages sages reporting the missing planes as I laving having b en picked up or seen fled searchers and aroused hope hop hop But nut each message me ge by naval vessel or aircraft proved false and I Ithe the he hopes that six courageous men I ind nd one brave girl were about to be rescued were cruelly dashed Radio experts were loathe to bs- bs I leve lIeve that these radio messages sent by individuals who could not be Iden- Iden Identified Identified or located had been sent as a hoax They thought Instead that they hey might have bran been b en fragments of conversation concerning the planes picked up by amateurs who excitedly mistook them for the news of of the plane for which the whole hole world has planes lanes for which the whole world has hashe the he wave-tossed wave machines No mill mill- military tory tary ary or commercial radio stations have hase Intercepted such messages I RUMOR OP OF FINDING After an night all vigil following I reports that Pilot William P. P ErwIn and ind Navigator I. I H. H might have hare lave plunged Into the ocean In their plane lane Dallas Spirit miles off the California coast last night the Pearl Harbor naval na station was snapped into nto sudden activity at dawn An amateur radio operator at Luke field reported having ha Intercepted a part of ofa ofa a message from from an ship stating that the Dole flight plane Golden Eagle had been picked up A few minutes later a second mes- mes message message sage age was intercepted saying that the Golden Eagle was being picked up Efforts to la confirm or trace the mes- mes messages sages ages were score futile The Luke field radio adio set is not an official army sta- sta I tion lon It Is an amateur station built and operated by men stationed there PATROL ISLAND ISLA m WATERS VATERS The fourteenth naval district ex- ex extended tended ended the search today for br the miss miss- missIng missing Ing ng Dole planes sending aircraft and submarines to comb the huge tri triangular tri tri- triangular angular area north of the the- Island of Hawaii which previously had been less ess searched than other regions Two patrols of two planes each left the Pearl earl Harbor air station before 7 30 a. a a m m. fueled for flights of approximately approximately approximately miles mUes each One Ore patrol went to M Island around which they pla to swing through channel The second patrol started for liana hans at the south- south southeastern southeastern eastern astern tip Up of Maul Maui Island from which they were to return to via la channel Joining the first patrol The planes in each patrol were ordered to fly ly about 10 mile apart and to send radio reports of their heir positions every ery 15 minutes I |