OVERDUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1927, Page 7

OVERDUE.

ANXIETY RELIEVED.

Di Pinedo Meets Mishap on Way to Azores.

"PLANE PICKED UP.

i (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copj-njULI

(Ecccivr.i :v.ti» .i.ra. • ; NEW YORK, May it ' A radio message from the steamer Cabet-erres says that the Italian airjman, the Marchese di Pinedo, for I hora great aaxiety was being felt at the Azores, i- safe. He left Trepassey Bar. Newfoundland, on Sunday mommy, on his return flight ,to I.'ome. and was 121 hours overdue at the Azores, the first stopping place. Engine trouble forced him to descend on the ocean. His "plane was picked up by a schooner, which U towing it into port. An earlier message stated that a j search was proceeding for the airman.! who \\a s more than \l\ hours o\erdue-, A report was recci* ed that a edionner bad been s«?en towing a seaplane in the direction of the Azores, at a potnt many miles olf di Pinedo* course. Ll">d's report. ho«pior. -aid th.it thU ' seaplane was apparently marked with the tricolour. The lirst detinue word of the mi~h-ij> was contained in a message received bv the American Radio Corporation -tating that di Pinedos seaplane "S-anta Maria" ! bad liceu !>ecii in tow of the xhooner ' In>anta \ <".»agrcs bound south-east at X'l.M p.m. Greenwich time. The liner Le\iathan »ent the report , tt> the Radm Corpora tion'* <o*-tal station, Massachusetts, whence it warehned to Sew York. i The position ~i\rn «as latitude 41.20 north, longitude i The name "Infant* Vesejirca ,, does not appear on Lloyd"- but it , i-i believed that the "Infante Sayrei,"' a three -masted schooner, is meant. (-onsifierin; hi> remarkable awlnevemci' , -.- .ia a pioneer of atrial navigation, th.Marchese di Pinedo had few a<.-ident.. jud interruptions in hi.- flight*. His out »tan«iinz a--hi«;v«»njont v«a* his ffisht trori Rome to Australia, in over the r»>u' ■ ! pioneered by Fr*» Smith, and foilow»d ii V.rji by Alan t'obhani. In that journey <ii was remarkable for the re^ilant; ■ « ith which lie '.j his flyms s«:hH'i'« ■nd the n-hoio flight nu completed «it!.n ut a hitrh. His first serious - .vj.. late in IW>. w lien pm\->arini for a round-the-world rtizbt. winch n-»> to mc!u'i«' Australia .iad Nets- Zealand. The »eaplan<to be used w-a.« overturned by a ■".»>•• '« hon on a t<»>t flight, killing the n*\ij;:tr.r ' -md seriously injunny <li Pined". wh«> »pent sonr* time in ho»r»ita!. In cor.sequence of the accident the itinerary j i-anceHeil. -mil tbr present flight froii! Home to S>">'ith America-North Ani»n..i and return w. ls substituted. Several inter ruptions h.ive occurrcl on the present venture, the most xrioua tioins the burnins of the original ""Santa Maria'" seaplane on Roosevelt LaWr in Aru-m.i. thr pr».ui >■>( .t n«-w 'plane i..iii->i!l; a <ir!av c>! several " rric» IRISH ELECTIONS. Eight Parties in Free State Fights. DE VALESA S PLAN. LONDON*. .May 2t Tin , cenoral election campaign in t'ie Irish tree State m< opened to-day witii ihe of the « A vigorous Sght e.\pceted to be waged until June S. j Ministers ha\e already commenced '.J address th« electors. There are eijrht parties in the held,, iwmolv. ii"\ernnieat. Republican, Ind.pendent. llan Hireann. National, t'arurr.-. I-abour and Sinn Kein. Inicrcsf eentrra in the RupubMoiiis, «ho .ire led h\ Mr. Kamnion de who i- reported to rvturn-d troni ' .\m-rir,i with pl-n: v r»f nmn'v n hi-;il "ill \>r .triple Lo enable him to put ~.a i! » •-.jnd»daie» forward. Mr i!- \.iK-r.. .bin,. ; ;,.U li- « il! ta - -c -upportem from tli? (;-nor"n:mt. In rliat event lie would enter the Dail and .t-.-.iin»i» oftii-*-. l>nt !)«• wuuld rrfu-e to t.ik<: t!" nmli ..f T;«.it would iin mediately reopen the lri.-h trra - y iy-ue. Captiin U". \ rWim-itW"- N.ilio.iaU •ri- e\|«e«-ted to put up a -tiff Pylit. The alignment of j>artir> will L>..<joiv i-Ipiirrr in a few ilyas. n hen Jhe manifesto* have been issued. DAY OF BAD LICK. THE "13- SUPERSTITION. LONDON. May li No. >o«-ial funt-ti"ii>. no »oleni nidation I of weddings and dullnes.- oil the -f.<«-k | escbanpe characterisetl the only Frid-:y which falls on * thirteenth of May between I9"_'l and 19">. Lovers and men a;rvcd that! the combination of the unluckicst d*v of the month and the unliickiest number was too dangerous- to be risked. A couple arriving at a West F.nd Registry noticed the date and postponed th« ceremony. Storekeepers report a noticeable deirline, in tlie piinrha-e? of, Treeii dres.-c*. following the >u|>it- | -tition that black follow- green bought on an unlucky day. Many stockbroker* refused to u-e iclcphoiiu-bov No. Li. despite the resuiting inconveniciice. Tile "Daily Mail'" in a leadin™ .irti«-le -a>.- the influence of the "I:;"* super- | .-titivn !s still vc*y >tn>ng Tbc paper cites the recent abolition ot \«> 13 from »leepiiig-cars by the North-La.-tci.. KaiJwuv - Lo. ue an example. Those wliu argtie that there is nothin-j in the . superstition mn be answered bv the i fact that 13 ha-» certainly been prooiiuent in many tragedies. - PURITY " CAMPAIGN. CLOTH2S PUT ON STATUS. BUDAPEST. May Is ! Following a (.tovcrnmcui ;igaiiiat short skirt*, bare leg*, and, rolled stockings, and nude statues, tht ' authorities are even conn'seating statues of Venuo de Milo in the shop window*.! I A nude statue of a girl, adorning the ' Ferdinand Bridge, over the Danube.! nbich disappeared recently. aaa reiippcared in it- old place, drssacd m , the fashion of l>9o. l-irge crowds bI-»-kerl the traffic over the bridge all day long, ridiculing the , purity campaign.