HOPE SLOWLY DIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 58, 2 December 1930, Page 11

HOPE SLOWLY DIES

Fate of Mrs. Miller TERRITORY SCOURED Desolate Land and Sea APPEAL FOR WARSHIPS By ‘ldexrapli—Press Association—Copyright(Rec. December 1, 11.50 pan.) Now York, December 1. Captain Lancaster, who is en route to Miami to search for Mrs. Keith Miller, has wired the British Ambassador at Washington asking that British naval ships bo sent to search for tile missing airwoman, lie is also asking that airways officials at Miami be sent to assist. Carl Voelter, leader of the Florida air search for Mrs. Keith Miller, the aviatrlx, who is missing on a flight from Havana (Cuba) to Florida, said: “Further search for Sirs. Miller Is useless.” “We have scoured every inch of territory to the south-east and west of Florida Peniusula, also the Islands southward. "We have flown low over swamps, glades, and tile Florida Keys. The land Is desolate, the winds are strong, and the waters are running high. “Captain Lancaster wired me to-day that he is coming as fast as possible. I will do all that he asks of me, but the case seems hopeless.”

Mrs. Keith Miller, much of whose earlv living was done in Australia, has had a varied career. She received much of her education in the South Island of New Zealand. In 1927 she and Captain Lancaster, another Australian, flew from England to Australia, and although weather and other circumstances were against them, their performance was accomplished only through a plentiful allowance of grit and determination to win through, hi spite of discouragements and heartbreaking delays. Australia welcomed them three months after England had said good-bye. Following this flight Mrs. Miller was concerned in projects to fly the Atlantic —for which a plane was actually built—to fly from New York to Bermuda, non-stop, and to fly round the world. Captain Lancaster and Captain Lyons were the central figures in these projects, Mrs. Miller then Invaded America, where she substantially lowered first the East-td-West and then the West-to-East women’s trans-continental flying records this year, botli of which had been set up a very short time before by Miss Laura Ingalls, of the United States. Having started out to break records, Mrs. Miller next proceeded to shorten the time for a two-stop flight from Pittsburgh to-Havana, Cuba. It is on the return flight, on which she had intended to make only one hop, that Mrs. Miller has gone astray.