SOUTHERN CROSS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 7 June 1929, Page 9

SOUTHERN CROSS

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ULM DBIIES AftEdATION

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United Press Atuociiiion^tiy inictrfe Tele- •■'■■■■ .'■:""■ T. r-f^'S^^W^ June-:: Cominis^jai'^jnveiflgating the forced' .landings, ; of ; Cross ani.Kobkaburifi wsna»«d^it« inquiry today;;- ;_?-■ ».^/.;;.^;;v-^.V.,.'j ir't!. r'v'f."'- ■ •■:"■ v Charles tllm was recalled;---'Question-' I ed: about the'-I^rTw^aregalioh yesterday, he said that he neyer^at any time suggested to Portng^ha^ie ghould undertakeia flight' iotin^T Australia, and get lost Jor.puhMcjiijf-jpurpq#c», Such a statement was.not even made as a joke. Vim added" that when "a flight round Australia was -mentibnea=:a: couple of year.s ago,. Portus .was- always putting him off, procrastinating^ and unable to say definitely, whether'the Shell Company would stand behind such a venture. "In. other Lwordsy Bdid not trust him," saidkUlin, whp~B.aid.thst he then .approached-another, company;, this time successfully. '' .' -'/ • ■■•'"- ■ •.'■■:■■■ ;/ .,^^s#^Braqars. '..;: • '• Tllm; in accordance, with,hispromise made earlier at the inqmry. submitted a number of proposals; for ::t;he better control of. long-distance Exploratory flights, the Kejbief-.of-whieh--was that honorary advisers.jshouldrbe appointed to assist aviators of this type. William Sutherland/'bf "the' Vacuum Oil Company, related a' conversation with Keith Anderson before the latter began his search. .Witness asked Anderson where he thought'the Southern Cross had come down. Anderson marked on a sis-feet sije map in witness's oflice a spot, which jirqwetd approximately to be within, a few hundred yards of where the Southern Cross/was actually I found. Witness also marked a spot: which, proved to be- 120 cinUes wrong. A third party pin-pointed a spot nearer Darwin. Witness undertook to produce this map. •'■■ - ' 'i:i- ''v ■-.- Him, recalled, said that the; spot alleged to have been marked or indicated by Anderson was at^leasfclOO miles from where they w.ere forced down. TYPE OP RADlO '''(s&&.' ' :. Wing-Cominander; v ;W;a.cketi.. gave the committee many /suggestions about the : type of radio, gear heeaea'for long-dis-tance aviators:; He producea a set carried in a haversaisk which: had been in touch .with AiickJand.-.--.^ „. .Norman Paul, *.fprmer".resident of the Port George .Mission, r read letters received irom-the" Key. ?6eb"rge Baird of the Mission, in.which the. writer described the country? between the Mission and where., hs,foiwd- the, Southeni woss crew in- a starving condition. Baird:walkediboth; f ways;-rEeaving the Mission at 9 a.m.,- he, reached the marooned men> at 3;30,-p;m.;? He described the aviators as-fools^to'flindertake a night over that^*errito*y.-, during the rainy; season, issrith theACOuntryside all swamp- nxud anfl grass.;.eigbf feet high m the vicinity of the Mission. - ■ Kingsfdfd Smi^itf evidence, said that he had no: recolleetion'bfi. conversation, in Caator's Hat^ljn.which Ulm sugge|ted t ? ..%tuis,,tiisii h ft and Ulm should lose --*heiMsely;es':in Central Australia." :'r' :-;-.;' -n: ;,:'-r.-c: : . -■ .■ The evidence ;has now Itflosedj, and counsel were addressing the committee wien:the;;sil4ing,a,djonisied. ~i ' The.'report ;will be* ready id * few days. .■- ■ •- •'■ .-T •• •.-• .