CLIPPER’S FLIGHT

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1937, Page 9

CLIPPER’S FLIGHT

TO NEW ZEALAND Starting To-morrow [Per Press Association]., AUCKLAND, December 14. Plans for the second survey flight of the South Pacific, from Honolulu to Auckland by the tong-range Sikorsky Clipper of the Pan-American Airways, remain unchanged. The most recent advice received by the representatives of the company in Auckland was that the Clipper, would not leave Honolulu before December 15, which becomes Thursday, December 16, in New Zealand, and she was expected to reach Auckland about Sunday. , , Nd further advice of the Clipper s schedule is expected until shortly before she takes off. Crash in Flames BRITISH BOMBING PLANE. (Received December 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 14. Four were killed when a Royal Air Force bomber crashed, in flames, at Stopham Bridge, in Sussex. The bodies were so charred that identification was impossible., The plane was a Handley Page Heyford twin-engined bomber. It crashed in a sloping field. Villagers heard a terrific explosion. They ran out to find the . machine a blazing mass. The propeller was picked up 50 yards from the scene. , _•. LATER. After the Air Force bomber’s crash, the. heat was so intense that the villagers'could only look on until the flames. had died down. The machine itself was only identified by a fragment of a parachute, BRITISH AIR LINER’S ACCIDENT. LONDON, December 14. Two passengers and a wireless operator were injured when a British airways .machine, from Paris, when landing at Croydon in a snowstorm, crashed into the hangar. EARHART MEMORIAL. (Received December 14, 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 13. A message from Sacramento, California, states: An Amelia Earhart foundation has been incorporated by five friends of the aviatrix for the purpose of searching for her, and of endowing University scholarships in her memory. Mr. E. H. Dimity, the Foundation Manager, has conferred with Mr. Putnam (her widower), at Los Angeles, concerning a plan.for u schooner expedition from Oakland, aided by a seaplane and power boats.