STILL NO WORD

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1934, Page 5

STILL NO WORD

OF ULM’S PLANE

U.S. FORCES CONTINUE SEARCH.

'United Press Association—By Electric

'Telegraph—Copyright.)

HONOLULU, December S

Relusing to give up hope the United States naval authorities have deeded fo .^continue' the search for Ulm’s plane, with the aid of surface boats and aeroplanes. This decision was announced by ,Hear-Admiral Yarnvdl ,after a two hours’ conference \yith the men who have hunted the ocean for four days, having searched tne surrounding . waters for two hundred or more miles from the Hawaiia n Islands.

Thu submarines will remain on patrol and the destroyers have been ordered to Pearl Harbour to refuel, before going t o)\t 100 miles northoast to-morrow.

The heavy planes will resume their flights into the south-west for 250 miles to-morrow, if tluA weather improves.

Aviators at .a conference in Admiral YarneH’s office said that Linds plane would not float over two days. They agreed that Ulm was short of his goal and off his course to the north. The •consejus .'of opinion was that .'the plane would he damaged on landing.

Admiral Yarnell has issued the following statement: “Mr Ulm encountered head' winds wjhich held him back and sent him off bis course to the right. A ,radius of 350 miles from Honolulu has bec n covered thoroughly by the coastguard and navy vessels and army and navy planes, Visibility was good and the plane would have been sighted if it were afloat. The airmen felt that the chances of the plane being afloat were very slight.

The search has been curtailed to three destroyers in the north-east, and three coastguard vessels in the northwest, and also four seaplanes in the south-west. Otherwise the Navy has now resumed its normal‘training. The Navy says that the search has been the most extensive peace time operation in history, with, the co-or-dination of the vessels and planes throughout, they having covered 250,050 square miles, without a mishap. The British Consul (Mr Turner) has offered ©O9O dollars'for the rescue of -any or all of the flyers alive; 1000 dollars for any or all dead ; 1000 dollars for a clue indicating where they arc lost.