No Sign of Missing Clipper

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 7

No Sign of Missing Clipper

Rumour of Foul Play VONS7 OBT BOARD FOR CHINESE GOVERNMENT United Press Association.—By Electric Tel agra.ph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.20 p.m. MANILA, July 31. The search for the wreckage of the Hawaii Clipper was continued to-day without success. The oil spot is breaking up and it is unlikely that it can be followed much longer. An unofficial report states that the naval craft expect to be called in from the search to-morrow night. Meantime investigation has begun of a report that Wah Sung Choy, a restaurant keeper of Jersey City, who was a passenger in the clipper, carried a large iam of money ostensibly to the Chinese Government. The report men--0 ions the possibility that the destruction of the plane grew out of foul play over Choy'a errand. The Hawaii Clipper, which is the name of the flying-boat lost in the Pacific, is one of three Martin craft owned by Pan-American Airways and used on the San Francisco-Manila route. The Martins are 25-ton ships, considerably larger than the ill-fated Sikorsky Samoan Clipper, which visited New Zealand, and aro the largest craft at present operated by the company, althongh much smaller than the Boeing Clipper to be put into commission shortly. No one captain permanently commands the Hawaii Clipper, the company having a large staff ot officers who alternately form the crews of the ocean-going flying-boats. Captain W. D. Culbertson, who visited New Zealand with the late Captain Edwin C. Musick when the Samoan Clipper was last in Auckland, was for some time in command of the Hawaii Clipper.