An Earlier Message
An earlier message was as follows: Five United States Army bombing planes yesterday afternoon spread in ever-widening circles searching for the Hawaii Clipper, after failing to find a trace in the area around the last reported position. Three destroyers, several submarines, a tender, and a number cf auxiliary craft hastened to the scene, and two naval amphibian aeroplanes patrolled along the coast. In the meantime, Pan-American Airways received a report indicating another scene for search. A telephone company employee on the island of Lahuy, said he heard an aeroplane three hours after the time the last message was received from the Clipper. The aeroplane appeared to be flying above the clouds to the westward.
Pan-American Airways officials said the location was on the direct course to ‘desired track” last indicated by the pilot, Captain Terletzky. It is planned to send amphibian aeroplanes to Lahuy. The bombers were forced to return to the Philippines to refuel at Legaspi, but the transport Meigs continued to search. On the return flight, the bombers spread out over an area 120 miles wide along the path the Clipper might have taken. Three machines will resume the search at dawn.
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Northern Advocate, 1 August 1938, Page 5
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