TRIBUTES TO LOST AIRMEN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 9

TRIBUTES TO LOST AIRMEN

FLOWERS DROPPED ON OCEAN MRS ULM’S PLANS FOR NEW SEARCH United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright HONOLULU, December 17. In the joint observance of Aviation Day and a tribute to Mr Ulm and his crew, 110 army and navy aeroplanes flew in formation to-day over Honolulu, and dropped flowers into the Pacific Ocean off Diamond Head. The Lanakai was the former German trading schooner Hermes, which fled from here at the outbreak of the war, with an Australian cruiser searching for her about the Marshall Isles. She slipped past the Japanese Warship Hizen, off port, while her sister schooner, Aeolus, was captured and sunk by the Hizen. The Lanakai is now engaged in fishing cruises. She is equipped with a Diesel engine.

MRS ULM’S PLANS ARRANGEMENTS FOR SEARCH United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn—Copyright HONOLULU, December 17. The schooner Lanakai, chartered for Mrs Ulm, is being fitted out to continue the search, and will be leaving in two or three days, with a crew of ten. The British Consul, Mr William Turner, to-day obtained permission from the Governor and Navy for the schooner to visit the islands, shoals and reefs to the westward, Mr Nqrthrup Castle, the owner and master of the schooner, said he would be away for three weeks to a month. The Itasca sailed at 6 a.m. yesterday en route for Johnston Island, 720 miles to the south-west. FEDERAL CABINET INTERESTED EXTENDING AREA OF SEARCH United Press Association—By Electric Tel egrap tl—Copyright CANBERRA, December 18. After the Prime Minister had been informed of the arrangements made by Mrs Ulm for chartering the Lanakai, it was announced that the United States Government, upon the suggestion of the Commonwealth Government, would despatch the coastguard cutter Itasca to search Johnston Island, which is outside the areas in which the fishing sampans operate.