Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1927 — Page 9

DEC. 30. 1927.

BYRD PLANNING FLIGHT DESPITE RECENT DEATHS Explorer Unperturbed by Fate of Aviators Who Passed Into Oblivion. Hu /’ini*'* Svrrinl WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. The tomb-like silence that holds the fate of more than a score who have flown away into oblivion never to return will not deter Commander Richard Byrd in his plans for a flight over the South Pole next September. Unperturbed even by the loss of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson’s big plane, The Dawn, the most recent air tragedy, Byrd plans to conquer the Antarctic as he did the Arctic two years ago when he and Lieut. Ployd Bennett flew over the North Pole. He will explore a continent, • s large as the United States, never seen by man. Lured by the spirit of adventure, more than twenty men and women ■ ave flown away to be swallowed up by mystery as deep as the seas they tried to cross in many instances. Sail Into Oblivion Thirty years ago, Maj. Salomon August Andree and three companions sailed away from Spitsbergen in a free balloon in an effort to fly over (lie North Pole and were never heard from again. Death from starvation and exposure on some icy mountain range probably was their fate. Losing his way on a flight from Boston to Atlantic City in May, 1919, Capt. Mansell R. James was swallowed up by a silence that has never been broken. No trace of him or his Sopwith Camel plane was ever found. Seeking to cross the Atlantic for the first time in a non-stop flight from Africa to South America, St. Roman and Mouneyres, two Frenchmen, vanished into the “Port of Missing Men.” Silence still shrouds the fate of Nungesser and Coli who took off three days later from Paris on a scheduled flight to New York. Five Die in Derby The Dole Derby from California to Hawaii claimed five lives in August. Two planes carrying four men and a woman—Miss Mildred Doran, a Michigan school teacher—vanished. While searching for them two days later, Erwin and Eichwaldt went to their death In a series of tail spins. They were joking with shore stations over their radio shortly before the tragedy. On an adventure as daring as ever attempted by man, Paul Redfern flew away from Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 25, on a proposed non-stop flight across the seas and jungles to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was last seen circling over a ship off the coast of Florida. Drowning in the ocean or death In the dank jungles may have been his lot. The elderly, but adventurous Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim and her two pilots, Hamilton and Min-

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Glory, the Hearst plane carrying three men. which started from Old Orchard, Me., on a proposed flight to Rome. A frantic SOS call was heard next morning and days later bits of wreckage were picked up on the water. But Lieut. Byrd, facing a mission fraught with as much danger as any of these flights, and more than most, is going ahead with his plans.

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