Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MAY 28 1928. ATALIA, HAVEFAITH, [ mescus sure s MESSAGE TO NOBILE ‘ | 3 Whole Italian People Hope for Safetly of Explorer and Crew. ROME, May 28.—A message which the Italia’s base ship Citta Di Milano wes continually broadcasting from Spitzbergen today in the hope that the missing dirigible Italia would pick it up—-Ttalia, Italia, have faith. We are | organizing relief"—might well be_taken to be the message of the whole Itallan | f. : | poople. = - . o] | Mussolini Anxious. | | 3 Premier Mussolini was following the | wituation in the Arctic closely and | urging diplomatic representatives ln‘ countries anywhere near the zone| where the Italia might be to do| The Nobile base ship Citta Di Milano sailed from Kings Bay vesterday in everything possible | search of the missing Ialia. Last night the vessel reported by wireless that she to speed up the| was off Amsterdam Island, along the northern coast of Spitzbergen, blocked by | search. He gave piling ice floes. | orders that every|— G " 1z P of news avail-| i | e in 1921 under Capt. Scott, pilot of the |ing dirigible ltalia. but at 6 am. the . . efforts had been unsuccessful B s | " Stations of the Radio S femiiy "at | America tuned their powerful instru- A b | ments to wave lengths used by a sta- | Mamans were| KINGS BAY. SPITZBERGEN, May | lon giving the call letters “ASRA-3. awakened this|28 (P).—Ice, which might have caused | Woich broadeact S O 8 message early | morning byt the collapse of the dirigible talia, today | mised that this ‘station was relasing | st “Eaitions of blocked the first attempt. to search for | messages from the Talia, e newaphpers | e mistiy Al | Prench and Engiich, were picked up and ruthed to the | The Clita di Milano, base ship of | French and English were picked up streets in the hope | Gen. Nobile's polar expedition. saled |y e, 00 oy foel & B, AT of learning of the | from Kings Bay to make a preliminary | 0} - pa e ICE BLOCKS RESCUE SHIP. | dispatch from Oslo reports that Capt. | | areas. and asked them to take charge |giaiion at Viadivostok, whose messages safety of the general and his crew. Survey of rescue conditions. At 9 pm. Their disillusionment was great when | last night the vessel reported by wire. they found that nothing d'flniwwwls}};;s that she w oW of the Italia’s whereabouts hes ook some comfort, however, tu iR A sene dispatches from Oslow and other points d"?d!lamsr the coast, indicating that eversthing possible was | *dde The Radio Corporation of America’s station also received the signals, which ame in badly garbled and at times al- | | most. unintelligible. The S O S message said: | “S O S ASRA-3 Dirigible Ttalien with Gen. Nobile in disaster. It is equipped piling ice | message being done and that men with polar experience, such as Roald Amundsen. were making ready ‘to aid in the search. Remembered by Pope. The Pope 'again remembered Gen. | companio! ns at his own early mass. He also asked that all ecclesiastical business be interrupted as soon as any definite word reached Rome regarding the explorer's where- abouts Newspaper offices have been bom- barded with questions, the telephones never being idle. The staffs were mo- bilized and stood by ready to put out extra editions as soon as any good mews was received Piceolo in an editorial urged the peo- ple to remain calm, and noted that the whole civilized world was following the course of attempts to solve the mys- tery of the missing dirigible. The pa- per said that in view of the equipment carried there was no reason to despair. T Meridiano (the Monday noon edi- tion of Messaggero) points out that there have been previous examples of explorers being lost from view for a Jong time, and says that the intrepidity of Gen. Nobile and his companions gives every assurance that they will | find their way out of their present pre- dicament. A grim silence fell over the little |group of Italians left behind at the hangar here. At that time it was ex- {actly 60 hours since the dirigible had | been in touch with headquarters. | | One of the hypotheses discussed con- |cerning the fate of the Italia was that | | ice and wet snow forming on the air-| | ship might have wrecked it. It was | recalled that the dirigible Norge, in | | which Gen, Nobile flew over the North | 8, Pole two years ago, was at the Point | that the 8 O 8 was being revealed by of collapsing at one time under such a burden. | Biter Wind With Fogs. | The weather continued extremely | | cold and there was a bitter wind with fogs over the mountains to the north. |, The view prevailed generally today | | that the search for the missing airship | yshould first be undertaken at North- | east Land. It was pointed out that| the last message from the Italia came | at 9 am. Greenwich time (4 am. East- | | ern standard time) on Friday and it | reported the airship on an eastern | | course, and the belief of her naviga- | | tors was that she had been about 155 | | miles north of Moffen Island at 3 ’oclacl that morning. Moffen Island ‘x‘:..:w( fifty miles east of Northeast nd. | In that area there are several Win- | | ter houses where the crew of the Italia | Cated. however. | national Amateur Radio Union for use of | station near Viadivostok. | sage. | | messages. to radio on wave length of 40.45 meters. | Please help immediately | Radio men first believed that the Italia, down in the frozen wastes, had rigged up a’wireless set and was send- ing out the calls direct. From odd bits of the messages, which were repeated from 5:15 am. until 6:40 am. and which gave again and again the call number RAO3, coupled With the let- ters “A " wireless men deduced | an amateur station near Vladivostok in Siberia. They explained that the let- ters “A 8 e assigned by the Inter- and said the Siberian stations number of a “RAO3” was the call Failure to give the dirigible’s position | was explained on the theory that the airmen themselves might not know where they had landed. Pacific Coast stations, commercial and amateur, immediately began a lon vigil in hope of catching another mes- Dozens Listening In. ‘The Coast Guard cutter Northiand radioed to Seattle from the Bering Sea that she had been unable to pick up the Intense interest in the mystery indi- that dozens of com- “They must at Jast respond to the might find shell case - | mercial and amateur operators would eall of the fatherland and must re-lin‘:. Several ;flw‘: nvm:fm:m.!be listening today at the hours best turn” says the paper | Teady have seen the Italia in flight and | 3dapted for sending in the bands be- o il e would be constantly on the lookout for | teen 3033 and 40.45 meters. bota of { I her, ]TAALull: Zi:fll?:D:lY! Aw":v o S B WS | B e . | several years in America, has 7| e allans” information onsités of | &, tmes badly garbled. as if the opera- Kings Bay, & Mr. Sherdahl, who lived | j,0r." were almost undecipherable and | RELIEF VESSEL IN ICE | bunting huts i the north. familiar tongue. One of the messages which wave lengths were mentioned |/ MEFYeORe | | . fContinued from Pirst Page) north and eastern Spitzbergen. 1f this theory should prove correct. it is felt that there 15 good hope that the crew of the Italia can be rescued Hold Air Offers Best Chance. Government officials and experts in Arctic conditions believe that the air o better chances of success than any expedition which might be sent over the sea. All are anxious for the slightest hint 25 to_the direction Ln] which to seek the Italia Numerous Arctic explorers in Norway have an- nounced their readiness to do all that is possible in the way of rescue. Amundsen said it would be premature the worst had happened. he airship had fafled to make a he thought that Gen. Nobile get in touch with some civil- Jialia could remain in the air three or four weeks 2s 2 free balioon, and that she carried enough f00d to sustain her crew for & month, or even six weeks on 5 culated that the dirigible latitudes 81 and 77 and and 28 east when com- with her ceased. This n the vicinity of North- Riiser-Larsen on Norge. Riiser-Larsen, the right-hand men Amundsen and Ellsworth in the 1926 expedition of the Norge, has st- distinction in Arctic ex nd aviation for resourceful- rage 2 graduate of the Norwegian School and i 38 years o] He ne nevy in 1912 and joined the Norwegian naval seaplane f In 1922 he gained a Yeputation as & jot by fling the er.- the Norwegisn comst, one the most Gengerous cossts in the world. without sccident The c 3 knows much shout dirig- thies 4 A Trisl Will Convinee You That MENU PEAS Are Buperion JAMES M. 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No longer are men in bright military uniform seen scurrying {about responding to military commands | Transportation of tubes of gas and | other ” preparations for | Despite this atmosphere of grim un- | certainty, the Italians expressed the belief that the dirigible was safe Wireless operators on the Citta di stuck to their posts, efther lis- jtening for the Italia or sending out messages of encouragement in the hope | | that even with her sending aparatus | silent, the Italia might be abie to pick | | up messages. | MESSAGES HEARD ON COAST BAN FRANCISCO, May 28 #).— Commercial and amateur radio oper- ators on the Pacific Coast maintained | & vigil today in the hope of picking up | more messages asking aid for the mis D. J. KAU 1005 Pen 1724 Pen Dog Teams Suggested. | picked up by Blalack said 'S O 8§ —The Dirigible of Gen. 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S A A i MOSCOW, May 28 (#).—All radio | stations in Siberla have been on the; alert for any signals from the missing | dirigible Italia, but no news whatever ' | had been picked up from her by noon BERLIN, May 28 (#).—A news agency | today. | The Soviet authorities, which pre- viously had instructed the Siberian sta- tions to be on the alert, sent further in- structions today for renewed watch. 8 0 S BELIEVED RELAYED. six United States naval radio stations of Alaska had heard no word from the Italia late last night, although the mes- sages constantly being sent out by the cittl dl Milano, mother ship to the dirigible, were being recelved at short intervals. The six naval radio stations in Alaska are at St. Paul, Island, Cordova, Dutch | Harbor, Kodlak, Sitka and Cape Hinch- inbrook. ASKS AID OF HUNTERS. Rilser-Larsen, who has been placed in charge of airplane relief ior the Italia has requested the newspapers of North- | ern Norway to appeal to all sealers and | other hunwrf of l;w Arctic to sendrhlm EHET SR ideas respecting the transporting of re- i lief supplics. He addressed the appeal | HARTFORD, Conn, May 28 (P).—A. o all persons headed for Franz Joseph | A. Herbert, treasurer of the American Land, the White Sea and surrounding | Radio Relay League, said last night the of supply depots. The Aero Arctic Society, Comdr. Wal- | With the call letters, “AS—RAO3" ask- 3 | ing help for the Nobile dirigible were :;,’“,E;'l’,‘:,; secretary general of the ove| picked up by Pacific Coast stations to- doubted the feasibility of Gen. Nobile's | day, probably recelved the ol f&‘:}‘;“'} - ; | using its greater power, made ral venture with a small airship like the | USIDg its greater Italia. He declared that the Ttalian explorer | Last night Station IMK, regular head- admitted that the small capacity of the | ‘l}mm’*k‘“"“"" "{ }“CQR@’:Y }fi?flf' Italia had obliged him to reduce his| ¥a3 SCCEnE hw Ll = ballast reserves materially—necdful in | Italla through ships at sea. the event of ice formations—and polar equipment in case of a forced lending.| During the recent “wheat week” in The Italia’s limited speed, about 50 | Argentina the government conducted a miles an hour, also compelled Gen. No- ' campaign in favor of “pedigreed” seed. MAR COMPANY 701 7th St. N.W. Dress Up for Memorial Day Belt and 9 8 C Buckle Sets An Extraordinary Value ‘This good-looking belt is made of full-grain cow- hide, in brown or black, complete with distinctive buckle and watch chain. Truly an extraordinary value—the quantity is limited—come early. 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