Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1931, Page 20

SEEK FLYERADRFT N SOUTH PACFC Warships and Planes in Quest for Brophy, Miss- ing for 24 Hours. By the Associated Pres MANILA, March 20.—Despite a fruitless 24-hour search , who vanished a for the American aviato rekindled tonight when his backer an- nounced the plane had been con- structed to float indefinitely L. E. Gale, who financed Brophy in seeking to establish a commercial air route between Shanghai and Manila by way of Hongkong and Macao, said the plane had been carefully equipped to meet a forced landing at sea Gale said the fuselage had been stuffed with strongly inflated air-ti bags. Several life rafts and life b also were in the equipment, Gale A and these, with the wings, should keep the plane aficat several The backer was convinced Br drifting somewhere in the South China Sea and would be found if the N: continued its intensive search. Navy Widens Search. | hy was | Meanwhils naval widened their hunt. Three d Lingayen morrow _two A to the Batane: just north of I 3 far from the steamship la: could land there and be cut off from tk outside world indefinitely Brophy was believed to have li chance of being picked up by a u chantman, as his course did not fol- low the steamship lanes. { Hope virtually was abandoned for two | other American fiyers, believed to have | plunged to their deaths off Mindanao | Island. | F. A. Diekhoff of San Francisco and william_Scott, Manila, generally were regarded as dead. A pontoon of Diek- Lof’s hydroairplane was found in the Pacific Ocean off the bleak eastern coast of Mindanao last Saturday. No| other trace of the fiyers was found.! Diekhoff_and Scott disappeared on 2-hour flight March 9 from Surigao | Harbor, Northern Mindanao, to Da Diekhoff was a salesman for a Ne York firm, while Scott was engaged in | business here. | The Radio Corporation of the Phil- | ippines was advised a Portuguese Army | seaplane had been dispatched from Macao to patrol the China coast in the search for Brophy. The United States | destroyers John D. Ford, Paul Jones and Truxton and the aircraft tender Heron left Manila late last night to search the ‘western coast of Luzon Isk | BERGER FOUNDATION PLANS NEWS CHAIN Drive Will Seek $100,000 .Ior Na- tional and City Editions of i Milwaukee Leader. By the Associated Pres: ' The Victor L. Berger National Foundation is preparing to launch a drive next month for & $100,000 fund 8s a nucleus for a national chain of| dafly newspapers for “the promulga-| tion of liberal thought and public| welfare.” { Marx Lewls, exccutive director of the foundation, said today the program | calls for a “national edition” of the Milwaukee Leader, followed by pu | tion in that city of local ed Detroit, Chicago and’ Cleveland, tion of the newspapers I can: definitely,” Lewis added, “but it is they will advocate a third par 1932—as we have always done.” Prof. John Dewey of Columbia Uj versity, whose third-party suggestion | recently was declined by Senator Norris of Nebraska, is one of the leaders of the foundation. Associated with him are Clarence Darrow, Jane Addams, | President Glenn Frank of th sin, Up Elizabeth Gilman of Baltim SOCIETY | (Continued Prom Third Page) F. Johnson, Mrs. Robert J. Ba Martha Pitzpatrick and M John McGovern. A forum luncheon will be Women's_City Club tomo o'clock. Dr. Carson Ry: Indian education, will g and will talk on “The Educ American Indian.” M chardt, chairman, will those subscribing are the William Lee Corbin; Dea: Eiley, Mrs. Francis D. . Miss Shields, Mrs, H M. V! dred M. Neu, Mrs. Ge P , MrS. Bertha L. Owens, Mrs. Alice M. Minch and Miss Blondelle Malon: Delta Delta Del resident in Wasl and guests will be ¢ the home of M to equal right ssional and s of the nt Hou: . where t is the National W and pa by Mi Mrs. A. W. Lee of ere spending several Hotel. i Miss Susan E. Arch'bald of Middle- | burg, Vt, is spending several weeks at | the Martinique Mrs. H. L. Greene and Mrs. F. G.| Perkins of South Bend, Ind, have been South for two months a e at the| Mayflower for a brigf fore re- turning home. ane of New York rived at the Carlton, where she will remain about one month. 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