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NUMBER SIXday (2:27 p.m. CST.)Oil slick was reported found or) the water 32 miles off TutuiJa island. In the same vicinity a column o£ smoke was reported sighted yesterday. The feeling here was that the smoke marked the death trail of the clipper and her crew.No further word came from the ship itself since preparations to land were reported by Capt. Edwin C. Musick, 43-year old veteran transoceanic flyer who W7is on his last flight with the clipper in Pan American Airways’ new Honolulu-to-New Zealand service.A story ihe plane was downpair.ed grin can oe oiamea directly on his failure to repeat the coup of a year ago when he arranged with President Roosevelt to dispense with the customary exchange of formal dinners, chiefly because he has an intense dislike of climbing into while tie and tails. Muffled and hatted, you see him abovecopon the way to the White House to be the evening's honor cuest-tne ! .ider .F sior Mrs Rat E. I Mrs Ro.ss. :MrsPosCalifornia to Manila and Hong Kong, for two years. Never before was one even forced down.PcM;oiCaptain Has Good RecordSAN FRANCISCO. Calif., J a n. I2_i.pi_captain Edwin C. Musick. 43-year-old commander of the j Tu«bcrIthe v. .... ..... , missing Samoan clipper, flowand safe has persisted. A report | more than a million miles with-was received Sr. Dunedin, New i out serious accident, never injur-Zcaland. all the crew was safe !«d a passenger, and reputedly seton the plane 74 miles west ofApia.Observers1 more world records than any oth-pointed out., however this might have from a misconstruction of the first unconfirmed report the clipper was down at Apia, which is 74 miles west of Pago Pago.Search Fruitless_ i1alidfirnfu-:s.at?da*ntorillis-vots.!SSorThi. naval aircraft tender Avo-cet put out from Pago Pago to maintain a night long search for flares and after daylight investigate the reported oil slick inan effort to determine whetherit might mark the Samoan clipper’s burial ground.At that spot it scheduled a ren-dezvous today with a naval plane piloted by Lieut T. B. Williamson who made a fruitless five hour aerial search yesterday, _ returning only at sundown. His take off was set for dawn.English officials were reported to have sent out a ship to scour many islands in nearby British Samoa.Natives throughout all the Samoan islands were asked to post lookouts on mountain peaks. Absence of ships in this area, of the south Pacific handicapped the search. Requests were expected to be sent to steamships coining near the islands and possibly a plea sent to Honolulu for the aid of destroyers.Radio SilentAbsence of word by radio was regarded with foreboding. The clipper was equipped with- kites from which an aerial could be flown to permit her radio to send if she landed on water and transmission was blocked by island mountain peaks.A ceaseless vigil was maintained at the Pan American radio operating room here without response. As the hours dragged by buoyant expectancy at seeing the clipper crew again gave way to fears among members of the Pan American ground crew.The clipper bad taken off from. Auckland, New Zealand, but scarcely two hours out- discovered a leaky oil line and turned back. *It was just three minutes out of Tutuila When the message was received' that the fuel load was being dumped. Fully loaded the plane weighs approximately 43,000 pounds, making it exceptionally difficult to land.In San Francisco Pan American officials scouted'the theory that the gasoline caught fire. Officials said each motor was separate and protected by an automatic fi^-e . • extinguisher. The dumping* valves were’ situated under the huge metal wings, and the exhaust pipes ran over them a- precaution taken in ' construction to avert that very -possibil-The* disappearance was the first mishap; of any of .the Pan American clippers which have been ilyir.g. Hie . Pacific,.. ixojner pilot.“Ace” of the Pan American resulted ; Airways, Captain Musick learned tc fly in Los Angeles. He built his own plane when in high school there. On his first flight it crashed—from a height of nine feet into a mud puddle.From that mishap to his later fame as the pioneer pilot of the vast Pacific was a triumph, of painstaking attention , to details. Musick was called a man who never took a chance. Friends said he looked after every detail of his planes himself, never forgot anything.Musick pioneered most of the commercial air routes over the Atlantic and Pacific for his com-pany. He carried America’s first international air mail, across the Florida Straits to Havana. Cuba.He was in command of the Pan American Clipper—the same boat now anxiously hunted in the south Pacific, later named the Hong Kong Clipper and the Samoan Clipper—on • its first hop from Alameda to Honolulu. That was the first trans-Paciiic flight of a transport plane.Last month he commanded the Samoan Clipper on its Alair.eda-to-Auckiand flight, and then started regular service on the New Zealzmd-lo-Hawaii route on the return trip. Through connections at Honolulu and Auckland, this route opened service from Australia to the United. States.Bom in St. Louis, Mo., in 1394, Musick took a commercial flying course in 1913.The World war found him a civilian instructor for the United Stales army air corps, with 'service at San Diego, Calif., Wichita Falls. Texas and Miami. Fla.Later he flew with the marine corps at Quantico, Va., and be came chief pilot in 1922 for the “Aero Marine, ajine operating flying boats to and Havana.s\vlt;IdueiorRuthe1binciaserMilt olt;HBiDcbiiteiRstelt;sudalaifo:seDcMMG.Dlt;Bimini, NassauAn acre of trees can evaporate 1500 tons of water in a season.McSWAIN—Mon. Tues. Wed. Preview Saturday Night •THE CAVALCADE OF AMERICA’S BREATHLESS YEARS! . . . Heroic episodes! Thrilling action! Spectacular scenes! Burning romance! . . . And a great cast including— _ ■BOB BURNS Joel McCREAFrances DEE and a supporting cast of1000’s!Fm/ruom“Westward- the Course of Empire Takes Its Way.!”. - 'lltlllllilllllII'
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Wed, Jan 12, 1938
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