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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1925)
Destroyers Scour Northern Seas to Rescue Locatelli Daring Italian Aviator and Companions Found After Hope Practically Abandoned. By LOWELL THOMAS. When Admiral Admiral Magruder heard from Lowell Smith that Locat elli had failed to reach Frederlokedal he gave orders for his ships to scour the seas be tween Iceland and Greenland Smith and the Danes also sent fleets of Eskimo in their skin kyaks to comb t hq f jors from Cape Fare well north to Angmagsallk. According t o Captlan Cotten of the Richmond, nothing had been seen of theltillan monoplane I-Deor alter it had passed from sight Into the haze west of the destroyer Barry. “From the reports of the Barry,” adds Captian Cotten, “Locatelli was in the air when he crossed longitude 311 degrees west. That became the eastern limit of the zone of search. Ths inhospitable. Icebound shore of Greenland was, perforce, the western limit of the search ships. The line of ^^flight was naturally the axis of the zone of search, and, taking Into ac count possible drift by wind and cur rent. a belt 40 miles wide on each side of this axis was thought to he the limit In which It could reasonably be hoped to find the missing plane. The problem then was one of locating a tiny floating object In this area of approximately 12,000 square miles. All tkto was based upon the assumption that Locatelli had been forced down t\* the eastward of Greenland. If he had crashed on the land, only one who has seen the myriad towering peaks and forbidding ice caps of that gta«M& land could correctly gauge the consequences.” Destroyer Short of Fuel. The destroyers Billingsley and Reid had been obliged to steam straight for their usual stations in European waters because they harely had enough fuel to get them back. This left the Barry and the cruisers Richmond and Raleigh. But the Bar ry also was almost out of fuel and the two cruisers were but little bet ter off. Where Locatelli had disappeared was one of the most remote regions of all the seven seas. Not only were there no ordinary trading vessels ply ing these waters, hut there were not even any whalers. So It was up to these three American ships to scour 12,000 square miles of sea east and south of Greenland or the four Ital ian airmen in the I-Deor were doomed. Search Vast Area. Fortunately, both cruisers carried ^^|niMll planes, and whenever the fog ^^vioulil clear away a. few hours they would g" up and down and from sev cad thousand feet in the sky, would sweep the sea with their binoculars. By night the ships kept their search lights flushing, the Raleigh scouring the ice-infested waters to the north of Cape Farewell and the admiral's flagship combing the sea to the south. It m s heartbreaking work. They w-r r rapidly running out of fuel, the foe constantly kept closing down oxer t .em. and there were icebergs on ail rides. ' T ic unsearched area got smaller." ac Captain Cotten. "and the flame of hope burned dimmer and dimmer. ' Finally, only a narrow strip about 100 miles long remained for the Raleigh and the Richmond to cover, hut the men and officers of cruisers were haunted by the thought lhat they might easily have missed 1e Italian, tilane during the night or while enveloped In fog. The search had lasted from the evening of Au gust. 21. through the next, day and night, on through August 23. and up to the evening of the 24th. when only the hundred mile belt remained un searched. Graphic Story of Rescue. Captlan Cotten gives us a graphic account of what happened ou that mAmoraWlp nicht: “MMnifcht. Cold. dark, and rbPf*r less. The Richmond ploxx-ing through the trackless sea between Iceland and Greenland, searching for a tiny object bearing four human lives, lost now for three and a half days. A momentary flicker of light on the horizon 10 miles away. The Richmond ^ turns and speeds toward the spot ^k^hrobbing with her 100,000 horse power. A red star fired Into the air lights up her decks with a lurid red light as officers, men. correspondents, snd cameramen rush upon deck half rlad, hair dlsheaeled, with heax-y overcoats or trailing blankets thrown sround them. An answering star from the darkness ahead. Can It hr the lost are found? Can It he? Bril liant white searchlight beams stab the darkness and feel along the horl zon Ilka grouping fingers of light. A small object Is seen, toesed up and down by wind and wave and bobbing about like a cork on the water. A flash of color, and the red. white snd green rudder of the Italian plane Is recognized In a searchlight beam All eyes are strained toward the plane through momenta of tense si ence. How slowly It seems to draw lance. One, two .three, fou,—the men In the plane are made out. All all are alive and safe! The ship dasho up. stops 20 feet from the plane, and Is greeted by a veritable salvo of Ital lan. A line la tossed from ship te plane.. (Locatelli subsequently wild 'This line was like the first thrend connecting ua with life ngaln. 1 Help Ing hands nre extended. Movie men crank their machines In the brilliant light as the aurora borealis flares ur ss though to assist and r<ocatelll and his rrew climb on hoard bleary-eyed unshaved, disheveled, snd weary-, hul voluble wtth thanks for their mlrac "Persona! effects are passed or hoard from the damaged plane. Het tanks are punctured. 8he Is set. or firs, cast adrift, passes astern, flare* ?i>, and sinks In a thousand fathom* of water. Bllanre once more on thi Richmond, except for the purring ol ¥ the radio as she'etta the world of the little drama with Ita happy ending In the faroff northern seas, 'neath the shadow of ‘Greenland's Icy moun tains.' "After that, routine again. Green land to Labrador, to Newfoundland, to Nova Ssotla, and safe In Boston at laat. After six' weeks it seemed as though we had been guarding planes, dodging Icebergs, avoiding Ice floes, cruslng in fog. Naval Ufa haa its ups and downs, but Is rarely ever dull." Surely none of the trained writers who were passengers on the Rich mond, representatives of the greatest news agences In the world, could have told this epic story of the rescue of Locatelll more graphically than Captain Cotten, who was one of the chief actors tn the drama. Landed to Ksrape Bergs. What had occured was that Major Locatelll had landed In the fog, while the American fliers had flown right on through. Locatelll frankly admit ted that he had descended because he was afraid of colliding wiih an ice berg or a mountain. Moreover, he had a much more seaworthy plane than the Chicago or the New Orleans. It was really a flying boat and capable of landing in far rougher seas than the American airmen dared risk. But in alighting on the water he had ser iously damaged his engine carriers. Theoretically his scheme was feasi ble. _because he merely Intended to bring his flying boat down and stt there on top of the water until the fog cleared away. But In addition to to the damage tn the engine while waiting there for the weather to clear a storm came up, the sea grew rougher, and the waves broke his ailerons, stabilizer, and elevators. So by the time the fog had cleared off the I-Deor was too badly wrecked to get Into the air again. But if his monoplane had not had such a splended all-metal hull and If It had not been specially designed to keep afloat, Locatelll and his Com panions never would have lived out those three and a half days. If the Richmond had found them at all they would have found a silent plane floating on a lonely ocean. Naturally the Italians yere deeply grateful to the American navy for having carried out such a thorough search, and the newspapers of the world were filled with columns in praise of Admiral Magruder and his men. Later, when he met the American world fliet-s in Boston, Locatelll not only congratulated them, but declared that he couldn't understand how In the world they had managed to find their way through that dense fog to Fredericksdale without crashing Into an Iceberg or mountain. (Copyright. l!*2u.) SPEEDERSTOJAIL, PATRICK ORDERS Jail aentences for speeders are to be resumed, Police Judge Robert Pat rick announced Monday. He accompanied the announcement with sentences of from three to 10 days in jail for F. H. Fairfield, 2114 Military avenue: E. G, Maderly, New York City, and Jack Connors, Twenty eighth street and Woolworth avenue. Triangle Quartet to Sing, Coe Buchanan has been chosen pub licity director of the Triangle club. Helmer Hansen has been appointed assistant secretary. The Traingle Quartet consisting of Messrs. Salz giver, Vnight, Dindinger and Rla baugh will sing at the regular meet in -of the club Tuesday noon at the Hotel Fontenelle. 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