LOST DOLE-RACE FLYERS
MESSAGE FROM MISS DORAN NOTE IN A BOTTLE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday. An apparently genuine message from Miss Mildred Doran, who was lost in the air race from California to Hawaii for the Dole prize in August last year, has floated ashore in a bottle at Aberdeen, State of Washington. The message, which is written on faded paper, and is scarcely decipherable, runs:—“Gas all gone, water running low; been floating four days (Signed) Mildred.” The race from Oakland, California, to Honolulu for a prize of £5,000 given by Mr. James Dole, a wealthy fruit merchant, was contested by four planes. They started on August 16, and the Woolaroc and the Aloha reached Honolulu. The Golden Eagle, with two airmen, and the Miss Doran, which carried Miss Doran and Mr. J. A. Pedlar, pilot, and Lieutenant Vilas Knope navigator, were not seen again. Miss Doran, who was 22, was a school teacher of Flint, Michigan.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 9
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162LOST DOLE-RACE FLYERS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 9
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