U.S.8. HOUSTON 
Morning Press News 
1 August, 1938 
NATIONAL NET'S 
Manila : 
U.S. Array and Navy Planes continued toda3^ the apparently 
hopeless search for the victims of the Hawaii Clipper tragedy 
in the Pacific. False rumor that the fifteen men aboard the 
Clipper might be safe was circulated for awhile last night. 
The rumor started in Honolulu and spread to the United States. 
Navy Officials in Washington Scl id that they were in constant 
touch with every ship and plane in the search and knew defin- 
itely that the rrsring men had not been found. Pan American 
Airways officials in New York and on the West Coast kept an 
all night vigil for a message from the Clipper. The big flying 
boat’s disappearance Thursday night was the first commercial 
air tragedy for the Clipper’s Operators. Discoverv by the 
^rmy Transport Meigs of a patch of oil on the water some forty 
miles from the last position reported by the Clipper remained 
the only indication of what might have happened to the ship. 
The slick. was found to be a mixture of oil and gasoline, and 
might indicate that the plane crashed into the ocean and sank. 
The water at the position, slightly more than 500 miles from 
Manila, is several miles deep. 
The big plane, carrying a crow of nine and six passengers 
was -last heard from by radio shortly after midnight Thursday, 
EDT, two thirds of the way on a 1600 mile flight from Guam 
to Manila. Rumor circulated in Washington last night that 
sabotage may have caused the loss of the Clipper. Chinese in 
the capital hinted that Japanese might have sabotaged the- 
plane because a Jersey City restaurant owner , Was ton Choy, 
was said to be carrying a large sum of money to the Chinese 
Government, 
Norwich: 
Joseph Pctro filed suit against the Head Master of the Per- 
kiomen School, declaring his son failed to nass the final 
examinations and thereby lost his diploma. The father asked 
for pi , 900 .00 from the school. Said Petro, ”My son had it 
all fixed up to get an athletic scholarship at a University 
and how he has to go back to high school. 
Boston: 
Juvenile screen star, Shirley Temple, was put to bod Saturday 
night with what doctors prescribed as an ordinary stomach-ache. 
Excitement of a sightseeing tour was blamed. 
m Francisco: 
Pan American Airways announced today that the China Clipper 
’which left Alameda Base yesterday had arrived on schedule at 
Honolulu and the Phillipine Clipper arrived from Honolulu also 
on schedule. Both reported uneventful trips. 
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