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UK LOCATED
“BROKE” IN NICE
Former Los Angeies District
Attorney Missing Since
January 5.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. March 13.—Mys
teriously missing since January 5.
former Deputy District Attorney David
H. Clark was located today in Nice,
France—"broke" and anxious to get
home.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed
him by telephone, asking him to ex
plain his disappearance. He said he
had no particular motive and insisted
no threats were involved.
"I guess I just went crazy." Clark
told De Witt Meredith of the Times.
•'It was a screwy thing to do.
"It's a long, long story. It's too long
to tell over the telephone. It was just
an accumulation of a lot of things
that drove me away, I guess."
A few hours earlier, Clark's wife,
Nancy, received a telegram from Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull in Washing
ton saying he was in Nice in bad
straits and had asked that she be in
formed so she could send some money
to the American consulate.
In his conversation with Meredith,
Clark asked repeatedly about his wife.
•'Tell her I love her, that's all," he
requested.
Earhart
(Continued From First Page !
Rt the Oakland field, but Mantz Is
satisfied that it is ample for Miss
Earhart's purposes.
Will Carry Less Gasoline.
Both Mantz and Miss Earhart are
confident the Mills Field runway is
long- enough for the "flying labora
tory’s" getaway, particularly in view
of the fact that recent fuel consump
tion tests showed the ship would be
able to make the California-Honolulu
flight with some 250 gallons Jess gaso
line than was originally expected—a
saving of about 1.500 pounds.
Oakland authorities are consider
ably perturbed over their airport not
being the official starting place of
Miss Earhart's flight. She still will j
"start" from Oakland, however, land
ing at the other airport to take on i
her main fuel load and, on completion I
of her trip around the world, simply !
rolling her wdreels on Mills Field to i
end the flight officially for timing'
purposes, then proceeding to Oakland
for her official landing and reception.
A crew of men and trucks and a
steam roller were to be at work early
tomorrow to fill in the soft spot in !
the runway Miss Earhart originally i
contemplated using, but both she and
Mantz were fearful of such last-minute
measures. They expressed regret
over the unforeseen events leading to
their decision.
On the test, flight this morning the
two flyers and Capt. Harry Manning,
Miss Earhart’s trans-Pacific navigator,
said they obtained “results" in work
ing with Pan-American Airways’ radio
direction-finder station at the airline's
Alameda base, the operator there giv
ing them position "fixes” without diffi
culty and his signals coming in so
strongly that Capt. Manning said they
"nearly took my earphones off.” On
this flight they also discovered that
neither the plane's magnetic com- .
passes nor its Bendix radio "homing” !
compass was in need of further com
pensation before the world flight be
gins. and ail were in high spirits when
they landed.
Capt. Manning was accompanied in
the navigator’s compartment by Fred
Noonan, former Pan-American naviga- i
tion instructor, w>ho has been co-oper- !
ating in preparations for the "labor
story” plane's flight. Noonan has 18
California-Manila air passages to his i
credit.
In addition to Mantz, Noonan also J
Is expected to be in the plane at to
morrow's take-off. They will be the !
first aerial hitch-hikers in trans- \
oceanic flying history.
The primary reason for these added j
•tarters on the initial stage of her
Earhart Ready for Flight
Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Capt. Harry Manning, left, check the route they will
follow to Darwin. Australia, on her around-tfie- icorld flight. The technical adviser, Paul Mantz,
right, looks on. The departure has been set for today or tomorrow.
speed dash around the world is a
shrewd plan by Miss Earhart to con- i
serve the human resources on which
the success of her undertaking will in
large measure depend. She hopes to
accomplish the three most difficult
legs of her flight on successive days,
crossing the entire Pacific with only
brief stops for fuel and rest in Hawaii
and at Howland Island, and by using
Mantz and Noonan as relief men to
save as much as possible of Manning's
energy and her own for the last
phases of the gruelling enterprise.
Mantz is scheduled to go only as
far as Honolulu, wfhile Noonan will
be dropped 1,800 miles farther on at i
Howland Island. At the end of the ]
2,410-mile flight from the California \
mainland to Hawaii. Mantz, after act
ing as co-pilot on the overnight jour
ney, will assume complete responsi
bility for preparing the "flying labora
tory" for the next stage of the trans
pacific flight so that Miss Earhart
may spend the entire day in rest and
relaxation.
Also familiar With Ship.
He is as familiar with the ship as
she is and she has full faith in
his ability to look out for every nec
essary detail of preparation for her
second take-off, so that her only re
sponsibility will be to step into the
plane and go when the time arrives.
Thus means that she will be able
to start the second leg of her flight
in almost as good physical condition
as when she leaves Oakland Airport.
Concerning the last minute change
in her plans. Miss Earhart said to
day . "I am going to take along two ;
hitch-hikers on the flight to Hono
lulu. It is the first case of thumbing !
this kind of an air ride that I know
of."
"As technical adviser, Paul Mantz
helped me prepare for my previous j
Pacific flight just as he has with this 1
one. So, if he really wants to make
the trip. I'm glad to have him.
"By the end of this first long hop.
any incipient mechanical troubles
should show up It will be fine to
have him on hand for a final check
before I shove off westward.
"Fred Noonan has been helping us
on the navigation end. With Pan
American. he has done much pioneer
Pacific flying and has 18 air passages
to Manila to his credit.
"He, too. has decided he’d like to J
go along for the ride and I'm delighted
to have him—and so is Henry Mau
ning.
"Paul Mantz will be relief pilot as
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two lightweight suitcases—no dresses included. Maps will out
weigh the clothing. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
far as Honolulu. That will cut down
the fatigue factor for me. And Noonan
will be relief for Capt. Manning, who
actually has almost too much to do
without help. Thus will leave Man
ning fresher for the long hop from
Howland to Lae and thence to Darwin,
Australia. Manning, by the way. will
handle the radio. He is an operator
qualified in code sending and re
ceiving, which none of the rest of us
are.
"Pan-American has generously of
fered to co-operate with their di
rection finders in checking positions.
This means more work for Manning.
“My decision to enlarge the crew is
possible because our final fuel con
sumption tests have proved far more
satisfactory than we dared hope. In
stead of filling the tanks with the full
1.150 gallons. I'll start with only 900
gallons—and at that have an estimated
40 per cent safety factor. This was a
weight saving of about 1,500 pounds.”
The fuel consumption tests of the
"flying laboratory's" two 550-horse
power Wasp engines were completed
recently in co-operation with experts
from the Lockheed and Pratt & Whit
ney factories. Numerous flights were
made under varying load conditions
and it was established that the gaso
line economy of the power plants un
der proper handling by the pilot was {
so great that the average fuel con
sumption from here to Honolulu is I
expected to be well under 50 gallons
an hour.
Due in 13 to 18 Hours.
It is probable that Miss Earhart
will be able to complete the 2.410-milc
flight to Honolulu in 15 to 18 hours
and she has a substantial fuel mar
gin to keep her in the air several hours
beyond that time. The reduction in
the fuel load also simplifies the prob
lem she faces at Howland Island on
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the take-off for Lae, New Guinea, 2,550
miles away—the longest hop of her
entire round-the-world itinerary. In
cidentally, Bureau of, Air Commerce
officials have just reported that the
airport construction force sent to How
land Island some time ago to put the
landing area there In shape for her
use now have a 2.000-foot east-west
runway and a 3,000-foot northeast
southwest runway rolled down into
perfect condition.
Miss Earhart said that an the test
flights she and Capt. Manning have
been making together it became more
and more evident that the double duty
expected of him as navigator and radio
operator imposed a greater physical
strain than any one man should be
expected to stand. This factor was
accentuated when It was decided that
the “flying laboratory” should send
out periodic signals as focal points
for Pan-American Airways long-range
direction finders, since this arrange
ment and the necessity of receiving
the position “fixed," as radioed back
by the airline's operators, added still
another job to the already over
worked Capt. Mannings’ list of duties.
By dividing the work of radio op
eration and celestial navigation be
tween two men just as Is done on Pan
America's trans-Pacific Clippers, it
is expected that much greater effi
ciency will result and that neith“r
man will be “worn to a frazzle” by his
duties and responsibilities.
Miss Earhart said that with Capt.
Manning trying to do the work of a
radio operator and navigator it kept
him “jumping around all the time.”
From Howland Island to New Guinea
she not onlj expects that he will
have escaped becoming over-fa
tigued through the previous presence
of a relief man in the navigation
radio compartment, but, because there
are a number of small islands which
can be used as landmarks during the
latter part of this flight, the problem
of navigation will be greatly simplified
as compared to that involved in hit
ting mid-ocean pin-point objectives
such as Honolulu and Howland Island.
Will Report Every Hour.
In addition to the schedule worked
out with the Pan-American Airways
for regular position "fixes” during the
entire time the "flying laboratory” Is
over the Pacific, Miss Earhart has ac
ceded to requests received from hun
dreds of radio amateurs to give posi
tion reports over her radio telephone
every hour she is in flight. On the
occasion of her solo hop from Honolulu
to Oakland such broadcasts were
picked up in the United States almost
from the moment of her take-ofT.
The airline direction-finding “fixes”
are obtained by code radio, Capt.
Manning's procedure being to hold
down his key for 30 seconds or longer
until the "d” operator can take a
bearing on the plane. The ground
station then reports to the plane the
number of degrees it bears from the
“d" and, with the known position of
the latter on his chart, it is a simple
matter for the navigator to tell wheth
er he is keeping on his appointed
course.
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