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VOlTxUII., NO. 6544.__JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Six AIRCRAFT
i NOW ON WAY
!*■ TO HONOLULU
Four Sea Boats Take Over
Two Hours to Get
Into Air
FINALLY SOAR OFF
OVER THE PACIFIC
Pass Over Mine Sweeper
Early This Morning—
Run Into Dense Fog
S> BULLETIN—SAN FRAN
CISCO, Jan. 11.—All Navy
seaplanes have landed at
Pearl Harbor. The first plane
came down tc the water at
2:29 o’clock, the others fol
lowing immediately.
, The elapsed time of the
(light was 24 hour and 38
* minute for the 2,400 land
t mile voyage.
BULLETIN — SAN FRAN
CISCO. Jan. 11. — Only 250
miles from Diamond Head, at
Honolulu, the six Navy sea
planes are approaching their
goal at greatly increased speed,
and are expecetd to arrive
there at 3 o’clock this after
noon, Pacific Coast Standard
Time.
The squadron has been re
ported regularly as it passed
over a string of Navy vessels
strung along the Pacific. Every
thing is progressing as expect
ed. One seaplane was separated
from the others for a while
during the early morning but
st on returned to the formation.
The seaplanes flew blind
tlucugh the night on account
of fog.
9 SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Jan. 11.
—Six United States Navy sea
i planes, which finally got into the
air late yesterday afternoon, after
<* four planes took about two hours
to get away because of lack of
wind, are soaring along the Pacific
Ocean route toward Honolulu,
everything apparently all right.
The six seaplanes were last re
ported by the mine sweeper
Whipoorwill as 1,200 miles from
>. here.
