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...four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
...further pointed by his having changed his name. The girl's father (Robert Warwick) and brother (Robert Young) see through his disingenuousness. Helen does not. To force a marriage, Owsley takes her to a hotel overnight, confronts the father next morning. Wild-eyed from an all-night search, the brother is knocked down by the suitor, gets a gun and shoots...
Four days later, all the other boats in the race had been accounted for but no one had seen the Curlew. A Bermuda tug, the Sandboy, made a 70 mile search around Bermuda, found nothing. The U. S. Consul at Bermuda asked the U. S. Coast Guard to start a search. Seven Coast Guard cutters scoured the Atlantic from Montauk to Bermuda. Irving Blum, brother of Nat Blum, and David Rosenstein grew worried. They persuaded New York's Congressman Fiorello La Guardia to have naval tugboats join the hunt. When the tugboats, 100 Coast Guard cutters, the British naval...
Sentenced. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., to one year imprisonment and $1,000 fine; for obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington...
...Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously. At last, one day last week...