HITCHCOCK BELIEVED DEAD

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 7

HITCHCOCK BELIEVED DEAD

By Telegraph — Press Association — Copyright.

(Australian Press Association.

TELL-TALE MOUND OR LAND.

REPORTS FROM SEARCI1ERS

SOUTHERN CROSS Wl.IL ATTEMPT TO LAND

CANBERRA IN TROUBLE

— Rcccived This Day, 1 p.m.)

SYI)NEY, Tliis dav. Four plane.s ilew over the si randed Kookaburra yeslerday and searched ihe surrounding country. Pilot Hrain stat-es that tJie jiosition of tlie Kookaburra is accessible lo land parties only through AYave II ill. A car has left Xewcaslle W aters for the scene and it is now possible i'or |ietrol sipiplies to he taken to the Canberra by the Southern Cross, -which leavos Wyndham this morning and will land bcside Andcrson's machine if possible. Tlie giant monoplane was unable to leave yesterday, owing to essential repairs. One of the Air Force machines ongaged in the searcli erashed near Tennant's Crcek and was wreckcd beyond rcpair. The pilot and mechanic were unhurt. The cause of the misliap was engine seizure. The Sydney Telegra]ih says thafc a massage from Pilot Brain reports that there apjiears to he somcthing covcred up near the plano, which may he Hitcheock's body roughly huriod.-I'light-Licutenant Eaton, in a report io Alajor Coleman, secretarv to the Air Board, slated dofmitely that the body of ITitelieock was sccn parlly buricd near tlie machine. Pilot Brain discovered an exlraordinarv cave hole in tho ground, 17 miles north-wcst from the Kookaburra, eontaining water.