rts last call from _Cymena_ freighter (Gayer
Tong-Huk & Co.) taking water and sinking in snow-storm South McDonald
Islands. No wreckage recovered. Addresses, etc., of crew at all A. B. C.
offices.
FEZZAN--T. A. D. freighter _Ulema_ taken ground during Harmattan on
Akakus Range. Under plates strained. Crew at Ghat where repairing Dec.
13th.
BISCAY, MARK BOAT reports _Carducci_ (Valandingham line) slightly spiked
in western gorge Point de Benasque. Passengers transferred _Andorra_
(same line). Barcelona Mark Boat salving cargo Dec. 12th.
ASCENSION, MARK BOAT--Wreck of unknown racing-plane, Parden rudder,
wire-stiffened xylonite vans, and Harliss engine-seating, sighted and
salved 7 deg. 20' S. 18 deg. 41' W. Dec. 15th. Photos at all A. B. C. offices.
Missing
No answer to General Call having been received during the last week from
following overdues, they are posted as missing.
_Atlantis_, W. 17630 Canton--Valparaiso
_Audhumla_, W. 809 Stockholm--Odessa
_Berenice_, W. 2206 Riga--Vladivostock
_Draco_, E. 446 Coventry--Puntas Arenas
_Tontine_, E. 3068 C. Wrath--Ungava
_Wu-Sung_, E. 41776 Hankow--Lobito Bay
General Call (all Mark Boats) out for:
_Jane Eyre_, W. 6990 Port Rupert--City of Mexico
_Santander_, W. 5514 Gobi-desert--Manila
_V. Edmundsun_, E. 9690 Kandahar--Fiume
Broke for Obstruction, and Quitting Levels
VALKYRIE (racing plane), A. J. Hartley owner, New York (twice warned).
GEISHA (racing plane), S. van Cott owner, Philadelphia (twice warned).
MARVEL OF PERU (racing plane), J. X. Peixoto owner, Rio de Janeiro
(twice warned).
_For the Board_:
LAZAREFF }
MCKEOUGH } _Traffic._
GOLDBLATT }
NOTES
Notes
High-Level Sleet
The Northern weather so far shows no sign of improvement. From all
quarters come complaints of the unusual prevalence of sleet at the
higher levels. Racing-planes and digs alike have suffered severely--the
former from unequal deposits of half-frozen slush on their vans (and
only those who have "held up" a badly balanced plane in a cross wind
know what that means), and the latter from loaded bows and snow-cased
bodies. As a consequence, the Northern and Northwestern upper levels
have b
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