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William Randolph Hearst did not publish a telegram from F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, stating that he had sat in the plane, that it seemed all right, that he had made no minute examination, and that he could not accept any responsibility for its fitness for the flight.
With Flyers Hill, Bertaud and Payne in the Old Glory, there splashed into the ocean a wreath marked with the words: "Nungesser and Coli. You showed the way. We Follow." Days later, publisher Hearst's Daily Mirror sought and found a postscript. From a point approximately 600 miles northeast of St. Johns their "rescue" boat, S. S. Kyle sent a wireless. "Located wreck of Old Glory . . . but no sign of crew."
*WRHP—Old Glory's wireless code call, derived from the initials of "William Randolph Hearst's plane."