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Show IUEN SEARCH FOR BROrrHEROFFICERS BAN DIEGO. Cal., Jan. J 5. Four mlli-ta mlli-ta ry airplanes, one of which will be equipped with wireless, will leave the army aerodrome hero at daybreak tomorrow tomor-row on a flight over the mountains to Calexico. Cal.. whence an aerial expedition expedi-tion will be sent across the border into Lower" California to endeavor to find some ti hp e of Lieut ena nt Colonel Ha rry G. Bishop and Lieutenant W. A. Robertson. Rob-ertson. Jr.. army flyers who ha ve been lost since last Wednesday. Plans hurriedly made Sunday, for three machines to leave this morning for Calexico were interrupted by weather conditions, heavy clouds which obscured the mountain peaks tending to make such a flight baza rdnus. Captain Byron Q. Jones, a ccompa nied by an observer, made a reconnaissance, about noon to-da to-da y, and upon his ret urn decla red it would have been Impossible for an airplane air-plane to ha ve successfully pierced t he densf rinds hanglne over the iiilis. Anxiety on the pari of the army aviators avi-ators to leave nothing undone to trace their lost brother dyers led to a deter-minatlon deter-minatlon late inday to attempt the fliirht over the mountains tomorrow, regardless of weather conditions. In addition to Captain Herbert Dargue, Captain Jones and Flying Instructor Albert Al-bert Smith, who -were to have started I today in airplanes for Calexlro. a fourth machine, piloted by Francis Wildman. instructor in-structor at the army school, with r'ap-tu r'ap-tu in Ola re nee r. Culver as radio officer and observer, will be dispatrhed tomorrow. tomor-row. This machine, will be equipped with wireless, enabling the observer to com-munirate com-munirate with the Polni Loma radio station sta-tion here. Captain Culver, who Iihh been ex perl men ting with aeronautical wireless here for several months, has sent and received at distances up to MO miles. The motorcycle squad of t he a via tion school, three army motor trucks ami automobiles, ca rry In c I wenl y-flve officers and men, left this afternoon for Calexico. This detachment will take charge of the base from which the airplanes will be supplied during Ihe search below tho border. |