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Show SNOW SLIDES NEW HAZARD IN SEARCH SALT LAKE CITY, June 9 (U.R) Mrs. Henry W. Edwards Ed-wards today positively identified iden-tified a man's shoe found at the base of a 1,000-foot cliff-where cliff-where wreckage of a Western Air Express plane lies buried under tons of snow and rock, as belonging to her husband, who was a passenger on the airliner. Edwards, 31, was a radio technician tech-nician for Northwest Airlines m Minneapolis. f The shoe was completely laced, indicating that it was 'lorn from Edwards' foot aa the plane struck 11,000-foot bake Hardy peak, uid plunged into the rocky canyon below. However, searchers for bodies of the seven occupants of the plane, balked by an avalanche which yesterday yes-terday piled heavy granite boulders bould-ers on the opot where WAS nf-ficials nf-ficials had hoped most of the wreckage would be found, were further hindered today by a heavy downpour of rain and violent electric elec-tric storms. Danger of Slides There was danger of more avalanches being loosened by excess ex-cess moisture. ( A party headed by Frank Eastman, East-man, WAE field manager, was exploring possibility of moving the permanent search camp up to the head of Dry Creek canyon, closer to the scene of the crah. Captain Alvin Sessions of the Provo CCC camp was to explore the proposed new location today. The CCC has maintained the present pres-ent camp at Upper Mlllset. Western Air officials today had virtually abandoned attempts to find a passable trail to the wreck-1 wreck-1 age through the canyons on the north, or Salt Lake City, 6ide of Lake Hardy ridge. It appeared that bodies and what wreckage is removed must be carried car-ried out over the top of the crest and down the Alpine site. Melting snow, occasioned by a hot sun, started avalanches which narrowly missed burying 30 workers work-ers who had left their posts -for the night. Lightning Hits Moye Rex Moyle was knocked unconscious uncon-scious by lightning when he went after a doctor for1 Raymond Walter, Walt-er, a fellow-worker, who was injured in-jured by a flying rock. Belief that bouklera 'rr:ed into the area where th plane is thought to have been ouried under 25 feet of snow, woald sink into the deep snow and possibly cover the wreckage was expressed by officials. Steps cut into tin' enow drifts were obliterated by the avalanche. Overhanging banks of snow at the top of the mountain ridge, 1000 feet above the workers, added other hazards to the search. Postponement of the search for the bodies was suggested by W. D. Hammond, chairman of the Utah Aeranautics commission. "Efforts to dig into the snow bank where the bodies are believed be-lieved to be, might start an aval-ance aval-ance that would wipe out the lives of rescue workers," he said. Relatives Waiting Edward Edwards, Chicago, father fath-er of Henry W. Edwards, Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, who was a passenger of the ill-fated ship said that it might be just as well to leave the bodies there. Mrs. Edwards, widow of the passenger, said she had hold hopes of seeing her husband alive until a few days ago when she had seen pieces of the wreckage and the country in which it is buried. Then, she said, she had abandoned hope. "I'll wait until bv bov's bor'" is found," said 90-year-old Ed Hamilton of Grand Canyon, Ariz., who has taken an active part in the search. Inspectors on the scene complimented compli-mented western air officials for "their unceasing efforts to recover re-cover the bodies" of which none have been found. "We will continue to do our best and will expend every effort and resources as much as its humanly possible," Allan Barrie, vice president presi-dent of Western Air said. |