Show JN IN IMMINENT S DANGER PilOT 10 LOSTIN T iN STORM f Is Sav Saved d From Smash Against Mountains by Two Men at Country Club Who Signal to Him Lost over this city in a snowstorm morning his gasoline low and ald with probably less than eight minutes nibs min utes ites from a smashup that would al almost almost almost al- al most cert certainly have resulted resulted fatally fataI- fataI fatal fatal- ly Robert H. H Bob Ellis LUis intrepid air mail mall pilot Is Indebted for tor his safety to B. B MacPherson manag manager r rot of ot the country club lub and Theodore Theodora Jones a truck driver er In the opinion of ot himself and local air mail officials officials who Will trill ask recognition of the service rendered by the two men when they signaled Ellis to safety S With ga gasoline sufficient to tb sustain sus sus- Lain tain flight lIe for three hours and amI forty five forty the winter safety safety safe sate ty radius of the Western division air mail mall service Ellis left lett Rock RockSprings RockSprings RockSprings Springs V Wj-o. Wj o this morning before the local snowstorm had spread to that section N Normally one hour and thirty minutes are for the to this city and when after more than three hours no word was had lad of of the pilot divisional divi Ional officers here held the opinion that Ellis had put down at Evan Evan- stop ston d he was battling battUng the el elm elements ele- ele m ments above this city In a vain ef effort of- of fort fore to penetrate the storm and bri g his plane to Woodward field Atmospheric density deadened th the drum of his motor and storm blind ed ed he could make out no landmarks landmarks land land- marks whatever er From his alti nIh- tude the buildings of the tho city were totally obscured v f m Shortly after 10 o'clock MacPherson Mac Mac- Ph Pherson and Jones rones were were- were attracted by the sound of ot a plane passing and in In the the vicinity ItI U It I was was' Ellis Jillis lost to to all bearings clr ir cling down In an effort to pick up some familiar landmark At his then S altitude the hidden storm mountains loomed less than a mlle mile t to the east and air mall man experts lay his failure to on head-on Into these thesa to fliers' fliers Instinct S The The- Themen he men In the country club sensed that the flier tiler was floundering flounder flounder- ing above them in iii Imminent danger danger danger dan dan- ger of a 11 crash They ran out to Th west of the country club building and as Ellis flying low passed over over head aga again n headed east they y fact tac ha n the general direction of ot the allm air all m ma n field and raised and anti lowered their arms in that direction From Front Froma Fronta a few yards yards' above them the almost exhausted pilot caught tho the Intent of or their motioning and headed north ot of west across the city He lIe lifted his plane momentarily and then coasted down catching a glimpse of the Utah Oil Refinery as the first mark markot of ot the cit city he had seen This gave him his hili bearings an and less than one minute later he was wall landing at Woodward field after atter three hours and thirty seven mm min minutes utes of ot flying to complete a one one- hour dour and thirty-minute thirty flight Lester ster J 1 1 Bishop pilot due to fly to Rock Springs from here dId tild not take talie off oft because of ot storm conditions condi condl- Lions known locally as existing as asfar asfar far as Coalville The mall mail both westbound an and arHl eastbound between here herd and Elko Ellio- was carrl carried d through on schedule schedule- i s 5 S 5 |