Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 1 | Forest Service Finds Aviator in California

FOREST ST SERVICE ER VICE fiNDS AVIATOR IN CAlifORNIA Claire K Vance Missing Since 2 o'Clock Friday Is Uninjured After Being Forced Down in Storm BLIZZARD FAILS TO FLIER I More Than 10 Planes Search Snowcapped Region Region Region Re Re- I gion Safety Message Comes as Hopes Wane I Claire Clair I K Vance air lr mall mail plot pilot missing since 2 I o'clock Friday afternoon afternoon aft aft- and for tor trace of whom a a- II fleet of ten army Inny and air aJr mati planes cruised the wide hed the blanketed Snow Sierra Nevada Ne- Ne e e I vada range without success Satur- Satur a day is safe J I In a a message to The I Saturday night Claron Nelson 8 of tho the Western division divi- divi I slon sion I air air airmail mall mail service announced that Vance Yance had landed late Friday Fri Fri- day near the Last Lest Chance mine Inthe In Inthe the bad lands along the upp upper r rea reaches olt s of ot American River canyo canyo He rIle was forced to lay in the sno snow l Friday night while a blizzard raged about him I Late Saturday a forest ranger met Vance In the tire region between Auburn Ca Cal and ad Lake Tahoe Not ot long Jong after he ire was in an an automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile headed for chIU civilization Uon word of his safety flashing over oven the telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph Mines lines ahead Vance wa was flying at an altitude of feet when a terrific storm swept up from under him damagIng damaging ing one wing of ot his plane The machine fell Cell out of ot control but he lie was able to right It ft and bring it h to ii earth without injury to other than a 8 sprained wrist Vance Yance was as en route from San Francisco to Reno fleno with Fridays Friday's eastbound mail mall when he was tor forced ed down Airplanes wetA wet were s fit t. t out at t daybreak Saturday In a a. vain rain attempt to locate and succor him When hen no word was had after r several say sev eral hour hourI hours Superintendent I who directed the early e-arly search by radio fpm this city took plane piano I from Woodward field for tor Reno fleno He Ire was waa at at- Elko when th the air airmail mall radio brought word of Vances Vance's tet Vances Vance's experience is almost a duplication of or that encountered by Pilot Henry Boonstra last In winter when he ire was piled up on rot Porcupine Porcupine Porcu Porcu- u- u pine ridge In the mountains mountains' eat cast of ot