Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 1 | Speed Flier Lost on Way to S. L.

r f f I Speed Flier Lost on Way to SL r 1 Pilot Missing Again Alain v ln 5 Z r 4 1 s f C La c r r 4 I rM K s y 44 a Frank Kurtz AVIATOR LAST REPORTED OVER ROCK ROCKSPRINGS SPRINGS Pilots ilo Forest Rangers andin and Rail Men Join in Wide ride Search Widespread air search between betwee n Salt Lake City and Rock Springs Wyo began Wednesday after alter Frank Kurtz youthful jut Hut well-known well aviator was reported missing in that area Young Kurtz holder of junior airplane airplane airplane air air- plane speed records and National A. A A. A U. U diving championships took off from the Cheyenne airport Tuesday at p m. m for Rock for Rock Springs and Salt Lake City He has been unreported since Rock Springs residents reported a 1 plane with landing lights turned on passed over them at 6 p. p m. m yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day about bout the time young Kurtz was due but the plane continued westward toward Salt Lake City United Air Lines pilots were Instructed instructed In In- to watch for the missing ship an open cockpit Waco Vaco bi biplane biplane bi I plane bearing department of ot commerce commerce com com- com i merce license number N R i Railroad and Wyoming state highway patrolmen under Onder Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain taut George Red Smith were re requested requested requested re- re quested to join the search The United States forest rangers dispatched a plane in search over rugged Utah and Wyoming terrain press bulletins said Identity of Kurtz was established by a Cheyenne airport mechanic and Margaret Rogers Omaha friend of the aviator who became Continued on Page Pace Nine Column One FLIER ER MISSING MIS SiN C Cr EN ROUTE TOS r L. L r i Continued from age aRe One pensive at not receiving a telegram from Irom him hint t She Sho said Kurtz had remarked on onS leaving Omaha that the stretch between be be- S tw tween n Che Cheyenne enne and Salt Lake City fis a dangerous one for fliers but fc laughed off any real thought of oC I danger to himself she said Lost on OR Mexico Hop HOl J After Kurtz became lost on a hop hopI hopr r I from Los Angeles to Mexico City V recently Miss Rogers was the first yf to hear from aim nim im with news of his t safety I t Department of oC commerce airways airway officials here thought the flier was was following the railroad between Cheyenne enne and Rock Springs This led Ic-d t to the request for cooperation of railroad I Kurtz's plane is the third to be beI missing in the Salt Lake City area Within the last two months I if Wo Va have checked all the emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency landing fields between Laramie Laramie Laramie Lara- Lara mie and Rock Springs without success success suc suc- S cess Charles United AirLines Air AirI AirLines Lines s official at Cheyenne was quoted in Associated Press dis- dis f patches lire We have asked Captain I George Red Smith of the tho Wyoming Wyo Wyo- Wyoming ming highway patrol to make a land search My guess is Kurtz had to toland toland toland land his ship in some isolated spot because of bad flying weather Scattered red Squalls i 1 Weather Breather bureau officials here said laid flying conditions were generally general general- Iii ly good between Salt SnIt Lake City and 5 Rock Springs Wednesday but that scattered squalls swept the area late Tuesday Ralph L. L Johnson Fourteenth LEast East East street United Air Lines pilot ald he flew the route Tuc Tuesday 4 n night and again Wednesday mornIng morn morn- morn morn-ing Ing keeping a a watch for the missing miss miss- ing In plane but with no success i Kurtz's remarks rem s to Miss Rogers Li and the fact that Rock Springs residents residents residents res res- reported plane lights flying westward about 6 p. p m m. Tuesday strengthened belief Delie here that the youthful flier may be down in m the same area east of oC Salt Lake City i which h has s proved a graveyard for fort t other ships Other Planes Plane Fell FellIn Fello o In February 1934 a United Air AirLiner Liner with eight dead was found 20 miles east of Salt Lake City It was early in 1931 that two arm army h airmail fliers liers plunged to their deaths in the treacherous mountain ranges east of Salt Lake City Kurtz's open cockpit plane piano carries carI carries car car- ries lies no radio equipment and if heis he heIs heis I Is down uninjured in some lonely spot in Wyoming or Utah It might tal take e some time before he could make his predicament known Four Hours' Hours Supply Department of oC commerce airways officials here expressed belief that the Waco plane carried no more than than a hour four r gasoline supply They were skeptical of his attempting attempt attempt- t attempt ing ing to continue to Salt Lake City without first refueling at the Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming ining town I It is about 60 miles from CheI Chey- Chey i I to Rock Pock Springs Sprin s and about three hours' hours flying time in such a hip observers said i Kurtz's plane is owned by T T. TE T T. I E Brown of oC Los Angeles In addition to junior airspeed rec rec- young Kurtz holds the low board national diving title in the junior National A. A A. A U U. diving championships