Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-10-07 | Page 3 | All Available Planes Cooperate in Search

All Available Planes Cooperate in Search Salt Lake City fliers responded gallantly to the call to hunt for forthe forthe forthe the missing palatial air liner of the Standard Oil company with its crew of three when word of its mysterious disappearance filtered through flying circles All available planes were quickly pressed into the search Under Under Under Un Un- der the direction of Vern G. G Halliday field manager of the municipal airport the sky shy hunt was organized with amazing speed and efficiency Maps aps of the area within a a. hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles of Salt Lake City were ruled oC off into 12 sections Each was about 25 miles square Every Section Covered As quickly as the ships at the field huge field huge twin motored commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial air liners trim fighting observation observation observation and training planes of the army corps detachment here and gaily painted private sport planes planes- were warmed up the pilots were assigned to the sections and took oft off The fliers went v about their work with a quiet determination None of them mentioned what was in the minds of oC several hundred groundlings groundlings groundlings ground ground- lings who moved restlessly about the airport during the daylight hours of the search It was Will any of the searching planes be lost The first of the searching planes took off oct before midmorning Sunda Sun Sun- da day During the day they continued continued con con- to return report failure to locate a trace of oC the missing plane refuel and once onee more resume their hunt Everyone E Cooperated Three huge air liners of ot the United Air Lines took part In the hunt The Thompson flying service service service ser ser- vice sent its planes into the air The army air corps placed every available available available avail avail- able plane in service The area west of the city toward Salduro was the center of the most Intensive search It was there that thai the United Air Line pilots worked covering the four sections At the controls of the ships were J J J. K IC MacWilliams Mac Jack Rose Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph Ebberly Henry Boonstra anc and H. H A. A Callison Several of them made several trips during the day 12 Planes in Search To the south flew the planes of the Thompson flying lying service They were manned by Ray Peck John Campbell Lou Ballard Campbell Campbel and Peck and Sergeant Sherman flying fling Salt Lake City policeman covered the area to the south for almost miles The northern sections were taken over by S S. S P. P R. R Newman of United Air Lines and nd Eugene Grow of the Thompson service West Vest from Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den and to the north flew Ray Van Cott National Parks Airways pilot pilo and army reservist in an army ship Jimm Jimmy Belding flew an army plane north from Ogden to Locomotive Springs