Show Aviator Sights Missing in Idaho Mountains AERIAL SCOUTS FEEL CERTAIN 2 PILOTS DEAD National Guardsmen See Wreckage I in Clearing SPOKANE Wash Dec 21 Lieutenant P-Lieutenant Byron Cooper Cooper Coo Coo- per national guard pilot radioed Felts field at 1030 a. a m. m that he had sighted what he believed to be wreckage of the missing Northwest Airlines Transport Transport Transport Trans Trans- port plane on Cemetery Ridge near Calder Idaho Cooper said he had found the ship and that he believed Pilot Joe Livermore and Copilot Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur A. A Haid Hald were dead Cemetery r ridge dge is in the St St. Joe national forest midway between Wall Wallace ce and Calder Idaho It is heavily timbered with white pine From reports received from forest for for- e. e est eat t workers and others It js lif the big Lockheed Electra plane carrying mail from St. St Stpaul Pauo Paul Pau to o Spokane crashed about 5 a. a m m. P. P S. S T T. Friday as Pilot Livermore Livermore Livermore Liver- Liver more more sought in fog to return to the radio beam he was following to Spokane He was blown off his lila course Planes Called In InA InA A rescue party was being organ organ- zed at Kellogg north of the organ organ-I ridge to go into the isolated area on foot All planes searching for the missIng missing miss- miss I ing ng ship in the mountain country south of Calder were immediately called in by A. A R. R Mensing division superintendent of Northwest Air Air- lines ines It was when we first saw sawa a dark spot on the side of Cemetery Cemetery tery ery ridge Cooper said later by bylong bylong byong long ong distance telephone from the Kellogg airport The wreckage is a short distance from the top of the ridge at an elevation of feet I would say We iVe flew low over the wreckage for about 10 minutes Filers FlIers Believed Dead There is no question but that both oth men inca are dead because we sighted the wings about feet down the mountainside from where the he fuselage appears to be The forest forest forist for- for est in that vicinity was burned over overn In n 1910 and the wreckage is out Ina in ina ina a clearing I could not say whether the he fuselage burned or not as the weather was poor and visibility was bad as we circled over the scene Superintendent Mensing took off immediately by plane for Kellogg to o direct the rescue party which must reach the wreckage on foot Deep snow necessitates the use of snowshoes Sergeant A. A G. G was with Lieutenant Cooper as observer Both are ire attached to the observation lon tion unit of the Washington I national national na- na ional guard |