Show Pigeon Brings Doleful Report Of Flying Woes r r C 1 w THE CARRIER PIGEONS They're loaded with dispatches Editors Editor note The following story was WAI received by The Telegram by carrier pigeon which c was released d from r a searching plane high I over Y the rugged fe terrain r near uTI leir leird Utah b by Bill McDougall r n Telegram a staff ti corres correspondent Who was riding in the ship hip engaged In the search for ferr the missing Western Air EX Express ress sky liner lUler By Dy BILL DILL McDOUGALL Copyright by The flie Telegram Aboard Ford Grand Canyon Can Can- yon yort Airlines plane plan out of ot Milford on search for mi missing Western Air Express sky liner Uner 1 55 p. p m. m Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day by carrier pigeon We Ve took off oft from the Milford airport at 9 95 55 a a. a m. m to scour the desolate San Francisco mountains and the Wah Wah range to the west Pilot Ed Campbell operation operations operations opera opera- tion manager of G. G C. C A A. lifted the huge passenger 12 ship from the snow-blanketed snow airport and nd pointed point point- ed it Jt toward Frisco famous ghost camp of early Utah mining history his his- tory If It this pigeon gets as dizzy as I Iam Iam Iam am right now he wont won't know Salt Lake City from front and you'll be out one story Pilot Campbell id is ida I a whiz whit at the controls and handles this ship like a toy but for hours I InoW now h hes he's s 's been zooming up narrow canyons with the wing tips nearly scraping on either side banking around rocky mountain tops and fighting air all currents which thrust I Ithe the plane down until my rny stomach Wraps Itself around my throat then Up again where It ft plays around my i ankles Donates Dr Breakfast Im I'm Im I'm Im so sick I wish I was on the missing liner The he Wah Wall Wah Wab mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain range rang and Frisco already have my breakfast Twenty-five Twenty minutes after th the take takeoff oft We had crossed the San Francisco and W Wah h Wah ranges and sat down on the baked surface surface sur stir face of Dry lake 55 miles mUes W west st of MilfOrd MUford There the Desert range C C C camp turned out en masse to greet us and another plane piloted by William Keith Scott well known commercial flier filer tailed us over oven Lieutenant Harry S. S Hamilton of the camp had a tip An aviator a himself h he reported that between 3 a. a m. m and 4 a. a m. m Tuesday when whon the airliner disappeared the tho sound of ot a circling plane awakened him He got out of bed he said but the night was so murky he couldn't see the ship It sounded however as though it were lost in the tha Wah Wah Wak basin Peaks Jut Upward So we took off oft for the Wah Wak Wah basin These mountains rise abruptly abruptly abruptly ab ab- ab- ab from the desert floor like bleak rocky Islands in a burned brown sea The desert floor is practically free of snow and amid so are the mountains except on north slopes There the snow does not appear deep enough to hide a a. plane One of ot the tile five observers in the theFord Ford bord advised me not to look for a plane in one OM piece but for broken tre trees S out gouged-out ground or burned areas because the ship probably wIll be s scattered over yards arda The weather is ts clear elear and cold with a bright sun asia glaring on snow on north slopes Pilot Campbell brushes along mountain sides far farbelow farbelow farbelow below the peaks with the wing Ups tips nearly touching disaster or disaster or so it seems seem to me and me-and and zooms over ridges with wheels practically scraping the tops top Air currents whisk the ship upwards upwards upwards up up- wards and then thrust it down I Ican Ican Ican can see Scotts Scott's ship riding the currents currents currents cur cur- rents like a ship at sea He has a much smaller mailer plane plane a a two two seater eater Hilts Hills Far Below Belov elo eloV V Then he climbs circling the range until ve e are far above the highest peaks peak Below are tiny dots mine dumps symbols of ot blasted hopes aswell as aswell aswell well as sudden wealth to men rilen who roamed this region gion on burros years ago As AB w we circle the S San Sarr Jl Francisco range remnants of ot Frisco FricO and Newhouse New- New house house ghost ghost camps of ot the and appear appeal below beloV I look for Frisco's notorious where many a man supposedly sl sleeps Il eps today today today to to- day who died with his boots onway onway onway on way back when but cant can't see lee it This forsaken l land nd may hold the secret of a plane and seven persons per per- sons sons sons-at at least such theories are increasing in in- in creasing Eight planes are flying in inand inand inand and out of ot Milford MUford today and more are reported due to base air search operations here At Lynndyl 80 miles by air north of ot Milford a freight train crew re reported reported reported re- re ported to Pilot Campbell they a a. plane to the east Tuesday at a. a m. m That report too is Js beIng being being be be- ing investigated If the ship flew over Lynndyl at that time which it would if flying scheduled time it Is Js probably far north of here unless it circled d back Weather Freezing It took hours to warm up airplane airplane airplane air air- plane motors this morning before they could take off oft Tho Milford field has no no hangars and its foot elevation guarantees frigid temperatures I i wish now the he motors hadn't warmed up Copilot Malcolm Wallace jus just dust opened the cockpit door to see if It I Iam Iam Iam am still alive He laughs too a aone as one of ot the observers hands me a small round container Ed if it you bank this ship once one more mor or drop down another air current current current cur cur- rent Im I'm going to ball bail out It'll be quicker that way |