| Show TWO DIE 11 IN P LANE CRASH AVIATORS FIND SHIP IN NORTH PART OF STATE S Ogden Men Plunge to Death in Small J Monoplane 4 Special tt to tb The Telegram LAKETOWN Aug 22 The 22 The bodies of Ri Riley ey Hess 29 and Jack A A. Harris 25 of Ogden were found shortly before noon Monday in the wreckage of Hess' Hess small two passenger monoplane about 14 miles miles' southwest of Laketown The bodies were found by Art Ogden aviator lator who Mho led leda a ground party to the wreckage after spotting it from tho the air all 1 iii in t an early morning search t 11 and Dr Edward ItRich R. R Rich Jr of Ogden started the search early Monday when Hess Hes and Harris failed to report in after leaving Fish Haven Idaho a resort on the shore of Bear lake at p p. p m. m Sunday expecting to fly to Ogden or to Evanston Wyo Julia Laketown a trained nurse who accompanied the ground party to the wreckage said aid aidone one of the bodies was still strapped in the plane cabin The other was found near by She said she be believed believed be be- one of the men had lived through the crash crawled out of the plane and died while attempting to seek assistance We he e found tho lice plane In lane In ft In n a s small ma 11 ll We he e found tho lice plane In lane In ft In n a s small ma 11 ll p hollow only about a block from front the Blacksmith Fork ork canyon canon road she said aid It had apparently fallen straight down into a grovo grove of quaking aspens Some of the men inca in the party believed it had crashed after a motor motor mo mo- tor failure or a sudden air pocket had dropped the plane into the rocky hollow The bodies she sho said were carried carried car car- ried ned back to the tho road and taken through the mountains into Continued on Page Pale Ten Column Eight I 2 UT AHNS DIE IN PLANE CRASH Continued from Page One Huntsville and down Ogden can canyon can canyon yon to Ogden The fliers traveling in Hess' Hess four four- cylinder horsepower 40 two-passenger two monoplane left Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den early Saturday morning for the theair theair theair air show at Pocatello They left Pocatello Sunday morning passing over Soda Springs and Montpelier before landing on the sandy beach at Fish Haven about noon Sunday Resort said they left Fish Haven without disclosing their plans although it was understood from their conversation they were undecided whether to attempt to get over the hump of the WasatcH Wasatch Wa- Wa satcH mountain range where peaks tower to feet high or swing around to refuel at Evanston and come down through Weber canyon canyon canyon can can- yon to reach Ogden They were ere unreported after leaving Fish Haven at p. p in on Sunday and search was started by and Dr Rich early to to- to day Tim The fliers filers plotted out the search area and Dr Rich after cov covering ring his territory returned to Ogden without success only to tohle have e l call in in a few lew min minutes tes after I he lie e. e landed d al-d to re re- re port he lie had load sighted the tile plane n near r Laketown S The t territory in which the plane crashed is a major summer range on the Cache national forest It is un uncertain ertain whether it is in Rich or or Cache counties In the ground party which accompanied accompanied were John H. H Weston Laketown justice of the peace Heber C. C Robinson Edwin Robinson Arlo West William Campbell a forest ranger and Miss The plane wreckage was roughly rough rough- ly Iy 30 miles from Fish Haven anti and it is presumed the fliers fell 1 to their death within a half hour after the takeoff Hess resided at 1475 Marilyn drive in Ogden and was a commercial corn com mercial photographer He covered many major Utah events for newspapers newspapers news news- papers apers and picture services from the he air Harris an office supply salesman lived Jived at 1700 Twenty-eighth Twenty streets Ogden I |
