Show i 1 I BOMBER RAMS RA PEAK IN NEVADA Wre Wrecked ked Craft Believed d Due t to Pass S. S L. L An airplane b believed 1 e d to be an an au army a air r corps corps four in motored four fly flying fly i ing fortress bomber en route from Sacramento Cal to Denver via Salt Lake City crashed d Thursay Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day ay on on a l rugged peak near Lovelock Lovelock Lovelock Love Love- lock Nev An air search w was s started from rom th the Salt Lake airport and nd military military mili mili- tary airdrome m while ground parties parties par par- parI I ties ties- were en route to the crash I scene scene fr from m Lovelock Fort Fortress ess 1 Missing issIng The army airdrome at Salt Lake City reported it had no definite word the ship was an army plane but said a check showed the only plane unaccounted for or w was s a B 17 flying fortress that was to have passed over Salt Lake City about noon noon en route from Sacramento to Denver A United Press Press' dispatch from Lovelock said a railroad section foreman reported d to the sheriffs sheriff's office he saw a large plane crash and burst into flames on a mountaintop mountaintop moun- moun six mil miles miles' s' s south of ot Lovelock Love Love- lock Deputy sheriffs sheriff's and ambulances ambulances ambulances lances from Lovelock started for forthe forthe forthe the scene Due in S. S L. L at Noon Captain E. E T. T Vance at the dispatch office at the Salt alt Lake army airdrome said the big bomber last was heard from at al 1042 a. a m. m and that it was due over Salt Lake City at noon He lIe said the plane flies fIfes the same commercial route that United Air AirLines AirLines AirLines Lines planes take between the coast and Denver and that 11 It uses the beam and radio f facilities of ot the C CAA A A. A Advices from the C A A indicated radio contact was lost at 1042 a. a m. m he asserted The army flight chart called for forthe forthe forthe the plane to make the mile 1000 flight from Sacramento to Denver without stop but passing over the Salt Lake control station Army air corps officers reported the bomber left McClelland field at Sacramento at a a. a m m. mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain time with Captain R. R F. F Fr Freeman Freeman Free Free- eman e- e man in charge of a crew of seven Captain Vance said that two Continued on page Eight I Column Cunn Two Army Plane Feared Crashed On Mountain in Nevada Continued from Page On One United Air Lines planes on regular trips were watching for the bomber At press pre headquarters at Fort Douglas it was announced an army plane on a regular flight from tho the Salt Lake army airdrome also was winging over the area In which the crash was reported The area in which the plane was reported cr crashed shed Is known as the Ragged Top mountain range Tho The missing army bomber said press dispatches was being fitted for us use in Alaska for a cold coId weather flying laboratory At Nev It was re reported reported reported re- re ported that a rancher A. A J J. J Alves had seen a plane in trouble west of Lovelock and that he saw a flash and puff of smoke He fixed the d distance at 28 miles south of Lovelock however and the piano ho saw appeared to be a two two- motor craft cralL Worker Reports Crash It was believed the different observers observers ob ob- ob servers may have erred In Another rancher James Kjeldsen who lives Jives 4 45 miles mUes southwest southwest south south- west of Lovelock said he heard a plane apparently In trouble according according ac ac- ac cording to a United Press dispatch He said sald a ranch hand Stanley Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- reported seeing a plane crash 16 miles from the ranch It appeared definite however that the only plane unaccounted for was the motor four-motor flying fortress en route from Sacramento to Den Den- ver C C C enrollees near Lovelock joined the search It was reported report report- ed raining with a low flying ceiling the inthe area Captain Freeman press dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches said is ordinarily stationed stationed stationed sta sta- at Fairbanks Alaska but was taking the plane from Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento to Denver and then to Wright field at Dayton Ohio |