Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-06-25 | Page 4 | Parachut Found by Wrecked Plane

Ilnhed a guard over the wrecked lan William Tait. Western Air Kx-press Kx-press official, arranged to fly to thjw scene from Joa Anjcelen today. Post Office Insi-actor K. ' V. .Smith left here by airplane for Cedar City Luff nlKht. .Shortly aftr the dl'wppearan.-e of Graham rumors were circulated that Ms plane had carried registered regis-tered mall valued at nearly a quarter quar-ter of a million dollars, but these reports were denied by postal authorities, au-thorities, who said the cargo was worth shout $2AO. A reward of $.. waa posted by the WeMern Air Kpress, but this was withdrawn after sixty daya Hundreds of persons afoot and on horseback Joined aviators In the hunt for the flier. Parachute Found By Wrecked Plane LOfl ANGELES, Juno 2K AT) The mountninouo wilds of southwestern south-western Utah today bessn dlvulfuia? tho secret of what happened to Maurlco lira ham, tr mall flier who ill sap pea rei lust January 10 while-flylnr while-flylnr from 1as Vegus to Salt Lake with a mall cargo. Tho wreckage of a plane, presumably presum-ably .raham, wan found eiicht mil's from i'edar City. l iah. Inst niitht by Ward Mortcniwin and Kl-burn Kl-burn Orton, youthful sheeplterders. James t 'arson, a flvlns buddy of Graham, rushed to tho sceno from Kly. Nev., and later reported to Western Air Express officials hers ; that a parachute which the sheepherdera sheep-herdera brought tb Cedar City had stenciled upon it tha nam "Maurice "Mau-rice (iraham. Carson said firaham apparently had landed his plane snd had taken off Ms parachute, leaving It unopened un-opened beside the grounded ship. "Tho cockpit waa rot damaged, and apparently tha mall onipart-ment. onipart-ment. a steel bo under tho rock-pit, rock-pit, waa not broken tn tha landing," Carson reported. Carson's report Indies ted that Graham's plane landed In deep nw snd the billiard w hit h raged f.ir three days after the date of ths disappearance probably claimed tha mail Xller as he set out afoot. hherlff Jnhn Leigh and County Attorney Khar of Iron county, in whlrh Cedar City In located. etnh-