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Show FOUR LOSE LIVES IN PLANE CRASH MILES Cmr, Mont, Jan. 14 UPl Th flaming crash of a North-wast North-wast Airline plan, carrying four persona to their death two mile wast of Mile City, left investigator with a tragic puixle to decipher today to-day All four of the plane'! occupant died Instantly in th crash last Bight Tha only solution to tb pusxl poaalbly lay In tha wreckage of th plana, scattered in a coule a mil west of th municipal airport from which tha plaa jut had mad a normal take-off." Offlcera held tha curtoua away from th wreck- tela te-la Praba Crash Whll airline and civil aeronautic aero-nautic authorities Investigate ra sped her by plan from Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, th air safety board announced In Washington it had saalgned thro anen to maka th official inquiry. Th board dispatched Torn Hardin, board member, and Frank Caldwell, chief Investigator, from Washington by plans sad said Phil '""- of the board's Los Angela An-gela offlc would com hers from th coast Coroner Ralph H. Bray of Custer aounty said tha body of Mr. Morgan Mor-gan Morris of Mandan, N. D., wa ao horribly burned It waa not removed re-moved whan th bodies of th other victims, si) men, were taken out last midnight On body waa hurled 100 feet from th wreckage. T Join Inquiry Clinton M. Hester of Washington. D. C, administrator for th Civil Aeronautics authority, aaid at Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont, where he had a apeak--j- engagement, ba would roma bar to join tha authority's Investigator Inves-tigator from Minneapolis. Th St Paul-to-Seattle plan bunt into flam and crashed in a coulee in th Sunday creek bottomlands bot-tomlands a mile west of ths Miles City airport Just after its take-off at 1:16 p. m. (M. S. T.). L. H. Bllven, airport manager, and several Mile City residents reported re-ported th explosion , flsshed a bright eerie light across an overcast over-cast sky. A light rain bad been falling in a near-freezing temperature. tempera-ture. Other Vletime Th thre man victims were: Pilot C. B. (Cash) Chamberlain vf Minneapolis, a pioneering pilot trained by tha lata Frank Hawks. H had flown th first ahlp for i Universal Air Lines between Chisago Chi-sago and Cleveland in 192a, and two years later opened th Dallas-Los Angel run for American Airways, He Joined Northwest in 1931. Copilot Raymond B. Norby of Minneapolis, who had flows for Northwest sine 1956. Richard B. Zahnlser. about 81, connected with the Consolidated Motor Freight Service of Billings, Mont Ha had been a Montana highway eommissloa engineer for several years, and an engineer far th Montana railroad and puail ervlc eommissloa. Sea Was Waiting " Mrs Morris, wife af a Xertbera Paclfle railway conductor, was widely known la North Dakota male circles. Her son, Gordon Mor lis. Seattle salesmen, waa in Billings Bil-lings waiting t meet ber when th crash occurred. H. V. Hewitt Northwest Airline employ, left th plan at Mile City to visit hia parents at Tarry, Mont |