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Show PAIR BRAVE ICY HIGHWAYS RUSHING SERUM TO BOY Salt Lakers Complete Vital Errand Which Began With Mercy Flight PTxAJUGrttjnet United Air Lines plan in Salt Lakt City at 4:29 a. m. Saturday that had brought th aerum Irora San Francisco, They ar- Batt, 21 unlicensed Cedsr City pilot wh -took hii unllcenaed, aecond-hand plana into itormy weather Tuesday on frui-trated frui-trated flight to Salt Lake City In queat Special to TheTjlf (ram CEDAR- CITY, UUh, Jan. 14 Two-year-old Gaylord Graff, pneumonia patient, pa-tient, Saturday received the aerum by which hii phyiician-father hope to save nil life, and two more namea were added in the "pilgrimage of mercy." The namei were of Mr. and Mr. R. H. Hanaen of 529 Cleveland avenue. Salt Lake City, who brought the aerum here by automobile from Salt Lake City after weather condition! prevented delivery de-livery by plane. The Hanaeni unhesitatingly undertook under-took a aix-and-one-half-hour drive over icy highwaya after airport attaches told them the aerum could not be delivered promptly by air. Friends of the stricken boy's father. pllnlng by the state aeronautic commie-- - - sion, only disappointed that he had tailed ' to return with the serum. He Justified hi action by reasserting, "It waa to save the life of that baby that I did it i : - Officially, Mr. Batt and his plan are grounded until licenses are obtained both for him and for the plane. With less than two hours of instruction and only two hour and 49 minutes of solo fly-" ing, he still felt that he could qualify for a license "except that I haven't had the required hours of Instruction." However, he intends to apply lm- . mediately for a license and to return this month to Provo to mak minor repair on the plan, where it ha been -taken for storage. of the serum. Mr. Batt waa doubly frustrated in that weather (condition a forced his. plane down near Alpine and he waa unable- to obtain the serum in Salt Lake City. He bore a sample of the child's sputum to be typed in Salt Lake City to determine what serum was needed; ' Then began the nation-wide search. . V x ir u rived here at 11 a. m. Another name on the roll of honor is Dr. L. W. Mcdregor of St. George, ' who was instrumental in obtaining the relatively rela-tively rare "type 18" serum. After a nation - wide search for the serum, begun be-gun on Tuesday, Dr. i McGregor located the serum through a 1 friend in the Lederle Laboratories, Inc.,' in i San Franmuco. Mr. Batt returned Mrs. R.H.Hsnsea hom Friday, unconcerned over the disci- R. H. Hansen Thus did these three persons fulfill the hopes of Richard |