Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-10 | Page 22 | Crash Victim Friend of Utahns

RA RASH H L I. FRIEND OF f fI I I Aviator Wales Vales Killed by a Fall in Wyoming Known in Salt Lake Salt Lakers who were former members mem mem- members bers bent of the United States Stotts air service ser- ser vice and especially those who at one ono onetime onetime time or another during their term of ot service were stationed at Rockwell or Mather fields California find in the bulletins o of the great transcontinental air race sources of deep and l sincere e sorrow There Thero are oro a n score or more moro of ot Salt Lake Lako boys boy's who were stationed at Mather ather field while Major was commanding officer of ot that post There are many others who knew Lieutenant Edward V V. Wales Vales who was an Instructor at Rockwell field San Diego and later at Mather field the news of or whoso whose death is transmitted in today's dispatches According to the bulletins received Lieutenant Wales Vales became confused contused Ina in ina ina a snowstorm yesterday after otter having flown from Salt Lake Lako to Wyoming and ran into a mountain near Bitter Ditter creek He lie died several hours later In Ina ina a n. farmhouse twenty-five twenty miles from Saratoga Wyo Eddie Wales Vales as he ho was popularly known was one of the first men to enter the tho air service series when war with Germany was declared He Ito Ie learned to fly at Rockwell lockwell field under the tutelage tutelage tutelage tute tute- lage of ot Captain Lowell Smith whose progress as far as Omaha was re reported reported reported re- re ported in the same dispatch that carried carried carried car car- ried the news of ot Wales Wales' death Wales Vales was an apt pupil and soon after atter his receiving the rating of reserve military military military mili mili- tary aviator he was assigned to duty with the th-e corps of ot instructors at Rockwell Rockwell Rock flock well field It was during his service as Instructor that he taught a number number num num- ber of ot Salt Lake young men the mysteries mysteries mysteries mys mys- teries of the ether He was considered one of or the best pilots in the all air ahser servIce service service ser ser- vice having had more than hours in the air I