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Show ! pE DWINDLES FBRAIRMAN J LOST SIX DAYS Leeds Search Unsuccessful to Date; Heavy Snowfall in Vicinity Handicaps Efforts of Mounted Search Party Ht i o'clock this afternoon the Salt Lake Tribune reported no new developments in the search for Maurice Graham, air mail pilot missing since last Friday night. Basing at I.as Vegas, a dozen planes are join-I join-I in in the search. A party sent Iron, Caliente Wednesday to investigate, a fire which was reported to have been seen by 4 p. p. fireman in Saw Mill canyon, near Caliente, Nevada, lad not returned. The plane garch today is centering along the regular air route from Las las Vegas to Mflford. It was also reported, according accord-ing to the Tribune, that Graham Gra-ham had today walked into St George in an exhausted condition condi-tion after crashing into a nearby near-by mountain. The search for Maurice Graham, Western Air Express mail pilot, who has been missing since last Friday night when he left Las Vegas Ve-gas en route to Salt Lake with 640 pounds of mail and 16 pounds of express, on Wednesday swung to I to the eastern part of Nevada, the - latest information as to his probr ible whereabouts coming from a U. P. fireman who reported seeing ftre in Sawmill canyon 18 miles from Caliente, Tuesday night. All day Wednesday planes scoured 'the vicinity without result. First information of the flyer's disappearance was received here by Lee Cox Saturday afternoon from company headquarters in Los Angeles. An-geles. An investigation disclosed that Graham had passed over St. George at one o'clock Saturday morning. He was heard by Night-latchman Night-latchman Lorenzo Bringhurst and others as he flew over the town, the flying lights of the plane being be-ing only faintly discernible in the heavy mist that shrouded the val-t val-t -. The machine, according to Dfinghurst, came In from the southwest, almost directly over the landing field, where it was first heard. The plane was next heard circling circ-ling Leeds apparently lost in the snowstorm. That Graham remained in the vicinity of Leeds and Hurricane Hur-ricane for two hours and a half is established beyond question of : doubt. The plane was first heard I t Leeds by Lee and Evan Sullivan wo reported that it had circled their farm several times, flying low. It was next heard over Hurricane nd La Verkln by John Humphries I and James Judd at between 2:30 and 3 o'clock. Graham flew over we ranch of Clifford MfcMullin, I ne" Silver Reef, first at two , o clock and again circled the place wjeral times between 3:15 and , "0. flying at a low altitude, and t Men last seen by Mr. MfcMullin ws headed almost due north to- ! tahi,LhePine Valley mountain ! t) I1 hearing the ship the first ' SSLifcMuUln 80t out f bed. ! ITS: Snd went 0Ut5ide- Seeing i e airman apparently was in ; ble he endeavored to make a iw in a level 40-acre tract near Jul, In the wet he wa n-! n-! K5uL?nd had started r the m of Riley Savage, a mile away, 1 X?al 2F1 when toe Plane, af-g af-g ,directly over hi head, J tied out and headed north ! 1 ,5 rm' That was the last C o ' rePQrte of the ' villi Us' Hurricane, La ' W LqU.erviUe st- George l ticai. ries are aImost iden- tiMn!Xt report- although uncon-Cchoam?ufr0m uncon-Cchoam?ufr0m the Wlhitney the Cedar city airPort. 'C inVaid' the Plane Ped ord f S16 coming. Next came Zl' where a machine pK nlatK6o'clock- The type f inc- fll n,by Grahani carries C tim. nly from 5 t0 e hours tndth. n U1nder Sod conditions, l cweS rpPrt is g'ven lit-w lit-w "ce, by many here. How-bt How-bt the w . ls bel"g investigated Hw ra Air Express and the scven Planes joined in fc'.ievir,J ',1 lhe Nevada section- cnrtJ1" the plane may ,ofw7i"P either on the east of ?! Uey mountain, north-Dreotai north-Dreotai ' or 011 Ule side of Mh? nS Hurricane fault, Wnvood tL y' marchers on foot LC0Untry Sunday without tis o'rin ! TJ1 more intense hunt 'W oft by horsenen, but the M'no;iv n !;eturned to their base trace ' 0".'g,lt without finding a iCvk Part L f,lxty moiwted men C;rite m, , t!le search Monday, bet2fn 2nhU:s and the sec- " n Hurrica and Leeds. 01 Swriff vJ "nder the direction S-MPD and 'rBr00ks' RailSer Ben 2 r"ic?Peputy Sheriffs Isom ?1; h t ta th"? Jhn C0ttam' ,,;n? held at section 15 now in awatag develop-! develop-! f thnow6 nda and te melting ? P:accs i, f foothills which deep. 15 irom two to four feet |