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Show Ashes of Aviator Are! Strewn Along Route The intensive search for Maurice Graham, the Western Air Express . pilot who had been missing since January Jan-uary 11, when he left Las Vegas for Salt Lae City, ended Wednesday of last week when his body was found in, Crystal Gulch on Kanarra Mountain Moun-tain by George Edwards and Glen Beal of Cedar City, who were members mem-bers of a posse that had been searching search-ing in the Gulch locality for the past week, says the Beaver Tress. Since' the finding of the plane at least 15 searchers had passed within a few feet of the body without seeing it, due. to the heavy underbrush which abounds in that region. The body was flat upon the ground with the head dropped to one side, indicating that Graham had lain down, exhausted from his wiindering to find a way out, and had fallen asleep, succumbing suc-cumbing to the intense cold that prevailed pre-vailed at the time he crashed on the mountain-side with his plane. The country where the body of Graham was found is extremely rough and drugged, and it was necessary to packrthe body and carry it out for a distance of six miles on horseback. From this point it was conveyed to Cedar by auto. An examination of the body showed (.Continued on last page) .-Milled to his injury, forcing him to ! lay at the bottom of the gulch suf-j suf-j Poring until death came to relieve him. Major McDonald helives that j Graham had wandered about for three days before he succumbed to his injuries in-juries and the intense cold. I Funeral services were held in Los ! Angeles Sunday afternoon at the Christian Science church, after which the ashes were placed in an urn for his last ride over the route. Fred Kelly, piloting the regular air mail plane from Los Angeles to Salt Lake, took the urn with him. Over the mountains where Graham died in his last efforts to bring his mail through a blinding storm but transformed now into a picturesque land of green hills, the- ashes were scattered. J ASHES OF AVI ToR ARE STKKWN l,ni; i;h'te (Continued from page 1.) j that the unfortunate aviator had re-ceived re-ceived an abrasion of the scalp, which, no doubt, happened when his plane crashed, his head striking the cowl of the machine as it landed. This evidently evi-dently was a factor in weakening him. and in his attempts to find a way out of the gulch, he probably slipped and fell a distance from a huge rock on which he had been resting, according to the tracks he made. This probably |