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Show Army Bomber Crashes In Cedar Mountains; Crew Jumps To Safety A United States Army four-mo-t&red bomber crashed somewhere in the Cedar mountains Tuesday evening after the last two mem-ben mem-ben of the crew had paiachuted U .fety near the Graff coal mine. Nine otfier members of the crew hiid abandoned the ship near Panaca, Nevada, as the pdot was . riving to brjng his plane into Ce-dur Ce-dur city for a landing before his futl supply was exhausted. 'ihe bomber had been .n a test lun out of the Tonapah, Nevidu Air Base and was running low on iucl as lt returned to the Tone.pa'.i aiea, and when the pilot could not locate the field because of bad wxuther he turned back toward Ce. dar City hoping to reach a landing land-ing field before his fuel supply ran out. As the plane passed over Panaca,. I ho pilot, Captain V. R. Woodward, oidired his crew to parachute to safety and make their way to the Nevada town. Captain Woodward and Lt. P. A. Zcaks, the coHptlot, lemained with the ship In an attempt at-tempt to bring It Into Cedar City. However, they were forced to Jump whin the last bit of fuel had been UMri up as they were circling toward the Cedar field. They Jumped from a height of 19000 feet, Lt. Zcaks landing safely near the coal road leading to the Williams mine, in the Kanarra mountains and Captain Voodward landing in the heavlU wooded area northeast of the Graff mine. The two officers, after struggling through the waist deep snow for sometime, reached the coal road and followed It to highway 91, and were picked up by a passing motor-i't motor-i't and brought to Cedar City. They : cached town after midnight, after taking several hours to cover approximately ap-proximately 12 miles from where thy landed. Although almost exhausted, ex-hausted, the men were uninjured except for scratches and bruises re-reived re-reived as they made their way down the mountain sld. The plane, traveling at an ap. proximate speed of about 170 miles 'li n it was abandoned, undoubtedly mshed somewhere deep Into the Ceiiar mountain area, and the two offlters were extremely lucky to havt landed where they couU reach safety. Had they stayed with the ship only a few minutes longer they ' would probably have landed somewhere some-where In the area over the top of the mountain and would have had little If any chance of making th.!i way to town or a highway. The latest report available Indicates Indi-cates that all but two of the men who parachuted from the plane In the Nevada area had made their v.'.h- to either Panaca or Callente. A iios.se of men were reported Ma;chlng for the remaining two cre-v members, but no rem tt j their having been found has yet I Teen received. Unsuccessful attemps Kic mad j to locate the missing plane from the nir yesterday, and with today's sLii.-m covering the entire area. It nny be some time before the ml:-itn ml:-itn li imber can be located. |