Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-01-21
THOJr"U. ..;71,1z WAX FROM HIS
EXPERIENCE BISHOP IS
NOW OUT OF DANGER


from the camp Wnere Lieutenant COl-
-onel Harry G. Bishop was found
Thursday night reported that the
aviator was recovering and had been
pronounced out of danger
Gamble said Bishop was unable to
move when found by the searching
party His legs, Gamble said, were
swollen and black from feet to knees.
Gamble told of passing the night in the
Sonora desert in a heavy rainstorm.
The searchers gave Bishop their coats
to protect him.
Bishop was reported as still being eX
tremely weak and unable to talk to any
extent The few words he has spoken
since found confirm Lieut., w A Rob-
ertson's story of their plight following
the Inflated trip from San Diego, Cal,
on January TO- in an attempted flight
to Calexico. Cal
Bishop said, according to Gamble,
that when he and Robertson parted,
the latter going for help, neither eX
pected to see the other again.
Gamble told of meeting Robertson
on the desert Thursday morning. He
said the aviator was staggering along
crying for water and was SO nearly eX-
hausted they had to use the utmost
care to bring him back TO his normal
self
Gamble said he left Bishop at s
o'clock this morning. He met the
United States army ambulance and
other automobiles going for Bishop.
lieutenant Colonel Harry G Bishop,
army aviator, who was lost in the Wilds
of Sonora for nine days with Lieuten-
ant w. A. Robertson, is expected to
reach here about midnight tonight or
early Sunday morning. No word has
been received from the searchers who
went to seek Bishop and it is. not
known what his condition is
Many persons started out from Well
ton tonight to join the returning par
ties who are supposed to be with the
United States army ambulance, sent
out for Bishop yesterday.
Major Browne, commanding the
army searching expedition, was in
structed by Colonel H. w Wilson. com
mander of the Yuma district. to push
on as far as possible with the ambu-
lance and then sent detail of four
teen men with stretcher to bring the
exhausted aviator out of the desert
The parties that started out tonight
to join the expedition commanded by
Major Browne, returned here at 3
o'clock Their automobiles sank up to
the axles in the mud and it was impos-
sIble, they said, to go more than four
miles south of Welton.
Owing to the condition of the ground
1t is thought the army ambulance
could not possibly return with Bishop
before tomorrow noon. No word has
been received from Bishop or the
searchers who stayed with him since
hoDertson was brought here last night
Robertson Had Permission
nectlon with rumors a court martial
may be called to consider the flight
OF Lieutenant Colonel Fl. C. Bishop
and Lieutenant W. A Robertson. in
an army airplane from san Diego to
CaleXico. Gel. resulting in tie two
officers being lost eight DAYS in the
wilds of Lower California. Lieutenant
Robertson said here today he had
started the trip after he had asked
and received permission from his SUI
perior
Robertson, the first of the two to
return to American soil, was on his
way 70 the North Island aviation eta
tion near San Diego to report to Col
nnel w. A. Glassford, commandant of
the aviation school He had left Col
/ onel Bishop nearly exhausted in the
Sonora desert and made his way to a
! road where he encountered one of
several rescue parties which had been
searching for the two men. An army
ambulance left Wellton. Ariz.. last
night to go to the aid of Colonel Bish-
op at point fifty or more miles south
of the border where he was being cared
for in a temporary rescuers' camp.
when | ran across the rescuers
had just about made up my mind
had seen my last day on earth" Lieu
tenant Robertson said at the railroad
i station here. Il was at the point of
exhaustion. If | had nor met the men
when ! did it is not likely ! would have
been found alive And Bishop-it is
certain they never would have reached
| him.
Lieutenant Robertson lost twenty
( five pounds in weight.
Colonel GIassford Denies
! SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20.-Col w A
Glassford, commandant Of the North
| Island aviation school. authorized a
statement today that his original de-
nial that Lieutenant Colonel Harry G
! Bishop and Lieutenant W. A. Robert
son had official authority to make q
! flight to Calexico or to any other place
! beyond the confines of North Island
still stands. Colonel Glassford said nC
/ order authorizing a flight of any kint
had been issued by him. In army
circles here it was believed Lieutenant
Robertson's statement that permission
for the flight was given by his superior
officer meant that he had obtained
permission from some officer rankin.
him and without Colonel Glassford'!
knowledge.
Robertson arrived here by train lat,
today from Los Angeles and was taker
i Immediately to Coronado. where h
will remain at a hotel until he ha!
fully recovered from the hardships o
the Sonora desert. He was met at tn,
train by number of brother aviator
and two physicians.
Rest and quiet is what Lieutenan
Robertson needs, according to hi
physicians. They predict his speed,