The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-06
SYSTEMATIC SEARCH
over Wild COUNTRY
BEGINS near GALLUP
70 Ships, Including Army. and
Navy Craft, Will Scour
Desert Region
INDIANS AND coWsoYs 40
Wife Of Pilot Of Missing Ar
Liner Confident Her Hus.
band % Alive

Liner ConSidotIt Her Huo.
band 70 Alive
Winslow. Aris., Sept. e.-(AP)-
Lieutenant D. W. Temlinsen fee.
mer navy flying ace snl chlef
pilot Of the Maddux Ar lines, -.
turned here at lo:l3 .. n. te1ay
after . search q the desert aal
reported he saw foar men O the
wastes near Walpl. Arlseaa, Who
waved their shirts q him in :
distress signal and that he @.
piled.
After signaling u the men he
had scen them. Tomlinaeo r..
tarned % Wlnslow. Other shios
were Immediately dispatched .
tho scene.
Walpi b On = high mesa abeat
one hundred miles north @
Winslow.
Tranacentjnental air tsaaeoeet
officials were elated eyee ~
news IN h0pes the men mlsht -
survivors Of the City q 9aa
Francisco. I. A. r. teaasooes
plane which has been mlG1lne
since Tuesday.
The fsur men were weasine
white shirts. Airpeet eeeIclAS
here who have been airectlne ~
search for the mi1eine plene =.
pressed belief that Il wssDa =
highly unlikely fer any peeoeae
70 Be ID that sectlea O the Al.
xona desert ceuntey . a1tlco1.
unless they had been d . pla9e
which made ferced lanAine.
Lieutenant Tomllnsen w. NJ.
Ing > tri-meter all-metal tsAas-
port ship similar 70 the City q
San Francisco.
Roosevelt Field. N. r, Sept. 0,-F
Colonel Charles A. LtndberRh took
II At 2:O5 p. m. eastern stAudnrd
line today to 10ln In the search for
he missing plane Of the transcontin.
'ntal air transport In the west. He
vas accompanied In the first plane
&c had borrowed from Frank Hawk,
ranscontinental record holder, e..
drs. Lindbergh.
Just as Colonel Lindbergh reached
his field, where his borrowed plane
vas waiting ready for q takc-off. he
vas informed Of q report from win.
low. Arizona, that four men had been
sighted from the air walking across
he desert 100 miles north Of win.
low.
He Immediately called the Aaso-
:iated Press In New York and asked
% have the dispatch from window
cad to him. He then said no would
cave Immediately to Join IN the
earch. stopping at Columbus On the
way to see II BY that time the eieht
,ersons who disappeared With the
transport plane last Tuesday had
,een found. He asked the Associated
Press II they would have Q man q
Columbus to give him the --latest II.
80 that he would know
whether to hurry on OK 70 turn hack
n case the search should be ended.
Gallup, N. NJ. Sept. s.-(R>-Nine-
cen atrplanes. In the van Of IN aerial
armada seeking the lost air liner City
4 San Francisco. took OF shoetly
lftcr dawn today To make . ay1tom-
tic search Of the Wild New Nexico
'order country. Fifteen Of the plauoB
operated out Of Winslow, Arisona, an6
our from the local airport.
Army Flames Jein HINT
The war department order making
lrmy planes in the southwest avail
lble for the hunt bore fruit this
morning with the takeoff Of five army
lttack planes from Fort Crocaott,
lear Galveston. These planes hea1ed
or Winslow. Arizona. to Join n tn
Iearch.
with the arrival Of other craft a.
,ected from points In Texas, Ax1oona,
Ind Southern California, Il Was ~.
mated that more than 10 paoaos
would be IN the ar before tn dny
.nded.
Meantime hundreds o1 Indians.
cowboys and other persons spuSyoa q
y T. A. T.'s offer Of 1syO0o seWord
'or the finder Of the plane, TT oQ,t "a
.oot and horseback from ocottoco6
II the region soektng
hose lost.
eupplementing the aerial seaschsss
we're hundreds Of wiry zuni lndia0s.
Rise TO the ways o. the desert a1d
. well . uncounted ~.
parties and cowboys.
The variegated expanee from TEXAS