Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-06
L|NDBERGH JOINS
HUNT FOR MISSING
7. A. 7. AIR LINER
BorroWS Fast Plane to Aid
in Quest for City of
San Francisco.
FLYER FINDS FOUR MEN
BELIEVED SURVIVORS
Seventy Flyers Are Hunting for
Liner-Gallup, N. Mex, Is
Base of Operations.


tember LP).-Col Charles A. Lind
bergh today borrowed the trans
continental record plane owned by
Capt. Frank Hawkes. to fly "out
West" presumably to aid in the
search for the missing T. A. T.
plane City of San Francisco.
W1NSLOW, Ariz., September 6
P9.-Hope that at least four men of
the seven men and one woman
aboard the lost air transport City of
San Francisco were alive was brought
here today by Lieut.. D. w. Tomlin-
son, chief pilot of the Maddux Air
Lines and former Navy ace.
By the Associated Press.
GALLUP, N. Mex, September O.
Nineteen airplanes, in the van of an
aerial armada seeking the lost air liner
City of San Francisco, took of shortly
after dawn today to make a systematic
search Of the wild New Mexico border
country. Fifteen of the planes operated
out of Winslow. Ariz., and four from
the local airport.
The searching planes were each as
signed to given territory in the re-
gion where the tri-motored plane, with
its eight passengers, was last reported
sighted.
While the concentration camp Of the
air-searching parties has been located
here. officials of the Transcontinental
Air Transport planned to work to the
southwest, between Grants Grant, N.
Mex, where the plane was last authen-
tically reported seen, and Winslow,
Ariz, its scheduled stopping place.
The War Department order making
Army planes in the Southwest avail
able for the hunt bore fruit this morn
ing with the take-off of five Army at
Galveston. These planes headed for
WinSlow, Ariz., to join in the search.
Seventy Planes in Search.
With the arrival of other craft ex-
pected from points in Texas, Arizona
and Southern California, it was esti-
mated that more than 70 planes would
be in the air before the day ended.
T. A. T. officials planned to widen
their circle of search with the arrival
of other planes, assigning each to a
specific locality.
In the meantime, hundreds Of Zuni
Indians, cowboys and other persons,
spurred on by T. A. T.'s offer of $4,000
reward to the finder of the plane, set
out on foot and horseback from scat
tered communities in the region seek
ing those lost.
Clouds still hung low over the terri
tory, with poor flying conditions and
low visibility the result. Mud from re-
those on foot and on horseback.
An area about 500 miles in diam
eter, centering at Gallup. N Mex, was
concentrated upon, although much OF
this section previously had been COW
cred Additional searchers combed the
depths of Bryce and Zion Canyons In
Southern Utah and the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado River in Arizona.
Cowboys Add Efforts.
An order from T. A. T. headquarters
in st. Louis suspended eastward serv-
ice on the line, but announced that a
WestboUnd plane would proceed as far
as winslow today to join two T. A. I.
airliners there.
A band Of 20 cowboys added their
efforts to those of the Zuni Indians
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made up from the small communities
along the Arizona New Mexico border.
Because first reports indicated that
the plane was forced down in the
forbidding volcanic area south Of Gal
lup, officials of the T. A. T. and
others chose Gallup as the central point
for directing the hunt.
The aerial armada, marshaled from
several States for the search, was vir-
tually without clue where to look for
the lost ship. One by one the reports
of its wreckage having been sighted
we're run down yesterday, and each time
the searchers returned and reported
they had seen nothing but frowning
desert and extinct, forbidding volcano
peaks.
Zuni Region Searched.
T. A. T. officials believed that the
combing Of the Black Rock Wash Coun-
try south of here had been SUFFICIENT to
establish that the City of San Francisco
had not fallen there, as was first
thought. The region around Zuni then
was searched without result. Likewise
enc district around Houck, Ariz., was
surveyed from the air on the strength
of reports from railroad section crew
that they had seen a plane believed
to be the missing one.
The much advertised report that the
plane had been seen % miles south OF
here and its eight occupants apparently
dead, was traced to its source yeSter-
day and T. A. T. officials discovered that
it had come from a bus driver who
it in a shoe shining parlor. .