The Washington times., 1929-10-30
Tells Of
HARDSHIP IN
BLIZZARD
By LYLE ABBOTT

DOS ANGELES, OeL %
(I.N.S. Pilot James Z DOES
today had beaten a two-d4y
blizzard on the continental d.
vide of New Mexico 20 brIng
his Western Air Express pas
senger liner safe INTO port
DoIes landed his snip ursh 80
passengers and two Hrh~r ~-~w
members aboard In = sa-al s-uw-
covered field near Trschads y. -.
Monday to save the ship ara f1ss
lives.
After more than - hours - -
lation during which an InteuEue
air and ground search was h@Ezn
Doles seized a break in TIE ssorw -
drive the powerful tri-mOtouee s-s7
into the air and land il tao hours
later at Albuquerque, ~ n
BY this feat. Doles kept intact .
record for safe flying for rs CO.
pany.
The passengers were DR.. AbrahAa
Ward. San Francisco dental sur-emn
and official of the Comnerrtal ALl1ys
Corporation and W. r. MeTz- foTu-r
big league baseball pitcher. noW q
New York buyer of wooden fshr10s-
Doles flew into q binding snow-
storm soon after Leaving HoIhrooE
on scheduled hop - AThBpusr-
que. en- route TO Kansas CRY
He turned to dodge the srCr=-
and when the storm closed IN abos-
him. made what he called q ~
cautionary landing in the fieis-
He was IS miles from = tsls-
phone and five miles fro-n go
nearest house.
During a freezing dav and rfxh-
the crew and passengers tooE
refuge in an abandoned house
Visited By Woman
During the second day Il th=ir
wait, the planes occupants wee
visited by a woman who had scr
the ship come down, and vzIks4
five miles through the snow 20
offer aid.
At that time. however. Does.
knowing that a search waS In
progress, determined TO get back
into the air.
around the giant liners laBi ~
-
Two hours later he was az -1A
Albuquerque airport Of the West
ern Air Express.
Doles' feat justified the coufi1-
ence expressed in him hv company
officials. all during the tense ssarrn-
| With it's own and volunteer pilots
battling the raging SHOWS II NorTh-
ern Arizona and New Mexico for q
| hA ~
statements that Doles knew the
route so thoroughly that hs mus
have found security in the mlds q
| the storm.
Chief Pilot 81 MorehoaSe. WE-o ~
from here TO head the search. e.
clared after a survev that he was
sure Doles had circled south from
his course and landed safely
In Vacant HOHSe
Doles said: II could see down -
| low not a very large place bu-
looked safe and l got doWn there ard
and got down quick"
! I'VE thought then that the stu-ru
would clear and so We waited a.
the ship with the idea of tSturg 90
later in the afternoon Mondsyi
| II found an old vacant hOuss sn@
we all moved over there
| by this time the snow vas u-ure
than a foot deep on the ground
"I built a fire then. but we ls@
to froze to death. Our food and ws-sr
were gone.
I've stuck there until l5a , II
(mountian standard timeN.
| cit was just starting 10 snow s=z-n
when we took off.
THE weather appeared inpasSah's
and so l sat the ship down a. ths
| first safe place / could find
II would have telephoned 80 a. -
have avoided worry 10 relatives s-1
! friends, of whose who were WITH re.
but there was no telephone vIth-n
many miles of where we were
Wife Had Faith
Merz was returning from Wo-,1-
encircling trip. Or. Ward vas -
route from San Francisco 80 For
Worth, Tex. to address a COnv@urtu-
of 500 delegates Of a dental srci-tv-
While the search was or The w1ves
of Doles Cnis co-pilotI Allen DzrrtF
and Robert L. Brittsn- steward -
the missing air liner. said thew w~r"
sure their husbands would rsrur--
Jimmy will he home tou1orrow
| Mrs. Doles said
ALBUQUERQUE. y NJ o-t >
U.N.Sl.-Almost hoarss from -
counting their experiences - th@ -
hours during which time they u--s
practically given up for dad u,er1-
bers of the crew and two passsnEsrs
on the Western Air Express hr,~r.
which was forced down near Trs~h
ado, n. NJ. were all planning % take
to the air again today.
DIR. W. A. Ward, OF San Francisco
noted dental authority. too late -
appear at a scheduled meetE< q
dentists in Fort Worth. Tex
planned to return 10 Los Angeles ~
plane today. and W. E Msrz. wucl
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