Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02

ing headed south to seek an open
field where he could lard. He has
not been found.
Cooke was reported uninjured
and was being brought to the Sc
quota ranger station.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. ,. UP
Eleven hours overdue in Salt Lake
City, a United Air lines plane
piloted by George Douglas, was be-
! lieved to have crashed or effected
landing on an emergency field
in northern Utah today.
Last report from Douglas plane
was received at 11:56 o'clock last
night when he radioed to the home
port at Salt Lake City that he was
progressing OK" This report was
received as he passed over Strevell,
Idaho, an hours run from Salt
Lake City.
Douglas was accompanied by a
relief pilot, Edward Greer
Attempt to locate the missing
plane today was checked by
storms. Roads into the area where
he is believed down are blocked
by snow. A searching plane which
set forth early today was forced to
turn back because of thick
weather.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 2. U.P) =
Transamerican Air lines officials
reported here today the disappear
ance of Francis H. Rust, "a, Kala-
| maZoo, Mich, mail pilot, after TAX
ing off from Kalamazoo for Chi
cago late last night.
Officials admitted the possibility
that Rust, reserve pilot, may have
been forced out over Lake Michi-
gan although the regular route is
charted over a land course.
Rain and snow squalls impeded
an air search today, it was said.
Rust was a veteran pilot, having
more than 5000 hours to his credit.
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 2. U.P)-Five
airplaneS left here at dawn today
in search of a Bimini Airways Fair
child cabin monoplane, equipped
with pontoons and with five men
aboard, which failed to reach BIZ
mini on a 45-minute flight from
here Monday.
Coast guardsmen, operating from
the Fort Lauderdale station, also
joined the search.
The missing pilot is Val Chick,
Miami, formerly of Boston.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 (U.P]-
Storm swept, Snow-covered noun
tains between Los Angeles and
Bakersfield were believed today to
hold the fate of two army aviators,
missing since yesterday morning,
in addition to eight persons aboard
a Century-Pacific passenger plane,
lost Friday.
In the belief that Lieuts. Edward
D. Hoffman and c. A. Cooke were
forced down or crashed in the
same territory which claimed the
sky liner, great air armada was
ordered out of March field, River
side, today to hunt both ships.
Officers at March field were
asked by Commanding Officer
Davis of Crissy field, San Fran
cisco, to begin search this morning.
Fifty pursuit and bombing planes
were ready to take the air when
weather permitted.
The March field planes will
search as far north as Fresno,
while ships from Crissey field will
fly out of San Francisco. In the
north the search will be for the
army ship alone, but both are
sought in the southern mountains.
The second plane left the Ma
tional guard airport at Griffith
Park at $3.50 a. m. yesterday for
San Francisco and has not been
heard from since. The two Off
GERS should have reached their
destination at Crissey field shortly
| after noon.
Lieutenant Cooke was holder of
| the worlds record for sustained
| flight in glider.
Despite a relentless storm which
piled snow many feet deep, search
ing parties pressed on yesterday
seeking the lost passenger ship.
With redoubled energy today
they will seek both, spurred by the
thought that although it is almost
certain those in the passenger
ship are dead, the army officers
may await rescue.