Evening star., 1936-12-27
PLANE WRECKAGE|
FOUND BY TRAPPER'
Bodies of Two Pilots Not
Immediately Located Be-
cause of Snow.
B. the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
KELLOGG, Idaho, December 26.-A
tired trapper mushed into Kellogg to-
day to report he and three other men
had found the wreckage of a North
west Airlines transport plane in the
snow-mantled North Idaho Noun
tains, but not the bodies of the two
pilots who apparently died in the
smssh-up eight days ago.
Fred Cunningham, the trapper. said
he did not attempt to locate the bodies
Of Pilots Joe Livermore and Arthur A.
Haid and did not pry into the wreck
pending the arrival of postal inspec-
tors to care for the mail involved.
Il know it was the plane because ]
touched It," Cunningham said. "The
wreckage was covered with snow and
only portions Of the fuselage were
sticking out"
The trapper said the wreck lay in
3 to 4 feet Of snow near the top of an
unnamed ridge Is miles south of here,
not far from 6.000-foot-high Cemetery
Ridge about which the search had
centered since last Monday.
Claims Bodies Located.
A. r. Mensing, division superin-
tendent Of Northwest Airlines, said at
Seattle tonight that the bodies of
Pilot Joe Lvermore and Co-pilot Ar
thur A. Haid were seen by q woods
man in wrecked mail transport plane
on a North Idaho mountainside.
II talked with the woodsman, Fred
Cunningham, in Kellogg, Idaho, to-
day." said Mensing after arriving BY
plane.
He told me while he did not dig
into the plane, he could plainly see
the bodies of the two pilots. They
apparently were killed instantly.
Two parties will move out tomor-
row morning, one from Calder, Idaho.
and the other from Kellogg. To which
place they will return will be decided
after the parties meet at the plane"
Organize Salvage Party.
Cunningham began organizing a
salvage party and called for an auto
mobile to 60 to the aid of his three
co-searchers, who he said were ex-
tremely tired and were mushing to-
ward Kellogg.
Five hundred miles to the southwest,
searchers continued their efforts to
find the Western Air Express plane
which vanished December IS while
approaching Salt Lake City from the
South.
Searchers expressed doubt that
frantic, ncoherent radio appeals for
help, reported by an amateur operator,
came from the sky liner missing II
days with seven aboard.
Aerial investigation near towns that
Operator Elwood Penrose. as, said
were mentioned in the pleas for help,
failed to uncover any clues and q
spokesman said further checking was
unlikely. Hope that any of the five
men and two women aboard survived
. crash faded days ago.
The operator said he heard the
words plane" Upton" Milford" and
fire" mentioned, and q woman's voice
at intervals.
A stewardess and one woman pas
senger were among the seven persons
aboard the missing ship.
Cunningham reported he and his
companions had camped within soc
feet Of the transport wreckage last
night, but had not realized 1t until
the discovery was made early this
morning.
"As soon as it was daylight" he
added, I'VE resumed the search and
noticed q sort of mound in the snow
When we got close to it we could see
parts Of the fuselage sticking out
didn't see the wings. / suppose
they were covered with snow"
Removal Of Bodies Dinicult.
Cunningham said he could 60 back
to the scene without trouble, but that
removal Of the bodies and the mail
would be difncult because OF the Jagged
terrain.
I'VE will have to have . couple
Of toboggans to get the bodies out, /"
he said.
Myermore and Haid crashed while
en- route from Missoula, Mont, to
Spokane, December 10.
Fellow flyers sighted the scattered
Wreckage from the air last Monday,
but shortly thereafter storm closed
IN on the region. Foot searchers
combed the place pointed out by the
flyers, but could not md the wreck.
One nycr ventured over the spot
again yesterday and dropped . mark.
or, which gave Cunningham his lead.
The stogD Nfto6 tedaA