The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 13

PAGE THIRTEEN ftLL EIGHT FOUND DEAD IN WRECKAGE OF AIR LINER DES MOINES REGISTER MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1934. III on Steps in the Life of Marcellus Zinsmaster HEADED BAKERY F0R20YEARS Fishing avid--' AROUND PLANE "M3K1 AO LARGE PERSONAL ai vir Dnc ACCxUAl NTANCt: ono Iowa Seldom Zinsmaster 'Genius in Nose tsunea iu i i i i aa i it Deeply in aarcn. sftPk "While at Xssfc. r- Vs; VA Crash Continued From Page I. Lt the plane was so nearly de- koiuneu.

Wreckage uuaraea. i euarcLwas thrown about the nortafnra from klane -r------ arrying away I As the wrecitage was wra Marcellus zinsmaster Lnart to exincBiw FH Alrllna f. iciils said the plane would be kalvagea oa 11 L. the nose of the ship burled In Making Marcellus Zinsmaster, 58, killed in a plane crash in Utah, had been for 20 years head of the bakery his father founded in Des Moines. The firm is one of the first commercial bakeries established In the state.

Born on Bakery Site. It was on the present site of the bakery, Third and Market streets, that Mr. Zinsmaster, better known to his friends and associates as "Mike," was born 6S years ago. He had been associated with the bakery business since his gradu- ation from West High school. The late William Zinsmaster, who died in 1931, founded the bak- ery on the location where formerly stood a private home, then a hotel and next a flour store.

Changed Name. William Zinsmaster retired In 1914. His son succeeded to the presidency of the firm. About five years ago, Mr. Zinsmaster changed the name of tha firm from Des Moines Bakery Co.

to Zinsmaster Bread, Inc. Active In Des Moines civic life, Mr. Zinsmaster was a director of the American Master Bakers asso- I elation and a former president of the Iowa Master Bakers. He also was widely known among Iowa grocers. Made Many Friends.

the theories of other flyers that In Air Tragedy (he ground that it had to be dug Cut to permit removal of baggage the pilot had turned around and headed back toward Salt Lake nd express parages. Crossed Fart of Creat. The plane had crossed the crest City when he discovered his wire' less was not working. i i "I think he would have come on Lf the mountain by approximately three-nuarters of a mile when It into Rock Springs," Caldwell said. fcived to the earth.

"I'm going over to Rock Springs and we're going to carry this Coroner ureen siaiea it was Lnnarent that all the occupants thing forward with everything we ff the plane had died when the can get our hands on that will fclane hit the eartn. fly." The airliner left Salt Lake City "Bring Out Bodies." Immediately after the wreck at 2 p. m. Friday for Cheyenne, Wyo. It was last sighted defi nitely flying high along the north side of Mlllcreek canyon a few tge had been sighted from the iir rescue parties pushed through he snow at the base of the Wa-atch mountains to the scene, minutes, out from Salt Lake.

rhooeful of finding alive the five The plane carried a normal gas supply sufficient for five hours asseneers ana crew or mree dui and food enough for 24 hours. First 'mindful of terse orders to Dring dim 0 jfe jU" anxiety was felt when the plane but the bodies." five hours overdue in pilot Broughton, flying with beer, found the smashed air liner Cheyenne with no reports. (The plane was due in Des Moines at fco miles east of here, shortly be ore dark. Arrow Indicates where plane was found. 10:03 p.

m. Friday.) Searching Parties. Identified By Number. At dawn Saturday searching It was lying nose down on the JJ Vide of a knoll at the summit of parties were sent out on foot and PILOT WIFE BELIEVED 'He Will Come Flying Home' in autos and planes. The weather rarley's canyon, a half mile north was a serious handicap.

kf the airway's beacon Intended to Every communications source guide it to safety over the noun was thrown into the search for tains. Mrs. Anderson Repeated, the eight persons. The plane was Identified from its He was a member of the Ro- tary, Des Moines and Wakonda clubs and Za-Ga-ZIg i i temple. Known for his "genius in mak-' Ing friends." Mr.

Zlnsmaster's out- standing hohbies were fishing and i playing cards. An open air oven In the back yard of the home at 721 Foster drive provided many steak, dinners for friends during the sum- mer months. Brother Was Closest "Pal." His youngest brother, Harry, la head of the Zinsmaster bakeries in St. Paul and Duluth, Minn. Associates said the brother was Mr.

Zlnsmaster's closest "pal." Mr. and Mrs. Zinsmaster were married seven years ago. They went to Cuba and Panama on their wedding trip. Besides his widow; two adopted sons, Arthur and Marshall; and-brother, Harry; Mr.

Zinsmaster is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Ralph Hale of Lansdowne, Penn Mrs. Alan McFarlane of Charlottesville, and Mrs. Walter Emmons of Omaha, Neb. CHEYENNE, WYO.

T) A regular transport plane and license number by Broughton ana Geer. and by Chief Pilot H. E. Zinsmaster family picture taken in 1931 shortly before the death of William Zinsmaster (seated in center). He was founder of the Des Moines Bakery Co.

Arrow points to Marcellus Zinsmaster, now president and general manager of the bakery, who is on lost plane. a single-seater ignored the low ceiling mist and roared away from the Salt Lake airport in search Lewis and his assistant, Leon Cud Spartan belief that her husband would "come flying home" left Mrs. Lloyd Anderson dry-eyed and deback, flying nearby in another jplane, who were summoned to the of the missing plane early M'LAUGHLIN WON VVEALTHQUIETLY Killed Taking First 'Real (TU RtlUln'l lows Niwi 8rvlf PERRY, IA. The death of Bert McLaughlin of Perry, In the Utah airplane crash cut short the "first real vacation" of a man who had become one of the city's wealthiest business men during a quiet lifetime, He was born, on a farm near Woodward 62 years ago, and had lived In Terry most of his life. Opened Store In 1918.

Ho owned many business prop calm Sunday night clear up until the plane was found. spot by Broughton. For hours she had been under Radio Unheard. Pilots were Jack O'Brien and A. Foot Party Sets Out.

As soon as the two planes landed the terrific suspense of waiting-waiting for word that her hus J. Colllson, both veterans of the treacherous mountain air lanes. at the airport, a party consisting of Lewis, Cuddeback, Broughton, band, pilot of the missing United Radio failed to aid directly in Air lines passenger ship, had been Dr. Mazel Skolfield, a physician, locating the missing plane. From and an undertaker, left the airport the time the ship left Salt Lake automobile.

found. "He's all right," she told friends over and over again. "He'll come flying throuRh. I know he Is safe. Nothing could have happened." it never communicated with any Previously a party had been landing field, Caldwell said.

started afoot from a service station five miles from the wreck. Apparently Crippled. W. BERGLUND erties in Perry. He opened a gro The plane's radio apparently Lata Model Plane.

The place where the big low eery store In 1918 which does a was crippled. Normally it should 'TERRIBLE FIND, thriving business, and had been wing twin-motor air liner, one of have provided communication even when the plane was ground active in other similar business enterprises in other parts of the the latest models of transport planes, met its fate was at an al This is the type of plane which wo found I Utah after being missing since Friday. ed, Caldwell said. TWO PILOTS SAY titude estimated by the pilots who Hope for the safety of the ship and its passengers dimmed with NEWSMAN TELLS the passing hours Saturday. Fuel Shortage Nearly found it as 7,800 or 7,900 feet above sea level, or some 3,600 feet above the floor of the Salt Lake valley from which it had arisen on the flight from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne, Wyo.

Mary Carter, Death Ship's Stewardess, a Good Sport Snow and Sleet. Halted Search. Snow and sleet swirled over the A CIVIC LEADER Boone Grocer Among1 Air Crash Victims. (Th Ri ilinr'i lows N.wi lirvlo.) BOONE, E. W.

Berg- lund of Boone lost her husband and an uncle In the wreck of United Air lines plane near Salt Lake City. Her uncle was Bert McLaughlin, wealthy Terry business man. Her husband was Evald W. Berglund, proprietor of the Red state. Although he was reputedly wealthy, neither he nor members of his family took any active part in Perry's civic life.

Formed Partnership. In 1925, McLaughlin and E. W. Berglund, his niece's husband, Joined two other men in forming a grocery partnership at Boone, la. Berglund was another victim of the airplane crash.

Members of McLaughlin's family, whom the grocer left a week sparsely settled area, making SALT LAKE CITY OF RESCUE TRIP He Froze His Feet Persons residing near the foot more than a cursory search lm Crcighton H. Geer, United Air possible either from the air or Lines pilot, who with Don Brough hills of the Wasatch range had reported seeing it circle about ground. ton, discovered the wreckage of the company's transport plane in in Mountain. Undaunted, six United Air line several times before it disappeared into the canyon, apparent pilots took off late in the day to the Wasatch mountains near here, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (U.P.) Members of the rescue said Sunday night the searching scan the snow-covered peaks and canyons until darkness forced party which set out for the scene ly seeking to gain altitude. How nearly it had succeeded was indicated by the fact that it lay within 300 feet of the top of the knoll upon which it landed.

ship had only half an hour's fuel left when the discovery was sgo to set out on his vacation them back. of the crash of the United Air trip, received news of his death made. With a ceiling of 100 feet or In their large home here. lines plane upon word of its location faced death in their struggle less, the searching pilots had been The flyers were on their way able to survey only patches of the back to the airport here with a with the treacherous climb. Snow Squalls.

Throughout Sunday snow squalls vast wilderness. view to abandoning the search for It was a hard struggle uphill. McLaughlin is survived by his wife, two daughters, Isabelle and Elma Louise; and a son, Robert, who is manager of the McLaughlin Square Deal Self Service gro nessee accent, "that camera won't hurt yo" Accompanied by her smile, Mary Carter's words made the movie, actress smile, too and pose for the camera. Another time a baby was aboard the plane stopping at Des Moines. Won Friends Easily.

The baby's mother was ill and declined to pose for a picture But the news men wanted a picture of the baby. One of them asked the stewardess te hold the child. "Sho'," she said, and the cameramen snapped the baby and Miss Carter's friendly smile, too. Mary Carter made friends easily. There Was a Sunshine of Personality in Her Southern Drawl.

Mary Carter was a good sport. A pretty girl with a southern drawl, the 23-year-old stewardess on the ill-fated United Air liner made herself known to Des Moines news men by her good-natured assistance. Once a motion picture actress became "temperamental" and refused to pose for her picture at the Des Moines airport. A Tenneanee Accent. "Aw g'wan," said the stewardess with her charming Ten the night.

Roads Blocked. Several members of the party were badly frostbitten in the below zero Arrow grocery stores here. Was Civic Leader. Berglund, 35, was one of Boone's outstanding merchants, who took a leading part In civic activity in Boone. He was head of the Boone post of the American Legion a year ago.

At the time of his death he was chairman of the Story county civil works administration, He was a member of the Boone Chamber of Commerce and had Snow blocked roads and trails "Against Tree." "Don Broughton and I sighted temperature prevailing in that cery store. hampered the ground parties, including horsemen, who braved the land low hanging clouds turned back repeated efforts by veteran pilots to penetrate the fastness of the treacherous Wasatch mountains In search of the plane. Thick weather that blotted the landscape from the eyes of searchers extended from near here to the eastward of Rock Springs. blizzard. In Hospital.

Irving Davits, United Press the plane simultaneously between 5:20 and p. m. Sunday," Geer said. "It was nose down In a snow bed and leaning against a tree. The snowfall in the 24 hours Vigil- ending Saturday evening reached Continurd From Paye'l, staff correspondent, who was with the original rescue party was placed in a hospital at Park City, with badly frozen feet after coming down the hill.

"The plane was wrecked, but all served one term as president of In onn ninrp- dnn'r. not hnw nnv seven inches in the lowlands and greater depths in the mountains. The plane carried only a few-blankets to protect the eight from cold. of the eight persons it carried lafit Point at whlch the WM nnut Ko nlUr ami YtaA li.r, oven, AUi, fiunuioflui cut, icic Other members of the party also ship and looked In. The sight put my shoes back on, and con- were treated at Park City for In after the crash, they could have made their way to safety, for Salt Lake City was In full view.

juries resulting from falls over the rocks and the extreme cold. the Boone Lions club. Formerly of Perry. A year ago, Berglund had be- come sole owner of the Red Arrow stores, dissolving a partnership which was formed nine years ago. I McLaughlin had been one of bis 1 partners.

Before Berglund came to Boone i to open the grocery stores, he wsi tinned down the mountain. (At this point Davles collapsed In the arms of Jennings Phillips, reporter for the Salt Lake Telegram who then was coming up the hill, and was rushed'to Park In The Plane. "The bodies were Jammed was ghastly. Bodies were piled up and furnishings of the plane pounded on top of them. I could not distinguish any one body.

The tall was twisted forward at the door through which the passeng "Read License." "Broughton and I circled lower tightly in the plane," Davles re to make sure It was the plane we ported by telephone from Park City for medical attention.) City. employed In Perry by the Denlson ers entered. He had just finished the struggle 'Cheese Every Day' T. Lewis, who was with an gram to his wife. "Everything O.

K. Having a great trip," the telegram said. 20 Miles Then Death. Twenty miles further a few minutes after the telegram was sent the plane became a twisted wreckage on a lonely mountain side. It was the second time Mrs.

Zinsmaster has gone through a nerve-wracking experience of this kind. Nearly 15 years ago her former husband, Arthur Jayne, was killed by lightning on a Wyoming ranch. For two days searching parties hunted for him before his body was found. Boys With Mother. Her two sons, Arthur, 18, and other party searching farther Is French Slogan 3 LEAVE BOONE FOR CRASH SITE Will Return Bo'dies of Air Victims.

(Thi lletfittr'f lows Newi Strv1c.) PERRY, IA. Relatives of two Iowa men killed in the airplane crash near Salt Lake City left Sunday night for Salt Lake City to return the bodies of E. W. Berglund and Bert McLaughlin to Iowa for burial. The men making the trip are down the hillside and, due to shortness of breath in that altitude and the pain of frozen feet he spoke in short Jerky phrases.

LISIEUX, NORMANDY (U.P.) north was called and he lmmedl ately set about recovering (h sought. We read its license. "It was a terrible find, but the plane had to be found, and so it was as well that Broughton and I find it. It cut me deeply because I was well acquainted with its crew, "As soon as we sighted the plane, Broughton and I yelled. "Then Immediately we radioed to the airport "Kept Circling." "We kept circling over the wrecked ship until a plane ar bodies.

They were taken down to 'One wing was broken in the 4 Partridge Lumber Co. Never Missed a Saturday. Until his death, he never had missed a Saturday In his store. The two stores are properous, employing more than 15 clerks. Berglund Is survived by Mrs.

Berglund, three children, Patty, Doris Jean, 4, and Jimmy, 18 months; a sister, Mrs. George Sackett of Perry; a brother, Raymond C. Berglund of Chicago, the highway, more than three snow me Doaies were iwisiea "Cheese eaten very day keeps germs away," is the slogan of cheese manufacturers of France, who are determined to make their miles, on toboeeins and other and crushed There were traces makeshift equipment. of fright on the girl's face." Covered With Brush. countrymen more cheese-con scious.

Pulled From Phone. He was still talking when the "The entire territory in which the plane fell was covered with Marshall, 18, lived with her and Mr. Zlnsmastex. Small children Spotty" weather was reported all the way to Cheyenne. Conditions were particularly bad in the Uintah mountains, to the south of the regular air line route, where now squalls were blowing.

Another Report. From the foothills Uln-tahs came reports of the passage Friday evening of a plane which It as believed might have been the lost croft. But rttempts of flyers to reach the locality either from Salt Lake City or from Rock Spring were futile. With weather conditions making futile further search in the Washatch range, officials of the fr line concentrated their planes Rock Springs to continue the hunt from there. In Transport.

Pilot W. O. Bunge and Co-pilot Barr left Cheyenne in a transport plane for Rock Springs to join the search. Pilot Jack Rose was waiting at Cheyenne for another plane en Mute from North Platte, to continue on to Rock Springs. "I jn't want to come back without Jim," Rose said of Danielson, a buddy of Rose's and co-pllot of toe ill fated ship.

From Rock Springs George wyd and Colliaon attempted ex-Ploration flights but Boyd turned after he had flown as far as Kemmerer, Wyo. Deep Snow. On the upper forms of the Bear er. he reported, the snow lay ev deep to a big barn." "We'll never give up hope as as there is hope," Frank Idwell, United operations man-had said Sunday afternoon. CaldweUttea disagreed with George Sackett, brother-in-law of rived on the scene.

In the other The gospel of cheese eating is being preached from pulpit to paddock. Cheeseless meals are pine trees and brush. The color of the plane possibly made it and his mother, Mrs. A. W.

Berg, lund, who makes her home with the Sacketts. plane were H. T. Lewis and L. D.

at the time of the first tragedy, physician for the Sliver King mine, with headquarters at Park City, pulled htm from the telephone and placed the disabled feet in ice I hard for pilets of searching ships stigmatized as gastronomic her the boys stood with their mother to see it Was located near the esy. Cuddeback. We circled until they arrived so that others besides Broughton and myself would know its location. and comforted her through the second experience. tip of a high butte, above which Davles left the local airport storm clouds have made visibility hurriedly.

He was wearing office Marshall, who Is a student at Pennsylvania Sports nearly zero since the plane was "ine wrecKea piane was a mue university of Iowa. clothing, an ordinary business Berglund; Robert McLaughlin, son of Bert McLaughlin, and Harry Bruce, a friend of the family. All are from Perry. The three men left Boone by rail before learning that the bodies had been found. The only information they had received before leaving was that the wrecked plane bad been sighted by another United Air Lines pilot first missing, suit, low shoes and a light top Regular State Navy HARRISBURG, PENN.

(U.P.) north of the Parley's canyon road, hurrie(1 home to with his a half mile west of the air bea- cundav mornfni, Arthur "Several women, dressed warmly coat. DEATHS BREAK LONG RECORD Butler Says Fatalities First in 13 Million Miles' Flying. Death of five passengers and the crew of three in a Utah plane con. It was 200 feet below thejattend) RooBtvelt High school. top of the summit on the north North of Light Davies' story: "The plane was located about Brother En Route West Even most Pennsylvanlans themselves aren't aware of it, but Pennsylvania has a navy.

slope. It consists of the School Ship "On Way Back." "We sighted the plane three Both boys were adopted by Mr. Zinsmaster at the time of his marriage in 1926. Mr. Zlnsmaster's brother, Harry, Duluth, bakery owner, left his home Sunday and was to meet Annapolis, at Philadelphia, and a gasoline patrol boat used by the a mile and a Half to the north of a beacon light, at an altitude of approximately 8,000 feet As I pushed through the snow up to hours and a half after we had left the airport in search of it.

state highway patrol in Delaware In woolen ski outfits, passed me as I made my way back to the telephone station. Legs Hurting. "My legs began hurting as I passed the beacon light I began to wonder if I would ever make it back. My feet were numb but the upper legs ached terrifically. I took my shoes off more than half way down the hill to prevent my feet from freezing too badly.

"The pain grew worse as I went along. The brush, I could see, was my belt, a man ahead of me cried We had flown to Knight, Wyo bay. crash broke a long record established by the Boeing division of United Air Lines, E. F. Butler, traffic representative, said Sun-, day night.

"That is th first passenger or pilot fatality during the five years and 13 million miles of multi-motored passenger plane flying There it it. There it "We all immediately rushed swinging around In the vast area; Charles De Jarnette of Des Moines between Salt Lake and Knight tin Omaha, Sunday night, AGED SISTERS REUNITED. HOUSTON, TEX. (U.P.) Sis "We were on our way back to i and the two planned to go west Coast City Revives Old Chain Gang Law TULARE, CAL. (U.P.) Tulare recently revived a 46-year-old "chain gang" ordinance in order to punish persons found guilty of offenses and unable to pay fines.

Henceforth those unable to pay fines will be put to work on streets and in parks. the airport not with the view of: by train to visit the scene of the! ters separated 45 years were reunited when Mrs. Carrie Leonard Gelslnger, 60, of Chambersburg, over tne plane, it was tippea nose first between two large pine trees. The motors were burled deep Into the ground and covered with snow. abandoning the search, but be- search.

cause we only had enough gaso- Mr. De Jarnette was the busline for about half an hour's fly-j band of Mr. Zlnsmaster's sister ing left" I who died a year ago, on the division, which operates from Chicago to Ran Francisco," he said. rushed here to the bedside tearing the flesh on my feet, al "I pushed on to the nose of tooujh I could not feel It So I of Mrs. M.

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