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THE DES MOINES REGISTER -MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1934. PAGE THIRTEEN ALL EIGHT FOUND DEAD IN WRECKAGE OF AIR LINER GUARD THROWN AROUND PLANE Ship's Nose Buried Deeply in Earth. Crash- Continued From Page 1. the plane was so nearly dehat holished. Wreckage Guarded.

thrown about the A guard prevent spectators from blane to away parts of the wreckcarrying Ige. the wreckage was torn As to extricate the bodies, it into piles. Airline ofapart was thrown said the plane would be licials salvaged on the spot. So deeply vas the nose of the ship buried in the ground that it had to be dug but to permit removal of baggage and express packages. Crossed Part of Crest, The plane had crossed the crest of the mountain by approximately three-quarters of a mile when it dived to the earth.

Coroner Green stated it was apparent that all the when occupants of the plane had died the plane hit the earth. "Bring Out Bodies." Immediately after the wreckhad been sighted from the age air rescue parties pushed through the snow at the base of the Wasatch mountains to the scene, hopeful of finding alive the five passengers and crew of three but mindful of terse orders to "bring lout the bodies." Pilot Broughton, flying with Geer, found the smashed air liner 20 miles east of here, shortly before dark. Identified By Number. It was lying nose down on the side of a knoll at the summit of Parley's canyon, a half mile north of the airway's beacon intended to guide it to safety over the mountains. The plane was identified from its license number by Broughton and Geer, by Chief Pilot H.

E. Lewis and his assistant, Leon Cuddeback, flying nearby in another plane, who were summoned to the (spot by Broughton. Foot Party Sets Out. As soon as the two planes landed at the airport, party consisting of Lewis, Cuddeback, Broughton, Dr. Mazel Skolfield, a physician, land an undertaker, left the airport by automobile.

Previously a party had been started afoot from a service station five miles from the wreck. Late Model Plane. The place where the big low wing twin-motor air liner, one of the latest models of transport planes, met its fate was at an altitude estimated by the pilots who 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. Persons residing near the foothills of the Wasatch range had reported seeing it circle about several times before it disappeared into the canyon, apparently 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.

Snow Squalls. Throughout Sunday snow squalls and 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. "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 snow squalls were blowing.

Another Report. From the foothills in the Uintahs came reports of the passage Friday evening of a plane which it was believed might have been the lost craft. But attempts of flyers 3 to reach the locality either from Salt Lake City or from Rock Springs were futile. With weather conditions makIng futile further search in the Washatch range, officials of the air line concentrated their planes at Rock Springs to continue the bunt from there. In Transport.

Pilot W. O. Bunge and Co-pilot A. Barr left Cheyenne in a J. transport plane for Rock Springs to join the search.

Pilot Jack Rose was waiting at Cheyenne for another plane en route from North Platte, to continue on to Rock Springs. "I don't want to come back without bim." Rose said of Danielson, a buddy of Rose's and co-pilot of the ill fated ship. From Rock Springs George Boyd and Collison attempted exploration flights but Boyd turned back after he had flown as far as Kemmerer, Wyo. Deep Snow. On the upper forms of the Bear river.

he reported, the snow lay deep to a big barn." "eaves never give up hope as "We'll long as there is Frank Caldwell, United operations manThad said Sunday afternoon. Caldwell then disagreed with Steps in the Life of Marcellus Zinsmaster ON FISHING PLAYING AND HAD LARGE PERSONAL BORN BAKERY SITE WERE FAVORITE ACQUAINTANCE HOME HOTEL, LATER BECAME A A FLOUR HOBBIES. AMONG IOWA SELDOM STORE AND THEN A GROCERS WORE COAT BAKERY. WHILE AT WORK RIM a 8 MARCELLUS ZINSMASTER In Air Tragedy 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. st This is the type of plane which was found in Utah after being missing since Friday. NEWSMAN TELLS OF RESCUE TRIP He Froze His Feet in Mountain. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (U.P.) -Members of the rescue party which set out for the scene of the crash of the United Air lines plane upon word of its location faced death in their struggle with the treacherous climb. It was a hard struggle uphill.

Several members of the party were badly frostbitten in the below zero temperature prevailing in that altitude. In Hospital. Irving Davies, United Press 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. Other members of the party also were treated at Park City for injuries resulting from falls over the rocks and the extreme cold. In The Plane.

"The bodies were jammed tightly in the plane," Davies reported by telephone from Park City. He had just finished the struggle down the hillside and, due to shortness of breath in that altitude and the pain of frozen feet he spoke in short jerky phrases. "One wing was broken in the snow The bodies twisted and crushed There were traces of fright on the girl's face." Pulled From Phone. He was still talking when the physician for the Silver King mine, with headquarters at Park City, pulled him from the telephone and placed the disabled feet in ice Davies left the local airport hurriedly. He was wearing office clothing, an ordinary business suit, low shoes and a light top coat.

North of Light. Davies' story: "The plane was located about 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 my belt, ahead of me cried 'There it it. There it "We all immediately rushed over the plane. It was tipped nose first between two large pine trees.

The motors were buried deep into the ground and covered with snow. "I pushed on to the nose of the FOR 20 YEARS Zinsmaster 'Genius in Making the theories of other flyers that the pilot had turned around and headed back toward Salt Lake City when he discovered his wireless was not working. "I think he would have come on into Rock Springs," Caldwell said. "I'm going over to Rock Springs and we're going to carry this thing forward with everything we can get our hands on that will fly." The airliner left Salt Lake City at 2 p. m.

Friday for Cheyenne, Wyo. It was last sighted definitely flying high along the north side of Millcreek canyon a few minutes, out from Salt Lake. The plane carried a normal gas supply sufficient for five hours and food enough for 24 hours. First anxiety was felt when the plane was five hours overdue in Cheyenne with no reports. (The plane was due in Des Moines at 10:03 p.

m. Friday.) Searching Parties. At dawn Saturday searching parties were sent out on foot and in autos and planes. The weather was a serious handicap. Every communications source was thrown into the search for the eight persons.

A regular transport plane and a single-seater ignored the low ceiling mist and roared away from the Salt Lake airport in search of the missing plane early Saturday. Radio Unheard. Pilots were Jack O'Brien and A. J. Collison, both veterans of the treacherous mountain air lanes.

Radio failed to aid directly in locating the missing plane. From the time the ship left Salt Lake it never communicated with any landing field, Caldwell said. Apparently Crippled. The plane's radio apparently was crippled. Normally it should have provided communication even when the plane was grounded, Caldwell said.

Hope for the safety of the ship and its passengers dimmed with the passing hours Saturday. Snow and Sleet. Snow and sleet swirled over the sparsely settled area, making more than a cursory search impossible either from the air or ground. Undaunted, six United Air line pilots took off late in the day to scan the snow-covered peaks and canyons until darkness forced them back. With a ceiling of 100 feet or less, the searching pilots had been able to survey only patches of the vast wilderness.

Roads Blocked. Snow blocked roads and trails hampered the ground parties, including horsemen, who braved the blizzard. The snowfall in the 24 hours ending Saturday evening reached seven inches in the lowlands and greater depths in the mountains. The plane carried only a few blankets to protect the eight from cold. 3 LEAVE BOONE FOR CRASH SITE Will Return Bodies of Air Victims.

(The Register's Iowa News Service.) PERRY, of two Iowa men killed in the airplane crash near Salt Lake City left Sunday night for Salt Lake City return the bodies of E. W. Berglund and Bert McLaughlin to Iowa for burial. The men making the trip are. George Sackett, brother -in-law of 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 had been sighted by another United Air Lines pilot. 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 parka. CITY SALT LAKE ROCK SPRINGS CHEYENNE I SAN FRANCISCO EMERY DENVER MANES DES Arrow indicates where plane, was found. PILOT WIFE BELIEVED 'He Will Come Flying Home' Mrs. Anderson Repeated. CHEYENNE, WYO.

A' Spartan belief that her husband would "come flying home" left Mrs. Lloyd Anderson dry-eyed and calm Sunday night clear up until the plane was found. For hours she had been under the terrific suspense of waitingwaiting for word that her husband, pilot of the missing United Air lines passenger ship, had been found. "He's all right," she told friends over and over again. "He'll come flying through.

I know he is safe. Nothing could have happened." 'TERRIBLE TWO PILOTS SAY Fuel Shortage Nearly Halted Search. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Creighton H. Geer, United Air: Lines pilot, who with Don Broughton, discovered the wreckage of company's transport plane in the Wasatch mountains near here, said Sunday night the searching ship had only half an hour's fuel left when the discovery was made. The flyers were on their way back to the airport here with a view to abandoning the search for the night.

"Against Tree." "Don Broughton and I sighted the plane simultaneously between 5:20 and 5:30 p. m. Sunday," Geer said. "It was nose down in a snow bed and leaning against a tree. "The plane was wrecked, but all in one piece.

I don't see how any of the eight persons it carried could be alive. If any had lived after the crash, they could have made their way to safety, for Salt Lake City was in full view. "Read License." "Broughton and I circled lower to make sure it was the plane we 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 socn 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 8 plane arrived on the scene. In the other plane were H.

T. Lewis and L. D. Cuddeback. We circled until they arrived so that others besides Broughton and myself would know its location.

"The wrecked plane was a mile north of the Parley's canyon road, a half mile west of the air beacon. It was 200 feet below the top of the summit on the north slope. "On Way Back." "We sighted the plane three hours and a half after we had left the airport in search of it. We had flown to Knight, swinging around in the vast area a between Salt Lake and Knight. "We were on our way back to the airport, not with the view of abandoning the search, but because we only had enough gasoline for about half an hour's flyling left." 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 the present site of the bakery, Third and Market streets, that Mr. Zinsmaster, better known to his friends and associates 88 "Mike," was born 58 years ago. He had been associated with the bakery business since his ation from West High school.

The late William Zinsmaster, who died in 1931, founded the bakery 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.

Zingmaster changed the name of the 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 association and a former president of the Iowa Master Bakers. He also was widely known among Iowa grocers.

Made Many Friends. He was a member of the Rotary, Des Moines and Wakonda clubs and Za-Ga-Zig Shrine temple. Known for his "genius in ing friends." Mr. Zinsmaster's out-' standing hobbies were fishing and 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 summer months.

Brother Was Closest "Pal." His youngest brother, Harry, is head of the Zinsmaster bakeries in St. Paul and Duluth, Minn. Associates said the brother was Mr. Zinsmaster'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, Mrs.

Alan McFarlane of Charlottesville, and Mrs. Walter Emmons of Omaha, Neb. M'LAUGHLIN WON WEALTH QUIETLY Killed Taking First 'Real Mary Carter, Death Ship's Stewardess, a Good Sport 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 a motion picture actress became "temperamental" and refused to pose for her picture at the Des Moines airport. A Tennessee Accent. "Aw g'wan," said the stewardess with her charming Ten- ship and looked in. The sight was ghastly. Bodies were piled up and furnishings of the plane pounded on top of them.

I could not distinguish any one body. The tail was twisted forward at the door through which the passengers entered. T. Lewis, who was with another party searching farther north was called and he immedilately set about recovering down the to bodies. They were taken the highway, more than three miles, on toboggins and other makeshift equipment.

Covered With Brush. "The entire territory in which the plane fell was covered with pine trees and brush. The color of the plane possibly made it hard for pilots of searching ships to see it. Was located near the tip of a high butte, above which storm clouds have made visibility nearly zero since the plane was first missing. "Several women, dressed warmly 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 tearing the flesh on my feet, although I could not feel it. So I (The Register's Iowa News Service.) 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 52 years ago, and had lived in Perry most of his life.

Opened Store in 1918. He owned many business properties in Perry. He opened a grocery store in 1918 which does a thriving business, and had been active in other similar business enterprises in other parts of the state. Although was reputedly wealthy, neither he nor 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, Ia. Berglund was another victim of the airplane crash. Members of McLaughlin's family, whom the grocer left a week ago to set out on his vacation trip, received news of his death in their large home here.

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 grocery store. Vigil- Continued From Page 1. last point at which the plane was seen, Mr. Zinsmaster sent a telegram to his wife. 0.

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, 16, and Marshall, 18, lived with her and Mr.

Zinsmaster. Small children at the time of the first tragedy, the boys stood with their mother and comforted her through the second experience. Marshall, who is a student at the State University of hurried home to be with his mother Sunday morning. Arthur attends Roosevelt High school. Brother En Route West.

Both boys were adopted by Mr. Zinsmaster at the time of his marriage in 1926. Mr. Zinsmaster's brother, Harry, Duluth, bakery owner, left his home Sunday and was to meet Charles De Jarnette of Des Moines Omaha, Sunday night, and the two planned to go west by train to visit the scene of the search. Mr.

De Jarnette was the nusband of Mr. Zinsmaster's sister who died year ago. E. W. BERGLUND A CIVIC LEADER Boone Grocer Among Air Crash Victims.

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 111 and declined to pose for a picture But the news men wanted a picture of the baby. One of them asked the stewardess to hold the child.

"Sho'." she said, and the cameramen snapped the babyand Miss Carter's friendly smile, too. Mary Carter made friends easily. put my shoes back on, and continued down the mountain. (At this point Davies 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 City for medical attention.) 'Cheese Every Day' Is French Slogan LISIEUX, NORMANDY (U.P.) eaten very day keeps germs away," is the slogan of cheese manufacturers of France, who are determined to make their countrymen or cheese-conscious. The gospel of cheese eating is being preached from pulpit to paddock.

Cheeseless meals are stigmatized as gastronomic heresy. Pennsylvania Sports Regular State Navy HARRISBURG, PENN. (U.P.)Even most Pennsylvanians themselves aren't aware of it, but Pennsylvania has a navy. It consists of the School Ship Annapolis, at Philadelphia, and a gasoline patrol boat used by the state highway patrol: in Delaware bay. AGED SISTERS REUNITED.

HOUSTON, TEX. (U.P.) -Sisters separated 45 years were reunited when Mrs. Carrie Leonard Gelsinger, 60, of Chambersburg, rushed here to the bedside of Mrs. M. L.

Adams, 72. (The Register's Iowa News Service.) BOONE, E. W. Berglund 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 Perry business man.

Her husband was Evald W. Berglund, proprietor of the Red 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 served one term as president of the Boone Lions club. Formeriy of Perry. A year ago, Berglund had become sole owner of the Red Arrow stores, dissolving a partnership which was formed nine years ago. McLaughlin had been one of his partners.

Before Berglund came to Boone to open the grocery stores, he was employed in Perry by the Denison 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, 8: Doris Jean, 4, and Jimmy, 18 months; a sister, Mrs. George Sackett of Perry; a brother, Ray. mond C. Berglund of Chicago, and his mother, Mrs. A.

W. lund, who makes her home with the Sacketts. 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 crash broke a long record established by the Boeing division of United Air Lines, E. F.

Butler, traffic representative, said Sunday night. "That is the first passenger or pilot fatality during the five years and 13 million miles of multimotored passenger plane flying on the division, which operates from Chicago to San Francisco," he said..