Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1928 — Page 15

DEC. 14,1928.

Aviation HOOSIER FLIER GETS THRILL OF BEING'MISSING' Gas Runs Low, Bob Shank Lands, While Pal Seeks Wildly for Him. How it feels, as an aviator, to be placed on the missing list, is'being told here by Bob Shank, Hoosier airport president, Just returned from an airplane trip to Los Angeles. Shank and Clarence Gunther, the latter pilot for Cliff Durant, millionaire race driver, recently flew two Stearman biplanes, owned by Durant, from Hoosier airport to Los Angeles, making the flight together. As passengers they had Tommy Milton and Bob McDonogh, noted race drivers. At Albuquerque, N. M., the gasoline tank on Shank’s plane developed a leak and he drained the gasoline down below the leak, leaving only twelve gallons. Then they started the 350-mile flight to Flagstaff, Ariz. Because of low gasoline supply, Shank skirted a mountain range, while Gunther flew higher over some of the peaks, the two keeping in sight of each other. Near Gallup, N. M. , Shank decided his gasoline supply would not last to Flagstaff. He couldn’t see Gunther’s plane, but thought it was between him and the sun. At Gallup he met an old friend and went to his home for supper. There was no telephone at the house and it was not until about 8 p. m. that he reached a telephone to call Gunther. In the meantime, Gunther had landed at Flagstaff and when Shank did not appear, immediately became alax-med, fearing he had been forced down in the rough mountain country, or that leaking gasoline had set fli’e to the plane. Newspaper reporters heard his fi-antic telephone calls to towns along the route and carried stories of the “disaster.” When Shank finally got in touch with Gunther by telephone, Gunther recalled a previous conversation in which Shank had suggested it might be necessary to “sit down” at Gallup. Plane Tour Is Reward Asa result of winning a sales contest conducted by a Port Edwards (Wis.) paper mill, six members of the Standard Paper Company sales force and their wives are going oix a tour of Indiana in a trimotored plane today. Those making the trip are Mr. and Mrs. Walter Delbtook, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Xlinge, Mr. and Mrs. C.

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vJ Jewell, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Blottman Jr., Mr. and Mrs, Fred Koelling and Mr. and Mrs. Stark Neale. Air Mail Plane ‘Missing’ The Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Chi-cago air mail plane was on the “missing list” for several hours Thursday evening, while -officials of the company made desperate efforts to locate it, even radio station WLW, Cincinnati’ being enlisted in the attempt. Radio fans were startled about 7:30 p. m., to hear ,the WLW announcer report that the plane, piloted by Warren H. Vine, had left Cincinnati in mid-afternoon and since disappeared. Donald A. McConnell, local representative of the Embry-Riddle Company, Cincinnati, the air mail contractor, was called by The Times and said he had received a telegram from the Chicago reprentative that Vine was forced to “sit down” in a field near Rensselaer, Ind., because of almost total lack of visibility. He relayed the message to the company at Cincinnati and soon the reassuring news that the “lost” plane had been found was announced by WLW.

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