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...light aircraft, there is no more pleasant flight than the 299-mile run from San Diego to Phoenix. Soaring high above the saffron badlands and khaki peaks that bake beneath a searing sun, skirting the Mexican border, a man can make it easily in four hours...
...aboard, Navy Ordnanceman Bill Falls, 22, took off one fine day last month from San Diego's La Mesa Airport in a Taylorcraft borrowed from his best friend, Parachute Rigger Charles Schrieber. A good amateur pilot, Bill had a 24-hour liberty and planned to spend it in Phoenix with his recently widowed mother...
Bill's plane did not land at Phoenix on schedule. A Coast Guard aerial search along his path began the next day. The searchers veered a few miles into Mexico. They found nothing. When Charles Schrieber made anxious inquiries the following day, more planes went up to sweep the desolate route. Again they found nothing, and in a few days the search was abandoned...
...Indianapolis Star and News, Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Muncie, Ind. Star and Press, Huntington, Ind. Herald-Press, Vincennes, Ind. Sun Commercial...
...downtown Buenos Aires, cutting wires and ripping out connections where they found lights on. At daybreak, observers in Uruguay counted 21 rebel warships in the Plate, including two elderly battleships with 12-in. guns and two modern 6-in.-gun cruisers (formerly the U.S. Navy's Boise and Phoenix...