Mountaineers Join Search, Daily Racing Form, 1939-07-24

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MOUNTAINEERS JOIN SEARCH MILLINOCKET Maine July 22 Skilled mountain climbers equipped to scale the sheer granite cliffs of Mount Kathadin to ¬ day were called in to jassist in the hunt for 12yearold Down Fendler Jr of Rye N Y missing since Monday in the fortyfour square miles of wilderness Police forest rangers and volunteers still persistent de ¬ spite their fruitless fiveday hunt will bo joined by mountain climbers who will scale Kathadins peaks with ropes to search out rock crevices beyond footprints found near the Abol Trail part way down the mountain were followed by bloodhounds to the edge of the swamp The keenscented dogs halted and refused to advance It was hoped the trail would be relocated


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