Show MAJOR MARTIN IS IN M MISSING I 1 S S I 1 N G ROUND THE WORLD FLIER AND MECHANIC SEND WIRELESS REPORT crashing into mountain in fog de mo polishing lishing the flagship lived on nerve while Wait walting ling for outside help cordova alaska miraculously escaping death after crashing against a mountain peak in a fog and completely wrecking the former flag plane seattle one of the four united states army globe encircling air cruisers major frank L martin and his mechanic staff sergeant alva A harvey are at port moller miles west of chignik chibnik Chi gnik alaska on the alas ka peninsula according to a wireless message received here from that thai point via st paul island the two american aviators who emerged unscathed from the splintered parts of the plane on the mountainside ta were forced down one hour and a half after leavick chignik chibnik fot foi dutch harbor isbaner shortly before noon april 30 to rejoin their three companions they rescued a few of their records and ana food rations from the debris and started on a long tramp down the mountainside toward the north pacific shoreline after many hardships they finally reached a trappers cabin situated on the southern tip of the port moller bay last wednesday morning cherb they obtained food and a warm place to sleep they were utterly exhausted after a seven day tramp under severe weather conditions and they rested two days in the cabin saturday the fliers feeling refreshed in mind and body walked to the beach and were able to flashy flash the first message of their safety to the world after being reported missing ten da das 3 to the tale of major martins fate f for or which the world has hag been waiting I 1 ng eleven days a strange fe feature is contributed by the fact that two men at port moller thought last sunday evening that they saw a plane ten or fifteen miles from port moller but the place where major martin hit the mountain apparently is at least thirty miles from port moller which is twenty miles from the southern end of the day major martin was making big hi second desperate effort to rejoin his command which went on without him when he descended april 13 between seward and chignik chibnik with a leaking crank case on departing from chig nik he turned north instead of taking the route laid down which wen southwestward the last authentic report of the tha sighting of major martins plane was a halt half hour after he hopped off at chignik chibnik Chi gnik A trapper on in lake chig nik twenty five miles north of the town saw the flagship flying feet above the frozen waters major martin left chignik chibnik in such a storm that the other members of the expedition then waiting for him at dutch harbor had considered it certa certain in that the commanding officer w would not fly that day northwest gales and snow prevailed |