Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-15 | Page 3 | Scene of Hunt for Lost Flies May be Shifted

S Of fOR LOST lOSI FLIERS MAY MA f Of BE SHIFTED Searchers May Turn T u urn r n nto to Hot Springs Area in Alaska NOME 0 Alaska Jan 1 15 AP AP- AP Th This possibility loomed hero toda today that the Pilgrim Hot Hol Springs district district dis dis- ls- ls about seventy five e Ivo miles northeast of oC Nome ome may become the thc next center of oC activity Jt in tho search earch for the missing aviators Carl Crl Ben Be and antI Earl Borland Dorland who dropped from fight sight November 9 while attempting a n flight to tho the fur Cur trading ship Icebound at nt North cape Siberia The pilgrim Hot Springs area al although although al- al though moro more than miles from North orth rape cape first t was mentioned as n. n possible landing place of oC tho two fliers filers when a l dog do team driver camo came into Nome Nomo ome some time ago ao and re reported ro- ro ported that a plane plan had been heard fI flying Hying over On the district about midnight midnight mid mid- night November Xo 9 Yesterday a letter was T received at it tho the from B. B Newell formerly formerly for for- merly a trader for the tho company which owns the th vessel which tended tended tend tend- c ed d to add weight wright to tho theory that although h ielson's elsons elson's plane flew nearh nearh near- near h Iv to North cape It may have retraced re- re re retraced traced the tho route in an effort eort to escape rs- rs cape the fog fOb banks which prevented a i landing at tho the ship Newell Nowell said hl his native wife had Informed him b by letter that while i visiting a reindeer r camp near ne r Cape Ser Siberia sho had seen a n. plane I flying toward tho lanuk between 12 2 and 1 o'clock in tho afternoon and mid had heard a piano Llano passing overhead the same ame day between en 3 1 and md 4 o'clock In tho the afternoon She She- was vas unable to tell t to sho o said ald In which direction the plane was moving mo the second time Another native re report report retort re- re port tort received several se days clays ago alO said that hat the plane was headed westward west- west ward vard when last Jast seen The Edelson plane was tho the only one known to have been flying lying In Siberia at the time Cape Is about 20 iiO 0 miles mUes southeast st of North capo cape and on the route oute back bak to Teller Alaska Alaka where the hc fliers took look off for tho anuk