Show J D PILOT t. t TO 10 HUNT SHIP BLAST VICTIMS Balchen alchen 3 Other Fliers Prepare For Dash North 1 Will Aid Quest t I I Faces BERNT Gruelling BALCHEN Cruise I Will Comb Sea Off Horse lorse Island for Explorer and nd Companions SURVIVORS RECEIVE AID Doctor Arrives With Food and Medicine By HENRY MINOTT BOSTON March 19 United Pe PeA A A huge wl winged sliver amphibian am am- with Bernt Bent Balchen and three companions aboard will start starton on an aeri aerial l search for those reported report report- ed missing in the Viking disaster The year old Norwegian air ace acc whose hose record sparkles with a a. polar flight a transatlantic hop and two Arctic relief expeditions rested to today today to- to day preparatory to the grueling 1000 mile cruise ahead With Balchen on his daring yen ven lure ture into the frozen wastes of N Newfoundland New Nw- w- w will be three other able aviators F. F Marion Coo Conner t- t ing th the expedition R Roy i- i Gates dates ai S-a S a cameraman familiar with the territory territory territory ter ter- ter- ter I to be searched and Randy Enslow of Roosevelt field N. N Y a friend of Colonel Charles A. A Lind Lind- bergh The mc expedition was as arranged by Dr r. r Lewis of New York who hopes the fliers filers may find some trace of ot his son Varick one of two AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- reported missing and a score of oZ others still unaccounted for lor Originally the expedition had a dual purpose the second objective being to carry food and medical supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies to more than Viking survivors sur stir ivors reported marooned by walls of ot ice on desolate Horse island Reports from Newfoundland today told thid of ot the thc arrival at the Island of oC the rescue ship Imogene bearing food and medical supplies to the starving and injured survivors Food Medical Aid Aid Reaches Survivors ST. ST JOHNS N. N F. F March 19 If VP- VP Food medical supplies and a a. doctor doctor doc tor br reached the survivors of or the VikIng on Horse Island today Doctor Forsey and members of the crew of or the sealer scaler aler Imogene made their way t to the island over close close- packed and They ey be began began be- be gan immediately i taU survivors to the Imogen to be fed and sent on onto onto onto to the sealer senter near by The S gon was to bring them to St. St Johns John's for hospital care The men of the Viking sought refuge ret ref uge island after their ship was blown u up Sunday night Consul General Edward A. A Dow sent a plea pica to Washington for an American ice cutter and was prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to radio full instructions on how the ice field surrounding the island might be navigated George Whitely a veteran sealing captain capLain refuted a n report that a rescue rescue rescue res res- res- res cue airplane would be unable to land landat at the island He said there was a Continued on Pace Paro T Two o. o BALCHEN 3 OTHERS TO HUNT HISS Ell Continued COl From Pace One clear sp space ce on t the e southern side of at the Island which would assure a safe landing Six men were already aboard the Sago a. a having been picked up after many s a of exposure on ice and wreckage Navigator W W. Kennedy one of the six has contracted pneumonia Wireless Wireless Wire Wire- Je less Operator C C. C King has frozen feet now attacked by gangrene and Harry Sargent Ameri American an explorer is suffering suffering suffering suf suf- fering with an anoye eye affliction I Crews of the and witH additional doctors and supplies reached the Island close behind the I crew of ef the Imogene |