Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-08 | Page 1 | World Flier Escapes Hurts

WORLD FLIER ESCAPES HURTS 8 Br fly Associated Press Jimmie Mattern escaped unhurt in iii his hs forced landing in the Siberian wastes on his solo world flight Fragmentary details of the plight o of Continued on Pate Patre Two 1 WORLD FLIER FLER t ESCAPES HURT I 1 Continued d From Pass Paie Pae One Ithe i 1 the he Texan filtering through toia ta today from rom the northern rim of the te Pacific rough brought brought that reassuring word M Me- Me sages ages picked up in both Moscow and ad San Francico Francisco relayed by the coa cot coast guard ship Northland agreed o on that point poInt Tere There was however disagreements disagreement t tM s M to the severity of or the damage to tj toi MaU lattern's Mattern's rs r's ship As translated tram from RussIan as it was wa received In San Sank Sa Francisco Francsco the message said the plane pla plan was vas crushed to pieces whereas tho the message messac picked up at Moscow by Ts' Ts Russian news agency said the flier flier- fer was vas forced down by engine trouble and nd added that a new motor would be bc DC supplied to enable Mattern Matter to coo can his round the world flight LANDED JUNE 11 14 1 The message received at t San Fran cisco isco indicated that Mattern Mater had wan through the Siberian wilderness wilder wilder- wider ness during the three we weeks k th that t the the te world anxiously awaited news of hi his h fate ate It It stated d that he hc landed eighty miles mUes west of June 14 1 but but was vas not found until July 5 the day day h he was taken to Russians Russian abd and Americans started stared tolay to to- day lay to find Mattern e eThe f The Te United States coast coat guard cut ct ter er Northland is in northern norther Pacific waters although several hundred miles mile from bay blY and may bo be bordered ordered to assist in the fliers flier's fers fer's rescue William Wilam Alexander chief chie of the r rca res- cue ue cue party which started from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York by plane last lat week week arranged to t obtain a flying boat in which to go gofter after fter Mattern The Alexander party I is s grounded by bad bd weather at Terace Ter race ace B. B C. C miles mies from Prince Rupert Ru pert The origin of at the wireless Indicates the flier fer was within wih miles mUes of American Amerian soil soi when he dis disappeared dI appeared is miles mUes due west vest wet of the tip tp of Al Alaska It I Is i 1800 miles mUes northeast of whence he set out June 14 a 14 a 1 a matter of ot 16 hours' hours flying ying It Il Is believed ho he hI was forced to land some distance from and ad that three w weeks ks were required to send his hi mess message ge perhaps by peasant to the wireless station Roy Slattern of Calgary his brother broth er said he would leave today tody to t join joist Alexander and help bring Jimmie Jimmi home lome HEARD HEAD MESSAGE Colonel Joseph Joeph M. M U U. S. S army signal corps at San Francisco believes the first news of Mattern's Maters Mater's safety was sent out June 22 by soviet staton station The signal corps corp r re received received an SOS containing the te phrase phra Airplane Airlane but but the signals sigal faded before fore the message was wa com corn Captain Roald Amundsen Arctic explorer reached in 1920 after aier being lost on a polar expedition The Te village viage is ice bound bound ie-bound most of the t year ear but bay by which Ana can be b reached on the river should be open for the next few few- weeks Ordinarily the bay Ice ie breaks brea up early eary in JU July Rescue Plane S Halts Search S' S i PRINCE RUPERT B. B li 2 July 8 ff Adverse flying conditions conditions' which have kept William Alexander ansI and ad toe Ine Jimmie Math Mat tree three companions of ic M tern fern ter rescue plane grounded at Terrace Ten Ter race B. B C. C for lor the past three days ds today had apparently forced abandonment abandonment abandon abandon- ment of th the expedition Alexander arriving here from Terrace Terrace Ter Ter- race said that in view of the te poor flying conditions the best bet plan would be to let the United States coast coastguard coastguard coat guard gard cutter cuter Northland now in the Bering sea sa pick pik up Mattern Mater and brn bring him hI Alaska or some other Pacific coast point point