Show e r L Rescuers for Missing Navy Amen Airmen PORTLAND Ore Dec 4 LT UP- UP PArmy Army rescue crews on snow shoes Tuesday h hunted th the area south of Washington's Mount St St. Hel Helens Helen's ns n's for trace ot of four tour navy airmen men missing since they parachuted from their plane last Thursday One of the airmen surviving the navy plane crash was resting In Inan Inan inan an air base hospital here after I spending three nights in the rugged rugged rug rug- t ged g-cd mountains sleeping In logs i and under trees wrapped in his parachute He is 1st Lt Warren H. H Lawson Lawson Law Law- son Mangun Okla army veteran of 19 months' months European theater combat who told Monday night how he struggled through deep snow and the dense forest growth before reaching a road where a motorist found him Meanwhile another army unit was trying to reach wreckage of l r r ra r a a. B 24 one of two missing since Nov 1 with nine men aboard The Theair Theair air base here reported air patrols from McChord field Monday sighted sight sight- ed the wreckage about 16 miles west of Silver Lake Wash north of at the Columbia Hope for the nine men five lve aboard one ship and four in the second had been given up several weeks ago Both planes disappeared disappeared disappeared over Oregon on a one-hour one flight from McChord field to Port Port- land Two others in fn the flight made safe landings the same day at Redmond Ore and Arcadia Cal Search also was continuing near Coos bay Ore for one army airman airman airman air air- man still unaccounted for In the crash of a C 36 transport plane eight days ago Nine of the airmen airmen air air- men were r rescued cued and two officers were found in the wreckage yes yes- r rAll All four of the planes disappeared disappeared disappeared over the Cascade mountains mountaIns mountains moun moun- during heavy storms Lt Lawson said Mond Monday Mondy y night he left a sailor compani companion n hanging hanging hangIng hang- hang Ing In his parachute in a tree and hollering for help when he started started started start start- ed out for help last Thursday Lawson said the sailor refused to jerk the chute loose and drop 40 feet to the ground He said he knew for certain that y r. r f the sailor sailor and nd two two two-of of the crew crew had parachuted but remembered the pilot was still sUll at the controls of the plane when they left the craft The Oklahoma veteran said he spent the tho first night under a fir tree wrapped in his parachute He reached a canyon and stayed in a hollow log Friday night The next day he reached an open shelter and ate some gingersnap wafers waters and built a fire with matches he found there Later Saturday he located a forest patrol cabin and feasted on flapjacks and canned canned- milk cocoa That really kept me going Lawson said said I 1 was WM getting pretty weak A motorist from his home state city of Tulsa Okla picked him up on the mountain road and drove to Cougar Wash where authorIties authorities authorities ties were reached by telephone Sunday afternoon |