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Show NJUOR MARTIN IS FOUMI ALASKA MISSING ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIER AND MECHANIC SEND WIRELESS REPORT Crashing Into Mountain In Fog Demolishing De-molishing the Flagship; Lived on "Nerve" While Waiting For Outside Help Cordova, Alaska. Miraculously escaping es-caping death after crashing against a mountain peak in a fog and completely com-pletely wrecking the former flag-plane flag-plane Seattle, one of the four United Uni-ted States army globe encircling air cruisers, Major Frank L. Martin and his mechanic, Staff Sergeant Alva A. Harvey, are at Port Moller, 100 miles west of Chignik, Alaska, on the Alas, ka peninsula, according to a wireless message received here from than point via. St. Paul island. The two American aviators, who emerged unscathed from the splintered splint-ered parts of the plane on the mountainside, moun-tainside, were forced" down one hour and a half after leavink Chignik fo Dutch Harbor, Unalaska islancr, shortly before noon, April 30, to rejoin re-join their three companions. They rescued a few of their records ana food rations from the debris and started on a long tramp down the mountainside toward the north Pacific Paci-fic shoreline. After many hardships they finally reached a trapper's cabin situated on the southern tip of the Port Moller bay last Wednesday morning, whera they obtained food and a warm place to sleep. They were utterly exhausted exhaust-ed after a seven-day tramp under severe weather conditions and they rested two days in the cabin. Saturday Satur-day the fliers, feeling refreshed in mind and body, walked to the beach and were able to flash the first message mes-sage of their safety to the world, after being reported missing ten days. To the tale of Major Martin's fate for which the world has been waiting wait-ing eleven days, a strange feature is contributed by the fact that two men at Port Moller thought last Sunday Sun-day 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 tho southern end of the bay. - Major Martin was making his see ond desperate effort to rejoin his command, which went on without him when he descended April 13 between Seward and Chignik with a leaking crank case. On departing from Chig. nik he turned north instead of taking tak-ing the route laid down, which went southwestward. The last authentic report of the sighting of Major Martin's plane was a half -hour after he hopped off at Chignik. A trapper on Lake Chignik, Chig-nik, twenty-five miles north of the town saw the flagship flying 400 feet above the frozen waters. Major Martin left Chignik in such a storm that the other members of the expedition, then waiting for him at Dutch Harbor, had considered it certain that the commanding officer would not fly that day. Northwest gales and snow prevailed. |