Evening star., 1924-05-12
Safe mt Port MoIler.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CORDOVA, Alaska, May 12.-Maj.
Frederick l.. Martin of the Army
globe encircling air squadron and his
mechanic, Staff Sergt. Alva L. Harvey
alive and we'll after having under
gone severe hardship during the ten
days they were missing, today were
waiting at Port Moller, 100 miles
west of Chignik, Alaska, on the
Alaskan Peninsula for instructions
from Washington, d. c., that Will
determine their next step.
The aviators were reseting in the
quarters of the Pacific American
Fisheries Company at Port Molier
and receiving the best OF care.
Meanwhile the coast guard cutter
Algonquin was speeding to their as
sstance from Unalaska. Unless con-
trary orders are received the Al gon-
quin will take the two aviators back
to Dutch Harbor. No additional in
from Port Moller since the message
giving news Of the arrival was broad
cast early yesterday morning. This
message stated that both escaped in
jury when their plane Seattle crash
ed into a mountain peak and was
wrecked at 1890 o'clock the after
noon of April 80, an hour and half
after they left Chignik bound for
Dutch Harbor to rejoin the air
squadron.
Wait for Next Jump.
Making their way over frozen wa
ters with the greatest difficulty, sub
sisting on the CONDENSED rations
they carried, the two flyers finally
reached, on May Z, trapper's cabin
at the most southerly point of Port
tramp, they remained at this cabin
three days. recovering their strength,
and then walked along the beach to
the world the news that they were
alive and unhurt. No word had been
received early today from Attu Is
land, where the rest of the air squad
ron is awaiting favorable weather
for a hop-off across Bering Sea to
Paramashiru Island, in the Kuriles,
at the north end of the Japanese en-
pire. In that jump the aviators will
cover a distance of S78 miles, the
longest in the 27-000-mile circuit of
the earth on the flyers schedule.
Ends Long Search.
The discovery of Maj. Martins loca-
tion has ended an intensive search by
every agency at the command of the
government. Two United States
coast guard cutters, the Algonquin
and Haida, plowed through turbulent,
gale-lashed waters of the North Pa
cific day and night in search of the
two aviators.
Every bay and inlet was carefully
combed. small boats being dispatched
from the cutters in bodies of shallow
water where it was thought the men
might be concealed behind small jet
lies of land. At night the search
lights of the vessels swept the shore
line. The United States bureau of
fisheries vessel Elder also aided in
the hunt, together with numerous
cannery boats located within the
4oO-mile stretch between Chignik and
Dutch Harbor.
on receiving information from a
trapper on Lake Chignik, twenty-five
miles north of Chignik, that he was
almost certain" he saw Maj. Martin,
flying 400 feet above the frozen wa
ter a half an hour after leaving the
last scheduled point on the Alaska
peninsula in the direction of the
Bering Sea. the cutter Algonquin
rushed to Dutch Harbor to refuel
and started patrolling the Bering sea-
coast line until she was stopped by
ice foes, many miles southwest of the
Bristol Bay district.
Many Dog Teams Used.
Numerous dog teams were sent over
the frozen ice and snow in an effort
10 locate the men on the Alaska PEN
insula All of them returned with
out an encouraging word Some of the
relay sleghs reported they had met
other searching parties sent from
boats on the north Pacific coast. None
of the searchers, however, had any
definite clue of the whereabouts of
Maj Martin.
Meanwhile preparations were be-
ing rushed at Seattle to send an air.
plane aboard the United States coast
was to be made the base of an aerial
expedition. An airplane of the Cur
tiss JN-6 type was dismantled at
sand Point aviation field, northeast
of Seattle. and Grated for shipment.
Lieut.. Earl H. Tonkin, assistant air
officer of the 9th Army area, who was
TO pilot the plane in Alaska, and Tech
nical Sergt. Ivan G. Cooper made
record breaking one-day flight yester-
day from San Francisco to Seattle.
Final plans and maps were given to
The men by Lieut.. T. J. Koenig, COM
nandant at Sand Point.
Hooloo Attended Trip.
From the time the air cruiser Seattle
was christened at Sand Point, to-
yether with the other planes, the Chi
cago, New Orleans and Boston, and
presented with a floral horseshoe as
tribute of appreciation, a hoodoo ap-
narently attached itself to Maj. Mar
stin's plane.
on Friday. April T. the date set
for the scheduled hop off from Seattle
for Prince Rupert, British Columbia,
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