Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-13
MISSING AV|ATORS
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FROM TOMB Of ICE
Major Martin and AIva Har-
vey Trudge Seven Days to
Aid After Crashing Into
Mountain

Mountain
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Major
Frederick L. Martin and his me-
chanic. Staff Sergeant Alva L. Har
vey, will be ordered to Washington
direct from Port Moller, Alaska,
where they arrived safely after their
alrplane had been wrecked, and they
| had been missing for II days in the
Wilds of Alaska.
The two aViators will be assigned
to duty in the army air service head
quarters temporarily, but their
names will be kept on the list Of
the around-th e-world flyers, in COM
pliment to the men. and in recogni-
ton of the hardships they have en-
dured in valiantly attempting to lead
the squadron in the globe-encircling
flight
Three Planes to Continue
Meanwhile the three other planes
will continue their way around the
world under command of Lieutenant
Lowell II. Smith, senior officer in
The plans OF the air service also
will permit Major Martin to keep
the designation Of commanding of
ficer of the flight, Lieutenant
Smiths title being that Of acting Of
ficer in. charge.
1t is Intended to send Major Mar
tin and Sergeant Harvey across the
Atlantic in time to greet the flyers
and lead them on the way nome
from Europe, III that way giving the
commander the post of honor which
he lost by hard luck in A!aska.
Air Service Chief Wires
With the approval of Secretary
Weeks, Major General Patrick, chief
of the air service, today sent to Major
Martin a telegram outlining to him
the plan arranged and ordering him
to return to Washington to make
ready for it.
1--WE rejoice said the telegram,
"and thank God you are both safe
and well. Confidence in you I'M
abated. You have proved yourself.
Still want you to command the flight.
Cannot arrange for you to overtake
others by going on west. You and
Sergeant Harvey will report to me
here without delay. Plan to send you
east to rejoin flight at the furthest
convenient point from which you can
complete the journey with the rest
of your command.
Major Martin reported to the war
department today that he would
leave tomorrow for Bellingham en-
route to Washington.
filters TO LEAVE ALASKA
TUESDAY ON RETURN TRIP
FALSE PASS, Alaska, May IL
CBy the Associated Press. Major
Frederick l.. Martin, world flight
, commander, whose plane was
smashed against mountain on the
Alaskan peninsula April 80, intends
to leave Port Moller, Alaska Tues
day for the United States.
Word came here from Port Moller
that Major Martin and Staff Ser
geant Alva L. Harvey, his mechanic,
would be aboard the cannery tender
| Catherine d, of the Pacific-American
Fisheries of Bellingham, Wash. The
Catherine was to leave a cannery al
Port N'oller Tuesday for Puget
Sound.
The information was received here
today by A. w. Shields, manager of
the Pacific-American Fisheries, from
Il. Amundson, superintendent of 4
salmon cannery of the PacificAmer-
lean Fisheries at Port Moller.
The fiiers, alive and well, after
having undergone severe hardships
during the ten days they were miss
ing, today were waiting at Port Mol
Ter, 100 miles west of Chignik, Alas
ka, on the Alaskan peninsula, for
instructions from Washington that
will determine their next step.
The aviators were resti- {, in the
! quarters of the Pacific-American
Eishe company at Port Moller,
and receiving the best of care, while
| the coast guard cutter Algonquin is
| speeding to their assistance from
! Unalask,.
! No additional information has been
received here from Port Moller since
the message giving news Of the ar
! rival was broadcast early Sunday
morning. This message stated that
! both escaped injury when their
! plane. Seattle. crashed into noun
tain peak and was wrecked at 1880
! O'Clock the afternoon of April so. IN
our an6 half after they left CHG
| mix bound for Dutch I1arbor to re-
| join the air squadron.
Frozen Waste Traversed
Making their way over frozen
| wastes with the greatest difficulty
! subsisting on the condensed rations
! they carried. the two filters finally
reached, on May Z, a trapper's cab
in at the most southernly point of
! Port Moller Bay.
Exhausted by their long tramp,
! they remained at this cabin three
days recovering their strength. and
then walked along the beach to Port
! Moller where they flashed % the
world the news that they were alive
! and unhurt.
Digging into the store OF informa,
ton gathered by explorers. the Ma
! tional Geographic society today pro-
duced picture of the region where
Major Frederick l.. Martin the world
| flight aviator, crashed into a noun
tain side. 1t showed that the topog-
raphy and climatic conditions made
it almost inevitable that the craft
should come TO grief.
Descriptive of Route
Describing the country side be-
tween Chignik where the aviator took
to the air. and Port Moller. to which
place he walked with Sergeant Har-
vey. his mechanician, the society
says:
The Aleutian range. between these
points, offers frequent pitfalls for
the aviator. because it consists large
~ of conical peaks rising suddenly
out of dTeary tundras or marshes
The entire Alaska peninsula, ex-
| IRENE west of Alaskas mainland is
a mountain ridge of several hundred
miles with spurs and SIDES sharply
| descending TO the sea.
''(lnlE hOiIr a tTOvpY, norm, n ant
Eskimo settlements are left along
1000 miles of indeuted coast.
Port Moller. the community to
which the airmen made their way on
foot( is only about 150 miles from the