The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-08
Loss OF Flagplane Fore
seen By Martin In
Dream


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BY EVAN J. DAVID
(speeiaI Correspondent Of The Age
Herald and the North American
Newspaper Alliance.
ON BOARD THE UNITED
STATES COAST. GUARD CUTTER
ALGONQUIN, Chignik, Alaska. May
I've have not despaired of finding
Mai. Frederick l.. Martin, commander
Of the round the-world flight, and his
mechanic. Alva Harvey. received
definite information yesterday from ).
r.. u. Sachenroeder. white trader on
the north side of Chignik lagoon, that
he had seen Major Martin at II am,
on April 30, flying up the lake IN the
direction Of Bering sea.
/ also learned that before leaving
Chignik the world flyers were provided
with a large package OF sandwiches
and thermSs bottles filled with hot cot
fee bv Mrs, James Osmund, wife of the
cannery owner at Chlgnlk, at whose
home they stayed. Mrs. Osmund is a
resident Of Astoria, Ore, and comes
with her husband every spring. This
food, in addition to their regular ra-
tons, may well be the means OF saving
their lives. From Sachenroeder's
statement it is evident that Major Mar
tin changed his plans to fly to Una
laska while in the air, due to the snow
storm. Instead of flying from Chignik
southwest, he turned his ship due north
and headed into the 25-mile wind blow.
ing from the northwest in the hope OF
finding the wind on his right hand
after he reached the Boring sea side OF
the peninsula. The drift of his plane
would then be continually toward the
land and not away from it. as would
have been the case had he flown south.
Most Hopeful News
This is the most hopeful news up to
date. for it gives us definite locality
to search for the world flyers and elm
mates the great fear of Captain GAZETTE
of the Algonquin that the major and
his mechanic had been blown out into
the mid-Pacific.
The Indians sent out from Chignik
with a dog team are now nearing IMAM
gassik lake, where it is hoped that
Major Martin landed his plane and is
there or at the village of Uuangasslk.
If they don't find him there they have
been instructed to patrol as far inland
as they are equipped with first aid.
The information as to whether or not
the plane passed over Unangassik will
do much to establish the place where
the world flyers went down, for if they
do not reach that village it is reason
able to believe that they crashed some
where in the air between Chignik lake,
where they were seen by Sachenroeder,
and the Boring sea at Seal island. 1t
will take 4S hours for the Indians to
mush back from the Boring sea to
Chignik with the information.
Meanwhile, DIR. Spear and Captain
Gabbatte and the crew of the AlgOn-
quin are in readiness here to lend first
aid in case the flyers are found, and if
need be to go overland to Boring sea
and bring them out.
l interviewed Mr.. and Mrs. James
Osmund today, at whose home Major
Martin and Mechanic Harvey lived
during their stay in Chignik.
Gave Them Hot Coffee
II served a big breakfast for them
the morning they left" said Mrs. Os-
mund. For l knew it might take
them six or seven hours before they
landed at Unalaska. thought perhaps
those brave men might again be COM
PEELED to stay whole night out in the
open as they had at Kanatak. without
anything hot to eat, 80 l made up a
bundle of sandwiches and u couple of
thermos bottles with hot coffee for
them. When the major saw me come
out with such an armful, he laughed
and said:
"'oh. Mrs. osmund, yod have got SO
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