The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-19
Engineer, 3rd Mafe'BfoutgI,f
 To Hospital
 4 93st
Sheldon Simmons Makes Rescue When Lands
 Near Bedth Camp
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 Coast Guard boat (the Haida) standing by, unable to put a boat through the surf Also an Alaska Air Transport plane flew over"
 Tuesday, trying to make camp on the beach, wet and cold;'. We'd nesday, heavy sea running Two Navy planes and AAT plane dropped supplies and newspapers. We know now we are eight miles north of Cape Fairweather by the chart dropped We set up the tent that was dropped and now we have a chance to keep dry - every rain squall in Alaska seems to hit here. Guides Coming On Thursday, McDowell's log says guides coming (not knowing they were notJ-rain. surf heavier-Pat- terson shifting
 Friday, heavy surf again, cut ter pulled out, they said to meet Morris-tell us to stay put-camp- ing out not so ot-rain-rain- rain"
 Saturdays wet pencil scribbling said briefly, mo guides, no cutter, no planes, plenty of rain.'' Landing Field Sundays notations said a land ling field had been flagged out 1900 feet by 11O feet in size on the beach. at the direction of the cut ter, radioing by flashlight Today the arrival of Shell Sim mons was noted as Juneau plane 3lands'
 Shell Simmons explained his landing at the wreck scene today in the tiny lagoon frequently hit by surf curling over the low spit, as just case of taking a chance on going back in the sleet we were flying in, or taking chance on making a landing
 HOt(?) Landing Place ' Gordon Graham, mechanic with Simmons, said "The surf came , clear over the bar and hit the plane. Shell had to jump into the water and grab float. It wasn't such hot landing place. LudwigsOn Is Guide
 A third passenger in the plane with Simmons was Nels Ludwigson n v,r;eO,,ar fro,, tIa C;txy Ioi1 v.,o0 was familiar with the country and was released this morning to guide the party in from Lituya Bay. Nels was put off at the wreck to guide the party down the beach.
 Having served six days of ten given him for drunk and disorder ly conduct by City Magistrate Harry Lucas, Nels will mot be ex- pected to serve the rest of his time" in the light of the task he is doing
 Simmons left 'Nels with the six teen men he was forced to leave behind, with instructions to give each man a pack, "and start for Lituya down the beach,"
 Supplies Located
 Simmons also said he had talked to Jim Huscroft, elderly resident of Lituya Bay today, and learned that Huscroft had taken supplies to three mile cabin" one of four on the twelve mile long wagon road leading east of Lituya towards Cape Fairweather,
 With Ludwigson leading the men carrying between them enough food and shelter to make the march by "siwashing'' at night, it is expected the sixteen surviving seamen will reach Lituya tomorrow and be picked up by Navy planes or by Coast Guard boats.
 Lips Caked With Salt
 Chief. Engineer McDowell and Third Mate Johnson, the two stag gering men brought to Juneau to- day, had difficulty piecing their story together. their lips caked with the salt of the North Pacific.
 T don't know one day from an other Mcdowell said "The boat is total loss and she started to break up few days ago, making it too dangerous to go abaord her. any more. The men are all right, I think. We rigged an oil drum stove under the tarpaulin and the tent that was dropped to us. Then we slept in shifts, as many of us as could at once It rained and sleeted all the time.'
 Third Mate Johnson said, Camp fever? No siri That's the finest gang of men I ever knew. They'll be okeh."
 Both men agreed it would have been plenty tough, and all of us wouldn't be standing up now, if it hadn't been for that dry cloth ing that was dropped us by Sim mons on Wednesday,"
 Mere Food Dropped | Simmons and mechanic Graham had already dropped three sacks of extra food today when they de- cided to try for landing. | Pilot Simmons said also that two Navy bombers were dropping SUD- plies by parachute when he landed today. ,,.
 T didn't ask for the Captain Cixfaxta0rar caid MI f-.