The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-18
COOK PARTY END ta' DELAYED FLIGHT
 FROM ATLIN, B. {.
Lon Cope Lands in Juneau with Members of Mis-
 hdp-Restue Party

left Atlin B. C., week ago last Mon day to catch a steamer at Juneau leaving in the evening of the same day, finally arrived at their destina- tion in time to catch a steamer sailr ing south II days later than their ex- pected departure date.
 Pilot Lon Cope set his Marine Airways Fairchild on the Juneau air. port at 9:05 o'clock this morning with Fred Kane, Fred Graham, and Martin Feist aboard. He returned to Tulsequah at 2:15 and landed in Juneau again at 3:30 with Pilot Les Cook, M. L. Grey, Nick Mijavo- vich and Dick Landry. Fred Graham and Martin Feist and the others re- turned from Tulsequah where they had laboriously arrived on the ev- ening of last Sunday after a tedious trip on snowshoes from point about miles up on the Sloko river from it's junction with the Nakina river.
 The two men along with Les Cook, Northern Airways pilot. M. L. Grey, Northern Airways Traffic Agent in Juneau Dick Landry, Dominion Telegraph employee on Telegraph Creek had just completed week of life in the raw foisted on them by virtue of stalled motor on a Northern Airways plane which came to forced landing on the Slo- ko River site January g.
 Rescue Party
 A rescue party headed by Lon Cope and with Grey and Feist aboard landed on the scene the same day Cook was forced down, was kept over Tuesday and took off Wednesday morning with Fred Graham and Nick Mijavonich in the ship. Cope and his two refu- gees landed in Tulsequah on We'd nesday and until today have been held on the Polaris-Taku mine ield near there by a begged field,
 The plane which executed the forced landing was flying at an altitude of about 6,000 feet when the motor cut out. Fortunately Pilot Cook with his four passen- gers, Graham, Mijavonich, Landry, and Kane, was able to complete a perfect landing on about the only area within miles available for such a feat. The site was frozen slough bordering the Sloko.
 Cope to Rescue
 Soon after landing, radio contact with Marine Airways informed them that Lon Cope was on his way with food and supplies to drop. When Cope reached the scene Cook and his party had marked out a landing site with willow branch es on the snow-covered slough. Cope instead of dropping food as originally intended, set his ship down.
 This was late in the aay on Mon- day, January g, and plans were that Cope would take off Tuesday morn ing and in series of relay flights take the victims to Tulsequah. Low visibility and heavy snow prevent ed a take-off the next day and it was Wednesday morning before Cope was able to get his ship in the air after a runway had been cleared through the newly fallen snow using snowshoes as shovels. When Cope deposited his first re- lief load at Tulsequah the wheels on his undercarriage sunk in the slush on the field to keep him begged until frost last night froze the ground sufficiently for take off this. morning.
 Cope Stalled
 In the meantime the remaining five men had learned by Cooks radio that Cope was stalled so they started to hike the 40 miles into Tulsequah. Thursday night was spent in a trapper's cabin 2 miles down the river. Friday night they had reached point p miles down the Sloko- -Nakina- Taku river course. Early Saturday morning the tired men encountered the dog team ex- petition of two teams which had been sent out from Tulsequah Fri  day morning. The teams were driven by Bill Scott, Frank Will Hams, and Steve Williams. Satur- day night they spent in Billy Will liam's camp, an Indian trader whose spread is situated above Yellowbluff on the Taku. Sunday they continued the remaining miles into camp at the Polaris-Taku mine in Tulsequah with an additional