The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-06
TWO MORE SURVIVORS
 ARE FOUND
Will Be Carried Out on Sfret(hers : No Trace
 of Pilot Gillian

KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Feb G. Robert Gebo and Dewey Metzdorf, two of the survivors of the Gillian plane crash of January 5, have been found alive at the camp in the clearing four miles from Smeaton Bay on Boca de Quadra Peninsula. They were found early yesterday morning by the Coast Guard rescue party, according to relayed radio information received here late last night.
 Both Gebo and Metzdorf were in good spirits and plans are underway to take them out on stretchers as soon as conditions permit.
 Percy Cutting and Joseph H. Tip pits. two other survivors of the crash, who were found earlier this week on a beach and brought to Ketchikan by Coast Guard cutter for temporary treatment in the hos pital and who insisted on returning with the search party, returned to the base vessel in Smeaton Bay last night and wept when they told of how overjoyed Gebo and Metzdorf were to see the rescuers. They had only two boullion cubes to eat since Cutting and Tiprits left them 10 days ago to seek help.
 Supplies Are Dropped
 Yesterday planes spotted the camp and dropped supplies to Gebo and Metzdorf.
 Gebo received broken right leg as the result of the crash, and Metzdorf has a broken collar bone end several broken ribs. Gebo is also suffering frost bitten feet.
 Cutting and Tippits. despite the protests of their searching compan- ions. insisted on heading up the trail from Smeaton Bay to the camp with the Coast Guard party.
 Search for Gillian
 An intensified search continues for Pilot Gillian by shore parties, boats and planes Over 200 miles of the coast are to be combed.
 The volunteer searching party that left here yesterday, took with them more than 200 sandwiches and medicine.
 When Pilot Gillian left the scene of the crash on January 10. he car ried one pound of raisins and two candy bars with him He left two boullion cubes with Gebo and Metz dorf as that was all the food that remained from the emergency ra- tions carried on the plane at the time of the crash.
 Cutting and Tippits took no food for themselves when they left to secure aid but lived for the next seven days on mussels and ravens which they shot with 22 rifle.
 Five Accounted For
 Now. five of the six perosns who left Seattle January on the Nor -Knudsen Lockheed Electra plane. piloted by Harold Gillian. have been accounted for. Cutting and Tippits were found on the beach, Gebo and Metzdorf are in the camp and Miss Susan Baker the woman passenger on the plane, died from loss of blood following amputation of hand which was jammed in a door of the plane. The search continues for Gillian.
 The plane crashed in fog on a 2.200-foot mountain on Boca de Quadra Peninsula after fog pre- vented the plane landing at the Ketchikan airport late in the after noon of January 5,
 Gebo is general superintendent of the Morrison -Knudsen Company ill Alaska.
 Metzdorf is superintendent of hotels and commissaries of the AL aska Railroad. owner of the Anchor age Hotel and Anchorage civic lead CT.
 Tippits, of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, is of the mechanical unit at Anchorage
 Cutting is a mechanic of the Mor- rison-Knudsen Company in Alaska and was returning from holiday trip to his home in California.
 Gillian is one of the veteran air. men of Alaska and for two years has been flying the Morrison -Knud- sen planes.
 Miss Baker was CAA employee at Anchorage.