The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-29
Rescue Party Sent 10 Scene Also Crashes But None
 Are Injured
SEVERE WEATHER HAMpERING AID
Base Camp Being Esfdb- |ished- Landing Field Be-
 ina Cleared of Snow


 NOME, Alaska, Dec. 29.-.lR--- Heavy ground logs, gale force winds and sub-zero temperatures confronted rescue parties today as the Air Force, further hindered by the crash landing of CAT tow plane and it's glider in Sun days operations. sought to evac- uate four known survivors of a B-29 crash in the bleak sub-Arctic 95 miles north of Nome, at Mt. Serpentine.
 None of the seven men i'll the CAT and the glider were injured.
 Five of the unsuccessful rescuers were returned last night to Nome by the crew of a C-45. Two oth- CTS were left behind to ready the stranded glider to be picked up to- day
 Condition of the four survivors and late of the four other crew members 6f the stricken Super fortress, the "Clobbered Turkey. still was uncertain The plane crashed on training flight last Saturday
 Aid Dropped
 Capt Aiken Mays, Nome Air Base doctor, and. two paratroopers drop ped to their aid Saturday night, shortly after the plane was first sighted, but failure of their radio equipment has made it impossible to gather details. A second radio was dropped by the CAT yesterday, but there was no indication from the medical team that any mes sages were getting through.
 Col. Harry N. Burkhalter com manding officer of the Nome Air Base, said rescue operation would be resumed today as quickly as weather conditions permit. Winds ranging from 25 to 40 miles an hour. temperatures down to 40 de- grees below zero, and heavy ground fog were reported in the region ol the crashed plane.
 Clear Landing Strip
 While crew members clear landing strip on the lake Tor a CAT, the dog team will head for the wrecked B-29 and bring back survivors. Burkhalter said it would require two or three hours to clear the strip for wheeled land , ing. but expressed hope that eyac- uation of the men could be com- pleted to Nome before the early midwinter Arctic darkness closes i'll tonight
 Private pilots also failed in their attempts to reach the "Clobbered Turkeys survivors.
 Can't Resch Scene
 Frank Whaley and John Gross cf the Wien Alaska Airlines land- cd on the lake at which a base camp is to be established today but reported they could not make their way the four miles into the plane because of the weather.
 Whaley. after flying low over the wreckage, said the B-29 had crash ed into low hill and that the front end appeared to have burned. The iuselage was broken i'll two. he said with the tail surfaces bent ! back over one of the wings. A canvas covering was pulled over the mburned back end of the cahin. but he said no sign of the survivors or of the medical team was seen. The report that four and possibly five of the B-29 crew survived the crash came from bush pilots who managed to fly low ever the scene yesterday.
 A glider and tow plane with | supplies will leave here for a small ice-covered lake near the mountains snowbound slopes.
 Emergency Landing
 The first CATS emergency land ing was believed caused by the in- tense cold. The engines cut out but both plane and glider made beautiful landings in 10 feet of snow