The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-06
4 MaYo0ned Ite Research Men Saved
Air Force Picks Up Iso- lated Parfy-Norseman Sill Mystery

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 An Air Force CAT brought in four persons from Yakutat from the icy slopes of Mt. Hubbard Sat- urday after they had been mar '9oneo by the disappearance of their own plane with three aboard.
 All were members of an Arctic institute ice studies expedition.
 The four reported rescued were Walter A. Wood and his 20-year- old son. Peter, of Far Hills, N. J. Robert Bates, believed to he from Boston. and Nicholas Clifford.
 Three others who vanished in the scientific expeditions Norseman plane were pilot Mau- rice King, Mrs. Wood and the Woods daughter, Valerie.
 It. Col. Wallace Walton, com mander of the Tenth Rescue Squadron's Flight A, reported the rescue by one of the flights ski equipped CATS.
 Wood was in charge of the in- ;titute's ice studies.
 CoIoneI Walton said the res- cue plane was attracted by the word 'Norseman?" tramped in tie snow. The rescued four were flown to Yakutat. They had ex- pectcd to be supplied by the missing plane, and did not know it had been lost.
 The rescue plane had been mak- ing flights in connection with the ice project until it entered the earch for the partys missing Norseman. It also has been help ing in the search for a missing Canadian Pacific Arlines Korea lound transport which vanished in the area July 2l with 28 aboard.
 A note of optimism was injected snto the search for the missing yorsenan today when Walter A. Neod at Yakutat in a telephone conversation with Maynard Mil ar here said that the missing dane might possibly be on ths rest side of Seward Glacier.
 Radio contact from the main Seward camp from which Pilot Maurice King left with Mrs. Wood md daughter, Valerie, revealed that liter taking off, the plane circled tnd headed away from deck of louds. It went in the direction of 5he upper Seward Glacier, pre- umably to allow Mrs. Wood to ake photographs of the mountain .ange,
 only low level flying was done yesterday due to weather, Wood eported As soon as conditions permit, the upper Seward Glacier area, only casually covered to date will be intensiyely comhed, Wood aid.
 Thirteen planes made flight yes- serday in the search for the two lost aircraft.
 Wood was the sole recipient of . S1,148,800 estate left by his mother, Mrs. Harrison Eustis, founder of the seeing eye or ganization who died in l946. Wood was her son by a first marriage to the late New York State Senator Walter A. Wood.
 From 1929 Wood made expedi- ions to various parts of the globe or the American Geographical Society. Among them were the Iimalayas, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Columbia, the Grand Can- ,on and four trips to Canada.
 He served as military attache to the U. 5. Embassy in Otta- wa with the rank of Colonel curing the last war. His son Peter is 20 and his daughter Valerie, IS.
 Woods wife and their daughter lad been expected to return home today in preparation for a com ing out party for Valerie on Sept. ,f.
 Peter is a student at Haverford College.
 Bates, 40, is an English instruc- or at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.
 He is veteran of several All askan expeditions and made the first ascent of Mt. Lucania with sxplorer Bradford Washburn Ill 1887.
 A lieutenant Colonel in the ar my reserve, he left for Alaska early last June on project snow cornice." an army expedition to test winter military equipment
 It is believed he joined the Norseman" group upon eomple- ton of the tests.
 (Elsewhcre in today's Empire is a more detailed and later ac- count of the search)