The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-08
YAKUTAT BEACH CLUES DISPR0vE|
Trousers
 identified; Bone x-Rayed

DOO ONIO
 Two supposed "clues" to the miss- ing Korean airlift transport which disappeared off Cape Spencer July 20. found on the Yakutat beach last Sunday, were announced this morning as false.
 Search for the airlift plane and the missing Norseman piloted by Maurice King was at standstill today. King and his passengers have been missing since July 27. One discovery, pair of whipcord trousers. was identified by Mrs. Frederick A. Wetche of Pelican as having belonged to her husband, lost last November off Yakobi Rock while on hunting expedition with the couples 14-year-old son, who was also lost.
 Thought Bear Bone
 The other find, a leg bone thought to have been that of "stocky human male," was be- lieved by authorities this morn- ing to be a bear bone. The bone, a 32-inch-long massive structure with the foot attached, was picked up some 20 feet from the trousers on the south shore of Monu Bay by Coastguardsmen.
 U. s. Commissioner Gordon Gray said that Mrs. Wetche called him last night after recognizing the laundry mark published when the find was announced. Gray described to her mended pocket. and she said it corresponded with mending :. she had done.
 Wetche and his son were lost when their boat Dixie developed eneine trouble In Cross Sound and they set off in an oariess skiff to make land A friend, Helvig Christ ansen, was found on the rock five lays .later. his feet frozen. i.''
 Same Marks Mrs. Wetche came to U. s. Marshal Walter Hellan's office late this morning with a pair of trousers identical to those found, and which bore the same laundry marks. She said she had sent the trousers to he Triangle Cleaners several years igo. She explained that her husband carried pipe in his pocket as a labit anG that it burned a hole here which she identified as having patched
 Gray said he had wrapped the bone for sending to Washington, D. c. for inspection, but that it's weight led him to want more in- formatien before doing so. Three Juneau doctors had told him the bone was human, and had been in the water not more than a month.
 Different Shape
 x-rayed at the Government Hos- oital this morning. examination howed the shape different from human leg bone, particularly the lip and metatarsal bones in the 'oot No positive Identification of he bone could be made. but in- 'ormants said it definitely did not ook human"
 Meanwhile, 17th District Head luarters, Coast Guard. held no hope oday of being able to launch more search flights, because the weather gave no sign of clearing. Three weather planes were up yesterday, hey said.
 The Norseman plane carried Mrs. Walter A. Wood of Far Hills. N. J., md her daughter, Valerie, as pass sngers.
 Wood is head of the Arctic Insi- tute's ice studies project at Mt. Hub bard. He, his son and two other men were picked up from their glacier camp site Saturday after learning that Mrs. Wood, the l8-year-old girl and the project pilot had been missing week.
 The missing 50-year-old pilots son, Dick King. expressed optimism 1t Fairbanks last night.
 My Dad has been flying in AL aska for IT years and he's been lest more than a dozen times" the son, also flier, said. Once he was missing a week. He's all ways turned up safe and sound. Just wait until those clouds lift off the peaks and they'll see him sitting there with his passengers. waiting for rescue"
 Mrs. Herbert l.. Heath of Palo Alto. Calf, who is spending the summer in Portland, said mail from Mrs. Wood indicated she was act ually participating in the ice project. Mrs. Heath is an aunt of Mrs. Wood.
 She said a letter postmarked ynpa Q0 of vak,rfaf said We are