The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO _ ~ SEARCHERS NOW HUNT THREE MEN (Continued from Page One) m, while the Forest Ser- ane . will drop supplies to nd Motzdorf at the wrecked ich still contains the body Coast Guard party from the plane meanwhile is hiking overlend to the plane. Cutiing and Tippits ved with Ge nd Metzdorf at the plane 1 week ago when (they struck sk help. They crossed and recrossed -the peninsula, and lived on mussels and clams from the beac and some crows they stoned in the forest Gebo and Metzdorf had only tiny s left altogether. Injuries Suffered Gebo suffered a broken right leg, and both of his feet were ‘‘exceed- ingly black” and presumably fro- zen, the survivors told the inter- viewing officer. Metzdorf suffered a broken col- lar bone and several broken ribs. The survivors told the officer the plane simply ran out of gas and Gillam made what, under the cir- cumstances, was a miraculous land- —-—— ing on a mountainside. Plane ''pilots after scanning the| beaches thoroughly said they would l l attempt an aerial survey of the | 1en followed an epic of endur- e which saw the worst storm in 20 years lash the border area densely timbered peninsula, but they expressed the belief that if TWO SURVIVORS ARE |Gillam did not get to the beach FOG WHEN IN SEARCHING PARTY it will take a land party to find KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 4— | him. suided by two weary but deter-{ Pilot Ray Renshaw, of the Game »d plane crash survivors, Percy |Commission’s plane, accompanied and Joseph Tippits, who by one of the survivors is to drop left their sick bay to aid in ‘the food and medicine if he succeeds search for their three companions|in locating Metzdorf and Gebo. who may still be alive in the wild-| Where the Gillam plane crashed | erness. Coast Guard and Game 'is studded with mountains rang-| Commission planes are this morn-|ing from 2,300 to 2,800 feet. ing combing the mountain fastness-! The airline distance from Ketch-| es of Boca de Quadra Peninsula)ikan to the 'Boca de Quadra pen-| for Gebo and Metzdorf and Gillam, |insula is 33 miles. fOfe Hafld Ampma'ed the latter believed possibly alive,| It is now stated that Miss Batzer R along one of the numerous inden-|died from loss of blood after her| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 4— tations, where Gepo and Metzdorf companions were forced to ampu-|Pilot Harold Gillam circled over the were last seen a week ago seven | tate her.hand to release her from|landing field, his destination near| miles inland. {the wreckage. It is disclosed that|Ketchikan on the late afternoon of min Cutting HE CRASHED. Woman Passenger Suffer- ed Intense Agony Be- Cutting and Tippits, were refresh- the girl was thrown against the|January 5, but was prevented from|january 5 and were long ago given|F. Droadows ed by their night's sleep but still!door of the plane in the crash, ;\ndi]““‘“ng by the fog and he turned weak. They were taken as “spotters”|her right hand was caught when‘-*“"mi’“-‘!“'m'd‘ apparently intend- by plane pilots to help in the search |the door jammed against the cab-|iNg to make a forced landing on while the Coast Guard party, which jin. She lived only a short time af-|the wide beach at Smeaton Bay, reached the area earlier started|ter amputation. The survivors said|according to a report issued by the from the® shore to climb the moun-|they were unable to staunch the|Coast Guard this afternoon. tain trail {flow of blood. | While circling over Smeaton Bay, - | Three planes and two surface the Gillam plane, in a fog, crashed S {craft are in today’s search |into the mountain, the impact Re"ef At last | BERE I hurling one unidentified passenger | 50 feet from the plane. [JOSEPH T. FLAKNE Dazed, he wandered three days i before again finding the party at i 3 For Your Cough AND ARTHURHEDGES ::.:: Miss Susan Batzer had her hand LEAVE LAST NIGHT! | crouched Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel wught in the door of the plane and beside the plane three [ ) i germ laden phiegm, and aid nature | Joseph T. Flakne, Acting Aren | 975 B l°°mpla"""g' - . soothe and heal raw, tender, in- rADLoT : 3 el Aia | SUering Antense agony. Timon Braphis oy, tender, in- | Director for the War Manpower|®'[n 06" e SRV, branes. Tell your druggist to sell you |COMmission in Alaska, accompan-|; 4 finally decided they must s a bottle of Creomulsion with the ua- |ied by Arthur Hedges, Acting Di- | L o o derstanding you must like the way it |rector for the Unit gty putate her hand. She died the sec- guickly allays the cough or you are |,ovment Service in Al jop;| CPd day after the amputation. to have your money back. ll % "“"y‘ e m Alaska, left| one of the survivors told the CREOMULS'ON “-jrh“‘fl'“ o Hehiesn Coast Guard that Susan “didn't ey will attend a conference gay g q ¥ R for Cou " ors el 4§ ay a word during the operation. fo G zbf.CheskColds.Imnchrhs of mill owners, loggers and labor|She was the bravest person I ever representatives to be held in Ket- {chikan in the near future. At the |have seen.” U.S. Plane Turns Tl‘lrfle on Muddy African Field After U. S. troops captured this muddy airport at Snfl, French Moroceo, Africa, American pilots found it tough to make landings. The soft mud eaused the navy dive bomber in the background to turn turtle, Members THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA i i - he torpedo | of the U. S. Air Force lay a metal strip for the take-off of the t I bomber in the foreground. The strips, standard equipment with air force units, make it possible to construct runways in jig time. 2l "i‘f’i?.?@ ISELECTEES ARE ) ane F ;o |Hla:;, ’T:ree OIhefs'{ RE& ADSRS ;I;:ITE DBD ; | Are Hunted; Girl Dead: (Cafitinuedio;pnge one) | Reclassification of selectees ac- AXIS AFRICA { IS SMASHED Anhoun(e 7Sivn>king of 14, Perhaps 16 Enemy Transports | i‘ (Continued from Page One) { |Port Gabes and enemy positions near Maknassy, and for one of| the few times since the start of} the fight in Tuanisia, lo m i planes than they shot down, the communique said Six Axis planes were destroyed and eight Allied planes were re-| | ported missing, while strong (;vr-f man forces apparently still held (h(-: important Faid Pass on the cen-| j tral Tunisian front i At the point nd from smx,[ where the enem: iing out | against the Ameri nter at- | tack, the British E Army ap- | peared to be massing for its next attack —a correlated squeeze on Axis Tunisia. .o Before the war, Antwerp and the| Flemish provinces led the world| i in the number of diamond cutters ‘ WE ARE PROUD | 5 S R AT |cording to records of recent Draft but was not seen later. |Board meetings follows: | The plane was well stocked with{ 1-A—Richard James Decker, Ben- provisions on which the survivors jamin P. Lane, Arthur Hapoff, Er- have apparently been living. {nest E. Peterson, Wendell F.| | It is not likely a search partylSchneider, George C. Martin, Ro- | will reach where Metzdorf and Ge- |hert D. Fleek, Eugene M. Durkee, | bo were last seen until some time, Delbert E. Carson, James L. De-| today. {von, Jack K. Frazier, John K. Tal- | It is not clear whether the gll‘]‘n"!ge‘ died in the crash or later. | 2-A—James William Betts. Long Missing | 2-B—Harry B. Evenson, Zedley A.l Pilot Gillam and passengers in|Duke, Owen I. Hartley (serving| his plane have been missing since|with Canadian forces), Max)millionl | | 3-A—Chester. Willis. 3-B—Carl R. Krause, James N. up for lost because of severe| weather conditions and inability of a long continued search by air and|Barrie, Joseph C. Patterson, Leo E.!| to find any previous trace of}Olsen, Oliver H. Torkelson, Roland | those on the plane or the plane|J. Mead, Raymond A. Jacobsen, itself. {John J. Keyser, Kenneth S. Wil- | | Pilot Gillam left Seattle on the liams, Irving H. Blowers, Arthur {afternoon of January 5 in the Mor- A, Arvidson. H rison-Knudsen Lockheed Electrgfi 4-C—~Konrad K. Klippert, | transport wheel plane, bound for 4-H—John Perrin, Harry V. Wu-‘ Alaska via the inside passage. Thcrhnm& 0. C. Pinney Connelly, Doso- | plane was last heard from at about|fey Merculieff, James A. O'Neil, 5:30 p.m,, January 5, when Gillam|William Franklyn Campen, George | ! notified Annette Island that he was}J. Lavall. ‘approximately 100 miles south of; 4-F-—Phillip J. James. | |Annette and developing motor| 1-C—Axel Nielsen, George A.| | trouble. | Gordaoft. | | Gebo is general superintendent,, e | | 10[ the Morrison-Knudsen Company | 1 in Alaska. ! URGENI ( A I- I- | | v . jconference discussions of labor con- e Iditions and other matters to obmmiD'STRl(I S(ou]’ during the coming season will be| TRIANGLE CLEANERS New Location held. Mr. Flakne and Mr. Hedges ex- pect to return to Juneau following }uneau' Laundry the end of the conference | MEEI IoMoRRow Building 1 IR B | ry | D Before its defeat, the Belgian | & P tor better” Army contained one person out| Members, df JNUReDmILt oot appearance’ el 18 o v ttal P“]m“»r(‘mnmnlvv will meet in the office PHONE jof Dr. J. O. Rude between 4 and 5 jo'clock tomorrow afternoon to plan| lfor the anniversary week the | thirty-third—for the Boy Scouts of | | America “JIM, GEORGE & TOM” | The committee also will consider OVER KINY—1460 KC :a request by Girl Scouts for the Thursdays, 10 to 10:15 p.m. ;l;:wtif ;’)z;lBoy Scout camp at Eagle | ext summer. | A meeting of boys of Cub age| ——j|Was held recently by the Rev. H.| G. Hillerman, Cub Master, for the | |purpose of enlarging the Cub Pack. il‘All boys of Cub age are urged to| | tion. HEAR ALMA OLSON as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE |service in that community. ka Railroad, owner of the Anchor- age Hotel and Anchorage -civic |maintenance unit at Anchorage. Knitters are again urgently need- | Cutting is a mechanic of the(€d by the Red Cross, it was an- fornia. (emergency appeal was issued for | Gillam is one of the veteran aire ‘women to call for yarn and in- Metzdorf is superintendent of ho- | | | FOR KNITTERS | leader. | Tippits, of the Civil Aeronautics Morrison-Knudsen Company in Al- | Bounced today by Mrs. J. J. Me-| |aska and was returning from flihellll. Knitting Chi man for Lhe] men of, Alaska and for two years|Structions in the lobby of the Bar- tels and commissaries of the Alas-| Authority, is of the mechanical! = holiday trip to his home in Cali- |Juneau Chapter. This morning an janof Hotel tomorrow afternoon be- Ihas been . flying the Morrison- | Knudsen planes. 2 tween 12 noon and 4 oclock, dur- | H AN SR ing which hours a sub-chairman {will be on hand. Helmets, wristlets, mits apd| isweaters are badly needed, at once,| by the armed forces in Alaska., |Call after call for these articles| Ihas been received, but until now,| |they were unable to be filled be-| cause of lack of wool. { | A shipment of wool for these| To be representative of the Unit- |badly needed articles has just been | ed States Employment Service in|received by Mrs. J. C. Thomas,| Sitka, Jack Carvel left Juneau t,hisiProduction Chairman, and it is week to set up an office for the/desired to have it used immediately | in order that the articles may be distributed before the end of cold! weather, Mrs. Meherin said. All women who will assist in| this work are requested to call for some yarn and instructions tomor- | row at the Baranof Hotel. Mrs.! ¢ Meherin, or sub - chairmen, Mrs.| William J. Manthey or Mrs. S. J MacKinnon will be at the distribu- tion booth in the lobby to distri- bute both yarn and instructions. | —— U.S. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE IS TO BE OPENED IN SITKA Myr. Carvel has been senior, in- terviewer in the Juneau office of the U. S. Employment Service since June, 1942. In Sitka he will recruit labor for vital defense projects. CITY COUNCIL TO MEET Juneau City Council will hold its regular meeting tomorrow eve- ning in the City Hall at 8 o'clock. Routine matters of city administ tration will be taken up, Mayor | is invited to present this coupon this evening ; )Oi:' similar meeting of the Sea 5 . at the box office of the- — i Stuu}:s will be held by Darrell Naish in the grade sci i CAPITOL THEATRE [|uare. =™ Mty i i ; R f and receive TWO TICKETS to see: ]{ Bellgium is the most densely T bopulated ry r H i THE VANISHING VIRGINIAN" || eratng 712 meopte 1o the suare ! Federal Tax—5c per Person ? 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