| Summary: | To Seek Mattern From Air: Four Men Start For Alaska Today To Scan Area. TO SEEK MATTERN FROM AIR Four Men Start for Alaska Today to Scan Area, NEW YORK, June 29. (/P)—A takeoff at dawn was set tonight by four men: who will fly to Alaska in search of Jimmie Mattern, missing for more than two weeks on his world tour. William Alexander, chief pilot, said he would stop at Dayton and Akron, Ohio, for additional landing gear equipment and then continue to Winnipeg, which he hopes to reach before nightfall. Alexander said the group plans to "square off" the map in sections and systematically search each unit. The plane will carry enough fuel to cruise for 18 hours. Mattern's friends have expressed the hope he is down on one of the almost inaccessible islands in the Aleutian chain.
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