Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1935
• Subjects: Alaskan wilds; air pilot; Anchorage; Alaska; Kuskokwim country; Donald Goodman; evergreen boughs; Paul Keating; lower Yukon trader; R. E. Laurie; Takotna; Estol Call; Cecil Higgins; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Goodman; Laurie; Pacific; Yukon; Kuskokwim
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85414

Saved From Alaskan Wilds: Air Pilot Spelled "Help" On Snow With Evergreen Boughs. SAVED FROM ALASKAN WILDS Air Pilot Spelled "Help" on Snow With Evergreen Boughs. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 17. (/P) —Bearing bruised and scratched faces but suffering little otherwise from a week of exposure in the wilds of the Kuskokwim country, Pilot Donald Goodman and his two passengers were safe today after being rescued by a searching plane which saw their huge scrawled word "help," made with evergreen boughs, from the air. Goodman related that a week ago yesterday he had to make a forced landing. With him were Paul Keating, a lower Yukon trader, and R. E. Laurie, an engineer at Takotna. He set the plane down on a narrow stretch if the river ice between the trees, damaging it some, and then began a week's wait for rescue plants. Yesterday afternoon Pilot Estol Call, accompanied by Cecil Higgins, mechanic, sighted them on the ice.