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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: rescue; Fairbanks; Alaska; Seward; Canadian flyers; Carl Eielson; Earl Borland; Siberia; Seattle; Nome; Teller; Soviet; M. Litvinoff; Secretary Wilbur; search; Semon Shestakoff; expedition; Moscow; New York; Chairman Borah; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Borland; Eielson; Pacific; Wilbur
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85421

New Life Given To Rescue Work: Three Powerful Planes On Way To Fairbanks For Eielson Search. NEW LIFE GIVEN TO RESCUE WORK Three Powerful Planes on soviet to aw search. SEWARD, Alaska, Dec. 26. (/P)--Arrival here yesterday of three powerful cabin type planes, with a complement of experienced Canadian flyers to man them, revived the fading hope of the northland that the search for Pilot Carl Eielson and Mechanic Earl Borland, missing in Siberia since November 9, might prove successful. The planes and flyers, brought here from Seattle, were speedily transferred to a train on the Alaska railroad and were proceeding today to Fairbanks, where they are to be reassembled and flown either to Nome or Teller, Alaska, to engage in the search. The aviators expected to have one of the planes ready to take off for the rescue base decided upon within 24 hours after arriving at Fairbanks and the other two would follow at 24-hour intervals. The train was scheduled to arrive at Fairbanks today. Plane Well Equipped. The planes carry six passengers in addition to the pilot and can lift sufficient gasoline to enable them to undertake long flights. Although Alaskan pilots have been making strenuous efforts to find Eielson and Borland, they have been handicapped by lack of proper equipment. Soviet to Aid Search. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. (/P)-The soviet government today formally notified Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee that it was organizing an airplane expedition to search for Carl Eielson and Earl Borland, American aviators, who have been missing for six weeks off the Siberian coast. Senator Borah received a cablegram from M. Litvinoff, foreign commissar of the Russian government to whom he had appealed for aid in the quest for the flyers. Secretary Wilbur had also asked, informally, for help. Organize Expedition. The cablegram to Borah said the soviet government was organizing an expedition under command of Semon Shestakoff, who recently made a successful flight from Moscow to New York. Two airplanes at present located at Bay providence also will participate in the search. "The soviet government will be happy if the purpose of the expedition will be successfully achieved," Litvinoff's cablegram said.