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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1924
• Subjects: planes; aviators; arctic tundra; Fox film party; Fairbanks; Alaska; Noel Wien; Russel Merrill; Wiseman; round-trip flight; Point Barrow; Matt Nieminen; Anchorage Air Transport company; Ralph Wien; territorial subsidy contract; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Anchorage; Arctic; Pacific; Barrow; Nome; Tundra
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85431

Planes To Seek Aviators: Ships Will Search Arctic Tundra For Missing Film Party. PLANES TO SEEK AVIATOR: Ships With Search Arctic Tundra for Missing Film Party. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 23. (/P)--To search the dreary arctic tundras for two airplanes piloted by Noel Wien and Russell Merrill, which left Wiseman May 11 for a proposed round-trip flight to Point Barrow with a Fox Film party, Matt Nieminen, copilot of Merrill in the Anchorage Air Transport company, was preparing today to take off for Point Barrow in a cabin plane, said to be the speediest in Alaska. Ralph Wien, brother to Noel, and a student pilot, was preparing to hop off for Nome with mail, in accordance with a territorial subsidy contract. The course of both planes coincides with that of the missing planes for some distance over a difficult terrain.