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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: Soviets; Nome; Alaska; search; Carl Ben Eielson; Earl Borland; northeastern Siberia; Siberia; Teller; Russia; North Cape; Joe Crosson; Harold Gillam; Nanuk; gasoline; flyer; Seward; Fairbanks; Canadian airmen; Chelan; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Borland; Eielson; Gillam; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85437

Soviets Aid Hunt For Airman In Frozen Waste. Soviets Aid Hunt for Airman in Frozen Waste. NOME, Alaska, Dec. 26. (AP)—Ten airplanes and at least 16 flyers from three nations today were either in the air or making preparations to take off in the search for Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, down somewhere in northeastern Siberia or in the frozen sea between Siberia and Teller. One plane has already left Russia to aid in the search and two more have been ordered to join in the undertaking. At North Cape, Siberia, where Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam have been making their headquarters aboard the ice-bound fur trading ship Nanuk, favorable weather was awaited before they continued their flights over the region where natives said they heard Eielson's plane flying shortly after it disappeared from Teller November 9. Follow Last Clew. Crosson yesterday reported that he had determined the spot where the men were last heard. He and Gillam were expected to fly over the region today. At Teller Frank Dorbandt and Ed Young were awaiting favorable weather that will permit them to take off for the Nanuk with additional supplies for the ship as well as gasoline for the flyers and dog food for the teams that will work from the vessel. Aboard a combination freight and passenger train three cabin planes were being rushed from Seward to Fairbanks with six Canadian airmen. The train left Seward at 5 p.m. yesterday, six hours after the coast guard cutter Chelan landed there. The flyers said they would be in the air headed for Nome within a few hours after their arrival at Fairbanks. It was said they would not arrive at Fairbanks before midnight tonight and probably would be able to take off tomorrow morning.