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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1935
• Subjects: aviators; Alaskan wilds; Fairbanks; Alaska; Murray Hall; aeronautics inspector; territory; Alaska-Yukon territory; Alton Nordale; United States district court; Arthur F. Hines; Dawson; Y. T.; Chicken Alaska; emergency equipment; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Hines; Pacific; Yukon
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86031

Aviators Comb Alaskan Wilds. AVIATORS COMB ALASKAN WILDS. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 22. (/P)—Six ace Alaska flyers, directed by Murray Hall, aeronautics inspector for the territory, shuttled back and forth over rugged country near the Alaska-Yukon territory boundary line today searching for a missing passenger plane, unheard from for three days. The four persons aboard were John Lonz, prominent Fairbanks merchant, and his bride of a month; Alton Nordale, clerk of the United States district court here, and Pilot Arthur F. Hines. Their plane left Dawson, Y. T., Monday forenoon and was last sighted over Chicken, Alaska, 100 miles to the west, at noon. The country is rugged and mountainous, which would have made a forced landing in their ship, a wheel-equipped plane, difficult. Aboard the plane, however, were food supplies for a week, guns, an ax and other emergency equipment.