| Summary: | Fear 14 Lost On Plane In Alaska: Fog Delays Search For Big Ship Last Sighted Two Days Ago; Pilot Is Veteran. Fear 14 Lost on Plane in Alaska Fog Delays Search for Big Ship Last Sighted Two Days Ago; Pilot Is Veteran. JUNEAU, Alaska.—(HE)—Fog delayed a search today for a tri-motored monoplane which left Cordova at 8:30 a. m. Monday with 14 persons and failed to arrive here. Rev. E. Axelson, weather observer at Yakutat, on the Gulf of Alaska, about half-way between Juneau and Cordova, last sighted the big ship two days ago roaring over his lonely observatory. HELD BY FOG Sheldon Simmons, Juneau pilot, commissioned by Hugh Brewster, federal aeronautics inspector, to head the search for Brown's plane, was grounded by fog. Simmons was prepared to take-off in an Alaska Air Transport ship as soon as the weather cleared. The U. S. coast guard cutter Morris fought through rough seas off Cape Yakataga, west of Yakutat, aiding in the search. Vlsibility was four miles, the Morns radioed and the sky was overcast, with rain falling steadily. Brown is a veteran of seven years flying in Alaska. He is associated with Noel Wien, Fairbanks, and usually flies the Fair banks to Nome route. He owns the tri-motored Ford monoplane he was flying on the Cordova-Juneau hop. The ship is equipped with wheeled landing gear. Three members of an oil-drilling expedition marooned in Alaska by the maritime strike are aboard the plane. Name Passengers. They are Richard C. Kerr, Los Angeles oil geologist; Dr. J. E. Slate, physician, and a man named Wilson, according to headquarters of the Iniskin Drilling company in Los Angeles. Names of the other passengers were not known. The St. Elias range of mountains, which contains some of the highest peaks on the North American continent, and Bering and Malasppne glacier are country over which the plane would have to fly.
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