| Summary: | Alaskan Plane Missing With 14 On Board. ALASKAN PLANE MISSING WITH 14 ON BOARD. By Associated Press. CORDOVA, Alaska, Wednesday, Nov. 25.—Believing Pilot Chet Brown, his mechanic and twelve passengers in his trimotored plane were forced into the oft-stormy Gulf of Alaska or onto the beach, his fellow pilots hoped for clearing weather today to permit a thorough search. The plane has not been seen since 9 a. m. yesterday, when it took off from here on the 500-mile flight to Juneau, but his colleagues said low tides would have permitted a landing on the beach. Pilot Sheldon Simmons, Juneau, braved a dense fog today to hop off in search of the missing plane. Fishermen reported sighting a large plane yesterday in Gold Cove, Mud Bay, between Hoonah and Tenakee, on Ctiichagoff Island, HUNT ON FOR ALASKA PLANE (Continued From Page One.) about forty miles southwest of Juneau. An indication the Brown plane had crossed the Gulf safely was seen when the weather observer at Yakutat, on the coast 220 miles north of Juneau, reported he sighted a large plane at noon yesterday flying South. The Coast Guard cutter Morris was ordered to keep a sharp lookout along the long coastline and over the Gulf. W. W. Stoll, Seattle mining man; Dr. J. E. Slate and Richard Kerr, Los Angeles oil men, and Jack Allen, Long Beach oil man, are known definitely to be among the fourteen persons on Brown's plane. The plane also carried the following persons: J. D. McDonald, Fairbanks, division superintendent for the Alaska Road Commission; Walter F. Brown, his assistant, and W. Forrest, road commission employe. Jack Davies, former Juneau police chief;- Alice Anderson, Bud Anderson, B. Sellers all of Anchorage. C. D. Wilson, described as an employe of an oil company. Martin Skauge, an employe of the Alaska Pacific mine in which Stoll is interested. All the Anchorage passengers save Forrest and Davies, who were bound for Juneau, were en route to Seattle.
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