Search Plane
Crashes In Hunt
For Missing C-54
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left by Lt. Charles H. Harden
pilot of the crashed C-47. With
his face broken and bloody, he
stopped a truck on the Alaska
Highway late Monday after a des
peration five-mile hike.
. He stopped the truck early in
the long sub-Arctic night by sig
naling frantically with his flash
light.
Harden is from Elmendorf
Field, Anchorage.
The rescue party is headed by
Lt. Edwin Gulczynski of Camp
Carson, Colo.
Planes circled over the wreck
age throughout the night to assure
the men that help was on the
way.
How seriously three of the men
were injured was not known.
Harden was unable to tell. Among
the two who escaped with shock
and minor bruises was Jack
Borges of the Midnight Sun
Broadcasting Co., Anchorage, who
was aboard as a civilian observer.
Names of the others were not
learned, but all were crewmen
from Elmendorf field.
Harden’s plane plunged into the
trees near the foot of Mount Cari
bou in midmorning while flying
low in search of the vanished
C-54.
He waited with the others for
several hours, then set out alone
for help. For six hours he strug
gled through waist high snow
and brush. Darkness fell, but he
kept on.
At 7:20 p.m. (Yukon time) he
reached the road. There he was
found by the Engineer Corps
workers, standing unsteadily in a
snow bank and weakly waving his
flashlight. Blood trickled down
his face. One foot was crippled.
Willard Batchelder, 34, of Du
luth, Minn., one of the men in the
Engineers’ truck, said:
“He waved his flashlight like
mad, afraid we wouldn’t stop.
When we did he said, ‘God, I was
afraid you guys wouldn’t see
me.
Batchelder’s companion, Ron
nie Watson, 32, nodded agreement
and said Harden was “completely
done in.”
S The exhausted pilot had car
ried his pack and sleeping bag
with him in the long, arduous
trek through the wroods. He said
he had planned to sleep by the
roadside if no one had come
along. While making his way out,
Harden barely missed being
crushed by a falling tree.
Batchelder and Watson joined
the ground crew, forging to the
crash survivors with food and
medical supplies.
The swift moving rescue opera
tion t emporarily eclipsed the
search for the C-54 which disap
peared on a homeward flight
from Anchorage to Biggs Field,
, El Paso, Tex.
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000 privately owned automobiles
in the U. S. at the end of 1947.
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The Nome Cub Scout Pack is
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Russ Apple, field executive for
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Pack with its Charter granted
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skill” achievement in a tumbling
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WASHINGTON, (#) — The
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missiles docked in California af
ter firing two high-altitude rock
ets during an 18-duy cruise off
the northwest coast.
The USS Norton Sound re
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eight scientists and a mass of yet
to-be-digested cosmic ray activity
50 miles in the sky, the defense
department announced.
Preliminary appraisals of the
two firings—one on Jan. 15 in the
Gulf of Alaska, the other Jan. 18,
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Aerobee rockets, a type special
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attend a special training- session
the committee has set up for this
Friday evening at 7 p.m. at the
Lavinia Wallace Young clubhouse.
Russ Apple will conduct this
training session with the antici
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Only the parents are to attend
this special session, and no Cub
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