The cutter Chelan sailed to-day with a group of fliers who will begin a search for Captain Frank Elelson, an explorer who has been missing for many weeks.
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Radio advices from two aviators, JJoe Cresson and Harold Gillam, to-day reported that they have reached the ice-bound sealing vessel Nanuk near North Cape, Siberia, Jand have established a base from Jwhich they will conduct an_ aerial search for the lost exporer, Captain Bilson.
Carl Ben Eielson has been missing] since November 9. In ce-operation with Frank Dorbandt, an aeroplane pilot, Bielson had been engaged in transporting passengers and furs to Nome from the Swenson Fur Trading (Co.'s ship Nanuk and they were also to take off passengers from the Soviet. vessel Stavropol, which was] ige-locked near the Nanuk, One trip had been made by Eilson and Dorbandt from the Nanuk, Six passengers and a quantity of furs] had been taken to Nome by air. On their second trip they were forced Jdown at Teller, Alaska, by storms but got into the air again later.
Dorbandt was forced to return to teller but Eilson kept on and his aeroplane was sighted by a party Jof natives within 60 miles of the Nanuk while the motor was heard 10 miles nearer by a Russian trader who was prevented from actually} sighting the craft by fog. He sent! word. that he thought Eilson was flying inland and might have crash ed_on a mountain, The aerial searchers will fly over the entire terrain in the vicinity of North Cape; Siberia—United Press.
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