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VALDEZ, Alaska--Bradford Washburn, Harvard Geographer and leader of the University's Alaskan expedition, reported today that all equipment had reached the first base camp on the Natuanuska Glacier near here. The group will survey the unmapped Chugach Mountain Range...
...weeks ago a cable was sent Harvardmen Joseph Siegel, Milton Wiener, Clifford Washburn, and Homer Chase who are fighting in the war-torn area. Received yesterday from the volunteers: "Wish you great success in attempt to emulate last year's humanitarian venture...
Coast guardsmen and Seattle harbor patrol beats attached lines to the plane and towed it ashore. The women could not be revived. The victims were Mrs. Ome Daiber and Miss Dorothy Matthews of Seattle. Mrs. Daiber's husband accompanied Washburn on previous Alaskan expeditions. Miss Matthews was engaged to Borrows...
After the accident, Washburn and Borrows dived repeatedly in unsuccessful attempts to release the drowning women from the cabin. Washburn said that he was not used to the new type of pontoons on the plane, and that he landed too flat...
...Washburn had been curoute to Alaska where he planned to make extensive photographic surveys of unexplored mountainous territory...