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Marion Swenson, 17-year-old daughter of Capt. Olaf Swenson of the icelocked furship Nanuk for which Pilots Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland perished in Siberia (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.), radioed the U. S. press that, now that Eielson's plane wreck was found, she and her father would proceed to Nome in another plane. Said she: "I have had a wonderful experience and I wouldn't take anything in the world for it, but I will be glad to get a glimpse of Seattle again. . . . Every minute of the time has been filled with adventure...
...Eielson, of Hatton, N. Dak., en route to claim the body of his son Pilot Carl Ben Eielson if and when found in Siberia, was met in Seattle by W. E. Borland, father of Mechanic Earl Borland, who died with Eielson (see above...
...Said Mr. Borland: "It is too bad. Earl had such faith in your...
...Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge...
There are Eskimo and Tchuktchis Indian villages about every 15 miles along the north Siberian coast where Eielson and Borland presumably floundered. They may be squatting sheltered in a native's snow-drifted skin-&-driftwood house. If so, they did not see or were unable to signal a searching plane which flew from Teller, base of relief operations, to the Nanuk. The plane is still at the ship, held down by dismaying weather, scant fuel...