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Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
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...
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