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...Sixth day. . . . We tried to start an oil smudge fire for the rescue party which was out trying to find a possible way to get over the glacier and up on the icecap to us. . . . The oil is like tar. . . . Rescue party has little success...
...Balchen and Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name...
Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...
From the high camp on the Neve the party slid and dropped down the treacherous 3000 foot descent to Glacier Circle. On arriving at the foot of the Glacier they spotted the remaining two members of the party, marked by their flashlights, heading straight for the two hundred foot drop straight off the glacier...
Armed with powerful flashlights Andy Kaufmann and Bill Putnam went back up the Glacier and with their lights were able to lead the wayward members of the party back to the base camp before they tumbled into a ravine...