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Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...
...early in 1929 a great many of the forged British and American notes were despatched to Mongolia for General Feng* while large amounts were sent by the Soviet Government to Irkutsk, Siberia, to be used in the Far East...
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...
...English cotton-spinning manufacturer settled there. He was educated in St. Petersburg schools and at Worcester College, Oxford; served in the World War in the 5th Reserve Cavalry, with the Military Attache of the British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples, The Vanity Bag, Perfectly Scandalous (a play...