Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1930
• Subjects: flyer; rescue; icebound girl; Marion Swenson; Siberian Wastes; North Cape; Siberia; Point Barrow; Alaska; Seattle; Olaf Swenson; Captain Milovzorov; Teller; Nanuk; Russian; Stavropol; Swenson Fur Trading company; Carl Ben Eielson; Earl Borland; Harold Gillam; Pat Reid; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Borland; Eielson; Fairbanks; Gillam; Pacific; Barrow; Nome
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85428

Flyer Rescues Icebound Girl: Marion Swenson Of Seattle And Others Fly From Siberian Wastes. FLYER RESCUES ICEBOUND GIRL. Marion Swenson of Seattle and Others Fly From Siberian Wastes. North Cape, Siberia, Feb. 7. (/P)--(Via Point Barrow, Alaska, by Radio and Cable)--Captain Pat Reid, who took off from here today with Miss Marion Swenson, Seattle high school girl, her father, Olaf Swenson, and Captain Milovzorov as passengers, landed at Teller, Alaska, today after a flight of four hours, Miss Swenson radioed from Teller. They took off from North Cape at 10 a.m. The Swensons have been marooned for several months on the fur trading ship Nanuk, ice-bound at North Cape, while Captain Milovzorov has been ice-bound here aboard the Russian ship Stavropol, of which he is master. Swenson is head of the Swenson Fur Trading company, which own the Nanuk. Flew Rescue Plane. Captain Reid flew one of the Fairchild planes sent north to engage in the search for Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, who were lost November 9 while attempting a flight to the Nanuk. The wreckage of their plane was found recently 90 miles southeast of North Cape. Pilot Harold Gillam flew to the scene of the wreck from the Nanuk today and reported on his return that the work of searchers digging in the snow for the missing bodies of Eielson and Borland is being hampered by fresh drifts from recent storms. The Swensons expect to go to Nome and Fairbanks by plane, and then continue to Seattle by rail and steamer. Reid will return from Teller with gasoline supplies so that planes here may continue to operate.