| Summary: | Honeymooners Too Weak To Shout When Searchers Near Wild Beach. Honeymooners Too Weak to Shout When Searchers Near Wild Beach KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 13 (AP)—The rescued Seattle honeymooners, Albert Almoslino and his bride, safe after being lost a week when their seaplane was wrecked landing near a . wilderness beach, said today they were "too weak to even shout" for aid when searchers neared them. The two spent today, the first month's anniversary of their marriage, in hospital beds. Dr. S. C. Turner, attending physician, said both were in excellent condition, considering their exposure. Both talked of their hardships before they were found yesterday when Pilot Sheldon Simmons located their plane at Princess bay, 40 miles south of here, on the eighth day after they left Seattle. The coast guard Cutter Cyane rushed them Searching Plane, Watched "After the third day we had to crawl on the beach, we were soweak," Almoslino said. "We couldn't walk. "When we saw Simmons and his plane yesterday afternoon near the beach, only 300 yards away, we couldn't call for aid. We watched him for 45 minutes, praying he'd sight us." During the week they, watched large birds circling overhead, which they believed to be vultures, as they lived in a small lean-to Almoslino had made. Their plane was wrecked late Sunday afternoon a week ago. Clams Go Unsought "I'll never forgive myself for giving my wife this kind of a honeymoon," he said. "We'll be together from now on until kingdom come." Pilot Simmons and his observers found the wrecked plane yesterday afternoon and landed and examined it. Unable to find traces of the two, they flew away, but the cutter Cyane returned to the scene. Both had badly lacerated feet and were shoeless. Almoslino had his rifle, rescued from his plane, but had not used it in searching for game. The beach would have yielded clams had they dug for them. Mrs. Almoslino is the former Joan MacDonald of Spokane and Minneapolis
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