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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1938
Page
9
A 15 member surveying party camped near Lake Evans along a line to the Ontario Quebec border after failing to locate a food cache. They wandered for 380 days through the forested James Bay region before airplane pilots located them east of Moosonee at the indicated map point.
Fifteen men stranded for 39 days in the Northland Arctic endured starvation and extreme cold until air support reached them. They subsisted on bones and limited wildlife then were flown to safety by Flight Enant G. R. Spradbrow of Dominion Skyways. Plans to return to muskeg to finish the survey are under way.
Alfred in the far north wandered for three miles and ate boots grease tins with gusto. He preferred steak to the greasy diet, much to the bemusement of his companions.
Sprad row and Joseph H. Lucas spotted a triangular brush signal on the Missikabi River and landed a large plane on a river ice to reach emaciated surveyors led by Lieutenant Colonel J. Romeo Guenet. The men, mostly French Canadians, survived by prayer and work while about 10 miles from a hidden food cache.
Girard Ebeacher carried survey instruments and records six miles to recover them from a cache, prioritizing their safety amid the trek.
An X ray before surgery showed Ivan Speer had situs inversus with the heart on the right, liver and gallbladder also on the right, and the appendix on the left until surgeons removed it. The case puzzled doctors in Des Moines Iowa.
In Great Falls Montana residents report an early 1938 robin sighting and swelling tree buds as warm sun and winds linger. Forecasters predict the northwest may still see colder spells and more bustards returning for winter.
Deliveryman Marlin Byrd reported two men robbed him of three bottles of beer cigarettes and 14.61 dollars and fled on a bicycle. He filed the report with Oklahoma City police.
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