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'Vmt Mi$Ls*:'.fa■ Tlt; • iM'm-•lt;y..-yW:;Zj *•-, -t •I•\y/-:I• /a*t;vi;.’.RJ«c.’!larl.'' Vi:lt;7.A'*’- • *-*£/¥RUSSIAN SAILORS AT NEWS CONFERENCE — Four Soviet seamen who survived 49 days adrift in the North Pacific conduct a news conference yesterday aboard the USS Kearsarge, which rescued them. A steward serves*ice cream. The sailors are (from left) Victor Ziganshin, Anatole Kruchovski, Philip G. Popiavsky, and Ivan Y. Fedotov. (AP Wirephoto)4 Rescued Soviet SeamenTo Arrive in U. S. TodayABOARD USS KEARSARGE.{ The lour, tossed about in thej Irt Hie final week, they made. «* — Four village-reared Soviet|Pacific in a 50-foot landing craft|soup from boiling the tops of who survived seven from Jan. 17 until rescued by their arctic leather boots.sailors.weeks adrift on the stormy Pacific Ocean, step ashore today in the United States, a strange anddistant Sand lor them.They had some apprehensions about the future until Soviet embassy officials told them — by shore-to-ship telephone — theythis 41.000-ton carrier March 7. are landing at San Francisco's Marina Green.Four Identified The young seamen are Victor Ziganshin, 22, of the lower Volga region: Motor Machinist Philip G. Popiavsky, 20. reared in a Uk-werfe being proclaimed as raine village; Seaman Ivanheroes throughout their homeland.Beating Order DeniedFedotov. 21. from a Siberian town on the Amur River; and Motor Machinist Anatole V. Krtf-chovski, 20, also from the Ukraine.i After hvo da vs in San Fran-i * **j cisco, the .sailors will go to NewIBy CaptainSTUTTGART; Germany, m -York by jet airliner and probably will remain under hospital observation there two weeks.They still are lean and weak physically, nine days after Kear-Capt. Richard Agnew reiterat- savgc fliers spotted their bated before a court » martial yes-j tered and listing landing craft terday that he did not order a!more than 1,000 miles southeastser-privale beaten up by two geants.Agnew, 28, ot Lawrence. Mass.. Is charged with instructing Sgts. James A. Carter of Livingston, Texas, and Ted Williams of D. C., to strike Pfr.Washington,of the sailors’ Kurile Island base.They had been swept to sea by a sudden storm during a training [young Russian exercise.They were just about at the threshold of what a human ran stand when wc picked them up.George C. Campbell of Burling- said U. Cindr. F. D. Beckwith.i-a Jolla. Calif.. Hie carrier's medical officer.Ion. Mass.Agnew. holder of the Distinguished Service Cross lor bravery in She Korean war. was cross-examined yesterday hy the prosecution during the sixth day of the trial.Agnew said he only heard of the beating of Campbell after it happened and that he warned Carter he rould face possible punishment for maltreating Campbell.Advl.ne* llosprhltxatlonBeckwith said he had advised Russian embassy officers that the men should be kept under hospital observation because their ordeal could cause lasting organic damage.The two pounds of tinned meal ;tbo;uri thr landing craft lastedthe four men 36 days. Thereafter they survived on sternly rationedThey appeared in the Hear-sarge wardroom yesterday for a brief picture-taking period and a news conference. The news conference apparently overwhelmed ihem and they soon asked to be excused.Through Lt. Cmdr. Robert Her- : rick, the Kearsarge interpreter, the Russians told newsmen:Things got pretty rough. Afterthe third ship passed us without! sighting us, we almost gave up hope.Cordial TreatmentRear Adm. Frank A. Brandtey, El Reno. Okla., commander of Carrier Division 15, said the Russians had been treated cordially. He added: Wc have been trying to make Ihem kings of the Kearsarge.The admiral said Ziganshin. a junior petty officer, was the first to be plucked from the landing craft by a carrier helicopter. Thewar taken to b ready inom off the flight deck and askelt;l if he needed assistance.Ziganshin weakly assured I he admiral they needed help and that the other three men would bo g!ad to come aboard the: carrier. JAviation Machinist Mate Philip Kc7.:irtzoff, Detroit, Mich., who speaks Russian, was assigned to help them. He said all hands expressed a desire, to do something for the four.The captain said Carter replied servings of soup made from athat nothing would happen sinceCamnhell wax raine’ to denv thelS-pound hag of potatoes.y v. y. ■
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Tue, Mar 15, 1960
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