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Thirteen Persons Saved
After Spending Five Days
On Ice Coated Peninsula
KODIAK, Alnka, Jan. 6 Wr Thirteen persons, including a mother
and hnr six children, sped toward Kodiak aboard a coast guard cutter
and navy tuar today for hospitalization after belli rescued from an ice
sheathed point of the Alaska peninsula where they had been stranded
for up to five days.
Ten of the f nut -bitten survivors were aboard the wrecked cannery
tender Spencer, which smashed Into (he rocks opposite Kodiak Island
New Year's Eve and broke up In ihf pounding aw ells.
All are reported suffering: from frost bite and exposure but are not
believed to be In serious condition.
The other three were volunteer rescuers from the navy tug Mataco
who struggled to shore after their small boat overturned Saturday night
In a daring attempt to reach the stranded party.
The Mataco and the cutter Clover and expected to reach here
around noon (5 p. m. EST.) today.
The rescue, balked for three days by fiO-nle-an-hour winds and
rale-tossed seas, was completed yesterday during a lull in the storm.
Although only five miles from the village of Kanatak. the scene was
unreachable by land because -f f-
high cliffs and Impassable terrain.
Ranger Gets
Pay Boost
WASHINGTON. Jim. 6 iT Wil
liam J. Butler, assistant chief
ranger at Rainier National park.
who turned down a $5000 reward
lor uncling a missing marine
transport plane on the slopes ol
Mount Rainier, has been given
pay raise of $126 a year.
The raise, which lifts Butler's
salary from $3!89 to $4024. was an
nounced by Secretary of the In
terior J. A. Krug.
The transport and its 32 marine
passengers and crewmen crashed
December 10. 1946. Butler found it
Inst July 4 on a day off and was
legally entitled to accept the re
ward. Krug. in a letter to Butler, said:
'Your extraordinary act in re
jecting a large monetary reward.
Chignik to Kodiak when it piled up i which I understand, was actually
Six of the cannery tender's per-
lonnel are aboard the Clover, in
cluding two women and a young
boy. They are Miss Alva Skonberg.
Mrs. Ous Skonberg, Calvin Skon
berg, 14, Bert Larsen. Andrew Skon
berg and Jacob Osbekoff, all of
Chignik, Alaska.
The other four members of the
Spencer's crew, also from Chignik.
are aboard the Mataco. They are
Capt. Axel Carlson, William Skon
berg. Dan Skonberg and Arthur
Skonberg.
Navy Men
The three navy men were saved
by a party from the Clover and
transferred to the Mataco. Lt (.ig
E. J. Kratochvil of Washington,
D. C and two enlisted men, E W.
Kelley and S. J. Komola (home
towns unavailable) comprised the
volunteer trio.
Oldest of the survivors is Mrs,
Skonberg. in her middle-fifties. She
is the mother of the six other Skon
bergs aboard the tender.
The vessel was en route from
Transportation
Hews
Retirement on January 15 of
N. Christ ophfison, Great Northern
Railway general agent at Belling
hum, Wash., and formerly of Khun
nth Falls, was announced today
R. P. Stair of Seattle, western traf
fic manager.
His successor will be R. C. Ram
.-cy. now traveling freight agent for
the ruituay at Spokane. Ramsey
will be succeeded by M, W. Elslng,
city freight agent at Spokane.
Christopherson. with O r e a
Northern since 1913. has been gen
eiai agent at Bciungnnm since
1938. He ns city freight and pas
scnger agent at Vancouver, Wash.
and traveling freight agent there
before going to Klamath Falls as
general agent in 1927. He remained
at Klamath Falls until going
Bcllingham In 1938.
Joining Ureal Northern in 1914
as clerk in the general agent'
office in Spokane, Ramsey served
as chief clerk there from 1916 to
1920, when he became traveling
freight agent.
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Mercury Up
; Over Nation
in the Shelikof strait. Chignik .s
along the Alaska peninsula approx
imately 150 miles southwest of
Kanatak.
Elkhorn To Get
Bridge Today
SALEM. Ore.. Jan. 6 OJV
Resi-
denta of the community of Elk
horn, marooned since last Tuesday
when the only bridge link with other
towns collapsed, waited anxiously
today for state workers to complete
a temporary span across the San
tiam river.
Three women of the logging and
ranch area village are expecting
babies and the road crews were
working In a race with time for the
aafety of the expectant mothers.
Supplies have been carried to the
families by rubber boat since the
older bridge collapsed. Highway en
gineers said the temporary type
span, a prefabricated unit used in
emergencies, should be in use later
today.
placed in your hands by the par
ents of marines who died in the
crash, is one which impresses me as
an outstanding illustration of the
high caliber of the men who find
their way into public service."
BODY FOl'ND
AMITY. Jan. 6 The body of
Mrs. Sarah M. Warner, 70. a widow
living alone, was discovered yester
day in a tourist cabin here after
firemen extinguished a fire that
partially destroyed the furnishings.
Firemen said the woman, who was
found on a bed. was seriously burn
ed but they believed she had suffo
cated. Four sons and a daughter
survive.
By The Associated Fress
Generally fair weather, with
temperatures nt or above normal.
was in prospect for most of the na
Hon today.
. Light snow fell in Ohio and low
er Michigan and was expected to
extend Into Pennsylvania and New
lork. There was rain in the Pa
cuic Northwest.
Temperatures In the eastern
quarter of the country were report
ed slightly below normal but in
many sections of tile Midwest the
i mercury was expected to climb
j above freezing, duplicating yester
day's marks. The coldest spot on
the morning weather map was in
Nortnwestern Minnesota where the
mercury touched near zero.
Clear skies were promised
throughout the South, the Great
Plains and in sections of the Mid
west. Rain fell in Washington,
Oregon. Northern California and
parts of Idaho.
Arizona reported the highest
temperatures yesterday. 76 at
Phoenix and 74 at Yuma.
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