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Show BID OF 8 FOUND III GREENLAND ANCMAOSSALTK, Greenland, Green-land, Sept. 13 (U.R) Colonel George R- Hutchinson and his "flying family" were saved from a death on the barren Greenland coast today when they were found alive and well at Ikersauk Fjord. Their airplane was wrecked. The steam trawler Lord Talbot, first vessel to receive Hutchinson's SOS signals, found the family early today. The Amphibian airplane in which eight persons were flying to Europe was forced down on the open sea at 3:10 p. m. Sunday. The discovery of trie, little band huddled ashore after their airplane had been wrecked, saved them from likely starvation or death from cold in a deserted region. The privations would have been especially severe on Mrs. Hitchin-son Hitchin-son and her two daughters, Kath-erine, Kath-erine, 8, and Janet Lee, 6. The flotilla of craft ranging from trawlers to Eskimo canoes had searched the sea since Sunday for the missing family, while airplanes air-planes flew over Denmark strait seeking to spot them. Aboard the Amphibian. "City of Richmond" were Hutchinson, his wife and two daughters, and a crew of four; Peter Redpath, navi- gator; Joseph Ruft, mechanic; Gerald Altfilisch, radio operator, and Norman Alley, cameraman. The flying family left New York Aug. 23 and flew to St. John N. B. Hutchinson made the next stages, to Anticosti Island, on to God-thaab, God-thaab, Greenland, and to Juliane-haab, Juliane-haab, without incident, except for paying a fine of $180 for landing in Greenland without permission. The plane was lost south of Ang-magssalik Ang-magssalik after leaving Juliane-haab Juliane-haab and following the south Greenland coast. |