Housewife Swims
Three Miles
To Seek Help
SCARBOROUGH, Maine, M—
Sobbing, gasping, Martha Cole,
24, sthmbled onto a beach here
Friday and >told of a four-hour
battle with tides, winds and
waves to get aid for her boat
wrecked family.
Mrs. Cole said heavy waves
swamped their 15-foot boat pow
ered by an outboard motor.
Hours later, the young house
wife heard that her son Jeffery,
22 months, became the only fatal
ity of the mishap.
Her grief-stricken husband,
Thomas, 25, fought tears as he
explained how those clinging to
the boat tried to keep the baby’s
head above water.
All, including the child, had
life jackets. They swam to tiny,
uninhabited Stratton Island when
the boat sank.
Cole was trying to revive the
child by artificial respiration
when spotted by a helicopter.
His wife’s battle with the sea
was across a three-mile stfetch of
open Atlantic.
“She certainly must have been
a powerful swimmer,” one Coast
Guardsman said. “We had enough
trouble getting out to the island
with our 25 hoursepower boat.
Cutter Trying for
Northwest Passage
Near North Pole
CRANSTON, R.I., MV-The Coast
Guard cutter Spar, trying to cross
the top of the North American
continent by water, is reported
about 150 miles south of the North
Pole.
Charles Rotkin, an amateur ra
dio operator here, said he got the
position from the Spar’s radio
operator, Penrose C. Dietz, in a
contact with the vessel Friday.
The Spar left its Bristol, RJ.,
I base May il9 on the search for the
legendary northwest passage.
The cutter traveled south to the
Panama Canal, north up the Pa
cific, and entered the Arctic
Ocean after passing the Bering
Strait.
The voyage would be making
history if it succeeds. The trip
was undertaken at the request of
the Military Sea Transport Ser
vice, which is seeking the route
as an aid in refueling arctic bases.
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