ESCAPE EGEGIK IMS
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(By Special Correspondent)
Hilmar N. Ev a s. well known
Kanatak merchant and Bill Ack
erman, also of Kanatak, narrow
I ly escaped disaster in Egegik Rap
ids recently. They were attempt
ing to run the rapids with a boat
load of merchandise when the
motor stopped and they went
adrift in the current. A large
boulder checked their mad irush
down stream and left the boat
hanging in a perilous position
with water coming in rapidly
along one side of the keel.
Evans and his companion strug
gled desparately for a time to
free the boat and finally, after
i starting the motor, they pushed
away from the rock and headed
down stream. While attempting
to make a landing the motor
again stopped and they were once
more at the mercy of the current.
It isn’t an easy task to handle a
30-foot motor boat in Egegik Rap
ids, especially when the boat is
half filled with water, but Evans
showed rare courage and skill and i
succeeded in guiding the boat to
rest among the rocks along the
shore
After the supplies were unlad
ed and the boat made secure,!
Evans departed to Egegik in a
small dory to find help, leaving
Ackerman to salvage the wet car
go and enjoy the solitude until
help returned. After 13 hours of
hard rowing against a head-wind,
; being forced at times to go ashore
' and pull the dory after him,
Evans succeeded in reaching Ege
gik and secured enough help to
take the boat ashore and repair
it for future use.
This isn’t the first time that
accidents have happened in these
rapids. Some time ago Scotty
Murray, formerly of Seward, while
returning from a summer’s fish
ing, in Bristol Bay, fell overboard
when the boat in which he was
riding, struck a rock. He was
carried down stream by the cur
rent and would have drowned had
it not been for some friends in a
boat below. Murray was in a seri
ous condition when taken aboard
but he revived quickly and is now
; recuperating in Kanatak.
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VISITS POOR PEOPLE
LONDON, Sept., 24, (/P)—Mahat
ma Gandhi, one of the few mem
bers of the Indian Round Table
Conference, remaining in the city
over the week-end, paid a sur
prise visit to London East End
poor. He mingled with them in
their dingy hovels asking many
questions of the people he met,
about the mode of their life.
Science of Trapping, $1.50; Fox
Tvapping, $1.50; Fur Buyers Guide,
$2.50; Home Manufacture of Furs
and Skins, $1.75; ALASKA SHOP.
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NAVAL ACTIVITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24. (/P)—.
Practically the entire United States
Navy will visit San Francisco be
tween April 24 and May 11, 1932,
it was officially anounced.
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