AERONAUTICS: Bacon & Eggs

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Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining ray of hope: skiis which Eielson and Borland carried with them were missing from the wrecked plane.