The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-21
WOMAN RESCUED FROM ICE FL0E
 IN BEHRINC SEA

After they were picked up from a sixteen-foot launch in an ice foe in the Boring sea by the United States cutter Bear and lowed to Nome, Mrs Jessie Tashner of Clin- ton, O., who has been serving as nurse and teacher in the north during the past three years, and R. Dooley of Petaluma, government teacher on the St. Lawrence islands, submitted his annual reports of ed ucational activities among the Arctic natives to William T. Loop, Alaska educational chief.
 Mrs. Tashner and MT. Dooley were taken to Seattle on board the steamer Victoria.
 The story told in the Seattle Post Intelligencer is as follows:
 In a sixteen foot launch and accom- panied by four natives, the two teachers left Gambell, a small native village on St. Lawrence island June 21, intending to make the perilous voyage to Nome, a distance of nearly 200 miles across Boring strait. The small seraft carried only a temporary engine, but the teachers set out un- daunted. When a short distance out MT. Dooley was compelled to make adjustments at intervals of every hour. After being two days and two nights caught in drift ice MT. Dooley observed the cutter Bear in the dis tance The small American flag on the mast head of the launch was im- nediate1y moved up and down as a signal.
 BEAR DIPS FLAG
 "The Bear likewise dipped her flag, but seemed to be moving away from us," explained MT. Dooley. Mot hav- ing any maritime experience we did not know what signal to use. Finally we used a snowshirt worn by one of the natives and we waved the shirt and the flag together. When this was done, the cutter Bear hurried to our assistance and lowed us to Nome in our little craft"
 St. Lawrence island is 100 miles long and from thirty to sixty miles wide. It is located about forty miles from the coast of Siberia in Boring Sea. Last autumn MT. Dooley and Mrs. Tashner took passage on the cutter Bear for the village of Gam bell, on the coast side of the island. Storms, however, prevented the Bear from landing at Gambell, so the teachers with thirty-five tons of coal school supplies and native store SUD- plies valued at s7,500 were all landed at Southwest cape, a village of twen, ty-two men, women and children on the western side of the island.
 A preciptOus mountain separated Southwest cape and Gambell, so MT. Dooley, unable to take Mrs. Tashner or the supplies, mushed sixty miles over the mountain to Gambell, where he spent the winter with 115 natives, teaching school and answering sick calls
 EARS FROZEN
 Becauss>the coal and fuel were on the opposite side of the rocky island Mp Dooley suffered through an in tense1y cold winter without sufficient wormth At one time his ears froze and he suffered other physical hard ships The coal and supplies were re- moved to Gambell the following spring.
 Mrs. Tashner spent nine months at Southwest cape until a launch picked her up for the voyage to Nome Southwest cape is stormy, rocky village bordering on the Boring Sea but Mrs. Tashner gathered a class of seven native children and even held night schools for the parents. Mrs Tashner went North three years ago being stationed for a year near Nome for the Methodist mission, and later went to Wales, near Cape Prince of Wales, as a government nurse. She served during the influenza epidemic and was the only white nurse in the secSon. Last fall she went to St Lawrence island.
 While in Gambell, MT. Dooley was visited by a Russian trader who had been isolated in Indian Point on the Siberian coast opposite St. Lawrence island for three years. He crossed