The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-12
Finn MaImgren, Walking
Party Leader, Dead;
End Month Ago.
DISASTER TO AVIATOR
Russian Ship Speeds to Aid
of Four Starving Men
at Ice Camp.
BY EUGENE LYONS

MOSCOW, July 12.-The giant
Russian icebreaker Krassin today
rescued Capt. Adalberto Mariana
and Capt. Filippo zappi of the dirig-
ible Italia.
The third man of the group Of
three who had left the dirigible
Italia ice camp forty-three days
ago, Finn Malmgren, Swedish
meteorologist, was found dead. He
had died month ago.
The party had left the Italia ice
camp on May 80, over the protests
of Gen. Umberto Mobile, to walk to
land.
News of the rescue, effected after
nearly a month of an almost foot
by-foot struggle by the big Krassin,
the Leviathan of the polar seas,
through jammed ice since she left
Leningrad, Russia, June is, was
wirelessed from the Krassin shortly
before p. m. today.
without Food 13 Days
zappi and Mariana were half
frozen and exhausted from starva-
ton. One of Marianos legs was
hopelessly frostbitten.
With Malmgrens body, over
which they had kept vigil-that was
the inert form Aviator Chukhnovsky,
who discovered the party Tuesday
night, had seen on the ice beside
them-the two Italian naval off,
GERS we're taken aboard the Krassin.
Zappi and Mariana said they had
abandoned hope until Chukhnov-
sky's airplane roared through the
air toward them through the fog,
sighted them as they waved with
excitement and circled over them
five times to indicate that it had
seen them.
zappi and Mariana had been with
out food for thirteen days when they
were found.
Malmgren was an expert in the
arctic. He knew the ice and how
to get over it.
That he should have died and
that his two companions-Italians
from the south OF Europe-should
have remained alive for a month
afterward, is one of the most sur
prising, of the many surprising
stories that the now historic tragedy
of the Italias loss, after it's north
pole flight, has brought forth
Mariana and Zappi were found
Wednesday by Aviator Chuk-
hnovsky, who found them unex-
pectedly as he flew with four COM
panions in the three e-motored
Fokker seaplane from the Krassin.
his mother-ship. He was unable to
land.
Aviator Forced Down
On a second flight, Chukhnovsky
also was unable to land.
He started out on a third fight
TO drop a message to the party that
help was only few miles away.
This time Chukhnovsky and his
four companions met disaster them
selves.
They made a forced landing on
the ice, and smashed their plane.
Taking their fourteen days rations,
the fliers made for the coast, found
it, and radioed their position to the
Krassin.
Leaders aboard the KraSsin de-
cided to make at once for the No
bile ice foe camp, forty miles away,
and try to rescue the four men
there with whom radio conmunica-
ton has been re-established after
two days of silence.
At first it had been planned to
pick up Chukhunovsky and his COM
panions and then proceed to the
rescue of the ice camp group under
Lieut., Alfredo Viglieri, who assumed
command as senior officer when
General Mobile was rescued by air
plane.
The Krassin's decision to try to
save the Viglieri group first was
made after Chukhnovsky radioed
the ship;
Never mind us; save the Others"
Chukhnovsky revealed in his mes
sage that he and his companions
had Immediately radioed all rescue
ships in the area and learned what
caches of food trappers and dog
sled rescue parties had left.
Then they went out hunting and
killed a polar bear almost at once.