Evening star., 1936-02-10
Seven of C. c. c., Floating
Out to Sea, Saved by
Small Boat.
ALL SUFFER FROM COLD
AND LONG EXPOSURE
Found in Groups Mile Apart After
Ice Stretch Splits in Bay
During Night.
picture on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, February 10.-Seven c.
C. C. youths marooned OF floating
ice in Cape Cod bay since noon Sun
day, were rescued by Coast Guards
men today, 221a hours after they had
been cast adrift when ice broke from
the mainland at Brewster.
The rescue was accomplished by
use Of a small boat which Coast
Guardsmen pushed over the rough.
floating ice to the youths after the
patrol boat Harriet Lane had failed
in efforts to buck through the thick
ice.
The youths were in two groups
mile apart. The quarter-mile stretch
of ice that carried them seaward
while they were out walking. split
during the night and the marooned
youths we're separated into groups OF
five and two.
All seven were brought back to the
Harriet Lane.
One Has Frozen Feet.
One of the youths. according to re-
ports reaching Army headquarters
here, was suffering from frozen feet
| and in need of immediate hospital
treatment.
Reports to Coast Guard headquar-
tiers from Capt. C. M. Fedderson of
the Harriet Lane said the youth with
the frozen feet was John Fitzsimmons
of Portsmouth, r. I.
The other six were suffering from
cold and exposure and in need Of
treatment.
The port the Harriet Lane would
head for was not known. The de-
cision. headquarters said, rested with
Fedderson.
An Army ambulance waited at
Brewster to pick up the youths in the
event the patrol boat put in there.
There was the possibility the craft
might 60 to Provincetown or Ply
mouth.
| Identity Of Youths.
In addition to Fitzsimmons the
other boys, all between II and 10
years of age, are:
Albert Papa, Thomas Malone, Tony
Ray. Norman Beaulieu, Manuel
Botello, Nicholas Scunzio, all living in
Rhode Island
| While the Harriet Lane was batter
ing through ice foes to rescue the
young men, the fast Coast Guard cut
ter Argo was fastening to the scene
from Boston. Coast Guard officials
said the Argo would take the youths
aboard if their condition was such
that they required emergency hospital
ization. The Argo has greater speed
than the Harriet Lane.
Coast Guard officials praised Capt.
Fedderson's navigating feat in reach
ing the marooned groups as remark
able. They pointed out that he
reached them without the aid of land
marks or soundings and that buoys in
the area all have been swept away,
submerged or dislocated by the ice.
The youths we're sighted shortly
after dawn today between and Z
i miles due north of Brewster by a
rescue plane, piloted by William
Wincapaw. Wincapaw had returned
from Boston at daylight after failing
to sight the youths in the early morn
ing darkness. Later they could be
seen clearly from the air, little black
objects huddled together.
Further away was the Coast Guard
patrol boat Harriet Lane, which had
been bucking the ice foes in Cape
Cod Bay through the night in vain
efforts to pick up a trace of the
hoys who faced danger of death from
exposure or drowning.
Wincapaw turned the plane around,
flew back to the patrol boat and
aided in leading the vessel to the
spot.
| Ice Breaks Into Two.
The ice, which broke OF from the
mainland yesterday while the youths
were out for walk, broke into the
two sections during the night.
Wincapaw, one Of New Englands
veteran pilots, kept his ship low
enough for the youths to see it and
let them know the occupants OF the
plane could see them.
Visibility was perfect, but the
temperature was below freezing.
The rescue cutter at TAO am. was
about a mile and half from the ice
holding the group of five. The Sec
ond ice foe; with only two on it, was
another mile away.
The larger group realized rescue
was at hand AS Capt. Wincapaw
swooped his plane down they waved
their arms in apparent joy.
None of the five seemed in trouble.
Each stood I'D and then fell down.
Whether it was the slippery surface
or their reaction to sighting aid was
dificult to determine.
An Army bomber plane also new
over the heads of the G. G. @. boys
while the necessarily slow rescue work
went on.
THREE FEARED LOST.
| CHARLEvoIx, Mich. February 10
lP-Searchers for two fishermen and
a Coast Guardsman, who had attempt
ed to rescue them from the ice and
was swept away with them, expressed
grave fear today the three had per-
ished in q Lake Michigan blizzard and
gale.
lcAPT. ALEXANDER NAMED
Nominated to Be Administrators
of Alcohol Administration.
| President Roosevelt today nomi-