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blimp was able to leave its cargo
and started back to Washington.
Officials of the Red Cross, which
has provided all the food except that
carried by the Sebago, said that the
supplies would be sufficient to end
definitely any shortage on both islands
and meet the need of Tangier and
Smith residents for months to come.
Aboard the Sebago was Maj. Enoch
B. Carey, superintendent of the Mary
land State police force and leader of
the expedition on which Police Sergt
Wilbert v. Hunter died from exposure
Friday.
Investigation Is Opened.
The Board of Inquiry named by
Gov. Harry w. Nice to determine the
circumstances surrounding Hunters
death gathered in Baltimore this
morning and began preparations for
its task of sitting all the evidence
bearing on the fatal trip.
Maj. Carey had arrived in Norfolk
earlier today on board the cutter
Travis, which also carried the body of
the dead trooper to the Virginia sea-
port to be prepared for burial and
sent back to Maryland. Carey, how
ever, could not be reached for state
ment. according to Associated Press
dispatches.
Also on board the Sebago are DR..
John w. Kennedy. assistant surgeon
at the Public Health Service Hospital
in Norfolk. and Chief Pharmacists
Mate Granville Spann, who will care
for any island residents requiring
medical attention.
DR.. G. F. McGinno an official OF
the Virginia State Health Depart
ment, flew to Tangier in commercial
plane over the week end to look into
the health of the storm -beleagured
people and reported he found four
cases Of pneumonia, but that health
conditions generally we're satisfactory.
He said the pneumonia sufferers we're
past the danger point.
Flying Orders Rescinded.
Col. C. B. Oldfield of the I'd Bonn
bardment Group reported this morn
ing that the first of two big bombers
which will carry 1000 pounds of food
to Tangier Island took off at 9:10
o'clock. A second plane of the same
type was loaded and sent off soon
after.
A third bomber will fly to Smith
Island with 900 pounds of -four. lard.
beans and other foods for residents at
that place.
General flying orders at the field
were rescinded because of a threatened
snowstorm, while fog also was said to
be moving toward the field, but the
pilots and their crews on the three re-
lief bombers continued their plans Tor
the mercy missions.
The flights were ordered by Gen.
Malin Craig, chief of staff at Lang
ley, after an appeal from Admiral Cary
Grayson, national chairman OF the
Red Cross.
Cutter Battles Ice.
The cutter Dix. ordered from Curtis
Bay, Md, to relieve the crippled Travis
of its efforts to cut channel through
the Ice from Tangier Island to Cris-
field, reported by radio early today
that it was 6 miles north OF Cove
Point and fighting its way through
the ice with the aid of the cutter
Mohawk.
It was said in the message that 1t
expected to land the 5000 pounds of
food that the Red Cross had placed
aboard the boat by o'clock tonight.
The Sebago had broken the ice to
bring its sister cutter. the Travis, into
port at Norfolk at $50 o'clock this
morning after the crippled ship carry
ing Maj. Carey, other survivors OF
his expedition and Sergt. Hunters
body had been ordered to the Virginia
city when mechanical trouble de-
veloped late Saturday night.
A smaller boat, the CG-140. was
accompanying the sebaso to Tangier