Evening star., 1939-04-29
Rescuers Batt|inq
Ice FIoes 10 Reach
Wrecked Russians
Kokkinoki Reported Hurt
In Crosh on New
Brunswick Isle
New Bruns-

7 MISCOU ISLAND, New Bruns-
wick, April % canadian Press A
Royal Canadian mounted policeman
and doctor battled ice foes of Bay
of Chaleur in a rowboat today to
reach Gen. Vladimir Kokkinaki,
Russian pilot who suffered several
broken ribs when his airplane made
a forced landing here last night on
a projected Observation-Disclosures
fight.
Constable Marcel Therriault and
DR.. Ulysses Bourgeois set out from
Shippegan. on the mainland Is miles
away, for this isolated st. Lawrence
Gulf island, where Gen. Kokkinaki
and Maj. Mikhail Gordienko, his
radio-operator- or-navigator, came down
at 7:55 pm, E. S. T.. last night in
a marsh five miles from the nearest
house.
Plane Wrecked.
Therriault planned to return this
afternoon and take the pilot to q
hospital at Bathurst or Campbellton,
New Brunswick. If treatment were
found necessary. The Russians
plane was wrecked.
Lawrence Vibert, a Miscou mer-
chant, said this morning that he had
returned from trip to the wreck
age and that the navigator escaped
injury. The flyers spent the night
near the red, twin-m -motored craft
beca1se the fuel tank had burst and
they feared some one might smoke
near the gasoline
A Royal Canadian mounted police
cruiser was reported at Chandler.
Quebec, on Gaspe Peninsula of
Miscou Island. but Therriault said
that it would be unable to cross the
Bay Chaleur because of ice condi-
tions.
CA plane belonging to Harold
S. Vanderbilt and piloted by
Russell Thaw left. Boston for
Bangor. Me-. this morning with
three Russians and a Russian
speaking American doctor aboard.
"a plane chartered by the
Amtorg Corp, the Soviet foreign
trade organ. and carrying three
Russians with passports for the
airmen, arrived at Moncton. :
British Columbia, from New :.
York. This plane is too large,
to land on Miscou Island, so.
efforts were being made to secure
a lighter craft to fly there and
bring kokkinaki and Gordienko
to the New Brunswick main
land)
MisCou Island is a fishing settle
ment of about 1000 population at
the northeastern tip of New Bruns-
wick, in the Gulf of st. Lawrence at
the mouth of Bay Chaleur. Ice foes
made passage to the mainland diffl-
cult.
The weather was described as good
when residents saw the monoplane,
named Moskva moscow circnng
and heard the motors failing. Both
wings and both propellers were bro
ken. One motor was out of commits
sion. It was evident that the plane
could not be flown to the mainland.
Used Sign Language.
The islanders can speak only
French and English and the flyers
only Russian, but by signs the avia-
tors managed to make some things
understood. A telegraph operator
at Shippigan, on the mainland, was
first to report the landing. Lawrence
Vibert, an island resident, telephoned
that he had been out to the scene.
saw the wrecked plane and tried to
talk with the airmen. Vibert took
them food.
The Russians pointed out on a
map that they had flown from Mos
COW and indicated that they had no
idea of their whereabouts but were
due last night In New York in order
to attend the opening of the Worlds
Fair on Sunday. They left Moscow
at 8:l9 pm, E. S. T.. Thursday night.