ADRIFT AT SEA
AIRMAN'S LIFE SAVED COMPASS NEEDLE AS FISH HOOK GENOA, Aug. l Stanislaus Hausner, tho Polish airman who was forced into tho sea on his transatlantic flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Poland on June 4, tells a remarkable story of how he existed on his submerged machine while waiting to bo rescued. Hausner did not sight tho Celtic Shell until June 12, and during the timo ho was in the sea he stales that he lived on fish caught on a hook which ho bent and fashioned from the needle of his compass. When the airman was picked up by the Celtic Shell, he was so exhausted that ho could not speak for days. Ho has been recuperating in New Orleans to which port tho ship was proceeding. His aeroplane was abandoned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21258, 11 August 1932, Page 10
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