MAKES GOOD

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 28 January 1933, Page 8

MAKES GOOD

• A “BAD MAX’S’ HEROISM IN THE FROZEN NORTH VANCOUVER. January 17. A story of heroism by an Indian “bad man" is the theme of the latest Hying adventure in Canada's Frozen North. Bill Spence, who was known as “the Smiling Aviator" of the Western Prairies, was killed in a forced landing. and the mechanic and throe passengers with him when he made his forced landing, owe their lives to the fortitude of an Indian prisone , Buster Whiteway. With the thermometer 30 degrees; below zero, Spence started from Moose Factory for Winnipeg, and when a snowstorm forced him down, the plane overturned, and he lost Ills life. His passengers were seriousl.. injured. Mounted Police Corporal Graves, who was bringing Whiteway in for a prison term, was knocked unconscious. He had both collarbones and five ribs broken. The mechanic. Cook, and a passenger, John Robinson, suffered broken legs and terrible bruises. Whiteway soon regained consciousness. and found himself with a broken ankle. It was so bitterly cold that he could hardly move. Piling blankets around his three companions, the Indian left them comfortable, and crawled for a mile over the snowdrifts until he encountered a tepee (tent) containing a number of wandering Indians. Within an hour they had rescued the half-frozen victims of the accident, who were brought to "Winnipeg Hospital by another ’plane. The Indian prisoner will be pardoned.