William J. Ziedlik, a radiothusiast of East Grand Forks, Minn., picked from the ether a radio message. It had come 2,000 miles from the Schooner Bowdoin in which Capt. Donald B. MacMillan was exploring the Arctic within 650 miles of the North Pole. Said the message:
"We are. safe, homeward bound, with all on board well. Our little 88-foot schooner, which has been frozen in the ice for 320 days, eleven degrees from the North Pole, has poked her way down the coast of Greenland almost on schedule. We should reach Labrador in...
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