OCEAN OPERATION
Banker's Life in Danger ' NEW YORK, May 28. Pxiends of Mr. George E. Baker, the ooted banker, said his life was saved trhen his yacht, the Viking, hailed the ■Niagara and the liner's physician performed a peritonitis operation. A turn for the worse later occurred jftnd a Coastguard cutter at Honolulu was ordcred to rush medical supplies to Ihe Viking, which afterwards, also asked for blood donors, indicating that transfusions were necessary, but the cutter had already left. A naval aeroplane was, therefore, ordered to carry serum to the Viking, to be used instead.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 6
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96OCEAN OPERATION Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 6
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