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STUDENT, GRADUATE RESCUE SKATER FROM CHARLES RIVER

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"We're coming", shouted James Moses '40 and James L. McNamara '31, as they rushed to the rescue of 12-year-old Frank Barnoth whose skates got so far out of control Wednesday that he plunged into the Charles River in open water under the middle arch of the Lars Anderson Bridge.

Soizing a ladder and pole kept on the bank by the metropolitan district commission for emergency use, the rescuers made their way out to the floundering youngster and pulled him up on the stronger ice to safety.

Later Patrolman Jeremiah Murphy took all three to the Charles River Speedway station, where they were given hot drinks and had their clothing dried.

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