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igust 21>th, 1923, at the postofiice at
'iTokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
IWarch 3. 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, April .'1, 1926.
1EIEI.SON, IN TALK BEFORE
STUDENTS, OUTLINES FLIGHT
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
lln the presence of fully 250 people,
’who gathered at the College to hear
him, Carl B. Eielson, pilot of the
Wilkins Arctic expedition, addressed
an assembly of the Alaska College,
'recounting many interesting experi-i
•ences during his absence from Fair
banks and outlining the history and
^purposes of the expedition witch
which he is now associated. The
speaker was introduced by President
'Charles E. Bunell, who was instru
mental in having him appea before
students and townspeople.
“There is a region lying north of
-Point Barrow, and around the North
TVle, which emains unexplored,” he
sa.d, in taking up the present expedi
tion. “We are going to try to pene
trate this unexplored area, and will
'try to get there before other expedi
tions, fostered by foreign countries,
'reach it.
“This expedition was started in
London by Captain Wilkins, Aus
tralian by birth and one of the world’s
foremost explorers. He has made two
trips into the Antarctic, and was with
SStefansson in the Arctic. Stefanss.m
■declares that he would not have re-1
turned on that expedition if it had not
ibeen for Wilkins, that Wilkins insist-I
*d upon finding him and went under
;the protest of his men and brought
iStefansson back, lie was in the Aus
tralian army during the World \\ ur,
;and was picked as the bravest man in
that army during the conflict.
“While in London negotiating plans1
Tor this evpedition Stefansson wired :
Wilkins to come to Detroit—‘They j
•will buck you here..’ The follow big
•organizations are behind it: Amer
ican Geographic Society; Aeronautical!
Society of Detroit, consisting of a
group of Detroit business men, among
whom is the general manager of the
Ford company; North American
Newspaper Alliance, and Wilkins,
who also put money into the venture.
“Ford offered a monoplane and the
services of a pilot. They worked day
and night in the factory to complete
the machine, but it burned the night
after it was completed. It wras a
beautiful machine, but I doubt if it
would have poven successful here be
cause it takes too much room to take
off and land. It comes down like a
bullet, about eighty miles an hour,
but, as I say, 1 don’t believe it would
have been a success. The loss- of this
plane is the only drawback to the ex
pedition at this time. We will use
one Fokker. with 74 feet wing capac
ity, three 200-horsepower air-cooled
engines, and another Fokker around
60 feet wing capacity, equipped with
a Liberty engine.
“1 witnessed the demonstration of
the snow motors out do, and it cer
tainly would do . very thing—turn in
its own length trough heavy
snow where would mire,
climb steep p* no.’ go right on at
15 miles per i.ot.r. It looked very
Wilkins wired Sandy Smith in New
York and ha dhim come down and see
the snow motors demonstrated, and
Smith said he believed they would go
across. He applied for the job of try
ing to put them through. Wilkins
said he had nothing to lose by it and
if the Board wanted to try them out
he would like to see it done, for if
they could freight their supplies and
some material it would be a decided
advantage to them and would mean a
quicker start. So the board of di
rectors decided to buy three and to
send them up here and see if they
would go. It will not be fatal to the
expedition if they do not get across,
for we ea nfreight by plane. As I
said before, our only handicap so far
is the loss of the third plane.
“My idea is to set the planes up
here and then fly to Point Barrow.
We have possibly 30,000 to 40,000
pounds to land at Point Barrow—
2,500 gallons of gasoline, a radio set,
men and supplies. It will be quite a
lot of work passing over the Endicott
mountains, for there is a lot of snow
on this side and very little on the
other side, reports show. But by the
time we have made a few trips in
there and have to turn back a few
times we will probably have to ti.v
about a thousand miles—maybe more.
It is only once in about two hundred
hours that your engine may stop, and
if that happens to us in crossing the
Endicott range, we will just have to
kiss our planes goodbye. But, bar
ring bad luck, the chances are that
we will get our stuff over to Point
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; Barrow. At Point Barrow we wil put
| a ne wengine in the plane. Air
cooled engines hacve never been tried
out in cvold weather, and if this one
doesn’t work—for it will still he cold
—we will use the Liberty in the
other plane, which has a flying range
of 3,100 milesc. The big one will fly
2,500 miles.
“We will take off from PointBar
row for this unexplored egionr, which
! is about 1200 miles long and 000 miles
wide. No one has ever been in this
region before, but navigators have
skirted all around it. You eah only
get into it by airplane. We will be
in this area 45 minutes out of Point
Barrow, and will cut into it for about
600 or 700 miles. We will then go
back to Point Barrow and make a
second trip from the other side, and
if there is land map it and plant the.
Aineican flag, and then both planes
may go out and map the country
from the other side. This land may
prove of value and may not, but we
will claim it for the United States.
Then we will fly straight north,
across the North Pole, a distance of
1050 miles, and land at Spitsbergen.
We will do all our flying diming d«jy
ight, leaving Point Barxo wat night,
during the time of the midnight sun.
We will fly that night and the next
day and land at Spitsbergen that day.
We will fly from there to London and
ship the plane across the Atlanta.. Of
course these are only temporary
plans. It is not entirely probable that
we will get to the North Pole, or that
we will fly to Spitsbergen, but we
will if everything goes -well. 'Our
main object is to find land. We no
tice that the birds seem to come from
the north in the summer, so there
must be and there.
“In a few years there will be big
planes flying across the Arctic ocean,
airplanes equipped like boats, which
can be repaired while in the air and
on which people will feel as safe as
on boats. Across the interior of Alas
ka will be the feasible route to fly to
Asia, and the Arctic ocean is just as
safe as the Pacific, for flying. Squad
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COCAINE BROUGHT INTO
FRANCK IN WOODEN LEGS
Paris.—The unusually large num
ber of wooden-legged men crossing
from Germany into France recently
aroused the attention of -the French
frontier guards. As a result one peg
leg was requested by the guard to
alight from his automobile at the cus
toms house at the. Kehi bridge, over
the. Rhine.
The pegleg. fumed and raged, in
sisted that he was a veteran of the
great war, and denounced them for
submitting him to such an indignity.
The officers searched, him, but found
no contraband until an Alsatian
guard had an inspiration. He sug
gested that the man’s wooden leg be
detached and inspected. It was found
to contain more than 100 ounces of
cocaine.
Wooden-egged/ men now undergo a
more rigid customs inspection on the
Rhine frontier.
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President Coolidge sees nothing- g
wrong in buying on the instalment!
plan There isn’t. It’s the paying \
that hurts.—Toledo Blade.
It is estimated there were only ore
fifth as many books on child psychol
ogy when alder switches grew in
every hack yard.—Detroit News.
There are something like 600 things,
that can be made of corn, exclusive of
a political issue.—Detroit News.
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