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...Lindberghs. From Point Barrow, where they had their first dogsled ride and where, in the schoolhouse the Colonel made a speech to the populace of eight whites and several hundred Eskimos, the Lindberghs headed south to Nome. Mrs. Lindbergh radioed ahead asking that flares and bonfires be prepared for their landing, but 100 mi. short of Nome they ran into soupy fog, sat down at Shishmaref south-west of Kotzebue Sound to wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety...
...bound the flyers for three days and two nights at Aklavik, where they were lionized by the 35 white residents and the hundred or so Eskimos (to whom Col. Lindbergh was "Big Airplane Man"). When the fog cleared along the Arctic coast the Lindberghs flew on to icebound Point Barrow, Alaska, to the indescribable delight of the residents who had received neither visitors nor mail nor supplies from "outside" for four months. Bad weather set in again. Meanwhile in the U. S. there was talk that the real purpose of the Lindberghs' flight was to chart an international mail...
...Hudson's Bay; flew on to Churchill, Canada's booming northern grain port; thence set out for Baker Lake and Aklavik, a route from which many a seasoned airman of the North had tried to dissuade them. From Aklavik their course lies west through Point Barrow, Nome, the tips of Siberia, the Kuril Islands and Tokyo...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...
...over the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...