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...Eielson's Friends. Last week two flying mates of the late Carl Ben Eielson (who crashed to death a year ago in the service of Alaskan Airways) made news: Pilot Frank Dorbandt circled low 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...
Previous Wilkins accomplishments which make his polar submarine trip seem not incredible: extended exploration work in north polar regions with Vilhjalmur ("No Vegetables!") Stefansson, exploration of tropical Australia for the British Museum, flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen with the late Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, 6,000 mi. of flying in south polar regions...
Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...
...Said Mr. Eielson: "There are times when faith doesn't count for much. It is over and we must bear...