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...summer of 1931, Charles Lindbergh and his wife flew from College Point, Long Island-by way of Maine, Ottawa, Aklavik, Nome, Karaginski, and Tokyo-to Nanking and the flooded valley of the Yangtze River. They were driven down by darkness in Alaska, by fog in Japan; they were lost, went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized...
Nowhere characterizing her husband, or writing at length about him, Anne Lindbergh tells a few anecdotes that reveal him as a matter-of-fact, friendly, laconic character. Unable to reach Nome before dark, the Lindberghs landed in a far lagoon on Seward Peninsula, anchored the plane, and slept. In the middle of the night they were awakened by guttural voices, discovered two boatloads of Eskimos beside the plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going...
...river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
Soups and serums were soon on their way to Nome when the Coast Guard ordered three vessels of the Bering Sea patrol to proceed there at once and share supplies with stricken inhabitants, who by this time were huddled in rude barracks and eating in a community kitchen. A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just...
Pressed by Carl Lomen and Governor John W. Troy, who wired an urgent appeal from Juneau, Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins dug down into his misery chest for $50,000 to rebuild and re-victualize the ashy remains of Nome...