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Flights of such special nature are frequently undertaken by aviation companies in Alaska but Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes...
...astonishment of most observers Don Moyle and Cecil Allen were heard from last week, nine days after they took off from Japan for Seattle (TIME, Sept. 21). They turned up at Miano Pilgino, a tiny village on the coast of Kamchatka, Siberia later flew on to Nome. Because of the text of Movie's first radio message to his fiancée, saying "have Frank put publicity man on job," the flyers' backers were obliged to make heated denials that the plane's disappearance was a hoax...
...Collection was 0. B. Oilman's Idahurst Lofty, considered the best cocker spaniel in America. Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...
...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...
...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...