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...daughter of Capt. Olaf Swenson of the icelocked furship Nanuk for which Pilots Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland perished in Siberia (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.), radioed the U. S. press that, now that Eielson's plane wreck was found, she and her father would proceed to Nome in another plane. Said she: "I have had a wonderful experience and I wouldn't take anything in the world for it, but I will be glad to get a glimpse of Seattle again. . . . Every minute of the time has been filled with adventure...
Carl Ben Eielson, 32, is, perhaps was, general manager of Alaskan Airways. There are no regular air transport lines in the Peninsula. Alaskan Airways has bases at Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks. It charters its planes for taxi and express service, using about 70 small government landing fields in summer and any patch of level snow in winter...
...Later the Army world flyers flew along southern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (westward, 1924), the Russian disguised bomber Land of the Soviets along the same route (eastward, 1929), Parker Dresser Cramer from New York to Nome (1929), Ross G. Hoyt from New York to Nome to British Columbia where he crashed...
...eastward to Spitsbergen, across converging lines of longitude, through shifting fields of terrestrial magnetism-at 135 m.p.h. The late Roald Amundsen, with Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, beat them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that...
...with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier of Nome who, doddering with age, was sent to New Haven to be stuffed for posterity...