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Died. Joe Crosson, 45, veteran bush pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks...
...years ago the Ontario Northland Railway called on chefs of the province for a typical Ontario dish to set before tourists. First prize went to a thrifty meat pie (rabbit, chicken or beef). Saskatchewan ran the same kind of contest, finally gave the first prize to a doughy chicken turnover. In cattle-conscious Alberta a third competition ended up with an old standby: a king-sized steak...
...steamer Northland churns its way towards the Holy Land today with its load of unwanted Jewish refugees, Arthur Bernstein, the man who trained its officers, will be some 5000 miles away in Hillel House giving the Harvard Zionist Society a picture of the blockade running business. His talk is set for 8 o'clock tonight...
When the Hudson Bay Company's supply ship Nascopie sailed from Montreal this week on her annual 11,000-mile voyage through the Arctic, she carried, along with 34 passengers and a cargo of necessities for northland Mountie posts, 1,200 copies of a 28-page pamphlet entitled The Book of Wisdom for Eskimo. In Eskimo-land, a copy of the pamphlet will be given to every family within reach...
Five days later the significance of his speech became clear. From Washington came word of a joint arctic defense plan for the U.S. and Canada. It was based on the military premise that Canada's vast northland might become a battleground in another war. Operation Musk-Ox (TIME, May 20) had proved that the north was no longer impassable or impregnable. It had also proved that Canada had not yet developed the proper equipment for warfare there...