STEFANSSON CO-ORDINATING
IN SEARCH FOR SIX SOVIET
AVIATORS LOST IN NORTH
WASHINGTON, — Efforts at
rescuing the Russian fliers lost
in the Arctic open/again a quaint
little chapter in northern explor
ation.
Vilhjalmar Stefansson, tops in
exploring in the dog team days,
is coordinating the rescue efforts
with headquarters in the Russ
ian embassy here. Stefansson is
generally conceded to know his
Arctic. But he had one noted crit
ic, the late Roald Amundsen, him
self lost amid the ice floes with
several companions who set out
in a plane to rescue the second
and ill-fated Nobile flight into the
Arctic in 1928.
Stefansson says there is no dan
ger of the Russians starving if
they landed with any equipment.
Moreover, he says, they probably
could land their plane safely on
the ice. Years ago, Stefansson and
a pair of college youths traveled
afoot across part of the ice area
in which the present search is
being conducted.
seal uiei
They couldn’t carry enough food
to last them for the two months
or more they expected to be on
the ice. Stefansson planned that
they should live “off the country’’
by eating seal meat. It was an ex
perience, but they survived in
good health.
Since then several experiments
in various colleges have been
conducted to prove that man
cannot live on meat alone. Stef- j
ansson was reminded of one mid
western school which put sever-1
al students on a meat diet. At
the end of two weeks the men al
most turned inside out at the sight
of meat, cooked or raw. Worried
experimenters promptly ended
the test with a conclusion that
it would not work. They put
their men back on a balanced
diet.
Out on the ice with his two
companions, Stefansson had the
same experience. At the end of
two weeks the men could not
eat any more meat. Their stom-1
achs rebelled at the sight of fresh
seal blubber or any other kind!
of blubber. But Stefansson wait
ed. He had been through it. Af
ter a day or two of eating noth
ing, the men’s appetite for blub
ber returned. It had to. There was
mo balanced diet of cabbage and
spinach they could turn to out'
there on the ice. They had to
eat seal and like it. They did.
Amundsen’s Dissent
Part of Stefansson’s purpose in
making the journey was to esta
blish that animal life existed on
or under the ice regardless of the
distance from land, and that men
could survive on what they could
kill. That’s where Amundsen
comes in.
He scoffed at Stefanason’s con
tention.
“Pah” he told this reporter dur
ing an interview shortly before
he disappeared in the Arctic.
“Stefansson never was 5 miles
from land on that journey.”
But Stefansson said he was sev
eral hundred miles from land
and his diary of his journey
shows this. Moreover, he said, he
and his men never lacked meat.:
He didn’t go within many miles
of the Pole, but he argued that
conditions at the Pole were lit
tle different from those he exper
ienced over the ice between
northern Alaska and a far dist
ant point in northern Canada to
which he and his men traveled.
That is one reason he believes
the Russians will not starve. An
other is that they had a 45-day
supply of food with them. Stef
ansson thinks there is a good
chance for rescue. i
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QUESTION: lVhat docs a stable market for Alaska's Catmed
Salmon mean for our school childrenf
ANSWER: Alaska’s schools are high in educational standards—their
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SALMON TOMATOES IN CHEESE NOODLES
1 pkg. noodles
4 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
1 cup grated cheese
6 medium tomatoes
2 cups (1 lb.) Canned Salmon
1 cup cut-up mushrooms
salt, pepper, lemon juice
Cook noodles in boiling salted water, drain.
Melt 2 tbsps. butter in double boiler, add flour,
1 tsp. salt, Vi tsp. pepper, blend thoroughly.
Add milk, stir until thick and smooth. Cook
for 5 min., add cheese, stir until cheese melts.
Arrange half of cooked noodles in buttered
casserole, pour over half of cheese sauce. Re
peat, using remaining ingredients.
Hollow out peeled tomatoes, season with Vi
tsp. salt, </g tsp. pepper. Melt 2 tbsps. butter,
add flaked Canned Salmon and fnushrooms;
simmer 5 min. Add 1 tsp. salt, >/g tsp. pepper,
1 tsp. lemon juice. Fill tomatoes with mixture;
arrange on noodle mixture. Rake in moderate
oven (350° F.) 30 to 40 min. until tomatoes
are tender. Serve with lemon slices. Serves 6.
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