ARCTIC OC. RADIO BROADCAST
GIVEN IN PA A PLANE AT NOON
WED. OVER THE NBC NETWORK
(Continued From One)
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tion industry in Alaska and
the part played at various
times by his organization.
Comedy even colored the
flight when the announcer,
Don Thompson, pegged as a
eheechacco was led from
one Alaskan anecdote to
another. The program
lasted for fifteen minutes as
the plane flew directly
north, headed for the North
Pole with its tail pointing
to the South Pole. Upon
completion of the broadcast
the plane veered around
and headed for the Siber
ian coastline as the near
est point from which to
commence the return flight.
T h u rsd ay—W cd nesd ay
“Thfe plane was flying at
an altitude of nine thou
sand feet with one wing on
the left of the Internation
al Date Line and one wing
on the other side so that
half of those in the cabin
were seated in Thursday
and the other half in Wed
nesday as far as the calen
dar was concerned. Every
where could be seen the
vast ice floes of the huge
Arctic ocean that dengerous
area where hundreds of
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vessels have been caught
a the grinding ice does and
crushed, leaving then
rows to a freezing death,
or worse, dropping into the
water.
Pressure Kidges
“Enroute back down the
Siberian coast we could
make out huge pressure
ridges of ice perhup ' twen
ty miles off shor: . caused
by the pressure of the out
er floes and tide pushing!
against the ice which was
grounded in the . hallow
waters of the Siberian,
coast. Some of th e ridg
es must have stood as high
as a hundred feet in the es
timation of Crosson, as long
shadows from the sun could
be seen streaming away
from them.
“We passed Whalen, a So
viet settlement at East
Cape where there are per
haps fifty houses and then
proceeded rapidly to Big;
Diomede Island where we
observed only one small ice
house built on top of the Is
land, the only Soviet sign
of life. However, on Little
Diomede Island, which be
longs to the U. S., we circl
ed the small village of half
a dozen houses several tim
es, waving to the fifty or
sixty Eskimos who ran out
onto the ice in front if the
Island to see what 1ns big
exc'timcut was about. We
did noi land however, as
fog could be s on fo ming
neai by and i* was in;.;-", -
ti'vi. 10 return at once n
Nome.
“From there to Nome, the
time was very short and
nothing of additional inter
est could be seen. It is a
wonderful sight, however,
to be high in an airplane ov
er the Arctic Ocean and be
able to see the extremities
of the two greatest contin
ents in the world.
See Two Continents
“We could see in the bril
liant sunshine, East Cape,
Siberia and Cape Prince of
Wales, Alaska. In between
were the Diomede Islands
and a short distance below
them was a lone sentinel in
Bering Sea called Fairway
Rock. We landed at Nome
at 1:30 Thi; -as the
Ion test . e U m i aissi in
fioin plan • 1;■ f ht to
any oilu ■ poinl, via ia'Ko,
even Ion -o! ti., I he b oad
cast f’'ou! aver Nome y. >r
day.'’
Those on board were
aware upon our return, of
the real success of our
(light, in that without the
scrupulous care and atten
tion given to every detail of
the plane and arrange
ments by the PAA organ
ization at Fairbanks and
Nome, the flight could not
have been made.
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Fox in Spring
CHy The A ; m iiited Press)
Tacoma. March 19—Cape
furs were in strong demand
at the monthly fur auction
h dd here yesterday, when
buyers paid seventy-ei: ht
thousand dollars for pelts.
Alaska fox was particul
arly favored. Buyers pre
dicted further price increas
■; in the spring.
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It is s i:l th ; in.v-tiga
tion will sell, e v ' eiher
or not .American pi ,!
h*’d anything to do with
fomenting the Word War,
and that if any particular
American capitalist was the
offender, his name will be
uncovered. Although poss
essed of ample powers and
prompted by good inten
tions, the inquiry may pro
ceed something like anoth
er well-known probe, the
account of which begins:
Who killed cock robin?
Not 1, said the sparrow.
E ve r yth i ng considered,
one is in. lined to think that
those who looked forward
to a-short session of the Na
tional legislature were a
trifle too optimistic.
The Communists seem to
think that there are two
colors too many in the flag
that is commonly referred
to as the red, white and
blue.
A wealthy New Yorker
provided in his will that a
sum of startling propor
tions was to be spent on his i
tomb, the balance of the es-,
tate to be divided among
beneficiaries named. Those
who were to participate in
the distribution of what
was left went to court, on
the grounds that to build so
costly a memorial would
convict the testator of bad
taste. Perhaps it does
amount to had taste to
crave a grave-marker that
is too flashy, but what is
to be said about the taste of
those who raised the objec
tion when it was evident
that the smaller the tomb
stone the larger the split?
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1934-1935 Schedule
Sailing Dates From Seattle Northbound And Sail
ing dates from Seward Southbound.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Victoria Mar. 7 Mar. 15
Alaska Mar. 14 Mar. 20
Yukon Mar. 21 Mar. 27
General Agents Pacific Steamship Lines.
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