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Wilkins Prepared
Fly In Moonlight
POINT BARROW, Dec. 9, —
Sir Hubert Wilkins, who arrived
here the other day from Akla
vik, said he expects to make a
flight in search of the missing
Russian plane, during the next
full moon in December.
“For two or three days on
each side of a f<Hl moon a man
can be seen at a distance of three
miles. If the men have not wan
dered from the plane they can
be loated quit? easily,” Wilkins
declared.
He believes the men went
down on their flight across the
North Polar ice cap, between the
80th parallel and the North Pole.
While the gasoline lasts Wilk
ins will work from Aklavik, he
said.
Sir Hubert radioed to Michd
Beliakov, Soviet government re
presentative in Fairbanks that
the search by plane through the
Arctic night will be made be
tween December 10 and 26. The
full moon occurs December 17.
New Radio installed
To provide him with radio bear
ings, p new broadcasting set has
been installed at Aklavik, and
another will soon be ready at
Barrow.
Receiver Ready
In a radio conversation recently
Sovet Radio Engineer S. A. Smir
nov at Barrow, reported to Mr.
Beliakov that a new receiver and
radio direction finder have been
installed in a building separate
from the Alaska Communications
System staton at Barrow.
A special transmitter for the
station is on the way to Juneau,
and will b: flown to Fairbanks by
Pacific Alaska Airways. Pilot
Harold Gillam will fly the trans
mitter to Barrow.
Radio Expert
Mr. Smirnov is assisted at Bar
row by R. W. Cook, radio expert
from the development laboratory
of Canadian Marconi, Ltd., Mon
treal.
As soon as Soy.rnov and. Cook
receive the transmitter and in
stall it, Sir Hubert will be ready
to continue the search for the
Russian fliers who were lost in
the Arctic last August in an at
tempt to fly from Moscow over
the Pole to the States.
His flights over the Arctic oc
ean during the moonlight nights
will be guided by radio bearings
from Aklavik and Barrow.
Base at Barrow
Operating from a base at Bar
row, he hopes to cross-section the
area in the Arctic where the Rus
sian plane might have been forc
ed to land on the ice pack
If the weather is clear, the
brightLst moonlight will be Dec.
17.
December 21 is the shortest day
of the year, the winter solstice.
News From Graciansky
. Mr. Beliakov received a mess
Mr. Beliakov received a mess
age from Pilot Alexei Graciansky
who recently was in Fairbanks.
After searching in the Arctic
this fall for their lost comrades,
Graciansky and the crew of a
Soviet Sikorsky amphibian plane
flew to Fairbanks, where their
ship was overhauled by the Alas
ka Ainmotive Co.
From Fairbanks they flew to
Providence bay,Siberia, via Nome.
There the Sikorsky plane was put
aboard the freighter Okhotsk, &
the crew sailed November 13th
from Providence Bay on the Ok
hotsk for Vladivostok.
Soviet Representative
Mr. Beliakov, now the only So
viet representative in Fairbanks,
is a representative andand.B .
is a meteorologist assisting in the
search. He works through the
Alaska Communications System
Office and the weather bureau in
Fairbanks. He is chief of the av
iation department, of the central
office of the Soviet hydrometeor
ological service, Moscow.
A. Vartanian, chief engineer of
the Amltorg.who was in Fairbanks
to direct the Arctic search, is now
in Washington, D. C., or New
York City aiding with arrange
ments for the continuation of the
search, and preparing for the
Russian airline which is to link
the Soviets and the States. Mr.
Vartanian said that his stay
“back east” probably would be
short. He is epacted to return to
Fairbanks.
News Of Death
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Marshal Gaffney
Received Here
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lowing the fire of 1934, which
destroyed all government build
ings in Nome.
Surviving him in Nome is his
nephew Wilfred Neily, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Neily, Mrs.
Neily was Mr. Gaffney’s sister &
passed away three years ago.
In Boston, he is survived by a
sister, and also a brother in Ire
land.
Well-known throughout Alas
ka homas Gaffney had a host of
friends and acquaintances, who
will mourn his passing.
While the news of his death
last night was not altogether un
expected, as several wires had
been received lately describing
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ing came as a shock to govern
ment officials and others early
this morning.
Out of respect to the death of
U. S. Marshal Gaffney, all offices
in the federal building remained
closed today.
While not definitely learned it
was believed that services would
be held in Seattle for Mr. Gaff
ney and the body prepared for
shipment back to Nome in the
spring for burial here. Numerous
orders for floral weaths have:
been sent to Seattle it was learn-!
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