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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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IMPERISHABLE TRADITIONS
Whether his comrades of the air succeed in find
ing Colonel Ben Eielson, and Mechanician Borland, or
nor, the efforts in that direction again serve to empha
size the courage and faithfulness of that little group
of airmen who have and aie now writing some of the
most brilliant chapters of American aviation.
It has only required something spectacular to
bring into bold relief the full purport of the adventure
that has resulted in creating of a simple heroic a fixed
milepost in the conquest of the air.
We see Noel Wein, modest, retiring and bearing
those evidences of the finest type of American youth,!
leaping into the air on the fringe of the Arctic, armed
merely with incomplete maps, dashing away across Ber
ing Strait, over a field of rugged, floating icebergs, cir
cling like an eagle scanning the landscape for its prey;
a tiny spot of black between the Siberian mainland and
Wrangell Island breaking the monotony of a sea of
white which looms below. It is a ship in the grip of
Frost King. He returns to Nome over the same treach- !
erous route to his base at Nome.
Wrangell Island—the name conjures up tales of;
Arctic hardship—of Ada Blackjack, survivor of an
ill-fated expedition; a primitive Eskimo woman, who
won the battle when her white companions perished.
But it was not curiosity, romance or adventure
that took Wein on his pioneer mission and brought
Neimenen, Young, Barnhill, Crosson, Eielson, Dor
ban t—Russell Merrill, one of the finest in the world, j
did not have the opportunity to cross but would have
been one of the first to respond to the present rescue
call had he no vanished into the unknown months ago—
in his wake. Rather it was taking another step in the
development of aviation that will exert a tremendous
influence upon the future of aviation, and will em
blazon these names upon the honor roll of those who
have conquered the air.
Last month Thomas P. Nelson, veteran mail pilot,
flying companion of Lindbergh, disappeared while fly
ing his route from Cleveland to New York. Instantly
Lindbergh, Doolittle, Stinson, Love and other famous
fliers, leapt into the air and battled midwinter storms
until Nelson’s body was found.
The same spirit of self-effacement and heroism is
being enacted, only on a more vivid scale, in the Siber
ian and Alaskan Arctic. If the search for Nelson thrill
ed a nation, what must be the effect of the battle now
being waged by Crosson, Young and Dorbandt, com
rades of the intripid Eielson, and ranking below him
only in that theirs has been a purely utilitarian effort
rather than a romance that catches the imagination of
an excitement-loving world.
There are no refuges along the Siberian coast and
in the interior of bleak Siberia save those created by
the daring pilot; no landing fields and short distances
to succor in the event of a mishap. Such flights entail
every hazard encountered in the conquest of the poles.
Every challenge of nature is accepted and the price
of failure is death.
Such magnificent courage has not before been ex
hibited in the history of aviation. It is the product of
qualities rarely found outside the ranks of this flower
of American youth, emblematic of every virtue one
would ask in sterling manhood. Bound as they are by
a common danger and a loyalty measuring up the
greatest traditions of comradie, these pioneers of a
new age have won the right to stand beside the illus
trious of all ages.
These traditions blend harmoniously with those
that have gone before in the conquest of Alaska and
serve fo vivify the epitome of Service:
“That only the strong shall survive.”
HESSE PROPOSES FILE
FOH OF, ICE TEH1H
HHMT ENGINEER
Announcement was made yes
terday by Wm. A. Hesse, mining
engineer and a resident of the
Territory for 26 years, of his
plan to file his candidacy for the
office of Territorial Highway En
gineer, April primary, on the
democratic ticket, subject to the
approval of the voters of Alaska.
Mr. Hesse is no stranger to
the citizens of this city for he
was a resident of Seward some
years ago for four years. For the
last six years he has resided at
Fairbanks; at Cordova for seven,
Nome, seven years; Juneau for a
brief period, and in addition,
has covered most of Alaska’s re
mote and smaller populated dis
tricts. From a standpoint of
knowing his subject matter he is
personally acquainted with it in a
most thorough way.
Mr. Hesse is now enroute to
Ketchikan where he expects to be
permanently established.
Being conversant with Alaska
through his 26 years of following
his profession, that of mining
engineer, Mr. Hesse informs The
Gateway his appeal to the voter
will be a simple platform; that
of having lived here for 26 years,
in every division, has given him
an intimate acquaintance with
general conditions. He does not
plan a campaign of any kind,
he said, for the reason he is not
able, financially, to do so.
Prior to coming to Alaska Mr.
Hesse was employed in the Coeur
D’ Alene mining district of Ida
ho as a U, S. mineral surveyor;
he also was employed at Boise,
in the city engineer’s office; was
acting engineer at Wallace, Ida
ho; and was a draftsman in the
city engineer's office, at Seattle.
During the World War Mr.
Hesse was a 1st Lt. in the 20th
Engineers, U. S. Army.
W. J, Imiach, well known Alas
ka cannery man, was among
today’s arrivals from the south
on legal matters before the lo
cal session of the dsitrict court.
Mrs. R. R- Swartz, wife of the
Anchorage physician and sur
geon, accompanied Dr. and Mrs.
Haverstock to Kodiak on the
Admiral Rogers which lefr port
today.
Georgia Willis, Seward high
school student who was tender
ed a farewell party last evening,
left today for the home of her
parents at Seldovia.
No local business came up be
fore the district court which has
convened here briefly before the
officials depart for court head
quartrs at Valdez.
Arrivals from Anchorage bring
word that the Empress theater
is about ready to close down
for a month while installation
of the talkies is made and the
accompanying necessary changes
to the theatre proper.
The Gateway; the paper with “It”.
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