| Summary: | Spokane To Alaska In One Day Seen For Near Future: Crosson Flies To Fairbanks Over "Inside Airway." SPOKANE TO ALASKA IN ONE DAY SEEN FOR NEAR FUTURE CROSSON FLIES TO FAIRBANKS OVER "INSIDE AIRWAY." Spokane's much-talked-of "inside airway" to Alaska is now a practical reality. For years past Spokanites have strongly advocated an "inside" air route to interior Alaska, and nave asked federal aid for its establishment—asserting such a route would he much shorter and safer than the costal airway, besides having better weather conditions for year-around flying. To day there is no further doubt about that being so. Last week Joe Crosson, famous veteran pilot of "Alaska Airways," after having ski-runners fitted to his 10-passenger Lockheed Electra transport plane at Spokane, hopped off from the ice on Loon lake early Friday morning and headed northward for Alaska over the "inside airway/' where he arrived safely two days later, after a 1700-mile trip including three landings and a detour. Due to fogs and storms on the coast such a trip by the costal airway could not have been undertaken at that time. The first leg of the trip, to Prince George, B. C., a distance of 480 miles, was made in three hours, a speed of about 160 miles per hour, which if maintained would have put him into Fairbanks in less than 11 hours. However, another stop was made at White- horse, in the Yukon, where upon request of the Associated Press he made a search for Mary Joyce, 27, long overdue on a 1000-mile dog sled trek from southeastern Alaska do Fairbanks. Miss Joyce was located at Tetling, 160 miles southeast of her destination, She expected to arrive at Fairbanks early this week, Crosson reported.
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