Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: polar flyers; photographers; Alaska judge; Nenana; Gasoline; Wilkins transpolar flight expedition; mystery; arrival; Fairbanks; Cecil B. Clegg; Fourth division of Alaska; Merle Lavoy; Richard Suratt; Point Barrow; government agency; Seattle; George Hubert Wilkins; Thomas G. Lanphier; blind spot; Arctic ocean; Seward; Alaska; monoplanes; Endicott mountains; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Merle; Pacific; Wilkins; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86074

Stop Pictures Of Polar Flyers: Photographers Restrained By Alaska Judge When Supplies Reach Nenana. STOP PICTURES OF POLAR FLYERS Photographers Restrained by Alaska Judge When Supplies Beach Nenana. NENANA, Alaska, Feb. 10. OP)—Gasoline and supplies for the Wilkins transpolar flight expedition arrived here today. Departure of the Mystery which surrounded members of the expedition when they failed to unload the supplies upon their arrival was dispelled late this afternoon when an airplane from Fairbanks brought a court order temporarily restraining news photographers from taking pictures of the expedition. The order was issued by Judge Cecil B. Clegg of the Fourth division of Alaska and was directed against Merle Lavoy and Richard Suratt, photographers, restraining them from taking pictures of the expedition from Nenana to Point Barrow. The order set forth that the expedition is an exclusively private enterprise and had not been financed by any government agency or public contributions, and that it is hoped to pay its expenses by sale of motion pictures. A hearing on the order was set for February 19. Flyers Arrive In Seattle. Seattle, Feb. 10. (/P)--Captain George Hubert Wilkins and Major Thomas G. Lanphier, who will attempt the first flight over the 1,000,000 square mile "blind spot" of the Arctic ocean, arrived here tonight. From Seattle the aviators will sail for Seward, Alaska, Saturday. From Seward they will go by rail to Fairbanks where they expect to assemble the two monoplanes of the expedition and fly to Point Barrow, the base for their arctic flight. The advance guard of the expedition is already at Nenana, near the 700-mile trek over the Endicott mountains with supplies were reported today to be completed.