| Summary: | Watched Norge For Hour: Fairbanks Station Fears Airship Short Of Gas. WATCHED NORGE FOR HOUR Fairbanks Station Fears Airship Short of Gas. By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of The Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance with the Detroit Arctic Expedition. (Copyright, 1926.) FAIRBANKS, Alaska. May 14. -- Mason and Wakey, the Detroit arctic expedition's radio team, again broke through the static last night to give details of the Norge's appearance at Barrow to The Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance. It was at 10 p.m. that Mason, who has been listening alternately for the long wave transmission of the Norge and the short wave signals of Waskey, picked up the latter and received the longest message he has been able to get for several nights. Expert though he is the expedition's chief radio man was not as successful with the dirigible. Wednesday night's dispatch only established the fact for us that the Norge had passed Barrow giving the distance and time. Although the time when the big airship was sighted at Barrow was after 8 o'clock in the evening, the constant light there enabled the Eskimos and our party there to watch the Norge for an hour, until she passed out of sight to the south. Army Radio Seeks Word. The Washington-Alaska military telegraph system is searching the territory with its radio and land lines net in an effort to find the missing Amundsen dirigible Norge. It was snowing at Nome this forenoon and fog and storm conditions are reported to the westward and north. The weather here was clear and warmtoday. Lieutenant Herbert G. Messer, signal corps officer in charge at Fairbanks, has requested citizens at all towns where the government radio and telegraph stations are maintained to keep close watch for the dirigible in event she is disabled and the radio is not functioning. Fear is expressed here that the Norge may be short of gas.
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