| Summary: | Scrape Snow Off Air Field: Wilkins Expedition Tries To Hurry Its Text To Planes. Scrape Snow Off Air Field Wilkins Expedition Tries To Hurry Its Text To Planes Special Correspondence of The Spokaesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance. (Copyright, 1926.) Fairbanks, Alaska, March 17. -- Captain George Wilkins, commander of the Detroit arctic expedition, and Major Thomas G. Lanphier, army aviator, each astride a snow plow, spend today in clearing the aviation landing field of snow to enable them to test the two arctic flight planes. The runway and field will be in shape this evening, it is expected. Snow flurries last night piled on top of the heavy fall of Monday. The weather today was clearing, however, A tractor belonging to the Fairbanks Exploration company and one of the two snow motors of the expedition, brought here from Nenana, hauled the snow plows back and forth.
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