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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: plane; Endicott Mountains; Alaska; Arctic Sea; Point Barrow; Frederic Lweis Earp; North American Newspaper Alliance; Detroit arctic expedition; snowstorm; John river; George H. Wilkins; monoplane; weather condition; Polar basin; radio message; A. Malcolm Smith; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Detroit; Fairbanks; Pacific; Sea Point; Wilkins; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86131

Plane Supplies Making Headway: At Crest Of Endicott Mountains In Alaska With Downhill Pull To Arctic Sea. / Damaged Ship To Fly. / "Alaskan" Must Make Several Trips To Point Barrow Before Big Plane Can Leave. PLANE SUPPLIES MAKING HEADWAY At Crest of Endicott Mountains in Alaska With Downhill Pull to Arctic Sea. DAMAGED SHIP TO FLY "Alaskan" Must Make Several Trips To Point Barrow Before Big Plane Can Leave. By Frederic Lewis Earo. Special Correspondent of The Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance with the Detroit Arctic Expedition (Copyright, 1926, by N. A. N. A.) Fairbanks, Alaska, Wednesday, March 24. -- Hitting a faster pace after the passing of the snowstorm which had impeded their progress the dog teams of the overland division of the Detroit arctic expedition were six miles from the summit of the Endicott range last night, on the upper reaches of the John river, according to radio message received here by Captain George H. Wilkins, commander of the expedition. The party en route to Point Barrow, covered 18 miles yesterday, its chief, A. Malcolm Smith, reported, and the 11 men and 60 dogs are standing the mush well. The first of the two monoplanes of