| Summary: | Wilkins Again Reaches Barrow: While In Transit In Air Sends Radio Heard 300 Miles Away./Overland Party Is Fed./Chief Malcolm Smith Gets Provender From Eskimo Trappers And Relieves Stringency. WILKINS AGAIN REACHES BARROW While in Transit in Air Sends Radio Heard 300 Miles Away. Overland Party Is Fed. Chief Malcolm Smith Gets Provender From Eskimo Trappers and Relieves Stringency. 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. April 11. -- The second flight of Captain George Hubert Wilkins and Ben Eielson, his pilot, to Point Barrow from Fairbanks was successfully accomplished yesterday, they flyers making a safe landing in spite of foggy weather that made it difficult to pick up the landing field. If he flew on a direct course he evidently came down about 3 p.m. The commander of the expedition did not see the camp of the overland party on the Anaktuvuk river, where party on the Anaktuvuk river, where it was intended the plane should drop dog feed and other supplies. Radio Heard 300 Miles Away. Hearing of signals yesterday noon from the Alaskan in flight as it was passing over Chandler lake, 300 miles north of here, is believed to constitute a new world's record in radio communication from a plane in the air. Earl Rossman, who had been in charge of the camp of the overland party on the tundra, 80 miles south of the arctic shore, radioed last night that A. Malcolm Smith, chief of the party, had returned with ample provision for men and dogs just as the party were consuming the last of their provisions. Gets Food From Trappers. Smith, who had left the camp 11 days ago to go to Jones island for food, encountered two Eskimo trappers on the fifth day out and they gladly furnished him with provisions from their own supply. This enabled him to make two caches between the point where he met the Eskimos and the camp on the Anaktuvuk, and as soon as the party's dogs are fed up the entire overland party will move on the Barrow. A relief team already sent out eastward along the coast from Barrow will meet them. Rossman is of the opinion they will reach the settlement within two weeks. Alaskan Flies to Fairbanks. FAIRBANKS. Alaska, April 11. (/P)--The Alaskan returned here at 5 p.m. today after making her second flight to a Point Barrow base of the undertaking with supplies.
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