| Summary: | Dogs And Plane Supplies In Gale: Five Teams Leave Tanana, Alaska, With 800 Miles Yet To Go./Swept Across Lake./Three Air-Cooled Engines Are Mounted In Big Monoplane At Fairbanks. DOGS AND PLANE SUPPUES IN GALE Five Teams Leave Tanana, Alaska, With 800 Miles Yet to Go. SWEPTACROSS LAKE Three Air-Cooled Engines Are Mounted In Big Monoplane At Fairbanks. By Earl Rossman, Speical correspondent of The Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance, with advance division of Detroit arctic expedition. (Copyright, 1926, by N. A. N. A.) TANANA, Alaska, March 5.—A. Malcolm Smith, commander of the Ill-fated snow motors division of theDetroit arctic expedition, is leaving here today to carry photographic equipment, radio supplies and camp equipment to Point Barrow for Captain George Hubert Wilkins. He is accompanied by Robert Waskey, radio operator; Herbert Anderson, a Nenana musher; three Indians, and the writer. The load for Point Barrow, where the advance base for the Wilkins polar flight is to be established, is distrlbuted among 46 dogs, divided into four teams. A fifth team of eight dogs will haul, dog feed as far as the foothills of the Endicott mountains. This team is driven by the native from whom Smith rented it. Aside from dog feed, the load carried north weighs 2500 pounds. "Waskey, Anderson and I arrived at Hot Springs Tuesday night after a 50-mile trip by dog team. While crossstruck a 60-mile gale. My dogs and I were blown ha)f way across the lake, but after a struggle I managed to unharness the team and crawl to the, edge of the ice. Smith, fearing that I had met some mishap, backtracked with Waskey. The three of us pushed on to Long lake, where all three of our teams were rolled across the ice by the wind. It is 800 miles from here to Point Barrow. Smith has told Captain Wilkins, commander of the expedition, that he could make it in 27 days from Tolovana, which is 100 miles behind us. He has told us that we must throw ourselves against a gee-pole 16 hours a day if we are to keep that promise. Mount Three Engines. By Palmer Hutchinson, 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, March 5. -- By working long after dark yester day and starting again at dawn today, the members of the flying divi sion of the Detroit arctic expedition finished mounting the three air-cooled engines in the tri-motored Fokker monoplane this forenoon and so put themselves 48 hours ahead of their assembly schedule. The single-engined monoplane, ready for the first test flight, stands outside the hangar in which the larger ship is taking form. In the meanwhile a battalion of citizen volunteer from the town set to work today with mattocks and axes to clear the flying field of brush so as to increase its straightaway length, while others drove horse-drawn drags and tractor-drawn rollers up and down the field, packing down the snow in the hope that the expedition's planes will be able to take off and land without skis.
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