| Summary: | Carries Aid To Wilkins: Aviator Hope Off With Extra Airplane Supplies. CARRIES AID TO WILKINS Aviator Bops Off With Extra Airplane Supplies. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 22. (/P) —Alger Graham of the Detroit News-Wilkins arctic expedition and his Eskimo guide took off from Fairbanks today in an airplane on his second flight to Point Barrow to rescue Captain George H. Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson at Beechy point, 150 miles east of Barrow on the Arctic coast. Graham carried two sets of wheels, tires, tubes and gasoline with him. Because of the fast receding snow wheels are to replace the skis on the airplane. Wilkins and Eielson hopped off from Barrow March 29 in another airplane of the expedition in search of land in the arctic wastes. They wirelessed back "engine trouble," and were not heard from again until last Wednesday when It was learned that they had reached Beechy point.
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