AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

{Australian ifc N.Z. Cable Association.] FEAKS FOR WILKINS. VANCOUVER, April fi. Although excellent flying weather continues, there is still no sign of Wilkins. Tho authorities at Fairbanks are not so much alarmed at his silence, as his wireless might have met with a mishap, as by his failure to appear, as ho planned a spedy return from Barrow. It is feared that Wilkins started either to tour or return over the ice or seaward, and crashed. WILKINS BACK. VANCOUVER, April fi. Captain Wilkins has returned to Fairbanks, thereby completing a round trip from Point Barrow. A wireless message from Fairbanks states: “The tension here was relieved when The Government received a message that a strange aeroplane had lmen sighted • over Circle City, which is 150 miles northwest of Fairbanks. A few minutes later, a message came that the machine had descended upon- the \ ukon River. ,l p posite to the town. Captain Wilkins and Eielson had to he assisted from tho machine, as they were numb with cold and fatigue. They bad been eight hours in the air coming since early morning front Point Barrow against head winds, and they "eio fighting squally weather all the way.'

•SUPPLIES LANDED. “Wilkins said that they had had a successful trip, "having landed their . supplies at Point Harrow but on thou protracted return trip, they ran out of gasolene and oil. That was why tnej descended at Circle City.” WETS AND DRYS. ‘ GENERAL ANDREW’S ADMISSION. WASHINGTON, April (i. General Andrews, when examined hv the “Wet"’ (Senators, admitted that j 875 persons, or approximately one out of every ten, has been expelled from the Prohibition Law Enforcement Unit hut he insisted that the Unit was minimising gralt, dishonesty, and other objectionable features of the “dry” regime. General Andrews further admitted that the Coast Guard has succeeded in barring only live percent of the foreign liquor smuggled into the United States. He said that numbers of socalled druggists lmd started in every largo city for the purpose of selling alsohol. They have been underselling and seriously affecting the business of the legitimate druggists. Ho said that a variety of industrial mixtures, and also embalming fluid are being distilled for beverage purposes. Colonel Andrews deplored the recent ruling of the United States Circuit Court upon appeals, whereby, he said some 3-10 denaturing plants that had been shut hv the robibition Unit under suspicion of diverting alcohol illegally, would ho allowed to reopen their operations. IN THE VAST UNKNOWN. WILKINS’ FLIGHT. VANCOUVER, April 7. Wilkins’ story of his farthest North Alaska flight reads like a novel. On leaving Fairbanks on Wednesday week the motor worked like a charm. W itli- - i„ five hours the flyers found thornselves off the village at Pt. Barrow. “Things were then going so well with i ns,” continued Wilkins, “that we ile- * ci(led to keep on going north. During • > ' the next three hours we accomplished 75 miles seaward into that great unknown. We reached 73 degrees 30 minutes north, flying at 7,000 delation. The visliility was good and from this height we could see many miles in everv direction. Leaving Bailor. no crossed a broad expanse of .smooth ice and then traversed a rough hummocky area that stretc-hqd as far as the eyes could Teach in every direction, broken by leads of open water on all sides. We saw no evidence of land. The return was delayed by bad weather.” PAPER MANUFACTURER’S DEATH. VANCOUVER, April 7. Norman Lang, managing director of the Powell River Pulp Coy., the biggest individual British Columbian exporter of paper to Australia and New Zealand died suddenly here/