EIELSON TRAGEDY
STEFANSSON’S TRIBUTE. J United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK,' January 27. ' A message from Minneapolis, Minne- ' "' sota' states : Stefansson paid a tribute •' to Kelson as “one of the greatestbpilots who ever lived” ‘‘The world,” he saya, “particularly the North, has lost a great man. Sadly enough, this is the first life to be lost in Arctic flying, for Amundsen was lost in the , open Atlantic. I believe that -Orville - Wright's first flight of eigh't hundred feet was as great, hut the only one greater than Eielson’s Hvns Wilkin’s flight over the Arctic.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1930, Page 5
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