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r north pole conquered again capt wilkins flies from point barrow to spits bergen but sees no new land floyd bennett dies in quebec hospitad held up by storm copenhagen denmark auother conquest of the north polar regions was recorded saturday april 21 when captain george h wilkins announced to the copenhagen politlken the sate arrival at spltzbergen of himself and carl b elelson they flew over the roof of the world from point barrow alaska a distance of 2100 miles only two brief wireless messages came through but they revealed that wilkins like koehl and fitzmaurice in the bremen had a narrow escape from disaster at the very end of their epochal adventure for some reason as yet unexplained wilkins was obll- ed to make a lauding on an uninhabi ted islet only 25 miles from his goal the fliers were detained there for live days by bad weather the islet on the north side of isfjord bears the forbidding name of doedmansoeira it is a mere speck in the arctic waste there was shelter for koehl fitz maurice and von lluenefeld on green ly island but there is no lighthouse on doedmansoeira the wilkins announcements were all the briefer because the regular radio operator of the small statlou in the svalbard arctlpelago was killed a few days ago in an accident some one of the spltzbergen colonly knew enough about wireless transmission to get out word of that accident and to call for a relief operator may have sent own messages it was not clear as to who trans mitted the messages from wilkins but he may have done that himself as he had kept in communication with stations iu alaska by using a small radio set with which his plane was equipped while he was still at point barrow the planes set is believed however to have gone out of commis sion for no ward cams from wilklu3 on the day he hopped off nor for sev eral days preceding the start the captain in his messages to the outside world said that he reached spltzbergen after 20 vi hours of flying he mentioned the five days delay on the island it was figured therefore that he must have left point barrow some time last sunday the flight of captain george ii wilkins across an unknown part of the polar basin is one of the greatest feats of exploration by air com mander byrd who flew to the north tole from spltzbergen and back said it was greater than his accomplish ment and itoald amundsen who flew in a dirigible from spitsbergen to al- eska- the reverse of wilkinss course said it was the greatest light ever nclc- so in the eyes of men who have j made journeys of equal daring the flight of wilkins in a small plane over ati unknown sea is destined to go down in polar history as one of the greatest achievements of them all there are many things which ronko wilkinss flight stand out as re- isrkaila in aviation and in explora tion he took off from tho alaskan coast for a comparatively small archipelago on the other side of tho top of tre world through a region where navigation s exceedingly dif ficult and hit his objective squarely nonstop flight of 2100 miles lie made a nonstop flight of 2100 miles ver a part of the world where nothing could have saved him if ha had come down and had been unable tu rise again lie penetrated tfce centra of the great unknown area between the path made by the dirigible norge and the top of the amorlcan continent and determined that no land existed in that section a point which has ben dehcittble since mn first wont into the polar basin almost any one of these achieve- merit wuld rave been ntewrthy and wilkins nnd kleuon in their tiny pljno packed tikni all into one thrill ing journey of less than twntyono bouts for three years wikin3 has been trying to force his way by air over the route he has now flown he com bined both the enthusiasm of the air man and of tho polar explorer ho had been with stofansson in tho north and with shackleton in tho south polar regions he had been an aviator in the war ho possessed knowledge of tto arctic and tho dar ing of tho man who has taken to tho elr in desperate ventures a masterpiece of navigation this course was also tho best one he could have followed for purposes of navigation for tho chances were that if his compasses which are un reliable in a region where the mag netic lines of forco shift so rapidly lead himarstray he would at least be able to come somewhere near the land there were many navigators who loit that wilkins wwjd have great difficulty in flying across the top of the world to spltzbergen it was such a small point to hit when a small compass error would throw him way off his lino of direction amund sen once was determined to attempt it but his piano was wrecked before be could set away from alaska it floyd bennett left a sick bed in de troit to fly to greeuely island and speed the triumph of koehl von lluenefeld and fitzmaurice who had landed there in the bremen after com pleting the first westward flight across the atlantic at murray bay he suf fered a relapse aud wa3 taken back to quebec where ho developed dou ble pneumonia from which he died on wednesday april 25th col charles a lindbergh made the 470mile flight from new york in the record time of 3 hours and 32 minutes with a sup ply or antipneumonia serum but it proved of tho wrong type it was sure in an oil tank which threatened doubtful however whether any such to explode preparation could have checked tho lindbergh who is shown in no 1 advance of the disease in the ad- left curtiss field long island at 308 vanced stage which it had reached ion tuesday he flew an army pursuit commander richard e byrd who had i plane and heading directly into a made bennett his chief aid in his pro- snow storm flew direct to quebec jected flight to the south polo this where he landed on the plains of year hastened to quebec by train from abraham at 610 pm bennett is boston and stayed by bennett until shown iu no 2 with fitzmaurice on tho end the latters death will be a his arrival at murray bay no 3 is grievous loss to the south pole ex- commander byrd and no 4 shows pedltion on a previous arctic flight bennett being helped into a plane bennett saved byrdslife by crawling j which carried him to the hospital at out on the fuselage of their plane in j quebec no 5 is a closeup of ben- a subzero gale to correct the pres- nett help sent to stricken area was regarded as requiring masterly navigation success to a certain extent de pended upon the weather and it may bo assumed that wilkins had splen did weather most of the time this is the best season for hying in the arctic it is light for the whole twen tyfour hours and it is too early for the dense fogs which later make navigation difficult found no foxes new york tho words no foxes r 1 been devastated by earthquake george h wilkins to dr isaiah bow- man director of tho american geo- 1 k boris who has been visiting graphical society of new york lages in tho region have been de stroyed efforts are being made to repair the railway tracks as quickly as pos sible the orient express and other boris among workers trai which were compelled to stop near papazah have now been able to king in devastated region of bulgaria sofia bulgaria the government and charitable institutions are bending all their efforts to restore order in the been reported at 100 southeastern region of bulgaria that continue damage in the affected area has been estimated at several hundred mil lion levs the lev at par being worth about 19 cents asualties so far have tchirpan and other of the districts canadas forest area the total forest area of canada is 1200000 square miles but only 38 per cent of this area carries any timber brought the information that wilkins affected a few days ago has come to 0 merchantable size which is present- the newly stricken philippopolis other region around active workers had discovered no land in his flight over the north pole before flying over the pole from point barrow to spltbergen wilkins on the scene of the disaster have been sent to dr bowman the code in which j andrew liaptcheff the premier and he would report whether or not ho slaveico vassileff minister of public discovered laud and it he did its ex- works everything possible is being tent and location done to assist those whose homes have a black fox in the distant was to i been demolished refer to mountainous land while a blue fox in the distance would denote flat land wilkins 13 a british subjoct a na tive of australia many of the people have taken re fuge in the countryside only the higher portion of philippopolis the sec ond largest city in bulgaria has escaped serious damage and many vil- ly accessible or likely to become so for many years losses in young growth during the last ave years forest fires in canada have burned 1400000 acres of young growth of various ages representing tho annual increment on 25000000 acres i had such a funny sinking feeling when jack tried to kiss mo hadnt you ever been kissed before not by a submarine sailor usborne succeeds admiral collard new commander in mediter ranean has distinguish ed career london captain cecil vivian us borne has been appointed rearad miral to ah the vacancy caused by the retirement of roaradmiral bernard st g collard which was announced by w c brldgeman first lord of the admiralty in the house of commons realadmiral collards retirement was the outcome of trouble between him and captain kenneth g b de- war and commander h m daniel on hms royal oak at malta which re sulted in the rearadmiral hauling down his flag and tho captain and commander being convicted by court- martial reprimanded and dismissed from their ship for conduct subversive to discipline rearadmiral usbornes last ap pointment was as captain on hms malaya in the mediterranean he has also been deputydirector of naval ordance at tho admtralty ho was born at queenstown ireland on may 17 1880 and has had a distinguished career in the navy he invented an apparatus for mineprotection in 1915 took command of hms latona a minelayer in the eastern mediter ranean in 1016 engaged in mining operations off the dardanelles and in blockade work off asia minor he wa3 senior british naval officer at saloni- ca in 1917 and commanded the naval brigade on the danube in 191819 viscount jelhcoo who was in com mand of the grand fleet 191416 gave very high commendation to cap tain usborne in his book on the grand fleet in wartime killed attempting to set a record increase in annual cut during the last fifteen years the annual cut of timber for the produc tion of lumber lath shingles and pulpwood has beeii increasing at an average rata of 1s000000 cubic feet per annum for all purposes the in crease is estimated to be 25000000 cubic feet contribution of farm woodlots the last census bhowed that the total value of forest products pro duced from canadian farm woodlots was 72000000 o v j canadas first proposals for division of costs of laketoocean waterway frank lockhart young auto racing driver hurled from his car flung thirty feet daytona beach fia frank lockhart in dianapolis speed aeeji and one of amerll cas most colorful 1 racing figures rode 1 to hla death wed nesday in his little stut blnckhnwk special on the local beach while at tempting to break the worlds record of 20765 miles an hour the young driver was killed almost instantly when a tiro blew out as he was making his second speod run northward and caused his car to swerve from the course and skid tho machine rolled and somersaulted into the sand dunes directly before the judges stands burying its nose in tho sand and throwing its driver thirty feet his car just missed crashing into a parked car in which mrs lock hart the drivers wife was sitting horrified bystanders ruhed for ths inert form of the speed ae but mrs lockhart meanwhile had been one of the first to reach him physicians ak the hospital said he probably died a few minutes after being thrown from the car mrs lockhart who had gone to the hospital in the car with her husband received the news of franks death courageously lockhart who was said to have held all the american records from ono to a hundred miles on circular courses had his heart set on winning the world mark for the miles straightaway h had a meteoric record on tho racing tracks being unknown until he won the speedway races at indianapolis in 1925 chaos reported throughout italy travellers says police have started reign of terror agrah austria newspaper dis patches from rakek italy on tho itallanjugo slav frontier quoto tra vellers as saying that panic and chao3 reign throughout italy the police aldod by fascist militia are said to have inaugurated a reign of torror in an effort to got even with enemies of fascism hundreds of persons suspected of being antlfasclst are being arrested dally in almost every town of italy and thrown into overcrowded prisons one travoller brought a report that the bomb outrago at milan was the wor kof extremist fascists themselves who wore trying to settle their ac count with tho reigning dynasty this report had it that mussolini had with held from king victor emmanuel un til tho last minute his decision not to go to mllau other travellers allego that mus solini has completely terrorized victor emmanuel and is only waiting for pro posals from his own black shirt fol lowers to assume kingly power him self canadas methods warmly criticized editor of london morning post claims his heritage london concluding an editorial eulogy on henry hudson in connec tion with tho unveiling of a momorlal window by tho hudsons bay company tho morning post waxes blttor against canadian emigration and says wo owe to thoso great elizabethans and their successors our heritage in north amorlca tf wo may still call it our heritago when englishmen ore denied freo entry into canada and are put on a sort of maconochlo ration in tho land which their fathers ostab- llbhod wo gavo an account of tho difficulties sot in tho way of emigra tion to canada by canadian authori ties but wo havo heard so many com plaints of tho systom that we nro in clined to think that tho olaborato mfc chlnory of medical examination una so forth covors somo political design against british emigrants it tho do minion wore wiso in its own intorosu it would allow as froo movomont be twoon great britain and canada as batwoen london and edinburgh or quebec and montreal i correspondence tableo in parliament outlines attitude of two governments the present attitude of tho governments of canada and the united states towards he iicadofthclakcs to tldowater ship caual am power project waf revealed officially when correspondence botwoen ottawa and washington was released simultaneously in the two capitals tho dominion government propose that the united states shall build tho navigation and power works in the international or ontario section of tho river at a cost of 274247000 thus providing ultimately 2139000 hp of electricity for equal division between tho two countries also that the united states hhall deepen tho upper lake channoht at a cost of 65100000 that would make tho share of tho united states 339347000 on her part canada would be ready to spend 199- 670000 on the quobec section for which she would obtnin for herself 949300 hp this outlay would he in addition lo the 115600000 canada is spending on the new welland canal that would make the dominions total share 3i32700co not taking into account hor expenditures on old canals sho has spent so million dollam on old st lawrence and welland canals and on lower st lawrence deepening and 5560000 on a lock at tho soo the united states has spent 43 millions on upper lako channels and the soo canal v government tconoiiiy leeds morcury cons the nation has shown such powers of resistance in timos of mlafortuno that given a year of peace at homo and abroad we may look confidently for expansion ot our trade and revenue if along with that wc have a policy of steady ocon- omy we neod not look very far ahead for tho reduction of taxation which is tho heaviest in the world and an op pressive handicap to our industry this rollef may come from a conser vative chancellor another year but assuredly it will not come from a llboral or a socialist chancollor v- m i i