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Col. McAlpine and Party Safe on Victoria Island Now There was very general jubilation all through the North Land on Monday of this week when messages came through over the private wires of the A. E. Moysey Co. and the Homer L. Gibson Co. that the McAlpine party lost for Wireless Monday Brings the Glad News of Safety of Airâ€" ship Party, Which Included Men Well Known in North. Missing Men Found by Eskimos. Flyers Had Followed Wrong River on Their Last Hop Across Barrens. Planes Forced Down at Melborne Island on Account of Lack of Fuel. Charity lurkeyStag Guest Night Same personnel appeared by command at Government House, Ottawa, for the Prince of Wales and Lord Willingdon Friday Evening, Dec. 20th 3t. Anthony‘s Parish Hall Friday, November 8th Habitant Troubadours Mcintyre Hall Stephens‘ A.S.D. Orchestra $1.50 per couple Announcing SHANTY S0O0NGS Supplement to The Porcupine Advance, Timmins, Ontario, Thurs day, November 7th, 1929 English and French SEVENTH ANNUAL cight weeks in the Barrens of the far north had been found safe and well. There was especial interest here in the missing airmen hecause several of them were personally well known in Timâ€" mins and district. featuring and his offering cluded :â€" Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, Toronto, President of the Dominion Explorers. Pilot C. A. T'hoqxpscm, Winnipeg, of Western Canada Airways. Pilot Capt. Stanley R. McMillan, Edâ€" monton, of Dominion Explorers. Major Robert F. Baker, geologist and radioâ€"operator, St. Catharines, Ont. A. D. Boadway, Winnipeg, pilotâ€"geoâ€" logist. Richard Pearce, Toronto, editor of the Northern Miner. Alex Milne, Winnipeg, mechanic. John Goodwin, Hamilton, Ont., meâ€" chanic. Col. McAlpine spent some time here in 1925 in connection with election work, being the campaign manager for J. R. O‘Neill in the Dominion election. During the election Col. McAlpine made wide circles of friends and became very widely known. Mr. R. Pearce, editor of The Northâ€" ern «Miner, lived for many years at Cobalt and regularly travelled over all the mining territory of this north and so was very widely known and enjoyed great popularity. Other members of the party were also known here, so in addition to the genâ€" eral interest there was personal anxieâ€" ty for the missing men diring the eight weeks they were not heard from. Tuesday a few more details were to hand. It was ther learned that the story of the rescue was first given to the world by an amateur radio operator at Cambridge Bay. At Churchill, the original report had been snatched out of the air as a message from the Hudâ€" son‘s Bay Company steamer, Fort Monday when the despatches first came through to Timmins there was no further word than that Col. McAlpine and his party were safe at Cambridge Bay, an isolated trading post on Vicâ€" toria Island, off the northern shore of Canada. The missing men in the The next move will be to inform the Blanchet partyâ€"a dozen men who have been risking their lives in aerial search of the tundra landsâ€"that their quest is at an end. This will necessitate sending either native runner or dogâ€"team party from Bathurst radio station to the gasoline cache at Burnâ€" side river, where the search fiyers are stationed. Since Bathurst was informâ€" ed Tuesday of the rescue, it is probable that "Peace River Jim" Cornwall, vetâ€" eran Arctic traveller, has already desâ€" patched a land messenger to the air camp at the south. Meanwhile further rescue activities will be in the hands of the residents of the snowâ€"crusted Even at the mouth of the Ellice, they nad passed on, probably believing they had reached the southern extremity of the inlet. Sweeping northeast, they pushed over the frigid stretches of Campbell Bay, at the mouth of the Despatches this week from Winnipeg indicate that tentative plans were made to send three or four planes under command of Capt. G. S. Blanchett, Dominion Government explorer, to Cambridge Bay to bring out the eight rescued fiyers. First news of ‘their machines being safe at Melbourne Isâ€" land will mean probably thait one or two skiâ€"fitted craft can carry sufficient fuel over 300 miles of barrens to the halted machines. Captain Blanchet and his men are at present stationed at Burnside river, 60 miles south of Bathâ€" urst Inlet radio station on Canada‘s Arctic rim. That the McAlpine men had flown off their course and even overâ€"fown the north coast was evident from the report that they landed off Melbourne Island. It was probable that the pilots became bewildered after surmounting the fogâ€"veiled heights of land on their 450â€"mile flight over the barrens from Baker Lake, west of Hudson Bay, to Bathurst Inlet. No doubt, instead of following the Western river which leads to Bathurst, they traced the course of the Ellice river, which flows into Q@Queen Maud Gulf, an arm of the Arcâ€" tic ocean on Canada‘s north shore. | | | It is understood that the rescued men were found by Eskimos. Fully a score of pilots during the past two moniths have been daring death in a search over the Barrens to locate the missing airplanes. During the last three weeks since the freezeâ€"up, onus of the manâ€" hunt has devolved on a quartette of roaring skiâ€"fitted planes, sweeping along the north coast of Canada. But â€"while the speeding aircraft zoomed over the barrensâ€"a party of friendly Eskimos, "mushing‘" their huskie teams over the ice, discovered the McAlpine men and conveyed them over the seaâ€" ice to safety. The nine welcome words, clicked off by young McKinnon, were: "McAlpine and party found. All well. Located Cambridge Bay." James, moored at Gjoahaven, a tiny port on the shore of King William Island, off the north shore of Canada. With a crew of 18 and a powerful radio set abroad, Captain A. W. Bush had "freeze in" his craft just two months ago as a wireless station in the North. The Fort James‘ home port is St. John‘s Nfld. But the nineâ€"word message of hopes realized and fears shattered did not originate on King William Island. It came, with the laboured awkwardâ€" ness of amateur sending from young Jack McKinnon, on board the yearâ€" worn "Bay Maud," anchored in Camâ€" bridge Bay on the south shore of Vicâ€" toria Island opposite Bathurst Inlet. When an experienced operator went on furlough, a highâ€"powered set on the "Bay Maud‘" was shut down, but young McKinnon stayed on the job with his miniature apparatusâ€"and toâ€"day his efforts won ‘their reward, when he flashed his tacit message from the caâ€" bin of the "Maud," a boat that 20 years ago Raold Amundsen had planned to float across the North Pole in the iceâ€" drift. Queen‘s Hotel Dining Room Now Open All Cooking Homeâ€"Made Meal 50¢ Corner Balsam Street and Third Avenue Meal Tickets J. V. REGAN, PROPRIETOR, TTMMINS me~â€"Made Clean and Upâ€"toâ€"date Come once and you‘ll come again Ready for Business post to a search party of four planes, two of them Government machines, to proceed immediately to Cambridge Bay These instructions, however, will not reach the search party for two days as the Government radic station is at Bathurst, 60 miles north of Burnside and the message has ito be relayed by runners. With theâ€"receipt of these orders the search planes will take off immediately for Cambridge Bay, where it is expectâ€" ed they will pick up Colonel McAlpine and party, and return them to Burnâ€" side. Then they will fly back over the route, part of which was followed by the McAlpine party before they were lost. "It is not expected the two machines of the McAlpine party will be brought back till spring. They will likely be left at Melbourne Island where they are at the present time. This point is about 60 miles south of Cambridge Bay where Colonel McAlpine and his comâ€" panions are now resting. ‘"The McAlpine machines are in good condition and were only forced down through lack of fuel. It will be necesâ€" sary to send skis and an additional supply of fuel before they can be flown out probably next March. "As Colonel McAlpine and his comâ€" panions were delayed in reaching Camâ€" bridge Bay before the freezeâ€"up occurâ€" red similar conditions may delay their return as it will be difficult for the search planes, which are equipped with skis, to return far south until the freezeâ€"up works its way south. Group Captain Lindsay Gordon of the Royal Canadian Air Force last night forwarded instructions by wireâ€" less to Burnside, the most northerly A despatch from Ottawa on SYS : â€" Commander C. P. Edwards of the radio branch of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, stated the mesâ€" sages were all personal and private ones. It was learned that members of the exploration party were all well, alâ€" though Col. McAlpine had lost 40 pounds in weight. Experts here statâ€" ed this would indicate either a shortâ€" age of food or very strenuous exercise in seeking to get in touch with civilizaâ€" "Officials here are reluctant to make any predicition as to how long it will take the search party and the McAlâ€" pine group to return to civilization. "It will all depend on weather conditions," said the one official of the Interior Deâ€" partment. ‘"It may not take any long~ er than a month," he added." Messages by radio were sent out Monday from the far north to relatives and near friends of the McAlpine party assuring them of the safety and good health of the airmen missing so long. The messages further dispelled anxiety over the safety of the seven exploring airmen who have been lost for the past two months in a region about 1,200 miles north of Winnipeg. Ellice, as they would have fown northâ€" east from the inlet point to the Bathâ€" urst radio post. But they landed at Melbourne Island insead of on the west coast of the northern inlet. When all are prepated for the exoâ€" dus to more widespread civilization, seven planes will soar down from the North. Captain Stan McMillan and C. A. Thompson, longâ€"lost pilots will probâ€" ably fly down their own machines. Under Captain Blanchet will be a quartette of planes manned by Pilots Roy Brown, William Spence, H. Hotâ€" lickeâ€"Kenyon and Andy Cruickshanks â€"now stationed at Burnside River. Another of Captain Blanchet‘s menâ€" Pilot J. D. Vanceâ€"will join the returnâ€" ing squadron at Baker Lake, at the western end of Chesterfield Inlet. In the meantime the McAlpine party are being royally entertained by the staffs of the Hudson Bay Company and the Canalaska Trading Company. The staffs of these companies are showing the McAlpine party the finest of hosâ€" pitality. 45â€" 48