Show I Wilkins Forced to toMake toMake toMake Make New Runway SPITSBERGEN IWEN By Dy way of Co Co- Denmark April 23 AP By time the Exchange Telegraph Scandinavian Scan Scan- rights is r reserved Captain George leOISe II n. Wilkins started from Point Barrow Banow Alaska on Sunday April 15 at 10 o'clock In the morning mOrning morn mOrn- ing lug Alaskan time The Time starting place llaco had hall to bo be al altered Ill Ill- as tho the runway proved owed too short for the loaded heavily ed machine machine ma ma- chine clime whose weight was vas 2022 pounds and whose whoso cargo was about 40 1050 0 pounds thus requiring a runway runway run run- way at least a mile and a quarter long The machine needed a speed of ot fifty miles mlles an hour before it was yas able to rise A nov new runway was tas covered with loose snow and this was trodden down for a width of only emIly five feet so that exact steering was necessary to avoid avoW a crash Time The ice ico also had to b be leveled Captain during his flight passed places where Rear neal Admiral no ert rt E. E Peary Peamy had been lIe He sighted Grant Glant land hand and amid passed about abolt English miles east cast of the thc north pole The Tho weather was s fine with little fog fos Throughout the tho trip ho lie maui main an ama average altitude of 1000 feet but at times it was n necessary cessar to ascend to feet in order to get above the banks of clouds Ho lie sight sighted no Jand that had not been Jeen discovered i previously i and J nd there were no signs of or animal life on the on on the ice |