Show AIR MAIL PILOT FINDS NEW ANEW ALASKA ROUTE flyer lost in arctic darkness cu cuts ts time 16 days washington lost in an nir pinne in the stygian darkness dur kness 0 ot f an alaskan night without it a star above or a light helow below to buldo him was vas the expert ence of carl 11 hielson El elson air mall mail pilot on lilt hid first trip over an all experimental route between fairbanks lind and mcgrath alaska according to tits his report received recently by postmaster general new so bo interesting was tile the report of El elsons adventure that the postmaster general read it at cabinet meeting and president coolidge cooledge wrote a personal letter to the air mall mail pilot con granulating him accompanying this letter went a similar one from mr new 1 I congratulate you on the conspicuous cons success of your undertaking jbf abo president said your experience pro vides a unique and interesting chapter c in the rapidly developing science of aerial navigation edelson lade the first leg of his hia trip rip from fairbanks to mcgrath without mishap ile iio began the return trip at 2 35 p in m 1 I expected efelton said in ills his report to got home by p al at dusk in one hour lind and fifteen minutes later I 1 reached laiko anko which Is nearly half way later I 1 passed over a stream which was not on oa the map and I 1 thought it must bo be tho the river still later I 1 reached this stream but thought it was vas tile alic tanana river to the left I 1 saw a bluff which looked like the nenana benana bluff I 1 struck for the bluff and everything was fill all right except that th at tho the town of nenana benana was vas not in its place by this time it wits was pitch dark I 1 could not believe beleve that I 1 had got CO 50 miles off my course after the same compass course had brought mo me half way exactly on the course I 1 left the river going east 1 I wa wandered dered around completely lost for most of an hour I 1 went back to the big river and while following it saw a flare in the distance I 1 hit for it lind and it turned out to be my home field there was a light in front of the hangar among tile the lottery letters brought from mcgrath mca gr a th by eielson r was one addressed to paul henderson De second assistant postmaster general tills this letter arrived in washington 10 days earlier that than it could have had bad the first stage of its journey been made by dog team |