Show PLANES AID FIGHT AGAINST EPIDEMICS FAIRBANKS Alaska Oct 21 21 Dy By The Th Associated Press The Press menace of ot epidemics which In the past hav have hav claimed many victims victim In Alaskan villages before mc medical ical aid could b bo be obtained has been elim eUm- eliminated dim dim- mated to a lar large extent by the ad advent ad- ad advent advent vent of f commercial aviation to the Northland The Th ships of ot the th air have not re- re replaced replaced re replaced placed the th dog do team for ordinary purposes but where speed Is es- es es the th planes have hav a field all to themselves Mush Much of or the tho th vest vast Interior of Alaska has been opened up to aIr travel by the th establishment or of landing fields field front from Fort Yukon to toome Nome ome Twenty live fields field will have been beon constructed by this winter with wills appropriations mad made mado by thela the thelast I last t territorial legislature Fairbanks from which rat planes erato corate to the th outlying districts Is but nine days day distant from Seattle by rail and water 2 Most of ot the th In- In Interior in interior tenor mining camps camp and trading posts are ar Inaccessible In summer except In some om cases by circuitous water routes In the th winter they may be b reached by dog doe teams team |