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NORGE AT TELLER AFTER POLAR TRIP Blimp and Crew of 18 Men Known to Be at Alaska Camp. TOWN NEAR NOME Fifty Miles From Goal of Flight-Soon to End Journey. SHIP LANDS SOUND Little Village Belongs to Personal Representative of Amundsen- Right at Home. (By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of The Spokesman-Review and North American Newspaper Alliance. Copyright, 1926, by North American Newspaper Alliance in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and all other countries. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15. -- Roald Amundsen's dirigible Norge is at Teller, 50 miles overland north of Nome. We do not know whether she is out of gas or not. Yesterday morning Howard Mason, chief radio man of the Detroit arctic expedition at Fairbanks, reported that he believe he had heard the Norge at 11:59 p. r-t. (5:59 a. m., Friday, New York daylight saving time).This was communicated as an unconfirmed rumor to the North American Newspaper alliance which held the message awaiting corroborative evidence before giving it circulation. EXPECT FLIGHT TO NOME. Word Expected Dirigible Has Gone On to Goal. VANCOUVER, B. C, May 15. (/P)-—Word that the Norge, dirigible of Roald Amundsen, which last night arrived at Teller, Alaska, after a flight over the north pole, had proceeded to Nome. 50 miles southeast of Teller, was momentarily expected here today. Certainty that the Norge had reached Nome with all aboard and ended there today her historic journey, which began at Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, last Tuesday, was felt here. Nome was the destination set for the voyage and arrangements to land the Norge there, deflate her and ship her to the states, had been made. The Norge reached Teller in good condition, but because of a population of only 75 -there, it was considered unlikely that she would be brought in that vicinity in any case. All 18 men on the Norge were well. The United States naval radio station at Cordova, Alaska, overheard the Norge talking to the Nome radio station at 3:25 a. m., Pacific standard time, today. War Department Notified. WASHINGTON, May 15. (/P)—The war department announced today that the dirigible Norge was at Teller, Alaska. Communication between Nome and the Norge at Teller was established at 11 p. m., May 14, Alaska. time". "The office of the chief signal officer," said the department's announcement, "is in receipt of a message from Nome, Alaska, to the effect that the Norge is at Teller, Alaska, about 75 mi" Unstinted praise of Roald Amundsen, Lincoln C. Ellsworth and the officers and crew of the Norge mixed, with expressions of gratification in Washington over the news that the first airship to fly from Spitzenbergen to Alaska across the north pole was safe in American territory. To indicate the eagerness of capital officials for news of the Norge, the White House sent to President Coolidge at Williamsburg a wireless received from Ellsworth. The latter is a cousin of Vice President Dawes, who has kept his office busy
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Original index title | Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States. |
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Full-Text | NORGE AT TELLER AFTER POLAR TRIP Blimp and Crew of 18 Men Known to Be at Alaska Camp. TOWN NEAR NOME Fifty Miles From Goal of Flight-Soon to End Journey. SHIP LANDS SOUND Little Village Belongs to Personal Representative of Amundsen- Right at Home. (By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of The Spokesman-Review and North American Newspaper Alliance. Copyright, 1926, by North American Newspaper Alliance in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and all other countries. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15. -- Roald Amundsen's dirigible Norge is at Teller, 50 miles overland north of Nome. We do not know whether she is out of gas or not. Yesterday morning Howard Mason, chief radio man of the Detroit arctic expedition at Fairbanks, reported that he believe he had heard the Norge at 11:59 p. r-t. (5:59 a. m., Friday, New York daylight saving time).This was communicated as an unconfirmed rumor to the North American Newspaper alliance which held the message awaiting corroborative evidence before giving it circulation. EXPECT FLIGHT TO NOME. Word Expected Dirigible Has Gone On to Goal. VANCOUVER, B. C, May 15. (/P)-—Word that the Norge, dirigible of Roald Amundsen, which last night arrived at Teller, Alaska, after a flight over the north pole, had proceeded to Nome. 50 miles southeast of Teller, was momentarily expected here today. Certainty that the Norge had reached Nome with all aboard and ended there today her historic journey, which began at Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, last Tuesday, was felt here. Nome was the destination set for the voyage and arrangements to land the Norge there, deflate her and ship her to the states, had been made. The Norge reached Teller in good condition, but because of a population of only 75 -there, it was considered unlikely that she would be brought in that vicinity in any case. All 18 men on the Norge were well. The United States naval radio station at Cordova, Alaska, overheard the Norge talking to the Nome radio station at 3:25 a. m., Pacific standard time, today. War Department Notified. WASHINGTON, May 15. (/P)—The war department announced today that the dirigible Norge was at Teller, Alaska. Communication between Nome and the Norge at Teller was established at 11 p. m., May 14, Alaska. time". "The office of the chief signal officer," said the department's announcement, "is in receipt of a message from Nome, Alaska, to the effect that the Norge is at Teller, Alaska, about 75 mi" Unstinted praise of Roald Amundsen, Lincoln C. Ellsworth and the officers and crew of the Norge mixed, with expressions of gratification in Washington over the news that the first airship to fly from Spitzenbergen to Alaska across the north pole was safe in American territory. To indicate the eagerness of capital officials for news of the Norge, the White House sent to President Coolidge at Williamsburg a wireless received from Ellsworth. The latter is a cousin of Vice President Dawes, who has kept his office busy |
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