Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-16
LANDS NEAR
TELLER, TOWN
CLOSE NOME
tBy Dispatch A. P. wirs)


SAN FRANCISCO, May
.15.-The naval radio sta
tion here received a radio
message tonight from Puget
Sound stating that an army
cable dispatch from Alaska
had announced the landing
of the Norge today at Tell
er, Alaska. The time Of the
.,anding was not given.
Frigid air waves Saturday broad
cast the arrival of the dirigible Norge
at Teller, Alaska, rs miles northwest
of Nome, dispelling the apprehensions
of a watchful world as to the OUT
come of the first continent to cons
tinent flight by way of the north
pole But the ether that told of
the emergence of the commander,
Amundsen- Ellsworth Mobile expedi-
ton from the silent Arctic wastes
sputtered out into static later in the
day and new doubts arose as to what
became of the Norge after reaching
Teller.
At Nome, a citizenry of thousand
souls, many of whom knew Amundsen,
personalIy-yawned and yearned. For
AZ hours the town knew no sleep
waiting for the arrival of the gallant
aerial trail-makers Their eagerness
to welcome the intrepid trans-polar
navigators was symbolized in the now
forlorn arch of triumph laboriously
erected by volunteer workers who
toiled through the night to complete
it.
AS the hours passed and no giant
airship loomed upon the horizon some
who knew the great Norwegian of
old recalled his pronness to do the
unexpected, to startle by uncalculated
achievements. Others suggested that
he stopped at Teller in the interests
of greater secrecy for his newspaper
clients to whom he engaged to re-
port the flight.
At 10 o'clock Saturday morning the
Norge had not reached Nome. Just
prior to the receipts of this news
had come a garbled radio message .
which seemed to indicate that after
reaching Teller the big skycraft may
have started on toward Nome and
have encountered weather difficulties.
Reception of the message was vir-
tually wrecked by static, but the
words drifting" and "windstorm"
came through.
Again the ice-crusted north lapsed
into silence, leaving the public uncer-
tain as to whether the expeditions had
terminated its triumph at Teller or
has chosen to extend them and, in
pressing on to Nome, mas again flown
into danger. If, as some at Nome
believe, the latest development is but
a maneuver, it is not the first spec
tacular gesture of the flight.
AS the great ship passed over the
north pole-that mythical spot rep
resenting the northernmost axis Of
the globe, where all is ice and every
direction is south-flags of three ma
tions were dropped and the first
press dispatches ever dated North
Pole" were written. In due course
the Norge was sighted nearing Point
Barrow.
Then followed 4S hours of silence,
probably the most effective means
that could have been adopted in the
interests of tenseness, and when this
was broken-out of the crisp atmos-
phere came radio greetings to the
president of the U. s. and other no-
table world figures.
But it is not at all certain that the
silence which has ensued is but
stratgetic move for newspaper
space" it is considered improbable
that the rs residents Of Teller-un-
prepared for the visit of the dis
tinguished aerial navigators-could.
draw the mammoth craft to earth
without a mooring mast or improv-
ised devices for anchoring.
Consequently the continuation of
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