Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
A|RPLANES SPEED
TRAVEL IN ARCTIC
Expected to Take Place of
Dogs Almost Entirely
Within Few Years.
BY SHERMAN b. ALTICK.

(copyright. 1880, by the Consolidated Press }
NEW YORK, July 12.-The airplane
b revolutionizlng transportation in the
Arctic and IN the opinion of those
rugged characters who brave the rigors
OF the frozen North it will supplant the
dog-sled almost entirely within a few
years.
They point out that ore prospectors
and trapperS are using the airplane
Rdvantageously in their work and that
it is the quickest means of transport
tation in the Arctic waste lands This
Winter the plane will take the place
Of the dog teams in herding the REIN
deer, for the Lomen Reindeer Co. found
through an experiment with the plane
last Winter that dozen herds of deer
could be rounded up and brought into
the corrals by airplane in a few hours,
doing the same job that required days
under the dog team system of herding.
Like last year. when Carl Ben Eiel-
son and Earl Borland were killed on
an Arctic flight, planes this Winter will
be used to carry the pick of the fur
crop across the water and ice from
Siberia in order to get them into the
market while the fur ship is frozen
be used this year for errands of mercy
ministrations to the i'll, the injured or
those without food and cut of from
the outside world.
Will Be Aid to Priests.
Catholic priests who heretofore have
taken days to travel a few miles over
the snow and ice by dog train will be
able to reach the remoteSt parts of their
parishes in few hours by plane.
plane, Bellanca monoplane pow
cred with Packard Diesel engine, was
on its way to the far Northland today
for the use of the JeSuitS who minister
to the sick and carry food and cheer to
the helpless when the country is bound
with ice and snow. The plane was
given to the Alaskan parish by the
Marquette League of Brooklyn N. Y.
1t will be flown in the Arctic by
Brother George j. Feltes, S. j., who
recently qualified as a pilot and has
piled up enough hours in the air to
entitle him to fly over the icy North
lands with passenger.
Planes GroOmed for Races.
Other planes will be winging their
way over the ice and tundra this Winter
on missions formerly carried out by dog
trains, and those who have watched
the progress of aviation in the region
close to the Pole see more and more
uses for the winged craft as times goes
on. The whole countryside is a landing
field and the rapidity with which the
long journeys by plane can be made
over the slower overland method is
revolutionizing transportation in the
Arctic
Americas fastest planes are being
groomed for the national air races
which will be held in Chicago, August
% to September l, inclusive The
Travelair mystery ship which trim
med Army, Navy and Marine Corps
craft at the races last year again will
be on the starting line in the free-for-
all contests and some other planes that
are being groomed behind barred doors
will be there too
The military forces are rigging their
fastest craft for the races, which, due
to the rivalry, are destined to be bitter
~ fought. Capt. Frank M. Hawks is
having q mystery ship built in
Whichita which he expects to use in
the races after showing its class by
racing across the continent against
time for the record held by Col Lind
bergh.