The Nome nugget., 1930-03-08

performed by LHe brave Alas hdn airmen, Joe Crossuu and Harold Gillian. They made the flight ac- ross from here to North Cape, Si- beria, in the shortest and darkest days of winter to search for their fellow pilot and his mechanician. They had small open planes and only enough gas to carry them ac- ross with a small amornt left 0v CT for searching, and with the likelihood that there would be no gas left to bring hem back to this continent. Thny were burn ing their bridges behind them. I want to tell them ',a. Alaska is proud of them. Greater love hath no man than he wfp risks his life for his fellow. man.
 ,"The Canadian a'rmen. some of whom are in the p,ane+ above us, icame across continent with their planes, far away from their homes and loved ones, to give their services because, as Capt. Pat Reid told us, Men in our line of work are lost and with our eX lperience in winter flying in North ern Canada We might be able to render some service The motto of the Arctic Brotherhood, No Boundary Line here" was well ex- amplifed by these brave Cana dians when this Alaskan flyer and to them.
 ''It often takes q calamity like this to bring out the Brotherhood of Man. The United States and Russia are not on speaking terms automatically, but when this tra- gedy overlook two of our Ameri
 can boys. the Soviet government said. Use our gasoline to search for your lost flyers" and that gasoline was actual" in the tanks of Crosson's and Gi!lam's planes when they found the wreck. The Russians sent the. ablest and most distinguished flyers with Junker planes to assist in the search; their dog teams secured the country, and they offered large monetary rewards.
 Often it has been said that a tcorporation has no soul. Here is Ia corporation which has proved to us that it has one. I am re- minded of the time that James Gordon Bennett sent Henry NJ. Stanley to search for Livingston who was lost in the wilds of Af
 rica. Bennett said to Stanley:
 When this ten thousand pounds lis gone, draw on me for another ten thousand and keep on draw ing, but find Livin gston. The Av- iation Corporation iE this case, isent large airplanee from the States and Canada and said to Alfred J. Lomen, in charge of re- lief opera tions. Spare no expense but find Eielson and Borland." The last mail which came in from North Dakota brought a let ter which contained the prayer that. Our Stellar North Dakota boy, Ben Eielson. will yet be found safe and well. Those of us who are from that state are lproud of the fact that We come from the same state as Ben Eiel- |son. The University of North Dakota of which he was a former |student proposes to erect monu- ment on it's campus to his memory
 Carl Ben Eielson has contribut- ed much to the welfare and hap piness of all of us who live in |this northern territory He has lost his life but many lives have been saved by the service which The has been the means of esta- blishing. The Bird Men of the north. for whom Ben Eielson blazed the trail, have brought many sick and dying men, women and children, hundreds of miles from places where there were neither doctors nor hospitals, to places where there were both and they could be taken care of. re- lieved of their suffering and many of them restored to health. Eiel- son's life has not been in vain. His work will ever live after him