Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 19

FLYERSWRTEEPI INCAADANHUNT Dickens Fails to Find Trace of Missing Explorers in 1,500-Mile Cruise. Although intrepid airmen already have scourcd vast stretches of ~the barren lands in Northwestern Canada, they have been unable so far to locate— alive or dead—the eight expiorers who have been missing for more than three weeks. Because of weather conditions in those subarctic wilds the work of rescue will be extremely difficult. BY FREDERICK GRIFFIN. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINNIPEG, Man., October; 2 (N. A. ¥. A).—The 1.500-mile solo flight of C. . “Punch” Dickens from Fort Simp- son on the Mackenzie River to Corona- tion Gulf and back in two days, while it failed to find trace of the missing Macalpine air party of eight men, nevertheless_eliminated to a considera- ble degree the Great Bear Lake region from further search. At the same time, failure to cross the tracks of the lost party went praetically the last hope the Telief expedition had of effecting- a vescue before Winter. Daringly Conceived Flight. Incidentally, his flight proved one of the most magnifi on record. It was| daringly conceived, brilliantly executed | ana carricd through with a precision of pu:sose that rivaled Lindberg's flight | to_Faris. | Dickens flew to the Arctic rim of the Cenadian mainland, not under Summer conditions, but with a Polar Winter | sweeping down to meet and destroy him and his frail craft. He had hoped to | fiy along Coronation Gulf as far as| Bathurst Inlet, but at Copper Mine on | the gulf. he ran into Winter fog and sleet, and was driven back. Dickens is proving himself an eagle of | jron nerve and consummate skill. Back | from the farthest North trip an airman | had ever flown, except for the Wilkins'| flight across the Pole, he was not con- tent to rest. The day after his return he was’on the wing across another sec- | tion of the vast Canadian wilderness, | again alone. With Dickens crashing through to with “Punch's” able to make & reconnaissance around the timber area ag far morth possibl: as Beechey Lake. He may even, sibly, break through to Bathurst Inle If he can make the trip to Beechey it will help to eliminate another area where the lost explorers may be. An incidental angle to the Far North | flight of Dickens was the bringing out of a foot party of Dominion explorers | whom he found at Copper Mine. This was a party headed by Geoffrey Gilbert, mining_engineer, from the Michigan copper fields, who was engagéd in study- ing a formation with which he was un- familiar. Other members of the party ere Wrathall, Dixon and Reeve, pros- | ctors. Flyers Move Swiftly. | Dickens “flew out” Gilbert, Wrathall and Dixon. Reeve was left behind to Winter at the cache. Further reports from the different fronts of this far-flung Northern llne; show that in every sector the flyers are snatching quicl. moves from onrushing Winter. Pilots Roy Brown ahd William Spence, who broke through to establish an advanced outpost at Baker Lake on Chesterfield Inlet, are not going to wait for the freeze-up to start flights further | north, If they get a good day, they will ' take off with their seaplanes and dare to venture with pontoons into this al- ready frozen land where only ski-! equipped machines are safe. In the meantime, skis are being rushed to them, as well as other elab- | orate equipment necesary for Winter flying ‘'when the thermometer hits the bottom. Two more- pilots, Andy Cruickshanks and J. D. Vance, left the Stoney Lake base at the east end of Lake Athabasca in an attempt to break through to Baker Lake as Brown and Spence did four days ago, Cruickshanks and Vance will | fiy notth on pontoon-equipped sea- planes. but they will carry their skis with them. If they win through to Baker Lake, | carrying on board skis, the relief organ- l ization will have scored another big hit. That will mean four pilots with four planes at Baker Lake, on the very edge | of the area into which the MacAlpine | party was swallowed up. MRS. WALTER W. WEBSTER, whose husband, Comdr. Webster, has been transferred to Washington as chief of | the design section of the Bureau of Aeronautics. He was formerly stationed in Philadelphia. . A] %+ STAR, WASHINGION. D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, Mrs, W. Wayne Wi B. Willard, Mrs. Fri Eiker, Miss Rebecca Robinson, Mrs, Willard West, Mrs. T. nter, Mrs, Gwynn Gardiner, S. Hight, Mrs. A. 8. Gard- ‘Whalen, Mrs. , . Wil- Mrs. Cabot Stevens, Miss Dorinda the Countess de Benque. Mr. and Mrs. Harry 8. Black were ‘zue;u ng{ th: gfiyn:‘e; giv;n last evening in New Yorl . and Mrs, J. 8. White. sty Miss Vella Winner has returned to r apartment in the Mayflower after short visit with friends on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Mrs. Horace G. Jacobs and her daughter, Mrs. Frank Campbell Nickels of Minneapolis, after a Sum- mer in New England, are at the Hotel Burlington for the Winter. M. and Mme. Rene Fould and their daughter, Mile. Antoinette Fould, of Paris, are now in Washington as part of a month’s visit they are making With lines! our flared belted e At shazel fur collar. Snow at Baker Lake. Two and possibly three weeks before they could possibly begin Winter oper- ations at the Southern base at Stoney Rapids, these 1wen will be criss-crossing the barren lands on their Winter search. ‘Weather reports from Baker Lake show snow conditions, making flying im- possible at present. (Copyright, 1929. by the North American ewspaper Alliance.) D ™ HEARING OF PACKERS turned snent the Summer traveling in Europe. | Relief. They first visited England, Ireland, bridge luncheon will be Mrs. James SOCIETY _(Continued From_Eighteenth taining in_honor of the ladies of the for Al Diocesan Home for Aged. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones have re-|tion and carnival to be held at lhe: to Washington, after having | War College for the benefit of the Army | for the military exposition and carnival | present price, being held at the War College Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday, has gotten up a charming little mimeographed book on contract bridge, the rules for which are written in clever rhyme based n Milton C. Work's “Contract Bridge WRAPS . . . SUITS HATS . . . GOWNS DRESSES ‘Tomorrow will be Republican Wom- el Club day at the military exposi- ‘The guests of honor at the} 1929. in this country. They have been in New York for a week and after leav- ing the Mayflower will go to Chicago and Detroit. Mrs. John Caswell has returned from her Summer home on the North Shore and is opening her home at 2162 Florida avenue for the season. Mrs, Virginia White Speel and Mrs. Willlam Wolfe Smith will be the guests of honor at the meeting of the Mont- gomery County Federation of Re- publican Women to be held on Thurs- day, October 10, at 2 o'clock, at the home of the president,. Mrs. Elisha Hanson, on old Georgetown road, Alta Vista, Bethesda. Because of conflict- ing affairs the day of the October meeting has been changed from Wed- | nesday to Thursda; y. = | ‘The local circle, Daughters of Isabella will hold a banquet at the | Mayflower Hotel, this evening. Among | the guests will be Right Rev. Thomas | J. 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