NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



Hassell will hop off at dawn tomorrow if weather 

 conditions over Canada are favorable, whereof there's 

 every indication. His next stop after Greenland will 

 be Iceland enabling him to take off with light load. Will 

 flash you if weather causes postponement. Acknowl- 

 edge this message. 



BiRCHALL 



Then from Major Fredericks, Hassell's man- 

 ager: 



We are in receipt of information about length of 

 landing field and will come at once. Please mark and 

 watch landing field and if necessary make smoke signals. 

 Acknowledge receipt of this message. Hassell ready to 

 fly and start on receipt of acknowledgment. 



L. H. Fredericks 



And a little later: 



Hassell's take-off postponed until Thursday on ac- 

 count of head winds. 



Fredericks 



Later still Fredericks requested that instead of 

 two hundred gallons of gasoline we have two hun- 

 dred and fifty gallons ready on the field. I replied 

 that we would have two hundred gallons ready on 

 the field the next night and I hoped to have the 

 extra fifty gallons there by Friday noon. We 

 were sending the Times reports on weather con- 



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