Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom (1935)

FLYING WITH WILEY POST 227 Crosson and Jones found the pair, without food, at an 11,000-foot elevation. They dropped about 100 pounds of concentrated food and supplies which saved the scientists until they could make their way to a level spot where Crosson could land his plane and rescue them. Those were only a few of Joe Crosson's better known exploits. Alaskans know of the hundreds of trips he has made to rescue a lone trapper, a prospector caught by the sudden advance of winter, a sick man whom only a quick operation would save. There were hundreds of more prosaic but very essential emergency flights, pieces of machinery for an inland mine; supplies for a fish cannery; food for an outpost; a thousand and one of the little tasks which have made Alaska modern, which have condensed weeks and months of arduous travel into a few hours of flying. MORGAN KNOWN AS "THE LAW" The other outstanding figure in the tragedy was the one who found pioneering in Alaska the life he wanted. Sergeant Stanley R. Morgan, who organized and directed the rescue expedition, volunteered for duty at Point Barrow when the United States Army Signal Corps decided to put in a radio station there in 1928. The station is known as " Wamcats," or the Washington-American Military Cable and Telegraph System. It was Morgan who flashed the news of the accident over the radio to the world. In the face of utter isolation, killing cold, and hardships of which city dwellers can have little