Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Sep. 3, 1934

Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S....

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