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Bartlett, who has recently returned from his eleventh voyage to the Arctic, is recognized as the Dean of Northern explorers. He was captain of Peary's ship which failed to reach the Pole in 1905, and again four years later was Captain when Peary was successful...
Captain Bartlett will show his new motion pictures of the Arctic regions, and also will show slides of his previous trips. His subject is "North with Bob Bartlett...
Died. Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting...
...Manhattan, reaching the retirement age of 70 Negro Matthew Alexander Henson quit his clerkship at the Customs House. An unsung U. S. hero, Henson made eight trips to the Arctic with the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary. On April 6, 1909 he and Explorer Peary fell asleep after warming their frozen feet on each other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln...
Next day his wife and his brother-in-law, William Nadeau, drove to Seattle's Arctic Building to pick Representative Zioncheck up and take him to address a meeting of postal workers. Mr. Nadeau went up to the Congressman's office on the fifth floor, found him writing. "Come on, Marion, let's go," said his brother-in-law. Mr. Zioncheck rose, dodged suddenly into the next room, plunged through an open window. He struck the sidewalk head first, 50 ft. from the car where his wife was sitting. She screamed, fainted. On the dead...