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...cause of the aviator's withdrawal came in the form of a dispatch notifying him of his appointment as commander of the Wilkins Expedition which will try to reach the North Pole next summer. It has not yet been announced what part aeroplanes will play in the expedition but the placing in charge of an experienced aviator makes it appear probable that the attempt will again be made to fly to the Pole. Preparations for the trip are already being started in Washington and it is to supervise the preliminary organization of personnel and equipment that Lieutenant Commander Byrd...
...unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...
...curious paradox that in the very state where, it is insisted, men are men and not animals, that men's actions should exhibit so few of the attributes of higher intelligence. The news stories of late have not represented Texans in at all a favorable light; the recent evolution dispatch is only one of many cases in point...
...dispatch from the Daily Princetonian takes the same attitude of resignation...
...famous dispatch by the Secretary of the Treasury, General John A. Dix, Which contained the direction: 'If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the shot', was transmitted on the evening of January 15, 1861, for the purpose of retaining under the control of the Federal government the United State Coast Guard cutter 'Robert McLelland', then in the port of New Orleans...