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Publicity-seeking George R. Hutchinson would have beamed with delight had he seen the front-page space he occupied in the U. S. Press last week when he and his "flying family" were wrecked, then rescued from Greenland's bleak eastern coast. But he must have made a wry face over such comments...
Easily the Sikorsky flew to St. John. N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh. Pilot Hutchinson was emphatic in stating he would take as long as necessary to insure safety. Nevertheless the Detroit Free Press fiercely flayed the "inhumanity" of Mr. & Mrs. Hutchinson in "compelling their two children to share their perils...
Died, Harold George ("Gino") Watkins, 25, British explorer; by drowning; near Angmagsalik, Greenland. In 1927, aged 20, Explorer Watkins accompanied an expedition into Labrador's interior, later commanded a Cambridge University Arctic expedition. In 1930 he headed a Greenland expedition, this year was surveying a possible route for Pan American Airways...
...good business. Already Pan American has a network of lines south from Miami and Texas, roping the Caribbean and South America. Few weeks ago Transamerican Airlines bowed itself out of the North Atlantic field, leaving P. A. A. to work out its projected air passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane...
...tower-builders were in a hurry to dedicate their work and get away. Mrs. Stafford wanted time to buy her boys their school clothes. Captain Bartlett wanted to get away before the autumn freeze. Dr. Belknap wanted to get down the Greenland coast to Kraulshafen to get on with his part in the Second International Polar Year...