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...floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist Fyodorov and Hydrobiologist Shirshov, the Taimyr. Which ship got the dog Jolly, mentioned in dispatches three weeks ago as a companion of the four men on their floe, last week's dispatches did not disclose...
Besides the dog Jolly, the four on the floe were Leader Ivan Papanin, Radio Operator Ernest Krenkel, two other scientists. In the Arctic, where every Russian is a king, the king of kings is hardy, hairy Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration. Four years ago, when his ship, the Chelyuskin, had been squeezed, broken and sunk by the knitting ice pack, he spectacularly transferred 71 persons from the ship to an ice floe, whence they were spectacularly rescued by airplane. Last week, as Papanin's floe drifted toward Jan Mayen Island, jungle-bearded...
...Krenkel's Experience...
Sirs: Your statement in the May 31 issue, under "Russians to the Pole," that North Pole party member Ernest Krenkel was radio officer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1930, geographically is completely in error, inasmuch as he at the time occupied the very northernmost human habitation, almost at exact antipodes from Little America. The erroneous press reports probably arise from misinterpretation of Krenkel's remarks that his present radio equipment is based on his (communication) experience with the Byrd Expedition in 1930. Occasional two-way radio communication with station RPX of the Russian Polar Expedition on Fridtjof Nansen...
...Malcolm Hanson, radio engineer of the 1928-30 Byrd Antarctic Expedition (stowaway on the 1926 Expedition), thanks for clarifying Radioman Krenkel's career...