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When the Chelyuskin was within 150 mi. of the Bering Strait, the ice pack closed its fist, began its inexorable squeeze. On the decks, in the rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel heart. From bow to engine room the port side stove in amid great grindings and crunchings. The sudden cold burst the steam pipes. A plank swept the chief steward overboard...
...baby on to the ice. Most important, they got off a little radio sending set with batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard's end. Next day, snug on his ice floe, Professor Schmidt told the world: "The sky cleared last night and we took bearings from...
...later the sports did the square thing. For $200,000 in $5 & $10 bills they turned Edward Bremer, 36-year-old son of rich Brewer Adolph, loose on a side street in Rochester, Minn., 85 mi. south of St. Paul. Edward walked dizzily in circles for a while, finally made his way back to his father's house by bus, train and cab. All the way home he kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held...
...Greenville (pop. 1,000), 22 mi. south of Kokadjo, Nurse Eleanor Hamilton got word from another trapper in mid-November that Allen's hand was mighty bad. Snow had not yet shut Kokadjo in for the winter. Nurse Hamilton found the lean, grey trapper still up & around, but his hand was swollen like a puffball and he felt chilly and feverish. She bathed his hand, gave him some pills and something hot to drink. She came back off & on for two weeks but by then Trapper Macdougall was so much worse that she got a neighbor with an automobile...
Pennsylvania has completed electrification of its four track line from New York through Philadelphia to Wilmington (118 mi.). From Public Works Administration it borrowed $77,000,000 to carry the job on to Washington (another 108 mi.) and to embark on the greatest equipment-buying spree in the history of railroading. General William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania's up-from-Yale-and-the-tracks president, last week estimated that the whole project would provide two years' work for at least 25,000 men. "The Standard Railroad of the World" will build 7,000 steel box cars at a cost...