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Early Hearstian thrills became evident while the ship moored at Brooklyn. To hook the projected trip up with some-thing everyone knows, Jean Jules Verne, a staid public prosecutor of Rouen, France, imported for the occasion, was to christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which ''Captain Nemo" sailed Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in Prosecutor Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that...
Last week the Navy Department changed the numbers of its big V-type submarines to fish names. New names for the V-1 to V-9, in order: Barracuda, Bass, Bonita, Argonaut, Narwhal, Nautilus, Dolphin, Cachalot, Cuttlefish. In the Navy there have already been four Dolphins, two Bonitas, two Nautiluses, one Barracuda, one Narwhal, one Cachalot, one Cuttlefish...
Because Lincoln Ellsworth, who, with the late Captain Roald Amundsen and General Umberto Nobile flew in the Norge across the North Pole in 1926, contributed a large amount toward the $250,000 which Sir George Hubert Wilkins is raising to take an old Navy submarine renamed the Nautilus, across the Pole under the Arctic ice, the name of the Wilkins expedition last week was changed to the Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition...
...became known that when Sir Hubert Wilkins takes his old Navy submarine, rechristened the Nautilus, under the Arctic ice to seek a new way to the North Pole, there will be aboard one Jean Jules Verne, rechristener of the ship, a young Rouen lawyer, grandson of Author Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Said Jean Jules Verne last week: ". . . My grandfather's dreams are being realized in more ways than...
...interested in the suave social attentions of Miami's wealthy winter visitors. Had he not been the President-Elect, he would have been set down as snobbish. The Committee of One Hundred asked him to attend a splendid ball, to sit in a Presidential box, at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach. A curtly polite "No thanks" came from the Penney estate. On the date set he planned to be inspecting the dreary Okeechobee district where 2,000 persons lost their lives in last year's flood and hurricane...