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...September, out on the Farm Road that leads from Fairbanks past the University, Cap Lathrop hopes to have in operation the northernmost commercial radio station in the world, and the largest and most powerful (1,000 watts) in Alaska.* Its call letters: KFAR...
...Soya Strait, just above the northernmost island of Japan, the Soviet provision ship Refrigerator No, 1 was halted by the Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
Only race against which the South ordinarily displays feeling is the colored race. Last fortnight, in Baltimore, the northernmost of Southern cities, feeling was expressed against another race, the Aryan. Seven U. S. citizens, aged 14 to 16, wrote a letter to 40 Germans, aged 14 to 16, visiting as exchange students in Baltimore homes. Baltimore papers promptly copied...
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...
With reference to the letter written to you by Hon. D. C. Marshall of Forty Fort, Pa. (TIME, Feb. 1) in regard to the bamboo shoots required for the diet of Su-lin, the giant panda, I noticed that he states the northernmost point he has seen the plant growing is just outside Jacksonville...