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...Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...
...Reserve. Kans., Wilbur Peck exhibited a pelt to prove his story that he had found two wolves fighting in front of his house "presumably to be first in line at the door...
...Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids...
LORD DERBY meditatively, as His Majesty examines a sea-otter pelt priced at ?750 ($5,750) : ''I once had a sea-otter collar on an overcoat...
...journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling alleys, Wisconsin maidens serving kosher meats at the ranch clubhouse. Proceeds of the first sale ($200) were donated...