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...Nowadays polar explorers have airplanes, radio; reach their goal more quickly, safely, let the world know where they are, what they are doing. But the Poles were not "discovered" from the air, and the news came back no faster than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott...
Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
...Frederick Albert Cook, onetime polar explorer, onetime oil stock crook, recently released from Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, March 17), was given a job as physical director of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic's summer camp at Burlington, Wis. He told a meeting of the Boys in Chicago that anyone who went to the North Pole could find a metal tube he buried there...
...their satellites, or moons. Earth and Neptune each have one moon. Mars has two, Uranus four, Saturn and Jupiter each nine. All the moons, like their planets, are visible by reflected Sun light. They move around their planets in the same direction as the planets turn on their polar axes. Exceptions are Saturn's moon called Phoebe and one of Jupiter's. Jupiter may have, also, a second contrary moon...
...honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions...