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...Pole, he must intend to break tradition that he remain "the prisoner of the Vatican." Should Pius XI take but a step across his threshold, the Catholic world would literally be rocked to its foundation. The next heavy type headline made it appear that not even the excuse of polar exploration was being offered by Pius XI. For it read...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...
...could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
Waskey and Reporter Rossman told how their sledging party had mushed upland for days into a trackless country of rivers and snow-buried canons, climbing to the top of the mountain range that slopes off north again to the Polar Sea. Well within the Arctic Circle, they had encountered weather severe enough at times to deaden their radio equipment. The going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take...
Knowing Capt. Wilkins for a persistent and resourceful man (he plans to live in the polar regions largely on what game can be shot), and knowing Chief Pilot Eielson for an indefatigable flyer (singlehanded he overcame a hundred vicissitudes of the North, flew 60,000 unaccompanied miles in the Alaskan air mail service), U. S. airmen had no doubt that the expedition would be pushed ahead notwithstanding...