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Ships and planes, heading north, brought food, medicines, snow glasses, gum boots, guns. Unlike Eskimos, Italians cannot trap seals by hand, find it difficult to bag polar bears. Unconfirmed reports said the thiee Arctic pedestrians were safe aboard an ice breaker. Capt. Roald Amundsen, not on speaking terms ,,ith Pilgrim Nobile, forgot personal enmities to lead a rescue expedition...
North. Two years ago last week volatile, voluble General Umberto Nobile of Italy, accompanied by his fox terrier bitch Titina; sturdy, silent Roald Amundsen of Norway; able, adventurous Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S. flew in the dirigible Norge over the North Pole. Seventy-one freezing hours of flight cooled the entente cordiale between the Italian and his companions. Last week the Italian took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, accompanied almost entirely by Italian scientists and an Italian crew, in the dirigible Italia, to explore the unknown regions around the North Pole for the glory of Mussolini and his Fatherland...
...Roald Amundsen, famed Norwegian explorer of the arctics, has written an autobiography...
...Some people believe that he is mentally, unbalanced. (He still says he thinks he reached the North Pole.) Others say that he is a much maligned man. Edwin Swift Balch of Philadelphia, a distinguished scientist and explorer who died last week, firmly upheld Dr. Cook's integrity. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, said last week: "He [Cook] is one of the finest men I have ever known. As physician, with the Antarctic expedition of 1897-99, which was frozen in the ice for 13 months, he saved the whole party of 20 men from death...
...Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture of the criminal so described. The face was mine. Next day, police officials confessed the error, denied that I was the criminal wanted." Elihu...