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...Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped...
With emphasis, Mr. Ellsworth next day denied the Herald-Tribune's article. "I don't care what Nobile writes," he said. Then he put an end to all the press stories about his reputed differences with Nobile: "I want to give Roald Amundsen 100 percent credit for the whole flight. It was his idea. He organized it and put it through. . . . I give credit to General Nobile for building the airship and for captaining it across the Polar...
...that the passage over the North Pole by the airship Norge was "an enterprise which could have been conceived and carried out only by superior beings," among whom, at that time, Mussolini deemed worthy of inclusion in his "fervent and heartfelt" congratulations Nobile's employers, Explorer Roald Amundsen, the brains; Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, the moneybags...
...spoke Lincoln Ellsworth, sturdy comrade and financial backer of Explorer Roald Amundsen: "General Nobile . . . was retained at a salary to act as her [the Norge's] captain, in exactly the same capacity as the captain of any other ship. ... It would be extremely unfair to [Lieut.] Riiser-Larsen, who navigated the entire flight across the Polar Sea, and to [Lieuts.] Horgan and Wisting who operated the lateral and vertical controls, not to give credit for both the navigating and the steering where...
Quizzical folk wondered what would be the condition of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen 19 years hence. It was 19 years ago that Walter Wellman attempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon. He was forced back to Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn...