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...miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a colony and their planting on the island was a Soviet gesture of possession against the rival claims of the U. S. and Canada. In the 1820's the Russian Baron Wrangel heard of, but did not see, the island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia...
Died. Athanase Vagliano, called "The Greek," famed as the Premier Gambler of Europe; at Roquebrune, French Riviera (see...
Died. Oscar W. Underwood, 66, Democrat, member of the House and Senate for 32 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his Virginia home, Woodlawn (see...
Termed dilatory by President Coolidge (see p. 9), the Interstate Commerce Commission last week roused itself, took action, decided that the New York Central R. R. might legally acquire the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Michigan Central railroads, and subsidiary lines of the two. Merger permission was conditional upon purchase by the New York Central of six short-line roads in the affected area...
...which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained in jail while Mr. Hoover was received in Miami, while he proceeded to Belle Isle, while he embarked on a fishing trip (see...