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...Fairbanks. Into the air too leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks to return the favor in his new Lockheed Electra. Spurring the search, the Army Signal Corps station in Anchorage announced the receipt of a weak radio message from the grounded plane: "No bearings . . . having trouble with . . . wave band...
Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...
Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
Japan's closely censored newsorgans meanwhile filled their columns with reports of mutinous Red Army ferment in Siberia, announced that "several hundred Red Army officers and soldiers" had been overpowered by the secret police after "resisting arrest" in Vladivostok and were being shipped toward Moscow as prisoners on two trains. "The rest of the Soviet Far East army, as a result of these arrests, has been thrown into utter confusion!" crowed the Tokyo Nichi Nichi...
...Robert Donat) are watching a horse race in England. She is the daughter of a Russian official. He is. a young traveler at home on vacation. They do not meet. By the time they encounter each other for the first time it is 1917. A. J., long imprisoned in Siberia for complicity in a Red plot, is now a member of the Red Army and Countess Alexandra is waiting to be shot...