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During a political campaign charges of "crime and corruption" are favorite missiles of contending candidates. Last week in polyglot, steelmaking northern Indiana, candidates for the coming election were given charged grenades to throw. A Federal "cleanup" campaign produced grand jury indictments against 299 residents of East Chicago, Gary, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, on charges of violating liquor, white slave, narcotic and automobile theft laws. In East Chicago, Mayor Raleigh P. Hale, Republican candidate for reelection, and the Chiefs of Police and Detectives were all arrested for multifarious violations of Prohibition laws...
...continent itself, at Little America on the edge of Ross Sea which bites deeply towards the South Pole, was Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and his large party. They were breaking out of their eight months' hibernation. Dog sledges had started making caches for way stations along his route to the Pole. His two planes had endured the winter well in their snow houses. Mechanics were going over them. The men were working hard but they had a holiday coming to them. On Oct. 25 they would pause to celebrate Commander Byrd's 41 st birthday...
Hurrying last week to visit Commander Byrd was Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who will be 41 just six days after Commander Byrd. He stopped at Rio de Janeiro last week. As he left there for Buenos Aires and Graham Land south of Cape Horn, his supply and base ship William Scorseby sailed from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert...
...Douglas knows the Antarctic better than does Sir Hubert or Commander Byrd. In 1907, when he was a scientific lecturer at Adelaide University, Australia, he was assigned to the staff of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. He ascended Mt. Erebus and journeyed to the South Magnetic Pole. In 1911-14 he led the Australasian Antarctic expedition. Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen...
Fritzi Scheff's story begins late in the year of 1900, when President McKinley was ordering events in Washington, when the British were fighting the Boers in South Africa. In Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year...