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...woman is known to have voyaged to Antarctica. Believing that many a U. S. and British woman wants to go there, Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse announced in London last week that he will make things as easy for them as possible. Sailing from Southampton next Dec. 10 in "a cozy steamer of 12,500 tons" he will touch at New York and for $2,500 will take anyone who wants to go on an Antarctic cruise...
...irregular course of roads through Victoriaville. Quebec, Ste. Anne de la Perade, Joliette, and back to Montreal's baseball stadium runners plodded last week in a relay race. Eighteen thousand spectators cheered the winners. Swathed in wraps, Arthur Newton of Rhodesia, South Africa, and Peter Gavuzzi of Southampton, England, hurried away to get some rest. Their total time for the 500-mi. course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time of 2 hr. 18 min. 40 sec., 4 min. 50 sec. ahead...
Died. Chance Milton Vought, 42, pioneer aircraftsman, designer of the first planes used with catapults, builder of Vought Corsairs in common use by U. S. Navy, president of Chance Vought Corp. and vice president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; of bloodpoisoning after a tooth extraction; at Southampton...
Trip. Passengers on liners bound down the Solent from Southampton caught a glimpse last week of an ugly little sailboat with a short mast, rigged as a ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran...
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 70, Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, commander of the British Grand Fleet (1914-16), later first sea lord, Admiral of the Fleet and governor-general of New Zealand (1920-24), demanded to know why the thousands of British workers who sit idle receiving the unemployment dole should not be made to work for this money building battleships. "Treaties do not of themselves always give security and safety," he cried. "In the view of one who has been responsible for Great Britain's security in critical days, that security is gone...