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From Ottawa last week the Canadian Department of Justice radioed to the Royal Mounted Police schooner Stroche, frozen in Arctic pack ice, an order to release the Eskimo Squaw Kobvello whom seagoing Canadian Mounties arrested last December, charged with murdering one Fritz Schurer, a naturalized U. S. citizen...
...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...
...from New York, where he was born in Mount Vernon, to the Aleutian Islands. After graduating from Cornell in 1921 he worked a year in New York City, then wandered West, worked a year on the Seattle Times as a reporter. Returning to Manhattan after a voyage to the Arctic on a trading ship, he got a job writing copy in an advertising agency. When The New Yorker discovered him in 1926, both he and it were delighted. After three years there he married one of his bosses, Mrs. Katherine Angell, associate editor...
...last great adventure in the history of South Polar exploration," the exploration of the 5,000,000 sq. mi. in the Antarctic Continent between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September 1933, sail to a base at Framheim on the Bay of Whales, from...
...they imply a lot." The leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from 20% to 40% of the funds finally collected" from the public. That leader's "entire claim to fame, perhaps, rests on his once having made a trip to the Arctic as mate of a whaler." But he poses with a foot on a dead polar bear and gets the pictures in rotogravure sections of newspapers. During the expedition "strange rumors of dissension in the camp begin to percolate through the public consciousness, but are promptly quashed. . . ." Upon its return, "each...