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...everyone knows, the Tsarist courts had to punish Stalin for everything from advocating Communism to carrying out a daring series of bank robberies to obtain funds for his fellow revolutionists. From 1913 until the collapse of tsardom this "ferocious criminal" languished in exile near the Arctic Circle, having escaped from other jails...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...
Elected. Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany, 62, Graf Zeppelin commander; to be president of the Aero Arctic Society, succeeding the late Fridtjof Nansen of Norway (died May 13); in Berlin...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...