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LAKE STE. AGNES, Quebec, April 22.--After all that happened to the Bremen and her crew, I cannot help but feel that others, too, may have crossed the Atlantic westward by air, only to crack up in some remote wilderness.
Relief expedition
GREEN HARBOR, Svalbard [Spitzbergen], April 22.-- With Carl Ben Eielson's skillful piloting, a perfect monoplane and engine, reliable gasoline and oil, good weather most of the way, with good luck and by careful navigation, we have traveled 2,200 miles above Arctic ice from Barrow, Alaska, to Green Harbor, Svalbard.
His own story; map; plane was slightly damaged in landing; hemmed in by ice and snow; pors; G E King on Eielson's association with him and J E Crosson in Alaska; German press comment; V Stefansson on Wilkins's story; excerpts from his article on Polar Exploration by Airplane pub by Amer Geographical Soc of N Y; illus Polar regions; comment; illus plane; I Bowman's message
Pres Cosgrave wrecks car to avoid hitting boys
1928Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (died 2014)[†]
Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, politician, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.