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Kings Bay. Spitzbergen, Monday, June 22—(AP)—Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and the other members of the expedition which recently made an ineffectual attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane from Spitzbergen, will sail tomorrow from King’s Bay for Oslo, Norway. They will take with them the seaplane which brought them back from the Arctic Circle to Spitzbergen.
MacMillan Leaves Boston Amid Great Outburst of Enthusiasm
Boston. June 17.—(AP)—The arctic expedition of Lieut. Commander Donald B. MacMillan sailed from the navy yard at Charleston shortly after noon today In the steamship Peary bound for Wiscasset, Me. From Wiscasset the Peary and the schooner Bowdoin will sail on MacMillan’s ninth trip
The big guns on the navy craft thundered farewell as the little steamer slipped away on the first leg of the trip beyond the arctic circle. A navy band on the pier played “Auld Lang Syne.” The crowd which had crammed its way into the navy yard cheered. The harbor echoed with the shrill of marine whistles as craft at anchor joined In the parting tribute.
Newark, N. J., June 12.—(AP)—A live lobster, scarlet in color, arrived here today in a shipment from Portland, Maine.
The authority on shell fish at the American Museum of Natural History in New York when notified said that a red lobster was a freak among lobsters, similar to the albino among humans. He stated that the museum has a blue lobster and asked that the red lobster be presented to the museum.
News of First Serious Accident of Speedway Season
Thrill for Throngs Arriving Early for 500-Mile Race—Driver Uninjured.
DURAY’S SPEED BURST STANDS AS RECORD
Noted Personages Here to Witness World’s Greatest Motor Classic
Bricks Cool and Experts Predict New Mark.
By Blythe Q. Hendricks
First serious accident at the Speedway this year occured today when L. L. Corum crashed into the wall in one of Ralph De Palma’s cars Which he was to drive in the 500-mile race Saturday.
Corum was not hurt. The car will be out of the race.
News of the accident provided an advance thrill for the throngs arriving early for the race.
The accident occured shortly before noon at the first turn. Corum was driving at better than 100 miles an hour when his car, De Palma’s “Bobtail” Miller Special, skidded and turned completely around, stradling the inside retaining wall.
New York, May 7 (AP)—An ordinary photographic negative today was placed in a photoradiographic machine in Honolulu, a beam of light played through it and the complicated apparatus began clicking. One four of a second later, another machine In New York, 5,136 miles away, began dotting and dashing out a copy of the negative. Twenty minutes later the machine in New York had linked in the last dot of a complete positive—making a success of the transmission of a photograph by radio across the Pacific Ocean.
Seven times this process was repeated and seven pictures of persons and events connected with the Hawaiian maneuvers of the American army and navy of last week appeared in early afternoon editions of New York newspapers.
Vast Palace, Five Temples and Art Objects Convince Tulane Exploring Party.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, April 25.—Ruins of ancient Maya Indian temples, pyramids, human effigies and other discoveries show that the City of Comalcalco ranks among the greatest cities of the long dead Maya empire. This was announced here today by Tulane University in a brief cablegram from its expedition, which has been exploring in Tehauntepec, Mexico.
As will be seen by the following letter the Governor of New Jersey has enjoined non-interference with Pennsylvanians in regard to the oyster fisheries until the dispute is legally settled:
State of New Jersey, Executive Department, Trenton, April 22, 1871—Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, Attorney-General, Philadelphia—Sir:—I have received the following despatch from Governor Randolph, and immediately repeated it, substantially, to Mr. Howell, by telegraph:—
Income for Three Months of 1925 Indicate This Year Will Be a Record-Breaker.
Total receipts of the Medicine Bow national forest in southern Wyoming for three quarters of the current fiscal year ended March 31 last are within $400 of ninety thousand dollars.
The major portion, $85,329.06 was derived from sales of timber, principally railroad ties. Grazing of cattle, horses and sheep amounted to $3,554, special use, $743, and trespass settlements of damage done $36.