UNDER NORTH POLE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13093, 15 February 1937, Page 5

UNDER NORTH POLE

SLR H. WILKINS’ PROJECTED TRIP. ' HOW SUBMARINE WILL BE FINANCED. (U.P.A. by Eicc. Tel. Copyright). (Received Feb. 14. 7 .30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 14. • Sir IT. Wilkins will return to Loudon. He is underwriting his submarine Polar project himself at a cost c4’ 135.000 dollars. “That is probably why Lady Wilkins went to work without telling me,’’ he said. “She feels she is helping to finance the trip and if is perfectly all right with me. “It is; not as though 1 am here a great deal and that her working lias interfered with our home life.” Lady Wilkins, who admitted that she is constantly nervous and on the edge from having to practice for concerts and then render dozens of songs nightly at a cabaret, declared that she was accompanying Sir H. Y\ ilkins on his forthcoming trip in June 1938. Sir H. Wilkins said he had a fivefold objective, the principal of which was to ’ocate the supposedly mythical CYoker Land that Perry saw south of the North Pole and north-east of Ellesmere Land. lie said that from Spitsbergen a crew of seven, besides his wife, would travel several thousand miles beneath the Arctic floes.

He was. he added, planning to stop briefly under the North Pole he*fore coming up somewhere along the Alaskan Coast.

A Naples P.A. cable states that the son of the Crown Prince Umberto of Italy has been christened Vittorio Enuuniele Alberto Carlo Theodore Umbcrton Bonifacio Amadeo Damiano Bernardino Garrard Maria.