Wilkins Will Take His Wife

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7

Wilkins Will Take His Wife

To North Pole in Submarine OUTLINE CF PLANS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Sir Hubert Wilkins will return to London where he is underwriting a submarine Polar project himself at a cost of 135,000 dollars. “That is probably why Lady Wilkins went to work without telling me,” he stated. ‘‘She feels she is helping to finance the trip and it is perfectly all right with me. It is not as though I am here a great deal and her working interfered with our homo life.” Lady Wilkins, who admitted she is constantly nervous and on edge from having to practice for concerts and then render dozens of soDgs nightly at a cabaret, declared that she is accompanying her husband on his forthcoming trip in June, 1938. Wilkins said lie had a fivefold objective, the principal of which was to locate the supposedly mythical Croker Land that Peary saw south of the North Polo and north-west of Ellesmere Lund. He will sail from Spitzbergen with n crew of seven besides his wife and travel several thousand miles beneath Arctic floes. He is planning to stop briefly under the North Pole before coming up somewhere along tho Alaskan coast.