SOVIET ANNEXES NORTH POLE

Southland Times, Issue 23208, 25 May 1937, Page 7

SOVIET ANNEXES NORTH POLE

CAMP NAMED AFTER STALIN SCIENTISTS PREPARE FOR YEAR’S RESEARCH (Received May 24, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 23. The Riga correspondent of The Times says that it is announced _in Moscow that the Russian air expedition has annexed the North Pole for the Soviet. As the audience stood up and < acclaimed the premiere of the play, “The Dream,” dramatizing the hero’s plans for an Arctic flight and their ultimate realization, the author, Michael Voeopianov, was himself approaching the North Pole, piloting the scientists who on Saturday landed there. M. Otto Sctynidt, in his first report, says: “The weather was comparatively warm, with a temperature of 12 degrees below zero, sunny and a slight wind. Everyone is feeling splendid, and slept well after 24 hours’ continuous work in erecting the five tents and installing the scientific instruments." The explorers have christened the ice floe on which their camp is established “Comrade Stalin." They are already transmitting four weather bulletins a day to Moscow. The scientists will live in an aluminium house lift by 7ft, of which the floor is of rubber and the windows of unbreakable glass. The minimum temperature indoors will be 14 degrees Fahrenheit, though outdoors it is at present 14 degrees below zero. The men’s clothing includes a complete covering of Merino wool, pure silk underwear, flannel-lined breeches and shirts, reindeer fur suits, and fleece overcoats lined with fox-skin. The Soviet’s best chefs and dietitians worked for months to produce typical Russian delicacies in tablet form, including borsch soup and “Arctic biscuit,” which is made up of chicken, beef and flour. One year’s food supply will be contained in 75 tin boxes.

PILOT FOR FIRST FLIGHT

SELECTED

MOSCOW, May 23.

M. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, has selected the airman Levenseky, the hero of the aeroplane rescue of the passengers of the icebreaker Chelyuskin, for the first flight from Moscow to San Francisco. The flight will be made after investigations by the scientists at present at the North Pole.