The Archive · 1935

Soviet Ship Sails Across Arctic

London, Sept. 28.

With an untehered polar bear striding along its decks, and the whole is the Soviet to-day with the distinction of being the first commercial vessel to traverse the Arctic circle from Viadivostock to London.

"The skipper of the steamer, Captain Melekhov, said that the total distance of the journey was 6,000 miles. He was nervous about erossing the north-

Exploding the "share-the-wealth" theory now current in the United States and terming it a "fallacy," {the Brookings Institution, speci ing in research on economic and monetary subjects, on Sept. 26 report:

the probable' effect of a literal "share-the-wealth" policy in the United States.

'A. sensational rumour is in elt. culation in Bucharest on Sept. 27 the effect that King Carol of Rumania may marry a Germah princess. It is stated that Prince Frederick Hohenlohe, who is at present visiting Rumania, is trying to persuade the Mr. Victor Ridder, New York Publisher, 1s to sueeed Gen. Hugh S. Johnson "as Works Progress Administrator for New York City.

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