People, Jan. 26, 1931

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

General Secretary Arthur James ("Emperor") Cook of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, famed unionist leader ("Thank God for Moscow!"), went to the hospital because of pains in his right leg which he had injured during his 21 years underground in the mines and hurt again when in 1926 he scuffled with non-unionists. Forthwith, surgeons amputated the leg above the knee.

It became known that when Sir Hubert Wilkins takes his old Navy submarine, rechristened the Nautilus, under the Arctic ice...

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