Foreign News: Nobile Bussed

Frenzied cheering and moist tempestuous kisses greeted Polar Pilgrim-General Umberto Nobile & Party, last week, upon their return to Rome. Correspondent Edward Storer of the Chicago Daily News counted kisses, counted up 100 men and women who kissed General Nobile alone, stopped counting, dashed to file the hot news in a special radio despatch.

Even Titina, the famed little yapping fox terrier bitch belonging to General Nobile, also received a Roman Fascist cheer: "Ala-Ala-Alala!'!" She (8 lbs.) was declared by Radio Operator Giuseppe Biagi of the Expedition to have fearlessly yapped at and...

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