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NEW TORK, Thursday.

AN ASSOCIATED Press message from Fairbanks, Alaska, says that Major Thomas Lamphier was expected to 'hop-off" from there late to-day to search for Captain Wilkins, the leader of the Arctic exploration expedition, and his pilot Lieut. Eielsen, who have not been reported since they left Fairbanks a week ago for the base at Point Barrow, at the northern extremity of Alaska.

MAJOR LAMPHER'S slart was delayed while he repaired a faulty compass, and while his 'plane, the Detroiter, was tested.

After flying 560 miles from Point Barrow, Major Lampbler plans to return to Fairbanks for fuel, If he has found no trace of the missing leader and pilot, preparatory to going north again, out over the Arctic Ice.

INTO THE UNKNOWN

Captain Wllklns and Lieut. Eielsen were last reported at Thetis Island, 100 miles east of Point Barrow, the day after they left here, and the Indications were that they were venturing into unknown Polar regions:.

The air here Is perfectly still to-day, with Indications of a general calm in the north. — Reuter.

I get the impression that this was created with stock images and photoshop.

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From the LA Times.

From The Australian Woman's Mirror, August 18 1931:

>A new device for the motorist. These goggles have small adjustable side-mirrors into which the user may glance as she drives and keep track of overtaking traffic without turning her head.