Today -100: May 24, 1925: Oh, I don’t think they’ll have to worry about successors

Roald Amundsen’s North Pole expedition hasn’t been heard from since its planes took off from Spitzbergen. They may have ditched the planes.

Sanford White, the first US governor of Hawaii, appointed by McKinley, who before that was president of the Hawaiian Republic, tells the NYT that he opposes statehood because then governors would be elected rather than appointed by the president and that might result in (gasp) a Japanese governor.

Italians worry that poor Benito is working himself to death and there is no obvious successor.

That article says that under The Duck, the trains run on time.

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