The opening of the Empire State Building was not the only newsworthy event that day. The New York Times also reported that Captain Albin Ahrenberg had reached Iceland on his way to Greenland to rescue Augustine Courtauld, a British explorer who was marooned on the ice cap. Locally, the IRT subway line was involved in litigation over fares (then five cents). And the body of a jeweler who had disappeared three months earlier, along with $20,000, had been found dumped in the ocean.
