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President Hoover went down from Washington overnight aboard the S. S. Sequoia, a small Department of Commerce inspection boat. Landing near Norfolk, he went on out to the windswept dunes at the cape. There were gathered 10,000 people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop...
...embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took orders. Acosta was the best flyer aboard." From Acosta in New York: "If I had anything to say to Tony I'd say it to his face." According to the New York Evening Graphic, Acosta also said: "So far as Anthony Fokker and his book are concerned, he can go to hell...
...same day Alfonso XIII landed from his cruiser at Marseilles, took the train to rejoin his family. Reporters hopped aboard at every stop but were firmly excluded from the Royal compartment. In the diner one newshawk peeped into the Royal casserole, reported that Alfonso was lunching off a truffled pigeon...
...Lakehurst Naval Air Station from Washington went Lieut. Commander Rosendahl last week, to assemble for his new command a crack crew?about ten officers, 40 enlisted men?from the personnel trained aboard the Los Angeles (his old command). As second-in-command of the Akron the Navy picked Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley, a veteran of the Shenandoah and of five years service on the Los Angeles. Chief engineer, in charge of the eight Maybachmotors which will drive Akron at 83 m. p. h., is Lieut. Commander Bertram J. Rodgers...
Last week five cutters of the U. S. Coast Guard put out from Pacific ports in the U. S. and plied northward. Aboard each, the ship's musicians were prepared to play their most amusing sonatas not for the entertainment of their comrades, but over the ship's sides and across the Arctic wastes...