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...Three, days later Lieutenant Conant was killed when his seaplane crashed off the coast of Mathews, Va., while he was on his way to Norfolk to practice for the Schneider Cup races. Next morning, his body was found strapped to the seat of the wrecked plane; his hand was clutching the control levers; his parachute was untouched. Naval officers, viewing the disaster, said that he must have been flying low, about 160 miles per hour, when one of the pontoons of his airplane hit a fish net stake...
...until Commodore Perry appeared off the Japanese coast in 1854 with ten battleships were the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") intimidated back into contact with the world. Not until two years later did Townsend Harris, as U. S. Consul General, raise at Kakisaki, near Shimoda, the first consular flag ever unfurled in Japan. Despatches told last week that many a parchment skinned workman is chipping with light mallet and fine chisel at a granite memorial to be unveiled on completion at the spot where Mr. Harris raised his standard...
Died. Lieutenant Frank H. Conant Jr., 27, Navy aviator; off the coast of Mathews, Va., when his plane crashed into...
...middle west, Michigan and Wisconsin, and on the Pacific Coast California and Washington furnish the touch given to eastern football by the Tiger Crimson affair...
...west the California Washington battle looms as a rival to the traditional big three classic in the Stadium. California had held precedence in Pacific Coast football for a number of years until it was finally stopped by a powerful team from Washington last year. Today the Californians journey to Seattle distinctly the under dogs but may prove a tough team to beat Washington with an unbroken string of victories since the beginning of the season is expecting a decisive victory which would put it in a favorable position for the mythical coast championship...