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...dirigible Los Angeles swam through minor altitudes above the mid-Atlantic Coast, returned to its Lakehurst, N. J., berth. Chattering reporters casually gleaned from chattering air-sailors that the day had been spent in taking aerial photographs of 24 rum ships. Captain George W. Steele, commanding, admitted that orders to scout and photograph had been received weeks ago from. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Mr. Wilbur, at Washington, protested he knew no more than the newsgatherers...
...Corsairs, the Bey of Tunis. To Tunis went William Eaton, blond Midshipman from Connecticut. Said he to the Bey's brother: "I will put you on the throne." The U. S. Navy Department connived. Eaton mustered an army of sheiks and camels, began a staggering crusade along the coast to Derne. He ran out of provisions, plodded on. His army deserted, he bribed it back. After incredible hardship, he reached Derne. The Bey's cavalry fled, disordered; the city fell; then-the U. S. withdrew its support. Eaton, "The Hero of Derne," his fame on every tongue...
...through the heavy static at the equator after a fortnight of reported failure (TIME, Apr. 20), Explorer William Beebe, last week, employed his radio to tell the U. S. his oceanographic adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. Cruising south from Panama to study the chilly Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador (TIME, Apr. 13), thence west to the Galapagos Islands (on the Equator, longitude 92° west), those on board the Arcturus had beheld...
...repeated, last week, the feat of the U. S. airship Shenandoah, which, last year, went on an unintentional voyage (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The R33 was moored to the mast at Pulham airdrome in Norfolk, England, during one of the worst gales known to the windswept English coast. Under the terrific pull of a 50-mile-an-hour wind, she tore away the arm of the mooring mast. The damage inflicted was even worse than in the case of the, Shenandoah. The first of the 18 sec, tions of her duralumin framework was completely broken, the sixth badly damaged...
Married. James Stillman Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, to Miss Nancy Carnegie, grandniece of the late Andrew Carnegie; at Dungeness, Cumberland Island, off the coast of Florida...