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...instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from Brussels toward Germany. Two days later all had jolted to earth with Poland's Polonia II and Belgium's Belgica farthest (both about 870 mi.) from the start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race be run over, claiming that Czechoslovakian planes had forced down two of the three German balloons. Czechoslovakia replied that its pilots were merely waving at the balloonists, who misunderstood the gesture as an order...
...reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens up a whole unspoiled section to motorists...
...more famed Californian- nimble, thimble-sized John Downey Harvey, son of Society Leader Eleanor Martin and San Francisco's chief dandy in the early 1900s. Like Dr. Roberts, he in his day cast his eyes shoreward, conceived a passenger railroad to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 80 mi. south. Downey Harvey incorporated Ocean Shore R. R. in 1905. Big sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never put up, real estate operators grabbed land...
...Theatre which would sponsor an annual Mohawk Drama Festival in July and August. Governor Lehman, the Boy Scouts and civic bodies all over the Mohawk Valley have enthusiastically sponsored the Festival. Colonel Frederick S. Greene, State Superintendent of Public Works, had Festival road signs posted in a 50-mi. radius of Schenectady, and this year, the Festival's third, he will be rewarded with a small part in The Farmer Takes a Wife. And this week another series of carefully presented revivals begins at Chautauqua, N. Y. when the able, 22-year-old Cleveland Playhouse company moves...
...water by spectrographic means because of spectrum lines caused by vapor in the Earth's air. Last spring Astronomers Walter Sydney Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory had a good chance to finesse this difficulty. Mars was then approaching Earth at about 13 mi. per second. When a source of light is approaching the observer, the spectrum lines are shifted to the right of their normal position. Thus Martian vapor lines would have been separated from those of Earth. The astronomers armed the 100-in. telescope with a 9-ft. spectral grating, but no Martian vapor...