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Last week practically all of Russia's high air command was wiped out in a single crash near Podolsk 20 mi. south of Moscow. Where they were going, whence they came, what caused the crash, remained a Kremlin secret. But next day in the City Hall in downtown Moscow the bodies lay in state: Peter Baranov, Vice Commissar for Heavy Industries in charge of Aviation; Abram Goltsman, Chief of Civil Aviation; his assistant, A. Petrov; Valentine Zarzar, former Vice Chief of Civil Aviation and now Chief of the Aviation Section of the State Planning Commission; O. Gobonov, director...
...huge project, to send a 2,000-mi. rope of roads and railways clear across China at a cost of $50,000,000 gold. It might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into...
...five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1,788 nautical miles from Norfolk-160 nautical miles better than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic in 1931. One plane with engine trouble lagged 40 mi. behind. Around the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington last week it was jubilantly hinted that Squadron 5F might be sent on a 3,000-mi. jaunt up the west coast to San Diego, Calif., might even go to Italy next year to return Italo Balbo's recent call...
...foot from Dallas, Tex. last spring with a bale of cotton on his back (TIME, June 12). Also in Chicago last week arrived Dr. John R. Carter, 52, and his daughters Lois Jean, 13, and Rovena, 9. They had rollerskated from Detroit in seven days, averaging 45 mi...
Still in doubt until the end of last week was the outcome of the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race (TIME, Sept. 11). By virtue of landing methodically at Branford, Conn., 750 mi. from Chicago, Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, pilot of the Navy bag and winner of last year's race from Basle, Switzerland, was far in the lead. Then out of the wilds of Quebec, bearded and exhausted, trudged the Polish entrants, Captain Francizek Hynek and Lieut. Zbigniev Burzynski. They had descended about 102 mi. northeast of Rivére Á. Pierre, followed moose paths...