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China. Sixteen typhoons have struck at Shanghai during the past summer. All have missed. Last week, as the rain-flooded Whangpoo River overflowed into Shanghai's business district, a 17tth typhoon approached to within 40 mi. of the city, then turned northwest. Toward nightfall, the typhoon changed its direction, aimed for Shanghai. Blowing with cyclonic force, it piled up mountainous seas at the mouths of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers, sent a four-foot torrent flowing through the heart of Shanghai. The waters islanded the National City and Chase National Banks and most of the big downtown hotels. Having...
...highways let only a skimpy 150,000 get through to the second race, which turned out to be the most exciting of all Harmsworth Cup events. This time, his motors warmed up beforehand, Scott-Paine managed to get across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute...
...when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series, it was an unprecedented achieve- ment. But it did not win him the title. He was disqualified once more, this time without question, for fouling the windward mark on the 10½-mi. course. The title went to Waterhouse, who won the last race by finishing three seconds behind Movie Star II. A handsome, mustachioed San Francisco captain, Waterhouse had kept well up among the leaders in the earlier races, built up a point total of 67 for the series by careful racing...
...plane down on the same field, climbed stiffly out to the cheers of opening day spectators at the Chicago Daily News-sponsored International Air Races. ''I'm not a bit tired," said he, despite the fact that he had just flown 4,500 mi.-from Chicago to Los Angeles to Seattle and back to Chicago-in flying time...
...Kingston, Mich., about 225 mi. from Chicago, Dr. Erich Koerner & Richard Scheutz, Germans, descended into a watery ditch. At Albion, Mich., about 213 mi. from Chicago, Louise and Eleanor Hall, daughters of an Albion College professor, were summoned to interpret for two for- eigners who had come down in a balloon: Georges Ravaine & Georges Blanchet, Frenchmen...