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Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, who has a knack of getting small airplanes into extraordinary places, took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first nonstop from New York, and Pilot Hinkler's was the first land plane to touch Jamaican soil, previous visitors having been amphibians or seaplanes...
...human brains, some great unknown heavenly body was making its attraction felt. One of the human brains belonged to the late Percival Lowell, another to William Henry Pickering, both Harvard astronomers. In January 1930, true to Lowell calculations, a new planet beyond outermost Neptune and 3,680,000,000 mi. from the sun picked its way across a photographic plate in the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. It was subsequently called Pluto?the first two letters of the name being the initials of Percival Lowell...
Some account of Planet P was made known in 1928. Now, however, Professor Pickering has estimated not only its orbit (an ellipse whose distance from the sun varies between 5,000 and 9,000 million mi.) but its diameter (44,000 mi.). It is twice as far from the sun as far-flung Pluto, is the third most massive of the sun's family, exceeded only by Jupiter and ringed Saturn. Its sidereal period: 656 years...
...diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could take place, last week one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert...
...capitals in a single day. That visit cost him 40 min. flying time while he hunted in vain for fog-bound Bolling Field, finally put down on Washington-Hoover Airport. He stopped for fuel twice again, at Birmingham and Corpus Christi, Tex. The whole day's 2,500-mi. flight he described as "uninteresting" save for the thrill of landing his high speed plane in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City...