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...black-haired, quick-witted telephone girl in the Pyreneean city of Jaca bided her time last week, then quickly plugged in to the central office at Huesca, 35 mi. away...
...mi. travel diary of Hubert R. Knickerbocker, first correspondent to explore Red Russia thoroughly, came last week to the end of its 24 daily instalments in Manhattan's Evening Post, Philadelphia's Public Ledger...
...acute respiratory infection attacking the lungs." -Famed J. B. S. Haldane, reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, correcting worldwide reports that he had said Belgium was suffering from a return of the medieval "Black Death." Coincidence. Experts of the French Army were busy last week at Lille (80 mi. from the stricken Meuse Valley) producing enormous clouds of what they called "a cheap, harmless artificial fog made from chalk, sulphuric acid and tar products which will be extremely useful to hide the movements of troops in war time...
Ever since the DO-X, when enroute to Bordeaux, fell 25 mi. short of her destination and was towed the remaining distance, there have been rumors that the twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines had not served well enough to warrant a transatlantic flight. These rumors the Brothers Dornier, Claude and Maurice, vigorously denied. But finally they did concede that bad weather on the Azores-Bermuda route had upset their plan to fly to New York. Instead, they planned to send the DO-X across the South Atlantic to Brazil. At that juncture Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. copilot, resigned...
Caterpillar Jr. Within 100-mi, of Los Angeles, his goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house...