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...voyage of inspection Prime Minister Stauning also visited the Faroe Islands which are legally a part of Denmark proper and lie midway between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. These tiny isles with an area of only 540 sq. mi. have a population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks...
...Gloucester harbor toward the triangular 36-mi. course swung the two big fishing schooners. Thebaud was ballasted down by the head and rolled like a destroyer. High rode the Bluenose, her forefoot lifting out until it showed her red underbody...
...case of accident to Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort lay dead 70 mi. west of Cheyenne. In the "zero-zero" (no ceiling, no visibility) weather, Lieut. Caldwell had crashed into a fence post trying to land. With bad weather still ahead of him over the Alleghenies, Lieut. Woodring prudently transferred to a consolidated Fleetster piloted by a brother officer, landed at Mitchel Field...
...trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also forced back to land at Timor. Next day Kingsford-Smith took it off safely, finished the 12,000-mi. flight...
...killed pilot and priests. A gift of the Marquette League of New York, which has spent $750,000 upon missions for Indians of the southwest U. S. and of Alaska, the Marquette was intended to enable Father Delon to visit in three weeks missions scattered over 500,000 sq. mi., a trip that formerly required a year's travel by dog team...