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...electric stove out of commission. Next day's breakfast consisted of sardines, whiskey & soda. The winds slowed the R-100 materially-for five hours the speed varied between 15 and 35 m. p. h. Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, designer, had hoped to make the 3,200-mi. crossing in 50 hr.; the time to moorings at Cardington, England was 57 hr. 5 min.* Officials announced that new "skins" would be placed on both R-100 and R-101; that both craft will be kept busy, the R-101 starting with a flight to Egypt and India this Autumn...
...spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...
...before it was announced, London and New York newspaper offices knew last week that the starboard propeller and part of the shaft of the British liner Tahiti had fallen off, some 500 mi. from the Cook Islands, that the Tahiti was sinking while two U. S. vessels, the Matson liner Ventura and the Shipping Board's Antinous were rushing to the rescue. Reason: first news of the sinking Tahiti came from Suva, a Fiji island just west (from New York) of the International date line (180° east of Greenwich) a spot where the sun rises 14 hr. ahead...
John Wanamaker of Manhattan and Capt. Charlie Thompson, famed old-time fishing guide, were towed 40 mi. to sea off Montauk Point, L. I. by a three-ton whale which absorbed two harpoons and 40 bullets before dying...
Clarence De Mar, marathon runner, schoolteacher, on his way to lecture, missed his train, trotted 38 mi. from Harrison to Portland. Me., took another train, got there on time...