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...rest of the U. S. approves. When Texas was admitted into the Union 84 years ago, Congress authorized it to form "new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas." So immense is Texas (265,896 sq. mi.) that few persons can conceive of its size. It takes as long by train to travel from the Panhandle on the north to Brownsville on the south as it does to go from New York to Key West. Leader Garner gave his own figures: "Texas would make 220 States the size...
Last week at Honey Grove, 50 mi. east of Sherman, mobbers helped a posse find and shoot to death one George Johnson. 30, Negro murderer of a white man, to whom he had owed money. The mobbers dragged Johnson's body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...
...theatrical capital of the country last week moved temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...
Most traveled of U. S. publishers is Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun. In his own trimotored Fokker monoplane, accompanied by pilots, secretary and valet, he has pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted...