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Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...
Having given its curious readers the parsley, the Boston Traveler last week revealed the meat. The aviator's name is Harry N. Atwood. For the last five years, he has been drawing up plans in his hilltop home in Monson, Mass., for a multi-motored, heavier-than-air ship capable of carrying 100 passengers across the Atlantic in less than 48 hours...
Nungesser & Coli. More than eight days had passed since Capt. Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, idol of Paris, onetime cowpuncher in Argentina, multi-wounded War ace with platinum-patched bones, and Capt. François Coli, son of a hardy clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death...
...railroad collision-near Armour's Station on the Southern railroad. The company promptly paid me $2,000-to get my old self doctored-and it was this money that I invested with the Bank of Donaldsonville. being promised a 10% dividend by Hon. J. S. Shingler, multi-millionaire of Ashburn, Ga., and its president." Mrs. Felton then told how -she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help her. "I feel that I have been gagged, hogtied...
...terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment at Karlsruhe, a motorless glider, manned by a pilot, was successfully towed aloft and cut free and brought to earth. Engineers predicted the rest. Needing very little velocity to stay aloft, several gliders would be no great drag on a multi-motored ship, the chief problem lying in getting them off the ground at the start...