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Since prizefighting has been enjoying a private and acute depression of its own, strenuous means of ballyhoo were required for the meeting of World's Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, German printer, and William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling of Georgia. Stribling, an able if eccentric aviator, borrowed a plane from Cleveland airport and flew it 90 miles from his training camp at Geauga Lake Park, Ohio to Schmeling's training camp at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Here he flew low, shouted: "Yeah, Maxie!" and flew away again. Other exciting training camp incidents were few. Reporters assigned...
Within one week after they flew the Atlantic to Germany and Denmark in the Bellanca Liberty, the names of Pilot Holger Hoiriis and Passenger Otto Hillig could scarcely be found in U. S. newspapers. Their momentary flame of fame had been blown out by the propeller blast of the glorious Winnie Mae (see col. i). Here & there little two-paragraph despatches told of their jaunt from Copenhagen back into Germany, where Mr. Hillig became king for a day to the 300 inhabitants of his native Steinbrucken, whence he emigrated to the U. S. 40 years ago. There he shook hands...
...Bellanca with red wings, the name Liberty and the crossed flags of Denmark and U. S. on its side. The Danish flag stood for youthful Pilot Holger Hoiriis's native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...
...Hillig's friends from Liberty, N. Y. Wreaths were hung about their necks, there were parades, medals, a great banquet at the Town Hall. King Christian X made Pilot Hoiriis a Knight of the ancient Order of Danebroge. But if Hoiriis felt half as proud as Otto Hillig, he failed to show...
Died. Sir Hugh Bell, 87, English ironmaster, father of the late Gertrude Bell (explorer of Egypt and Arabia); in London; of a chill. Died. Otto Mears, 91. Colorado hero, in Pasadena, Calif. Because he was a pioneer railroader (onetime president of Denver & Rio Grande), a pioneer builder of such state-wide projects as the telegraph system, and a member of Colorado's first legislature, his stained-glass portrait hangs in the State Capitol's dome, Denver...