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Next day three of Candidate Foster's sympathizers were still in jail, but the candidate himself, having begun his campaign in the orthodox Communist way with a night in prison, was permitted to depart to begin another campaign speech in Phoenix, Ariz., which has no Red Squad...
...Over Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...
...Dublin's wooded Phoenix Park stood ready last week a great pillared altar, with long colonnades on either side. There, on June 26, would take place the Congress' climax, a High Pontifical Mass, followed by a monster procession, 15 miles long, in which 20,000 stewards were to herd the faithful into line, with loudspeakers every 180 ft. to help them keep in tune while singing hymns. The whole thing is to be broadcast,* filmed. Celebrant of the Mass, and of a special mass for 70,000 children from all over Ireland, is to be Papal Legate Lauri...
...High Altar in Phoenix Park the people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count, sing the Panis Angelicus of César Franck. In the Mass also was to figure the holy bell of St. Patrick which, old, rusty, looking much like a modern cowbell, can still jingle weakly...
Died. William Andrews Clark III, 36, grandson of the late Montana copper tycoon and Senator, William Andrews Clark, who in 1925 left a fortune of $50,000,000; instantly, when an airplane in which he was flying a few miles from his estate near Phoenix, Ariz, plunged 2,000 ft. in a tailspin...