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Capt. von Gronau and his students reached Reykjavik, Iceland via the Faroe Islands in routine order, ostentatiously prepared to "fly back to Germany." But the captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation Ministry that he was headed west. Soon the plane reached Ivigtut, Greenland, pushed on to Cartwright Bay, Labrador, was forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their...
Oklahoma. In a Democratic primary runoff, Thomas Pryor Gore was nomi- nated for Senator, onetime Representative (1913-17) William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray for Governor over rich but politically inexperienced opponents. Nominee Gore, accidently blinded as a child, entered the Democratic party via Populism and Texas, was Oklahoma's first Senator (1907-21). Defeated because of his anti-War position, he continued to live in Washington, practiced law there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came...
...Trivial Thing." With an air of determined rectitude, the Mayor summoned his 38 department chiefs to the City Hall and spoke over their heads to the electorate via the municipal radio station (WNYC). He said in part...
Last week a tip along England's grapevine telegraph sent a cable hurrying to Manhattan. New York police wired Boston port officials. Scotland Yard had heard that the Lady of Minto had been, was being, or would be, smuggled into the U. S. via Boston...
Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...