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Last week at Brough, England, the American world fliers refitted their planes. Pontoons and new engines were installed in preparation for the final dash across the Atlantic by way of the Orkney Islands, Iceland and Greenland, to Labrador. By Monday all preparations were complete, and the fliers waited only for the chain of U. S. naval vessels, commanded by Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up their positions. The cruiser Milwaukee reached Nova Scotia to make maps of the region over which they will pass; the Danish steamer Gertrude Rask smashed through the ice to Greenland to carry supplies...
...loads their ships had to carry, they could not even have the luxury of the extra weight of a spare pair of socks. When they landed from arctic regions, they threw away their winter kit and bought lighter garb. Last week they were stationed at the small village of Brough on the Humber in England, having an "easy time"- though working feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their passage over the North Atlantic. Woolen underwear and fur-lined coats spell many gallons of gasoline. Everything unessential must be discarded...
...Marine National Bank" which is trying to recover the amount of an altered check unknowingly certified by one of its cashiers, cashed by the "American Trust Company" and collected from the plaintiff bank. The defendant bank on learning of the frand withdrew the credit of the man who had brough in the check and deposited the money to his account. The criminal absconded. The plaiutiff bank credited its customer the amount of the check, and is now trying to collect with interest the money it had lost from the defendant bank, which has had no loss. Melbourne Bergerman...
This wording is subject to any change the Oxford team may make. Germany's abandonment of her policy of passive resistance in the Ruhr has brough much nearer a settlement between her and France, thus removing much of the fire of the question for debate. It is therefore highly probable that there will be a change in the wording of the resolution...
...largest number of men ever to test political acoustics from its platforms. Following the trail blazed long ago by William Jennings Bryan will be: Senators Watson (Ind.), Harrison (Miss.), Willis (Ohio), Brookhart (Ia.), Lenroot, (Wis.); Representatives Dickinson (Ia.), Shreve (Pa.), Tincher and Hoch (Kan.); Ex-Governors Allen (Kan.), Brough (Ark.), Harding (Ia.), Carlson (Colo.), Ex-Senator Gore (Okla.); Ex-Representatives Patrick Kelley (Mich.), Martin A. Morrison (Ind.), Jeannette Rankin (Mont.)-first Congresswoman. Old favorites include Josephus Daniels and William C. Redfield (Secretary of Commerce under Mr. Wilson). Besides Miss Rankin, there will be two other women of prominence- Mrs. Ruth...