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Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...
Unlucky. Among the first utterances of Passenger Levine, after landing in Germany, was a cablegram to the Hearst press: "Lindbergh was lucky and we were not. If we had had one-tenth of Lindbergh's luck, we would have done much better. The wind was against us 75% of the way. . . . Still, we flew for 44 hours, and covered 4,400 miles as against Lindbergh's 33½ hours and 3,600 miles. But Lindbergh was lucky and we were...
...President sent a cablegram to His Britannic Majesty George V, on the occasion of the King-Emperor's 62nd birthday...
Snake-eaters, Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more...
...Sent a cablegram to U. S. President Calvin Coolidge expressing good will and felicitation upon the arrival of General John Joseph Pershing in Paris...