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Hess took off from the Messerschmitt plant at Augsburg in a new type of reconnaissance plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel...
...second feature Lloyd Nolan as Detective Michael Shayne approaches a photo-finish with Lew Ayres in running a once-good idea into the ground. "Sleepers West," which had them snoozing in the other three sectors of the compass as well, will not be missed when replaced by the second Sneak Preview of the year on Tuesday...
...first two lectures cover scales, projection, conventional symbols, contour lines, profiles, gradients, and visibility. The military grid system and the determination of distances and azimuths are explained in the third, followed by problems of orientation, the compass and its use, and field methods in following map routes...
...Finally, compass traverse is taken up with field sketching, photographing, exercises in airplane photograph reading, and an explanation of the uses of the stereoscope. Applications should be made at the Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue...
Questioned, the sailors' grinning comrades told a fantastic story. In a soft. lifeboat, equipped with sails and an auxiliary motor, the missing men had stowed sextant and compass, fuel, a month's supply of food and water. Night before the Orinoco was seized, they slipped away, sailed quietly out of Tampico harbor, headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain...