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Presently a southbound United Air Lines transport from Los Angeles was intercepted by radio, requested to find the Corsairs, lead them to Kearny. Pilot Charles F. Sullivan gingerly circled the city, picked up the two Navy ships, signaled with his wing lights dot-dot-dot-dash ("follow me"). Then he followed the radio beacon until he was directly over invisible Lindbergh Field, oriented himself, headed toward Kearny, guided by a radio groundsman who could follow the sound of his motor. All landed safely on the automobile-lit field...
...producing a lexicon of abbreviations which some day may be as familiar as nautical signals. The U. S. public hears little about them because all domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...
...place to come down. "Muroton Bay'' (where Japanese Aviator Seiji Yoshihara recently cached gasoline while trying to fly to the U.S.) was the answer. The Lindberghs looped back but failed to reach Muroton Bay and landed instead on the lee side of Ketoi, a volcanic, sparsely vegetated dot among inhospitable Kurile Islands. The Kuriles are inhabited mainly by a people known as hairy Ainus who live in caves, hunt and fish with primitive weapons...
Pope v. Pagan. In the Papal State experienced electricians cared last week for the wireless apparatus by means of which Pope Pius can instantly dot-dash an encyclical letter to Paris, should couriers lose their cunning...
...Associated Press dot-dashed the entire encyclical out of Rome last week, complained of no interference from the Italian censor. United Press, which carried the "young priest's" exploit exclusively, saved money by dot-dashing the encyclical from Paris, where it was released at the same time as in Vatican City. It was later said that the young priest traveled from Vatican City to Paris with Monsignor Francis J. Spellman of Whitman, Mass. Thus had the Monsignor's party been searched or subjected to indignity U. S. Catholic opinion would have mobilized with double force...