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Whirling propellers and hopping aviators have, during the last fortnight, brought the Hawaiian Islands into front page headlines of U. S. newspapers. First came the flight of Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger (TIME, July 11). Last week Civilians Smith and Bronte fell just short of duplicating the Army airmen's feat (see p. 28). Thus almost every U. S. citizen, reasonably literate, knows that the Hawaiian Islands are some 2,400 miles west of San Francisco and are so situated as to form an excellent target for far-flying aviators...
Being U. S. Army officers on active duty, the two lieutenants could not lend themselves altogether freely to the week-long demonstrations of the Hawaiian Islanders; they could not accept the $25,000 prize for first non-stop California-Hawaiian flight, which still stands as the munificence of James...
With a large Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, it was not difficult for Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger of the U. S. Army to fly 2,400 miles. But they had to hit the comparatively minute Hawaiian Islands squarely on the head, or run a good chance of drowning in the Pacific...
After the late Commander John Rodger's flight to the Hawaiian Islands (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), the Navy brought him "over his own protest" to Washington, D. C., "for propaganda purposes," and allowed him to keep on flying though the condition of his eyes made him unfit for active service. "This resulted in this gallant officer's death in Philadelphia in a stall of his plane...
...Music seems to run in cycles," continued the entertainer. "We have had the Hawaiian cycle and the Blues cycle, the one in which oriental types of music were most popular, and then the verse type, the one in which 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More' was popular. Present day popular music may be classed in what is known as the 'Hokum type...