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Orrick Johns, noted author, and Eugene Gordon, well-known negro journalist, will speak this evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the Scottsboro and Herndon Cases...
...find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission...
...over the ocean. For a day, a night, and another day the plane roared westward across the Atlantic like a perfectly aimed projectile to the eastern tip of Cuba, settled down at Camaguey, flew on to Havana. The nonstop distance over water, 4,500 mi., was second only to Herndon & Pangborn's record from Japan...
Born. To Hugh Herndon Jr., aviator who flew around the world in 1931 with Clyde Pangborn; and Mary Ellen Farley Herndon; a son; in Norwalk, Conn...
That was more than Hugh Herndon, now a hardworking oil salesman for Henry Latham Doherty, cared to stomach. Last week he sued Liberty for $250,000 libel, prepared to prove that he had organized the flight purely as a sporting proposition, that he was a qualified flyer, that he was at the controls about 40% of the time on the world flight and charted all courses, that he claimed no undue credit, that the last contract with Pilot Pangborn was signed six weeks before the take-off on terms agreed to long before...