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Significance of last week's flights was that they thoroughly proved that transatlantic airplane service is feasible. Probably by next spring, say the Germans, regular flights will commence, but only to carry mail and express. For transoceanic passenger flights, Germany puts its trust in dirigibles like the Hindenburg which during the past summer made ten round trips between Frankfort and Lakehurst without a hitch...
...pair and three were delivered at the National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed...
...Some months ago "Dodo" Farnsworth approached Newshawk Lewis, bluntly proposed to write for the Hearst papers a series of articles entitled: "How I was a Spy in the American Navy for the Japanese Government." Price: $20,000. Condition: that he be given 72 hours head start to catch the Hindenburg for Germany. Newshawk Lewis promptly notified Chief William D. Puleston of Naval Intelligence. Next he demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi in Lewis' presence, told him he needed money at once. A meeting place was arranged, and Farnsworth tried...
...Franz von Papen. In the first years of the World War, while military attache at the German Embassy in Washington, he was charged by the U. S. Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate him, swank Franz von Papen became Minister in Vienna (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), has intrigued there ceaselessly ever since. His family are big in German...
...Peppered peppery Undersecretary for Air Sir Philip Sassoon and overwrought Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with demands that something be done about Germany's insolence in sending the Hindenburg flying over strategic British areas and about Adolf Hitler's neglect to answer Mr. Eden's questions about the intentions of Nazidom in Europe (TIME, May 18). Presently the handsome young Foreign Secretary's doctor packed him off to the country for a "complete rest," and pretty Mrs. Eden explained that her poor "Tony" has been working 16 hours-per-day. His previous letdown (TIME, April...