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Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...
...investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired. She continued. Winner was Mrs. Thaden, with a Travel Air in 20½ hrs. flying time. Winner in the light plane division was Mrs. Omlie, with a Monocoupeaon in 25 hrs...
...Graf Zeppelin, stately in the Pacific sky, traveled last week from Tokyo to Los Angeles, 6,118 mi. in 75½ hrs. Celebration banquets and drinks at Tokyo gave Commander Hugo Eckener indigestion all the way over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining...
...solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders in the National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn...
...chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...