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Fortnight ago the London Daily Mail offered a $5.000 prize for the first glider flight across the English channel and back. One day last week Austria's famed Glider Pilot Robert Kronfeld, onetime holder of the world's record, cast loose from a towing airplane over Calais, tussled with headwinds for two hours, landed at Dover. His return flight to Calais was in darkness, took only 20 min. Pilot Kronfeld won the Daily Mail's prize. But much of the newspaper's thunder had been stolen day before when one Lissaut Beardmon.-. Canadian opera singer, made a one-way channel...
Cloud-rider. At Mt. Wasserkupper in the Rhon Mountains, where international glider contests were in progress last week, an approaching thunderstorm sent pilots and spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...
Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohio, United States Minister to Persia, was presented by the representatives of the Persian Jews with a silver plate inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The plate was given as a token of gratitude for Dr. Kronfeld's intervention on their behalf in anti-Semitic disorders of last year...
...Cohensedegh of the Congress of Persian Zionists, who made the presentation, said that anti-Jewish disorders had reached such a state that at last an appeal was made to the American Minister, who persuaded the Persian Government to give Jews military protection. Owing to the action taken by Dr. Kronfeld the troubles were brought...