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Liquidated the last remnant of the Vatican v. Fascism quarrel of last June by ruling that members of the Fascist Party may again belong to the Catholic clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court rose for the summer. Chief Justice Hughes prepared to sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously...
...Fokker's scorn. Concerning the flight itself (in the Fokker-built America), Fokker dwells upon what airmen already knew: that the ability and steady nerve of Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...
...Byrd, Fokker proceeds to give his own impressions of what happened on that memorable flight, describing the events in a manner that relegates Byrd to a minor part in the final desperate manoeuvers of the plane immediately preceding its dive into the sea near the lighthouse at Ver-sur-Mer on the French coast. The real hero at that time, according to this new autobiography, was not Byrd, as might be inferred by anyone reading the Admiral's accounts, but in reality Bernt Balchen, the air navigator whose achievements are well known to all followers of aviation...
Debussy's La Mer by Piero Coppola and Symphony Orchestra (Victor, $5) - A valuable imported version of the subtly wrought sea sketches...