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After their big monoplane Trait d'Union ("Hyphen") crashed in the forests of Si- beria two months ago (TIME, July 27), Pilots Joseph Marie Lebrix and Marcel Doret, with Mechanic Rene Mesmin, dragged themselves back to Paris. Their escape from death had been almost a miracle. Nevertheless they prevailed upon their backer, Perfumer Francois Coty, to give them another plane just like the wrecked one for a second try at a Paris-Tokyo nonstop flight. Such a flight, 6,032-mi., would retrieve for France the distance record which Boardman & Polando had just wrested away by flying...
...much as it had been on the first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...
...cult to which the defendants belonged was proved to have flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, since its foundation by a concierge (janitress), Mme. Marie Mesmin, or "Sainted Mother Marie." The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them. During the trial Defendant Maurice Lourdin, pointing at the Abbé, cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . , He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. . . ." "He afflicted me with shameful diseases," testified Defendant Henri Froger. "We women," testified Mme. Robert, "were often bounced about...
...attack upon him which provoked the trial was apparently made at the instigation of Mme. Mesmin, who feared and hated him as a more powerful sorcerer than herself. Last week, the Court awarded the significantly small damages of 5,000 francs ($200) to the Abbé des Noyers, sentenced the two convicted males to eight months' imprisonment, imprisoned their eight female accomplices for six months and assessed upon them costs and a fine of 100 francs ($4) each. Since several of the defendants were of more than modest wealth, and since Mme. Mesmin was not ousted from her sanctum at Bordeaux...
Bombon a Paris. The scene presented to the opulent clientele of La P'tite Chaumiere was, naturally, the vestry of the church of Mme. Mesmin's recent victim, the Abbe des Noyers at Bombon. The "Abbe," played by a young and sufficiently personable actress, was duly "surprised" and seized by the "ballet," meticulously disrobed and bound; eventually flogged until the police were attracted by the howls of the "Abbe...