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...Chicago steamed out of San Pedro harbor one day last week, headed up the California coast to join the Navy Day ceremonies in San Francisco Bay. Off Point Sur, 110 mi. south of the Golden Gate, a dense fog closed around her. Suddenly just before the 8 o'clock morning watch was called, a large brown ship loomed out of the mists across her bow. The Chicago slackened speed, veered sharply to port. The brown ship scurried across her path, disappeared into the fog. Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter...
Beginning at the Sarre and continuing to the Rhine (125 mi.) France has now dug, blasted and tunneled into the vitals of her soil the heaviest fortifications on earth...
...White Bangkok, bristling with gilded temple spires, Siam's moon-faced Premier Phya Bahol last week went to work on the lively little rebellion of King Prajadhipok's cousins, Princes Bavaradej and Sithiporn (TIME, Oct. 23). From 15 mi. to the north the young rebel fops of Siam's crack air force flew out of their Donmuang Airdrome and dropped among Bangkok's spires circulars claiming that they could take the city in two days except that their friends and relatives in the city might get hurt. Premier Bahol raked up ten pilots loyal...
...Hubert Scott-Paine, unsuccessful challenger for the Harmsworth Trophy for speedboats (TIME, Sept. 11), '"Tom" Sopwith is a famed British aircraft builder. He learned to fly in 1909, entered a contest next year for the longest flight by a British aviator from England into Europe. By flying 150 mi. into France he won a ?4,000 prize. In 1912 he formed Sopwith Aviation Co. Ltd. which produced the Camels, Pups and Dolphins flown by Allied pilots in the War. After the War he took as partner his longtime test-pilot Harry Hawker, who in 1919 attempted the first transatlantic...
...dropped was a pilot named Victor Evceyef. Swaddled in heavy clothes with an oxygen mask over his face and a parachute over his stern, Evceyef went up with a comrade from Moscow Airdrome. Mile after mile the plane climbed, into atmosphere -34° F. At 4½ mi. Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only 500 ft. above the ground. Then he yanked his ripcord. Said he afterward: ''The jolt was so great that for a moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green...