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...moment that Kemp-Welch and Cambridge were only the second English team. They remembered this next day when Dr. H. W. Leatham and his partner, Lord Aberdare, who with another partner won the national U. S. doubles championship two years ago when he was the Hon. Clarence Napier Bruce, stepped on the court long enough to give Kemp-Welch and Cambridge a brisk lesson and lift the title...
...Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., where her father was born. British heraldic experts said that, though many a British peer has chosen for his title the name of a foreign place-viz., Kitchener of Khartoum (Egypt), Byng of Vimy (France), Napier of Magdala (Abyssinia)-Lady Fairhaven is the first to have a title of U. S. extraction...
Passage to India. Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared...
...Disgust" with the G. O. P.'s "lack of honor" in "repudiating" its pledges to the U. S. farmer-John Napier Dyer, Indiana fruitgrower, longtime Republican. Similarly, Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite...
...about 2:15 a. m., 750 miles northwest of Horta, happy starting point in the Azores. He and his companions waited during 15 minutes of flames for an explosion that never came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position and corrected position signals, grew seasick. All wireless resources spanning the Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses for rescue...