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Should pay up their pre-natal debts...
...Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight is slated for Feb. 7. A fortnightly schedule in each direction was planned...
...Morrow did not need to tell her audience what all the world knew-that the crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...
...Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands to the tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water hop to Natal, Brazil, the last ocean-crossing of their homeward trek. Somewhere near the Equator they might pass within striking distance of Germany's seadrome, the S. S. Westphalen. The heat and Mrs. Lindbergh's homesickness combined to increase their impatience...
...Physicians should realize and tell their patients that operations undertaken merely to relieve pain or shorten labor are risky. ¶ Mothers should realize they must have early and frequent medical examination during the pre-natal period. ¶ Hospitals should obtain qualified obstetricians to head their staffs; develop specially-trained nursing staffs; establish adequate pre-natal clinics, available to every woman; maintain separate delivery rooms, rigidly guarded against infection; give subordinates careful supervision. Private hospitals should be supervised by a responsible board...