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...Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became air attache to the Spanish embassy at Washington. When the revolution broke last year, hot-headed Brother Ramon made no secret of his Leftist sentiments. Somewhere in Rightist Spain today, Brother Ramon is sitting in jail...
Died. Earl C. Thompson, 59. insurance broker, one of the nine original backers of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's 1927 non-stop night from New York to Paris; of dermatomyositis (inflammation of the muscles); in St. Louis...
...Commerce finally declared that it would not permit the race (TIME, May 31). By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall, but stubborn Minister Cot refused to call off the idea. As a substitute publicity stunt for the Exposition, he devised a race from Istres, France, non-stop to Damascus, then back to Paris with as many stops as entrants wished. Last week this flight took the air with tremendous fanfare...
...leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks to return the favor in his new Lockheed Electra. Spurring the search, the Army Signal Corps station in Anchorage announced the receipt of a weak radio message from the grounded plane: "No bearings . . . having trouble with . . . wave band...
...words "Eat," "Bath," "Sleep." The Soviet consul arrived, jabbered in hearty Russian to the flyers while they splashed in a shower at March Field. They telephoned the Soviet Embassy in Washington, cabled proudly to Moscow, wolfed a breakfast of ham & eggs, went shopping. They had made the longest non-stop flight in history...