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...heat of midsummer many strange notions pop into people's heads. Last week one Clarence Giles, a 220-lb., 41-year-old Montana livestock auctioneer, took a notion to swim nonstop down the Yellowstone River from Billings to Glendive-288 miles-for no apparent reason except to see his name in the papers and put his hometown of Glendive...
...quite reassured. Alberto Salinas Carranza, chief of Mexico's aviation, sent a message to Sarabia by air mail: "I shiver at hearing that you intend to return from Washington nonstop. . . . Continue flying with your head and do not permit your heart to intervene. Conserve yourself for our pride, the satisfaction of your family and the envy of the birds...
Reporters will travel on a pilot train running ahead of the royal special nonstop from the border to Washington. President & Mrs. Roosevelt will meet Their Majesties at 11 a. m. at Union Station, where the State reception suite* is being redecorated with $16,000 of PWA money. At the White House, the diplomatic corps will be received before Their Majesties lunch privately with the Roosevelts. After lunch will follow Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay's garden party at the British Embassy; that night, a state dinner and reception at the White House, where Their Majesties will sleep...
Married. Clyde E. Pangborn, 42. pilot who in 1931 circled the globe with rich Hugh Herndon Jr., flying nonstop from Japan to the U. S. (a feat still unrepeated); and Mlle Swana Beauclaire Duval, dress designer; in Southampton, England...
...reference to the present "purge" in the Soviet fighting services (see col, 3), the eleven accusers wrote: "Soviet aviation, according to Lindbergh, has been left without leadership and is now in a condition of chaos. It is hardly necessary to deny such an obvious lie. . . . Lindbergh performed such a nonstop flight into the realm of calumny and slanderous fabrications that he at once beat all the records of Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making...