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This week, on June 19, a sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
Anatol Josepho is remembered as the "Smart-Immigrant-Who-Made-a-Million" with his Photomaton. Born in Omsk, Siberia, Josepho reached Manhattan with $30 in his pocket and a bee in his bonnet. He got imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...
...globe record of Post & Gatty he now was trying to make the best possible solo record, yet heeding the cabled exhortations of his backers to "take it easy and play it safe." Sorriest mishap of Mattern's flight across the steppes occurred east of Omsk when a fuel line in his Lockheed plane broke. Dizzy and nauseated from breathing gas fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous...
...hour nap at Moscow. He worked over his plane slowly and painstakingly with Soviet mechanics under brilliant ground-flares, and had increased his lead to five hours when, shortly after midnight (third day) he whipped out of Moscow into the eastern moonlight. However his time across the Urals to Omsk was comparatively slow and he lost a considerable part of his lead. Then, apparently deciding to content himself with an unprecedented solo performance regardless of beating Post & Gatty, he rested in Omsk (where the others had not even landed) before heading for Novosibirsk, Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, jumping-off point...
...signed a contract with Vladmir Lezhneff, a Russian sportsman who paid him 10,000 roubles a year and 15% of his winnings, which sometimes brought Will Caton's yearly earnings to $50,000. In 1917 Will Caton tried to escape the revolution via Japan. He was captured at Omsk, put in charge of three Government stock farms. He returned to the U. S. in 1922, began driving for Ralph R. Keeler in 1927. When Ralph Keeler died last year, he willed all his horses except Marchioness to Will Caton...