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...summer of 1923, the U. S. S. Milwaukee lay in the harbor of Pago-Pago, second port of a long shakedown cruise to Suva, Sydney, Rabaul, Nouméa, etc. Coming on deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
Next day the Clipper again buzzed southwest. This time Capt. Musick chose to fly at 8,000 ft., crossed the Equator and swept down after ten hours in the air to the "South Pacific's finest harbor," the boot-shaped bay of Pago-Pago (pronounced pango-pango) on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. Some 1,600 miles from Kingman, American Samoa is a cluster of six islands, inhabited by 300 whites and 10,000 Polynesians who used to eat each other. Tutuila is the largest island, 16 miles long, crowned with the lush, 2,000-ft. peak...
...Zealand surgeons performed at Wellington an abdominal operation on globe-girdling Flyer Harold Gatty, now prospecting the weekly Pan American Airways service between California, Honolulu, Pago Pago, New Zealand...
...Harvard Freshman lineup: g., Merrill; R.f., Deskin; l.f., Doughty; r.b., Housemakers; c.h., GBonity; l.b., Fornald; r.e., Halstead; r.l., Mendel; c., White; l.f., Pago; l.e., Ogie. HARVARD WORCESTER ACADEMY Duane, le re, DeCesare Downing, lt rt, O'Malley Heiskell, lg rg, Curtis Bird, c c, Burrows Fahr, rg lg, Hefner Healey, rt lt, Griswold Maguire, re le, Wakeham Hoye, qb qb, Wishoski C. Curtis, lhb rhb, Coady Pratt, rhb lhb, Mahoney Bailey, fb fb, Lempke
Certainly, the persistent moviegoer is making a mistake if he refuses to accord one of the Charlie Chan in cities series a place in his film scrap book. A trip with a Chan fan, who, like ourselves, will follow him gladly from Boston to Pago Pago, is well worth the slight expense involved...