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...Captain René Fonck, War ace president of the Aeronautic League of France: "A Manhattan perfumer, a Manhattan lawyer and I filed papers at Albany, N. Y., last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking...
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count René de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...
...Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell, son of a Monongahela River lockmaster. With these two in the planes numbered for convenience 1 and 2, flew five others, including veterans of the transatlantic flight of the NC-4, the Hawaiian flight and René Fonck's catastrophe...
Died. Jacob Islamoff, onetime Lieutenant in the onetime Imperial Russian Navy, airplane mechanic; at Roosevelt Field, Westbury, L. I., in the crash of Captain René Fonck's giant Sikorsky plane...
...Gods (Thomas Meighan, Renée Adorée). Tom Meighan, disappointed in a careering U. S. wife, takes to building a bridge in South America. In this task he is inspired by Renee Adoree as a reformed dancing girl. Develops a love affair with the bridge casually suggested in the background. Reenters Friend Wife and Tom agrees to go back to the U. S. Renee, seeing in this the ruin of her love, jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee...