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...morning of the fifth day they were almost exhausted when "something big loomed on the horizon. It looked like an island, but we knew there was no island there. Then it looked like a beautiful castle. It was high and shiny." It was the S. S. Rex, heading for New York...
That night over a nationwide hook-up Senators. Congressmen, aviation and radio celebrities joined in a memorial broadcast to two of Oklahoma's favorite sons. Big, tough Colonel Roscoe Turner wept into the microphone. In Fairbanks Author Rex Beach said: "This is the blackest day Alaska has known." In Wall Street the stock of Fox Films, which had just agreed to pay Will Rogers $8,000 a week, sold off 1 1/4 points...
...only trouble was that Mr. Hales offered his Trophy to Italy's transatlantic recordholder, Rex, before he was ready to deliver it. The Italian Line naturally accepted it and then last month, France's Normandie broke the Rex's record. But it was Harold Hales's cup and, as umpire, he could make the rules. Rule No. 1: The Trophy shall be held by each winner for at least three months...
Thus, Harold Hales proposed last week to go right ahead with his fine presentation ceremony to the Rex at Genoa next month. The Rex will keep the Hales Trophy for three months. Then Hales will snatch it back, present it again in another fine ceremony to the Normandie...
...social, economic and political arenas. To that end. months ago, the Christian Social Action Commission had prepared a 15,000-word report. Baptists up & down the land heard and discussed the report. Because of it, some Baptist churches threatened to leave the Convention. Typical of its opponents was Rev. Rex A. Mitchell of Paso Robles, Calif. who sent urchins racing among the delegates in Colorado Springs, distributing a broadside headed: CHOICE BETWEEN REDS AND GOD FACES BAPTISTS...