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While the St. Louis Robin soared 420 hours and the Bremen plowed a trans-Atlantic furrow in record time, a ponderous, unspectacular freight engine-No. 4113 of the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R.-chuffed back and forth between Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo., establishing a railroad record: for continuous non-refiring operation of a locomotive. On the afternoon of July 19, No. 4113 was fired, coupled to a 55-freight-car train, driven out of the Kansas City yards to break the record of 3,500 miles set by the Great Northern...
...Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with Mr. Shoup in the audience, was written by Charles G. Norris with music by Robert C. Newell...
...HELLO SON? HERE IS PA AND MA JACKSON," said the marks one time, after the soaring one had been up long enough for a buzzard to sail from St. Louis to the Gulf and back by easy stages. The more-than-400-hour refueling endurance flight, the St. Louis Robin and Pilots Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, going on and on as last week ended, was a mystery to buzzards. What could it mean...
Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, "Listerine" scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin's endurance flight? see p. 47); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker...
...exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...