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After the late Commander John Rodger's flight to the Hawaiian Islands (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), the Navy brought him "over his own protest" to Washington, D. C., "for propaganda purposes," and allowed him to keep on flying though the condition of his eyes made him unfit for active service. "This resulted in this gallant officer's death in Philadelphia in a stall of his plane...
...Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...
...Lihue, on the island of Kauai, the men were given injections of morphine and put to bed in the dim alcoves of an ancient hotel to sleep the clock around. The Navy Department appointed Commander Rodgers Assistant Chief of the Aeronautics Bureau. In the U. S. thousands of mothers, reading of Mrs. Rodger's still, remarked: "Now will you wear your rubbers...
...Briggs '75 of Radcliffe, will preside, and the meeting will be open to the public. Short addresses will be made by the following friends of Miss Coes: President Pendleton of Wellesley College, Professor G. P. Baker '87, Mr. G. G. Wilson, Mrs. Annie W. Allen of the Rodger Ascham School, Professor Grace MacCurdy of Vassar and Mrs. Elizabeth Briggs of the Horace Mann School...