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Captain Lindbergh then told how he crossed southwestern England and the Channel, followed the Seine to Paris, where he circled the city before recognizing the flying field at Le Bourget. Said he: "I appreciated the reception which had been prepared for me and had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop...
Extent. From Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf is 570 miles air line but 1,090 miles by the river line. Southwestern Illinois, western Tennessee and Mississippi, eastern Missouri and Arkansas, northern and central Louisiana have been flooded. Hardest hit has been Louisiana. Two Louisiana parishes were inundated when the Poydras levee was dynamited; 5,000,000 acres in north Louisiana were under water last week with 4,000,000 more in imminent danger...
Errata. Subsequent examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
...less happily; many emigrated in 1786 to Russia, by invitation of Catherine II, who granted military exemption. This grant having been rescinded in 1870, large numbers of the faithful came to the U. S. (where a Germantown, Pa., colony existed as early as 1683), spread to Nebraska and the southwestern states; others went to Manitoba. The U. S. Mennonites, 91,000 in number, have become prosperous and content; the Canadians have lately had trials. Though the government throughout the War stood by its promise of non-conscription, loyal Canadians, irritated, demanded state supervision of Mennonite schools, which, granted, led last...
Southwest. Plans of the Leonor Fresnel Loree merger of the Kansas City Southern, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern were placed before the Interstate Commerce Commission last week...