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...runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
...retain his seat Senator Allen must beat George McGill, Wichita Democrat, in November. All incumbent Congressmen seeking re-election were renominated. Governor Reed, Farm Board critic, good Allen friend, was defeated for Republican renomination by Frank ("Chief") Haucke (pronounced How-kee), 36, bachelor, famed Cornell footballer, A. E. F. sergeant, onetime Kansas commander of the American Legion...
...with a new east-west transcontinental record. It was the first such flight ever made in full daylight. The plane was the Travel Air Mystery S, low-wing monoplane, powered with a supercharged Wright Whirlwind engine (TIME, Feb. 24). Elapsed time, including fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman was 14 hr. 50 min. 43 sec.-faster by 3 hr. 52 min. than the record set three months ago by Lieut.-Colonel Roscoe Turner. Average flying time was 179 m.p.h., sometimes as high as 240. Pilot Hawks complained of headwinds over most of the course, varying between...
Officials went home saying they were pleased. For months big league clubs have been considering night baseball- ever since Des Moines played Wichita under floodlights in May. Soon Springfield, Bloomington and Quincy took the idea up, and for a while it added to their attendance. Said Lee Keyser, president of the Des Moines club: "It is glorious and wonderful. It means that baseball in the minor leagues will now live...
...Dudley Mylchreest of Hartford, Conn.; Gordon K. Burns of Maplewood, N. J.; De Wolf Schatzel of Findlay, Ohio; Frederick C. Roop of the District of Columbia; Charles H. Cloukey of Lansdowne, Pa.; Walter Wrigley of Haverhill, Mass.; Gordon K. Carter of Charlottesville, Va.; James H. Compton Jr. of Wichita, Kan.; Royal E. Peake of Detroit, Mich...