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The Washington times., 1938-05-18
Naval Air WallOps
L.D.R. A. in LOOp

Naval Air Station defeated I. D.
R. A., II to /, in the United
States Government League. The
Naval team scored in every inning
behind a 15-hit barrage.
Goodwin, Suggs and Dunn led
the attack for the winners, while
Pitcher j. Korab held the losers
to four hits.
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Ice Skating Stars
To Attend Festival

Paul Won Gassner, former Hun.
garian champion, and Marguerite
Verden, former Viennese figure
skating champion, will attend the
Shoreham Hotels ice skating festt
val tomorrow afternoon in the
blue room, which will be thrown
open to the public from $3.50 to
$50 p. m. daily except Sunday.
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D.C.COm1nissiOners
TrOunce r. r. Nine

District Commissioners defeated
the Railway Retirement Board
baseball team, 10 to 4, in an
eight-inning game in the United
States Government League.
Frye was the smuggling ace of
the winning team with two hon.
ers and a double in four trips to
the plate.
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went into yesterdays battle minus
two of its best players, Scotty Ross
and Bob Lord.
Because the boys hiked off last
Friday to watch the final round
in the Chevy Chase Club Invita-
ton Tournament without permits
sion of school officials, they were
not allowed to play in yesterdays
important match.
1t is doubtful if the presence Of
Ross and Lord would have made
much difference in the result as
Gonzaga's entire team played bril-.
liant golf to keep their undefeated
record intact. The Prepmen have
only two matches left to play be
fore the title is officially theirs,
but little opposition is expected
from Georgetown Prep and Mont
gomery-Blair,
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YOnderS to Play
Cue Match Here

Leon Yonders, masked marvel
Of billiards, will meet an opponent
that Is as yet unnamed at the Park
View parlor next Monday at 8p. m.
Last week Yonders beat Ralph
Greenleaf, 1904, in a thrilling
comeback after he had been trail
ing, 94-12. 1t was the first time
in over 20 years that the former
world champion had been beaten
in a 100 point match.
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torial history
in the upper
tide waters,
un d er t h e
very tumbling
Of Little Falls.
During t h e
past ten days
t h e gallant
fighters have
been coming
in S pl e ndid
fashion to do
eight pounds
a nd better.
Several oil d
timers, after
S e elm g the
eS ent-day
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GONZAGA STRONG

Gonzaga is probably one of the
strongest local high school teams
since the days when Page Hufty
and Roland Mackenzie played for
Dewitt Prep. No school in the IL
team league came close to defeat
ing the GonzaganS and it is a GER
tainty they will finish the season
with a clean slate.
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Up the
Stream
With BOB WILSON

Our own historic Potomac is
again active in a rockfish way
that takes us back to the days
when the Stripers made pisca-
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Gon&Aga TghtenS Grip
On Golf Title Prospects

The District scholastic golf championship practically
settled yesterday Columbia Country Club where large gal
ery watched Gonzaga hand BethesdaChevy Chase High
7-to-2 shelackng.
Heretofore indicated the Bethesda Chevy Chase nksmen
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J. far back
Belle By Hard Chase
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Paddock Picks 'em at Charles Town

Weather, drizzling; track, fast.
FIRST RACE-Purse, $500: claiming;
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BEST BET-JAMEs BOY.
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upward. Six and one
COMMENT
Very consistent mare
Trials say ready
Figures on best races
Has early speed
May need racing
In tough spot
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XApprentice Allowance claimed.
Horses listed according to post posi-
lions.
First race. $3.50 p. m.
Daily double. second and third races
Weather, raininEI track. slow.
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Capt. lobe Shorter in an elev-
enth hour report from Benedict
says the hardheads have re-
turned after the weekend slump.
The most recent catch, late yes
terday afternoon, was 80 fish
averaging better than two
pounds each. The fish we're
taken by Joe Hegley, Mike
Petrona and Mike Jurella,
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struggle along with what we
have.
And apparently so efficient
are the members of the depart
ment that we have been doing
an excellent job-so good that
it would seem that the men on
the Hill have been right in being
unable to find the money asked
for replacement of old fire appa-
ratus.
That is just one side of the
story though, as it is almost GER
tain to be driven home some sad
day when an emergency does
arise. The success of our force
is largely due to excellent train
ing and morale and to the en-
phasis which is given to preven-
ton of fires.
Here's hoping that everything
will 60 along as we'll in the COM
ing year as it has in the past
and that nothing vi happen to
injure the reputation for fore
sight built up by those RESPONSE
BILE for seeing that the District
is adequately financed.
BOO.
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concerted; he is merely aston
iShed that she should be so
blind to her good luck.
X X X
A man who strays for love
of another woman may some
times be reclaimed; but the man
who strays for love of amuse-
ment or love of adventure will
never stay put" for any girl.
A romantic woman is con-
stantly making an altar Of her
heart and burning incense be-
fore a succession Of idols Of
clay-a pastime Of which she
never seems to tire.
Love is a medley in which a
mans soul sings an aria while
his heart plays a waltz and his
pulse beats to swing-time.
II II Il
A bachelor is never in danger
of falling madly in love with any
woman so long as he can keep
himself slightly in love with
two or three.
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SOMETHING YOU CAN GET
OR BE GIVEN -.
IT'S SOMETHING YOU
MUST MAKE -.
MAKE OUT OF YOUR OWN
SELF.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS S
WITHIN YOU.
OUT OF THE DREAMS AND
THE DISILLUS1ONMENTS,
THE EXPERIMENTS AND
FAILURES, THE STRUGGLES
AND SACRIFICES.
OUT OF ALL THESE, YOU
SLOWLY MAKE YOURSELF,
YOUR LIFE, YOUR LUCK -.
YOUR LIBERTY.
AND IF YOU DON'T?
WHY-THAT'S JUST YOUR
BAD BREAK!
Simple words, aren't they?
Once every American accepted
them as a commonplace. Never
dreamed of questioning them.
Built himself and his nation
upon them. Got his life, luck
and liberty that way-or went
without.
Once everyone lived by those
words. But now? Now they sur.
prise us insult us make
us mad make us feel that
some tough Son.'n'-So is trying
to put something over on us.
But we're wrong.
Those words aren't strange or
irregular or unfair. They're the
living Truth. They're as true
for a turnip as they are for a
man as true for ditch
digger as they are for dictator.
YOU MAKE YOUR LIFE AND
LIBERTY OR YOU GO
WITHOUT.
And nothing can outsmart
that living Truth.
You can pile on extra taxes.
and select new alphabet commits
sions and go around kissing
everyone m calling him Your
Brother
BUT IF THE sONUVAGUN
DOESN'T CARVE OUT HIS
OWN NEW DEAL
ALL THE FAvORS YOU CAN
HAND HIM ARE GONE WITH
THE WIND
AND I DON'T MEAN
MAYBE.
Copyright. 1Ass, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Here's Hoping We're Lucky

1t would seem that those men
on the Hill who control the
destiny of the District Of Colum-
bia have been grossly maligned.
Truly it seems that they must
have unsupported powers of fore
sight or at least some way of
prying into the secrets Of the
future insofar as our fire de.
partment Is concerned,
For years citizens Of the Capt.
tai have joined with the fire
fighters in efforts to have anti
quated and worn-out equipment
replaced. Just as regularly there
has been no appropriation for
this purpose. We have had to
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Traffic Dangers

There are many traffic danger
spots throughout Washington
such as Dupont Circle and the
Highway Bridge which will re-
quire the expenditure of huge
sums of money before they are
made safe for the public. There
are also many danger spots
which could be removed with
the spending Of only a few dol
lars, for example, the cost Of
one reflecting warning sign or
a street lamp.
refer specifically to the con-
ditionS prevailing on the angle
streets which lead off from the
Lincoln Memorial, especially
those lanes intersecting with
Constitution Avenue. Driving
south on Constitution Avenue,
a driver finds it very difficult to
make turns into the lanes lead
ing to the circle due to the fact
that the lights instead Of being
at the intersection are placed
further up the road.
Another reason why there
should be lights at the corners is
because drivers going south on
Constitution Avenue and wish
ing to make left turns to get
into the lanes are faced with
considerable traffic going north.
Glaring headlights from this
traffic make it extremely diff,
cult to identify the intersection.
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Tongers Us. Dredgers

Down by the Shady Side
(Md.) part of the Chesapeake
nearly everyone makes his iv-
ing longing oysters from the
bay. In the past nearly every
oysterman has made a living,
and a fair one, and very seldom
did one hear Of their being on
relief. But our Government is
going to hear of it very soon.
All at once the Government
went to work and planted a lot
of oysters here and called it
seed areas" And last year they
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20 Cents a Mile Too Much

20 Cents a Mile Too Much
Does it cost more for a Sen
ator or a Representative to
travel than any other person?
I note that members of Con-
gress are paid 20 cents a mile
to and from their homes, yet
the railroads advertise that the
fare is only 3 cents a mile.
Why should these gentlemen
be allowed sums that are far in
excess Of the fares that they
pay?
If Congress is really sincere in
its desire to economize, I would
suggest they start in right in
the Capitol and cut out this one
particular waste of our money.
TAXPAYER.
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Plenty of a picklement? I'll
say. Harry E. Owens and I were
talking 1t over. Harry's the
power-that of top telephone
affairs in Sacramento, Cal.
He'd dropped in-just one of
those neighborly mountain
junkets-over four hundred
miles. Rough road, snowy
skies, a storm ahead. But it
wasn't-we agreed-the first
storm that either Of us had
known. Nor the first tough
going. So, while the back log
cracked, we sat talking things
over-wondering where 1t was
all heading. Everybody want
ing things soft n equal, want.
ing things free.
But it can't be done" said
Harry Owens in his quiet way,
Life doesn't happen like that.
You can't make people free or
give them rights They've
got to earn it themselves. In a
democracy as well as every
where else"
You can't make people free
I started thinking, as you are
doing. Thinking Of the times
when I've demanded rights and
liberty" and have been given
what I asked. But they didn't
take" They couldn't. For
rights" and liberty aren't out
side things something
that can be handed you as a
favor, or legislated for you by
law. They're an inside process
one-man job.
Take yourself, for example.
Has anyone ever made you
free? Given you rights? I'll
say they haven't. If you have
any, you wrung them-fought
for them-built them bit by bit
out of yourself. didn't you?
Yes, there were outside circum-
stances. Kindly people and
lucky breaks. But when it came
to being free and living regular
you had to do it on your
own, or go without.
You didn't believe that at
first. You thought if you
yellec. hard enough -. worked
up enough steam :. . you'd get a
swell deal. But after all the
whining and fighting and the
self-pity, you were right where
you started, weren't you? And
now you see the reason.
FOR A BIG LIFE ISN'T
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"A girl came
into an office
seeking a GER
tain job, and
W h e n she
found out it
h a d already
b en- taken,
she b u r S t
into tears. A
W o m a n en-
ploye took
the upset girl
a S | d e and
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Your [. O..
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

~SAA@~~~~ 49,
This is a special information
and observation quiz on the
birds and beasts. Simple but
tricky. Score 10 for whole ques-
ton, 5 for half, and az on
each part of No. 8 and No. 10.
Time, three minutes.
/. Have you ever seen a
horse rise to its feet? Does it
get up front feet first or does
it raise stern end first2 How
about the cow-which end
does it raise first?
2. A COW mooS, a dog barks,
but what noise does a giraffe
make? A hen cluckS. a rooster
crows, and a drake"
8. A dog laps up water. Does
a horse drink water in the
same way?
4. What is the smallest birdP
The largest?
5. Which Of these three
animals can run the fastest
greyhound antelope cheetah
6. Do fish close their eyes
when they sleep?
z. What mammal flies?
8. Give the feminine Of
ram, -. OF bullock. -.
9, 10. Choose the correct
word to indicate a collection of
the following:
A of wolves, a
of fish, a Of oxen, a
Of birds, a Of
buffalo, a Of partridges,
a of rabbits, a Of
locustS.
ANSWERS on Page 1ll
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"smash-up" occurred.
When a mans stenographer
begins to observe that his but
tons are loose, it is time for
his wife to take notice and sit
up-and sew them ON.
This years frocks, like some
husbands, says Reno Ruth, are
a lot easier to hook than to un.
hook.
Choosing wife is the most
important act Of a mans life
and usually the one to which he
gives the least thought, time
and intelligence.
X X
When a girl refuses to kiss a
man these days, he is never dis
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barber shop
some tim e
ago a a d
came in and
a S k e d for
money to eat,
but he S a i d
he wanted to
work for it.
A Gus t oner
was in the
shop and he
started talk
ing with the
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the president
of a girls
school. This
woman ook
a sudden in
t eres 1t in a
p e IF e C t ly
strange girl
who had been
i'll and out of
W ork, gave
her none
for clio t h es
a nd lodging
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found she was not only joblesS,
but also pennileSs. She took
her along with her after work
that day, found place for her
to live, gave her food and helped
her until she finally found a
job"
X 4
Miss Henrietta Werner, 1869
Columbia Rd, N. W.:
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LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY MUST BE EARNED"
Il VERYBODY wanting rights these days. Lots of
IL rights. Just as much privilege and power just
much liberty and opportunity as the next fellow. Every
body sharing equal-or else!
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he found he could not do more
for the people by himself, he
carried on a campaign among
his friends and thus was able
to further aid the family"
X *
j. M. Davenport, of Colonial
Village, Va, Government en-
ploye:
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wv e ra n
out of gas one
d a y a n d a
stranger came
a lon 6 and
very cheerful
ly and gra-
ciously push
ed us a long
distance to a
g a S o ! n e
S t a tion, I
t h o u 6 h t it
was a particu-
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Editorial Policy

WE ARE frequently asked why we publish editorials
w from the New York Daily News. The answer is
that think these editorials sound and timely.
incidentally, the editor and publisher of this news
paper is also one of the owners of the Daily News
And the policies of the editorials which we reprint
are identical with the policies of this newspaper
Eleanor Patterson
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II know Of
a m an who
d i scovered a
p o v e r t y
stricken fam
lily and who
supplied t h e
f a m lily with
f o o d and
clothing even
ou G h he
was not so
we'll off him.
self. w h e n
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Marry-G O-ROund
By Helen ROWlnHld

N love, in motoring is always disobeying
i the traffic rules-and then wondering how the
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larly kind gesture, especially
since so many others had passed
us by without bothering to
help"
X X x
Sam Cello, TIA Quackenbos
st. N. W., Government clerk:
When I was working in a
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boy, who turned out to be a col
lege graduate. 1t ended up with
the boy driving the man West
and getting a permanent job"
Mrs. Edna M. Galloway, 5417
Illinois Ave. N. W., secretary:
81 know of a teacher who is
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The Inquiring'
Photographer
The Washington Times In
viteS you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

The QUESIIUN
What is the kindest thing
you have ever known a stranger
to do for another?
THE ANSWERS
Miss Helen O'Connor, 121
Gallatin st. N. W., insurance
clerk.
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and was also instrumental in
helping the girl get a job"
Mrs. Roberta Kurtz, of Ogden
Gardens, telephone company
service representative:
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People
BY r Romer
}. M. BARRIE

- W. OININlNI|
THE beloved author Of
"Peter Pan" had such
tiny handwriting he often
could not decipher it him
self. Irving, the actor,
broke him Of writing
plays on the backs Of en-
veIopes. He was so timid
it was not till he was
sixty-two that he was in
duced to speak in public.
Copyright, 1887, by p. ROmerl
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opened this area to the dredgers.
The dredgers then went into
this area and threw a great SUR
plus into the oyster market.
The tongers couldn't even sell
an oyster that the Government
had planted. Now, after the
new year, the tongers can still
hardly sell and what they sell
they almost have to give away.
Now, o. course, the tongers
realize the Government likes to
make some money, too. but il
they have to pay out everything
for our relief, what are they
making?
I do not know if it is our
Federal Government or our
State government that has
passed this law to plant these
oysters and let the dredgers
take them up at certain times
and glut the market, leaving
the tongers out in the cold, for
the dredgers made a fair living
along with the tongers under
the old law, and I hope some
State or Federal officials will
see this letter and learn the
state of affairs.
INTERESTED.
Editors NOte-A tOnger Is one
who merely disturbs an oyster
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lone of the
kindest deeds
1 h a v e ever
heard a b o ut
was in the
p a pers re-
Gently. T h e
S tory W a S
about the ED
erly man who
gave one Of
his eyes to a
y o u n g man
who otherwise
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INTERESTED.

Editors NOte-A tOnger is one
who merely disturbs an oyster
bed, selecting from the top
layer; a dredger scrapes deeply.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Editor should
will be omitted
The Washington times., 1938-07-11

his own company, he set q new
land plane speed record of 352
miles per hour, travelling 80 miles
an hour faster than the French
ace, Delmotte, on whose plane the
French government spent ST..
100000
HONORED BY ROOSEVELT
He flew from Miami, Fla, to
New York in four hours 81 min
utes and % seconds, lowering the
previous mark by 40 minutes, and
on March 2, 1887, President Roose-
velt personally awarded Hughes
the Harmon trophy recognizing
him as the outstanding f1ier in
the world for 1886.
A six-footer, lean and handsome,
Hughes has found time to be seen
in public with procession Of film
stars, the latest and apparently
current one being Katharine Hep
burn.
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FLIGHT LOG

CONTINUED from Page II
Cape Breton, N. S., 700 miles
from New York. Over Atlantic.
Passed fog; moonlight again,
weather fine. Making 18O m.p.h.
Everything SWELL"
MONDAY
1885 A. M.-Hughes reported
weather ahead good. His pO-
SitiOn 1888 north latitude, "a
west longitude, off tip Of New
FOundland 1,1S0 miles from New
York.
1882 A. M.-Hughes reported
q diminishing fuel supply might
force him to land short Of his
Paris goal.
.4:25 A. M.-Hughes reported
flying through broken clouds
at $500 feet in the mid-AtlantiC.
6:14 A.M.-Liner lie de France
reports receipt of message from
Hughes ship stating position as
1880 miles from New York and
$50 miles from Ireland.
8 A. M.-HugheS reported zoo
miles West of coast Of Ireland.
9 a. m.-Hughes reported b
was passing over Irish coast.
1870 A. M.-Reuter'S agency
reported Hughes plane lover
France"
11:43 A. M.-HugheS reported
rapidly approaching LIE BOurget
field, Paris.
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g p. m. E.S.TO. AS a result, while
the field was well crowded by the
time he arrived, the spectators
were only a fraction of those who
would have been on hand at the
later hour.
At the time he set his plane
down, the roads leading into LIE
Bourget were jammed to capacity
by automobiles containing sight
seers anxious to welcome the flierS.
Traffic was demoralized over a
wide area and it was considered
unlikely any attempt would be
made to take Hughes into Paris
proper.
Airport attaches and French
broadcasters were demoraliZed
also. New York representatives
kept calling over and over asking
for details and statements but the
Frenchmen were so excited they
were unable to supply the infor-
nation wanted.
CONCERNED ABOUT OIL
Hughes first concern was about
his oil supply. He asked whether
a sufficient quantity of oil actually
imported from America was avail
able to fill up his tanks. If not, he
demanded that they be emptied
and filled entirely with the local
product. He apparently did not
want to risk mixing two different
types.
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cut COupOuS.
At 80, he has achieved a repu-
tation as Americas outstanding
sportsman flier, a keen business
man in many varred fields and
as a trail,blazer in scientific avia-
ton.
No lover of the limelight,
Hughes resembles Colonel Lind
bergh in the manner in which he
shunS interviews and publicity.
BORN IN HOUSTON
Hughes was born in Houston,
Tex, December "a, 1904. A pio-
neer in the development of the
Southwest's Oil fields, mis- father,
Howard Robert Hughes, ST., had
become a millionaire by inventing
a drill with 166 cutting edges that
revolutionized the digging of
wells.
Hughes made his first flight
at IA, a hop in a battered sea-
plane which took passengers aloft
at IS flight. Within a year he
had a flying license. Then the
elder Hughes died, and Howard
went to live at Los Angeles with
his uncle, Rupert Hughes, the
author.
When Hughes was 20 he came
into fun control of his fortune.
He began producing pictures
himself. With such films as 1.-TWO
Arabian Knights" "Hell's Angels"
and Front Page" he startled
Hollywood and the entire country.
"Hell's Angels" alone made a
$1,000, 900 profit.
He formed the Hughes Aircraft
Company and won a sportsman'S
plane race in Miami in January,
1884, his first air victory. He now
holds the transcontinental flying
record, having flown from Bur
bank, Cal, to Newark in seven
hours % minutes, at an average
speed Of 332 miles an hour.
In 1885, flying a plane built by
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Soviet May Try
World Nonstop

MOSCOW, July IL (I.N.SD.
COincident with Howard
Hughes flight over the At
lantic, Soviet Russia today
limited at plans for a nonstop
aerial jaunt around the
world.
The official newspaper
IZveStia said: IA
! "A year has passed since
we achieved q worlds long
distance record, but we are
not satisfied. Our experience
proves it would be possible for
a modern plane to fly around
the world and land for the
first time in the spot where
it started"
The article was signed by
M. GrOmOv, one Of the flierS
who participated in last
years distance flight from
Moscow to California.
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Man Badly Burned
By BIazinQ Gasoline

Sprayed with burning gasoline
from q tractor motor, Elmer
Stokes, "a, of Rockville, Md, a
gasoline station attendant at
Twenty First and H Streets North.
west, was seriously burned this
morning. Stokes was filling the
full tank of the tractor when some
of the fluid spilled over the hot
motor. He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for second degree
burns on his left foot, leg and
hand,