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The Washington times., 1938-07-14

Gdu, SIT, LQe OIQeSC MemDer
observed, flinging down his copy
of the Times and getting cigar
ashes all over his waistcoat, sit
looks like Phileas' record will be
broken"
That would be Phileas Fogg, a
member of Reform in 1872, who
was something of a world girdler
himself. Sixty-six years ago come
october PhileaS did a Howard
Hughes the hard way.
If you don't believe it, your!
find it all accurately reported in
Around the World in Eighty
Days" Fellow named Jules Verne
is the authority.
MORE SPEED NOW
World circling has speeded up
but somehow lost some of its ziI
since PhileaS Fogg'S day.
Instead of a radio engineer anC
a navigator, Phileas had such in
congruous companions as PasSe
partout, his velet. and one Fix, 6
detective, over most of the route
He also picked up a honey named
Aouda in India. Junior. leave the
room.
The Daily Telegraph of Phileas
day mapped the Speediest routt
around the world. From London
trains and fast packets would get
you to Suez in just a week. Thu
Ihop to Bombay by steamer tool
another 13 days. Bombay to Cal
cutta was just a sleeper jump
three days.
Another 13 days to make Hone
kong, six more to Yokohama, an
then the long pull of % days t
San Francisco. In what col
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proximateIy 1000 of New YOrk's
best and biggest cops were on
hand to do what they could to
preserve order and at least give
the big plane clear field to land.
RAIN BEGINS TO FALL
They put up a huge tent directly
opposite the administration build
ing to protect officials from the
hot sun that had bathed New
York in torrent of perSpiration
during the past week. But it
served another purpose when rain
drops began to sprinkle down at
10 o'clock.
Ken Behr, manager of opera
tionS at the field, was buSily di-
recting all arrangements for the
reception. He said, perhaps some
what hopefully, that the rain and
generally poor weather might keep
the crowd down to manageable
proportions.
Along the concrete runway were
banked neWsreel trucks, while the
still cameramen took their places
on a platform erected near by.
Portable telephones were on an
other truck at the side of the run
way.
Behr estimated Hughes would
take five hours for the Minneapo-
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AIR CORPS EYES
HUGHES FLIGHT
AS DEFENSE AID.
Army Plans Fleet Of.
1900 War Planes
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
Copyright, 1880


G.N.S.) Howard Hughes world
flight may have a drastic effect
on Americas future defense STRAIT
egy, it was learned today.
AS the young milllonaire'S silver
monoplane hurtled across country
on the last leg of his phenomenal
air journey, the Army high COM
mand studied new plans for pro-
tecting the United States from
possible air invasion.
FLIGHT WATCHED
Americas new defense strategy
calls for permanent maintenance
of two fleets-one, the naval force
of battleships, cruisers, aircraft
carriers, destroyers and Subma-
rines, and a new fleet of the air
composed of 1000 long-range
bombers and air fighters.
Militry experts here and in
Europe and Asia have watched
the Hughes record flight with the
Sharpest interest. The chief lesson
derived by the military mind
from the flight is that it is a
spectacular demonstration of the
fact that oceans and long land
distances no longer afford the pro
lection from attack they did a
flew years ago.
DANGER FROM AIR
An enemy air armada today can
strike a devastating blow at any
European capital within two to
three hourS-some within a. mat
ter of minutes instead of hours.
Hughes 16 hour and 35.minute
flight from New York to Paris
demonstrated in startling fashion
that even the United States, so
long protected by the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans from the political
quarrels of Europe and Asia, is
fast losing its invulnerability.
Americas Army and Navy Stra-
tegiSts have not been unmindful
of the full possibilities opened by
the swift development of aviation.
To this end they have laid plans
for erecting an air screen around
the United States to ward off the
new threat, just as the American
Navy afforded complete protection
before the airplane became a
potent new weapon of deadly,
high speed attack.
STRENGTHENING FLEET
By June 30, 1910. the United
States will have a combined first
line air force of in excess of 1000
planes. The Army Air Force will
be composed of 1920 of the latest
type of high-speed fighting planes
and the Navy viii have apprcxi-
mately 1000, International News
Service was informed.
Americas present air strength
is in the neighborhood of 5000
first class fighting ships. The
Army, on June 80, had 1878
planes in addition to several hun
dred others rapidly reaching
obsolescence. It has 699 on order
from funds appropriated during
1887 and 1888 and will purchase
an additional 469 with 1889 funds.
The Navy's air force is com
posed Of 1,415 modern planes with
an additional 325 on order and
funds amounting to 100000 900
for additional purchases during
the coming year.
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WEDNESDAY

1915 A. M.-Nearing Kirinsk,
about 775 miles from YakutSk,
flying at 11,6OO feet.
1:42 A. MA radio message
said the plane was flying at H.
500 feet in the vicinity of Olek-
minsk, 300 miles from YakutSk,
making 212 miles an hour.
4:O8 a. m.-Arrived at
YakutSk.
7:O1 a. m.-Left Yakutsk for
Fairbanks, Alaska.
2:3O-RepOrted by radio $50
miles from Fairbanks.
4:35 p. M.-Ninety miles
northwest of Nome, Alaska.
7:1S p. M.-Arrived in Fair
banks.
1886 p. M.-Leaves Fairbanks
for New York, via Edmonton or
st. Paul.
1880 p. M.-SOO miles out of
Fairbanks, averaging only $50
miles an hour.
THURSDAY
1915 A. M.-Airline operator
at Fort Nelson, Canada, reports
Hughes says he would land at
Winnipeg.
2:05 A. M.-PIane reported it
was 975 miles out of Fairbanks,
heading for Winnipeg.
2:35 A. M.-Plane reported it
was 1,075 miles out of Fairbanks.
1888 A. M.-Lands unexpect-
edIy at Minneapolis.
S:1l A. M.-TakeS off from
Minneapolis for New York.
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gasoline and servicing repairs ON
his mOnOplane.
Earlier he had declined to
give any extended interview to
newSpapermen or to talk over
the radio. He said he was eager
to get ON his way and wouldn't
say hello to the folks back home
until we make up that lost
time"
He referred to slight head
winds encountered over Canada
and stormy conditions which de-
cidel him to push on to Min
neapOliS rather than make a
landing at Winnipeg.
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ChamberIin Lauds
Flight Of Hughes

LIMA, O., July IA G.N.S).
Clarence Chamberlin, who flew to
Germany from New York in 1927,
today hailed the Hughes round
the-world flight as demonstrating
the great advance in aviation dur
ing the past decade.
Chamberlin, who is barnstorm-
ing here, declared Hughes is a
remarkable flier and his flight
outstanding.
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Speed in Hughes Blood, 4
Says Barney OIdfieId

SAN FERNANDO, Cal, July
13 U.N.SD.-HOward Hughes,
now daShing around the world
in recOrd-breaking time in an
airplane, today was writing a
father-and-SOn saga of love
for speed.
Barney OIdfield, dean of
auto race drivers, recalled that
young Hughes comes by his
love for fast airpIaneS natur-
ally.
His dads hobby was speed"
Oldfield said. His father was
thorough mechanic, a good
engine man, and so Is his boy.
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responded to the Zephyr Of today,
a train would land you in New
York seven days later and take
another nine to reach London.
There you are-8O days for the
whole route.
TOOK 100000
All Hughes had to take with
him in the way of money was a
checkbook, but PhileaS lugged
100000 in gold coin in q hand
bag wherever he went. It came in
handy when he had to buy ele-
plants and RATS to keep on
schedule.
This is where Fix, the house
dick. came into the picture. A
flattie no brighter than he should
have been, Fix trailed PhileaS ali
around the world on the faint SIlS
picion that the man was q bank
robber. His spirit is pounding the
pavement in some remote Subdivi
sion Of heaven today.
MISSED BOAT
The accolade Whcih awaited
Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field
today wouldn't hold q candle to
the turnout Phileas got in his
time.
Phileas missed the boat on the
last leg of his dash to London
but by hastily skipping to thG
back of the book you will find
that he finally walked into the
Reform Club precisely at quarter
to nine and collected a payoff oi
20 thousand pounds. Twenty
Thousand pounds wasn't hay. ever
in 1917.
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N.Y.-BuCharest
Flight Planned

DETROIT, July IA (I.N.S.).
A solo New YOrk-BuchareSt
nonstop flight was being
planned today by Capt. Alex
Papana, Rumanian star ath-
lete-aviatOr, as he awaited
Commerce Department sane
tiOn. He hopes to make the
hop in 30 hours.
Papana, record holder in
airplane, automobile and bob
sled races and one of Ru-
mania'S foremost tennis play
erS, said:
This is a goodwill flight
sponsored by my country. If
1 have half the luck your
Howard Hughes met in the
air, I will land in Bucharest
in less than 30 hours"
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Lightning Flashes

Through skies creased by
lightning flashes, Hughes kept
his huge transport plane on q
course as true as a homing
pigeon from Fairbanks, Alaska,
where he took off at 8 81 p. m.
(E.S.T.) last night, until he
zoomed down upon the local
airport.
The airline distance from
Fairbanks to Minneapolis is
I2,47O miles, giving Hughes an
average speed Of slightly bet
ter than 200 miles per hour.
Hughes had originally planned
to make his last refueling stop,
on the final dash to New York,
at Winnipeg, Man., and his sur
prise arrival here disappointed a
crowd of between 500 and 1000
persons who had waited all night
at the Winnipeg airport.
Perfect Landing
Hughes himself was at the
controls when the ship came to a
perfect three-point landing at the
airport here.
The tall millionaire sportsman.
aviator who has carved aviation
history stepped down from the
ship and smilingly stated that
they would take off for New York
within a few minutes.
Hughes explained that loss of
his antenna had kept him out of
touch with the world since early
morning. An emergency antenna
was installed.
Straight Course
Hughes said he had flown from
Fairbanks here on a straight
course at 14,50O feet, necessitat-
ing the use Of oxygen by himself
and his crew.
One of Hughes fellow fliers re-
ported they had had a little engine
trouble on their way from Fair
banks, but he added lit was moth
ing serious
NeuOs Spreads
1 Word of Hughes landing here
spread quickly and within few
I. minutes q large crowd began gath
.Eering at the airport. Traffic snarlS
on roads leading to the field re-
sulted.
Details Of naval reserve cadets
and policemen, who had been sta
toned here on the chance Hughes
would make this his last refueling
stop, kept the crowds in check.
Hughes was so busy he smilingly
declined to talk over the radio, eX-
planning he had no time to spare.
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Guarded; :
Silent on FIiuht

SAYBROOK, Conn, July
IA (L.N.S.).-With Howard
Hughes on the last lap Of his
globe -circling flight, Katha-
rine Hepburn, vivaCiOuS
screen star, whose name has
been coupled rOmanticalIy
with that Of Hughes, was .
virtual prisoner today on the
rambling estate Of her
parents.
All reporters, phOtOgra-
pliers and neWsreel men were
barred by private guards and
SaybFOOk police. The screen
star went into seclusiOn and
refused to make any COM
ment on the flight.
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into hangar seven and
put into drydock the plane that
carried him so swiftly around the
top of the world.
On hand were three United
States Navy planes, their motors
ready to take off early this after.
noon and welcome Hughes 100
miles west of New York.
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His dad had speed in his blood
and so has Howard"
Back in 1905, before his ia
nous son was born, Howard
Hughes, ST., wanted to beat
his friend, Col. E. H. r. Green,
owner of several racing cars.
The millionaire oil man went
to work with his mechanics
and converted his 1905 Peer
less, IS horsepower, fOur-cylin-
der touring car into a racer.
"The car would travel over
the dirt course at q mile a
minute" said OIdfield. "In
those days that was real
Speed!"
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Log of HOUard Hughes Round the World Flight

NEW YORK, July 14.-Foz-
tot0tng is the official log of
the HowGrd Hughes Ground-the.
tDorld flight (dl times Eastern
Standard:
SUNDAY
$50 P. M.-HugheS and crew
Of four take off in the New
York World Fair of 1899. bound
for Paris.
1920 p. M.-RepOrted by ra-
diO near Cape Breton, 700 miles
from New York.
MONDAY
5:25 A. M.-RepOrted by lie
de France 600 miles from Irish
coast; speed, 2O5 miles an hour.
S:25 A. M.-RepOrted over
Kenmare, Ireland, flying at $50
miles an hour.
10 A. M.-RepOrted by radio
to RadiO-Marine passing over
France.
1855 A. M.-Landed at LIE
Bourget Field, Paris, 16 hours
IS minutes out of New York;
average speed, 218 miles an
hour.
7:24 p. M.-TOOk off for
1,6OO-mile flight TO Moscow.
5:45 p. M.-KepOrtS flying
Blind over France.
9:32 p. Mover Germany.
Travelling at 10000 feet and our
average speed is 185 M.P.H. We
are new using our Oxyge
supply"
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at $4,000 feet after coming out
Of a storm.
3:13 A. M.-Arrived in Mos
COW.
$3.50 A. M.-HOpped for OnSk.
/ D. m.-Arrived in OmSk.
5:37 p. m.-Left OmSk, bound
for YakUtSk.
7:42 p. m.-PaSSed over NOvO-
sibirsk, Siberia, approximately
375 miles from OmSk.
1881 p. m.-Sighted over
KrasnOyarsk, Siberia.
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RFC "Swamped"

G.N.SJ.-The 5000, 100000 issue
Of RFC notes was oversubscribed
13 times by eager investors, Sec
retary Of the Treasury Morgenthau
announced today. Because of the
heavy demand. the Treasury will
allot only up to per cent of the
amount bid for by individual in
VestorS.
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11:15 p. m.-Over Danzig, more
than half way to Moscow.
Hughes said, "As far as we can
see here everything is Okay."
TUESDAY
1880 a. m.-StOddart broad.
cast from plane that Hughes
and crew were not worried by
damaged wheel and that It
wasn't serious" He said they
figured they were about two
hours from Moscow and we're
flying about 200 miles An hour
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HUGHES PLANE
ROARS over U. S,
NEARING COAL
Expected In NY. Ahead
of Schedule


his ship and directed mechanics
in installing the new radio
antenna.
In the dash from Fairbanks,
H ughes encountered head
winds over Canada.
They were able to cover the
2,47O-mile distance at an aver
age speed of slightly more than
200 miles an hour.
As they neared the United
States, for the first time since
Sunday night storm conditions
gradually cleared and Hughes
lessened his altitude under q
clearing ceiling that was I'M
limited here in the Twin Cities
territory. ...
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Appears Tired

Hughes, appearing tired from
the long days and nights in the
ship, said he was anxious to
take off on the final lap of his
long flight. Although assured
of shattering all records for q
flight Of this dimension
Hughes said he was afraid he
had Slipped a little behind" on,
the gruelling schedule he had
set for himself.
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City Jams Field
In Spite of Rain
1000 Police Rush
To Insure Clear
Landing Lane
By JAMES L. KILGALLEN


NEW YORK, July IA G.N.SO.
With more than $4,000 miles and
the entire top of the world be-
hind them, Howard Hughes and
his four flying companions high
balled their silver plane toward
New York today from Minneapolis,
MINI, last stop scheduled before
the metropolis turns itself out in
O welcome unparalleled since
1indbergh days.
Only a little more than a thou
sand miles separated the round
the-world fliers from their goal
when they took off from Void
Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis,
at GIL a. m. E.D.T.
Barring some unforeseen set
back, they were certain to shat
ter beyond recognition the former
rOund-the- world flight record of
Z days, I8 hours and 40 minutes
established by the late Wiley Post
In 1888. They could have left
their plane at Minneapolis, hitch
hiked into New York and still have
put that record on the shelf.
HUGHES AT CONTROLS
1t was at 9:O1 a. m. EST.
that he took his place in the
pilots seat, DOTTED his battered
brown hat to the assembled
crowd and took one last look
at his ship and its controls.
Then, at 9:05 a. M, he shouted
contact" Navy men scattered
the crowds which had surged
through protecting lines to jam
the runway. Cameramen sour
ried around for last-minute
shots and at 9:06 a. m. the mo-
tors turned over with an ear
splitting roar.
Slowly, at first, but gradually
gaining speed, Hughes sent the
ship down the long concrete run
way between wildly cheering
masses, and at Oil a. m. the big
ship numbered off the ground. For
all its tremendous weight and size
there was a grace and an ease in
its takeoff that testified to the
ability Of the daring young man,
to whom speed means nothing and
distance even less.
NEW YORK THRILLED
AS word of the take-off reached
New York, tension gripped the
city. Newspaper telephones rang
necessarily as thousands called in
for news and millions of eyes
turned toward a grey and men,
acing sky. Visibility here was bad,
with the tops of skyseraperS
Ghrouded in fog.
All was in readiness, of course,
to welcome the five fIierS at Floyd
Bennett Field. There will be
friends, relatives, Government,
Army, Navy and diplomatic Off
cialS; SweetheartS, wives, chill
dren-and the inevitable rubber
Aecks.
Best Of all, perhaps, so far as
Hughes and his buddies are con-
cerned, there will be plenty of
food and comfortable beds within
. reasonable distance, with no
gasoline trucks rolling out from
nearby hangers to fill the planes
tanks for another hop ahead.
GRIPS IMAGINATION
For here the flight ends and
here Hughes earns reward sucn
as only New York can give TO
those whose courage strikes the
hot fire Of big city'S Imagination
and gives it an eagerly.sought or
portunity to play the role of a
small town on fireman's night.
AS early as 7 a. M, the crowds
began arriving at Floyd Bennett
Field on the outskirts of Flat
lands, where the Dutch settlers
brought the Old World to Brook
1yn hundreds of years ago. Ap-
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Verne's Hero Shamed
Old PhileaS Bested
REFORM CLUB GLOOMY AS
HUGHES BEATS 80 DAYS.
IS AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

IS ARooND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Certainly" returned Ralph II agree with Mr..
Fogg. The world has grown smaller, since
go round it ten times more quickly than
hundred years ago. And that is why the search for
this thief will be more likely to succeed"
"And also why the thief can get away more
easily
"Be 50 good as to play, Mr.. Sthart," said Phileas
Fogg
But the incredulouS Stuart not convinced, and
when the hand was finished. said eagerly a. You have
strange way, Ralph, Of proving that the world has
grown smaller So, because you can 60 round it in
three months"
=" In eighty days" interrupted Phileas Fogg
"That is true gentlemen" added John Sullivan.
Only eighty days, that the section between
Rohal and Alahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula
Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made
by the Daily Telegrath:-
From London to Sdez 1id Mont Gents
and Brnds, by rail and steamboats, days
From Suez to Bombay, by steamer I3
From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail :. 3
From Calcutta to Hong Kong by
steamer 13
From Hong Kong to Yokohama
Uapan), by steamer s
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Sleep, Sleep, Sleep!
Thdt's Hughes Desire

MINNEAPOLIS, July IA
0.N.SD.-"I intend to sleep and
sleep and Sleep"
Thus did Howard Hughes ex-
press himself today, before tax.
ing off for New York, when
asked what he planned to do
when he arrives at the goal Of
his rOund-the-wOrld flight this
afternoon.
Weary but smiling and conf
dent, Hughes had few words to
say as he awaited the takeOff
here after a brief StOpOver for
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lis-New York flight, arriving here
shortly after 2 p. M, Eastern
Standard Time.
Il don't expect he'll try any
recklessnesS on the last leg"
Behr said.
The airport manager said he
also believed Hughes would not
stop ON the field, but would taxi
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Every second Howard Hughes tcked off his blstering
dash around the world only added the gloom the Reform
Club, Saville ROW, London, To-Day.
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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS ,s

From Yokohama to San Francso, BY
steamer 70 Gays
From San Francisco to New York, by
From New York to London, by
steamer and rail .. g"
Total So days.
Eyes, in eighty daysl" exclaimed Stuart who in
his excitement made a false deal But that doesn't
take into account bad weather, contrary Winds ship
wrecks, railway accidents, and 50 on"
All included" returned PhiIeas Fogg, continuing
to play despite the discussion.
" But suppose the Hndoos or Indians pull up the
rails" replied Stuart; suppose they stop the trains
pllage the luggagevans, and scalp the passengers"
AN included" calmly retorted Fogg: adding, as he
threw down the cards, " Two trumps."
Stuart whose turn it to deal, gathered them
up, and went on: "You right theoretically. Mr.
Fogg but practically"
Practically also. Mr. Stuart"
"Td like you do it in eighty days"
at depends YOU Shall We go?"
"Heaven preserve me! But would wager four
thousand pounds that such journey, made under
these conditions, is impossible.
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Bethesda to Pick Yule Lone Queen
Choice Will Be Made Tonight, Crowning Friday
With a score or more pretty girlsH

With a score or more pretty girls
contesting for the honor, the queen
of the Chevy Chase-Bethesda
Christmas celebration will be Sc
lected tonight.
The choice will be made at the
County Building in Bethesda at
9 o'clock, and the queen will be
crowned at a civic celebration Fri
day night, when the Christmas
Lane will be opened.
All girls between 10 and Is are
eligible to compete for the title
and entries will be received all
day. The entrants are requested
to wear ordinary street dresses or
suits during the judging.
Judges of the contest will be
Andrew Kelley and Frank Gate
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time I got in that trap" an
nounced another drake
"Oh, this is Mr.. Aythya Wallis
neria," politely said Mr.. Boschas
as the newcomer, his canvas
back" shining in the sun, wad-
died from the run and quacked:
"Old Boschas here doesn't un-
derstand that the food Is
there only to entice us to be
captured. The Government, it
seems, likes to put bands on us
so that when some hunter
shoots us a record can be kept
by the Biological Survey"
Sometimes they get fooled,
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II will go to the newsreel. But try me around one
o'clock" Mr. Reynolds thought he would sit
down and write bitter piece against something.
Mr. Talley thought he would go back and edit a
portion of Mr. Lew Lehrs dialectic Splutter.
MOVED on to Mr.. Sherman BiLngsley'S Stork
TwentyOne Club. "This," said, hopefully to
Mr. Jack Kriendler would be good night for
stud It is raining like anything outside
Mr.. Kriendler murmured Have you ever seen
better people in your life than are here? Look
around" Mr.. Kriendler pointed to Mr.. Douglas
Fairbanks who was conversing with Mr.. David
selznick and Mr.. Jock Whitney. Perhaps" I
said hopefully, "they would join in-haf and one
one and two-two and four"
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INJURED
Won7ar7'S Arm Broken
In raffic Mishap

Within three minutes after a
woman had stepped from the
Eighth precinct last night, police
on duty there received a flash
tat their visitor had been In
jured in a traffic mishap.
Mrs. Lawrence Dawson, AZ, Of
the 5000 block of Window st. N.
W., went to the station house to
identify property stolen from her
home and recovered by police.
AS she left the precinct, at Wis
consin Avenue and Albemarle st.
N. w., she was truck by an auto
mobile.
Mrs. Dawson was treated by q
private physician for a broken
arm, and sent to her home.