| Show review of current events FLIGHT AROUND EARTH howard hughes and companions set new record of 91 hours japan cancels 1940 olympics ah president roosevelt addressing louisville citizens from the platform of his special train urging them to support senator barkley for the senator is at the president presidents s left and mayor of louisville at his right A we toe y M summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union hughes great flight II 11 I I OWARD HUGHES and his crew hof 11 of four completed their remark able flight around the world when they landed at floyd bennett air port new york days 19 hours and 17 minutes aftel after y starting from thai that place they had cov ered 14 miles and made six stops for refueling at P paris a r I 1 s moscow amsk fairbanks and mm min nea polls it they cut more howard than three days off hughes the record made by wiley post in 1933 but hughes said after landing that he still consid ered post s solo flight was the most remarkable job of flying ever done on the tile hop across the atlantic the time made by lindbergh was nearly halved with hughes wealthy sportsman and aviator who financed and or the flight were harry con nor and thomas thurlow gaviga tors richard stoddart radio opera tor and ed lund flight engineer hughes himself was at the con all 0 the time but said the robot pilot did all the flying except the takeoffs and landings much credit also was given the automatic navi gator loaned by the army air corps the chief perils encountered were on the flight to pans paris because they had barely enough fuel to reach le bourget airport and the trip over siberia where they had to go to an altitude of 17 feet and much ice radio com munica tion with the land was maintained most of the time except for six hours before minneapolis was reached during that period their transmitter was out of commission the monoplane named new york world s fair 1940 was wel corned at new york by mayor la guardia and grover whalen and a tremendous crowd the weary ali ers soon got to bed but next day the metropolis gave them one of its customary ticker tape receptions with a parade the wives of dart connor and thurlow were at the airport to meet their husbands katherine Ka therme hepburn the movie star bade hughes good by when he start ed and welcomed him back in hoi hol lywood it is rumored they are en or possibly secretly married another woman deeply interested in the flight was miss elmore hoag land of new york fiancee of ed lund deficit to be 4 billions IN TN REVISED budget estimates for the current fiscal year given out in washington the president fore cast a net federal deficit of 3 an increase of 2 over last year s deficit and 3 more than he had estimated in january for the 12 months end ing next june 30 the deficit which will increase the gross public debt by 3 will be financed the president indicated by a reduction of in the working balance of the treas treasury s general fund by the use of in special issues of government obligations and by 2 in new federal fidanc ing the gross deficit was estimated at 4 in which is mcloud ed for debt retirement the bu business slump which grew sharper after alter roosevelt submitted his budget estimates to congress last january was blamed by him for the inaccuracies of his forecasts japan cancels olympics JAPAN TAPAN evidently thinks the war in china is not near its end the tokyo government has cancelled the olympic games of 1940 drop ping all plans to be the host of the world s athletes the announce ment made by marquis koichi kido public welfare minister sur even the japanese organic ing committee and the members of that body declared the games would be held whether or not the gov supports them in tokyo it was said the govern ment s action was due to the cost of financing the games and to mill mili tary leaders opposition to a growth of nationalism among the japanese people though the goern government ment lacks money and materials for fok the feces sary sports structures it had pre pared to contribute 1250 1 to ward the cost and only a few days ago 40 men for the japanese football team were selected and started training count michimasa member of the international clym pic plc committee said japan might bid for the 1948 games I 1 hope japan can bid then he said apparently it is impossible to bid even for the 1944 games the cancellation was inevitable un der the present circumstances it was expected the international committee would meet soon to de termine the next move london and Helsing fors finland were men tinned as possible sites for the 1940 games senator thomas wins VICTORY of senator elmer V thomas of oklahoma in his fight for by the democrats was hailed by the new dealers as a direct result of the campaign speaking tour of president roosevelt the theares pres idem ident told the okla ac homans what a help the senator had been to him and how much he had done for the state and he gave some swipes to thomas rivals governor sen thomas marland and depre tentative senta tive gomer smith so the oklahomans picked thomas by a good majority for governor they named leon C philips much to the disappointment of alfalfa bill 1 mur ray in the course of his trip across the country mr roosevelt in his capacity of head of the democratic party first boosted the cause of senator barkley of kentucky his staunch supporter and cleverly avoided hitting too hard at gover nor happy chandler who seeks barkley s seat in arkansas mr roosevelt found time to say kind words about sena tor hattie caraway passing through colorado and ne vada he avoided politics in his talks for senators alva adams and pat mccarren both of whom have op posed some of his chief policies are mighty strong in their states both of them boarded his train but their reception was decidedly cool the president dd delivered livered the only set speech on his program at the san francisco world s fair adminis building he then reviewed the united states battle fleet of 66 vessels and spent several hours aboard the cruiser houston next day he spent in yosemite national park after three days in california the president boarded the hous ton at san diego and went to the galapagos islands for seme some fishing thence he was to pass through the panama canal and come back home by way of the southeastern states van nuys nominated 0 OPPONENTS of senator freder ick van nuys of indiana ac cepter defeat with wry faces they had intended that he should be purged for his fights against new deal measures but realized his threatened independent candidacy would split the party in the state wide open and also would injure the presidential aspirations of paul V mcnutt so governor town send invited the senator to present his name to the state convention and other candidates withdrew van nuys was then perfunctorily without anyone saying a good thing about him 2 |
