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Show Chinese Junk To Ride Rails SAN PEDRO, Cel., June 17 UP) A Chinese junk is being made ready for a l00-uiile Journey by freight ear preparatory to a cruiss up the Mississippi river. It is the Hummel-Hummel, which last year made a three-month three-month transit of the Pacific, skippered by Dr. E. Allen Petersen Peter-sen and his Japanese wife. Tana. "In about three weeks," said Dr. Petersen, "we plan to have the Hummel-Hummel on a fla tear bound for Texas. From cither Houston or Galveston we will embark across ths Gulf of Mexico. Mex-ico. We plan a three-month Journey up the Mississippi, through ths Great lakes and Erie canal to New York. Ws win use an outboard motor for the river transit." |