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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS "Air Derby" to Honolulu Is Won by Art Goebel in the Plane Woolaroc. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SOMETHING new under the sun an "Air Derby" across the Pacific ocean from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu Hono-lulu was the feature of the week's news. After a deal of preparation eight planes started in the race for the James Dole prize of S35.0O0, of which $10,000 was for the second to reach the goal. Four met with disaster disas-ter at the take-off, but the other four winged their way over the waste of waters. The Woolaroc, piloted by Art Goebel, movie stunt tlyer, and with Lieut William Davis, U. S. N., as navigator, won the race. The Aloha, with Martin Jensen of Honolulu Hono-lulu as pilot and Paul Bchluter as navigator, was second. At this writing the two other planes are missing, and are being sought by airplanes and naval ships. These are the Miss Doran. with Augie Pedlar as pilot, Lieut. V. E. Knope as navigator and Miss Mildred Doran of Detroit as passenger; and the Golden Eagle, of which Jack Frost was the pilot and Gordon Scott the navigator. The Woolaroc made the flight in 26 hours 19 minutes and 33 seconds. The Aloha took 28 hours 17 minutes. Lieutenants Maitland and Hagenber-ger Hagenber-ger of the United States army made the trip in 25 hours and 50 minutes several weeks ago, while Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte, the first civilians to fly to Hawaii from California, landed land-ed at Molakai island 25 hours 2G minutes min-utes after leaving the mainland. Goebel's plane was equipped with a radio outfit that functioned well and he was in frequent communication with ships. The army navigation officers offi-cers at Honolulu, who charted the course of the aviators as the radio reports were received, agreed that the flight of the Woolaroc was almost perfect per-fect and was a triumph of the highest order for scientific practice In air navigation. The plane was kept In line constantly with the radio beam beacon at San Francisco. Pilot Jensen took the Aloha by the northern route and overshot his mark somewhat. He said he skimmed the surface of the sea nearly all the way, while the Woolaroc was kept at an altitude of between 600 and S00 feet. The successful aviators were given a warm welcome in Honolulu, but the celebration was marred by anxiety concerning the missing flyers. DOWN at San Diego, Calif., the navy's PN-10 seaplane broke two world's records and established a third. The plane weighed at the time of take-off approximately 11 tons. It carried 1.100 pounds of sand. 1.222 gallons of gasoline and 120 gallons of lubricating oil. For a plane carrying this dead weight, these records were established : Duiation 20 hours, 4o minutes, 40 seconds. Distance 1.5CS miles. Speed 7S.."G miles an hour. The plane was piloted by Lieut. ! Byron J. Connell. lie was accompanied accom-panied by Lieut. II. C. liodd. radio engineer, and Coniar Vincent, avia-' avia-' tion chief machinist's mate. J rpAKLY in the week two big Junkers j I planes, the pride of Germany, . started from Dessau to fly across the Atlantic. One. the Europa, had New York as its :roal. and the other, the Bremen, was to fly as far as Chicago if its gasoline lasted. The Europa ran into stormy weather and after getting over the North sea it developed devel-oped motor trouble and was forced to turn hack, landing at Bremen. The Bremen kept on until it had crossed I Ireland and out ovi-r the ocean some distance. Then the storm ltow wurs. the gasoline was hfinu ued up too , fast, and the avi'ii'-is gave it up and . wii!i zvv- rliiui'uliv mad.. tlicir way I'luk to !'fs;iu. It thought a third .Tm.ki'V p!::r.n T:,;Lrht fit'ninpt the A:I:.ntic 'r'is-i;:i:. I.ut on the other hr.ni pN'p.'f thnitcht the n?ve 'nr -urh a t::-ht Im.J p:i-si ) for - year. 1 THE full bench of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts Supreme court overruled the exceptions by Sacco-Vanzetti defense de-fense counsel to decisions by Justice George A. Sanderson of that court and by Judge Webster Thayer of the Superior court and refused to grant a writ of error This meant that the two men must be executed after the termination of their respite, midnight of August 22, unless some further means of saving their lives were found. AMERICA'S greatest "captain of industry," who might better be termed a generalissimo, passed with the death in New York of Judge Elbert El-bert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation Though almost eighty-one years of age, he was still in active control of the mighty concern which was the creation cre-ation of his imagination and genius and whose destinies he directed from its beginning. Gary was one of the most important figures in modern finance and business, and his part in the affairs af-fairs of tiie nation, in both peace and war, had much to do with present industrial in-dustrial conditions. Though long the advocate of the eight-hour day in the steel mills and fought for many years by labor leaders, he was held by many as a real friend of humanity, th masses in particular, and as a philanthropist philan-thropist and a benefactor of church and science. During the World war he was the indefatigable aid of the government. Judge Gary's body was taken to his old home in Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago, and the funeral was held in the beautiful memorial church which he built there. His successor suc-cessor as chairman of the steel corporation cor-poration has not yet been announced. J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, another anoth-er of America's leading business men. died in London after several months' illness. The son of P. D. Armour, famous pioneer meat packer, he succeeded suc-ceeded his father as head of the business busi-ness and expanded it into a worldwide world-wide organization, winning one of the country's great personal fortunes. In the period of post-war deflation this fortune dwindled with astonishing swiftness, and Mr. Armour withdrew from active participation in many of the concerns with which he was connected, con-nected, these including banks and railways. John Oliver, premier of British Columbia, Co-lumbia, died iu Victoria at the age of seventy-one years. He had been ill for some time ajid had been relieved of his official duties by the naming of J. D. McClean as actij premier and leader of the Liberal party. Other deaths worthy of note were those of James Oliver Cvrwood, popular popu-lar American author, and Khinelander Waldo, well-known New Yorker. FOLLOWING a conference with Mr. Coolidge in Rapid City, Director of the Budget Lord announced that the President had approved largo increases in-creases in appropriations for both the army and the navy. Among the expenditures ex-penditures for national defense authorized au-thorized by the President are: Funds for completion of the six cruisers authorized au-thorized by congress in the last session ses-sion ; funds for completion of the remodeling re-modeling of the battleships Oklahoma Okla-homa and Nevada: and funds for. 1.S00 first-class planes for the army and 1.IHX) planes for the navy. There was only one naval appropriation which the President did not approve. That was for three submarines, asked for in 11)16. on which investigation work still is being done. Pessimists at once began figuring that the increased defense estimates, together with the necessity of spending spend-ing a lot for farm relief, would make impossible any extensive reduction In taxes by tiie next congress. But the oflicial opinion in Washington was that taxes would certainly be cut at least S.jiKi.iKMUHKI during the coming session. In order to bring this about the Democratic leaders and some Republicans Re-publicans will, if necessary, combat the practice of applying all receipts from foreign debts to national debt reduction. President C'oolldgn holds that tax reduction no: t year is feasible feasi-ble if coiiL'res dors not indulge in excessive money spending. GENERAL PERSUING called nt tho summer White House and d;-eus.-et with M r. 'onlidL'C conditions ot A'oefieiin ee::i 't eries in Frtmee. aNo r.hnii! ; ir. z to niia the aerepted do;-n. T r various u.enioi'ials and chtipe on the battlefields. The President went to the Pine Ridge reservation Wednesday and saw a pageant and parade in which some ten thousand Indies participated. He received fron? the Sioux . national council memorial reciting the loyalty an complaints of the Indians and In reply re-ply assured them of the government's sympathy and close study of their problems. Next day Mr. Coolidge, accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John, inspected the government hospitals for World war veterans at Hot Springs, S. D. Dlans were made for the Presidential family to spend a week in Yellowstone National park. COLLAPSE of the Nanking Nationalist Nation-alist group in China seems imminent immi-nent After his armies, which were advancing on Peking met with sever defeats and were driver, "back to the south of the Yangtse, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek resigned his leadership and appealed for unity of action between the Nanking and Hankow factions. But the northern troops kept on going go-ing south and at last reports had occupied oc-cupied Pukow and were bombarding Nanking, across the Yangtse. Both foreign and native residents of that city were fleeing. Meanwhile the foreigners for-eigners in Shanghai were preparing to defend the place against invasion by the disorganized hordes of fleeing Nationalist soldiers. American, British Brit-ish and French troops were placed In strategic positions, the British bein in an advanced line about Shanghai's environs, outside the International settlement. The barricades between the French concession and Chinese territory ter-ritory were reconstructed. The situation situ-ation there was complicated bj s quarrel between the British authorities au-thorities and the Chinese officials. An English airplane had been forced to land in Chinese territory ter-ritory and the native ollicials seized the wings and refused to comply with a British ultimatum that they give them up immediately. The Chinese contended that flying British planes over Chinese territory is a violation of .international law as well as the international airplane convention, to which both Breat Britain and China are signatories. , Japan, asserting its preferential claims in Manchuria and Mongolia, has served notice that it will not tolerate tol-erate any opposition there to Its policy. pol-icy. The Chinese, especially in Manchuria, Man-churia, are deeply resentful of the Japanese actions and plans, and the Mukden Chamber of Commerce stated an intention to boycott Japan. WHAT is denominated no "economic "econom-ic Locarno" In the form of n commercial treaty was signed by France and Germany after three years of dickering. The pact provides for a mutual favored nation agreement ou practically all products passing between be-tween the two countries and paves the way for intertrade such as the two nations have never experienced. French agriculture will receive the greatest benefit Practically all the tariffs are lowered, while Germany agrees not to Increase the existing ones on cotton, wool, silk, leather goods and metallurgical products, soap and perfumery. P RESILIENT COSGRAVE'S government govern-ment of the Irish Free State narrowly nar-rowly escaped overthrow at the haniN of a combine of three parties after He Valera and his followers had taken the oath of fealty to the king and occupied oc-cupied their seats in the Pail. A resolution reso-lution of lark of confidence w;:s introduced in-troduced and the vote was a tie wbieii was broken when the speaker cast his vote in the negative. As n matter mat-ter of faet, Cosgrave was aved hv Alderman John Jinks of Sligo. a mem. her of the Redmond parly, w irn slipped away just before the vote was taken. He says he never had any intention of voting the government out. t'ograve Is expected to gain strength in lire general elections in Oetobor. BOLIVIA was greatly alarmed by a big uprising among the Indians, who largely outnumber the 'vhiies in that country. I 'til (tj;( ii aetion by the go ern men t troops isolnted the afTeetion in certain sections ot ihiv. ! departments and rave a-snrete e iimi- ! the trouble Would soon l,e 'Mlet.il. Mnny chiefs were captu-'ed and tiee- et:ni;ies -ere illllieted. lll.rl '', f'T ti.oii-:i!ids of Isi.Vi-n relumed to ' i i.oir m.rk in the i;.-tIt.. |