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Show HAWKER HOPES TO BEAT YANKS Australian Aviator Begins Flight From America to Ireland. St. Johns. Harry G. Hawker, Australian Aus-tralian aviator, and his navigator, Commander Com-mander MacKenzie Grieve, on Sunday began the most perilous airplane flight in history in an eleventh-hour effort j to wrest from American navy pilots the honor of being the first to complete com-plete a trans-oceanic flight. The Australian Aus-tralian late Sunday decided not to delay longer and started for the Irish coast despite weather conditions, characterized char-acterized as "not favorable, but possible." |