1927-09-09 — Page 3

FRENCH TENNIS STAR-France is a republic, but it is not without its court beauties. This new portrait of Mdile. Didi Vlasto is proof. She is rated the outstanding woman on the French tennis courts.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1927.

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UP ALOFT.--Lieutenant Byron J. Connell of the U. 8. Pacific battle fleet aircraft squadron took a PN-10 sea plane into the air the other day, carrying a weight of 4,500 pounds and remained aloft 11 hours, 7 minutes and 18 seconds, covering a dis- tance of 947.58 miles. It was a new air record, shattering the old mark hold by, an Italian pilot who remained aleft 5 hours, 41 minutes and 7 seconds under the same con- Y

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TO TRY ATLANTIC-Where Nungesser and Coli failed, Captain Rignot and Lieutenant Dieudonne Coste (left to right above) hopo to succeed. They hope soon to take off from Paris on a non-stop flight to New York. They will fly a Breguet one-motored biplane in which they already. have set record of 3,415 miles of continuous flight-a record that it remained for Lindbergh to break with bis journey in the "Spirit of St. Louis."

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LOST IN PACIFIC.-When Capt. Will P. Erwin (right) of Dallas, Texas flew in his moboplane for Hongkong, his wife, shown beside him, was expected to fly with him as bis radio operator and relief pilot. Erwin, a noted war ace, tried for a G825,000 prize offered by William E. Easterwood, Jr. (left), Dallas chewing gum magnate. He was lost in the Pacific..

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Miss Eileen Bennett, English tennis star, who was one of those to compete in the women's tennis champion. ships on Long Island.

DISASTER IN A LAKE,-Life guards, aided by Johnny Weismuller (arrow), famous swimmer, are shown helping to recover bodies from the excursion boat Favorite which sank in Lake Michigan near Lincoln park, Chicago. Twenty- six bodies were brought out of the boat after the disaster, but Eugene E. McDonald, Jr. (inset), wealthy radio manu. facturer and a member of the Byrd-MacMillan Arctio ex- pedition, feported there seemed a score of bodies still in the craft before she was raised. MeDonald went down in a diving suit to explore the boat,

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BURIAL OF GOVERNOR GENERAL WOOD.-Sounding "taps" over the grave of General Leonard E. Wood, late governor-general of the Philippine Islands, who ac cording to his request, was laid at rest in the Spanish-American War section of the Dational comstory at Arlington, Va.

FLAME OF REMEMBRANCE-Renewal of the flame which burns at the hand of France's Unknown soldier In Paris is a nightly ceremony performed by chosen war vet- erans. Paris Post Number 1 of the American Legion re- cently was honoured with the assignment. A former Yank doughboy is shown as he renews the flame.

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