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Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N, C., SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1938.
Ireland—N. Y. In 25 Hours
By Thomas A. Boynton
(Via Air Mail)
The British never have been a
race to be outdone by the fetes
of other peoples without at least
a sizable struggle. Such victor
ies as have been copped by this
country were not easy ones. The
British victories of yesterday
(Thursday) in the field of areon
autics prove that John Bull still
wishes to stay in the game. They
have raised their ante.
Yesterday afternoon a beauti
ful four-motored monoplane came
out of the gray skys to land grace
fully upon the waters of the Port
Washingtn, L. 1., terminal of the
Pan American Airways, at 4:08.
It was the British pickaback
seaplane, which had landed at
Boucherville, near Montreal, Cana
da, at 10:20 a. m. (Est.), just
22 hours and 20 minutes after
having left Foynes, Ireland, where
she had been launched 6,000 feet
in the air by her mother ship,
the flying boat Mkia. The small
er craft was manned by Capt.
Donald Bennett and Wireless Op
erator Albert Coster. It made the
Montreal-New York stretch in two
hours and 40 minutes.
It was a great flight. The plane
now holds the record of having
been the only airplane to have
spanned the ocean with a commer
cial cargo aboard. However, for
people of America it lacked some
of the tang that recently char
acterized both the Hughes and
Corrigan flights (we won’t be out
done either). The flight blazed
the way for regular transoceanic
passenger and mail service, for
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Asheville Minister
At Erskine Sunday
Rev. Arthur C. Brooks of the
Asheville School, will fill the pul
pit at the Erskine Memorial Con
gregational church on Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock. Sunday
school at 9:45; Nelson Jackson,
Jr., superintendent.
Boys Club Enters
Final Week
The Tryon Boys’ club closed its
fifth week Friday noon, and David
Cromer reports that they will en
ter their sixth and final week
on Monday with a lot of “pep” to
do bigger things. On Monday the
members will cast their votes for
the most outstanding boys in the
club. Boys to be voted on will
be divided in two groups, those
under twelve years of age and
those over. J. A. Crosswhite, the
photographer, will take a picture
of the entire group on Monday and
all boys are urged to be present
to get in the picture and to take
part in the voting. The points
made by the various groups so far
are as follows: Group 1, 78; group
2, 71; group 3, 72; group 4, 56;
group 5, 45. Maj. W. A. Schillet
ter has been in charge of the boys
club this season and is high in
his praise of the work the boys
have been doing and of their gen
eral conduct and sportsmanship.
TO MAKE HOME HERE
Dr. and Mrs. W. V P. Jackson have
arrived to make their home in the
Schoff house formerly occupied by
the K. A. Bowens.