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Lt. Com. Rosendahl Predicts Giant Airships For Travelers
INVULNERABLE IN WARS
Present Experiments But Leading Up To This, He Says—European Trip in Three Days, Is One of His Predictions.
Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. 24 (AP)—The navy dirigible Los Angeles is, in effect, a 700 foot test tube with which aviators-scientists are conducting experiments looking toward eventual complete conquest of the air by man.
JEAN SUTHERLAND ENGAGES PRIVATE AIR LINE
LONDON, August 17.—Jean Sutherland, the novelist, has engaged a private air line and is making excursions several thousand feet into the air to find an atmosphere supposed to give the right inspiration for her work.
Northwest May Soon Have Air Taxi and Freight Services Between Cities
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 10 (AP) — A new era in air transportation with installation of taxi freight and passenger services between principal airports in the principal cities is in store for the northwest as a result of the Ford reliability airplane tour.
Announcement of the date of one of the three Hopi Snake Dances, to be held this year north of Winslow, was brought here this week by Joe Secakuku (Chief Yellowfeet). The dance, in which Chief Yellowfeet will take part, is to be held at Shipaulavi, 75 miles north of Winslow by way of the Painted Desert and Oraibi, and will take place on August 25th. As 1926 ends in an even number there will be three dances held this year. On years ending in odd numbers only two dances are held. The other two dances of 1926 will be held during August at Toreva and Hotevilla villages, and dates will be announced later.
Portland, Aug. 3.-(A)—The MacMillan expedition crossed the Arctic Circle Saturday night. A radiogram received here today, added that the Bowdoin and Sachem had reached Drisko, the objective point in Southern Greenland, and it was planned to start south in a few days, cruising Baffin land and the Labrador coast.
NEW YORK, July 31. – Flo Ziegfeld has given out his specifications for the 1926 model girl of the chorus.
She will not be a blonde.
She’ll not be so thin as the 1925 girl and she’ll have, therefore, a curve or two, and dimples.
She may be a little taller.