Pilot recounts long transatlantic flight to Lisbon
In 1919 a four engine Liberty plane completes an 800 nautical mile leg from the Azores to Lisbon. The crew receives 21 gun salutes and high honors from Portugal. Despite fog and rough seas near the Azores, the flight achieves about 80 knots on the return run with 35 hours total from continent to continent.
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Tagus
U. S. S. Shawmut
Halifax
Trepassey
Horta
Ponta Delgada
Lisbon
Azores
Universal Service
Canvass Among NC-4 Crew Shows Mixed Views on Atlantic Flight
London May 31 Harry G Hawker praised the NC-4 arrival at Plymouth as a splendid achievement and congratulated the crew. A Plymouth canvass of NC boat crews found opinions split on a direct Atlantic flight with wind direction a key factor and better odds from Newfoundland to Ireland than the reverse.
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London
Harry G. Hawker
Plymouth
Eng
Associated Press
Newfoundland
Ireland
NC-4 Flight Debate Over Atlantic Return Plan
Lt. E F Stone and NC-4 crew discuss return options while NC planes remain experimental and not built for direct Atlantic flight. Advocates push for reduced crew to gain fuel. others cite fogs icebergs and return impossibility. Washington orders awaited as Paris conference to decide. King George congratulates the American effort and relays to Wilson.
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E. F. Stone
Ireland
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Christensen
NC-1
David H. McCulloch
NC-3
Paris
Washington
George
London
Daniels
Sir Charles Cust
President Wilson
Irish Victory Fund Meeting At City Hall
About 1500 attendees heard speakers Joseph F. OConnell of Boston Brother Samuel of St. Johns Preparatory School and Mayor Hurley advocate funds to secure Lawrence's share of 10000 from the Irish Victory Fund under Friends of Irish Freedom at City Hall. John A. Haverty presided.
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Lawrence
Friends of Irish Freedom
City Hall
Joseph F. O’connell
Boston
Brother Samuel
St. John's Preparatory School
Hurley
John A. Haverty
Remarkable Labor Problems Explored by William B. Wilson
Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson discusses present labor problems in a series of exclusive articles for the Boston Sunday Post. The next installment continues his analysis and insights on workforce challenges.
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William B. Wilson
Boston Sunday Post
Fear Flier Crashed on Mountain Missing British Ace
Captain Mansell R. James, a British air ace, disappeared after leaving Tyringham en route from Boston to Atlantic City. Police and volunteers searched Beartown Mountain, suspecting a crash in the rugged Berkshire hills. James had recently won the Boston Globe prize of 1000 dollars for a three hour and eight minute flight, then mistook railroad tracks and failed to land.
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Berkshire
Mansell R. James
Tyringham
Boston
Atlantic City
Beartown
Massachusetts
James
Turnure
Great Barrington
Beartow Mountain
Lee
Polig
T. Coughlin
Albany
New Haven
Royal Air Force seeks search for missing plane from New York
Representatives telegraph from New York asking all efforts to locate the missing aircraft. Lieutenant George F E Turnure Jr a Lafayette Escadrille alumnus and former American air service pilot leads the ground search and hopes to obtain a plane from New York the next day.
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Royal Air Force
New York
George FE .Turnure, Jr
Lafayette Escadle
American Air Service
Police Break Up Reds Meeting in Newburyport
In Essex Hall at Stall Street police dispersed a Russian and Polish meeting amid Bolshevik talk. Three men John Stieven Boston Paul Noviel Newburyport Mik Supien Newburyport were detained and lectured by Marshal McLean. Stieven sent to Boston, Supien and Noviel sent away by trolley with orders to stay away and no charges filed.
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Newburyport
Polia
Essex Hall
Stall Street
John Stiéven
Leverett Street
Boston
Paul Noviel
Milk Street
Mik Supien
Water Street
Marshal McLean
Stieven
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