Flights & Flyers

Humiliation. Said Mrs. Opal Logan Kunz, flying wife of Tiffany & Co.'s vice president: "It is humiliating to admit that at present there seems to be no American girl who can successfully compete with certain distinguished foreign women in flying." In her thought were Lady Mary Bailey, 39, who has shuttled alone between London and Cape Town and Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, 63, who last fortnight flew from England to India and back in seven and one-half days.

Golfing v. Flying. When the seventh plane within a month landed and tore up their golf course, members of the Old Westbury Golf Club next to Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying Service instead of to Roosevelt Flying Corp., the unintentional depredations of whose flyers induced the Old Westbury players to start building a 103-ft. barrier around their grounds (TIME, July 1).

Cigaret Butts & Forest Fires. A government plane dropped lighted cigaret and cigar butts over areas subject to forest fires to learn whether the butts can start such fires. They can, for all the cigars and most of the cigarets were still burning when searchers found them on the ground. Hence, last week, a Government warning against flipping lighted butts from planes.

Delinquent Postmasters. Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown last week reminded 1,500 postmasters of communities with populations between 1,000 and 50,000 to help the Guggenheim Fund get their cities air-marked. The Postmaster-General threatened to shame delinquents publicly by printing their names. Two thousand postmasters had got town roofs well marked. Three thousand others are exhorting their citizens to do likewise.

Land of the Soviets. A bimotored all-metal monoplane, Land of the Soviets', flew eastward from Moscow last week to circumnavigate the earth in 40 days. Her crew of five expected to cross Siberia, the northern Pacific along the Aleutian Islands, south to San Francisco, across the U. S. to New York, to Europe via the North Atlantic.