San Francisco, June 26.
Inspired by the successes of the trans-Atlantic flights of Capt. Lind, borgh and Mr. Chamberlin, interests in Germany now are proposing to Jestablished a new world record from Berlin to San Francisco, The name of Antom Koennecke, the German tion of degenerate plays. in America's great metropolis.
Says Mr. Warren meaning, hi involving sex, hat Fesds of oaths, spoach of double the taste of the be whetted with something spicy, s0 the Lesbian "The the Homosexual, "New Yor war ace, definitely is linked with] the project. News has been received here that Koennecke quietly was Jgiven leave of absence last week }from Lufthansa (the German Aerial League) to organize a Berlin-New York-San Francisco flight. It is be-Vieved he will fly for the Rohrback Works, whose latest three-motor models attracted much attention the Copenhagen international a tion exhibition. The plane in which Koennecke hopes to reach this port in 60 hours (making 35 hours for the crossing to New York) will] Jearry sufficient fuel for 70 hours, and it is hoped, so the cables say, that he will maintain an average speed of slightly over 124 miles an hour. An all-metal plane, with three motors, it will be equipped so that it can start and y]land on both land and water.
New York and New Yorkers! really care little about the better sort of plays and give them no support whatever. Shakespeare is a Jcuriosity there. The success of] "Desire Under the Elms" and "They Kew What They Wanted" in New York was due, not to the intrinsic beauty and power of those plays, but to the incidental salacity of their theme and dialogue, That they happened to be great plays had no appeal however, to the Gothamite or to the country visitor within the leates of Manhattan: "it was the smut implied or conveyed openly that pleased him."
"To escape questioning about his says the Berlin cabled refoannecke quietly slipped Berlin for week-end, ug which he wants to form further plans which now call for a hop-off on July 25, with the arrival in San Francisco on July 28. The plane would remain in the latter city only for four days before starting on a return trip. The] Jdates, however, may be advanced. 'A relief pilot will be carried as well two passengers, one of them an unnamed industrialist, who is said to be financing the venture.
Koennecke is known as one of the most reliable and daring of German pilots, and always has been selected by Lufthansa to fly routes which aloe from a mstersegial of view. One of the most iticult stretches in the German alt service is the Berlin-Munich route, by way of the Thurngian Foret Here fogs and clouds baffle most is, but Koennecke never has} led to bring in his machine on' schedule time. He started in the war as a private, but showed such cool-headedness and ability as an aviator that he was promoted at one jump from private to lieutenant, which is almost unbeard-of in the German Army. He is 35, is mai ried, was credited with' victories over 46 planes during the war, and was rewarded with the highest ary decoration,
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