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Brit Isles picks up messages
23 Sens petition Pres Hoover to withhold call for extra session on treaty until after Nov elections
Wine glasses placed in storage
Gets bulletins direct from Kingsford-Smith as plane crosses Atlantic
Kingsford-Smith carries N Stewart, Australian actress's picture as "lucky piece"
Raided for liquor; 9 patrons and 10 employes arrested
C A Kingsford-Smith carries lr from him to Pres Hoover, on transatlantic flight
Pres Hoover again denounces Sen bill; text of statement; Repubs in House agree to uphold his expected veto; substitute bill expected; F T Hines says cost would increase; J E Rankin criticizes Pres's denunciation of bill
Byrd and men cheered en route to Albany on destroyer Bainbridge; Byrd greets crews of Naval Acad at Poughkeepsie; at Albany, Gov Roosevelt presents Byrd with State's gold medal; s; Byrd's reply; reception at Executive Mansion; Tail Waggers' Club gives medal and citation to Igloo, Byrd's dog; Byrd visits F Bennett's mother; plans for receptions in N Y and Boston; illus of medal of Amer Arbitration Assn to be presented to Byrd
Pope, health of
Major Kingsford-Smith hoped to reach New York within thirty-four hours of the time of his take-off from Ireland.