NEW YORK: Altitude Record

An adventurous aviator is debonair, swashbuckling Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem. In the course of his Icarian career he has attempted a transatlantic flight, served in a black Emperor's air corps, planned an expedition to China to fight the Japanese.

The transatlantic flight ended in Flushing Bay a few minutes after the takeoff; he cracked up Haile Selassie's own plane; he never got to China because he collapsed in a hotel chair, broke his arm. Last week Colonel Julian made his altitude record: he flew to the defense of...

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