Typed as written - Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year –
Number 48
Marlin, Texas, Friday,
June 26, 1931
MARLIN MAN STARTING
HIS THIRD TRIP AROUND WORLD
Accompaniedby Friend
Who has Circled Globe One Time Heretofore
Starting his third trip around the globe, B. L. Falconer is in Marlin on a three
weeks’ so journ, accompanied by a friend, H. N. Saxton, a resident of New York
state, who has circled the globe one time heretofore.
Mr. Falconer is a senior examiner, retired, of the United States civil service
commission, with which he was connected for many years.
Reared in Marlin, he give this city as his permanent address. His work with the civil service
commission has carried him to many parts of the United States and in recent
years he had an assignment at Manila, P. I.
From Marlin, Messrs. Falconer and Saxton plan to go to the Pacific coast, thence
to Honolulu, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Asia, crossing the latter
continent by land and air, the former states, but it will be “Mr. Falconer by
air and I by land,” Mr. Saxton supplements.
Interest was voiced by Mr. Falconer in progress today of the American flyers,
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, in their attempt to break the around the world time
record, from Moscow by way of Omak to Irkutak—he has been through that section
on the Trans-Siberian railway. And
incidentally, those names are pronounced just like they’respelled, he avers.
Messrs. Falconer and Saxton, however, aren’t after speedrecords—they expect to
spend about three years in making their present trip around the world.
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