AERIAL IDOL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 2

AERIAL IDOL.

BRINOEJONC'S POPULARITY. (Sydney Sun Cables.) LONDON, June 18. M. Rrindcjonc, tho French airman, who rectMitly performed a record aerial journey from Paris to Warsaw, is becoming a national idol in tho French, capital, and the public are already demanding that he shall be decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Brindojonc is 20 years old, and . is a descendant of a sturdy Breton family. Tho British aviator,' Mr Corbett-Wil-son, yesterdav flew from the French coast to Hendon, near London, a distance of 120 miles, in a littlo over on hour. SEVENTEEN MILLIONS. COLONEL ASTOR’S WILL. LONDON, Juno 18. The will of Colonel J. J. Astor, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, has been proved at £17.440.000, a record appraisement for America.