The Press: Travelog

Most traveled of U. S. publishers is Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun. In his own trimotored Fokker monoplane, accompanied by pilots, secretary and valet, he has pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black’s peregrinations. Six of the Sun’s eight front-page column-tops were devoted to Indian riot and Burmese earth-quake.* No special foreign correspondents contributed these news stories; but spread across four of the column-tops was a stock photograph of a Burmese pagoda “visited by Van Lear Black on his flight to Batavia, Java, in 1927.”

*Top columns devoted to India and Burma stories by Manhattan morning papers of the same date: Times, 3; World, 1; Herald Tribune, 1. The latter carried the Burma disaster on page 2.