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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