Rear Admiral G. F. Hyde, commander-in-chief of the Royal Australian Navy, docked in New York harbor his flagship, the 10,000-ton Australia. His sailors did the city, the shows and Coney Island. He and some of his officers watched polo matches on Long Island. Then the Australia steamed away to pay a visit to the U. S. naval academy.

Van Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, famed air traveler, who has comfortably covered 20,000 miles (Europe, Asia, East Indies) in his own plane, returned to the U. S. on the Carinthia in ample time to register so that he may vote for Nominee Smith.

Three Whistling Vipers, a Madagascar moon-faced monkey, a Mandalayan singing lizard--members of an immigrating menagerie--arrived in Manhattan on the Hamburg, as did Novelist Sinclair Lewis and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Thompson, famed newspaper correspondent.

Count Michael Karolyi, first President of Hungary, for three years barred from this country because of his socialistic tendencies, arrived on the liner Cristobal Colon, en route from Mexico to Spain. He was astounded to learn that a technicality of the immigration laws allowed him 60 hours ashore. "Another of those quaint American paradoxes," said he. "I had expected to be chained to the Statue of Liberty."

Before flying to Washington to confer with officials upon lifting the ban against him, he addressed a crowd of sympathizers at Wall and South Streets.

Saul G. Bron, affable, heavyset, but not gross, able Russian financier arrived on the Mauretania. He headed a commission of industrial leaders prepared, they said, to spend in behalf of Soviet Russia. $40,000,000 for machinery to aid in the modernizing of agricultural methods. Said Saul Bron: "The construction of tractors and trucks for the development of the country is our main concern. Our people are too poor to think of buying pleasure automobiles."