Ex Naval Ace Explains Resignation Amid Plane Trials
Lieut. Alford J. Williams testified before a Senate subcommittee that he resigned from the Navy to continue experiments with a mercury racer after being ordered to sea. He said he raised $30,000 publicly for the racer, which failed to fly in Schneider Cup tests last fall, and he received a four month stay before sailing. Officials observed the hearing as they review U.S. lag in fast pursuit and bombing plane development.
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Alford J. Williams
Williams
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
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the Navy
Aeronautics
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Tribute to Dr William Welch on 80th birthday
President Hoover led an international radio tribute to Baltimore pathologist Dr William Welch marking his 80th birthday. Hoover called him the nation’s greatest public health statesman and founder of Johns Hopkins medical school for his relief of suffering.
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William Welch
Baltimore
Hoover
United States
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Welch
Navy studies new plane design in joint tests with Royal Air Force
A committee hears Williams describe a year of rebuilding a racer and a sense of duty to continue the work whether in the navy or not. The navy issues a formal statement confirming experiments today with a ship of a later design owned by the British Royal Air Forces, deemed inferior to standard US navy planes.
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Navy Department
United States Navy
Royal Air Forces
Navy
Soviet trash export plans linked to art concert
Moscow reports the government collects household refuse to export as goods while a concert by cellist Anna Luboshitz featured a gimmick admission of six pounds of rags paper old bottles tin cans bones or one pair of old rubber boots.
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Moscow
Anna Luboshitz
Gandhi to Move Scene of Activity in Salt Campaign
Mahatma Gandhi plans to leave Dandi and travel to nearby territory to continue the independence campaign. Abbas Tyabji will head Kaira district, Sarojini Naidu designated to lead if Tyabji is arrested, and the Dandi camp will gradually break up as volunteers are redirected. Some aides and Gandhi’s son have received prison sentences for salt monopoly violations.
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Dandi
Bombay Presidency
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Abbas Tyabji
Nadaid
Kaira
Sarojini Naidu
Tyabji
Bombay
Amateur fliers plan ten day Good Friday Europe flight
Twenty five amateur pilots led by Gordon Selfridge Jr and Lady Bailey will begin a ten day holiday flight over Europe on Good Friday each flying their own aircraft.
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London
Gordon Selfridge, Jr
Lady Bailey
Europe
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