Lindbergh Urged to Visit Alaska to See Flying Fields
Alaska eyes inviting Col Charles A Lindbergh to tour the territory next summer to showcase commercial aviation growth. Since 1923 pilots have built a network from Fairbanks with 13 regular air routes across 48 communities, transporting mail, passengers and freight with a record $350,000 in cargo flown without injuries. Winter flying advantages and swift transport from McGrath to Fairbanks are highlighted, with service expanding to Nome, Circle, Dawson and others, aiding mining operators and hunters.
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Pairbanks
Alaska
Charles A. Madbergh
Pioneera
Alagga
Finda 13
Fairbanks
Carl B. Elemon
Tacmec Army Flyer
Fem
Wiseman
Nome
Kuskokim
Port Yukon
Circle
Tacoma
Bethel
Eagle
Dawson
Anchorage
Here
Big Gete
McGrath
Kuskokwum
Firm Buys New Haven Bonds in Competitive Bid
New Haven bonds totaling 1 245 000 were bought today by a New York City syndicate through competitive bidding. The 4 percent bonds mature from March 1 1930 to 1958. City received 102 09 as the purchase price.
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New Haven
Associated Press
City of
Fragments Promote Kidney Salt Cure Claim
An old advisory promotes drinking soft water and lemon salt mixtures to flush kidneys. It claims soda-like Jad Salts cleanse the system, ease back pain, and prevent bladder disorders by neutralizing acids and improving kidney filtration.
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Footc
Axo
MacMillan Expedition Builds Winter Station in Labrador
Donald MacMillan leads the Rawson MacMillan Field Museum party to Bowdoin Harbor Field Bay Northern Labrador establishing a winter scientific station to study meteorology geology botany zoology and anthropology. Dr Duncan Strong lives with local Indians while researchers document Tuuli ruins and Norse conjectures as they plan June coast surveys toward Baffin Land.
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Associated Press
Haa
Tiwnald MacMillian
Fight Museum
Chicago
Rowden Harbor
Field Bay
Labrador
StacMilan
Bnt Flower
Ata
Donald OB Macmillan
Bowdoin Harbor
Northern Labrador
Associated Preas
Massachusetts Institute of Trchnology
Rawson-MacMilan Field Museum
Duncan Strong
Field Museum
George River
Greenland
Thas
Crutea
Baffin Land
Fox Channel
De Donato Divorce Hearing Put Off In Bridgeport
Mazel M Britto De Donato of Mount Vernon was told to testify in Bridgeport before Judge Allyn L Brown in a divorce case alleging cruelty. Attorney John Cuneo reported progress, a medical expert testified bruises on the plaintiff, and the judge reset the hearing for Tuesday morning.
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Mazel M. Britto de Donato
Mount Vernon
Bridgeport
Allyn L. Brown
John Cuneo
Norwalk
Brown
Cuneo
Arthur N. Clerk
Clark
DeDonato
Anthony DeDonato
Bris
Wesleyan President Plans Western Alumni Tour
Wesleyan president James L. McCaughany will depart March 1 for the Pacific coast to visit alumni in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On return he will stop in Chicago on April 3. He travels by boat via the Panama Canal, accompanied by ex-Governor Weeks of the board of trustees.
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Gresnland
Labrador
E .K. Langford
Chicago
Donald Macmillian
Middletown
Associated Presa
Wesleyan
James L. McCaughany
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Weeks
Board of Trustees
Panama Canal
Huge chemical cartel foreseen by Daugherty
American trade commissioner William T. Daugherty in Washington predicted an international chemical cartel led by German and American dye interests. He told executives in Berlin that the German dye trust had already secured three commercial agreements with American firms and planned further compacts to forestall fierce competition between the two nations.
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Washington
William T. Daugherty
Berlin
American Chemical Industry
German Dye Trust
Two Signatures Required for Operator's License
Each person receiving a license to drive an automobile in the fiscal year starting March 1 must write his name twice on the back of the 1%. In addition to the regular license, an extra half is attached by a perforated line and must be signed on the reverse side and kept until after January 15, 1629.
Tailor on danger list after stabbing affray
Benjamin Brown a tailor living at 14 Hurlburt Street is on the danger list at New Haven hospital after being stabbed in the abdomen with a heavy pair of shears by fellow workman Joseph Iscovitz. Iscovitz is held for the coroner as Brown fights for life following a wage dispute at the 8 Abrams company coat and vest department.
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New Haven
Associated Press
Benjamin Brown
Hurlburt Street
Joseph Iscovitz
New Haven Hospital
Brown
Iscorvitz
8. Abrams Company
Senate orders thorough probe of coal field conditions
The Senate voted for a comprehensive inquiry into conditions in the bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Hearings are expected to begin next week, with the Interstate Commerce Committee led by Chairman Watson in charge.
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Washington
Tech
Associated Press
Senate
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Watson
Interstate Commerce Committee
Johnson
California
Reed
Republican
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Phillip Murray
United Milne Workers of America
Baltimore and Ohio
New York Central
Arsa World
Federal Court of
Western Pennsylvania
Senator Reed
Governor Fisher
X Fisher
Rate Control Bill Favored By Fahey
Henry C. Attwill chairman of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Department testified before power and light committees in Boston in support of a state utility rate control bill. Opponents called the measure revolutionary and economically flawed while Attwill defended its constitutionality. Worcester publisher John H. Fahey added that utility properties in Massachusetts earned five to ten times the return on capital compared with other sectors, with the hearing adjourned until next Wednesday morning.
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Boston
iBy Assocated Press
Henry C. Attwil
State Department of Public Utilities
Power and Light
Attwill
John H. Fahey
Worcester
Massachusetts
National Industrial Conference Board
Evidence Complete in Bus Line Suit
Closing arguments and the judge's charge remain in the joint damage actions brought by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ganroy against Cray Line Bus and John Egan. Originally by Victoria Kubana and Conroy, the case notes they have wed since. Mrs. Conroy seeks 925000 for injuries from a June 1927 crash at Arctic and Pembroke streets. Conroy seeks 1300 for a severely gashed hand. Medical testimony shows permanent internal injuries to Mrs. Conroy and ongoing effects from the crash. The parties blame each other for the accident.
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Edward Ganroy
Cray Line Bus Corporation
Jonh Egan
Victoria Kubana
Conroy
Hurts
Arctic
Pembroke
Egan
Mechanical power equals forty slaves in U S daily
Washington reports Edwin W. Ely of the Commerce Department told chemical industry executives that mechanical power in the United States amounts to about forty slaves per person. He noted the electric industry, with twenty billion dollars in invested capital, drives a large share of national horsepower and stressed improving control over atoms and molecules to gain chemical advantages.
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Washington
United States
Edwin W. Ely
Commerce Department
Chemical Industry
16 Filipinos Die on Ship From Manila to Honolulu
The President Cleveland arrived in Honolulu with 16 more pneumonia cases among Filipino steerage passengers and one smallpox case. Dollar Steamship Co says exposure to smallpox will lead to vaccination and notes Filipinos are moved seasonally from Manila to Hawaii for sugar field work. There were about 400 Filipinos aboard amid climate change risks.
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San Francisco
President Cleveland
Manila
Hono-lulu
Dollar Steamship Company
Cleveland
Honolulu
Mania
Hawaii
Bantam Ball Bearing Co Moves to Southbend Indiana
Bantam Ball Bearing Company plans to relocate from Bantam Connecticut to South Bend Indiana. W W Gager vice president announced the move after a visit to South Bend where a new plant will be built to place the company near the automotive industry. The Indiana outfit is organized with capital of 180000 dollars.
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Waterbury
Bantam Ball Hearing Company
Bantam
Southbend
Indiana
W. W. Gager
Tur. Gager
South Bend
Connecticut
Rogers
Comany
Bir. Gager
Gager
Bantam Ball Hearing Company of
Clark Wins Damages From Dekorsky in Auto Collision Case
A jury in the Court of Common Pleas awarded W. Dudley Clark damages of 239.73 against Morrie Dekorsky for a July 4, 1937 car crash in Sondom, New York. Dekorsky had countersued for 700 dollars in property damages.
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Court of Common Pleas
W. Dudley Clark
Morrie Dekorsky
Bridgeport
Sondom
New York
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NEW England Transportation CO
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Schnee & Schnee
Oliver Knight
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