Flying Tiger Line halts operations and merger plans
Flying Tiger Line, born postwar as America's first all freight carrier, abandons air freight and cancels its proposed merger with Slick Airways after a labor dispute over seniority and layoffs. About 1,200 workers face job losses as Tiger contracts stay afloat for non freight work while Slick absorbs some planes.
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Flying Tiger Line
America
Slick Airways
Flying Tiger
Air Line Pilots Association
Slick
Prescott
Claire Chennault
Flying Tigers
China
Women Aided Fight Against Yellow Fever War Hero's Legacy
Frank Carey reports on how housewives aided Major General William Crawford Gorgas in eradicating yellow fever in Havana and the Panama Canal Zone. The interview with his daughter, Mrs. William D. Wrightson of Chevy Chase, Maryland, marks the centennial of Gorgas birth. His tactics reduced outbreaks and aided global port safety, ending a deadly era for laborers and opening tropical projects to progress.
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Panama Canal
William D. Wrightson
Chevy Chase
William Crawford Gorgas
Gorgas
Walter Reed
Havana
Cuba
American Atlantic Seaboard
Josiah Nott
West Point
England
West Africa
The Book Man Jerome Lawson Behind Bars
Jerome M. Lawson known as The Book Man, a famed rare books collector, sits 10 years into a South Carolina State Penitentiary sentence. The 64 year old New Yorker admits taking books from libraries to keep them for himself, with 18 past convictions under various aliases. His history includes escapes and a life of book theft from USC and other libraries.
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Columbia, S. C
Jerome M. Lawson
Southeastern United States
South Carolina State
Lawson
Hudson River Valley
Revolution
Carolinas
Springfield
Mass
Howard Roberts
University of South Carolina
Florida
Mississippi
North Western Railroad in a Cold War With Commuters
The Chicago and North Western faces a dispute with about 300 Fox Valley commuters over plans to end the 5:05 p.m. train to Geneva Illinois. The railroad says it would trim service to Clinton and keep a Geneva to Chicago run, while commuters argue for preserving the current Geneva leg and challenge the railroad’s claimed losses.
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Wall Street Journal
Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railway
Fox Valley Commuters’ Association
Geneva
Ill
North Western
Fox Valley
Illinois Commerce Commission
Northwestern
John d’Arcy, Jr
Quaker Oats Company
Clinton
The
Railroad
Nursing Groups To Meet in C R Oct 25 26
Cedar Rapids hosts multi group nursing conventions on October 25 and 26 with over 500 attendees. The Iowa State Nurses Association, Iowa League for Nursing, and Student Nurse Association convene together, led by Fifth district president Marian Van Fossen and a team handling arrangements, programs, registrations and exhibits.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Nurses’ Association
Iowa League For Nursing
Student Nurse Association
Mary Barbara Ann of
Marian van Fossen
Linn
Benton
Jones
Johnson
Iowa
Miss van Fossen
Richard Roberts
General Arrangements
Etta Rasmussen
Irene Jass
Marie Tener
Pet Cemetery Becomes Local Institution in Maine
Roy Waterman set aside a quiet plot on his 100 acre farm near a brook and pines for family pets. Friends from southern Maine have used the site to bury their deceased animals making it a noted regional cemetery for pets.
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Scarborough
Maine
Roy Waterman
New Haven Man Arrested for Fogged Window Baseball Bets
Anthony R. Arganto, 42, was arrested in New Haven on a gaming charge after police said they found him writing baseball bets on a telephone booth window he had fogged with his breath.
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New Haven, Conn
Anthony R. Arganto
Woman Drunk Driving Sideswipes Patrol Car and Mayor’s Vehicle
A Barnwell woman driving around a downtown traffic circle sideswiped a State Highway Patrol car and Mayor Herman I. Mazursky’s vehicle, hit a curb and a utility pole, narrowly missing the police station. She is charged with driving while tipsy and without a license.
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Barnwell
S. C
Herman I. Mazursky
Driver Guilty of Drunk Driving by Permitting Drunk Operator
Hart Michigan judge Justice Gayle Joslin found the car owner guilty of operating while intoxicated by permitting another intoxicated man to drive. Both men were fined 100 dollars each.
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Hart, Mich
Gayle Joslin
Joslin
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