Hour Lopped Off Cross Country Air Mail Hop
In December the air mail between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts will gain 60 minutes. For the traveler this saves only an hour, but for the movement of securities between San Francisco and New York it cuts interest and insurance costs by thousands. West coast houses shifted nearly $100 million in securities daily, with Transamerica sending over $75 million in one day.
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San Francisco
Pacific
New York
Transamerica
San Francisco Bay speed boats to cut travel time to Oakland airport
Public utilities authorize speed boats and amphibians to start in December. The fast water taxis will run 26 mph over 12.43 miles, making seven round trips daily from the Ferry Building to Oakland airport. Boats carry 30 passengers plus pilots and guards. amphibians use six seats for air taxi service.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Speed Boat
Ferry Post
Flying Service
Russia objects to American peace note on Sino relations
Moscow denounces the U S note as unfriendly while detailing the 1924 Nikolsk protocol and railway accord with China and Soviet officials. Washington expresses astonishment at the charge as U S officials weigh Kellogg pact commitments amid Sino Russian tensions. Reports from Shanghai describe Red forces, bandit outlaws, and mutinies affecting Kan-chow and Henan as civil unrest broadens in the region.
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Tsai Yun-Shen
Harbin
China
M. Simonovsky
Soviet Foreign Commissariat
Khabarovsk
Soviet Union
Peking
Mukden
Manchuria
Liu
A. L Emshanov
M. Eismont
M. Emshanov
Tsai Yun Shen
Washington
UPI
Soviet Russia
United States
Hoover
Stimson
America
State Department
Orient
Russia
Shanghai
Lazarus Mission
Kanchow
Germantown
Phiadelphia
Mision
Nanking
Bishop O'Shea
Philadelphia
O'Shea
Amercan
Peiong
Whale salesman aims to wow Chicago fair with stuffed whale
Los Angeles man Bill Rice declares himself the world’s only whale salesman and offers a stuffed whale to boost the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. He seeks backing from George F. Getz, coal magnate and boxing promoter, who keeps a private zoo and shares an interest in wild beasts.
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Chicago
Bill Rice
Los Angeles
Rice
George F. Getz
Getz
Houston County Students Begin Holidays December 20
Seven thousand Houston County school children are to be released for Christmas holidays Friday December 20 according to county educational officials. The schools will reconvene Monday December 30 giving nearly two weeks of freedom. One hundred fifty one white teachers are also making plans for the holiday period with many traveling to be with loved ones or spending Christmas at home.
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Houston County
Air mail pilot Nelson search extends to Andover Ohio
Clarion Pennsylvania December 4 authorities widened the hunt for air mail pilot Thomas P. Nelson missing since Monday. Plans call for additional planes to join teams returning from Cleveland as snow falls and temperatures sit at four above zero. Forest rangers and farmers keep tramping the snow covered hills of northwestern Pennsylvania in a renewed search interrupted by darkness after a day of futile effort.
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Clarion
Thomas P. Nelson
Air Mail
Andover
Ohio
Nelson
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
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