Airman Clyde Pangborn Plans 114Hour World Flight
Seattle December 25 Clyde Pangborn famed flyer spends Christmas with his mother then reveals plans for a 114hour nonstop world flight starting from San Diego around July 1. Percy Pangborn and Mrs Pangborn join the reunion as Clyde describes rapid aviation advances and the proposed route from San Diego to New York then across the Atlantic to Moscow and Siberia toward Chita and Nome.
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Seattle
Clyde Pangborn
Percy C. Pangborn
Clyde
Wenatchee
F. ©. Pangborn
San Diego
New York
Atlantic
Moscow
Russia
Siberia
Chita
Nome
Bell Aircraft pioneers refueling wing at speed
Alaska to San Diego test route described for a Bernelli Flying Wing in construction. Ben nett Griffin and Reeder Nichols named co-pilot and radioman with Pangborn testing new in-flight refueling gear. The system uses a three inch hose on aluminum reels to deliver up to 1,500 gallons at once, a difficult task at high speeds.
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Alaska
Seattle
Pacific Coast
San Diego
Bennett Griffin
Reeder Nichols
Pangborn
Christmas Smiles and Woes Across the Nation
A Wisconsin boy finds three ten dollar bills and a twenty in a stamp album, keeping the $50 Christmas gift. A Kentucky farmer breaks bones while gathering mistletoe on Christmas Day. In Baltimore 250 quarantined children receive cards from Dr Adolph Weinirl. In Yonkers a store owner nearly loses a $1000, saved when a garbage truck dump reveals the box in the incinerator debris.
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Racine
Wis
Leonard Larson
Leonard
Yonkers
N. Y
Samuel Scharfstein
Scharfstein
Substitutes for Santa Reach 3000 Needy in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Tribune volunteers delivered Christmas joy to over 3,000 boys and girls by pairing needy families with Saint Nicks and arranging home meals. In New Orleans Pierre Gray, still jailed, jokes about a Christmas dinner as others seek bonds. Denver reports needy residents enjoyed a bountiful Christmas dinner.
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Salt Lake City
Santa
Salt Lake Tribune
Saint Nicks
Turkey dinners for all at A. A. McVittie cafe
A. A. McVittie cafe owner announced he would serve turkey dinners to every hungry man, woman and child on Thanksgiving day. Gov. E. C. Johnson poured champagne for the guests during free dinners. Flora Tatum Williams, a Black woman from Clinton, NC, claims she is 116 and cites slave-era records. In Atlanta, police chief Sturdivant approves holiday eggnog at home with cautions against drunken driving.
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A. A. McVittie
Gov. E. C. Johnson
ST. Louis
Flora Tatum Williams
Clinton
N. C
Atlanta
Bone Dry
Georgia
T. C. Sturdivant
O. K
Christmas Cheer Sparks Macon People in Holiday Scene
Two well dressed young women observed in a festive Macon setting as Christmas spirit lightens the day. The caption hints at Yuletide warmth and local charm amid holiday bustle.
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Macon
Two jailed men go home for Christmas in Sharpburg
In Sharpsburg Kentucky two prisoners Earl Call and Adrian Kerns serving sentences for drunkenness broke a jail lock bolt and told Judge J C Nelson and Town Marshal Leonard Howard they had gone home for Christmas. The judge said no effort would be made to recapture them until after the holidays.
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Sharpsburg
J. C. Nelson
Leonard Howard
Earl Call
Adrian Kerns
Nelson
Twenty Thousand Orleans Children Receive Christmas Gifts
In New Orleans on Christmas Day twenty thousand children lined up at the Pelicans park for gifts from the Times-Picayune doll and toy fund. The annual distribution, funded by readers, ran from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with gifts for every child.
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New Orleans
Times-Picayune
Islands to Become National Park off Chile
Machinery has been set in motion to purchase the three Juan Fernandez Islands and convert them into a national park. The plan follows a Vancouver congress recommendation to preserve the archipelago’s flora and fauna.
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Santiago
Chile
Juan Fernandez
Vancouver Scientific Congress
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