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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
5
English mill workers in Lancashire to return to tasks on Monday after a three week stoppage. An arbitration panel to set wage reductions of 12.82 percent may follow. workers and employers name two members each and an independent chair will be chosen.
The amphibian plane Antin Lanter crew, lost in Arctic ice near the far north, heads toward Chicago via Port Churchill after a three week wait. Jets pilot Robert Gast and Parker Cramer, with aviation editor Stubert Wocall, were rescued at Fort Burwell after their craft broke from moorings and was crushed in a storm.
Thea Rasche, Germany’s famed aviatrix, arrives in Los Angeles to join the women’s air race from Santa Monica to Cleveland. She notes rapid growth of women pilots, saying the sport is a true test of skill and a sign of women’s expanding roles. Rasche has been flying for six years.
John Hurley, president of the Independent Fusamatic Vibe company and former wartime president of the United States Shipping Board, died last night of heart disease in Chicago. He was said to be seventy years old and was widely known in industrial and shipping circles.
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