Air progress-eyed predicts vast aviation advances
Washington reports on aviation progress since Kitty Hawk as Art Commerce Director Eugene Vidal heralds major advances in the next three decades. He notes trans Pacific service, potential transatlantic flights, sub stratospheric speeds, blind takeoffs and landings, and growing private aircraft ownership.
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Washington
Wright Brothers
Eugene Vidal
Vidal
trans-Pacific Air Service
Atlantic
White House Rites Held for August Gettferich at Mansion
A simple White House funeral service was held for August Gettferich a trusted guard and friend of President Roosevelt who died in Buenos Aires on December 2. President and Mrs Roosevelt Vice President and Mrs Garner and cabinet members attended. The service took place in the executive mansion cast room with Rev. Dr. G. E. Lenski officiating. The body was later shipped to New York for burial in Middle Village Lutheran Cemetery on Friday morning.
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Washington
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Gettférich
Horgevth
Buenos Aires
Roosevelt
Garner
Charles Gutvle
Augustus Gutrle
New York
Gennerich
White House
Tne Executive
G. E. Lenski
Grace Lutheran Church
James Roosevelt
Jamey Roosevelt
Thelock
Middle Vilage
Oil Painting Benefit For Orphans At Home Event
An art presentation by Mrs. Clara Caftery Pancoast will be held at the Protestant Orphans Home at 6 30 p m on Thursday as part of a San Antonio Bochil Workers Association program. The evening features entertainment with speeches barred and a baritone band from the Bexar County Home for Boys and county girls presenting a play for the orphans. Rev Marmion will direct, with a reception committee including Miss Monta Hunter Rev Lacy Simms Miss Altete Smith Miss Gussie Bente George H Craze R Paul Fowler Miss Mimi Koeser Rev Mr Marmion Mrs Rosalind Netting Mrs Ruth Hickman Rev C Tranchese and Mrs Demariy Exkchardl.
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Oi Dridtting
Clara Caftery
San Antonio
Willixta H.ntarmion
Monta. Hunter
Lacy Simms
jAltete Smith
Gussie Bente
George H. Craze
R. Paul Fowler
Mimi Koeser
Marmion
Rosalind Netting
Ruth Hickman
Steel mills speed output in face of coke shortages
New York December 16. Under pressure to push large tonnages, steel mills have increased operations across the country. Ingot output now up 79 percent, with production expansion tempered by coke shortages. Iron Age notes rising steel prices and unfilled orders, marking the sharpest weekly price gains in years.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Philadel Phila
Regents consider retirement of University of Wisconsin president
Madison Wis Dec 46 regent president Harold Wilkie proposed the retirement of University of Wisconsin President Glenn Frank next June. Wilkie said he cannot vote for renewal and urged that the board decide Dr Frank's future status as a whole citing growing dissatisfaction with his administration.
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Madison
Wis
Harold Sf
Wilkie
Board of Regents
Glenn Fran
University of Wiscansin
Dr. Frank
DOLL DARES TO WAKE A SLEEPING BABY IN BRIE WARD
In Bries, Pa a Santa Claus doll is shown to Maxine Yarrington in a hospital ward as doctors and nurses cling to hope she may recover from a baffling coma that has left her asleep with eyes wide and occasional faint movements since September 24 1935.
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Brie
Dec
Asa
Maxine Yarrington
Tultses
Maxine
Mitte
Alee
Japanese Remedy Box Is Bizarre
Washington December sixteenth. The yearbook from Japan praised remedies once common in the Land of the Rising Sun. Suggestions include burnt clay linings from an old stove, pills made of seashells, beetle rest powders, and powder of dried fly of the valley. These unusual cures are being reintroduced.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Motorman Cleared in Chicago L Crash Inquiry
Van R. Grooms, motorman of the North Shore line, was absolved of criminal blame by a coroner's jury for the November 24 crash that killed 11. The panel criticized the North Shore Line and Chicago Rapid Transit management, while Grooms received release from custody and was sent to St Francis Hospital in Evanston for treatment.
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Chicago
van R. Grooms
North Shore
Mynlyer
Grooms
North Shore Ine
Bb. Francis Hospital
Evanston
Fae Cay of & Shoppers
Shooting Beats Mind Over Matter in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on December 16 a 53-year-old watchman, Clarence E. K. Buerler, was shot between the eyes by a prowler who entered his room. He pursued the intruder, remained conscious, and found the bullet later in a drawer after the wound near his skull.
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Los Angeles
Clarence EK
Buerler
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