Joint Army Navy maneuvers reveal Hawaii defenses
The grand joint war game ending April 27 disclosed defects in Oahu island defenses and the fleet. Admiral Robert B. Connz and Maj. Gen. John L. Hines urged strengthening Oahu as the Pacific key, noting controversy over submarines surface and aircraft roles. The critique ends with praise for officers and was issued to War and Navy Secretaries.
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Honolulu
Ofa
United States
Secretaries of War and Navy
Robert
Ontz
John, L. Hines
Department
Oahu
Amy
Nickel Plate Merger Endorsement Acknowledged At Hearing
Washington May 8 An endorsement of the Nickel Plate merger plan praised by Richard F. Grant of the United States Chamber of Commerce was presented at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing. The plan would unite Nickel Plate Chesapeake and Ohio Pere Marquette Hocking Valley and Erie into a single system, with detailed testimony on accounting savings and congestion relief.
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Washington, D. C
O. P
M. J. van Swetogen
Interstate Commerce ‘Commission
Richard F.grant
United States Chamber of Commerce
van Sweringens
Chesapeake and Ohio
Pere Marquette
Hocking Valley
Erie
Grant
Minorit
M. A. Hanna Company
H. M. Hanna
J. J. Barnet
Nickel Plate
W. C. Hull
Bennet
Metger
Hull
Chesapeake and Ohio Management
Dingingall
Marion
Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio Western
Mrs. Coolidge Finds Useful Furniture in White House Attic
Washington May 8. Mrs. Coolidge leads White House renovations funded by Congress 66 000 for first floor updates. She selects materials and preserves Roosevelt era colors, restoring two discarded pieces including a brass inset table and President Jackson's chair.
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Washington D. C
White House
Congress
Pres'dent Jackson
Brocco and Egg At Odds Sign Armistice For Race
Paris dispatch reports a Madison Square Garden bicycle race exhibition in which Maurice Brocco and Oscar Egg rode in tacit armistice. The two veterans, long estranged, spoke only of the contest terms during the exhibition race. After the event they sailed home and avoided recognition of each other.
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Paris
Madison. Square Garden
New York
Europe
Newtegen
Passenger seeks distant berth to escape Egg last week
A traveler told the steamship agent to place him anywhere on the boat as long as he stayed far from Egg. He said this last week of Egg would suffice for a lifetime.
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Egg
Railroads Show A Decrease In Revenue
Revenue fell for class one railroads by 18 886 586 or 3 7 percent in March from a year earlier while operating expenses declined 13 336 445 or 3 4 percent. Net operating income dropped to 73 116 672, down 7 203 375 from March last year, and first quarter income totaled 203 881 770 with an implied 4 48 percent return.
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Washington D. C
Bureau of Railway Economics
Interstate Commerce Commission
Property investment per cent and freight income by district
The report compares March freight traffic and district incomes with last year. Eastern district net income fell from $40,965,436 to $36,119,589. Southern rose from $14,079,659 to $16,075,419 while western declined from $2,487,962 to $20,921,664.
Priest Invents Music Writing Machine in Rio Exhibition
Father Lucus, a Catholic priest, claims 18 years of work on a music writing machine shown in Rio de Janeiro. The device resembles a typewriter with a keyboard and a staff line arrangement near the roller for drawing lines.
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Rio de Janeiro
Lucus
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Pierce
Bern
Greaten
T. Pierce
SRT
Watt House Furnishing Co
Broad Street
Anna Jarvis
Philadelphia
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