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...Newfoundland. Their company, now named H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd., produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder Sopwith to live in a mansion near Park Lane. After the death of his first wife, a daughter of 8th Baron Ruthven, in 1930 he sold the house to the Crown. (It is now occupied by Princess Mary and her husband, the 6th Earl of Harewood.) Last year he married Phyllis Brodie Gordon, a bright blonde with pretty teeth...
Died. James William Collier, U. S. Tariff Commissioner, twelve times U. S. Representative from Mississippi's 8th District, chairman last year of the House's potent Ways & Means Committee; of heart disease; on his 61st birthday, in Washington...
...army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander of the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio), to duty with the General Staff in Washington. Son of a Michigan governor, he has the bearing and manners of a country gentleman...
Major General Johnson Hagood, commander of the Omaha area, to command the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio). He is small, young-looking, cerebral, likes golf and bridge. Critical, deep-thinking (he used to teach philosophy at West Point), he startled the War Department last April by announcing before the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army was too complex and top-heavy, that the War Department should be demilitarized and given the status of a civil bureau...
...Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took an 11 at the 8th, had a card of 86, withdrew...