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Last week Colonel Lindbergh undertook his first extended flight in a year, taking his wife with him. In his big red Lockheed Vega monoplane they set out from New ark for a routine inspection of T. & W. A.'s route to the coast. To spare them selves annoyance they were more cordial than usual to newshawks and cameramen. Said the Colonel: "Well, I think the pictures you've been taking were terrible so I suppose it will be better to pose." At Pitts burgh luck was with the Lindberghs. Water in the fuel tank killed the engine...
...which Stephen and his onetime girl embrace, and the finale in which Stephen and his wife decide to carry on together-the spectator finds himself wondering just how two more actors can be maneuvered in when the present pair dismiss themselves. Somehow, like Noah marshaling his animals in the Ark, the authors manage to turn the trick, but not always neatly...
Four Chicago aldermen were in Hot Springs, Ark. last week not for the baths but to select a mayor for their city. The Illinois Legislature had refused to call a special election to fill the vacancy left by assassinated Anton Joseph Cermak. Gruff old Boss Patrick Nash, who succeeded Cermak on the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Governor Henry Homer had then nudged a bill through the Legislature permitting the City Council. Democratic 37 to 13, to choose Chicago's chief executive...
Meanwhile a frustrated old country doctor, Dr. Charles Morgan Hammond, 64, moped. Dr. Hammond practices in Memphis, lives across the Mississippi River at rural Hulbert, Ark. In his garage is a respirator similar to the ones Philip Drinker and John Haven Emerson are selling & fighting about. Dr. Hammond built his first respirator in 1903, applied for a patent in 1910 through Orson Desaix Munn, the patent attorney who owns the Scientific American. The Patent Office refused him because his machine was considered too slow to be of value in acute narcoses and too limited in its field for general purposes...
...Monticello mortgage broker who collected $4.90 on a $2,500 claim. At Cherokee, Okla. an attorney for Equitable Life was driven ten miles out of town and dumped from a deputy sheriff's automobile when he started to foreclose on a widow's farm. At Pine Bluff, Ark. a State judge, presented with 500 foreclosure petitions, intoned: "The case against the debtor will be continued for the term. I'm not going to foreclose on any farm where the people . . . have any chance of pulling through." A judge at Magnolia, Miss, likewise declined to force farms...