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...York Harbor by a police launch, spirited away to a hotel. There she was to be kept incommunicado until time for her to testify at what promised to be one of the 20th Century's most spectacular trials. For the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann was to be tried for his life at Flemington, N. J. next week...
...railroads' biggest banker. Holding most of the stock of Denver & Salt Lake ("Moffat Line''), as collateral against RFC loans, RFChairman Jesse Jones ousted the old road's management, put in as president, Judge Wilson McCarthy of Salt Lake City, a onetime RFC director. Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., the RFC's railroad counsel who is now chamberlain of the City of New York, was made a Denver & Salt Lake director...
...Thomas Augustus Watson was a livery stableman's son, a shy boy who roamed the woods declaiming poems to trees and stones. He got a job in a machine shop where young inventors brought their work. His interest in voice culture brought him to the attention of Bell, who was teaching deaf-mutes in a Boston school. At the time Bell was tinkering with a "harmonic telegraph" by which he hoped to send several messages at once over the same wire.* The two men accidentally discovered that the tones and overtones of a vibrating transmitter reed could be carried...
...turned to painting, scurried around Europe studying old masters. The first transcontinental telephone conversation in 1915 was between Bell in Manhattan and Watson in San Francisco. The words were familiar, epochal: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you!" Bell died in 1922. Last week, in St. Petersburg. Fla., Thomas Augustus Watson's 80-year-old heart stopped dead...
Died. Thomas Augustus Watson, So, manufacturer of the first telephone; of heart failure; in St. Petersburg...