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Flying the mail one night nearly two years ago, Pilot Mai B. Freeburg of Northwest Airways spied a flaming trestle on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Remembering that he had just passed a crack passenger train thundering down from Minneapolis, Pilot Freeburg put about, flagged the express with his emergency landing flares before it could plunge into the Chippewa River. Because Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. was aboard the train, Pilot Freeburg had made national news...
Pilot Freeburg again made national news last week when he was awarded the Post Office Department's first Air Mail Flyer's Medal of Honor. It will be presented by President Hoover, but not for saving Bobby Jones's life. For that the Burlington gave Pilot Freeburg a gold watch, the Chicago Daily News $100. The medal was for a feat unique in the history of air transport. The St. Paul radio operator of Northwest Airways one afternoon last month pressed his headset hard against his ears to hear again a laconic message: "Freeburg speaking. Just broke...
Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...Smith-Roosevelt friction caused an unprecedented rupture in the small but doughty Democracy of New Hampshire where a primary occurs this week. To reinforce his organization in Vermont, Candidate Smith told off James A. Kennedy of Burlington to try to round up as many of that State's eight delegates as possible. Even if he does not think his chances for nomination are bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. ¶ Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last...
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