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...beginning of this week Newark's municipal airport became the official air mail depot for New York City and nearby points. Hadley Field had been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton...
...That designation delighted Newark's Mayor Jerome T. Congleton, who leaves no trick unturned to advance the importance of his city as a sea and air port, as a railroad terminal...
...Congleton '14, coxswain. Age 20; height 5 ft., 8 in.; weight 101 pounds...