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Cincinnati police stopped Charles D. Evans. Indianapolis contractor, because he was driving with 1932 license plates, found in the back seat the body of his divorced wife, cut into 14 pieces. Butcher Evans whipped out a razor, cut his throat. Soon Cincinnati newsboys were crying: "All about de Jigsaw Moider...
...Zangara's shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
Married. Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr., 26, Camel cigaret scion, brother-in-law of Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds; and one Elizabeth McCaw Dillard, 24, daughter of a Winston-Salem (N. C.) bridge contractor; in Winston-Salem...
Every airmail contractor in the U. S. shuddered last week as the fight for control of Aviation Corp. became more & more rowdy (TIME. Nov. 21). Whether the operators sided with the management or with Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, 30% stockholder who was trying to unseat it, the industry was painfully aware of one fact: That the missiles hurled by each side would be picked up by opponents of airmail subsidies, carefully saved until the next Congress convenes, then flung at all air transport...
...land where the airplane is an immeasurable boon, Alaskan Airways never made money. Prime reasons were Avco's lack of facility for remote control of operations; and Alaskan Airways' unprofitable mail contracts. These are not true airmail contracts but "star routes"* won from the dogsled contractors by underbidding. The contractor is required only to carry the mail, receives no extra compensation for flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above the Arctic Circle, a pilot must land at every prospector...