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Princeton, N. J., May 16--John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton from 1912 to 1932, was killed in an automobile accident at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon near Woodbridge, New Jersey, while driving with his wife. Ex-president Hibben died en route to the Rahway General Hospital, where Mrs. Hibben is in a serious condition. The car which was being driven by Hibben, swerved into the path of westbound traffic, colliding with a truck of the Middlesex Beverage Company driven by Peter Seilia. Seilia is being held for manslaughter...
...same day on Mount Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...
...Boxer indemnity squeezed from the old Empress Dowager in 1901. It was agreed last week that this balance should be devoted to buying Italian war planes for use against Japan, a business that had become practically a U. S. monopoly. First shipment of 20 fighting planes was already en route to China last week. As a special premium with the deal, three Italian instructors took up their duties at the aviation school at Hangchow, and the famed Italian racing pilot Mario Bernardi accepted a commission as chief of the Chinese nationalist air force...
...Products Co., Ltd., which opened a new factory at Radomir in October. In two months Balkans Products produced a "snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France and Germany in double-bottomed trunks, en route for the U. S., Egypt and the Far East. One kilo of heroin equals 250,000 medical doses. At this rate Balkans Products is producing 187,500,000 medical doses monthly, or a double dose for 3,000,000 dope fiends daily...
Last week while Thalberg was en route to Europe with Mrs. Thalberg (Norma Shearer) to recuperate, MGM's directors announced that Associate Producers Edward J. Mannix and David Oliver Selznick had been elected vice presidents. Irish Eddie Mannix has been an MGM executive since 1924. David Oliver Selznick, son of the late famed Lewis J. Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer...