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Settled. By Mrs. Edward Howland Robinson Green, red-haired widow of the late Hetty Green's son. and Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, his sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her-richest woman...
...Colorado" spent most of its time refueling four destroyers, two airplanes, the coast guard cutter "Itasca," and the Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...
...do?for the fun of it?was to fly around the world. She started from Miami, Fla. on June i with Fred Noonan, onetime Pan American navigator. They made mostly back page news until last fortnight when they started across 2,550 miles of Pacific Ocean toward tiny Howland Island, failed to reach it. Last week the likelihood was approaching sad certainty that Amelia Earhart Putnam had made headlines for the last time...
...borrowing a modern bubble octant designed especially for airplane navigation. For estimating wind drift over the sea, he obtained two dozen aluminum powder bombs. For some reason these bombs were left behind in a storehouse. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which had been dispatched from San Diego to Howland Island solely as a help to the flyers, would have been able to take directional bearings on the Earhart plane if the latter could have tuned its signals to a 500-kilacycle frequency. The plane's transmitter would have been able to send such signals if it had had a trailing...
...become a limited partner of Shields & Co.* Allen Ledyard Lindley, 56, last week resigned as chairman of the Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct. Reason: he had to work five hours a day as "Wall Street's policeman," wanted more time of his own. Vice chairman Howland S. Davis took over...