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Cheyenne in 25 hr. 25 min. hard driving. En route in Omaha, when an interviewer asked Senator O'Mahoney if he were hurrying home to lay the groundwork for the President's visit, Mrs. O'Mahoney answered for her husband: "Perhaps 'allay' is the better word." They arrived a day ahead of the Presidential special. Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train...
...roared across the starting line than the spectators were dramatically reminded of Indianapolis. Rounding the first of the 300 laps, Marshall Lewis' car skidded, overturned. Driver Lewis scrambled out unhurt. Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing. After 2 hr. 18 min. of noise, flying dirt and squirting oil, Los Angeles' Ronney Householder flashed across the finish line, followed by Detroit's Glenn Meyers and Indiana's Ted Hartley. Winner House-holder's average speed was 65.2 m.p.h. To dapper, mustached 29-year-old Ronney Householder...
After the Oshawa strike had lasted through 16 days of negotiation it ended in the workers winning a 44-hr, week with very slightly higher pay-and in a most curious agreement. Since neither their employers nor "Mitch" would treat with any workers affiliated however remotely with C. I. O., and since all the strike leaders by this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn...
...Seversky pursuit plane powered by a Twin Wasp Jr. engine, Fuller was first to reach Cleveland, continued on non-stop to Bendix, N. J., the famed old airport of Teterboro where Vincent Bendix now has headquarters. For this Pilot Fuller won $13,000. His cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank...
...from Port Washington three days later climbed the high-sided Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia for her sixth Atlantic crossing via Newfoundland and Ireland. Including a stop at Montreal, she got to her base at Foynes, Ireland in 20 hr. 27 min. flying time, just as her sister ship Cambria was getting set to reverse...