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Petitions for pardon of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney have bothered governors of California since 1916, when the two were jailed for a Preparedness Day bombing which they have continued to insist they did not commit. Last July several States' witnesses renounced the testimony which had convicted Mooney & Billings, reopening the case (TIME, July 14 et seq.). The State Supreme Court, which has sole jurisdiction over Billings because he is a second-offender, sat not as a court but as an advisory pardon board. They heard the entire bombing rehashed. The Governor said he would...
Inspector McWade's testimony threw into unhappy relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
Caddo Co., the producers, insist no models were used. The Zeppelin was a dirigible one-half the size of the Los Angeles, constructed in Hollywood under the direction of Dr. Karl Arnheim formerly of the German Zeppelin works. The pilot of the airplane, diving into the Zeppelin, jumped, parachuted, escaped with his life...
Usual system in building an Honor Bilt home is to insist that the lot be free from liens, then to accept it as a 25% equity in the total cost, Sears, Roebuck furnishing the rest on a first-mortgage payable monthly for 15 years. Investigations of prospective customers are made and no home will be sold which is considered beyond the prospect's means. Family budgets are also furnished. The lumber is sent readycut and marked, labor furnished from the locality (until this year, labor was not included). The homes vary from three to nine rooms, cost from...
...silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract of the adrenal glands, although the medical profession has been skeptical of "cure" and the doctors themselves insist that they have only an experimental promise (TIME, April 28 et ante). Last week Mrs. Conners summoned them to Manhattan, offered them her $1,000,000 Long Island estate as a laboratory and free clinic. The estate includes 15 acres and a six-story, 40-room house built like a medieval...