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...ringleaders (including a bumptious young white radical from nearby College of the City of New York) for assault, burglary and incitement to riot, Tammanyite District Attorney William C. Dodge loudly attributed the whole affair to a Communist plot, started a grand jury investigation. Negro Communist Solomon Harper, War veteran, inventor and member of the radical League of Struggle for Negro Rights, absolved his organization of complicity, denied any connection with the Young Liberators whose members, he said, were all in their ''early twenties...
Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
Durand-Ruel picked an ideal moment to exhibit Renoir. Down the street the new Bignou Gallery had just opened with two important Renoirs as the high spots of its first exhibition; and the inventor of Argyrol, the most colorful collector in the U. S., irascible Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et ante), last week published a large, authoritative, opinionated book on Renoir...
...over to Western Air Express when that company made Junior Hoover its chief radio engineer. It was while working there in 1930, under Junior Hoover's supervision, that Geoffrey Kruesi invented the Homing Compass (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930). Lacking funds to develop it, Western Air Express soon dropped Inventor Kruesi from its payroll. In 1931 he was hired by the Army, has lived modestly in Dayton ever since...
...Army has spent some $100,000 perfecting the Kruesi Compass, has made it a compact unit which weighs less than 45 lb., fits in a small box. Patent rights are owned by the U. S. Government, manufacturing rights by Fairchild Aviation Corp., which paid Inventor Kruesi a modest advance royalty. Last week the Fairchild factory at Woodside, L. I. was working day & night to fill an Army order for 500 Kruesi Compasses. From this $150,000 order, Inventor Kruesi will receive not one penny. Reason: He is a Government employe, may not profit from Government expenditures...