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Died. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Jr., 61, of Lexington, Ky., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inventor of many a surgical trick, after long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Feb. 28--Major William C. Ocker, Army's oldest pilot in point of service and a pioneer inventor of flying devices, pleaded not guilty today at his general court-martial on charges he "cussed out" a superior officer...
Army. The House Committee had already learned that Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo had profited so greatly on an order of Army ships that the Army had asked for and received 50 additional planes delivered for $1 each. Star witness last week was James V. Martin, eccentric inventor of Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin charged that "this nation for 17 years has been the victim of a gigantic, insidious conspiracy by a small group of banking brokers" who robbed the Government of 75? of every dollar spent on military aviation. The trust, said he, was composed of Curtiss-Wright...
...keyboards or more recently with electric tones. The innovating factor in the Clear-Tone instrument is that the ends of the strings are attached to steel bars and adjustable screws, not, as usually, to the iron frame, which is inharmonic to the tone of the strings, according to the inventor, Mr. E. W. Powers. A second sound board of maple, also increases the sonority. The inventor does not yet claim perfection for his instrument, but its development should revolutionize the piano to a certain extent...
...every conference game played. Princeton, an early favorite, slumped after the Christmas holidays. Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game. Tied for first place are Penn and Yale, last year's champion. South. From Kansas, where lives the inventor of basketball, Dr. James A. Naismith, went jovial, jowled Adolph Rupp to teach the University of Kentucky boys how to play. He taught them so well that in three years they won 64 out of 72 games, and last year the Southeastern Conference. Last week, undefeated for the season...