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...hotel manager. ''I'm here." says Mr. Fields. "Kansas City is lost." At the Wu Hu International House a queer gathering has assembled to bid for the U. S. rights to a contraption called the radioscope, invented by a palsied Chinese. From time to time the inventor gives demonstrations of his machine: they show such radio folk as Rudy Vallée, Stoop-nagle & Budd, a wretched urchin called Baby Rose Marie performing their specialties. Miss Joyce is on hand looking, naturally, for a millionaire. A young employe of American Electric Co. (Stuart Erwin) is accused...
...although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently to a landing of only 23 m.p.h. First to congratulate Pilot Doolittle was a South Bend foot doctor named Cloyd Lawrence Snyder, inventor of the machine which he had named the ARUP ("air" and "up"). Doolittle had flown it some ten hours before but not in public...
...Oscar Ulysses Zerk, inventor of the Zerk automobile lubricating system, launched a proxy campaign to oust the management of Stewart-Warner Corp, (auto accessories) of which he claims he is one of the largest stockholders. His first publicity: the management lately issued an unqualified statement that employment ''had increased 70% in 30 days." This they did by using for comparison employment figures during the depths of the banking moratorium week. Audited figures showed an 8.7% gain in the last 30 days, a 9% gain from the week preceding the moratorium. To allow Mr. Zerk to flush more proxies...
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...
Died. Ernest Hopkinson. 60. vice president of U. S. Rubber Co.. inventor of many a rubber product and processing method; after a six-month illness: in Manhattan. Increasingly popular with textile manufacturers is his latest invention. Lastex, thread with a rubber core which makes cloth that stretches two ways...