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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mysterious Montague" whom you mention under Sport in the Jan. 25 issue is not as mysterious as your Los Angeles sleuth makes...
...plane was a brand-new, 21-passenger Douglas DC-3, put into service only two months ago by United Air Lines on its busiest run-the two-hour hop between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Over this run it had flown as many as 30 ships a day for seven years without accident until last December when a Boeing bashed into a hill near Saugus, killed twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). For the last three years United has used only Boeings on this mountainous jump. When it bought Douglases last autumn, it started a series of exhaustive tests to accustom...
Nursing a broken leg received in the plane crash which cost her husband's life last month (TIME, Jan. 20), self-reliant Explorer Osa Johnson declared in a Los Angeles hospital that she would resume picture-taking in the African jungle, would next trek through the Belgian Congo. Said she: "I am quite capable of managing an expedition by myself...
...Los Angeles needed water, and agitation started in 1902 culminated a few years later in the construction of the Owens Valley aqueduct, a project which could incidentally develop considerable power. Employed as a consulting engineer on the job, Mr. Scattergood showed the city that it could sell power cheaper than the private utilities and still make enough profit to pay for all construction. Upshot was formation of what is now the potent Los Angeles Power Bureau with Mr. Scattergood as chief electrical engineer & general manager, a job he has held ever since...
Died. Lionel Charles ("Dick") Probert, 53, vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, whose "Chessie" cat advertising campaign he fostered; of pneumonia ; in Los Angeles. Once a locomotive fireman, he turned newspaperman, became Associated Press Bureau chief in Mexico (1913) and Washington (1918-27). He saw President McKinley assassinated, went to France with President Wilson. The late Brothers Van Sweringen got him back in the railroad business as vice president of the Erie...