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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to blackmail Cinemactor Clark Gable, the Los Angeles Federal grand jury indicted dumpy Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, of Winnipeg, who claimed that he is the father of 13-year-old Gwendolyn, one of her four illegitimate children...
Engaged. Allan Henry Hoover, 30, younger son of the 31st. President, California rancher; and Margaret Coberly, of Los Angeles...
Died. James Joseph Couzens, 88, one time soap manufacturer, father of Michigan's late Republican Senator James Couzens; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Andre Kostelanetz is a plump, semi-bald radio orchestra leader of high talent. Last summer he achieved the kind of publicity radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...
...greatest long-distance speed flight, set a new transcontinental record of 7 hr., 28 min., 25 sec. What set secretive Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled out his world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago...