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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles, Federal Judge Leon R. Yankich reviewed a patent suit between Hermann Rongg and Luther Wright, judged Rongg right...
...Los Angeles' Hotel Biltmore an unidentified woman directed a novice doorman to help her move a chair from the hall to a waiting taxi, drove off with the hotel's furniture...
...rainy morning last week two groups of newshawks arrived at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal in Burbank. One group came to greet famed Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson, due at 10:45 on a Western Air Express plane from Salt Lake City. The other group came to witness the first demonstration of a new radio navigation device developed by Transcontinental & Western Air and just installed in all its planes. The new contrivance, everyone was told, permitted a pilot to find an airport no matter how dirty the weather. TWA's Chief Pilot O. W. Coyle took off with...
...week they were back from Borneo jungles for one of their periodic lecture tours. At Salt Lake City he remarked to newshawks: "America, probably because it is the most civilized place in the world, is the most dangerous." Instant later he stepped into the Western Air Express plane for Los Angeles. Month ago another famed couple, the Dame and Seigneur of Sark, just missed a WAE plane in Los Angeles. It has not been seen since (TIME, Dec. 28). Last week the Johnsons, both experienced pilots, gave small thought to this disaster, the first in WAE's ten-year...
Died. Kenneth G. Ormiston, 41, Los Angeles radio operator who figured in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's notorious 1926 "kidnapping"; after an appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...