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Died. Mrs. Jack Maddux, 40, pioneer woman flyer, with her husband founder of Maddux Air Lines (now Transcontinental & Western); of heart disease following a minor operation; in Los Angeles. Last fortnight she visited her good friends, Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...from 1905 to 1929 (chiefly with the bureau of supply & contracts), resigned to go to California for Curtiss-Wright. There he was in charge of the C.W. airports at Glendale, Alameda and San Mateo, and of two flying service bases. Also for a year he was vice president of Maddux Air Lines until it was taken over...
Last week's crash shocked the whole U. S. not alone because of the fame of a passenger, but because it was the first "bad" accident in transport service in more than a year. (In January 1930, 16 persons perished in the T. A. T.-Maddux crash in California...
...through passenger travel by air completely established over all three, but last week the middle (Santa Fe) line was opened. T. A. T.-Maddux and Western Air Express, operating together as Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. which they formed to fulfill their new joint U. S. main contract (TIME, Oct. 13 ), began 36-hr, service between Newark and Los Angeles...
Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...