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...Stock Exchange. - After doing her best to save civilization at Geneva, pale, implacable Alice Paul, founder, chairman and planetary lobbyist of the World Women's Party for Equal Rights, landed in New York City, announced: "Men are to blame for the present war." - Straw-haired British Acrobat Jimmy Mollison, who made the first solo flight westward over the north Atlantic in 1932, landed at Halifax to help ferry U.S.-built bombers back to Britain. - Readers of one of the longest columns in the U.S. press (In the News) have been marveling for a month at William Randolph Hearst...
Drowned. Amy Johnson Mollison, 37, No. 1 British aviatrix, who flew the Atlantic in July 1933 with her since-divorced husband, Captain James Mollison (their only baggage her lipstick); when she bailed out over the Thames estuary from a warplane she was ferrying from a factory to an airdrome...
Divorced. Amy Johnson Mollison, 32, transatlantic flier, onetime London stenographer; from James Allan Mollison, playboyish British airman; in London...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...Johnson, widow of Explorer Martin Johnson, leading a safari to make moving pictures, rescued her friends Canadian Goldminer Phillip Whitmarsh and his wife. Flying to join the Johnson party, they had crashed 30 miles from Nairobi, spent four days without food. In the London Sunday Chronicle, James Allan Mollison, stubby four-time trans-Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight...