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Horseshoe-Nail Gayle. In Newington, Conn., six-year-old Gayle Grant got out of bed for a drink of water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...
...York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment a Montreal-Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open...
...crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development of the vacuum tube gave amateurs their present range...
Seeking divorce. Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody, eight-time U. S. women's tennis champion, from Frederick Shander Moody Jr., San Francisco goodfellow; in Reno. They were married Dec. 23, 1929. Her statement: "I wouldn't go so far as to say there isn't another man in my life...
...Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., who once refused the offer of a $50,000 house from his fellow citizens of Atlanta, it was suggested that Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody might jeopardize her amateur status by accepting $20,000 bequeathed to her in the will of California's late Senator James Duval Phelan. Said he: "I wish someone would leave me the same amount. ... I think it is absolutely asinine for anyone even to question Helen's procedure...