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When the Convair was four miles out, the G.C.A. told Captain Reid he was "300 ft. to left and coming back to course." The next message advised Reid he was "right on course," 100 ft. above the glide path with the tall (277 ft.) tower of the Elizabeth, NJ. courthouse one mile ahead of him. Within seconds, the Convair was pulling widely off her course. "Drifting 900 ft. to right of course . . ." flashed the urgent warning. At 3:44, the G.C.A. operator reported that Flight 6780 had moved completely off his radar screen...
...over the world a kind of cheer went up in millions of hearts at Carlsen's stubborn, valiant pride in his ship and his calling. Said his wife, waiting fearfully in their house in Woodbridge, NJ.: "You can't do anything with him ... we are praying...
Died. Mrs. Florence C. Casler, 51, 41st employee of the U.S. Radium Corp. to die of radium poisoning; in East Orange, NJ. While working in the corporation's plant in Orange in 1917-19, Mrs. Casler, like the other victims, apparently swallowed bits of radium when she moistened a paintbrush with her lips while painting numerals on watch and clock dials. Apparently unaffected for 23 years, she showed the first symptoms of her fatal illness...
...first radio contact with the moon was made nearly six years ago by the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Belmar, NJ. (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946). The Signal Corps sent powerful radar pulses and got faint echoes in return. The Bureau of Standards' experiment, the first to send an actual long-distance message via the moon, may have a practical outcome. Ultra high frequency waves are not affected by the electrical disturbances in the atmosphere that sometimes black out other radio channels. With their great 'disadvantage (short, "line-of-sight" range) overcome by using the moon as a reflector...
Over the wires to its 30,000 offices and agencies in the U.S., Western Union last week tapped out an order: don't take any messages or money orders involving bets. The order came after a Cumberland, NJ. county court convicted Western Union and its branch manager, Charles H. Frake, 40, of "maintaining a disorderly house" (i.e., a place where illegal business is conducted). The state charged that W.U. broke a New Jersey law banning off-track horse-race betting by handling $300,000 in betting messages and money orders wired to out-of-state bookies. W.U. maintained that...