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Actually the petition was presented by Associated Railways Co., a jointly-owned corporation set up to buy M. & St. L. for $7,200,000?to be furnished by Mr. Jones. After abandoning one-third of M. & St. L.'s 1,500 miles of line. Associated Railways proposed to parcel out the rest for the partitioning carriers to operate?429 mi. to either Chicago Great Western or Milwaukee; 197 mi. to Burlington; 140 mi. to Chicago & North Western; 92 mi. to Rock Island; 47 mi. to Great Northern. In addition there are several proposals for joint operation, some of which include...
Died. Frank Harris Hitchcock, 65, Postmaster General in the Taft Administration, publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen; of pneumonia; in Tucson, Ariz. As Postmaster General he started postal savings, parcel post, airmail...
...enjoy his birthday presents. Because Cavalcade and High Quest made 1934 Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's year, the efforts of his horses that year were not spectacularly gratifying, but the $1,000,000 came in handy. Young Turfman Vanderbilt enlarged his racing string to 56. mostly with a parcel of yearlings bought from Walter J. Salmon. This year, Vanderbilt horses have won 57 races, $15,.000 in prizes. It is most unlikely that, in his second season as a racehorse owner. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will fail to be the most successful one in the U. S. Last week...
...some $600,000 worth of jewelry disappeared from the Manhattan hotel room of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, while the daughter of the founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding a felony by allowing...
...River (tributary of the Tennessee), had begun buying a power site. When 80% of the land for a reservoir had been acquired, TVA stepped in, bought two small tracts for "national park purposes," one of a few acres, the other 30 ft. by 50 ft. For the more minuscule parcel of land TVA paid $150 (compared to $4 or $5 paid by Aluminum Co. for similar land nearby) but it was worth it, for Aluminum Co. could not legally flood two "national parks...