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Boiling up menacingly was the year-old feud between one of the Commission's three Republican members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance...
...Malcolm Hanson, radio engineer of the 1928-30 Byrd Antarctic Expedition (stowaway on the 1926 Expedition), thanks for clarifying Radioman Krenkel's career...
...five men, one woman and 65 mailsacks to fly non-stop to Alexandria on a final experimental trip. Over Lyons a few hours later the British pilot ran into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help. To England the news was as shocking...
...appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...
...Stars open the season against the Detroit Lions, National Football League champions. The All-Stars gained 184 yd. to the Lions 128, made 9 first downs to 5. Outplayed throughout most of the game, the Lions, vying for the honor of professional football and their owner, Radioman George A. Richards, rallied heroically in the last quarter, tied the score, 7-10-7. In New York, bookmakers made the All-Star team, about one-third of whom will themselves be playing professional football when the season opens next week, ;t05 favorites for their second game, against the New York Giants...