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Died. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, 62, who, as chief of Army Air Forces materiel in World War II, helped boost plane production from 15,855 aircraft in 1941 to 69,930 in 1945; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Albert C. Wedemeyer (ret.), an authority on the Far East, will speak on Red China before the Young Republican Club next Tuesday, John W. Stephens '55, president of the group, announced yesterday...
...CHENNAULT Major General, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Taipei, Taiwan...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...
...send in an average of 300 ideas each week. They come from all over the world. There is one consistent contributor who lives in New Zealand; there are eight regular contributors who are currently living in the Ohio Penitentiary. One veteran MISCELLANY correspondent is Captain Frank Luckel, U.S. Navy (ret.), now a member of the California state legislature, who sent in his first contribution...