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...required only to carry the mail, receives no extra compensation for flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above the Arctic Circle, a pilot must land at every prospector's shack where a letter is to be delivered, or where a signal is displayed that a letter is to be picked up. On the 200-mi. route between Tanana and Ruby, planes make as many as 26 stops. For mail service last year Alaskan Airways collected $10,340 from the Government...
...infantry moved into Bonus City (10:14 p. m.) gassing each wretched shack and shanty, veterans by the thousands trudged off into the night. Some carried their belongings wrapped in bundles on their backs. One drunk went lurching away bearing only a large oil lamp. A few sang old War songs. Women carried babies in their arms. Huts and lean-tos were set afire, partly by the departing veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow...
...Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup by his political enemies. That night Commander Waters' driver reported that the official car had been fired upon...
BRIGHT SKIN?Julia Peterkin?Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Asleep in the little shack along the Spanish-mossy river, little Blue is wakened by his father before dawn, told to come along, leave his mother and his home forever. Blue's mother has played the whore: Blue is the only child his father knows to be his own. Together they are going back to Blue's father's parents, Cun Fred...
...Solomon, who runs around with the white boys and wears store clothes. It is he who murders the white girl and brings the posse, hunting him with hounds, guns and hate, to the cabin. They catch Solomon, and while he agonizingly calls for his family which huddles inside the shack, the white men burn him to death with his mother's cherished stovewood...