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...from the private landing field of Douglas Aircraft Co. at Santa Monica, Calif, last week climbed a standard Douglas DC2 transport with a few subtle changes in wing design. When it landed again after buzzing back & forth over the Tehachapi Mountains for several hours, Douglas officials revealed that they had devised a satisfactory way to prevent the unique icing of ailerons which caused the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 fortnight ago near Pittsburgh (TIME, April 5). Chief Engineer Arthur E. Raymond merely added a few inches to the underside of the wing in front of the slot...
...reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York and Philadelphia. Pacific businessmen fly United as naturally as they take taxis. Until last week they had no other cause for complaint than that United pilots, nonchalant from long experience, sometimes skimmed startlingly low over the tumbled Tehachapi Mountains. Last week it became United's turn to demonstrate that "pride goeth before destruction." Skimming over the Teha-chapis only 20 miles from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal at Burbank, Flight 34 smashed into the top of Oak Mountain, brought death to twelve people...
Some 50 miles northwest of Burbank the San Joaquin Valley is bitten off by the small Tehachapi Mountains, which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash...
...strikes and the San Francisco General Strike. Investigating Communist Party petitions, vigilant patriots charged that eight circulators had made false attestations, got out warrants for their arrest. Last February one of them, a young woman named Louise Todd, was convicted of perjury, sentenced to one to 14 years in Tehachapi Women's Prison. Embarrassed authorities overlooked six small-fry Reds, but they could not ignore famed Charlotte Anita Whitney. Last fortnight she was brought to trial...
Last week came comment from William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe which shares the Tehachapi Pass with S. P., must shoulder its portion of the reconstruction costs...