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Miss Cochran (wife, in private life, of Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum) expects to find 375 U.S. women pilots, to augment 200 U.S. males now flying in the Air Transport Auxiliary. Women who get in will be paid an average $4,000 a year. First candidates are expected to be in Britain, ready for service, within five weeks...
Died. Dennis ("The Duke") Cooney, 63, longtime Chicago vice tycoon, onetime employer of Scarface Al Capone (as a busboy); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Though Cooney was affluent, liked to throw his money around, his mother refused to live on his income, made her living scrubbing floors till her death. Cooney retired from wholesale pandering a few years ago, seeking respectability...
Died. George Ashley Tomlinson, 76, burly Great Lakes shipping tycoon, short-time president of the Van Sweringen rail empire's top holding company, onetime Wild West show performer; of a paralytic stroke; in Pasadena. When the Van Sweringens faced loss of control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate properties in 1935, Tomlinson and Glassmaker George A. Ball made them needed loans, and Tomlinson became president and chairman of the Van Sweringen holding company, Allegheny Corp., in 1938. He resigned the next year, but retained the chairmanship of the Pere Marquette...
...kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
Management representatives chosen for the council: W.P. Witherow, president of Blaw-Knox and new president of the National Association of Manufacturers; Rubber Executive Cyrus Ching and Shipping Tycoon Roger Lapham (both of the National Defense Mediation Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr. (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.); Donald Comer (Avondale Mills); Robert M. Gaylord (Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.); Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp.); Charles Hook (American Rolling Mill Co.); Thomas R. Jones (American Type Founders, Inc.); Reuben Robertson (Champion Fiber...