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...drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small boat over, abandoned ship just in time. Down sank the Fannie with scarcely a gurgle...
Just 27 minutes earlier, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Pilot Sidney Willey took off from Burbank in foggy weather, with instructions to deliver the brand-new 14 to Northwest Airlines at Las Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight...
...Lancaster, of the University of Nebraska, Walter R. Miles, of Yale University, Frederick C. Mills, of Columbia University, Roy F. Nichols, of the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Redfield, of the University of Chicago, Walter R. Sharp, of the University of Wisconsin, Blair Stewart, of Reed College, and Malcolm M. Willey, of the University of Minnesota...
Although he has made some very fast times this year, Graham Cummin will be up against two very good back-strokers in Dan Zehr, Northwestern star and Big Ten champion in the event, and Willis Willey, Princeton junior who defeated Cummin and broke the intercollegiate backstroke mark in the Princeton meet this year...
...biggest commodity houses on the venerable Baltic Exchange. Then shellac threatened the City (financial district), until the distressed shellac manipulators were rescued behind locked doors. There was a sharp break in Australian gold shares, a break in tin. Last week the century-old Bradford house of Francis Willey & Co., world's largest wool dealers, was in trouble. It was apparent that British recovery was slowing, and finally there was the current political excitement...