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...mail in her belly from Newark to Cleveland. Suddenly something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...
...returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised the 1,000 acres of fields and woodland bordering the Hudson River. Nature had dealt well with Squire Roosevelt while he had been off dealing with the nation...
...ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb...
...Sultry summer evenings bring excellent open-air music to a dozen U. S. cities, whereby musicians are kept busy from one formal winter season to the next. In San Mateo, smart suburb of San Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter. Only disturbance the opening week was made...
...land since the Depression have washed harmlessly around northern California. In contrast with Illinois' 207 bank closings last year, Iowa's 150, Michigan's 86, California boasted a lean 32. Last week a wave skittered down California's sun-drenched Sacramento Valley, toppled over Woodland's Bank of Yolo with $2.500,000 in resources, washed away Esparto's Bank of Esparto, struck down the two biggest independent banks in the State Capital, the California National of Sacramento and the California Trust & Savings. Closing of the two Sacramento institutions tied...