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...personal encounter. By last week the situation plainly called; for diplomacy. As a peace offering Secretary of War Dern asked Col. Lindbergh and two other famed flyers to sit on a War Department board of inquiry into the Army's airmail operations. Clarence Chamberlin accepted. Orville Wrright blamed ill health for his refusal. Col. Lindbergh declined because "I believe that the use of the Army Air Corps to carry the airmail was unwarranted and contrary to American principles. This action was unjust to the airlines whose contracts were canceled without trial. It was unfair to the personnel...
...James Van Alen, 30, of New York: the U. S. court tennis championship, 2-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final against the Defending Champion William C. Wrright of Philadelphia; with Jay Gould, long the best player in the world, watching; in Philadelphia...
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