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Chiefly famed as an aircraft designer for the Navy and for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., of which he is vice president, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker is not new to teaching or to M.I.T. Graduated high in his class from Annapolis in 1908 he was selected the following year for the Corps of Naval Constructors and sent to M.I.T. for advanced work. Aeronautics as a science did not then exist in the U.S., but a beginning had been made abroad. A request from M.I.T. to the Navy Department, and Jerome Hunsaker was on his way to England and France where he studied wind...
Died. Admiral August Ludwig von Schroeder, 79, "Lion of Flanders," Wartime commander of the German naval base on the Flanders coast, whence he directed Zeppelin raids on London, submarine attacks on Dover; in Berlin. He was one of twelve German admirals whose extradition was sought by the Allied Powers for the much publicized "judicial murder" of Captain Charles Fryatt, executed for trying to ram a U-boat with his noncombatant vessel...
Awarded. To Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, 46, vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (builders of the Akron and Macon): the 1933 Daniel Guggenheim Medal for notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics...
Sixth Season- As she has done every year since 1928, the sturdy Graf Zeppelin cast off last week from Friedrichshafen with a load of passengers, headed over the Atlantic. She was bound via Spain for Rio de Janeiro, on a monthly schedule to be maintained until August when service may be stepped up to twice-a-month. Fares are down...
...Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than-air service to South America. If successful. Lufthansa will co-ordinate the schedules of Dornier flying boats with the sailings of the Graf Zeppelin, making a weekly round-trip service...