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...Cash-Shannon duel still bothers South Carolinians who "hold honor dearer than life." Col. Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash's wife held a judgment against her brother's property. A client of Col. William M. Shannon and Capt. William L. DePass held a junior judgment and contested the sale of the property to satisty Mrs Cash's claim. The legal basis of the contest was a charge of fraud between Mrs. Cash and her brother...
...rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when she attempted to fly the Atlantic with Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe...
...four years ago Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan confided in his friend Capt. Hilton R. Railey that there was a chance for the right young lady to fly the Atlantic. The Hon. Mrs. Frederick Guest, he said, had secretly bought a plane from Commander Byrd with the intention of being flown herself, but her family had interfered. If a "suitable" substitute could be found, Mrs. Guest still would finance the flight. Said Capt. Railey: "You wait," and hastened to Boston. When he returned Publisher Putnam's eyes popped with pleased astonishment...
From Budapest to Rome for the first congress of transocean flyers, flew Capt. George ("Yurga") Endres in the Lockheed Justice for Hungary which he flew from the U. S. last year. Just before the take-off Capt. Alexander Magyar, his transatlantic flying companion with whom Capt. Endres later quarreled, withdrew from the Rome jaunt. In his place went Capt. Julius Bittay. Arrived over Littorio Airport the plane went into a sideslip, unaccountably crashed. Before the eyes of other famed airmen gathered to greet them, Flyers Endres and Bittay died in flames...
...Diebitsch Peary, the widow, first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition. She lives at South Harpswell, Me. Next month her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Stafford, who was born "farther north than any other white person," and Mrs. Stafford's two sons are going sailing with Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett to Cape York on the Baffin Bay side of Greenland and there watch the construction of a monument to Peary...