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Common items of cargo at present include motion picture films, newspictures, flowers, baby chicks, new style models of dresses, frozen fruits & vegetables, replacements for broken machinery...
...north of Grantsville. Heavy snow. All O. K." He heard no more; Pilot Potter did not bring the mail in. Next day a searching party found him dead in the wreckage of his plane, under eight inches of snow, only ten miles from the Salt Lake airport. His mail cargo, scattered about, was recovered. Pilot Potter's death was the second in United Air Lines' five years operation of the Chicago-Oakland route, in which 15,000,000 mi. have been flown...
...survivors-eleven men-were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five...
...Adams, mate of American ship Sundance, charged with the murder of one of his crew in a foreign seaport. As my occupation is similar to his I wish you would inform me of the outcome of his trial. . . . JOHN M. WHEATON Port Arthur, Tex. While the Sundance was discharging cargo at Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams shot him dead. Belgian authorities cleared Mate Adams. Last month, charged. with murder on the high seas, Mate Adams was freed by a Manhattan...
...Navy Charles Francis Adams near the shore at Scituate, Mass, police found 600 cases of liquor valued at $50,000, arrested three men. Informed of the seizure at the World Series in Philadelphia, which he attended with President & Mrs. Hoover, Secretary Adams smiled. "It is perfectly possible that a cargo of liquor was landed on that rough point," said...