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Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
...side flat two young criminals had been cornered with the aid of tips by one of their girl friends and a taxi driver. They were undersized Francis Crowley, 19year-old lather, and Rudolph Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...
...Rowley's house on Laurier Avenue, Ottawa, is now rented by Col. Hanford MacMider, U. S. Minister to Canada. As everyone knows, Bachelor Bennett has just lost his sister and official hostess by her marriage to the Canadian Minister to the U. S., handsome William Duncan ("Bill") Herridge (TIME, April...
...meet the bachelor President of France (Gaston Doumergue has no "official hostess") at the U. S. Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president† of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest French banks), high executive of the famed...
...Hostess Belle Livingstone of Manhattan's "Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club" (TIME, Nov. 10 et seq.) was taken again to federal court and found guilty of con tempt for having violated a personal in junction restraining her from liquor dealing. The defeated defense counsel maintained that Miss Livingstone did not own the Club, was there as paid hostess only in order to gather material for her forthcoming work, With Livingstone in Darkest America. The judge sentenced her to 30 days in Harlem Prison, to which she was conducted by press & police forthwith. One newshawk reported the warden as greeting...