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...soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps and the Department of Commerce. It was, in fact, a key unit in their blind landing systems...
...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
...emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip with instructive implications...
...Georgia's Representative Vinson, as chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, got the Macon named for the biggest town in his district...
...still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity. Doris ("Dee-Dee") grew up to be a moderately pretty blue-eyed blonde. Her height (5 ft. 8 in.) limited...