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...does every time he visits the U. S., bluff old Dr. Eckener assured newsmen they would see transatlantic airship service as soon as U. S. bankers round up enough money. In Friedrichshafen the LZ-129 bigger than the Macon and twice as big as the Graf Zeppelin, has its skeleton nearly complete. In Akron the designing staff of Goodyear-Zeppelin is working on plans for a similar commercial ship to be built there and operated alternately with LZ-129 But bankers and builders know that no service will start without assurance of substantial U. S. mail subsidies...
...Macon made a shipshape 70 hr. flight from Lakehurst, N. J. across the southern states to Sunnyvale, Calif., near San Francisco, where she was berthed at her new base, Moffett Field. The Lakehurst station will be kept open for training in the metalclad airship ZMC-2 and nonrigid ships...
Died. William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, 28, heavyweight prizefighter; following a motor crash; in Macon, Ga. Stribling was motorcycling to a hospital to see his wife and two-week-old baby when an automobile sideswiped him. He suffered a crushed pelvis, had to have his left foot amputated. Last fortnight he fought his 340th and final fight at Houston, getting a newspaper decision over Light-heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom...
...laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work on meteorology and radio communications, resigned from the Navy to join the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. he, with Dr. Karl Arnstein who built 70 German dirigibles, turned out the Akron and the Macon. He will continue as consultant for Goodyear when he takes up his M.I.T. post this autumn...
...list of U. S. osteopaths pre-eminent for scholarship as well as expertness would include: for orthopedics, George M. Laughlin of Kirksville, Mo.; for mental and nervous diseases, Arthur G. Hildreth of Macon, Mo. and Edward S. Merrill of Los Angeles; for manipulative osteopathy, Charles S. Green of Manhattan; for industrial accidents, Harry Goehring of Pittsburgh; for care of athletes, Forrest Allen of University of Kansas...