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...naval maneuvers, which are to take place next month involving 177 ships and 447 airplanes and encompassing 5.000,000 sq. mi. of seaways, cause churchmen the greatest alarm. Against them Editor Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor...
Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce issued its annual accident report for 1934: airlines flew nearly 700.000 mi. per accident as compared to just over 500.000 mi. per accident in 1933. Of 73 accidents last year, ten were fatal, killing 21 passengers, ten pilots. Of 101 accidents in 1933, nine were fatal to eight passengers, eight pilots...
...note was concluded last week the experiments by the Department of Commerce with the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass for transpacific flying (TIME, March 25). The resignation was that of Major Chester Snow (Reserve), Department of Commerce aeronautical expert in command of the test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce...
...Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment...
...meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only by a 135-mi. gale...