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Born in small Neligh, Neb. to a hardbitten, union-hating coal operator father, Josephine Roche started early to have ideas of her own. At 12 she wanted to go down in a mine, was told it was too dangerous. "If it is dangerous for me," piped Josephine, "why isn't it just as dangerous for the men?" It was to be 29 years before she could do much for coal miners, but she did not forget them. The years between were busy. She took an A.B. at Vassar, an M.A. at Columbia in 1910 with Frances Perkins who became...
Sherman Henriksen of Eagle, Neb., the defending champion, was a favorite, but even some Nebraskans favored Harry Brown, from Beemer, up in Cuming County. He had placed second last year. To spur on two Iowa entrants, Estherville sent its Drum & Bugle Corps to Fairmont. The folks from Redwood Falls, Minn, brought along the town band to cheer on their Ted Balko, 29, four times Minnesota champion, fifth in national honors last year...
...other States: Ariz., Calif., Colo., Del., Idaho, Ind., Ky., Me., Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont., Neb., Nev., N. H., N. J., N. Y., N. Dak., Ohio, Ore., Utah, Wash., W. Va., Wis., Wyo. Pennsylvania's law goes into effect...
...m.p.h. Thanks to airconditioning, its passengers felt nothing of Imperial Valley's heat. Up steep grades of the Rockies M10001 sped at over 50 m.p.h., shot through the snow-capped passes of the Continental Divide, glided swiftly across the prairies. Between Dix and Potter, Neb. it covered two miles in one minute flat. Never before had a passenger train hit 120 m.p.h.* After a run of 38 hr. 49 min. from Los Angeles M10001 glided smoothly into Chicago's La Salle Street Station, 20 hours ahead of the fastest regular train schedule on that route...
...decided to abandon ship. First to leave the gondola was Capt. Anderson, at 5,000 ft. Capt. Stevens went next. Major Kepner waited until he was within 500 ft. of the ground before jumping with his parachute. All three landed safely. The gondola crashed on a farm near Loomis, Neb...