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Hoss picked carefully among his offers : he turned down the Yankees because the competition would be too stiff and he might wind up on the farm team in Newark; he rejected the Dodgers (who offered the most money) because he didn't think he'd like Brooklyn; a Card scout wrote him a nine-page letter, but he thought the Cardinals were too penny-pinching. Finally he took a $27,500 bonus for joining the Reds. If Hoss doesn't play third base this year, General Manager Warren Giles says he will have to fire five scouts...
Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...
Afraid that the President's words meant a shortage in flour, the nation's more excitable citizens rushed to the grocery stores. A Newark, N.J. storekeeper reported: "One man bought ten 10-lb. sacks." A Chicago chain-store manager frantically called headquarters for more supplies. "They said all the stores were calling in for white flour-that they'd need 30 carloads to take care of the demand...
...there any money to be made on hand-to-mouth freight flying, without ample capital and nationwide offices to line up business. Saunie Gravely, a 22-year-old ex-gunnery instructor, had found that out. He and 40 other veterans in Newark had raised $40,000, formed Veterans' Air Express Co., Inc. After two months of flying everything they could lay their hands on, lobsters, penicillin, flowers, turkey, etc., they decided to try flying passengers...
Sanitary Clauses. In Newark, Health Officer Charles V. Craster announced that an inspector-Santa Claus would snoop around to make sure that other Santas obeyed health rules: 1) no kissing children; 2) no wiping noses on gloves; 3) no dirty beards...