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These family details stirred a storm of denials. Onetime Senator Smoot of Salt Lake City asserted he had "no connection whatever" with Western Air, knew nothing of his son's connection. Lawyer Lehr Fess. in Toledo, declared that his firm was counsel for National Air Transport in Ohio, had merely done "the usual routine work...
...duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies had to be brought away in a sleigh...
...Legal? Belatedly, Postmaster General Farley went to bat in an attempt to justify the Administration's action. In his opinion, only modest National Parks Airways (Salt Lake City-Great Falls, Mont.) was entitled to have its contract reviewed, with the possibility of reinstatement. "General" Farley was convinced that there was "illegality"' in Postmaster General Brown's handling of airmail contracts, although, as yet, he had no basis for "criminal action." Some Farley charges...
...Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran ($2). This translation of Hollywood into terms of romance should please many a reader, including even Hollywoodland sprites. German Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until...
Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...