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Died. Arthur William Savage, 83, inventor of the first repeating sporting rifle adaptable to smokeless powder ammunition (the Savage 303), founder of the Savage Arms Corp. of Utica, N. Y.; by his own hand (with a Smith & Wesson .44); in San Diego, Calif...
...Present rates for carrying cotton goods: 1) from Gadsden, Ala. to Chicago (670 miles) $1 per 100 lb., from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According...
...ring at Utica, Mich. last week, Joe Louis put Bing Crosby through a few paces. Bing Crosby is a five-gaited saddle horse and Joe Louis was riding him in the highest-toned Negro horse show ever held...
...Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis), the Utica Riding Club Horse Show was not far different from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring...
...exercise as 18 holes of golf, the game is popular with oldsters. Every sport has a Grand Old Man. But in curling every team has one. He is the skip, a venerable player whose role during the game is tantamount to dictator. Last week when Caledonia faced Schenectady at Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them 15-to-14, took the Fred Allen Medal. Then with ear-splitting song...