FORD COMPANY SUED.

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FORD COMPANY SUED.

RIGHTS OF RUST-PROOF PROCESS. (BT CABLE—rBBSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, January 17. At Detroit, Judge Tuttle, of the Federal Supreme Court, ordered Ford Company to pay the Parker Rust Proof Company 367,000 dollars, and ten years' interest at 5 per cent., in reply to the Parker Company's demand on the Ford organisation to pay 1,000,000 dollars for an alleged infringement of the rights of a process for treating iron and steel to prevent rust.

plane is in perfect shape. We have increased its petrol capacity enough to carry just the margin of petrol that will spell victory this time." A wireless message from the 'plane shortly before eleven o'clock stated that it had climbed to an altitude of slightly more than 1000 feet. The motors were performing perfectly. It declared that bumpy air pockets had previously been encountered, but the atmospheric conditions had improved as the 'plane gained altitude.

THIRTEEN HOURS IN THE AIR. (Australian and n.z. cable ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 18th, 10.30 p.m.) ~-VX FRANCISCO, January 18. Captain Kingsford Smith and Lieutenant Pond have now been thirteen houre in the air and report that their machine is working perfectly.