TRAGEDY STALKED IN THE CLOUDS.—When the T.A.T.-Maddux air liner, an all-metal, tri-motored monoplane, crashed in a squall near Oceanside, California, 16 died in one of tho greatest disasters in the history of commercial aviation. Officials are investigating the cause of the tragedy. Photograph shows the scene the fatal wreck. THE SPANISH COUNTESS.-Dora Haruco who, for six years, has hidden her noble Castilian ancestry behind a cigar-tipper’s apron; has handed in her time-card, given up her four-dollars-a-week room and announced herself first among the 22 heirs of the £15,000,000 estate of the late Count Momposo, of London. As Isadora Bertran de Santa Cruz Momposo Haruco she has sailed for Havana to lay claim to a share of her great-uncle's gold. If all goes well, she says, she will assume the title of Countess de Momposo and will take whatever share of the grandee's gold that comes her way. HUMAN RECEIVING passed through the body of a radio employee in New York City arid was thus transmitted to radio listeners on the Columbia circuit. A guest at the studio had tripped over a 220-volt cable and the wires broke. The control operator quickly snatched them up and the current reconnected through his body. The radio fans heard the King's speech, but the operator (left) had a narrow escape from electrocution and his right hand was painfully burnt

Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 7

TRAGEDY STALKED IN THE CLOUDS.—When the T.A.T.-Maddux air liner, an all-metal, tri-motored monoplane, crashed in a squall near Oceanside, California, 16 died in one of tho greatest disasters in the history of commercial aviation. Officials are investigating the cause of the tragedy. Photograph shows the scene the fatal wreck.

THE SPANISH COUNTESS.-Dora Haruco who, for six years, has hidden her noble Castilian ancestry behind a cigar-tipper’s apron; has handed in her time-card, given up her four-dollars-a-week room and announced herself first among the 22 heirs of the £15,000,000 estate of the late Count Momposo, of London. As Isadora Bertran de Santa Cruz Momposo Haruco she has sailed for Havana to lay claim to a share of her great-uncle's gold. If all goes well, she says, she will assume the title of Countess de Momposo and will take whatever share of the grandee's gold that comes her way.

HUMAN RECEIVING passed through the body of a radio employee in New York City arid was thus transmitted to radio listeners on the Columbia circuit. A guest at the studio had tripped over a 220-volt cable and the wires broke. The control operator quickly snatched them up and the current reconnected through his body. The radio fans heard the King's speech, but the operator (left) had a narrow escape from electrocution and his right hand was painfully burnt