Letters, Oct. 26, 1931

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Technical abandonment of an Army post rests with the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of War and the President; actual physical abandonment (sale of real estate) rests with Congress.—ED.

Akron to Washington

Sirs:

In your Oct. 5 issue you state in the article on the Akron's first flight that "The radioman flashes to the White House the Akron's first message."

This message was sent to the Navy's temporary station at Akron and from there went via Western Union to Naval Radio Great Lakes. From there it was sent to Washington by radio. A copy of that first message is one of my souvenirs, as I handled the message.

MARION E. PENCE, U.S.N.

Waukegan, Ill.

Real Stuff

Sirs:

Your summaries of the records of Congressmen are so excellent that we are wondering where on earth you get them. You manage to dig up more real stuff than any other source we have seen. It's just the kind of material we need in connection with congressional work.

Would you be good enough to put us in touch with the sources of your information, if you have general sources, so that we may have the benefit of whatever knowledge is already collected?

ROGER N. BALDWIN American Civil Liberties Union New York City

TIME'S Congressional biographies, which will shortly be resumed in Letters in anticipation of Congress' sitting, are compiled by a researcher specially assigned to the task in Washington. They aim at reproducing Senators and Representatives as their colleagues know them, for the benefit of constituents who see only the campaign posters, hear only the campaign speeches.—ED.

Curled Hair Cuffs

Sirs:

In the article "Misfortunes of a Monster" which appeared in your issue of Oct. 5, you mention that Primo Camera's fighting gloves, "specially made for him, are as heavy as those which ordinary heavyweights use for practice." This statement is incorrect, and as official makers of Camera's boxing equipment, may we supply the right information?

Training gloves for the usual heavyweight weigh 16 oz. Fighting glove weights are regulated by the various state boxing commissions and run between 5 oz. and 8 oz. Hence, it would be illegal for Camera to use 16-oz. gloves. Though his fighting gloves do require almost twice as much leather and canvas as ordinarily go into gloves, the weight is kept within the required limits by padding the cuffs with a sprinkle of curled hair and filling the rest of the glove with only enough hair to balance the scale at the weight set by the State in which the big fellow is to perform.

Incidentally, in our many years of specializing in boxing equipment, we have not found any other boxer with the proportions and bulk of Camera.

JULES GOLOMB Sales Manager Everlast Sporting Goods Mfg. Co. New York City

No. 201 to No. 671

Sirs:

"Two years ago, one of the first [cordial and beverage shops] to open was the shop at No. 201 East 44th Street. . . . Last week three 'For Rent' signs were all that remained in that original cordial shop." (TIME, Oct. 12.) But the three "For Rent" signs do not end the story of the much-talked-of bootlegger Mike.