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...mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain the Nationalist Government...
Westinghouse Air Brake...
Near Los Angeles Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Tarpley were motoring with their two daughters, Marjorie, 3 mo., and Catherine, 2. At the top of a precipitous hill the motor coughed; Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley got out to fix it. As they walked to the front of the auto, its emergency brake slipped; it started backward toward the edge of a 200-ft. canyon. Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley held on hard, were dragged to the canyon, were forced to let go, saw the car careen and spin downward, killing Marjorie Tarpley, only bruising Catherine...
Conductor Edward English said that he found Porter J. E. Smith drunkenly annoying a woman passenger in her berth. When the conductor interfered, Porter Smith knocked him down with a brake club. Passengers and trainmen joined in the fight which ranged up and down through three Pullmans and finally out to a private car on the end of the train. Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency fire axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the crew as the train rushed through the night. At Thendara, 50 mi. north of Utica, N. Y., State troopers...
Died. Joseph Bodine Terbell, 68, board chairman of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., director of Guaranty Trust Co., American Sugar Refining Co., et al.; in Manhattan...