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From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods...
...lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw out of his cave by cooking bacon where he can smell...
...Riverside Heights, N. J., Thomas Bart, his wife and two sons went to the cellar to spray sandfleas. Spontaneous combustion ignited the insecticide, blew the roof off the house, knocked in one wall, causing the first floor to cave in. The Barts were all seriously injured...
Last fortnight attendants at the Thompson Park Zoo, Watertown, N. Y., heard the screams of a man, the roars of an angry bear. Rushing to the bear cage, they at first saw no man, no beast. Then they perceived protruding from a cave in the rear of the cage, a man's feet...
Reconstructing the picture, after shooting the bear, they saw Keeper Emerson Joyce enter the cage, forgetting to drop the steel door which would have confined the bear to the cave. As he leaned over to arrange the feeding pans the bear slipped up, grasped him with her powerful forelegs, crushed him to death. Thus, she evened the scores. A few days prior her two cubs had been taken away from...