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...Invented by U. S. Inventor Claud H. Foster who named it for Gabriel's trumpet. He later devised an ingenious contraption using a spring in a box to take up an automobile's road bounce. He called it a snubber, called his company Gabriel Manufacturing Co., now Gabriel Co., maker of shock absorbers and other auto accessories. Founder Foster (now retired) long paid Ohio's biggest income tax, in one year...
...Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...Dallas, Texas, a Negro named Claud Williams was arrested for owning a cache of whisky, taken before U. S. Commissioner Lee R. Smith for the following hearing...
Death and birth both came to Glamis Castle last week. Old William Fairweather, for over 30 years head gamekeeper to the Duchess of York's father, Claud George Bowes-Lyon Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, died of a heart attack during the suspense of waiting for the Duchess of York to give birth to a possible heir to the Throne. Britain was oblivious but tears glistened in the Earl of Strathmore's eyes as his servant was laid away in the castle grounds. On the coffin was a huge wreath of red and white roses from the Duke & Duchess...
...Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...