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...About Time. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., Ora Stumpff desperately sued a jeweler for embezzlement in a final attempt to get back his watch, which had been on the repair shelf for 23 months...
...Tolar, N. Mex. one afternoon last week a derailment of a Santa Fe freight car touched off the charge in a load of 41 tons of aerial bombs, wrecking several houses. Thirteen minutes after the explosion and 90 minutes before the news was filed for the Associated Press, the Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News, 100 miles away, had the story. The Globe-News received 24 telephone calls from readers anxious to win the $10 prize offered by Publisher Gene Howe for the week's best news...
After high school he tried for West Point, but his weak eyes cost him the appointment. He was a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank and rose to bookkeeper at $115 a month. Suddenly he returned to his father's farm, and stayed there for ten years. His mother, now 91, says he could plow the straightest row of corn she ever...
...Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, should have been among those sued. Harriman was Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific in 1932, helped draft the Western Agreements. In a typical answer to a typical specific charge (that the Western railroads were slow in air-conditioning their cars), Santa Fe's new president, Fred Gurley (TIME, Aug. 7), retorted that Santa Fe began experimenting with air-washing and cooling systems on eight dining cars in 1911, had installed the equipment in 25 additional cars by 1914, by 1944 operated 596 air-conditioned cars...
Died. Miguel Antonio Otero, 84, governor of the territory of New Mexico from 1897 to 1906, buffalo-hunting companion of "Wild Bill" Hickok, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Kit Carson and General Custer; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...