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...caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered 30 bagpiping contests during the last nine years, won 25 of them. Honors in caber-tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down...
...morning a commuters' train wound across the rolling country outside Moscow. Its 21-year-old engineer had a record of twelve reprimands for misconduct. Its fireman had been discharged twice, arrested once. Its brakeman had been reprimanded for drunkenness. Coming into a station named Fraser, the playful engineer ran past two stop signals. A stalled train stood dead ahead. The roistering brakeman's brakes failed to brake. Result: 19 dead, 44 injured. Last week a Moscow court sentenced engineer and brakeman to be shot dead...
...Tavatui on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, 1,000 mi. east of little Fraser, the station master decided it was all right to switch a freight train on to the through track, if he closed the semaphore signal. In the opposite direction a local passenger train roared into view. The engineer in the cab ran through the semaphore, head on into the freight train. Result: 33 dead, 68 injured. Last week in nearby Sverdlovsk a Red Court sentenced engineer and station master to be shot dead. Five others of the train and station crews got prison terms...
Drawings from The Beggars' Opera as designed by Claude Lovat Fraser which sent British theatregoers rushing out to Hammersmith...
...Fraser, Colo...