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...GLEN HAZARD-Maristan Chapman-Knopf...
Geologists have paid curiously little attention to the event at Durango. Local men hazard diverse opinions. One supposes that coal beds deep within Carbon Mountain have ignited, generating gas which is bursting the mountain apart and forming cavities into which the mountain collapses. For evidence the burning-coal theorists point to a gas-like hissing which often accompanies a rock slide, to the sulfurous smell, and to pieces of shale charred red and yellow. On the other hand. Dr. S. Boyd Calkins, science teacher in the Durango high school, points to the earthy effusions which last week oozed from Carbon...
...Angeles County, firemen razed 435 badly damaged buildings. Insurance companies handled claims as quickly as they could get reports from their investigators, but motorists whose cars had been mutilated by falling wreckage found to their sorrow that earthquake hazard is not covered by standard automobile insurance...
Jock Whitney's father was the late (William) Payne Whitney who inherited his fortune from his uncle, Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne of Cleveland, founded the great Greentree Stable, left it to his wife when he died on his tennis court...
This action was taken as the result of the report made a week ago by an inspector of the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety in which a threat was made to condemn the building unless the fire hazard is reduced. University officials have stated that because of the present general financial conditions no extensive repairs are contemplated at this time...