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MARTIN WALKER Publisher Daily Sentinel Grand Junction...
...late in 1905 Elbert Henry Gary, board chairman of U. S. Steel Corp., set a well-manicured finger firmly down on a map of northern Indiana. Said he to his directors: "This will be our metropolis. We'll build near the railroad junction of Chicago where acres of land can be had for almost the asking, midway between the ore regions of the North and the coal lands of the South and East." The Steel directors nodded consent...
...south they came, slipping through the low scud over Concord, over Claremont, over the Junction, and over Hanover: 36 planes of the Army Air Corps, throbbing like malignant bees. Perhaps they followed the thin silver ribbon of the Connecticut up from Springfield, maybe they streaked up the distended threads of the B. & M. from Boston. At any rate, it was perfectly evident that the Army Air Corps was protecting New England from the "enemy...
Early one morning a clerk in the commissary at Logtown?tiny lumber settle-ment 70 miles inland from Puerto Cabezas ?spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into...
...Wawa Junction telephone operator who had heard over the wire the mortal outcries at Logtown, called Puerto Cabezas for help. Out along the narrow-gauge sped U. S. Marine Captain Harlen Pefley, William Sesler, an inspector for the Standard Co. and a handful of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen. Near Logtown they were ambushed, Capt. Pefley was shot dead, Sesler mortally wounded...