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...another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle nor Allen was an experienced long distance flyer or navigator. Their plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese authorities took...
Three weeks ago Mississippi held its primary with some 7,000 local candidates on the ballot. High men for Governor were Hugh White, rich lumberman, Mayor of Columbia, and Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, smiling lawyer-farmer of Seminary. Completely turned out then was the Bilbo faction of Mississippi Democracy. In last week's run-off primary, with 2,000 names on the full ballot, Candidate Conner defeated Candidate White handsomely. "People v. Money" was the campaign issue, with Conner harping on White's wealth. A typical Conner campaign speech in which the Jackson Daily News, supporting Candidate White...
...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 a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder him in cold blood, cut off his head and stick it on a fence post. Then they sacked the commissary...
Jimmie's father was a Northwest lumberman, his mother a slut. When his father was killed Jimmie did not stay home long. He bummed around the lumber country, became a millman, had a good time, made good wages. When he met Pearl he meant to seduce her; instead he proposed. They were settled in their own house and had two children when the trouble began...
...combined to hold an audience of 1,100 for athletics or theatricals. Four Methodist churches combined to form the new congregation. The pastor is Dr. Walter John Sherman, who devoted ten years to the scheme. Laymen prominently involved: Fred D. Parr, president of Parr Terminal Co.; John H. McCallum, lumberman, president of the San Francisco Y.M.C.A...