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...problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included...
...Mateo, Calif, in memory of her parents. She gave the central chancel window of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in memory of her husband, founded in his name a London settlement house and seaside resort. Good churchwoman, she built the Episcopal residence at Manila, helped build the Episcopal cathedral there. Through her Red Cross work, she is credited with having instituted the U. S. Army Nursing Corps during the Spanish-American War. During the War she turned her Paris art students' club into a hospital for french officers, later for U. S. officers...
...goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...
Give Japan Philippines? When Governor General Davis returns to his Philippines on April 15, he will find them still reverberating from a bomb of irony exploded in Manila last week...
...fact that Governor General Dwight Filley Davis, his daughter Cynthia and his son Dwight Jr. were using the U. S. S. Pittsburgh for the kind of voyage that Cook's tourists dream about for years and finally take. For two years Mr. Davis has been at his post in Manila. Lately he was joined by newly-appointed Vice-Governor George Charles Butte, felt free to travel. He knew that the 26-year-old Pittsburgh was about to be relieved by the cruiser Houston as flagship of the Asiatic fleet, was then to steam to Norfolk Navy Yard and be scrapped...