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...Buffalo, N. Y., as kinsmen of the late Michael Budnik carried his coffin into Queen of the Peace Church for the funeral, the coffin began smoking. The mourners opened the coffin, doused out the flames started by a cigaret that a mourner had dropped before the lid was put on. As the pallbearers carried Michael Budnik up the aisle of the church, the coffin smoked again. Thoroughly drenched, Michael Budnik was buried...
Only major mourner to arrive without troops was Adolf Hitler's blustering Air Minister and Premier of Prussia, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under...
Outside the Cathedral there was a long cold wait. Nervously King Carol of Rumania approached Regent Prince Paul with a toothy, ingratiating smile and tried to chat. The Prince showed his displeasure. Still with the same smile, Mourner Carol turned to the President of France who froze him with a frown. After that there was nothing to do but wait until pallbearers carried out the casket, set it on a gun carriage...
...pure intellectual, how pure!" cried Sarajevo's discreet public mourner, an adept at praising heroes of the assassination in terms to which the police can take no exception. Though he himself killed no man, Vladimir Gachinovich, son of an Orthodox priest, was said in Serbian police reports of 1913 to "hold half the revolutionary youth of Bosnia in his hands." Sarajevo was then the capital of Bosnia and still treasured in the town are copies of the celebrated pamphlet, The Death of a Hero, by Vladimir Gachinovich, glorifying the assassination in 1910 of the Governor of Bosnia...
Groom of the Bedchamber to sprightly Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales was Viscount Halifax who lay dead last week at 95. In Hickleton Hall with many another mourner for the funeral was his son and successor who as Lord Irwin was recently Viceroy of India. Friends and relatives of the dead peer took no particular notice when a group of resolute men marched into the Hall, dragged packing cases containing family heirlooms out to the lawn, broke them open, took their pick and went their way. After someone detected this amazing theft, the funeral was held amid...