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...Lancaster, Calif., Chinese Butcher Yackie Mun-choo was fined $150, forbidden to sell meat for two years. Reason: to prevent his hamburger from spoiling, Butcher Yackie embalmed...
Died. Monroe ("Mun") Barrow, 58, father of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis Barrow; in the Searcy Hospital for the Insane at Mount Vernon, Ala. Father Barrow had been hospitalized since 1911 but married Champion Louis' mother during an absence from the hospital. The Barrow family, who have quietly kept up relations with the father, allowed the story to circulate that his whereabouts were unknown, that he probably died years ago. Reported to be a prized possession of Father Barrow was an autographed picture: "To my father, Monroe Barrow, from his son, Joe Louis Barrow." Champion Louis' relatives last...
...Brussels, a big Douglas transport of the Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) took off on a morning run from Amsterdam to Paris. Some witnesses thought the motors sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground...
Compare this list with Mr. Mun-sey's purchases in Manhattan alone...
Pope Leo XIII, in 1891, issued an encyclical on "The Condition of Workingmen," which gave Catholics a basis for social action. Encouraged by this, a few priests and laymen, including M. de Mun, formed a sort of socialist party called the "Democrates chretiens." The bishops and the Holy See feared the outcome of this party's tendencies, and it failed to gain political power because the more radical democrats had a repugnance toward the church...