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Leaf into Local. Tooting through the night, Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways' proud International Limited (Montreal-Chicago) was brought to an unscheduled halt near Dundas, Ont. Ahead the engine's searchlight picked out a dark jumbled mass. Walking down the tracks trainmen heard moans, screams, shouts. Farther on they saw scattered Christmas presents, a blood-spattered doll with smashed legs, a fox terrier whimpering over a man's mangled body, another body without a head. Upended on the brink of a 150ft, cliff was a wooden railroad coach with screaming people inside. From the splintered debris...
William Agnew Johnston, 86. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, served the 365th day of his 50th year on one bench, thereby setting a record which Kansans promptly acclaimed as unique among U. S. judges. Born in Oxford, Ont. and educated only in country grade schools, Kansas' "Grand Old Man" was first appointed to the State's Supreme Court in 1884, re-elected every six years. In 1903 he became Chief Justice. More loyal are Kansans to Oldster Johnston than to any other individual or ideal except Prohibition. Said he last week: "I have hoped that I might...
...Shaffer, Reading, Pa.; George F. Tittmann, West Chester, Pa.; George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter, Baguio, Philipine Islands
...present head of Singer is a loyal British-born subject of George V. A young lawyer in Hamilton, Ont. when he entered the company in the 1880s, Sir Douglas Alexander was a director before the turn of the Century and has been president for the last 30 years. A conservative. Vandyke-bearded gentleman of a very old business school, Sir Douglas never used to publish any annual report at all. If a stockholder wanted to find out how his company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that...
...Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., were held the annual elections of the Ca-Choo Club, composed of 118 visiting hay fever sufferers. L. E. Harris sneezed so hard he blew his glasses ten feet across the room, was promptly re-elected president...