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Carillons. Great is the dispute between U. S. and foreign bell-makers as to their relative skill in casting carillons. The issue cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells...
Died. Georges Landoy, editor of Matin of Antwerp, Belgium; in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Touring the U. S. with a party of European journalists (guests of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), waiting to see Old Faithful Geyser spout, he, too near the Castle Geyser just as it spouted, was fatally scalded...
...confused with the National Editorial Association whose members, meeting in Cheyenne next week, will name, by vote, Yellowstone Park's newest geyser...
...Regents Park Case. A woman was missing. Sleuth Wensley traced her to a house in Regents Park; found her there, murdered, and with her one Maltby, a tailor who had locked himself in the house and lived for weeks alone beside her body...
Just above Ravinia Park on Sheridan Road north of Chicago, is the Lake Shore Country Club, often called the "Jewish Club" because most of its members are of that descent and persuasion. From the Jewish Club last week came this story...