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Died. Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa, 90, Scottish shipbuilder and landowner; in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1930 the Marquess bought St. Kilda's Island, one of the Hebrides, ordered the inhabitants to evacuate it, said he would never again permit it to be settled because of its barrenness...
...Overland Express (Coronet-Columbia). One April day 78 years ago two crack horsemen set out lickety-split, one from Sacramento, Calif., the other from St. Joseph, Mo., to inaugurate the Pony Express and start a legend that is still galloping. Last week, while towns along the oldtime route were restoring some of the legendary landmarks, cinema's hardest-riding Western star, resolute, weather-beaten Buck Jones, was blazing the trail again for the younger generation. Pledged to abstain from profanity and hard liquor, Buck and his heck-for-leather pony riders yippee forth on their foam-flecked ponies, carry...
Elected a member of the St. Louis Advertising Club was Robert Wadlow, 20, most famed U. S. giant...
Henry Clay French was an orphan who got a job as callboy on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad in Kansas City back in 1873. Learning telegraphy in his spare time, he was a full-fledged operator at 14, a combined telegrapher and brakeman on the Santa Fe three years later. For the next 50 years he was shunted from line to line like a boxcar in a busy season. He saw hard living in Kansas cow towns, hard drinking at Northwest division points, hard work everywhere. Last week his son, a brakeman himself, offered Harry French's biography...
CHICAGO--Dizzy Dean, colorful central figure in one of the greatest baseball deals in years, reported to the Chicago Cubs today and promised them a National League Pennant in a brief conference with Manager Charley Grimm. Two hours after Diz arrived without fanfare, he slipped back to St. Louis to tidy up his business before moving to Chicago for the first transfer in his six-year major league career...