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Near Newport, Fla., W. J. Singletary, Florida State Senator, set out to warn two brothers Sauls that they could cut no more timber on his land. The Sauls answered with gunshots. Senator Singletary was taken to a hospital with both eyes shot out, bullet wounds in his back...
...excited, Wets everywhere were. They hailed the Ambassador-nominee as their protagonist, repeated that he is "presidential timber." Nevertheless many a Dry felt that Mr. Morrow's appeal was through his personality, agreed with Funnyman Will Rogers that "he could have run as a Bolshevik...
...young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit blaze of personal glory. Last week he was given as distinguished an educational post as the nation affords: the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...
...major acquisition of national park private land Secretary Wilbur made deep bows of gratitude to Mr. Rockefeller, to Michigan's Congressman Louis C. Cramton, author of the purchase provision in the Interior Department appropriation bill, and to the lumber company in Yosemite which had withheld cutting over its timber tract until the U. S. was ready...
...into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National Park, 2,000 acres. Sizzling and snapping up Black Mountain in the Purgatory Range, flames leapt over into Kentucky forests, destroyed a lumber camp. Villagers in widely scattered mountain districts were alarmed. Firefighters deployed by thousands along the Alleghenies, prayed for rain...