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...tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...
General Iwane Matsui, called "the Long-Eared" (a traditional Japanese sign of wisdom), last week made his triumphal entry into captured Nanking, the abandoned Chinese capital, outside whose walls stands the $3,000,000 tomb of sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution." That historic moment meant more to General Matsui than it would to most Japanese, for Revolutionist Sun spent many years in Japan, became a close friend of Matsui, who took up the doctrine of Pan-Asianism to which grateful Dr. Sun at the time enthusiastically subscribed...
...show of Russian stamina, celebrating the election with which Russia has "come of age" (TIME, Dec. 20). Stalin, who is a native of the semitropical Tiflis region, did not himself turn out in the blizzard but sent 62-year-old Russian President Kalinin to stand snow-buffeted atop the tomb of Lenin in the Red Square, to receive officially "on behalf of Comrade Stalin" the shouts of acclaim...
Thank You, Mr. Moto (Twentieth Century-Fox). Another Oriental mystery man-shaven-skulled, pop-eyed Peter Lorre-looks for seven scrolls, the key to a vast treasure in the tomb of Genghis Khan. Assassinations, a kidnapping, the torture of a prince, hara-kiri and other interruptions confuse his efforts...
...third soul, called KA, went to the tomb with the man's body but lived on there. It drank of the funeral beer, ate the funeral food, and lived...