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Less than seven hours after the Belize blow, a second hurricane bore up from the southeast on San Juan, P. R. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had just left for the U. S. The wind lasted 45 min., killed two, knocked out communications for a day, slightly damaged the grapefruit crop, burst in the windows and thoroughly soaked "La Fortaleza," Governor Roosevelt's mansion...
Through the rich forests of six western States last week swept devastating fire. Lack of rain had made the vast timberlands ripe for flames. Suddenly, scattered fires in central Idaho came together, beat back firefighters, bore down on farms, ranches and towns. Two towns were razed as their inhabitants fled to the open country. Many fugitives stayed for hours up to their necks in mountain streams, caught pneumonia. Animals, wild and domestic, were burned to death running. The heat stirred up tornadoes that fanned the flames to fresh heights. Mining camps were leveled, two more towns destroyed. Simultaneously forest fires...
...odor of sanctity 110 years ago died Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bayley ("Mother") Seton. Born in 1774 into an aristocratic Anglican family of New York, she married William Magee Seton, shipping merchant, bore him five children. Not for long was her married life happy: financial misfortune and illness came to her husband and in 1803 she took him, ailing with tuberculosis, to Leghorn, Italy. He died in a few weeks and thereafter her faith, already strong, turned increasingly toward Catholicism. She returned to the U. S. and despite family opposition embraced the faith in 1805. She wished to join with Catholic...
...Common Law (RKO Pathé). First essential of a problem play is a problem. Since the problem which is the excuse for this picture ceased to exist a long time ago, the play is consistently a bore. It concerns an artist's model who has had an affair with an American in Paris. This misdemeanor makes her very reluctant about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle...
...from Paris' Le Bourget Field, into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight...