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...small bull, one large one and two cows,* the Davison party had one cow to go when their trackers led them at dawn up to a herd of elephants feeding slowly along in thick bush. Wrote Father Davison...
Heavy rains undermined the Pennsylvania Railroad's bridge across the Anacostia River into Washington. Before dawn along came the Crescent Limited, crack Southern Railway train from New York to New Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
Under his orders the Prefect of Seine-et-Oise called out troops. Some 200 gendarmes, backed by blue-clad Injanterie de-Marine, piled into fire boats and sailed up stream. At dawn they met the bargemen, brandishing boathooks. With a swish high pressure hoses were turned on, washed the boatmen off their decks and into the river while wives and children screamed imprecations through the portholes. The Seine was cleared. Twoscore of the ringleaders, most of them Belgian subjects, were arrested, charged with the extremely serious offense of Rebellion...
...settled their differences with the Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929, et ante), His Holiness has had no need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
...Virgin Mary. Though the Church provides for no such celebration, indeed frowns upon it as superstitious, many a Catholic in Ireland and in Irish-settled districts of the U.S. took to the waters. Especially crowded were the sea beaches fringing New York City. On Staten Island, believers arose at dawn, thinking that the earlier the dip the more sure the cure. Method of seeking cures- for anything from headache to cancer-is to bathe thrice, praying the while. But the old and the obese content themselves with a few splashes. Less credulous Catholics have the full approval of the Church...