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Funeral. Through the stifled silence of a million watchers, 48 British army wagons carried the 48 dead of the R-101 crash through London streets last week. Prime Minister MacDonald watched from Westminster Hall, grieving for his good friend and cabinet colleague, Air Secretary Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson.
Thus, while in contrast to murders for love, for revenge, for money, happened one of the few murders ever done for business jealousy. Ranking officer after President Byers was his murderer. Next in line was Vice President George Poindexter Bagsby, general solicitor. Promptly he assumed his duties, for although passenger...
*During the funeral of William Cornelius Van Home, second president of Canadian Pacific Railway, most outstanding of its builders, every wheel in the vast CPR system was stopped.
At Crane, Mo., mourners held up a funeral procession when they saw beads of sweat on the unembalmed corpse's forehead. A physician applied restoratives vainly, finally pronounced Mrs. Archie Dunnegan dead a second time. The funeral continued.
Died. Hans Herzl, 40, son of the late political Zionist, Theodor Herzl; at Bordeaux; by shooting himself, immediately after the funeral of his sister Paulina, in whose coffin, "where there is plenty of space for both," he wished to be buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's...