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...Last Loop. "He ascended on Oct. 27, 1918, only two weeks before the end of the War. He attacked and crashed one enemy plane. Another attacked him. He was wounded in the right thigh, but sent the enemy down in flames. An entire formation of German Fokkers attacked him from all sides. Shot this time in the left thigh, he sent down two more planes. He lost consciousness for a few minutes, but recovered from his dive and singled out one of the following enemy planes. He sent it, also, to earth in flames. His left elbow was shattered...
...ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having shot down 68 enemy planes before they...
...sanctity of the Sabbath day goes into effect precisely at 11 o'clock, no sooner and no later. At first the demarcation of such a definite dead-line for weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday before noon...
...pallium, a diamond-shaped loop of lamb's wool "three fingers broad" embroidered with six purple crosses, is worn over the chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
...line. At present, in order to reach Salt Lake City over reasonable grades the D. R. G. W. must strike due south from Denver 119 miles and then retraverse northward the entire distance before reaching Salt Lake City. The Moffat tunnel would cut off this useless north-and-south loop. Since stock ownership of the D. R. G. W. is shared between the Western Pacific and the Missouri Pacific, these two roads have been brought within the scope of speculation as the possible buyer of Banker Burr's 20,000 shares of Denver & Salt Lake. The basis...