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...midst of the Pyrenees only 15 mi. south of the French border lies the town of Jaca, which has been in Rightist hands for the past 15 months. Furiously soldiers were digging in Jaca last week, building pill boxes, establishing munition dumps. After nearly a week's methodical advance, Leftist troops were less than two miles away, and Jaca is a key point on one of the three railroads from France into Spain...
...world, members of the American Legion Auxiliary elected Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, wife of a Washington State Superior Court judge. With her sash and diamond-&-platinum presidential pin, Mrs. Douglas accepted the responsibility of outdistancing her predecessor, Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln, Neb. (who traveled more than 50,000 mi. on the organization's expense account during her year in office), and set off at once with Legion officials to tour French battlefields and dedicate War memorials. La Société des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux is a fun-making Legion by-product whose 37,000 "voyageurs...
Fall of Paoting. Japan's main army, advancing down upon the Yellow River from North China, had failed up to last week in its objective of "destroying" and not merely beating back the retreating Chinese troops. Finally the Japanese, after rolling their conquest southward 50 mi. in the preceding ten days, not only took the city of Paoting (see map, p. 17) with its huge walls and 80,000 inhabitants but surrounded it, so that as Chinese troops fled out the back gates Japanese machine gun crews "annihilated them to the last man." Even so, conquering General Count Juichi...
...sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good news. But from the Amastra by radio came a prompt and puzzling denial. Four days later word came that another British tanker, the Cheyenne, had sighted the missing sloop 260 mi. off the coast of Ireland and the Lutine Bell tolled again, first occasion it had ever been rung a second time for one ship...
...decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build a competing road 25 mi. south of the Pennsylvania's main Harrisburg-Pittsburgh line along the 46 miles shorter route surveyed half a century before. Andrew Carnegie, steel sales in mind, backed Vanderbilt...